What Player Bounty Hunting in Star Citizen is Really Like 

the objective target on they bounty is wawyyyy to powerfull

I enjoyed watching this. Great presentation, commentary, and thoughts on what is good/fun/needs work. Thanks!

Loved the gameplay! Definitely need to see more.

Good stuff, lofty! Those shots at the beginning were buttery smooth. Would love to see more light rp bounty hunter stories!

Great vid, I gotta try bounty hunting now!

had fun watching bud 😊 good stuff keep em coming

I really enjoyed both of your video essays about star citizen. I just like listening to them maybe while jumping from planet to planet :)

You'll never take me alive!

whaaaat? This production is so solid.

Just downloaded this game yesterday and I can’t wait to try Bounty Hunting.

I jumped on SC during the kickstarter, but I've only logged in a few times (usually just to fall through a floor). I've realized I hate watching the sausage being made. Bounty Hunting and Piracy are the 2 game loops I'm most interested in. I look forward to watching more of your stuff and keeping tabs on where Bounty Hunting is and how it's developing! BTW, I love your idea of using the Eclipse. Have you tried using the Hawk? Liked and Subbed!

Great video

so true and great video

Hi there ! First of all, great video, it's nice when people bring attention to some aspect of gameplay that gets very often overlooked for being a "low paying job" i'll leave some tips and tricks i learnt and some personal opinions to help new players troughought their bounty hunting missions. As of FPS combat, always wear at least medium armour, heavy if you want maximum protection but you will be slower, Spend a few more bucks on some 1x or 2x holographical sight, they help soo much when aiming and most of em don't have the "aimpoint offset" like the classic iron sight of most guns; this way you can acquire and keep your target in sight better. Torps are very hit or miss, it's gonna depend a lot on server performance wheter they hit, but i can say this, size 5 and size 9 torps are the only ones that seem to have "Target prediction guidance" that simply allows them to aim at the predicted impact point rather than aiming at the target itself; this means that as long as the target is standing still, or moving at a constant velocity, the torp will hit; the problem is when the target keeps switching course, in that case it's almost impossible; also, i wouldn't bother wasting a size 9 torp for anything smaller than a constellation andromeda personally, but you can try your luck with smaller target aswell, as shown in the video. Talking about using the Eclipse for stealth during bounty hunting: great choice, altough you have to make sure you do some things first, equip the ship with Atlas drive for maximum range on the system, then, equip all stealth components, wich means Mirages for shields, snowblinds for coolers and i don't rememeber the stealth grade A power plant. Then when you're about to enter the action remember 2 things, as soon as you warp your EM emission is HUGE, no matter the ship you're in, so you might want to wait a few minutes if you really wanna make sure that you're not gonna be spotted too easily; second thing, you can actually decrease the Eclipse EM and IR signature by doing a few things, go to the emission panel and click on "suppress IR", then Press "O" to disable shield, then "P" to disable weapons (it will only disable the 2 size 1 guns, you won't need em anyway) and then you can go to the Power HUD i believe it's called and click on the "Stealth" button, this is a bit dangerous because it will decrease the maximum working load of the Power plant, producing less EM making you more stealthy, but if you forget about it and turn on weapons or shields, you will re distribute the little power you have, thus reducing the power to the engines, making you prone to crash the ship, and if you're in combat, it's a certified bruh moment. It often happens lately that the bounty you're after is just a guy in his reclaimer doing salvaging, these can be the very easy or very hard bounties to catch, if done correctly they will expose themself for as little as 20 seconds, making it impossible for you to catch them, but most of em are dumb and will just open the mobiglass often, giving you a marker. I often bring with me a Railgun, so i can simply shoot once at the side doors of the reclaimer, get in, kill the guy wich most of the time is in a white undersuit, and go away. Now i don't like these kind of players because most of em think they're playing minecraft singleplayer.... just in space, and forget that other players exist, so once they get killed by you they will start insulting you and accusing you of griefing, and cheating cause they have no clue how you found them; if you, who is reading this, fit in this category, shame on you.

You're a dope editor

How did you get self and target status on top of your cockpit like that

They did fix it at one point to where you do not lose reputation for bounty mission fails unless you lost in combat to the bounty player during engagement. That was a common complaint when the reputation system first came out, but it was addressed in a subsequent patch. However, as anyone that has been around long enough knows, just because it worked at one point does not mean it STILL works...lol. They have also made efforts to get rid of combat logging, although it does not work really well. I have had many bounties recently that fail even though it was a legitimate kill, those are the most frustrating...lol. Nice Vid!

Player bounty hunting is something I haven't really tried yet. This video makes it look fun and frustrating, like most things in SC. I think I'll give it a try.

This is the loop I do, but after tracking them down this patch all too often they are not there but their marker occupies an empty space. on one occasion I tracked my mark who flew near the pads @ Seraphin and was pounded by the stations defences, not wanting to violate the no fire zone I sat and watched from the shadows for what seemed an absolute age as the little ship seemed to absorb a huge amount of punishment without destruction, I didnt see it destruct either I assumed the pilot landed and logged out

very entertaining and high quality content, never enjoyed pressing (Subscribe 🔔) before.

most bounties I've done lately are just players sitting off the common quantum paths in the middle of nowhere. takes forever to get to them and then they shoot off across the verse or log.

Ever get bribed to not kill the target? If so did you just merc him anyway once the transaction went though?

If I have a bounty I'll go to Grim and get a better ship then try and take on the bounty hunter. No point hiding for ages.

"we don't protect or serve, this is strictly business" great cold open

just wanna say it was kinda funny in an ironic way how you started the vid stating you dont like to nuke the target but then half way through you buy an eclipse.

I love the gameplay, but I want an more non-lethal bounty, cause we have ship like Hawk, Cutlass blue, Avenger Stalker as foundation already

The whole thing where they can just Alt-F4 is a loophole that I hope closes with the replication layer. You are stopped from bed logging in combat but you can still just Alt-F4 and vanish.

I hope they increase pvp prices. I ran around with over 50 fines and I was worth only like 45k. Cool if it added to the price on your head.

Most "players" that act try-hard and ends up getting a crime stat for "supposedly" doing pvp (tends to come complete with the smack talks on global) usually just gonna scuttle into a port and only came up when they know noone is around.... why do ya think they only float around in boost range of a station, definitely not for rearming.

Before complaining criminal logging out complain about the god marker that let you be a fake bounty hunter, you know a hunter is suppose to hunt. It's not called bounty tracker

Right now is just a bullshit, first of all, with the comes of pyro they should move out grim hex from Stanton, and than they need to do something like elite dangerous where you can scan the signal where he jump in order to see where he is going

Putting a marker above someones head is just wrong, unless they forsee equipment like scanners that have to be deployed/active for them to see your marker. Sc is a beautiful game but the gameplay is just one of the most basic and worse i have ever seen in a game. And im in since 2018 and nothing changed...

In my experience they just run to Grim Hex and hang out in chat. They never leave. Waited over an hour for a bounty to leave Grim Hex one night. Gave up on doing real player bounties after that.

Stopped watching when I noticed his Cutty Black loadout was 2x Badjers and 2x Scorps....Should have 2x DR-J distortion repeaters and 2x Panthers but play how u like. Just know that that the bounties you'll be running across will also be using a similar loadout if they're not n00bs...

I don't see what is satisfying using a wallhack but ok

Obviously you love hunting markers, hunting a magic marker is not what I call bounty hunting, tracking a marker requires no talent. I hope that CIG will release a little more accomplished gameplay for us

I gave up listening... background music was annoying and you sound completely exhausted.