Why the Caterpillar is AMAZING! - Group Salvage in Star Citizen 3.18 

Hey guys, as I've mentioned before I suffer from Laryngitis Sicca and soem days are worse than others. today was a particularly bad day for my throat and so I apologize if anyone has trouble understanding any of this one

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Some times this game hurts my soul, but even when it struggles it’s just another level of stunning.

Yep, you're right. That Caterpillar looks PERFECT for this. Having those vultures backed up and all unloading at the same time was amazing.

The caterpillar really is an amazing ship! I love it so much. Drake ships in general really hold a special place in my heart, they remind me of the early concepts of star citizen, that old and almost musty atmosphere of design style, one of my favourite feelings. Industrial ships in this game really are something else, and in my opinion really show the lived in part of this game.

From what I've determined so far, bed logging is the key to getting the RMC to not show up as stolen. You don't have to change servers, just log out and back in. It's worked every time so far, and I have now come to preemptively bed log on my way to the TDD. This bug only occurs when using a cargo ship to sell the salvage, selling it straight from the vulture never causes this. -BenChillin

In regards to the RMC that was no sellable at the TDD. It is possible that during the incident where one of the party members got injured by a box, the cargo that was moved to the freelancer was considered stolen because of the temporary criminal status that was given by the member's downed state and connected bodily harm charge before the charge where declined. Unfortunately, there is very little official documentation (that I could find) explaining in detail the different cargo-selling factors that effect whether cargo is legal or considered stolen within party gameplay.

This video perfectly highlights one of many reasons the caterpillar is one of the ships I want the most. 😍

Lol, Kate has the correct reaction when one detects 2 contacts... Save the cargo!

The Drake brand synergy is intended by lore, it’s just cool to see that it’s actually viable in the game.

Really great video, and it was really cool seeing all of our Vulture’s lined up unloading with the Caterpillar. It is group play like this that really makes SC an amazing game, and this was certainly one of the many enjoyable operations we’ve done. With the new Cargo Refractor and Salvage introduced in 3.18 it has really made immensely enjoyable improvements with multi-crew gameplay.

My brother and I took a Vulture and a Cutty Red out salvaging yesterday. It was great. Managed to fill all the compartments of the Red up before the Vulture bugged out and stopped making them. I look forward to having the time to do that again.

This is awesome! Now I don't have to hear my buddy complain that I bought a caterpillar instead of a C2! Thanks for the great video and insight!

A good salvage spot I've found recently is going to the race tracks. Picking up the pieces of crashed racers :D

I'm wondering about sending out a MOLE with the Vultures - just to mine up the rocks you find

Such a great example for group gameplay. Pretty nice teamplay. And yes... those Drake ships working combined do really shine.

The Caterpillar is the '65 Impala of Star Citizen... One of my favorite looking ships.

I watched this channel so much that I woke up to the background music in my head and summed it while making my first coffee. Thanks for the great good morning soundtrack.

The catepillar is such a beautiful ship!!! Drake really does make the coolest looking ships!

That view of all the ships backed up to the Caterpillar bays for cargo transfer is awesome. I suspect the Hull series will work well too. When it works this is such a great game.

Cat is life

I Love industrial gameplay. This is exactly why I bought a Caterpillar! Love those videos Kate, keep them coming!!!

I really love the icebreaker paint on the cat Great video!

I love watching these loading and unloading processes. I'd love to do this stuff myself some day. Also hearing your exasperated voice when you realized the freelancer wasn't big enough was hilarious.

as a die hard, totally introverted, dedicated solo gamer, watching your videos ALMOST make me want to find an org to play with, you guys are great and your videos are endlessly entertaining and informative :)

I wonder why you never use the tractor to pull yourself into the ship, you can almost always land on your feet that way. Also I found that sprint jumping into EVA often skips the tumble. Great video, as always though, love the use of the cat. Was contemplating C2 before, no more now.

Such a cool vid. As a Caterpillar captain I'm stoked to see it being utilized.

Great content. I'm having fun with salvage, and this really provided me with more appreciation for the Caterpillar, great ship design for this.

Very cool use of the Caterpillar, Drake really has a complimentary ship lineup!

Wish I had discovered you sooner, I'm in love with your storytelling!

Wow, that looked like a fun session! Excited to see and join even larger scale industrial operations in future 😄

Awesome to see so many Vultures working together in the third person camera!

The Cat definitely looks like the perfect ship for a squad of vultures to unload onto. Even better then a C2 because of all the bays.

I have a Freelancer (normal). you absolutely can stack 3 high in the main cargo area, AND you can stack 3 high in the secondary (Inner) compartment. You can tractor or hand carry SCU into the smaller compartment, you just have to hold 'R' to rotate the boxes so that the smaller side of each box is going through the door first.

the Cat seems to rule for multi-vulture cargo loading. We have found the hull-A and Cutty Black to be best for the reclaimers throwing the boxes out of the butt. Great video!

This is the multiplayer experience i signed up for in 2014 🙌 great epic well done video cheers 🍻

Great video, love the shot of the cat with the doors open and the ones with the vultures pulled up to the doors. Looked like what I imagine a real crew would look like. I think the Hull series ships will work well in this same respect, as the easy access loading will make it convenient for multiple ships to transfer cargo at once.

Until there's a loop for moving containers about the galaxy, looks like the Caterpillar is where it's at.

Star Citizen is getting so amazing lately. I've played since 2014 and it's really starting to come together, and still the majority of their resources are working on SQ42, I can't imagine once that's done or wrapping up how fast SC will move. I don't like to be overly optimistic, I long ago told myself that if SC crashes and burns I'll be fine with it, its all been worth it just for wat we've got so far. But it is amazing that almost 10 years in and SC still amazes me as if I just discovered it.

2 weeks old, but Vulture's have a Gimble with the miners (press G). Also hold Left Alt and mouse wheel till .10 or .12 (holding left alt and right clicking changes the beams from being vertical or horizontal and the wheel will space them apart or together.), this separates the beams more so their salvage radiuses aren't overlapping, you'll gather more faster.

Purchased my starter ship in 2014 and was in love with the Caterpillar. Started actual playing 2 weeks before 3.18. (didn't have a pc good enough to play SC.) My love for the cat hasn't changed. Only cargo ship i want to own.

Another ship that I think will shine in group salvaging is the Constellation Taurus once its tractor turret becomes a thing that actually works. You can scoot up to a Vulture and suck those boxes right out of its cargo bay and stack in on your ramp without ever having to leave your ship and with two people manning the Taurus you can get combat ready with a not inconsiderable amount of firepower very quickly in an emergency. The Caterpillar has more cargo space but just filling up the Taurus with 3 Vultures could still take several hours.

Never noticed the landing gear on the Cat, pretty fitting, I like it.

Wow, a REALLY great show. I just love seeing you all working together and how valuable the Cat is! Fantastic Video. Makes me so excited. Drake is also my Fav ship brand. I love the gritty 'real' look and feel of the ships. ♥

This is exactly the kind of salvage op I've been trying to set up with my organization

I'm with Katey here, I love drake ships. They're the only ones I'll pledge real money for

The group game play is actually coming together now. It's quite a sight to see, when working of course ;)

Awesome video as usual! Very informative as well! I cant wait to get on a salvage team or the ladder! FYI, if Im not mistaken you can tractor beam most of those little parts into 1 place to make it easier, that would be pretty cool IMO...

This was so badass! Great work by you all 👍

This is amazing! I adore any incentive to work with other players. I think the vulture really needs a bunk bed. Would love to see how the gameplay will grow in complexity as EVA 2.0 and new tractor beam mechanics come online. Logistics could easily be a full orgs worth of jobs in of itself! Your content is really enjoyable and stands out as being really well edited, love your camera shots and use of music

Nice vid. Love the Drake line of ships. Good luck with your mining

Ideally, you'd also want a Cutlass or two to run defense and also add more storage to your haul. You could bring some Buccaneers to add some more firepower and a Cutter to go to and from the local station in case anyone needs food, water, or a hospital trip. A Cutlass Red could also help with less serious injuries. Drake ships are seriously built to be versatile and have good synergy between them.

Very cool, I bet the Hull ships will shine in these situations too as the cargo area is essentially outside the ship. It can't get much easier to load than that.

Lol, mama cat feeding the little ones 11:10

Wow the cat is so useful for that task! I was thinking you were mistaken and that a C2 would be more useful as you can load from both ends, and maybe it is when you only have two vultures, but nothing else could have handled 6 vultures so easily. We don't know yet how the loading equipment will work at major stations but just imagine how useful it will be if the Cat is able to load & unload every bay simultaneously while the C2 can only load from the front & back.

8:39 LOL "Kate assaulted me with a cargo Crate" XD this is grate. id love to be on a party like this

super cool, this is the type of gameplay the devs imagined

I feel seen on the drake comments, lol! One of your m8s mentioned the vulture needs a bunkbed. Again, you need a corsair or two in that operation. They can act as quarters for players , lookouts, scouts, and can be a temporary hold while the catapillar returns to sell. I think it would really optimize the operation and allow for deep space long haul salvage ops.

I just love the music Kate use in these vids its makes all of SC 5x more epic to me :D .

lovely video as always, keep up the amazing content!

This is why I think the Hull C. Or the entire Hull range will be in high demand with its external storage. I’ve often said that that it will play an important roll in salvaging as it has the easiest of access for all the cargo ships. And you should be able to dock it at Orison space dock

Impressive! Very nice video. Keep up the great work :) makes a lot of fun to see you doing this. I pack my volture completely full with around 20 boxes. maybe 21 or 22 would fit, but this is messi xD

YOU WOULD THINK a service vehicle designed for salvage like the vulture would have full on flood lights to see what the hell we are working with, especially in denser clusters of salvage lol. glad im not the only one to notice.

Pretty cool to see the cat used for this. Finally, a practical use for this over the C2!

Great video! Looking forward to the next one. I’m surprised the team hasn’t loaded their vultures with the buyable trawler module yet. At 1,650 aUEC they look like they would pay themselves off quickly. Happy salvaging!

The multi-bay loading bay shots are very nice.

I gotta say I've fallen just a little bit in love with salvage. Yeah, you can make more money with mining but salvaging is just so zen (when it works and the trade terminals actually let me sell the damn stuff). I think what I'd absolutely love to see in the future is a dedicated carrier or mothership for a flight of Vultures. Not something with actual hangar space but more along the lines of a modified Caterpillar. SOmething with a big cargo hold and plenty of fuel reserves for those long hauls. The Vulture really doesn't have the fuel to get anywhere on its own - especially once the verse starts to open up with more systems. So having a ship capable of having a handful of Vultures attach for quantum travel, storing salvage and providing the necessities to its Vultures and their pilots strikes me as the natural evolution of Drake-sponsored salvaging. In a fleet setting such a ship could easily act as a support and repair vessel, using the salvage provided by its Vultures to fabricate replacement parts for its fleet and affect hull repairs in the field.

The Cat is perfect for this operation… I believe the hull series with it’s completely open cargo attach points would also be a good fit. Love this series… subscribed and liked… keep it up.

You showcase perfectly what a well organized crew of people and ships could accomplish in Star Citizen as well as gameplay for players in the logistics branch of Skunk Works could be doing.

Amazing vid as always, as someone who loves the thought of salvaging in a game, I hope more features get added soon.

hey kate, how are you selling a party members cargo, it just errors for me when i try to do that

i fully agree with the lights comment, the lights on an industrial ship should light it up!!! The darkest stormy night should be day, real world examples are multiple floods etc would be great to have that eventually and fix lights on msr and scorp while your at it lol. thanks for the great content!

Cutlass Black and Hull A work pretty good too. Especially Hull A because cargo is on the outside. Both can sell a full load and fly back before vulture is filled up again. The Hull A alone can fit 64 SCU, which would be about 5 fully loaded Vultures (Assuming the official 12 SCU per Vulture).

Wish I were able to get a Vulture because the salvage gameplay just looks so chill and enjoyable, anyways thanks for another great video!

I love series style videos I only pray that once (if) they add prospector saddlebag detachment in 3.19 you and your org does a similar series where you can push the possibilities of gameplay as you always have. One more thing, with the itemport tractor beaming shenanigans, you could theoretically keep the ballista always stocked up with missiles and do some crazy air area denial. Not to mention restocking an all ballistic centurion using all ballistic corsair running "ammo" for it. I can't wait for skunks dominating new JT!

i had a questional encounter with some stranger a few patches ago, he was in need of a freight ship and i had my cat at hand. i arrived at his location (relatively near karea) and there where a LOT of cargo boxes flying in the midst of space (back when there where still ship dropable boxes, yes a lot of patches ago), i and he started hand throwing the free floating boxes into the cargo hold so we could later on cram it inside his ship (avenger titan) until i had the genious idea to simply use the cat as a sort of comb and moove sideways with the according side of freight ramps open to catch most of the boxes in a low effort sweep, the remqaining ones where too scattered around and we had a second round at cargoholdball. to have an easier transpher of the crates we landed on the planet and mooved most inside his ship, a few remained as my share, we tried to sell it but 1. it was something so low in value noone wanted it and secondly either bug or stolen goods where already somewhat implemented. anyway i tried to appropriately dispose of the cargo of course ( blocking an entry way in port olisar) sadly a game crash did prevent it i think... it was a long time ago so i don't remember. Cats definetly a fun ship and i fell in love with its observatory, sadly the cargo bays are just too small to land any reasonable spacecraft inside or else i'd have used it as a pocket carrier already. Luckily i gotten that one, a reclaimer(i had the chance to upgrade a vulture and so i did a few years back), by now a liberator, and a constellation with lti so i hope there will be a lot more of those stories ahead, good luck to you, im out

Great job as always Katie, glad to see your still going strong!

Press G when salvaging and you can gimbal the turrets. Saves moving the ship around as you scrape

With all you new features being added , it seems to bring game plays together

I know the Cat is awesome for this but imagine what a Hull will be like in this scenario - just slap the boxes on the grid. Hull B or Hull C would be an awesome compliment! By the way great vid guys, this is showing the art of the possible when you work as a team or org in this game.

Really cool video. Makes me glad I have a Caterpillar. Gonna be even better when it's fully functional.

I've come to the conclusion that this is definitely the way Vultures work great and Reclaimers work best for bigger wrecks, as moving that behemoth around for panels is cumbersome. Great video again.

Awesome to see the Caterpillar used in what has to be one of the ways it was designed for. As the owner of a Misc freelancer, I am now left to ponder why the battle bus has a section of cargo that can neither be loaded nor unloaded manually. And how it is that the stations are loading crates into that space. It would be cool if they redesigned that space a bit to give more access.

I can see how much more valuable the Caterpillar is when supporting salvaging compared to my beloved Carrack currently. I imagine trying to move those crates into the enclosed cargo bays of the Carrack would be time consuming and painful and especially since the vehicle bay is not a cargo grid. Nice to see the multiplayer ships slowly starting to show the pro and cons of each. This promotes having the right ship for the job and allowing each to shine in their own way. Love that paint scheme on the Caterpillar too!

Great Video again, can't wait to be able to get a Caterpillar, By far an excellent cargo mover and unload and loader, love its design and it's very down to basics feel and great view out the tracker beam control area, built tough enough to get the job done and then more. I could see in the future besides the Vultures working on stripping alone a few people with the hand tools that are going to come into game play, You could use it as a space strip shop, I know they have a larger tractor beam gun coming so I am assuming they will have a hull stripping gun going into a backpack or feeding directly to a SCU container machine similar to the Vulture, 2 or 3 people then the could collect the hull pieces onto the Caterpillar pulling up to a savage site and using the tractor beams to pull in small or large hull sections into a bay depending on if the vultures are there as well as the vultures helping with using there tractor beams and start stripping them down like a mobil body shop in space and then storing the SCU cargo in the next bay and so on, When the vultures are done helping collect the small pieces, then they either strip the larger pieces or look for the next site to find for scrap. Seems like you need about 1 cargo handler between 2 vultures, to keep them moving lol, I noticed that you avoid making contact with the ships so as not to damage either ship, seemed like at odd angles the tracker beam constantly was hitting the interior and had trouble controlling the box, Wouldn't it be easier to get the vulture at the same level and straight back square to the cargo hold? Or was it just to maximize the time and not really necessary to have it that close? I have never done ship to ship tractor beam cargo movement ,that's why I am asking ,I not criticizing. I have a freelancer Max and it's very nice,it fits 108 in the back cargo hold, with that and the 25 each Vulture can hold that would be a total of 158 SCU = 1,195,428 Credits that's pretty good for 1 trip all 3 ships.I think that works. the MAX also has an additional 12 SCU in the 2nd cargo section which should have a decompression locking door thats big enough for a cargo container to fit through but it's not at this time, hopefully this will change in the Gold standard, but I beleive that will become the new EVA area with suit lockers and storage in the airlock section, docking collar,which is a huge upgrade for game play. The ship is suppose to also get wider all the way down the length of the hull, could be from from 1/2 SCU to possible 2 SCU in width, the main cargo area will be around 96 SCU to 144 SCU depending on the rework as for me I think by making the rear a 2 SCU wide, even losing a whole front row in the main cargo hold area of 12, you will pick up an additional 48 SCU in length of the ship now that its wider making it more viable to maintain a decent cargo capacity. If it ended up being 96 SCU, it would be to much of a loss and it loses the go between of the bigger hauling ships. The cockpit will be more along the line of the Hull A cockpit window view with a 3 person triangle pilot front and center all the way to the front window, two other seats to left back and right back of the pilots seat still with complete window view all around, proper eating and living area,Bathroom ,shower and bunks for 3 people instead of 4, I can't wait for this I hope they don't botch this one, Us Freelancer, DUR, MAX, MiSS.owners have been waiting a long time for the rework. BTW grats a on the 400 i win ,best of luck on your journeys. Keep up the great work, loving it all and good team work from your org. You should all be proud, I know we are, you all show us the way to achieve even greater exploits in Star Citizen and make it more than what it appears on the surface. See you in the verse.

I love it, it flows so well it's almost like a well choreographed routine. I knew I liked the Caterpillar, its almost like you could do without the reclaimer for group salvage.

Something I would love to see, when possible of course. Doing this and having your org plan an attack on the group doing salvaging with a protection crew around.

The Cat does appear to be ideal for this. But for those building up their fleet, I would think that something like a Cutty could be filled up, sell the load, and be back before the Vulture is full again.

I can't wait for the Liberator, can ferry not only the vulture, but also expanse (when that comes as well) and perhaps a fighter... Can go take bounties, take them out, salvage everything, refine it, and storage it in the Liberator =D Hunting for days !

I found that the vulture can handle 22scu to sell at one time which is about 169.3k aUEC, depending on how you stack the crates you can get 1 more to eject so in so total would around 176k aUEC (solo run). But yeah the lights do suck on the vulture, overall I do like the ship alot.

I have to ask i have notised you guys dont use the gimble function when salvaging.. there a reason for this??

The Catipillar is a star in the age of cargo! I wonder if the Raft is going to change this with the large SCU Containers becoming a thing. #hmmmm

If they add an automated loading where you place the box in a designated area and the ship will stack the boxes it will increase the margins. Of course you will need to outfit the ship with such a system. One can only hope

The hull A is made for salvaging you can load it from the comfort of the reclaimer or vulture.

Nice to see the caterpiller having uses now thanks to it's design makes me wish the carrack doors were implemented too

@Citizen_Kate, what about having a loading team of two on a dragon fly? Could one person pilot and the rear facing person use the tractor beam?

Is the Caterpillar supposed to be getting the cargo mounted tractor beams that the cargo variant of the Spirit is supposed to have?

Nothing more satisfying seeing a pack of vultures picking up all the scraps from there prey

If Drake would put a layer of armor on those notoriously exposed engines, they would be my favorite. But they havent...(mostly an issue on the cutlass since it's meant to get into tangles with) Also, I think a fully crewed reclaimer may be the most OP ship in the game. Those 6x6 size 3's at 365degrees are ridonkulous. You wouldn't even need escorts and it's holds are cavernous. Your vids are always a pleasure to watch, keep it up!

First of all I want to say I love ❤️ your videos and listening to your wonderful accented voice! I tried forever to figure out where you were from originally til I saw one vid that you mentioned you were from Wales. Anyways just was wondering if the cargo crates from the vulture would mount upto the side cargo grids of a hull A, B, or C cargo hauler? If so would be an easier way to haul and stack on the outside grid than to have to stack inside a hauler. Just would need extra security from friends when you go to sell. Thanks for your vids and keep um coming! 😊