What i do is play with my M2 with the AD5Bs and do VHRTs. VHRTs spawn mostly chargo ships and have more loot than ERTs. The AD5Bs easily have enough ammo to kill all targets in 3 VHRTs (hammerhead takes 300 rounds per gun) That should give you a mostly full chargo hold of drugs. The neck turret carries 2 laser repeaters and is used by either a friend or by me when shooting small targets that i want soft deathed (misc freelancer..) as the AD5Bs will kill them outright. My belly turret of the M2 is outfitted with C-788 HE Cannons. I use those to shoot into all the typical hiding spots at the salvage yards. 2 rounds of the C-788 placed within a 5 meter radius of a person will kill them. Make sure to turn on "call to arms" to get kill notifications. I killed 3 dudes camping the salvage yards with these cannons.
I use the A2 ... I dual box on a Desktop and a Laptop... i have my 2nd guy in one of the turrets shooting forward (usually get him to shoot in same direction as fixed main gun then hit G(Turn off gimbled mode) and Z(Turn on freelook) so turret doesn't move. Alternatively just hit G and don't touch the mouse... Anyway, you can equip all those extra turrets with whatever guns you like. I tent to use a mix of size 5 repeaters with size 4 cannons because they shoot at the same rate. I dont do AD5b , and i'm very careful with even the lvl 5 guns because they can easily destroy the target instead of soft death. I usually try to bring the target as low to ground as possible in atmo ... I will make video of all this soon... if loot is still decent or not... IDC at this point.
FYI if you are scanning and it’s not showing anything on the scan it is better to physically look. I found 90 SCU of weevil eggs on a M2 that was not scanning for me. This was last after the hot fix they did.
Really glad that YT algorithm pushed your videos to me. They're great, I have been cranking some ERT's in inferno and ion. Keen to try in the Herc. Looks fun!
Try out the size 5 gatlings. You shredd a hammerhead in around 8 max 10 seconds. You have enough ammo for one and a half ert's. Make 1 ert. Sell. Reload and earn 2 till 3 mil per hour. Reduce your weapon distanz crosshair from 1500 to 1000m in menü
So depending on the day, I either do Group ERTs in my inferno and just chain them and ignore loot, if I feel like doing more flying, or I will do single ERT's in my A2 with AD5B;s and collect the loot, or in my all ad5B corsair if I feel like watching things explode realllly fast and collecting less loot. The A2 with two aD5B's makes short work of those 890's, but you end up needing to re supply ammo a few times before your cargo is full unless you get a nice juicy caterpillar/hercules combo so the time savings over the cannons is basically a wash.
Glad to hear the ERT ship and loot adjustments. I’m looking forward to using my Corsair. Maybe fixed energy weapons for the increased durability of these bigger ships. It only has 1/7 the cargo of the M2, pretty much same speed and agility, but 2.5x the pilot-controlled firepower. I’ll bring along a couple Red Wind boxes along to mark my cache of spoils and multi-trip any loot if that’s the case.
Convergance is a hell of a thing tho. Maybe isn't bad with the deadbolts but I actually prefer the connie for ert's as the bullet spread isn't nearly as bad as the corsair. Was sad melting it too, waited a year for that thing lol.
@@ObeseRaccoonyou take a starter Delivery Mission. Red Wind Delivery (Ling family?). You only do the first part of the mission: pick up the box from location wherever. Keep that box stashed on your ship as you zip around the verse. When you come across a sweet kill out in the middle of nowhere where you want to return with your salvage ship, or an NPC C2 overflowing with sweet booty that your current ship doesn’t have enough room for one trip…just throw that delivery box on the wreck and you now have a game marker to find it again.
@@TieJax I use ballistic gattlings and can do 2 ERT's with enough spare ammo for the trip to sell. When you get those 890 jumps you dont have to go through those massive shields, so much faster
How well do you think this would work with a C1? Yeah it doesn't have as much cargo space, but if you go and sell after every ERT, then it should be good right? I'm new to the game so I genuinely don't know
@justinlackey4363, thanks for watching, the C1 is a good ship to do up to VHRT missions in and still collect the cargo. It does not quite have enough firepower or shielding to do ERTs unless you are a very good pilot, and I mean really really good pilot. The VHRT mission will still have good loot drops so stick with them until you can get a ship with heavier weapons like the Corsair.
look out for all kinds of cargo. i get plenty of RMC cargo which give a lot of credit. IMHO its less risky then doing the pickert station run because you dont have to provide any money upfront. yes its RNG but over the time its at least the same if not more reward.
@Bokaj01 MM has put a twist into all ship combat. You are much easier to hit now in any ship. The M2 can still take a lot of damage but you do die quicker when there are multiple enemies. I'm still on the fence if I like or hate MM.
great video, thanks. I must try that. but for now as a beginner I made almost 3 mil in 3 to 4 hours only with C2 cargo runs without any risk like you do. of course I'm still practcising my flying and combat skills meantime. I agree this maybe is more fun and not boring like raw cargo runs. As a long term ED player must say new players in SC like me is best to go step by step until get familiar with all systems, weapons, ships, flight manouvers and tactics. o7
@sinisadovijanic, thanks for watching, and glad you liked the video. If you are making cargo runs then you are risking more as you had to purchase the cargo. Getting the cargo via a bounty mission you only risk your ship which is replicable w/o cost. Think about this, you purchase 1 million in cargo for a run that will net you 500,000 after you sell it. Several things can go wrong that will result in the loss of your cargo, Pirates, Invisible Objects that destroy your ship, Client Crashes, and Grieves that destroy your ship for fun. If any of that happens with bounty cargo you lose nothing as you did not purchase the cargo. I'm not knocking you for doing a cargo run, its a nice way to make aUEC, but there is risk in it.
That looked waaaay longer than 25 min. of work. And I mean that's work compared to the leasurely Beryl or diamond runs I do for 200k+ a load. Toss in a gold run and I'm really in the money without grinding away at ERTs and likely dying in an asteroid field a time or two while I'm at it. Selling all that alone would take me 25 min. To each their own though, I know some people really enjoy the ship combat in this game, it's not for me though.
@LUCKYTHEGOBLIN, The ERT from start to finish and to load the cargo was 26 minutes, not including selling it as you would do that at the end of the night or when the ship is full.
Not even a million...i guess you were halfway to the "million" aut 540,000 auec in 25 minutes, but that roughly just puts you at 1,080,000 auec per hour. Not "millions of auec" Thanks for telling us where to sell stuff though. The game has a hard time with that!
@MCBVid, thanks for watching, I usually get 2-3 Million per ERT mission so yes you can make several Million per hour. I kept this video to show the lowest amount I have ever gotten from an ERT and took my sweet time in loading the cargo, the normal time to complete an ERT and take just the drugs is a little less than 20 minutes from start to finish so figure on three per hour. If you have a buddy or two to help move cargo and get some good RNG for the drugs then you can make tens of Million aUEC per hour which makes for a great night of gameplay.
i use my m2. 3.21 i could make up to 20 mill an hour. now it's about 1-3 mill. it was a good decision nerfing that loot. but i still think this is kinda lame gameplay wise. i mean, you can basically fly your m2 in with those grade a military shields and act as if the m2 were a turret. when your shields go down you talk a walk and come back. IMO it is ridiculous, even for an m2. Considering this ship is only 5ish mill and the loadout maybe 1,5 mill, we shouldn't be able to fly in brain afk against 4 big ships and shrug them off like mosquitos.
Ah so it still exists..ish.. wasted money on a pack like 6 years ago.. i will get to play the campaign i was promised at some point in the next 50 years hopefully.. it is the only reason for the spend..
What i do is play with my M2 with the AD5Bs and do VHRTs. VHRTs spawn mostly chargo ships and have more loot than ERTs.
The AD5Bs easily have enough ammo to kill all targets in 3 VHRTs (hammerhead takes 300 rounds per gun)
That should give you a mostly full chargo hold of drugs.
The neck turret carries 2 laser repeaters and is used by either a friend or by me when shooting small targets that i want soft deathed (misc freelancer..) as the AD5Bs will kill them outright.
My belly turret of the M2 is outfitted with C-788 HE Cannons. I use those to shoot into all the typical hiding spots at the salvage yards.
2 rounds of the C-788 placed within a 5 meter radius of a person will kill them. Make sure to turn on "call to arms" to get kill notifications.
I killed 3 dudes camping the salvage yards with these cannons.
@LuisGpunkt, Good stuff, thanks for the tips.
I use the A2 ... I dual box on a Desktop and a Laptop... i have my 2nd guy in one of the turrets shooting forward (usually get him to shoot in same direction as fixed main gun then hit G(Turn off gimbled mode) and Z(Turn on freelook) so turret doesn't move. Alternatively just hit G and don't touch the mouse...
Anyway, you can equip all those extra turrets with whatever guns you like. I tent to use a mix of size 5 repeaters with size 4 cannons because they shoot at the same rate. I dont do AD5b , and i'm very careful with even the lvl 5 guns because they can easily destroy the target instead of soft death. I usually try to bring the target as low to ground as possible in atmo ... I will make video of all this soon... if loot is still decent or not... IDC at this point.
FYI if you are scanning and it’s not showing anything on the scan it is better to physically look. I found 90 SCU of weevil eggs on a M2 that was not scanning for me. This was last after the hot fix they did.
@alericaleric966, I agree with you on that, always check for cargo if the scanner is not working.
Really glad that YT algorithm pushed your videos to me. They're great, I have been cranking some ERT's in inferno and ion. Keen to try in the Herc. Looks fun!
@Thats_Good_Schmidt, Thanks so much, very much appreciated!
Try out the size 5 gatlings. You shredd a hammerhead in around 8 max 10 seconds. You have enough ammo for one and a half ert's. Make 1 ert. Sell. Reload and earn 2 till 3 mil per hour. Reduce your weapon distanz crosshair from 1500 to 1000m in menü
@larsmeyer767, Will give it a try, I like not having to rearm with the laser cannons but the short TTK with the Gatlings is nice.
That and ad5bs just feels good.
So depending on the day, I either do Group ERTs in my inferno and just chain them and ignore loot, if I feel like doing more flying, or I will do single ERT's in my A2 with AD5B;s and collect the loot, or in my all ad5B corsair if I feel like watching things explode realllly fast and collecting less loot. The A2 with two aD5B's makes short work of those 890's, but you end up needing to re supply ammo a few times before your cargo is full unless you get a nice juicy caterpillar/hercules combo so the time savings over the cannons is basically a wash.
@PreacherGannon, Sounds like a good plan for making aUEC.
Glad to hear the ERT ship and loot adjustments. I’m looking forward to using my Corsair. Maybe fixed energy weapons for the increased durability of these bigger ships. It only has 1/7 the cargo of the M2, pretty much same speed and agility, but 2.5x the pilot-controlled firepower. I’ll bring along a couple Red Wind boxes along to mark my cache of spoils and multi-trip any loot if that’s the case.
Convergance is a hell of a thing tho. Maybe isn't bad with the deadbolts but I actually prefer the connie for ert's as the bullet spread isn't nearly as bad as the corsair. Was sad melting it too, waited a year for that thing lol.
@chriskelvin248, Corsair works great and so does the Connie.
how do the red wind boxes work?
@@ObeseRaccoonyou take a starter Delivery Mission. Red Wind Delivery (Ling family?). You only do the first part of the mission: pick up the box from location wherever. Keep that box stashed on your ship as you zip around the verse. When you come across a sweet kill out in the middle of nowhere where you want to return with your salvage ship, or an NPC C2 overflowing with sweet booty that your current ship doesn’t have enough room for one trip…just throw that delivery box on the wreck and you now have a game marker to find it again.
@@chriskelvin248 thanks, I actually had that problem when I killed a C2 full of slam, I could only take less than half of it with my ship
if you use the a2 you can bomb and clear the landing area before selling ?
@SuperAndyyyy, Good point!
I use a C2, but with Deadbolt V cannons. Only enough ammo for about one and a half ERT, but insanely effective
@eavdmeer, Nice, I do like the Ballistic cannons!
@@TieJax I use ballistic gattlings and can do 2 ERT's with enough spare ammo for the trip to sell. When you get those 890 jumps you dont have to go through those massive shields, so much faster
How well do you think this would work with a C1? Yeah it doesn't have as much cargo space, but if you go and sell after every ERT, then it should be good right? I'm new to the game so I genuinely don't know
@justinlackey4363, thanks for watching, the C1 is a good ship to do up to VHRT missions in and still collect the cargo. It does not quite have enough firepower or shielding to do ERTs unless you are a very good pilot, and I mean really really good pilot. The VHRT mission will still have good loot drops so stick with them until you can get a ship with heavier weapons like the Corsair.
look out for all kinds of cargo. i get plenty of RMC cargo which give a lot of credit. IMHO its less risky then doing the pickert station run because you dont have to provide any money upfront. yes its RNG but over the time its at least the same if not more reward.
@quasimonto, That's a good tip, you just need a big ship like the Herc to hold it.
Damn your ship is a tank, literally taking constant hits :o How does it fare in the latest updates?
@Bokaj01 MM has put a twist into all ship combat. You are much easier to hit now in any ship. The M2 can still take a lot of damage but you do die quicker when there are multiple enemies. I'm still on the fence if I like or hate MM.
Me: struggles against a 600i with my C1
This dude: “Yh ima solo ERT with a C2 ez pz“
@PRIMEVAL543, Actually the C1 vs a 600i is a harder fight than a C2 vs HH.
u can access 890 hangar from outside...
the bottom one? how?
@wanzhaf932, I have not been able to get the bottom cargo hander to open form the outside on soft death 890, how are you able to do it?
@@TieJax u need to be infront of the main elevator to access "call elevator" inner thought pop up...same as when the 890 landed...
@@wanzhaf932 I have tried that area before and it does not work after a soft death. Maybe I'm just unlucky with it getting bugged.
Just shoot the cargo bay door and it'll open, you don't need to go through the soft dead ship to do that...
@howardjmroy, Tried that a few times and it does not always work.
great video, thanks. I must try that. but for now as a beginner I made almost 3 mil in 3 to 4 hours only with C2 cargo runs without any risk like you do. of course I'm still practcising my flying and combat skills meantime. I agree this maybe is more fun and not boring like raw cargo runs. As a long term ED player must say new players in SC like me is best to go step by step until get familiar with all systems, weapons, ships, flight manouvers and tactics. o7
@sinisadovijanic, thanks for watching, and glad you liked the video. If you are making cargo runs then you are risking more as you had to purchase the cargo. Getting the cargo via a bounty mission you only risk your ship which is replicable w/o cost. Think about this, you purchase 1 million in cargo for a run that will net you 500,000 after you sell it. Several things can go wrong that will result in the loss of your cargo, Pirates, Invisible Objects that destroy your ship, Client Crashes, and Grieves that destroy your ship for fun. If any of that happens with bounty cargo you lose nothing as you did not purchase the cargo.
I'm not knocking you for doing a cargo run, its a nice way to make aUEC, but there is risk in it.
absolutely agree, but far now one and only enemy for me are not pirates but 30k LoL @@TieJax
i get your point and its a nice change of pace compared to RNC @@TieJax
Is the M2 better than the C2?
@obeseraccoon, thanks for watching, I prefer the M2 over the C2 as it has better armor. They are basically the same so go with the one you like most.
Why not LIGHTSTRIKE V ?
@fenixlt, You can use the Lightstrike if you like, they all have the same stats for damage, range, and power use.
That looked waaaay longer than 25 min. of work. And I mean that's work compared to the leasurely Beryl or diamond runs I do for 200k+ a load. Toss in a gold run and I'm really in the money without grinding away at ERTs and likely dying in an asteroid field a time or two while I'm at it. Selling all that alone would take me 25 min. To each their own though, I know some people really enjoy the ship combat in this game, it's not for me though.
People worry about the money in this game wayyyy too much. It's more so what you enjoy doing and I enjoy the hell out of bounties.
@LUCKYTHEGOBLIN, The ERT from start to finish and to load the cargo was 26 minutes, not including selling it as you would do that at the end of the night or when the ship is full.
Best we have done off of 1 ERT was 31mil post 3.22
@lbuckl3110, Dame 33 M for one ERT, that's a haul!!!!!
One way to help avoid hard deathing them is to set your weapons to staggered.
@tomzombie, True it does help, thanks for pointing that out I forgot to mention it in the video.
Not even a million...i guess you were halfway to the "million" aut 540,000 auec in 25 minutes, but that roughly just puts you at 1,080,000 auec per hour.
Not "millions of auec"
Thanks for telling us where to sell stuff though. The game has a hard time with that!
It's luck of the draw. If you run into one big container of weavill eggs, it's millions immediately
@MCBVid, thanks for watching, I usually get 2-3 Million per ERT mission so yes you can make several Million per hour. I kept this video to show the lowest amount I have ever gotten from an ERT and took my sweet time in loading the cargo, the normal time to complete an ERT and take just the drugs is a little less than 20 minutes from start to finish so figure on three per hour. If you have a buddy or two to help move cargo and get some good RNG for the drugs then you can make tens of Million aUEC per hour which makes for a great night of gameplay.
I do 4 mil every half hour and that's without all the work.
You get really lucky sometimes. I’ve made up to 20million several times in one run with just my Corsair.
i use my m2. 3.21 i could make up to 20 mill an hour.
now it's about 1-3 mill. it was a good decision nerfing that loot.
but i still think this is kinda lame gameplay wise.
i mean, you can basically fly your m2 in with those grade a military shields and act as if the m2 were a turret.
when your shields go down you talk a walk and come back. IMO it is ridiculous, even for an m2.
Considering this ship is only 5ish mill and the loadout maybe 1,5 mill, we shouldn't be able to fly in brain afk against 4 big ships and shrug them off like mosquitos.
I always use the C2, why would you use the M2? same pilot guns right?
@@dyeshan221 yes. but i don't like the c2 colour and the c2 is bugged for me most of the time so i just stick to the working ship. :D
@nydaarius6845, Agree the C2 and M2 are a little OP for a "Cargo Ship". I'm sure CIG will adjust it in the future.
Who is narrating? Is that Jerry Seinfeld !?
@piejack2, lol yes I have been told I sound like Jerry!
so nerf to erts
@JaffaKreeChalk, No I don't think so, I still get good cargo, this video was to show you the least amount you can get on average.
Ah so it still exists..ish.. wasted money on a pack like 6 years ago.. i will get to play the campaign i was promised at some point in the next 50 years hopefully.. it is the only reason for the spend..
@Tymelost, thanks for watching, and glad you liked the video.
Well why didn't you just wait for the game to release and then buy it?