I don't think the quality of the alpha is there yet to be worth your time and money. Farrister makes great videos, but content creators usually cut out the 15 minutes it takes to get to your ship, the extra 6 minutes for warp, and the additional frustration and time it takes to get through workarounds at every step of the way to get footage, much less game time in. Trying different server shards, broken QT markers, broken ATC, broken party markers, mission enemies not spawning, bugged enemies that don't take damage, restarting the client, contracts not registering completion, unable to repair/refuel. Ship impounded and disappearing under your feet despite having landing permission, broken terminals, suffocating to death with your helmet on, Quantum fuel gauge is wrong, refueling doesn't work, bugged HUD, missile targeting bugs, vehicle wrecks blocking the inside of your hangar, hangar disappearing, falling through the planet or station, the list goes on. Unless you have a fetish for bug reporting, it's not ready. But if you must, stick with a cheap starter package and wait until after the wipe. You will be able to purchase everything with in-game currency eventually.
@4tonmike thank you for taking the time to write this overview. I think I will still give it ago with a cheap starter package anyway. Probably will be after Christmas anyway. Hope you have a good day.
100% give it a shot. I just started 2 weeks ago and I’m having such a blast. This game does so many different things I enjoy. Hop into the 3.24 patch and not 4.0. It’s much more stable. If you ever wanna join up with my friends and I, we’d be happy to have you.
@@LivingToDye thank you for the kind offer. I ended up jumping into 4.0 a few weeks back. Haven't been able to get back on since (who knew babies gobble up all your spare time 🤣) Maybe see you in 4.0.1 as I think that will probably be released before I can get on again 😂
We found an alternate way to complete the phase 1 recover cargo mission. It turns out that the cargo ship is not disabled at all. It is perfectly pristine. We had one person take a Polaris and act as a shield while the second person hopped in the cargo ship, fired it up, and flew it away. Considering all the issues we had with protect, this ended up being the fastest way for us to complete phase one.
thank you for showing all this. Unfortunately I've had pretty bad servers and no group to play with so have been unable to do any of the save stanton missions which I really would have liked to attempt
Pretty cool event. Would love to see more activities like this implemented into SC. Hopefully with server meshing in 4.0, it'll become more commonplace. Thanks for the video, Farrister!
I did the retireve the cargo missions solo, in my Starlancer. And the 4s4 on the Starlancer made easy work with fighters and the drop down cargo made loading between two ships an breeze! I really enjoyed these missions and hope the get added to the loop.
One thing to note for phase 4: Farrister only buys cargo for 4 out of 6 missions. If you're 0/6, you will have to buy more than what he does in the video.
Did all 4 phases during IAE, the servers were in a relative decent state during late hours and phase 3 was rather fast since everyone had rental Polarisi. In Phase 4, the only mission one could really do was the large delivery of the 3 metals (tungsten, titanium and copper). The other options were impossible, as it was impossible to fully source the commodities, as bexalite and nitrogen were never in stock. Still did it in a single run but took well over 2 hours as about 400+ SCU of total cargo in 4/8 SCU boxes were loaded and unloaded.
During phase 1, the 1st mission you show, there would be an enemy ship that isnt a fighter, like a freelancer. It would contain significant amounts of weevil eggs. I made over 10 million in eggs in just 3 of the missions. Not that it matter since there is a wipe coming, but it was fun to sell $6m of weevil eggs at a time.
Did 1-2 and 4 solo.. after IAE. Phase 3 got it passively while doing 1-2 alone(just accept the mission and hope someone/parties does it while your doing 1 and 2 while on the same server). Had to go on AUS servers to do Phase 1(get to/deliver cargo).. less desync. I did it the old fashion way.. cleared the waves of ships. Had to deal with desync ships though (1 out of every 3 ships). The worst one was having the stealth Murai Razor EX Slicers desync the whole battle.. they also become untrackeable (bug) and have to shoot by their ship light and gun fire.. and they never have anything good in their cargo. I was flying a Hawk for these missions. Doable solo able since you can take your time pulling 1 to 3 ships(seen 9+ ships sitting around the cargo ships on a few instances) so long you know your own detection range. Also can be done other ways but went with what i know best.. pew pew Phase 2 was fairly easy 'Kill Op' but so many ppl left their ships at locations that it was protecting the targets(shields).. Had to get really close with my ships. Phase 4 (Bex/Hel/Hydro) did with my 315p.. yes.. took long but enjoyed the travelling.. no renting for me :D
I would have loved to take part in all of this. Being with a group to clear these missions would have been a god-send. I did the entirety of the 4 phases solo, and it was not entirely pleasant.
I soloed Phase 1, 2 & 4, used the same ship, a Corsair. I did it Phase 4 in 1 hour. QT to Magus gateway, buy 6x 4scu crates of Bexalite, QT to Sera, buy 6x 4scu Helium n Hydrogen, then QT to Pyro gateway, deliver 1x 4scu crate of each material to the cargo elevator, wait a minute for mission to respawn, recycle
Yeah, why I cleared all the Phases on the first week each Phase came out, as I realised that with free fly and Polaris everywhere for IAE, the servers were gonna be bad most of the time, especially with Idris spawn issues at the start of Phase 3. Phase 4: just buy 6x 4SCU crates to cover all bases.
My question is why do you have to complete them 6 times? I have phase 1, 2, & 3 in my completed contracts. Is that why you have to complete them 6 times to get that update or is there another reason?
Im tried phase 1 but the protect one was impossible as so many fighters to kill by the time I killed them they had killed the ship I was meant to save LOL the other was hard trying to shoot the ships in a cargo ship I used the Conny and corsair but still have some to do. If it was just one of each would have been great but 6 was a grind
I think all the bigger ships need to be a lot less maneuverable, capital ship combat looks weird right now and doesn't give me the vibe I'd want from the game. If the future of SC capital ship combat is a Polaris sticking to the butt of an Idris at all times, instead of some nice long range exchanges, I'd be very disappointed. Though I do understand everyone is trying to avoid the Railgun.
Appreciate the longer form of actual gameplay. It is very helpful. As I am new to SC and am looking at jumping into the verse at somepoint soon.
I don't think the quality of the alpha is there yet to be worth your time and money. Farrister makes great videos, but content creators usually cut out the 15 minutes it takes to get to your ship, the extra 6 minutes for warp, and the additional frustration and time it takes to get through workarounds at every step of the way to get footage, much less game time in.
Trying different server shards, broken QT markers, broken ATC, broken party markers, mission enemies not spawning, bugged enemies that don't take damage, restarting the client, contracts not registering completion, unable to repair/refuel. Ship impounded and disappearing under your feet despite having landing permission, broken terminals, suffocating to death with your helmet on, Quantum fuel gauge is wrong, refueling doesn't work, bugged HUD, missile targeting bugs, vehicle wrecks blocking the inside of your hangar, hangar disappearing, falling through the planet or station, the list goes on. Unless you have a fetish for bug reporting, it's not ready.
But if you must, stick with a cheap starter package and wait until after the wipe. You will be able to purchase everything with in-game currency eventually.
@4tonmike thank you for taking the time to write this overview. I think I will still give it ago with a cheap starter package anyway.
Probably will be after Christmas anyway. Hope you have a good day.
100% give it a shot. I just started 2 weeks ago and I’m having such a blast. This game does so many different things I enjoy. Hop into the 3.24 patch and not 4.0. It’s much more stable. If you ever wanna join up with my friends and I, we’d be happy to have you.
@@LivingToDye thank you for the kind offer. I ended up jumping into 4.0 a few weeks back. Haven't been able to get back on since (who knew babies gobble up all your spare time 🤣)
Maybe see you in 4.0.1 as I think that will probably be released before I can get on again 😂
@ Oh trust me. I get it haha. I have a son that is just over a year old. So i'm usually waiting until around 9pm to even get on and play haha.
We found an alternate way to complete the phase 1 recover cargo mission. It turns out that the cargo ship is not disabled at all. It is perfectly pristine. We had one person take a Polaris and act as a shield while the second person hopped in the cargo ship, fired it up, and flew it away. Considering all the issues we had with protect, this ended up being the fastest way for us to complete phase one.
Probably bugged, the two I tried the cargo ship was dead
Hurricane is such a great looking ship in my mind, loved that shot of it.
I love these type of videos. We appreciate you for this.
Thank you!
thank you for showing all this. Unfortunately I've had pretty bad servers and no group to play with so have been unable to do any of the save stanton missions which I really would have liked to attempt
Pretty cool event. Would love to see more activities like this implemented into SC. Hopefully with server meshing in 4.0, it'll become more commonplace. Thanks for the video, Farrister!
YES a one Hour Long Video of Farrister :D
Music is 100% suitable! It just works.
I did the retireve the cargo missions solo, in my Starlancer. And the 4s4 on the Starlancer made easy work with fighters and the drop down cargo made loading between two ships an breeze! I really enjoyed these missions and hope the get added to the loop.
Also, love the music and how relaxing it is.
The longer format will give you more watch hours as well. Great work
One thing to note for phase 4: Farrister only buys cargo for 4 out of 6 missions. If you're 0/6, you will have to buy more than what he does in the video.
It's true, only bought cargo for my 4 remaining missions!
14:52 i see you had the party marker glitch too it was so BAD
I had a lot of fun with the Save Stanton event. Maybe not phase 3 so much, but overall it was a pretty good time.
Did all 4 phases during IAE, the servers were in a relative decent state during late hours and phase 3 was rather fast since everyone had rental Polarisi.
In Phase 4, the only mission one could really do was the large delivery of the 3 metals (tungsten, titanium and copper). The other options were impossible, as it was impossible to fully source the commodities, as bexalite and nitrogen were never in stock. Still did it in a single run but took well over 2 hours as about 400+ SCU of total cargo in 4/8 SCU boxes were loaded and unloaded.
It is a complete pita to hit the Idris with an S10 torpedo. The hammerheads, however, go down in a single shot 😁
During phase 1, the 1st mission you show, there would be an enemy ship that isnt a fighter, like a freelancer. It would contain significant amounts of weevil eggs. I made over 10 million in eggs in just 3 of the missions. Not that it matter since there is a wipe coming, but it was fun to sell $6m of weevil eggs at a time.
Did 1-2 and 4 solo.. after IAE.
Phase 3 got it passively while doing 1-2 alone(just accept the mission and hope someone/parties does it while your doing 1 and 2 while on the same server).
Had to go on AUS servers to do Phase 1(get to/deliver cargo).. less desync. I did it the old fashion way.. cleared the waves of ships. Had to deal with desync ships though (1 out of every 3 ships).
The worst one was having the stealth Murai Razor EX Slicers desync the whole battle.. they also become untrackeable (bug) and have to shoot by their ship light and gun fire.. and they never have anything good in their cargo. I was flying a Hawk for these missions.
Doable solo able since you can take your time pulling 1 to 3 ships(seen 9+ ships sitting around the cargo ships on a few instances) so long you know your own detection range.
Also can be done other ways but went with what i know best.. pew pew
Phase 2 was fairly easy 'Kill Op' but so many ppl left their ships at locations that it was protecting the targets(shields).. Had to get really close with my ships.
Phase 4 (Bex/Hel/Hydro) did with my 315p.. yes.. took long but enjoyed the travelling.. no renting for me :D
Did them all in a group, was a great time (:
I would have loved to take part in all of this. Being with a group to clear these missions would have been a god-send. I did the entirety of the 4 phases solo, and it was not entirely pleasant.
I soloed Phase 1, 2 & 4, used the same ship, a Corsair. I did it Phase 4 in 1 hour. QT to Magus gateway, buy 6x 4scu crates of Bexalite, QT to Sera, buy 6x 4scu Helium n Hydrogen, then QT to Pyro gateway, deliver 1x 4scu crate of each material to the cargo elevator, wait a minute for mission to respawn, recycle
This was great. Could you do one for each of the contested zones?
1/3 on Phase 3 so I hope to wrap it up this week so I can move to 4.0 and get it done.
Yeah, why I cleared all the Phases on the first week each Phase came out, as I realised that with free fly and Polaris everywhere for IAE, the servers were gonna be bad most of the time, especially with Idris spawn issues at the start of Phase 3.
Phase 4: just buy 6x 4SCU crates to cover all bases.
hahaha Farrister I dont think you're allowed to call them "Undesirables" anymore :P
Weevil Junkies are people too yenno
whats a good solo fighter for a total noob just starting out and doing these missions
Hi, I still haven't received the email telling me that I won the contest to win the intrepid. Weird
Haha, I got confirmation from the winner last night!
@ gg to him. my pisces is glad it's not going to the scrapyard.
My question is why do you have to complete them 6 times? I have phase 1, 2, & 3 in my completed contracts. Is that why you have to complete them 6 times to get that update or is there another reason?
Im tried phase 1 but the protect one was impossible as so many fighters to kill by the time I killed them they had killed the ship I was meant to save LOL the other was hard trying to shoot the ships in a cargo ship I used the Conny and corsair but still have some to do.
If it was just one of each would have been great but 6 was a grind
I think all the bigger ships need to be a lot less maneuverable, capital ship combat looks weird right now and doesn't give me the vibe I'd want from the game.
If the future of SC capital ship combat is a Polaris sticking to the butt of an Idris at all times, instead of some nice long range exchanges, I'd be very disappointed.
Though I do understand everyone is trying to avoid the Railgun.
the worst part about this game is that at any given point its the best its gonna ever get for it
I am so new there is no point for me to save Stanton.
i personnaly completed every mission with a taurus, it was long, boring, but easy.