Don't target and object when you're collecting with your limpets, they will shut down once they've collected it unless you select another target before they return Just let them go without a target and they will collect everything in range. You can omit items in the left hand menu if you don't want them to be collected in future, and discard them via the right menu. Far easier that way.
I just reinstalled Elite Dangerous again after a few years. I restored my long range Python with 40 ly jump range and 2100 ly of fuel and I may go out into the black to discover more worlds for the Empire.
Ive also reinstalled elite dangerous about 2-1 weeks ago and i already have my dream ship krait mk2 from doing multiple good paying combat missions and now i want to aim for a anaconda or high empire ranking (Krait isnt really that bad, made mines all purpose.)
Hey Foxy, I wanted to say that I love so much your willingness to just throw yourself into situations, try everything yourself, and not be deterred by short term failures, rather than just research the meta solution for everything on the internet and miss out on the valuable and enjoyable experience of learning from your mistakes (even tho I'm sure you know the commonly accepted solution to every problem is out there if you were to just go and look it up). This is a rare and admirable attitude to playing a game that's been out as long as Elite has. And you comments on the alleged "grind" are spot on. o7 Cmdr, never ever change, you're a much needed breath of fresh air! Blaze your OWN trail.
Thank you cmdr for the compliment, when I learned the scale of this game in the first couple days I played I realized that this game needs to approach differently, I intentionally not to research what is best way to do this or that, but exactly as what you said, trying to blaze my own trail, to experience this on my own, and it does creates wonders! o7 cmdr
Pirates attack you, because you have valuable cargo in your cargo bay. They also try to steal it by using hatch breaker limpets (they open your ship and let your cargo out). Hint: don't collect cargo (you can add it to ignore list on left panel), only materials. Also: you can check what materials are floating around on left panel. Plus - you better install shield boosters (a lot of them) - you don't need so many heat sinks.
Start your quest for the "guardian FSD booster", it's up-to +10.5ly free range in exchange for the slot used. Also you may want to unlock 3 guardians' fighters as you like it (repeat another quest 3 times). Those are top-speed beasts. When you target something before limpet launch it will pick only this 1 thing and will be quick, without initial target it will just pick all a bit slower. Also you don't have to hunt "chemical processor" - just collect everything they drop, then exchange at the trader for what you need.
I'm sure you already know this, but for Foxy's benefit: the Guardian FSD booster is a flat boost that ignores your ship's mass. For this reason, it is much more useful on, for example, the "Imperial Corvette" than on a typical exploration ship like the Krait. A size 5 one will give your Corvette 10.5ly more range regardless of whether you weigh the ship down with another thousand tons of equipment or not. So yes, I highly second this suggestion, get the Guardian FSD booster. Plus I'd love to see you reaction to visiting the guardian surface sites. When you do, make sure you equip a point defense utility module on your ship. I'm not going to spoil it but trust me on that. You'll know why when it happens ;)
I suggest you omit those fighters alltogether, as they have really not any meaningful use at all!? :/ But for sure get that Guardian FSD booster! I suggest also to get gauss cannons too, and frag launchers. As theres a high change that on some point of your career you gonna encounter Thargoid interceptors. Guardian hull and module reinforcement could become handy too. And maybe even power plant?
I recently got a Vette and I'm loving it. I outfitted it for multiple functions, especially combat. Added a guardian fsd booster, makes the jump range good! It has over 400 tons of cargo. (600 + max) A fantastic ship! Jump range is 30-40 ly with the new sco fsd and engineering.
I’m pretty sure you get your shield back faster if you power up SYS and shieldboosters will help a lot. And nice to see you stop by my favorite home system LHS 20 :D
Never really flown large ships. Instead of jumping the ship, I called the one I have over to the system I‘m at. I traveled there with my bubble hopper, or by taxi. I know, I know. 😂
Absolutely correct about the "grind". For me, progression is what the game is about - it is even named after some of the top combat ranks. I spent last night doing missions, gathering materials and visiting on-foot engineers to get a couple of minor upgrades on a rocket launcher that I had barely tried before (and never made improvements to). First I had to find a place that sold the basic weapon! The ED Materials Helper app helped me choose the right materials to pick up, or trade for, or seek on missions. This is why I upgraded other ships, suits, weapons - to make it easier to upgrade this one! That's the game for me, along with seeing the beautiful sights and surprising locations on the way, and other people's lovely ships. Oh, and using my freshly-modified rocket launcher after all the work and sense of achievement? Bliss!
A great tip for fighting, if the ship you are fighting against uses chaff deselect them and fire your lasers like they are fixed instead of gimballed works really well and still does damage
Great video, small tip though - after you've destroyed a ship, check your left panel under contacts, and you can see all the materials in the area. If you want to pick a specific one, you can select it from there to see where it is exactly. Only thing is, as mentioned by other people here, dont forget to unselect it before the limpet comes back with it, otherwise the limpet will be destroyed. Good luck and enjoy your new Corvette CMDR. :)
Hey Foxy, loving the series. Utilize a 3rd party app to find the material traders near you. That way, just trade some materials you're not using for the ones you need. Also, you manufacted materials, encoded data, and raw materials are not lost upon death. Once you get them, you have them until you spend or trade them.
@@Foxyloxy.X, you should also know that there are a few places where you can _farm_ high-grade materials in each class (Encoded, Raw, and Manufactured). If you plan to do a lot of engineering this is really the best way. You farm for high-grade mats, then go to a material trader and trade down to fill up your material inventory. The higher the grade of mats, the fewer you can carry. For grade 1 you can carry 300, for grade 5 only 100. Farming mats is boring but it's 100 times faster than hunting them down in the black and it makes engineering a new ship _much_ faster, especially for the very rare things like Chemical Processors. Also, a couple of point defense turrets on your utility slots near the cargo hatch and cockpit will stop hatch breaker limpets and missiles.
The signal source you should look for is "combat aftermatch" in high security systems.Tip: also look for "high grade emission" signals, they give high grade materials you can trade at a material trader (in this case manufactured), it is best to trade low grade materials for high grade ones. Also dont carry any cargo(exept limpets) in a extraction zone when farming materials, they will swarm you. Btw. your camera work are really nice keep it up
You can check in the contacts menu the available materials around you, however is best you can collect any mats as you can trade them at a material trader inside some stations and get whatever you need.
Congratulations on your Imperial Corvette!! Once engineered, should you choose to do that, it will be a beast and a dream to fly. As for your ED philosophy, spot on my friend! Safe travels! o7
A system in the "outbreak" state such as LTT 9697 might be a good place to hunt. Pharmaceutical Isolators (grade 5) can drop from the high grade signal sorces. These can be traded for chemical processors. 1 PI gets you 27 CPs. That's why if you can get the high grade stuff and trade down. I did one signal source, collected 4 PIs which become 12 (an adjustment was made to make collecting easier).
@@Foxyloxy.X Even encoded and degraded will still drop mats, although not as good. After the one high grade dropped the PIs, I could only find signals dropping other stuff including chem processors and other mats in its category.
Oh Foxy my friend - loved this video but 'Imperial Corvette'!!! (gnashes teeth in Federal). Well done on getting your Corvette - truly one of the best combat ships but it was so painful watching you get destroyed; so glad you were keeping an eye on the rebuy at least! You're at the point in the game where you need to think in terms of ship management and roles - the Corvette is a great combat ship and very good for hauling cargo securely but lousy as a jack-of-all-trades vessel. If you're going into combat then be thinking in terms of power management (those big lasers strip your power down), Pip management (no pips assigned to your shields and hardly to your weapons but all to your engine?!?) and outfitting. If I equip my Corvette for combat then most of the cargo space is filled with module and hull reinforcement modules (apart from a Fighter Bay and Limpet Collector); the external points fitted with a Heat Sink Launcher, Chaff Dispenser and 2 point Defence - one at the rear and one at the front - to defeat missiles and annoying limpets and then everything else fitted with shield boosters. So glad that you're using the limpets to collect materials - just make sure you've killed everything before you start ;-) Materials can be traded so the more you collect the more you can swap for higher value mats if you need to; all materials are worthwhile and are swapped between your ships - likewise your modules so maybe you can upgrade your Krait with some of the modules from your Corvette (it's a lot cheaper in Insurance...) if you're going combat farming for materials. The Corvette needs a lot of engineering to make it truly enjoyable (fully outfitted the cost of re-buying is punitive) - not just your FSD, every aspect can be modified for example, a single small laser set to thermal venting would help with the heat issues; I suggest you focus upon getting your power plant, distributor and thrusters engineered as a priority so that power management and flying becomes a lot more effective; then weapons (heh, just you wait until you get some *proper* sized multicannons on that ship) and then hull reinforcement, shield efficiency and boosters etc. There's also the whole Guardian route to go that would make your ship even more of a beast (for that I suggest a Diamondback Explorer, stripped down for weight and the highest engineered FSD you can get). I think Anacondas and Imperial ships like the Clipper and Cutter are pretty good for Chemical processors - it's been awhile since I went farming for Mats. Sorry about the essay. Love the videos. Stay safe Commader.
Congratz! Next is federal cutter I guess ?) Ah yes, if you are bad boy (like has bounty / contraband/illegal passengers ) enter station on speed above 200m/s speed or in silent running and they can't scan you.
Get the Anaconda if you want large ship with one of the biggest jump range (also cheaper and no ranking required). It has excellent firepower, decent hull and shield. Btw, Anaconda is the only ship in the game with visual damage effects. Anaconda as a large ship, is what a Krait Mk2 is for medium ships, an excellent multipurpose vesel (fighter included) with which you can do anything (also one of the best exploration vessel with a jump range that can reach 80LY fully engineered and light weighted).
Probably mentioned in another comment, but if you look on your left panel, under "contacts" it will list the materials that are floating around, so you can see if the ones you want are there, and even target them if you need to.
When you're collecting goods after combat, don't target anything. Just deploy a collector limpet and it will pick up everything in range. If you've got something targeted it will only pick up that item then expire. If you want to see what's out there, use the contact list on your left display.
Still catching up on your videos Foxy. (And still hoping to see you among the stars, in-game.) Another video, another round of advice! 1) You also gain some faction with the SuperPower of the local Controlling Minor Faction if you sell them that Cartographic data I keep telling you about. Use that Discovery Scanner to "Honk" in every system you pass through, and sell it when it's to your advantage. 2) Illegal Missions and Cargo - Heat Sync + Silent Running and Boosting through the Mail-Slot are some of the things that you can use that usually get you past the scans so you can complete illegal missions. Just be sure to remove silent running, and drop your landing gear to slow down once you're through so you don't hit the back wall. 3) For combat ships, consider B-Rated modules as they have the highest integrity and will stand up to a beating. You will just have to weigh those options! 4) When you run out of other optional internals on a combat build, try fitting in some Hull and Module Reinforcement Packages. 5) You don't HAVE to fill every module slot on a ship. Fewer modules equals less mass, less power draw, etc. Try to plan out what your play-style goal is for each ship (like you did with the multiple Kraits) and fill the ship accordingly. It's not a bad idea to plan for more than one role, but don't try and do everything all at once with a single ship loadout. You'll just frustrate yourself that you aren't doing anything well. 6) Might be time to learn about Guardian Sites. The Grade 5 Guardian Frame Shift Booster will give you a flat 10ly bonus to your jump range. 7) Ways to reduce power consumption - Choose less power hungry modules. Choose less overall modules. Turn off modules that you don't need at all times. Set power priorities in your right hand screen to turn off modules when needed. 8) If you target something before firing a collector limpet, it will collect that one item as quickly as possible, then self destruct. If you DON'T target anything, the collector limpet will move a little slower, but will continue to gather items until one of the following happens: 8a) All collectable items have been collected. (Limpets will hang around waiting for more) 8b) Limpet runs into a solid object and is destroyed. (They are not smart) 8c) You move away from the limpet faster than it can follow and it exceeds the maximum control distance. (Limpet will explode) 8d) Maximum control timer expires. (Limpet's battery fails and limpet explodes) 9) Occupied Escape Pods are cargo. They can be turned in to the Search and Rescue person at almost any station (Contacts Screen). Most of the rest of that will be Engineering Materials, and it doesn't matter what they are or are for.... You need them, and they don't take up space. (They are special inventory items that each have their own dedicated storage space that doesn't affect cargo.) There might also be other random cargo from the ship you destroyed. 10) There are 3 basic groupings of ship-based engineering materials: Encoded Data, Manufactured, and Raw. These are then broken down into multiple sub-types and grades. These can also be used to synthesize (create on the fly) small equipment like limpets, minor single use upgrades to jump range and other things, even @mmuniti0n. 11) To see the different materials and cargo around you, look to your left screen, third tab. Contacts. This list will let you see what's out there, but also allows you to set certain materials/cargo to ignore if you don't want to ever collect them. (Useful when mining, and can be reversed at any time.) 12) Each time you collect an engineering material, it is actually 3 of that material. There are still a TON of materials you haven't discovered yet. You can see a list of every material you have, and how many of each on your right panel under inventory. It's spread out between the multiple display screens, and may not show items you've never encountered. 13) Target and auto-scan every ship you see. Some of your engineering materials (Encoded Data) are collected that way. At 15:22 look in the top right corner of your screen. The blue text reads "Collected Encoded: Distorted Shield Cycle Recordings." That was you collecting Engineering Data that you will use for... something... 14) Synthetic Fabrics & The Ship - Yes, it's a destroyed ship. And those fabrics are Cargo. (Anything in a canister is cargo.) 15) Limpet Drones hanging around - See #8 16) Try Encoded Emissions and Combat Aftermath sites for those Chemical Processors. Ultimately you may just have to fins a Material Trader for Manufactured Materials and trade for them. In the meantime, target High Grade Emission (HGE) sites and learn the "Frontier Flip Flop" to farm them. (Find a HGE site that you have 10 or more minues left to access. After collecting everything at the site, immediately log out to the menu. Log back in and jump into SuperCruise. Directly behind you will be an "Unknown Signal Source." Fly back to it and it will be that same HGE site, but will have all the materials available again. Rinse and Repeat until the timer runs out or you're full of that Grade 4 and 5 material.) 17) Target different systems in different political states to spread out what you're collecting. Outbreak systems might have what you're looking for. 17) To farm Resource Extraction Sites to best effect, follow the local police and let them start the fight and build up some aggro. You just have to hit an enemy (scan them to be sure they're illegal first, or you'll get flagged and the cops will attack you next) about 30 seconds or less before they pop. For bigger rewards, bring a kill warrant scanner. 18) Be sure ALL your enemies are dead before bothering to collect materials. They hang around for at least 5 minutes, giving you time to get clear of most situations. Also, that may have been another Commander attacking you. They seemed too competent to be NPC. 19) You may have lost your bounty rewards when you blew up, but any materials you collected are safe, so it's not a total loss. Doing great so far! Hope to see you in the stars! o7 ~CMDR Wyrnikh
That pain for the Corvette is my favourite one too because it looks like the skeletton rips of an alien. Many weapon mounts and almost all internal slots are identical to the Anaconda so you can just move your favourite parts over to the Corvette. The same shield generator and shield boosters will give you a much bigger shield strength on your Corvette.😀
Chemical processors - you can use a materials trader. You might consider using a 3rd party tool, such as ED Odyssey Materials Helper. It helps you to manage your engineering requirements. Tells you where materials can be found most frequently.
@@Foxyloxy.X Once you installed it, there is no way back. The ED community has created an amazing set of tools and websites to make a CMDRs live easier.
Stick some huge plasmas or beam laser on those huge hard points 🙂 Also engineering materials don't occupy any cargo space so just grab everything when it comes to materials. The reason is you can go to a material trader and swap for stuff you actually need. And unlike cargo, you don't lose materials if you get destroyed.
"Find a game you love to play and you'll never grind." SO true!! I couldn't agree more. Also, if you only focus on getting the next upgrade and maximizing profit, rather than playing for the joy of the game, you can turn any game into a job. I know CMDRs who sprinted out of the gate and got an Anaconda before they'd even learned how to land without a docking computer. They found themselves with an expensive ship they hated to fly and had no idea what to do with. They cheat themselves out of the depth and lore and variety in Elite, declare that "it's all grind", and quit. Meanwhile, I 8 just passed 4500 hours and my 5 year anniversary playing, and still find the game and absolute joy.
Man, that was painful dying just when you spotted your first Chemical Processor 😂You took it well though, fair play! I love the Corvette, a beast of a ship.
My Corvette has so many heavy weapons on it that even with the Guardian FSD booster adding 10 light years to its jump range, it still only manages 29 light years. They are heavy beasts and hard to move between the stars...
Btw, if you boost through letterbox, I think you can avoid the scans. But it has to be done before the scan begins. And be ready with the breaks. ;) Also you might get a ticket for speeding.
You can also use silent running as you approach the station, and pop heatsinks to keep your temps low. If you have neither, deploying your hardpoints should interrupt the scan while they give you warnings.
Lol, love the ship name. Especially since the Corvette looks like a Star Destroyer. About material farming, the best way to do that is with material traders, which can be filtered for both on the galaxy map and Inara. There are three types of material traders: Encoded, Manufactured, and Raw. Encoded is for all digital materials like scans and downloaded data. Manufactured is for anything physically made by humans, like chemical processors. Raw is for...well, raw materials that you mine on planet surfaces, like iron and nickel. This is why it's important to pick up ALL materials you find, not just the ones you're looking for, because you can TRADE them for what you actually want.
Guardian frameshift drive booster is essential for the Corvette. Since there's "no grind" you need to unlock all engineers, all guardian modules, rank up for the cutter and get a fleet carrier! o7
I hate grinding guardian modules. It's really the only true "grind" in the game. You can slowly unlock most other things more or less passively by just playing the game how you want to, but you have to set aside hours and hours exclusively for guardian mods. Such a PITA
@@Foxyloxy.X ha ha, seriously though, don't do that, it's the fastest path to burnout. But you do need the guardian fsd booster, and guardian ruins are pretty cool. Thanks for the videos!
@@Dr_Tripper Yeah that's true. To avoid exhausting grind, get materials on every opportunity you can. Missions are a great source, especially the new Thargoid-related missions (evac, restoration...). But every now and then, one wants to visit a lore-related site somewhere, and collect the loot. But yes, you should not go there just for the loot except you particularly like grinding with re-logging.
@@KaiKrakowThe Guardian mats were a real grind to me as there was nothing else to do but look at ruins and relog. The time out to get raw mats is a good break though. I am booted and suited to go that way again today. But I like blowing up big ships and and salvaging the mats the best.
Illegal missions also have their way of being completed, but you have to know how. You can enter and land at a station with illegal cargo (passengers or materials) without being detected.
When you haul Illegal passengers , if the station scan you, just pop heatsink. The station will stop the scan , because you have low heat signature and you can't be targeted. At least some time ago this strategy was working..not sure if it's still working
About the security scans at stations, you can EASILY avoid those by just going into silent running. The heat meter on your HUD (opposite of the throttle meter) is effectively a STEALTH meter. The lower your heat, the harder it is for other ships to lock onto you. Silent running is a bit of an exception here because it actually makes your heat meter RISE, but that's just because your ship stopped venting your heat in order to hide it's thermal signature. So you start overheating if you have silent running on for too long, but during that time you are almost invisible to any ship that isn't RIGHT next to you. This is also useful during combat, as there are certain engineer abilities that reduce your heat signature, making it harder for gimballed/turret weapons to get a lock without having to use chaff.
Hey Foxy, grats on the Vette! One tip for the long game: (you might have already heard) Pledge to a power and you get access to a unique weapon (or shield) every 4 weeks :) I wish I started earlier on the powerplay modules in my Elite career, plus there's next to no risk Oh, and be careful with passenger missions that take you near Thargoid war systems... o7
The illegal passenger missions require smuggling skills. There's an art to avoiding scans, that makes it much less frustrating. Basically keep heat low, and fly slower than 200m/s when within the station no fire zone, and go straight to your pad. Plot your route to keep as far away from the patrol fighters.
About grind and value: If something is hard to get or expensive, we think it is worth more. That is one reason to put things behind a grind wall, if I worked hard for it, it must be worth more to me.
If you ever get the chance, try Elite dangerous with a VR-headset like Oculus Quest 2. It will take the experience to a whole new level. You should note however , that if you easily get motion sick AVOID this tip at all cost. Also worth noting is that Frontier stopped VR-development with the release of Odyssey. All this means is that VR works fine when flying in space or using the SRV, but as soon as you go on foot, the VR gets, uhm, static? Your VR headset basically just becomes a monitor. =/ But the rest is amazing. =)
Cool looking Vette! And you gained rank to buy it REALLY fast, so you're being a busy bee! :P One tip: Sell your old equipment first, if possible (some you cant sell beforehand as core internal slots cant be empty) so you get money back from them. As if you do it like on video, old one just get stored in vain. PS: No matter what you do, jump range is gonna ALWAYS be issue for you Vette! :D Those ships are really not known for they jump range! :/ Oh! And one way to get rare materials, is to do missions that have those as reward. You should keep more pips on your shield on combat. Putting 4 pips to your shield would make them 2,5 time more resistant (iirc). At least when you get shot at. As you seem to lose your shields often.
Go to a manufactured material trader for your chemical processors b.t.w. They drop from cargo ships more than combat ships, so you can hunt for those in an anarchy systems Nav Beacon.
I remember the first time i got my Corvette, after months of grinding... took it out to a res site to try out the weapons.. accidentally switched my radiators off during combat.. then couldn't understand why i was taking thermal damage afterwards and blew up.. Didn't have enough funds to pay the insurance so ended up back in a sidewinder 🤣
I'd experiment with builds and weapons about now. Lots of options. I mixture of laser and ballistics is the norm for effectiver distance fighting. Hull Reinforcement Packages are alos a go to. This is where the Engineer tree directs you to improve your modular options by directing you to an Engineer for each module type as you open them up. I'd go with one Module Reinforcement 4 or 5, then 3 or 4 Hull Reinforcement packages. If you're going Shielded then get some Shield Boosters in the Utility Section. Have a look at a few buils and see what you think. A pulse laser build can be very effective as well for a beginner. Lower power draw than Beams. Check out some builds so you can see all the options.
4:34 if you want to run a combat ship, you would prefer to put a military one. Military has more armour, but less resistance to each weapon - tho it's better overall than reactive
You can find quite a lot of materials for engineering at Dav's Hope surface base just scattered around. Use SRV to pick them up. open cargo hatch and drive over them. To find the base go to system Hyades Sector DR-V C2-23 and use surface scanner to find the base on planet A5. When all materials picked up just go to menu and back to game (reload) and all of them gets spawned back so you can pick again. Repeat until full or bored. No explosions reqiured.
@@supaflex2857 yes it is easy to get so it is low to mid value. In another words no rare mats. You can trade up for those. But for beginning it is actually great. source.
Mine: Huge are both multi-guns. One is Incendiary, other caustic, rest are gimbaled LR pulse lasers. PVE only. Made it a balance of shields and armor. Full armor builds i have only for AX, Shield tanks could be fun too, but nah. Made the cutter into a cargo ship instead.
Have you dound Dav's Hope? I am pretty sure you can pick up Chemical Processors off the ground there. Also, do you know that if you put all pips to shields it hardens them (and i believe charges them quicker). If you're getting smashed in a fight, all pips to engines and run! It helps to have upgraded and engineered thrusters
5:47 shield cell banks are one of the few modules, where the best one is not A-graded. In this case the best one is the one that you had put here - the B-rated. They have one cell bank more than the A-graded counterpart.
Lol I knew it was going to end in a rebuy but I thought you wouldn't have enough money and you'd end up on Sidewinder. You need a more powerful dual flow shield and shield boosters instead of the junk you're using. As long as you don't have engineers to improve the power distribution - use multicanons in all slots, they need little energy and you won't have to pause in battle. Always have money to rebuy.
If you're carry illegal passengers, when you approach the station, as soon as the station starts to scan you, deploy a heat sink and they will stop the scan and you can land.
You will need to look into Module priorities someday. There is no use for the Fuel Scoop or FSD e.g. with deployed hardpoints. You can make more stuff work with the same powerplant. And: get the Guardian FSD booster. It's fun game play and gives you 11 LY extra in every ship with size 5 internal, especially good for large low jump range ships.
The multicanons seem to be small compare to hardpoint mount is you put size 3 multicanon to size 4 hardpoint mount. Get some size 4 guns and youll see the difference. And hatch breaker limpet is limpet fired by usually pirate ship to come to your cargo hatch to brake / destroy it therefore release your cargo so it can be stolen by them. You can use them too. If pirate carieer is something you want. Point defence can defend against them. Before using hatch breaker limpet usually destroing ship engines is recomanded. It can be robbed easier if not moving. Use subtargeting to target various parts of enemy ship. You may need to set some keys to that.
When you have illegal cargo or illegal passengers, avoid scanning by switching to silent running. In silent running, you cannot auto-land and your shields are off. And your ship will overheat. So have some heat sinks at hand, and also do not enable silent running to early. Once on the pad, switch silent running off again.
@@Foxyloxy.X Silent running (you should assign a hotkey for it, I used a two button combo Shift+S so I don't accidentally activate it) will close all heat spreaders of the ship (you can actually see that in the external camera) and shuts down the shields which reduces your heat signature to a minimum. If you look above the fuel gauge, there's a noisy line: That's your heat signature. Using a heat sink does a similar thing. Targeting in ED is based on heat signatures: The lower the signature, the lower is the targeting range of other ships targeting you (it adds minus points to the other ships sensor range). You can also break weapon locks that way. Other ships have to come really close then to lock you into target. This means: no scanning of your cargo, reduced visibility on the radar, no target locks. Combining low heat and low emissions engineering with long range weapons and sensors can thus create you a sniper or stealth build of your ship.
@@Foxyloxy.X Also, if you're running out of shields and your recharge rate from empty is slow, you can reboot the ship in the right hand side. It will shut down all ship systems and start a repair process, also repairing some modules at the cost of others. You will have no control over the ship for a few seconds but when the ship rebooted, shields are immediately up at 50% which means the force field around the ship re-establishes (if you lost your shields, you need at least 50% shield capacity for the shields to recover).
17:03 you have to accept, that you want to help. That way you tell one of the sides "hey, i'm on your side, please don't shoot me or smth" - how they can know that you're on their side (and lets just say you don't want to attack all of them after you're done with pirates)
FYI, any time the cops scan you, if you accelerate to over 100m/sec the scan will fail. Of course, if you hit anything going over 100m/sec then it's an instant speeding fine, so you have to be even more careful when doing that. Outposts in Low Security systems often have only a single system police vehicle and there's no mail slot to ring, so smuggling is best done at outposts in those systems.
I think that in Elite all the ships are made very cool. But to be honest, I personally don’t like federal ships visually at all. But this does not apply to the Corvette, it looks good, and in combat one of the best ships. Congratulations on your purchase. :) And if you want to search for materials relatively safely, then check these signals in the system - Encoded/Degraded/High Grade Emissions. In the High Grade Emissions, the most valuable and rare resources.
So, if you have alot of money, you can just circle the stations in sol and do the charity misions there, when you have done a full circle, the first station should have reset
Thank Gods I made sure I had 300M credits leftover when I bought and upgraded my first and still undestroyed Corvette. I wouldn't advise ANYONE buy one otherwise.
Good thing the pirates destroyed that abomination of a ship. If I ever come across an "Imperial Corvette" I'd have to destroy it myself as an admiral in my "Federal Corvette".😁 But seriously, you can't stop in the middle of a battle to collect materials, especially when there are several opponents.
Davs hope and crashed anaconda :) worth a google.. also Inara let's you select all the modules you need and will help you find a place that has them. Next make sure your changing your fire groups. Your depleting systems and weapons by scanning and doing other things while firing. Click 4 and go to fire groups and set multiple sets row 1 weapons, row two scanners, row 3 limpets exct.
Just find a trader and swap some of those biotech conductors you have for chemical processors. The high grade mats will give you plenty of lower grade ones.
Ah, learning about illegal missions. Now you are going to learn heat management & silent running. Illegal missions don't pay A LOT MORE than legal ones (extra for lack of bounties and 25%~50% on top), but just the skirting the law can be the added spice necessary to make things fun. Also, about materials, check a station with a Material Trader (Manufactured kind of Material Trader). You can trade materials you have for other ones, and the trading system is a bit complicated but it's easier to see the trading table to understand it. In short, try to trade always on the same row, and pick every material dropped from destroyed ships (if it's not useful now, it will be later). Drops are mostly random (system states changes thing a bit, not only on signal sources you find), so if you're not having luck finding something, going to another system might help. On another note on limpet usage, limpets have two behaviors: target and multi-target. If you have a valid limpet target and it's in range, limpet will be engaged as targeted, flying at maximum speed, grabbing the stuff, delivering to you, and then expiring. If you don't have a valid target or no target at all, it will engage in multi-target mode, flying at a low speed, collecting anything in range, bringing it to you, and looking for more stuff (or just follow you if there are no targets in range) until it expires (time limit or its destroyed by someone else).
You should deploy your "minions" without selecting a target. Otherwise they collect just that and then die. If you don't select a target while programming a limpet, they will collect stuff over and over again until they die.
Grade 4 weapons you can get at Jameson once you hit Elite rank... a few more CZ high intensity and I will reach Elite.. likely today.. YOU CAN trade assets for what you need @ mat trader Chemical Processors you can get while doing Pirates... as well as many other manufacturing assets needed for ship upgrades.. raiding bases in anarchy systems gives you manufacturing assets you need for upgrading suits & weapons... I did pirates to grind my empire & federal ranks maxing them out as well as being able to afford a carrier that has 10 billion in vaults to last years online... You will also need minerals and mining them with your SRV in HIP 36601 about 1500LY away is most fun way to get them taking a journey way out of the bubble... I can sell you mats if u need
Oh no, you gave one and later no power pip to SYS. That weakened your shield a lot. Before engaging in combat maybe put 4 power pips to SYS to strenghen your shield to the maximum and give the remaining two power pips to the weapons! You also forgot to hire an NPC crew to fly your main ship when you are in the fighter!
6:13 no offence - but it's obvious that you haven't really got into ship builds. If you have a combat ship you want to have either shield-tank (shields take damage from opponents) or hull-tank (the damage from opponents goes to hull). Some ships are designed to be one of them, while some can be both (not at the same time, obviously). Corvette is good hull tank, which means you should put a hull reinforcement package (or hrp for short), to maximize hull health. With build like yours it won't be a problem to destroy something smaller than you, but you can struggle with most of medium and all of large ships, as they will just kill you before you can kill them.
You should try going to Davs Hope in Hyades Sector DR-V c2-23 take a small ship with good jump range, fuel scoop and an srv. You can find lots of materials there, and don't forget to scan the beacon( then log back in and the materials refresh ) 😀
3a fuel scoop it will take you thirty minutes to scoop lol i run a 6a in mine but a 7a would be even better but i run 2 7a shield cell banks mine is strictly set up for combat
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My heart was crying every time you skip high grade materials, collect them all, if you don't need them right now, you can trade them anyway
Don't target and object when you're collecting with your limpets, they will shut down once they've collected it unless you select another target before they return Just let them go without a target and they will collect everything in range. You can omit items in the left hand menu if you don't want them to be collected in future, and discard them via the right menu. Far easier that way.
I just reinstalled Elite Dangerous again after a few years. I restored my long range Python with 40 ly jump range and 2100 ly of fuel and I may go out into the black to discover more worlds for the Empire.
welcome back cmdr
@john-supablaze9478 I hate the look of Kraits. They look so wrong. I don't even want to see them.
Ive also reinstalled elite dangerous about 2-1 weeks ago and i already have my dream ship krait mk2 from doing multiple good paying combat missions and now i want to aim for a anaconda or high empire ranking
(Krait isnt really that bad, made mines all purpose.)
Hey Foxy, I wanted to say that I love so much your willingness to just throw yourself into situations, try everything yourself, and not be deterred by short term failures, rather than just research the meta solution for everything on the internet and miss out on the valuable and enjoyable experience of learning from your mistakes (even tho I'm sure you know the commonly accepted solution to every problem is out there if you were to just go and look it up). This is a rare and admirable attitude to playing a game that's been out as long as Elite has. And you comments on the alleged "grind" are spot on. o7 Cmdr, never ever change, you're a much needed breath of fresh air! Blaze your OWN trail.
Thank you cmdr for the compliment, when I learned the scale of this game in the first couple days I played I realized that this game needs to approach differently, I intentionally not to research what is best way to do this or that, but exactly as what you said, trying to blaze my own trail, to experience this on my own, and it does creates wonders! o7 cmdr
Pirates attack you, because you have valuable cargo in your cargo bay. They also try to steal it by using hatch breaker limpets (they open your ship and let your cargo out). Hint: don't collect cargo (you can add it to ignore list on left panel), only materials. Also: you can check what materials are floating around on left panel. Plus - you better install shield boosters (a lot of them) - you don't need so many heat sinks.
Start your quest for the "guardian FSD booster", it's up-to +10.5ly free range in exchange for the slot used. Also you may want to unlock 3 guardians' fighters as you like it (repeat another quest 3 times). Those are top-speed beasts.
When you target something before limpet launch it will pick only this 1 thing and will be quick, without initial target it will just pick all a bit slower.
Also you don't have to hunt "chemical processor" - just collect everything they drop, then exchange at the trader for what you need.
I'm sure you already know this, but for Foxy's benefit: the Guardian FSD booster is a flat boost that ignores your ship's mass. For this reason, it is much more useful on, for example, the "Imperial Corvette" than on a typical exploration ship like the Krait. A size 5 one will give your Corvette 10.5ly more range regardless of whether you weigh the ship down with another thousand tons of equipment or not.
So yes, I highly second this suggestion, get the Guardian FSD booster. Plus I'd love to see you reaction to visiting the guardian surface sites.
When you do, make sure you equip a point defense utility module on your ship. I'm not going to spoil it but trust me on that. You'll know why when it happens ;)
I suggest you omit those fighters alltogether, as they have really not any meaningful use at all!? :/ But for sure get that Guardian FSD booster! I suggest also to get gauss cannons too, and frag launchers. As theres a high change that on some point of your career you gonna encounter Thargoid interceptors. Guardian hull and module reinforcement could become handy too. And maybe even power plant?
I recently got a Vette and I'm loving it. I outfitted it for multiple functions, especially combat. Added a guardian fsd booster, makes the jump range good! It has over 400 tons of cargo. (600 + max) A fantastic ship! Jump range is 30-40 ly with the new sco fsd and engineering.
I’m pretty sure you get your shield back faster if you power up SYS and shieldboosters will help a lot. And nice to see you stop by my favorite home system LHS 20 :D
Never really flown large ships. Instead of jumping the ship, I called the one I have over to the system I‘m at. I traveled there with my bubble hopper, or by taxi. I know, I know. 😂
Absolutely correct about the "grind". For me, progression is what the game is about - it is even named after some of the top combat ranks. I spent last night doing missions, gathering materials and visiting on-foot engineers to get a couple of minor upgrades on a rocket launcher that I had barely tried before (and never made improvements to). First I had to find a place that sold the basic weapon! The ED Materials Helper app helped me choose the right materials to pick up, or trade for, or seek on missions. This is why I upgraded other ships, suits, weapons - to make it easier to upgrade this one! That's the game for me, along with seeing the beautiful sights and surprising locations on the way, and other people's lovely ships. Oh, and using my freshly-modified rocket launcher after all the work and sense of achievement? Bliss!
It is indeed such a great sense of achievement after all that work for something you really want, much better than just being handed to you.
A great tip for fighting, if the ship you are fighting against uses chaff deselect them and fire your lasers like they are fixed instead of gimballed works really well and still does damage
Good tip! thx!
Great video, small tip though - after you've destroyed a ship, check your left panel under contacts, and you can see all the materials in the area. If you want to pick a specific one, you can select it from there to see where it is exactly. Only thing is, as mentioned by other people here, dont forget to unselect it before the limpet comes back with it, otherwise the limpet will be destroyed. Good luck and enjoy your new Corvette CMDR. :)
Thanks for the tips cmdr. o7
Hey Foxy, loving the series. Utilize a 3rd party app to find the material traders near you. That way, just trade some materials you're not using for the ones you need. Also, you manufacted materials, encoded data, and raw materials are not lost upon death. Once you get them, you have them until you spend or trade them.
Got it cmdr, will search for those traders. Thx!
@@Foxyloxy.X, you should also know that there are a few places where you can _farm_ high-grade materials in each class (Encoded, Raw, and Manufactured). If you plan to do a lot of engineering this is really the best way. You farm for high-grade mats, then go to a material trader and trade down to fill up your material inventory. The higher the grade of mats, the fewer you can carry. For grade 1 you can carry 300, for grade 5 only 100. Farming mats is boring but it's 100 times faster than hunting them down in the black and it makes engineering a new ship _much_ faster, especially for the very rare things like Chemical Processors.
Also, a couple of point defense turrets on your utility slots near the cargo hatch and cockpit will stop hatch breaker limpets and missiles.
The signal source you should look for is "combat aftermatch" in high security systems.Tip: also look for "high grade emission" signals, they give high grade materials you can trade at a material trader (in this case manufactured), it is best to trade low grade materials for high grade ones. Also dont carry any cargo(exept limpets) in a extraction zone when farming materials, they will swarm you.
Btw. your camera work are really nice keep it up
You can check in the contacts menu the available materials around you, however is best you can collect any mats as you can trade them at a material trader inside some stations and get whatever you need.
got it
Congratulations on your Imperial Corvette!! Once engineered, should you choose to do that, it will be a beast and a dream to fly. As for your ED philosophy, spot on my friend! Safe travels! o7
Thanks!
A system in the "outbreak" state such as LTT 9697 might be a good place to hunt. Pharmaceutical Isolators (grade 5) can drop from the high grade signal sorces. These can be traded for chemical processors. 1 PI gets you 27 CPs. That's why if you can get the high grade stuff and trade down. I did one signal source, collected 4 PIs which become 12 (an adjustment was made to make collecting easier).
got it, thx I will start search high grade signal sorces
@@Foxyloxy.X Even encoded and degraded will still drop mats, although not as good. After the one high grade dropped the PIs, I could only find signals dropping other stuff including chem processors and other mats in its category.
Oh Foxy my friend - loved this video but 'Imperial Corvette'!!! (gnashes teeth in Federal). Well done on getting your Corvette - truly one of the best combat ships but it was so painful watching you get destroyed; so glad you were keeping an eye on the rebuy at least! You're at the point in the game where you need to think in terms of ship management and roles - the Corvette is a great combat ship and very good for hauling cargo securely but lousy as a jack-of-all-trades vessel. If you're going into combat then be thinking in terms of power management (those big lasers strip your power down), Pip management (no pips assigned to your shields and hardly to your weapons but all to your engine?!?) and outfitting. If I equip my Corvette for combat then most of the cargo space is filled with module and hull reinforcement modules (apart from a Fighter Bay and Limpet Collector); the external points fitted with a Heat Sink Launcher, Chaff Dispenser and 2 point Defence - one at the rear and one at the front - to defeat missiles and annoying limpets and then everything else fitted with shield boosters. So glad that you're using the limpets to collect materials - just make sure you've killed everything before you start ;-) Materials can be traded so the more you collect the more you can swap for higher value mats if you need to; all materials are worthwhile and are swapped between your ships - likewise your modules so maybe you can upgrade your Krait with some of the modules from your Corvette (it's a lot cheaper in Insurance...) if you're going combat farming for materials. The Corvette needs a lot of engineering to make it truly enjoyable (fully outfitted the cost of re-buying is punitive) - not just your FSD, every aspect can be modified for example, a single small laser set to thermal venting would help with the heat issues; I suggest you focus upon getting your power plant, distributor and thrusters engineered as a priority so that power management and flying becomes a lot more effective; then weapons (heh, just you wait until you get some *proper* sized multicannons on that ship) and then hull reinforcement, shield efficiency and boosters etc. There's also the whole Guardian route to go that would make your ship even more of a beast (for that I suggest a Diamondback Explorer, stripped down for weight and the highest engineered FSD you can get). I think Anacondas and Imperial ships like the Clipper and Cutter are pretty good for Chemical processors - it's been awhile since I went farming for Mats.
Sorry about the essay. Love the videos. Stay safe Commader.
Congratz! Next is federal cutter I guess ?) Ah yes, if you are bad boy (like has bounty / contraband/illegal passengers ) enter station on speed above 200m/s speed or in silent running and they can't scan you.
got it, need to practice those bad boy skills
Get the Anaconda if you want large ship with one of the biggest jump range (also cheaper and no ranking required). It has excellent firepower, decent hull and shield. Btw, Anaconda is the only ship in the game with visual damage effects. Anaconda as a large ship, is what a Krait Mk2 is for medium ships, an excellent multipurpose vesel (fighter included) with which you can do anything (also one of the best exploration vessel with a jump range that can reach 80LY fully engineered and light weighted).
Agreed on that. For pure combat, the vette is better. For multipurpose anaconda hands down
definitley give the Anaconda a try.
@@Foxyloxy.X yeap, think in the anaconda as the oversized huge versión of the krait MK2 and Python, with a massive jumprange on top of that
Probably mentioned in another comment, but if you look on your left panel, under "contacts" it will list the materials that are floating around, so you can see if the ones you want are there, and even target them if you need to.
Got it thx
When you're collecting goods after combat, don't target anything. Just deploy a collector limpet and it will pick up everything in range. If you've got something targeted it will only pick up that item then expire. If you want to see what's out there, use the contact list on your left display.
Still catching up on your videos Foxy. (And still hoping to see you among the stars, in-game.)
Another video, another round of advice!
1) You also gain some faction with the SuperPower of the local Controlling Minor Faction if you sell them that Cartographic data I keep telling you about. Use that Discovery Scanner to "Honk" in every system you pass through, and sell it when it's to your advantage.
2) Illegal Missions and Cargo - Heat Sync + Silent Running and Boosting through the Mail-Slot are some of the things that you can use that usually get you past the scans so you can complete illegal missions. Just be sure to remove silent running, and drop your landing gear to slow down once you're through so you don't hit the back wall.
3) For combat ships, consider B-Rated modules as they have the highest integrity and will stand up to a beating. You will just have to weigh those options!
4) When you run out of other optional internals on a combat build, try fitting in some Hull and Module Reinforcement Packages.
5) You don't HAVE to fill every module slot on a ship. Fewer modules equals less mass, less power draw, etc. Try to plan out what your play-style goal is for each ship (like you did with the multiple Kraits) and fill the ship accordingly. It's not a bad idea to plan for more than one role, but don't try and do everything all at once with a single ship loadout. You'll just frustrate yourself that you aren't doing anything well.
6) Might be time to learn about Guardian Sites. The Grade 5 Guardian Frame Shift Booster will give you a flat 10ly bonus to your jump range.
7) Ways to reduce power consumption - Choose less power hungry modules. Choose less overall modules. Turn off modules that you don't need at all times. Set power priorities in your right hand screen to turn off modules when needed.
8) If you target something before firing a collector limpet, it will collect that one item as quickly as possible, then self destruct. If you DON'T target anything, the collector limpet will move a little slower, but will continue to gather items until one of the following happens:
8a) All collectable items have been collected. (Limpets will hang around waiting for more)
8b) Limpet runs into a solid object and is destroyed. (They are not smart)
8c) You move away from the limpet faster than it can follow and it exceeds the maximum control distance. (Limpet will explode)
8d) Maximum control timer expires. (Limpet's battery fails and limpet explodes)
9) Occupied Escape Pods are cargo. They can be turned in to the Search and Rescue person at almost any station (Contacts Screen). Most of the rest of that will be Engineering Materials, and it doesn't matter what they are or are for.... You need them, and they don't take up space. (They are special inventory items that each have their own dedicated storage space that doesn't affect cargo.) There might also be other random cargo from the ship you destroyed.
10) There are 3 basic groupings of ship-based engineering materials: Encoded Data, Manufactured, and Raw. These are then broken down into multiple sub-types and grades. These can also be used to synthesize (create on the fly) small equipment like limpets, minor single use upgrades to jump range and other things, even @mmuniti0n.
11) To see the different materials and cargo around you, look to your left screen, third tab. Contacts. This list will let you see what's out there, but also allows you to set certain materials/cargo to ignore if you don't want to ever collect them. (Useful when mining, and can be reversed at any time.)
12) Each time you collect an engineering material, it is actually 3 of that material. There are still a TON of materials you haven't discovered yet. You can see a list of every material you have, and how many of each on your right panel under inventory. It's spread out between the multiple display screens, and may not show items you've never encountered.
13) Target and auto-scan every ship you see. Some of your engineering materials (Encoded Data) are collected that way. At 15:22 look in the top right corner of your screen. The blue text reads "Collected Encoded: Distorted Shield Cycle Recordings." That was you collecting Engineering Data that you will use for... something...
14) Synthetic Fabrics & The Ship - Yes, it's a destroyed ship. And those fabrics are Cargo. (Anything in a canister is cargo.)
15) Limpet Drones hanging around - See #8
16) Try Encoded Emissions and Combat Aftermath sites for those Chemical Processors. Ultimately you may just have to fins a Material Trader for Manufactured Materials and trade for them. In the meantime, target High Grade Emission (HGE) sites and learn the "Frontier Flip Flop" to farm them. (Find a HGE site that you have 10 or more minues left to access. After collecting everything at the site, immediately log out to the menu. Log back in and jump into SuperCruise. Directly behind you will be an "Unknown Signal Source." Fly back to it and it will be that same HGE site, but will have all the materials available again. Rinse and Repeat until the timer runs out or you're full of that Grade 4 and 5 material.)
17) Target different systems in different political states to spread out what you're collecting. Outbreak systems might have what you're looking for.
17) To farm Resource Extraction Sites to best effect, follow the local police and let them start the fight and build up some aggro. You just have to hit an enemy (scan them to be sure they're illegal first, or you'll get flagged and the cops will attack you next) about 30 seconds or less before they pop. For bigger rewards, bring a kill warrant scanner.
18) Be sure ALL your enemies are dead before bothering to collect materials. They hang around for at least 5 minutes, giving you time to get clear of most situations. Also, that may have been another Commander attacking you. They seemed too competent to be NPC.
19) You may have lost your bounty rewards when you blew up, but any materials you collected are safe, so it's not a total loss.
Doing great so far!
Hope to see you in the stars! o7
~CMDR Wyrnikh
Thanks cmdr, again I carefully read every single point, great tips and great help for a space junkie's journey in the verse. o7 cmdr
That pain for the Corvette is my favourite one too because it looks like the skeletton rips of an alien. Many weapon mounts and almost all internal slots are identical to the Anaconda so you can just move your favourite parts over to the Corvette. The same shield generator and shield boosters will give you a much bigger shield strength on your Corvette.😀
Chemical processors - you can use a materials trader.
You might consider using a 3rd party tool, such as ED Odyssey Materials Helper. It helps you to manage your engineering requirements. Tells you where materials can be found most frequently.
got it will find that out, thx!
@@Foxyloxy.X Once you installed it, there is no way back. The ED community has created an amazing set of tools and websites to make a CMDRs live easier.
Stick some huge plasmas or beam laser on those huge hard points 🙂
Also engineering materials don't occupy any cargo space so just grab everything when it comes to materials. The reason is you can go to a material trader and swap for stuff you actually need. And unlike cargo, you don't lose materials if you get destroyed.
"Find a game you love to play and you'll never grind."
SO true!! I couldn't agree more. Also, if you only focus on getting the next upgrade and maximizing profit, rather than playing for the joy of the game, you can turn any game into a job. I know CMDRs who sprinted out of the gate and got an Anaconda before they'd even learned how to land without a docking computer. They found themselves with an expensive ship they hated to fly and had no idea what to do with. They cheat themselves out of the depth and lore and variety in Elite, declare that "it's all grind", and quit.
Meanwhile, I 8 just passed 4500 hours and my 5 year anniversary playing, and still find the game and absolute joy.
That is absolutely amazing!
Man, that was painful dying just when you spotted your first Chemical Processor 😂You took it well though, fair play! I love the Corvette, a beast of a ship.
That was painful, but now I know it is actually a lot easier to trade for it...but it was a good experience.
My Corvette has so many heavy weapons on it that even with the Guardian FSD booster adding 10 light years to its jump range, it still only manages 29 light years. They are heavy beasts and hard to move between the stars...
I feel the pain now
Btw, if you boost through letterbox, I think you can avoid the scans. But it has to be done before the scan begins. And be ready with the breaks. ;) Also you might get a ticket for speeding.
You can also use silent running as you approach the station, and pop heatsinks to keep your temps low.
If you have neither, deploying your hardpoints should interrupt the scan while they give you warnings.
Lol, love the ship name. Especially since the Corvette looks like a Star Destroyer.
About material farming, the best way to do that is with material traders, which can be filtered for both on the galaxy map and Inara. There are three types of material traders: Encoded, Manufactured, and Raw. Encoded is for all digital materials like scans and downloaded data. Manufactured is for anything physically made by humans, like chemical processors. Raw is for...well, raw materials that you mine on planet surfaces, like iron and nickel. This is why it's important to pick up ALL materials you find, not just the ones you're looking for, because you can TRADE them for what you actually want.
Guardian frameshift drive booster is essential for the Corvette. Since there's "no grind" you need to unlock all engineers, all guardian modules, rank up for the cutter and get a fleet carrier!
o7
I hate grinding guardian modules. It's really the only true "grind" in the game. You can slowly unlock most other things more or less passively by just playing the game how you want to, but you have to set aside hours and hours exclusively for guardian mods. Such a PITA
you have planned my ED career path...lol thx!
@@Foxyloxy.X ha ha, seriously though, don't do that, it's the fastest path to burnout. But you do need the guardian fsd booster, and guardian ruins are pretty cool. Thanks for the videos!
You can farm materials easily at Dav's Hope - an abandoned base. It also has lore-related logs to scan.
Best way to farm mats is to take missions that give them! Unless you need the thing to farm more with :)
@@Dr_Tripper Yeah that's true. To avoid exhausting grind, get materials on every opportunity you can. Missions are a great source, especially the new Thargoid-related missions (evac, restoration...). But every now and then, one wants to visit a lore-related site somewhere, and collect the loot. But yes, you should not go there just for the loot except you particularly like grinding with re-logging.
@@KaiKrakowThe Guardian mats were a real grind to me as there was nothing else to do but look at ruins and relog. The time out to get raw mats is a good break though. I am booted and suited to go that way again today. But I like blowing up big ships and and salvaging the mats the best.
Illegal missions also have their way of being completed, but you have to know how. You can enter and land at a station with illegal cargo (passengers or materials) without being detected.
gonna have to learn that as well.
When you haul Illegal passengers , if the station scan you, just pop heatsink. The station will stop the scan , because you have low heat signature and you can't be targeted. At least some time ago this strategy was working..not sure if it's still working
I think I tried, but still got detected and attacked multiple times
About the security scans at stations, you can EASILY avoid those by just going into silent running. The heat meter on your HUD (opposite of the throttle meter) is effectively a STEALTH meter. The lower your heat, the harder it is for other ships to lock onto you. Silent running is a bit of an exception here because it actually makes your heat meter RISE, but that's just because your ship stopped venting your heat in order to hide it's thermal signature. So you start overheating if you have silent running on for too long, but during that time you are almost invisible to any ship that isn't RIGHT next to you.
This is also useful during combat, as there are certain engineer abilities that reduce your heat signature, making it harder for gimballed/turret weapons to get a lock without having to use chaff.
Hey Foxy, grats on the Vette!
One tip for the long game: (you might have already heard)
Pledge to a power and you get access to a unique weapon (or shield) every 4 weeks :)
I wish I started earlier on the powerplay modules in my Elite career, plus there's next to no risk
Oh, and be careful with passenger missions that take you near Thargoid war systems... o7
Prismatic shields would turn it into an "Imperial Corvette".
got it cmdr, thx for the tips
The illegal passenger missions require smuggling skills. There's an art to avoiding scans, that makes it much less frustrating. Basically keep heat low, and fly slower than 200m/s when within the station no fire zone, and go straight to your pad. Plot your route to keep as far away from the patrol fighters.
Engineered, this ship is virtually indestructible. Great ship, well done.
thx!
Anyway, congrats on your new ship... I haven't got mine corvette long after i unlocked engineers and became an proud owner of fleet carrier
About grind and value: If something is hard to get or expensive, we think it is worth more. That is one reason to put things behind a grind wall, if I worked hard for it, it must be worth more to me.
Didnt take you long to get the Vette, quite impressive honestly.
Thx!
If you ever get the chance, try Elite dangerous with a VR-headset like Oculus Quest 2. It will take the experience to a whole new level. You should note however , that if you easily get motion sick AVOID this tip at all cost. Also worth noting is that Frontier stopped VR-development with the release of Odyssey. All this means is that VR works fine when flying in space or using the SRV, but as soon as you go on foot, the VR gets, uhm, static? Your VR headset basically just becomes a monitor. =/ But the rest is amazing. =)
Cool looking Vette! And you gained rank to buy it REALLY fast, so you're being a busy bee! :P One tip: Sell your old equipment first, if possible (some you cant sell beforehand as core internal slots cant be empty) so you get money back from them. As if you do it like on video, old one just get stored in vain.
PS: No matter what you do, jump range is gonna ALWAYS be issue for you Vette! :D Those ships are really not known for they jump range! :/
Oh! And one way to get rare materials, is to do missions that have those as reward.
You should keep more pips on your shield on combat. Putting 4 pips to your shield would make them 2,5 time more resistant (iirc). At least when you get shot at. As you seem to lose your shields often.
Go to a manufactured material trader for your chemical processors b.t.w. They drop from cargo ships more than combat ships, so you can hunt for those in an anarchy systems Nav Beacon.
You advanced with warp-speed ... :)
I remember the first time i got my Corvette, after months of grinding... took it out to a res site to try out the weapons.. accidentally switched my radiators off during combat.. then couldn't understand why i was taking thermal damage afterwards and blew up.. Didn't have enough funds to pay the insurance so ended up back in a sidewinder 🤣
Corvette + A-rated everything still isn't invincible ;-) Corvette where nothing is A-rated is a target drone.
I'd experiment with builds and weapons about now. Lots of options. I mixture of laser and ballistics is the norm for effectiver distance fighting. Hull Reinforcement Packages are alos a go to. This is where the Engineer tree directs you to improve your modular options by directing you to an Engineer for each module type as you open them up. I'd go with one Module Reinforcement 4 or 5, then 3 or 4 Hull Reinforcement packages. If you're going Shielded then get some Shield Boosters in the Utility Section. Have a look at a few buils and see what you think. A pulse laser build can be very effective as well for a beginner. Lower power draw than Beams. Check out some builds so you can see all the options.
4:34 if you want to run a combat ship, you would prefer to put a military one. Military has more armour, but less resistance to each weapon - tho it's better overall than reactive
You can find quite a lot of materials for engineering at Dav's Hope surface base just scattered around. Use SRV to pick them up. open cargo hatch and drive over them. To find the base go to system Hyades Sector DR-V C2-23 and use surface scanner to find the base on planet A5. When all materials picked up just go to menu and back to game (reload) and all of them gets spawned back so you can pick again. Repeat until full or bored. No explosions reqiured.
I was in Dav’s hope recently, only grades 1-3 mats was there!
@@supaflex2857 yes it is easy to get so it is low to mid value. In another words no rare mats. You can trade up for those. But for beginning it is actually great. source.
Mine: Huge are both multi-guns. One is Incendiary, other caustic, rest are gimbaled LR pulse lasers. PVE only.
Made it a balance of shields and armor.
Full armor builds i have only for AX, Shield tanks could be fun too, but nah. Made the cutter into a cargo ship instead.
Have you dound Dav's Hope? I am pretty sure you can pick up Chemical Processors off the ground there. Also, do you know that if you put all pips to shields it hardens them (and i believe charges them quicker). If you're getting smashed in a fight, all pips to engines and run! It helps to have upgraded and engineered thrusters
Nice smooth ship but no shields or many hard points, rush packhound missiles next
5:47 shield cell banks are one of the few modules, where the best one is not A-graded. In this case the best one is the one that you had put here - the B-rated. They have one cell bank more than the A-graded counterpart.
Lol I knew it was going to end in a rebuy but I thought you wouldn't have enough money and you'd end up on Sidewinder.
You need a more powerful dual flow shield and shield boosters instead of the junk you're using. As long as you don't have engineers to improve the power distribution - use multicanons in all slots, they need little energy and you won't have to pause in battle.
Always have money to rebuy.
If you're carry illegal passengers, when you approach the station, as soon as the station starts to scan you, deploy a heat sink and they will stop the scan and you can land.
Thx for the tip cmdr
You will need to look into Module priorities someday. There is no use for the Fuel Scoop or FSD e.g. with deployed hardpoints. You can make more stuff work with the same powerplant. And: get the Guardian FSD booster. It's fun game play and gives you 11 LY extra in every ship with size 5 internal, especially good for large low jump range ships.
The multicanons seem to be small compare to hardpoint mount is you put size 3 multicanon to size 4 hardpoint mount. Get some size 4 guns and youll see the difference. And hatch breaker limpet is limpet fired by usually pirate ship to come to your cargo hatch to brake / destroy it therefore release your cargo so it can be stolen by them. You can use them too. If pirate carieer is something you want. Point defence can defend against them. Before using hatch breaker limpet usually destroing ship engines is recomanded. It can be robbed easier if not moving. Use subtargeting to target various parts of enemy ship. You may need to set some keys to that.
Just make sure you mount the point defence on the underside, where the hatch is ...
@@Sighman Well yes that is kind of self explanatory isn't it? It can not shoot what it cannot see.
When you have illegal cargo or illegal passengers, avoid scanning by switching to silent running. In silent running, you cannot auto-land and your shields are off. And your ship will overheat. So have some heat sinks at hand, and also do not enable silent running to early. Once on the pad, switch silent running off again.
great tips thx, never know there is a silent running thing in ED.
@@Foxyloxy.X Silent running (you should assign a hotkey for it, I used a two button combo Shift+S so I don't accidentally activate it) will close all heat spreaders of the ship (you can actually see that in the external camera) and shuts down the shields which reduces your heat signature to a minimum. If you look above the fuel gauge, there's a noisy line: That's your heat signature. Using a heat sink does a similar thing. Targeting in ED is based on heat signatures: The lower the signature, the lower is the targeting range of other ships targeting you (it adds minus points to the other ships sensor range). You can also break weapon locks that way. Other ships have to come really close then to lock you into target. This means: no scanning of your cargo, reduced visibility on the radar, no target locks. Combining low heat and low emissions engineering with long range weapons and sensors can thus create you a sniper or stealth build of your ship.
@@Foxyloxy.X Also, if you're running out of shields and your recharge rate from empty is slow, you can reboot the ship in the right hand side. It will shut down all ship systems and start a repair process, also repairing some modules at the cost of others. You will have no control over the ship for a few seconds but when the ship rebooted, shields are immediately up at 50% which means the force field around the ship re-establishes (if you lost your shields, you need at least 50% shield capacity for the shields to recover).
17:03 you have to accept, that you want to help. That way you tell one of the sides "hey, i'm on your side, please don't shoot me or smth" - how they can know that you're on their side (and lets just say you don't want to attack all of them after you're done with pirates)
In your case when you shoot the pirate you automatically became their Ally in this fight... but next time choose a side before you start to shoot
FYI, any time the cops scan you, if you accelerate to over 100m/sec the scan will fail. Of course, if you hit anything going over 100m/sec then it's an instant speeding fine, so you have to be even more careful when doing that.
Outposts in Low Security systems often have only a single system police vehicle and there's no mail slot to ring, so smuggling is best done at outposts in those systems.
Thanks for this great info.
Ooof dude ... that video title! It's a Federal Corvette! Ahhhh, but you know that .... you rascal. 😂
lol
I think that in Elite all the ships are made very cool. But to be honest, I personally don’t like federal ships visually at all.
But this does not apply to the Corvette, it looks good, and in combat one of the best ships. Congratulations on your purchase. :)
And if you want to search for materials relatively safely, then check these signals in the system - Encoded/Degraded/High Grade Emissions. In the High Grade Emissions, the most valuable and rare resources.
Got it, thanks for the info.
So, if you have alot of money, you can just circle the stations in sol and do the charity misions there, when you have done a full circle, the first station should have reset
One of my favorite ships. But it is slow and fast small ships are really annoying to fight against.
Indeed, it is small and hard to maneuver
Thank Gods I made sure I had 300M credits leftover when I bought and upgraded my first and still undestroyed Corvette. I wouldn't advise ANYONE buy one otherwise.
You got that way too quickly! And the Clipper is actually superior to the covet - even without 2 size 4 guns.
Good thing the pirates destroyed that abomination of a ship. If I ever come across an "Imperial Corvette" I'd have to destroy it myself as an admiral in my "Federal Corvette".😁 But seriously, you can't stop in the middle of a battle to collect materials, especially when there are several opponents.
Yeah, combat collection is definitely dangerous
Davs hope and crashed anaconda :) worth a google.. also Inara let's you select all the modules you need and will help you find a place that has them. Next make sure your changing your fire groups. Your depleting systems and weapons by scanning and doing other things while firing. Click 4 and go to fire groups and set multiple sets row 1 weapons, row two scanners, row 3 limpets exct.
Has anyone mentioned Jameson Memorial as the main shipyard? :D
No - and for a good reason.
You know the ship is big if you don't know what else to put in the slots 😀
But you may want to put hull reinforcements...
yeah I slowly learn how to outfit a combat ship. hull reinforcement is a must
I feel that going into a RES (High) with 43% hull was not a good move. If ever I go below 80% hull I rabbit to a station or carrier.
I see, sometimes my hull went down to 7% then I realized it is time to bug out
@@Foxyloxy.X If living dangerously is your thing then great! I hate losing bounties. Fortunately you don’t lose materials like chemical processors!
*watches the rebuy disappear after buying just the armor* :O *looks at the title of the video* :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Just find a trader and swap some of those biotech conductors you have for chemical processors. The high grade mats will give you plenty of lower grade ones.
got it
Mat traders carry chemical processors on some stations
to stop a police scan quickly deploy AND retract your hard points as you’re flying through the toast rack.
Thx!
That was a shame, you almost escaped but you faced towards the asteroids instead of away from it.
You can also use the material traders, 07 cmdr👍
Ah, learning about illegal missions. Now you are going to learn heat management & silent running. Illegal missions don't pay A LOT MORE than legal ones (extra for lack of bounties and 25%~50% on top), but just the skirting the law can be the added spice necessary to make things fun.
Also, about materials, check a station with a Material Trader (Manufactured kind of Material Trader). You can trade materials you have for other ones, and the trading system is a bit complicated but it's easier to see the trading table to understand it. In short, try to trade always on the same row, and pick every material dropped from destroyed ships (if it's not useful now, it will be later). Drops are mostly random (system states changes thing a bit, not only on signal sources you find), so if you're not having luck finding something, going to another system might help.
On another note on limpet usage, limpets have two behaviors: target and multi-target. If you have a valid limpet target and it's in range, limpet will be engaged as targeted, flying at maximum speed, grabbing the stuff, delivering to you, and then expiring. If you don't have a valid target or no target at all, it will engage in multi-target mode, flying at a low speed, collecting anything in range, bringing it to you, and looking for more stuff (or just follow you if there are no targets in range) until it expires (time limit or its destroyed by someone else).
Thanks for these tips. They are really helpful
There is no thing as death star... But you can make one out of the corvette (It's hard without engineering tho)
You should deploy your "minions" without selecting a target. Otherwise they collect just that and then die. If you don't select a target while programming a limpet, they will collect stuff over and over again until they die.
got it, thx!
15:56, look at your contacts panel to see everything in the area.
I know, I remember you told me once, I forgot....
lol - it’s so funny that the NPCs tried to pirate you, trying to break your cargo hatch. 😂
lol...first time experience this, it is quite fun as well
@@Foxyloxy.X If I recall correctly, the ECM module can fry incoming limpets. Never used this countermeasure module.
Love the corvette awesome ship
20:02 you haven't picked up a crew. Your ship isn't fighting
Most of the time zero pips at sys isnt good for your shield xD. You noticed that you lost yours very quick in some situations.
Once I bought a ship. I never flew her until she was fully engineered
nice! I guess I will just have to fly them and probably engineer them way later.
Grade 4 weapons you can get at Jameson once you hit Elite rank... a few more CZ high intensity and I will reach Elite.. likely today.. YOU CAN trade assets for what you need @ mat trader
Chemical Processors you can get while doing Pirates... as well as many other manufacturing assets needed for ship upgrades.. raiding bases in anarchy systems gives you manufacturing assets you need for upgrading suits & weapons... I did pirates to grind my empire & federal ranks maxing them out as well as being able to afford a carrier that has 10 billion in vaults to last years online... You will also need minerals and mining them with your SRV in HIP 36601 about 1500LY away is most fun way to get them taking a journey way out of the bubble... I can sell you mats if u need
Thanks for offering to sell me some, I really want to try to gather them on my own in the beginning.
Oh no, you gave one and later no power pip to SYS. That weakened your shield a lot. Before engaging in combat maybe put 4 power pips to SYS to strenghen your shield to the maximum and give the remaining two power pips to the weapons! You also forgot to hire an NPC crew to fly your main ship when you are in the fighter!
I need to get use to power management
If you want manufactured materials go to Dav's Hope in the 'Hyades Sector DR-V C2-23' system planet A5
Thanks, already put that in my schedule
O7 Cmdr@@Foxyloxy.X
My man only play ed for 4 weeks and already get a federal corvette. Mean while, it took me 2 month to get the python.😅
6:13 no offence - but it's obvious that you haven't really got into ship builds. If you have a combat ship you want to have either shield-tank (shields take damage from opponents) or hull-tank (the damage from opponents goes to hull). Some ships are designed to be one of them, while some can be both (not at the same time, obviously).
Corvette is good hull tank, which means you should put a hull reinforcement package (or hrp for short), to maximize hull health. With build like yours it won't be a problem to destroy something smaller than you, but you can struggle with most of medium and all of large ships, as they will just kill you before you can kill them.
wow you've been grinding
You should try going to Davs Hope in Hyades Sector DR-V c2-23 take a small ship with good jump range, fuel scoop and an srv. You can find lots of materials there, and don't forget to scan the beacon( then log back in and the materials refresh ) 😀
will do
i got the corvette and cutter just to have them, even put the best toys on both, but to be honest i still prefer the anaconda.
I am laughing my ass off!!! This nube is completely unaware of Dav’s Hope. Maybe he should take his Bunny Bus of a Vet over there.
don't you worry, now that this nube has heard of it, and he will go there in style.
3a fuel scoop it will take you thirty minutes to scoop lol i run a 6a in mine but a 7a would be even better but i run 2 7a shield cell banks mine is strictly set up for combat
Ah, the Krait lost first place so quickly lol
lol...going for the big boy
Never knew core dynamics was a imperial manufacturer 😂
😂