The Diamondback Explorer - The Best Small Explorer? [Elite Dangerous Ship Review] 

For any newbies watching. Never sell the DBX when you inevitably cave and upgrade to a Phantom. The DBX is all about off-meta endgame builds. Ice-cold missile/torpedo boat bubble bus ftw!

This past Dec. I took my trusty AspX out to the Formidine Rift to visit the Zurara, and when I came back I built and engineered a DBX to see what all the hype was about. I then took that DBX on a trip through Hawking's Gap to the abandoned settlements with the same name, then down through Outer Orion into the Eta Carina Nebula & back to the bubble... I didn't know what I was missing. The DBX is so nimble, I love how it handles compared to the AspX and especially Anaconda. It's such a joy to fly. To be fair, I built mine with an emphasis on the engines and powerplant, so it sacrifices a little jump range for zippiness. This thing would be perfect if they designed it with a size 5 or even 6 optional rather than capping it with the size 4.

I couldn't move from DBX to Krait Phantom even after I could have bought all the ships there are. It brought me to Colonia and Sag A and it's just ... home. Never understood talks about fuel scoop. As explorer I would park it into corona of the stars and start FSS, by the time I was finished my heat would be at 60% and my tank full for next jump. Plus, landing it for exobiology is a breeze. Find new land in a boat instead of a cruse ship makes the romance of it much greater.

The DBX is my current exploration ship. I used to prefer the Phantom ( it has a lot going for it ) but found it almost impossible to land in rocky or mountainous terrain. Exobiology is my favourite aspect of the game and I struggled to collect Fungoida and Frutexa. The DBX is much easier to land but a little more challenging because of the limited optional internals. Good video.

You're final words really ring true for me. My DBX is my only exploration build, and I want for nothing. It has amazing jump range, ridiculously good heat dissipation, scoops fuel quickly (at least compared with the rest of my fleet), and can land on a postage stamp. It also has everything it needs exploring Guardian and old Thargoid sites: an SRV bay, corrosion resistant cargo rack, and dorsal mounted point defense batteries. The only thing it's lacking is the speed to outrun Thargoid Interceptors, but I have severalother ships specialized for dealing with hot AX zones. When I first bought Strider, it's beetle-like appearance seemed odd to me, and I sometimes called it "little bug". (What? You don't talk to your ships?) But it really grew on me, and now I find it a welcoming sight after a long surface trek way out in the black.

Credits being easy now, I would delay gratification. Keep the DBX for a bubble bus. Landing on planets with an SRV. Secure the Pre Engineered FSD with Mass Manager for it. Then upgrade to a Phantom and head to the Guardian Sites to unlock the FSD Booster. Perhaps even Power Plant, Distributer and Shield Reinforcement.

The DBX took me on my first exploration trip, gave me the experience of heading far off with the thrill that goes with the isolation in a small ship. I eventually moved onto other exploration ships but the DBX was the first that took me out the bubble and brought me home a little worse for wear with great memories

Use mine as bubble bus and material gatherer at signal sources. It's got wake scanner as well to keep thos data mined wake exceptions topped up.

I think I'm a bit of a weirdo. Aesthetically, I like both of the Diamondbacks better than any other ship. Practically, yes the DBS & DBX have drawbacks & compromises, but I just really like the way they look. There's something no-nonsense about them that appeals to me.

But the Dolphin goes 'SQUEEEEE!

i used a dbx to visit sag a and colonia its now used as a shuttle for my fleet carrier i fly it more than my vette cobda or cutter

I use a krait phantom for exploration now but i cant bring myself to sell my DBX lovingly named "Starbug". First ship the took me to sag A and colonia.

This is my explorer ship. I love it and I have used it to go further out into space then any other ship I have. Yeah newer player but I love this ship! As for mining I always see ships like this as a go out and find stuff. Then mark it and bring back the big ships to do the specific jobs you are looking for. This is a explorer and it's job is to explore. Not mine, fight or anything else. It explores and then the other know exactly where to go to fight mine or cargo haul or maybe it's just me that see's it that way.

love this so why the krait phantom has seen the most places???

I want my DBX in my Anaconda's fighter bay bcz why not

o7 thank you. Dbx is amazing but yea our Phantom is just perfect. Dbx has comprimises.