@@joaogomes9405 yeah, but that's exactly what an "entry-level" ship is; a cheap, basic bitch craft that is designed to get you acquainted with the brand.
@@arthurmorgan2418 But the eagle is a gutamaya ship in name only. You don't need to work for an eagle, you simply pop into a station selling one and give the man your credits. It's less an alfa romeo and more a honda civic with a body kit. The courier meanwhile, like all gutamaya ships, actually makes you work for it, while also being the easiest gutamaya ship to obtain. And if you're not tearing your hair out running data courier missions to farm up that standing, then are you really getting a true gutamaya? That's entry level, it teaches you that if you want the sleekest looking ships in the galaxy, you're gonna need to do a whole lot more than just hopping into an imperial station and buying a cheap eagle knock-off.
Can't hit anything? Get gimbaled weapons. I know, chaff will scramble the gimbal lock. Close to knife fighting range, unlock him and unload on him. When the chaff is gone, re-acquire and continue to dismantle him.
The Courier is like Ray-Ban sunglasses. Not better than other ordinary sunglasses but stylish. If you are flying this ship, you are instantly above plebeians in Cobras and all your typical riffraff of the galaxy flying in shoe boxes and triangles.
Most fun ship in the game imo. Speed and turning of an Eagle and shield of a vulture. No one can catch you, and even if they can, they won't break your shield.
@@carteljameson8395 My main explorer was the Courier until I upgraded to a Clipper. I'll give you two guesses what my next explorer will be. And the first one doesn't count.
Tell that to my Cobra 3 "Spitfire" XD I'm not looking to start a debate between Delacy and Gutamya ships, I gotta give the courier credit. Even the NPC "privateers" give my Spitfire a run for her money from time to time and god damn it is a gorgeous ship... but my eye for beauty is utility over looks. Guess that's pretty obvious since most of my fleet is Delacy ships.
@@keyloh9386 "... but my eye for beauty is utility over looks" Just want you to know that the Courier has 4 utility slots in addition to its looks :) My current Courier does 750ms on the boost, got a 30ly jump range while at the same time sporting a 1000mj raw shield (1k thermal 2k kinetic) /w 2 boosters, all without having to lightweight my weapons. It's not as good a multipurpose ship as the Cobra but my god is it fun. Only ship I'd call unkillable.
I love the courier as a lightweight mission runner. It's not winning awards for firepower or cargo space, but even with an 8-ton cargo, it's enough to be an amazing planet ops landing ship, salvage recovery, or search and rescue ship. It's still a competent fighter to the point where that I hardly feel intimidated in an interdiction scenario. If i'm inside the bubble, i'm probably in one of these getting shit done for someone.
It's definitely my go-to for, well, courier missions (and many bounties). Looks good doing it, quick out of mass lock and to the jump, and then quick to the pad when you get there - and small pads are a lot easier to get immediate clearance for at outposts than the medium. It's how I got my rep for the Cutter. Sure I probably could have used a Viper.... But I'm nobility now!
i actually kitted out my iCourier as a carrier-based exploration ship. 43ly jump range minimally engineered... so, so fast. it's not for longrange exploration, but as a planetskimmer and a canyonrunner, it's absolutely delightful.
When I think of the term "Star Fighter" I can't help but envision the imperial courier it just has that vibe like it was ripped out of a sci fi novel. The cockpit alone is more than enough to fall in love with this ship.
keep up the vids, dude! This community has been needing an update video on the ships for newer players and you're doing an awesome job of filling that gap!
@@LedoCool1 Yes, with engineered enhanced performance thrusters and the right optimal mass you can get it up to insane speeds. I think the only thing that can beat it in speed is the Viper mk III
"You have to wonder,.. what is it good for?" you answered that question a sentence earlier.. you got a duchess to comfort after her husbands untimely death....thats sounds like a bonus not many other ships bring to the table :)
I'm just saying... painting it red and squealing like Stitch during combat is a helluva lot of fun. Also, for some reason I adore the two illuminated "gunsight" posts straight in front of me when sitting in its cockpit.
Same here! Runs at 22 with a 21LY range 19.5min Great for doing my transport runs between Thunderbird, Suno, and the other systems there. Because the systems around there have 150k-190k ls distance it makes the cost per mission 300k-1.3m at my ranks with minimal effort in like 10 mins. If you’re lucky you can take multiple to the same station and literally just kick back!
I have watched all your videos multiple times, and I have to say, with every watched video I grow a new love for the ships you’ve covered. I’ve gone back and flown ships that I haven’t in a long time, sat back and burned millions in outfitting ships that I never really used. Thanks to your lovely outlook, ships collecting dust in my shipyard have been given purpose.
Oh that music you hit at 4:37 was perfect. I love your attention to detail in the videos as well as the music to go along with it. Please share the amazing sounds with me.
The Courier can have a massive shield tank, and the size does nothing but help its survivability. I would say that, in combat, it is more comparable to a Vulture than a DBS/X or Cobra. It is basically a faster but slightly less maneuverable Vulture without the downside of power issues.
The courier is probably the pinnacle of minimalist multirole. you can fight, explore, and run missions in it. In fact, it's probably my premiere search-and-salvage and planetary landing mission runner in my fleet, as most don't require more than 4-8 tons of cargo for some pretty respectable payouts once you get your rep up. you can do it in any other ship, but you're bringing more excess tonnage and less creature comfort on every run. It's not a smaller cobra, it's a more efficient, stronger, and comfortable cobra.
let's look at it this way, you have a date with a hot CMDR, do you wanna fly up in a cobra that says I'm thrifty? or do you want to impress the shit out of her and fly up with a courier? enough said, case closed...next!
@@crestianroxas4782 Probably a chieftan as no rank required. But then sarge gets a murder boner when he sees the corvette and steals it with the chieftan... Completely skipping the rank grind
I love my Courier, it's so much fun to fly. I especially enjoy the sound the engine makes as you throttle up, it growls like an old muscle car. I'm not very good at combat, but I get into a lot of trouble with the Straylight anyway. I like taking it on espionage missions, especially, since it's quick to get in and get out and anyone unprepared would be hard pressed to catch me.
The Arroyo, my canyon-racer, quickly vaulted up to one of my favorite ships. The Courier has all the trappings for exploration, 45LY jump range, and boosts to 850m/s. The Courier can outrun any trouble I can conceivably get into. Just... don’t think too hard about the living conditions in something so small so far from civilization.
Great vid, thanks for taking the time to put it together (loved the opening montage!) When you asked what the courier was good for I thought you going to say courier work, as once you've got it, running courier missions on the fringe of the Empire is a great way to rank up towards the larger Gutamaya ships, and this ship is so quick at zipping in and out of an outpost it makes the whole trip that much faster. It's definitely a fun ship to fly. Will be fascinated to see your take on the Type-9, but whatever you choose next week I'll be looking forward to it.
"For Queen and Country!" You forget, sir! Kings and Queens are _subordinate_ to Emperors. I believe the appropriate _Imperial_ salutation/valediction/battle cry/apology/condolence/congratulation/sneeze response/excuse/drink order is _"FOR THE EMPEROOOOOOR!",_ delivered at the top of your lungs, arms spread wide and head thrown back.
As soon as I had rank to buy this, I went and bought it to keep grinding Empire rank for the Cutter and Clipper. It is, after all, called the Courier. What better way to grind courier missions. This is the first ship I've flown that makes me feel bad about being terrible at combat. It just begs you to submit to interdiction to turn the tables on the pirates.
It's a shield tank. Some of the best shields in the game. I've flown one and it's almost suited for heavy combat. Only the missing 4th hard point takes it out of that category. But for medium combat it is great and for light combat it is absolutely divine.
iCourier was great for combat before RNGineers were brought in - punched well above its weight with the 3 hardpoints, plus those shields you mention :D
This. I followed the advice of some fat nerds and spent 300m to try and buy rank... only got me to rank 7 in 3 hours. Data deliveries are just as fast and don’t delete bank
One of the first things I noticed about the Courier was that it has the same base weight as the Adder: 35 Tons. So I tend to compare it with the Adder - and there is no contest. This is an Adder on steroids, with an Eagle-like cockpit on top. Which makes me wonder what the point of the Adder is. Yes, it cost less and has no rank grind. But unless you simply do not want to grind rank at all cost, sooner or later you WILL be able to afford it. I find it kind of sad that Frontier thinks that "cost" is a balancing factor for their ships. But this is only true in the short run, not in the long run. Anyway, I still like the Courier, but tend to try and get the Eagle to work as my small size combat ship. It is more fun (to me). My wishes for future reviews: - Hauler - Adder - Eagle / Imperial Eagle Just to cover the basics. ;)
Adder exists because it will help you make the money to buy another ship It's effectively the most cheap ship that is able to do deep core mining. The other being the Cobra mk3, that costs almost 4 times the Adder. It's question of minutes in courier missions to get an Adder, fully fit it and start hauling vopals, it takes 4 times that time to buy and fit a Cobra. That's why Adder exists.
Best independent ship salesman in the Galaxy. Love what you have done with this series. Reminds me very much of the presentation style of Hammond, May, and Clarkson.
Good video. The Courier is simply amazing. It has nearly 3 times the shields that a Cobra has. It's a freaking beast of a little ship. It is an absolute joy to fly and to use in combat. Love all the Empire Rank ships. Haven't regretted grinding rank for any of them. :D
I bought this ship completely emotionally. I don't care that it's pretty weak, expensive and my vulture can do its job better. I'm just disappointed that it doesn't come in Ferrari red.
Another excellent video! Really makes me want to finish engineering my Courier, the Dragonlance, and take it out to dispense a royal imperial asswhoopin on some common pirates. Looking forwards to the next one!
Umm... Wow! I know *nothing* about Elite Dangerous, never played it. But these videos about these beautiful ships are fantastically done! As I don't have a PC, I can't play it, but I can't stop watching these videos! Good job, great work, it's like a ship version of a car show feature!
Hey! Well, you don't need to play on PC. If you have an Xbox, you can play there too. But thank you for the kind words, anyway. And I'm glad you like the videos. I hope you like what's coming up. :-)
What?? E.D. Is on Xbox? How did I.... I 'm torn now, because I'm pretty committed to NMS right now, but I will definitely keep it in mind when it goes on sale! I will keep drooling at all these ships, tho. Keep doing what you're doing, and you got another sub from me! 👍
@@KickyFut IMO, enjoy your time in NMS and when you're ready to try something new, give ED a go. The early parts of the game are much better for new pilots than they were before, but there's still a pretty significant time investment to get up to speed on things. For me, and obviously many others, it's been worth it.
Great video lol. I love how the icourier looks and seeing how most the ships in this game look like ugly squares, I'm going to do the rank grind and become an Imperial and get this Lexus of a ship.
You're comparing a sculpted, hand-built machine of beauty to a lexus?! Wash your mouth out!! XD One might let it pass if you compare Gutamaya to Rolls-Royce or Koenigsegg or similar ;)
Just started playing again recently from the beginning, i took a self plotted route to the bottom of the bubble towards empire space. Imperial courier has been my daily and my home for the past couple of days. It’s great for taking out turrets, pirates and even other players if you’re outfitting your ship correctly. Cannot wait until I hit rank Barron for that clipper (the only reason I’m empire faction)
This is my favorite video by you, it revolutioned ED for me. I quit ED but now I am back again cos I rewatched this video. The video is so well done, the music, the visuals, the commentary, everything is 100% on point and inspires me to be an Imperial Navy pilot. Slavery isn't too bad, cos they use slaves of all races right? As long as they don't discriminate on race it's not too bad right? I am going all in with the courier or maybe the clipper, we will see!
The ship that made me see the game differently. From a trader simulator to an ace mercenary for hire in every sort of wars. Getting +300 M plus in a couple days (when you could stack missions ships destroyed). Good old times I used it as very short range interceptor, better used in wings. Once I got located the war I would transport the ship to an station in the system of choice Got the smallest FSD just barely enough to make an emergency jump if needed. The best mod clean high performance thrusters so I could work an Empire´s hammer under the cockpit without frying the ship. On +600 boost you decide the rules of engagement. All Hail the Empire !!.
every time I see the ship it reminds me of Dennis Quaid ship from enemy mine just minus the top pylon but I think that's where they got the inspiration from go look it up
Just started playing a few weeks ago, friends had me join the empire and I just hit master last night. Really tempted to buy the courier after this vid
Do it, you won't regret. Best would be to buy two of these. One for travelling around (max FSD) and one for Combat. 2x Class 2 Frag-Cannons (gimbaled, w/ Incidiary-Rounds) and 1x Class 2 Multi-Cannon (gimbaled/fixed, w/ Corrosive-Shell) All can be done by Todd 'The Blaster', whom is available right from the start. With the combat-payouts these days, this is absolutly affordable and it has an overall low ensurance, so losing a fight is no big deal.
If you engineer this thing then it's actually really good as a courier. Mine jumps about 48LY, and the engineered enhanced thrusters boost the ship to 871m/s. If you ever get interdicted you can just fly away before the peasants get a chance to fire at you. It's small so you can land on outposts too. Really handy for running data delivery missions.
01:23 "Dorian Gray" ...just made me laugh ;-) The Courier. one very underrated. wiht G5 FSD (+Guardian FSB) and fuel scoop a ship for serious business. means travelling around the bubble for issues on different stations (if your fleet is spread around the bubble), data missions!!!, unlocking "The Dweller", pinning blue-prints, reaching shinrarta-dezhra for discounts on buying/outfiting new ships, quick small cargo bonus runs, power-play-goods to a certain extend. And most of all ...cheap...
Ngalinn to Mainani courier missions... went from no rank to count in about 3 hours. Average 7-15 missions on each leg. 4 ly jump. Not mention making close to a million in time bonuses on each run. Pulled in about 22 million while getting the rank. Definitely helped shortened the grind
With Odyssey missions often taking place on planetary surfaces, the Courier absolutely *shines* as the ship to use to do them. It can fit an SRV in case you need to drive a short distance or do some light exploration, you can equip the 3A enhanced performance thrusters to (with engineering) get it up to well over 800m/s and make mass-lock a thing of the past, and because it's small it can land at any planetary outpost...or just about anywhere outside of them if they aren't going to be happy to see you.
You can engineer this baby to have very decent shields AND be fast as hell. If you absolutely must survive and stay safe while getting places - this is the ship to go. I always have a Courier parked on the edge of a bubble. So when I'm coming back from exploration with weeks or months worth of data I dock there, change into my Courier and then go looking for a place to sell it. In that regard it's doing precisely what it's name suggest.
Courier is one of my favourite ships in Elite. Fave small ship. The courier can take down a Hydra single handed. Granted it may take 5 hours. It’s also a shield and Hull tank. My combat courier runs 1100 shields and 1100 armour. Impressive. My canyon racer courier has 500 shields and can still boost almost 850m/s That’s with an srv on board. This ship is no waste of time. She’s a beauty that can be purpose built for almost any role.
I love the courrier. Its a tie for my favorite ship with the keelback. Although I do like running it out to Hutton Orbital with no shields and seeing how far I can degrade the paint. As for it's use, I love running it for a small load/high value smuggler. It's not efficient, but it's fun.
My favorite, bursts in the nacelles and a multicannon under the chin. Also, painted red and squealing like Stitch is mandatory when boosting at your enemy.
So with Odyssey coming out soon, I totally got one of these things in anticipation as a fast deployment ship for disembarking. With a relatively dangerous combat load (Cytoscrambles and a Corrosive multi so Cytos do actual hull damage) It can still scream into port at 750MS.
I have a 0 rebuy courier (it was a reward for something I can't remember)... it is great for planetary incursions in Odyssey and jumping into places where I might die. It wont replace the Asp Explorer, Vulture, the Federal corvette or the Anti xeon Chieftain but it sure is fun to fly...
"marginally better than the cobra" what the fuck are you smoking? its got three times the shields and is twice as maneuverable and also can boost to over 800 m/s
I will be starting the grind for Imperial rank today and I'm hoping to get done with it as well. I like the Imperial ship designs, so these reviews are helpful.
I love going to Resource Sites and blasting away pirates and bounties while listening to Baroque Classical music. Makes me feel like an elite Imperialist Warrior
This is the ship that is the best to have enhanced thrusters on. Ive literally boosted strafing runs on a ship entering a station mail box and the stations weapons cant keep up with me . One boost and im out of range and ive got big enough shields to challenge everyone but fast enough to leave in a split second and survive.
I bought today it, along with a graphite paint job. So far engineered only the FSD, and jumping over 21 LY, in a combat build. Even fought some pirates, but damn I suck with fixed guns...
Agree, Tactical Graphite looks amazing (on all the imperial ships). My absolute favourite. With the free Arx right now, i'll be able to buy this one for my couriers at sunday :D You might consider this set-up: 2x Class 2 Frag-Cannons (gimbaled, w/ Incendiary-Rounds, high-capacity mag), 1x Class 2 Multi-Cannon fixed in the middle HP (w/ Corrosive-Shell, overcharged)
NGL the courier is more beautiful than the cutter and the clipper. I do not like how the front of the cutter and clipper look like Airliners and you like you say in your videos, they should have a command bridge in the middle!
Probably, _the_ most satisfying ship to fly in E:D - Absolutely awesome in VR. Mind you, oblique drifting over to landing pad in space stations with Clipper or Cutter comes a close second ;)
I set mine up for exploration, mat grabbing and data missions. Has 2-3 afm, srv, jumps 44-48 Lys and still boosts 850+. Its what I like to use in open play cuz gankers can't catch me. Could you do a video on the corvette or the krait mk2?
As a gank-proof pain in the a**, it's hard to beat. Absolutely love mine. 832m/s of face melting boost speed and 3 x phasing pulse to really pi** them off. My go to when outnumbered and outgunned. You can't beat em? Wind em right up.
Courier is a lethal little fighter in the right hands, I'm a fan of two thermal vent beams and a PA on mine had my pretty courier since the emperor's coronation.
This is without a doubt my most favorite ship in the game, especially with the body kits options. Prior to Update 14, I kitted it out for PvE big ship hunting (2 cytos with kinetic engineering and multicannon with corrosive shell) and now I'm using it to hunt thargoids (2 modified shard cannons and thermal vent beam laser.) It's insanely fun to do, especially with a HOTAS. I'm not a really good pilot to begin with but that setup lets me take down Cyclopses easy enough unless I get ganked by scouts on the side. 😅 Rebuy's cheap tho, so there's that!
I run a build with gimballed frag cannons in the nacelles and a plasma accelerator under the nose. A modded iCourier with enhanced performance drives can out-turn and out-speed pretty much anything. I basically just strafe targets...get in close, blast them with five rounds rapid of superheated buckshot, and pull away before they can even turn around, then do it again. The hardest part is actually landing hits with the plasma accelerator because the thing is so squirrelly, so I mostly use it to start and end engagements (NPCs trying to run away tend to forget they need to maneuver as so not to have a lump of plasma fired up their tailpipe). It's not much use against large ships, but it turns small ships into Swiss cheese in a hurry, and it's a lot of fun. I have a Cobra and a Vulture, too, and while I like blowing up pirates with those ships too, I spec them for utility (the Cobra is my light multirole ship and the Vulture is my planet-scanner) and I spec the iCourier for agility. After a few sorties in the iCourier, when I get into my Python to make some money trading and delivering cargo, it feels like I'm driving a school bus full of hippos. Even the Cobra feels sluggish by comparison.
I got my IC to nearly 500m/s (boost) and fitted it with 3 fixed beams (yeah.. lol) engineered to be efficient. It's not fully modded but it can stay on the tail of any large ship for long enough to actually kill it and in case of getting rekt it can just boost and get out of range in 10 seconds or less. I enjoy that ship quite a bit. I have Krait II for tanking though
@@Radovanslav Mine goes about 450 m/s and boosts to close to 650. I have to pull the throttle back to like 40% just to stay behind a Python or AspX in a dogfight. If someone manages to come to bear on me, I open up the throttle and park myself on their six again. So far, the only thing that can actually touch me are large laser turrets.
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"Entry-level gutamaya ship..."
*confused gutamaya eagle noises*
Anyone can buy a gutamaya eagle, you need the status to have a courier. And status is the essence of the gutamaya brand.
@@joaogomes9405 yeah, but that's exactly what an "entry-level" ship is; a cheap, basic bitch craft that is designed to get you acquainted with the brand.
@@arthurmorgan2418 they could both be entry level though, no need to limit it to 1
@@its_deer I guess they could...
@@arthurmorgan2418 But the eagle is a gutamaya ship in name only. You don't need to work for an eagle, you simply pop into a station selling one and give the man your credits. It's less an alfa romeo and more a honda civic with a body kit. The courier meanwhile, like all gutamaya ships, actually makes you work for it, while also being the easiest gutamaya ship to obtain. And if you're not tearing your hair out running data courier missions to farm up that standing, then are you really getting a true gutamaya? That's entry level, it teaches you that if you want the sleekest looking ships in the galaxy, you're gonna need to do a whole lot more than just hopping into an imperial station and buying a cheap eagle knock-off.
Dude flying 800++M/S is totally worth it, I don't care if I can't hit anything.
Can't hit anything? Get gimbaled weapons. I know, chaff will scramble the gimbal lock. Close to knife fighting range, unlock him and unload on him. When the chaff is gone, re-acquire and continue to dismantle him.
This is the perfect ship to finish the rank grind. Those courier missions take seconds at that speed lol.
@@prisonerofthehighway1059 Amen!
Couriers are good bubble busses when you expect combat or player opposition
If they can’t catch you who cares what the space police throws at you
The Courier is like Ray-Ban sunglasses. Not better than other ordinary sunglasses but stylish. If you are flying this ship, you are instantly above plebeians in Cobras and all your typical riffraff of the galaxy flying in shoe boxes and triangles.
Laughs at your comment as I look down on those Ray Bans through the lenses of my Revo's..
shoe boxes and triangles lmao
As a pilot irl, no. Raybans have saved lives lol.
For the first 60 seconds, I would have sworn this was a legit commercial for Gutamaya.
Well.. it’s Gutamaya.. they can’t be expected to make *all* the advertisements..
@@paulreese9452 I understood that reference
Needs a slogan.
"Gutamaya. Because you're better than everyone else."
Most fun ship in the game imo. Speed and turning of an Eagle and shield of a vulture. No one can catch you, and even if they can, they won't break your shield.
Facts. Also, I use it as my main exploration ship. It's such a joy to fly. Traveling the galaxy with style and maneuverability.
@@carteljameson8395 My main explorer was the Courier until I upgraded to a Clipper. I'll give you two guesses what my next explorer will be.
And the first one doesn't count.
Tell that to my Cobra 3 "Spitfire" XD
I'm not looking to start a debate between Delacy and Gutamya ships, I gotta give the courier credit. Even the NPC "privateers" give my Spitfire a run for her money from time to time and god damn it is a gorgeous ship... but my eye for beauty is utility over looks. Guess that's pretty obvious since most of my fleet is Delacy ships.
@@keyloh9386 "... but my eye for beauty is utility over looks"
Just want you to know that the Courier has 4 utility slots in addition to its looks :)
My current Courier does 750ms on the boost, got a 30ly jump range while at the same time sporting a 1000mj raw shield (1k thermal 2k kinetic) /w 2 boosters, all without having to lightweight my weapons. It's not as good a multipurpose ship as the Cobra but my god is it fun. Only ship I'd call unkillable.
@@MrRandomFraps Damn, those are pretty good specs O.O
What do you run for engineering overall?
I love the courier as a lightweight mission runner. It's not winning awards for firepower or cargo space, but even with an 8-ton cargo, it's enough to be an amazing planet ops landing ship, salvage recovery, or search and rescue ship. It's still a competent fighter to the point where that I hardly feel intimidated in an interdiction scenario. If i'm inside the bubble, i'm probably in one of these getting shit done for someone.
It's definitely my go-to for, well, courier missions (and many bounties). Looks good doing it, quick out of mass lock and to the jump, and then quick to the pad when you get there - and small pads are a lot easier to get immediate clearance for at outposts than the medium. It's how I got my rep for the Cutter. Sure I probably could have used a Viper.... But I'm nobility now!
i actually kitted out my iCourier as a carrier-based exploration ship. 43ly jump range minimally engineered... so, so fast. it's not for longrange exploration, but as a planetskimmer and a canyonrunner, it's absolutely delightful.
When I think of the term "Star Fighter" I can't help but envision the imperial courier it just has that vibe like it was ripped out of a sci fi novel. The cockpit alone is more than enough to fall in love with this ship.
Two Words: Ship-Kit
Someone: what's you're favourite ship
The pilot : yes
"What is you are"
more like "not Type-6"
The drop ship and the adder got very negative reviews
like a good lawyer he'd say.
"it depends"
He hates federal ships. 😂
keep up the vids, dude! This community has been needing an update video on the ships for newer players and you're doing an awesome job of filling that gap!
Guess you could say he's...
...bridging the gap?
You can't boost to 800m/s in a cobra.
Srsly? O___o Engineered?
@@LedoCool1 Yes, with engineered enhanced performance thrusters and the right optimal mass you can get it up to insane speeds. I think the only thing that can beat it in speed is the Viper mk III
@@NickHunter i saw an imperial eagle going 900m/s
@@p3tit_nuage82 aye, I think the record is around 960m/s without gravity tricks. Giraffe has a vid on getting a viper over 1k
@@NickHunter No, it is 932 in a Ieagle or Viper 3
"You have to wonder,.. what is it good for?"
you answered that question a sentence earlier..
you got a duchess to comfort after her husbands untimely death....thats sounds like a bonus not many other ships bring to the table :)
Yeah. Quite the bonus. Unless the comfort isn’t what we both think it is.
I'm just saying... painting it red and squealing like Stitch during combat is a helluva lot of fun.
Also, for some reason I adore the two illuminated "gunsight" posts straight in front of me when sitting in its cockpit.
3:11 _'...brought comfort to a duchess....'_ 😂😂🤣🤣
It's my choice of Bubble hopper, a personal shuttle. Very fast too, when built and engineered properly.
I use a dolphin that runs cool with a 20 ly jump range.
Same here! Runs at 22 with a 21LY range 19.5min
Great for doing my transport runs between Thunderbird, Suno, and the other systems there. Because the systems around there have 150k-190k ls distance it makes the cost per mission 300k-1.3m at my ranks with minimal effort in like 10 mins. If you’re lucky you can take multiple to the same station and literally just kick back!
@@dr.redstone7980 absolutely. My Dolphin has 33.4LY and an extra 32t fuel tank. I basically can cross the bubble without refuelling
I have watched all your videos multiple times, and I have to say, with every watched video I grow a new love for the ships you’ve covered. I’ve gone back and flown ships that I haven’t in a long time, sat back and burned millions in outfitting ships that I never really used. Thanks to your lovely outlook, ships collecting dust in my shipyard have been given purpose.
Oh that music you hit at 4:37 was perfect. I love your attention to detail in the videos as well as the music to go along with it. Please share the amazing sounds with me.
Ah, see...that's where he gets ya. www.patreon.com/posts/28483170
The Courier can have a massive shield tank, and the size does nothing but help its survivability. I would say that, in combat, it is more comparable to a Vulture than a DBS/X or Cobra. It is basically a faster but slightly less maneuverable Vulture without the downside of power issues.
Waking up to a new video by the pilot, perfect way to start the day
The courier is probably the pinnacle of minimalist multirole. you can fight, explore, and run missions in it. In fact, it's probably my premiere search-and-salvage and planetary landing mission runner in my fleet, as most don't require more than 4-8 tons of cargo for some pretty respectable payouts once you get your rep up. you can do it in any other ship, but you're bringing more excess tonnage and less creature comfort on every run. It's not a smaller cobra, it's a more efficient, stronger, and comfortable cobra.
let's look at it this way, you have a date with a hot CMDR, do you wanna fly up in a cobra that says I'm thrifty? or do you want to impress the shit out of her and fly up with a courier? enough said, case closed...next!
riphaven Personally I’d fly up in a Cutter or Anaconda to show off.
Fuck it, Type 10. Spin the twin turbskies
@@Nebs0707 I'm with you on the Conda. "Hey girl, my ship can do everything~" XD
Cobra has two seats at least
@@shawngimnes fuck it, Imperial fighter
SARGE: SIMMONS YOU'VE BEEN OPTED FOR AN AWARD!
SIMMONS: THANK YOU SIR WHAT AWARD IS IT?
SARGE: THE BROWN NOSER AWARD!
Bruh imagine red team crewing a corvette
@@CreeperDude-cm1wv Dear God... Wait cause you also have the alliance ships... Do you think they'd let them have a Corvette or a chieftain?
@@crestianroxas4782
Probably a chieftan as no rank required. But then sarge gets a murder boner when he sees the corvette and steals it with the chieftan... Completely skipping the rank grind
@@CreeperDude-cm1wv true....
@@CreeperDude-cm1wv also.... "Murder boner"... Now my most favorite choice of words for seeing the Corvette... Thank you for that...
I love my Courier, it's so much fun to fly. I especially enjoy the sound the engine makes as you throttle up, it growls like an old muscle car. I'm not very good at combat, but I get into a lot of trouble with the Straylight anyway. I like taking it on espionage missions, especially, since it's quick to get in and get out and anyone unprepared would be hard pressed to catch me.
The Arroyo, my canyon-racer, quickly vaulted up to one of my favorite ships. The Courier has all the trappings for exploration, 45LY jump range, and boosts to 850m/s. The Courier can outrun any trouble I can conceivably get into.
Just... don’t think too hard about the living conditions in something so small so far from civilization.
”Basking”, Lol. The Yamiks would like to know your location...
(joystick wanking intensifies)
"If you have the means, I do suggest you pick one up."
Great vid, thanks for taking the time to put it together (loved the opening montage!) When you asked what the courier was good for I thought you going to say courier work, as once you've got it, running courier missions on the fringe of the Empire is a great way to rank up towards the larger Gutamaya ships, and this ship is so quick at zipping in and out of an outpost it makes the whole trip that much faster. It's definitely a fun ship to fly. Will be fascinated to see your take on the Type-9, but whatever you choose next week I'll be looking forward to it.
The Imperial Courier, the quintessential UFO.
"For Queen and Country!"
You forget, sir! Kings and Queens are _subordinate_ to Emperors.
I believe the appropriate _Imperial_ salutation/valediction/battle cry/apology/condolence/congratulation/sneeze response/excuse/drink order is _"FOR THE EMPEROOOOOOR!",_ delivered at the top of your lungs, arms spread wide and head thrown back.
What do you expect, he's a fed... ;)
*Empress. Disgrace the name of Her Majesty again and there will be consequences.
For the emprorahhh
*Revs chainsword and loads bolter*
FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!
But Emperors are NOTHING to a 'GOID...I mean...A GOD!!!
As soon as I had rank to buy this, I went and bought it to keep grinding Empire rank for the Cutter and Clipper. It is, after all, called the Courier. What better way to grind courier missions. This is the first ship I've flown that makes me feel bad about being terrible at combat. It just begs you to submit to interdiction to turn the tables on the pirates.
It's a shield tank. Some of the best shields in the game. I've flown one and it's almost suited for heavy combat. Only the missing 4th hard point takes it out of that category. But for medium combat it is great and for light combat it is absolutely divine.
I’d be curious of the build for that. Mine is an exploration/canyon racer/data courier.
iCourier was great for combat before RNGineers were brought in - punched well above its weight with the 3 hardpoints, plus those shields you mention :D
Imp rank Grind via data delivery from a to b?
Ngalinn and mainani
Dont thank me just skip this stupid Grind and get that cutter...
This. I followed the advice of some fat nerds and spent 300m to try and buy rank... only got me to rank 7 in 3 hours. Data deliveries are just as fast and don’t delete bank
@@greenthunder1000 data deliveries + cash donations did it for me, since you can do 200M/h easily these days
One of the first things I noticed about the Courier was that it has the same base weight as the Adder: 35 Tons.
So I tend to compare it with the Adder - and there is no contest.
This is an Adder on steroids, with an Eagle-like cockpit on top.
Which makes me wonder what the point of the Adder is.
Yes, it cost less and has no rank grind.
But unless you simply do not want to grind rank at all cost, sooner or later you WILL be able to afford it.
I find it kind of sad that Frontier thinks that "cost" is a balancing factor for their ships.
But this is only true in the short run, not in the long run.
Anyway, I still like the Courier, but tend to try and get the Eagle to work as my small size combat ship.
It is more fun (to me).
My wishes for future reviews:
- Hauler
- Adder
- Eagle / Imperial Eagle
Just to cover the basics. ;)
Adder exists because it will help you make the money to buy another ship
It's effectively the most cheap ship that is able to do deep core mining. The other being the Cobra mk3, that costs almost 4 times the Adder. It's question of minutes in courier missions to get an Adder, fully fit it and start hauling vopals, it takes 4 times that time to buy and fit a Cobra.
That's why Adder exists.
Best independent ship salesman in the Galaxy. Love what you have done with this series. Reminds me very much of the presentation style of Hammond, May, and Clarkson.
Good video. The Courier is simply amazing. It has nearly 3 times the shields that a Cobra has. It's a freaking beast of a little ship. It is an absolute joy to fly and to use in combat. Love all the Empire Rank ships. Haven't regretted grinding rank for any of them. :D
Get some advanced thrusters on it and feel the speeeeeed!
You forgot one other thing this beauty does pretty well......... SPEEEEEED!
Made my day dude. I had a hard day today, but your videos really let me relax and realign with my space dream.
I read this in a surfers voice... best comment ever.
I bought this ship completely emotionally. I don't care that it's pretty weak, expensive and my vulture can do its job better. I'm just disappointed that it doesn't come in Ferrari red.
Another excellent video! Really makes me want to finish engineering my Courier, the Dragonlance, and take it out to dispense a royal imperial asswhoopin on some common pirates. Looking forwards to the next one!
1:42
So its the Iphone of Elite Dangerous. Got it
I've been binging your videos. I really appreciate the style and format. Thank you
this is literally the best video of all time and i've been watching it every day multiple times
Umm... Wow! I know *nothing* about Elite Dangerous, never played it. But these videos about these beautiful ships are fantastically done! As I don't have a PC, I can't play it, but I can't stop watching these videos! Good job, great work, it's like a ship version of a car show feature!
Hey! Well, you don't need to play on PC. If you have an Xbox, you can play there too. But thank you for the kind words, anyway. And I'm glad you like the videos. I hope you like what's coming up. :-)
What?? E.D. Is on Xbox? How did I.... I 'm torn now, because I'm pretty committed to NMS right now, but I will definitely keep it in mind when it goes on sale! I will keep drooling at all these ships, tho.
Keep doing what you're doing, and you got another sub from me! 👍
@@KickyFut IMO, enjoy your time in NMS and when you're ready to try something new, give ED a go. The early parts of the game are much better for new pilots than they were before, but there's still a pretty significant time investment to get up to speed on things. For me, and obviously many others, it's been worth it.
By far my favorite ship reviewer!!!!! You can hear the passion in your voice. Keep up the amazing work.
I love your videos, they look as if they were made by Gutamaya.
Great video lol. I love how the icourier looks and seeing how most the ships in this game look like ugly squares, I'm going to do the rank grind and become an Imperial and get this Lexus of a ship.
If you go do mainani/ngalinn courier missions, you can get it in about 20 mins. That's how I got it.
@@simluar wow nice, thanks!
You're comparing a sculpted, hand-built machine of beauty to a lexus?! Wash your mouth out!! XD
One might let it pass if you compare Gutamaya to Rolls-Royce or Koenigsegg or similar ;)
Just started playing again recently from the beginning, i took a self plotted route to the bottom of the bubble towards empire space. Imperial courier has been my daily and my home for the past couple of days. It’s great for taking out turrets, pirates and even other players if you’re outfitting your ship correctly. Cannot wait until I hit rank Barron for that clipper (the only reason I’m empire faction)
I always come back and rewatch these. You are a very good content creator
Great video. You articulate exactly how the ships perform in a way few have managed. Thanks again
This is my favorite video by you, it revolutioned ED for me. I quit ED but now I am back again cos I rewatched this video. The video is so well done, the music, the visuals, the commentary, everything is 100% on point and inspires me to be an Imperial Navy pilot. Slavery isn't too bad, cos they use slaves of all races right? As long as they don't discriminate on race it's not too bad right? I am going all in with the courier or maybe the clipper, we will see!
The ship that made me see the game differently. From a trader simulator to an ace mercenary for hire in every sort of wars. Getting +300 M plus in a couple days (when you could stack missions ships destroyed). Good old times
I used it as very short range interceptor, better used in wings. Once I got located the war I would transport the ship to an station in the system of choice
Got the smallest FSD just barely enough to make an emergency jump if needed.
The best mod clean high performance thrusters so I could work an Empire´s hammer under the cockpit without frying the ship.
On +600 boost you decide the rules of engagement.
All Hail the Empire !!.
every time I see the ship it reminds me of Dennis Quaid ship from enemy mine just minus the top pylon but I think that's where they got the inspiration from go look it up
Just started playing a few weeks ago, friends had me join the empire and I just hit master last night. Really tempted to buy the courier after this vid
Do it, you won't regret. Best would be to buy two of these. One for travelling around (max FSD) and one for Combat. 2x Class 2 Frag-Cannons (gimbaled, w/ Incidiary-Rounds) and 1x Class 2 Multi-Cannon (gimbaled/fixed, w/ Corrosive-Shell) All can be done by Todd 'The Blaster', whom is available right from the start. With the combat-payouts these days, this is absolutly affordable and it has an overall low ensurance, so losing a fight is no big deal.
If you engineer this thing then it's actually really good as a courier.
Mine jumps about 48LY, and the engineered enhanced thrusters boost the ship to 871m/s. If you ever get interdicted you can just fly away before the peasants get a chance to fire at you. It's small so you can land on outposts too. Really handy for running data delivery missions.
A great little ship. I use it to do courier runs, only... I don't want to scratch the paint. Pure fun to fly.
01:23 "Dorian Gray" ...just made me laugh ;-) The Courier. one very underrated. wiht G5 FSD (+Guardian FSB) and fuel scoop a ship for serious business. means travelling around the bubble for issues on different stations (if your fleet is spread around the bubble), data missions!!!, unlocking "The Dweller", pinning blue-prints, reaching shinrarta-dezhra for discounts on buying/outfiting new ships, quick small cargo bonus runs, power-play-goods to a certain extend. And most of all ...cheap...
Ngalinn to Mainani courier missions... went from no rank to count in about 3 hours. Average 7-15 missions on each leg. 4 ly jump. Not mention making close to a million in time bonuses on each run. Pulled in about 22 million while getting the rank. Definitely helped shortened the grind
With Odyssey missions often taking place on planetary surfaces, the Courier absolutely *shines* as the ship to use to do them. It can fit an SRV in case you need to drive a short distance or do some light exploration, you can equip the 3A enhanced performance thrusters to (with engineering) get it up to well over 800m/s and make mass-lock a thing of the past, and because it's small it can land at any planetary outpost...or just about anywhere outside of them if they aren't going to be happy to see you.
You're videos are getting better and better, brother... Bravo!
Finally another proper Ship reviewer! almost began doing it myself! I'd be glad if you could say some words about the Asp Scout
Gutamaya is basically Apple
MY MAN, this is the one I was waiting for!
You can engineer this baby to have very decent shields AND be fast as hell. If you absolutely must survive and stay safe while getting places - this is the ship to go. I always have a Courier parked on the edge of a bubble. So when I'm coming back from exploration with weeks or months worth of data I dock there, change into my Courier and then go looking for a place to sell it. In that regard it's doing precisely what it's name suggest.
Courier is one of my favourite ships in Elite. Fave small ship.
The courier can take down a Hydra single handed. Granted it may take 5 hours.
It’s also a shield and Hull tank. My combat courier runs 1100 shields and 1100 armour.
Impressive. My canyon racer courier has 500 shields and can still boost almost 850m/s
That’s with an srv on board.
This ship is no waste of time. She’s a beauty that can be purpose built for almost any role.
I love your content. Smooth voice, smooth video. Please do the Krait Phantom next!
You got it. Next Tuesday.
I love the courrier. Its a tie for my favorite ship with the keelback.
Although I do like running it out to Hutton Orbital with no shields and seeing how far I can degrade the paint.
As for it's use, I love running it for a small load/high value smuggler. It's not efficient, but it's fun.
This thing is nice for bounty hunting, even without engineering.
My favorite, bursts in the nacelles and a multicannon under the chin. Also, painted red and squealing like Stitch is mandatory when boosting at your enemy.
@@diamondflaw Also cute and fluffy.
Does it deliver salvation?
So with Odyssey coming out soon, I totally got one of these things in anticipation as a fast deployment ship for disembarking. With a relatively dangerous combat load (Cytoscrambles and a Corrosive multi so Cytos do actual hull damage) It can still scream into port at 750MS.
I like the way you think
I have a 0 rebuy courier (it was a reward for something I can't remember)... it is great for planetary incursions in Odyssey and jumping into places where I might die. It wont replace the Asp Explorer, Vulture, the Federal corvette or the Anti xeon Chieftain but it sure is fun to fly...
"marginally better than the cobra" what the fuck are you smoking? its got three times the shields and is twice as maneuverable and also can boost to over 800 m/s
I will be starting the grind for Imperial rank today and I'm hoping to get done with it as well. I like the Imperial ship designs, so these reviews are helpful.
Favorite ship for on-foot stuff. Plus, nothing better for basking, with that fighter jet canopy.
I love going to Resource Sites and blasting away pirates and bounties while listening to Baroque Classical music. Makes me feel like an elite Imperialist Warrior
Great video and I love the synthwave music you put in your vids
These are awsome! I'm a huge Core Dynamics fan, Eage or Vulture would be cool.
Everytime he reviews a gutamaya ship he is like making a national geographic advertisement
This is the ship that is the best to have enhanced thrusters on. Ive literally boosted strafing runs on a ship entering a station mail box and the stations weapons cant keep up with me . One boost and im out of range and ive got big enough shields to challenge everyone but fast enough to leave in a split second and survive.
the best part about flying imperial ships is having your wingmen call you "sir."
Man, the first sentence is so frickin' accurate! I can't believe it.
I bought today it, along with a graphite paint job. So far engineered only the FSD, and jumping over 21 LY, in a combat build. Even fought some pirates, but damn I suck with fixed guns...
Agree, Tactical Graphite looks amazing (on all the imperial ships). My absolute favourite. With the free Arx right now, i'll be able to buy this one for my couriers at sunday :D You might consider this set-up: 2x Class 2 Frag-Cannons (gimbaled, w/ Incendiary-Rounds, high-capacity mag), 1x Class 2 Multi-Cannon fixed in the middle HP (w/ Corrosive-Shell, overcharged)
I absolutely love your series. please continue.
NGL the courier is more beautiful than the cutter and the clipper. I do not like how the front of the cutter and clipper look like Airliners and you like you say in your videos, they should have a command bridge in the middle!
I love my Imperial Courier Archangel as I fly it as an Alliance Pirate. There's something so fitting about it.
LOOK AT THAT SCHNOZ!!!
Hey man I really like your videos keep up the work. I like listening to your videos while flying around. Keeps thing interesting and entertaining.
I built one that has a top speed of around 625 and boosts to around 840. I use it to screw with griefers/gankers in open.
I just started watching your channel today and I love it I will be sharing ur vids as much and as often as I can
Thank you!
I can't be bothered by peasants while i stuff grapes in my mouth cruising the stars in my courier.
Hellride85 And even I, see myself above them, even on my porcelain white throne
Hehe. It's a banana with thrusters
Probably, _the_ most satisfying ship to fly in E:D - Absolutely awesome in VR. Mind you, oblique drifting over to landing pad in space stations with Clipper or Cutter comes a close second ;)
I set mine up for exploration, mat grabbing and data missions.
Has 2-3 afm, srv, jumps 44-48 Lys and still boosts 850+. Its what I like to use in open play cuz gankers can't catch me.
Could you do a video on the corvette or the krait mk2?
As a gank-proof pain in the a**, it's hard to beat. Absolutely love mine. 832m/s of face melting boost speed and 3 x phasing pulse to really pi** them off. My go to when outnumbered and outgunned. You can't beat em? Wind em right up.
Courier is a lethal little fighter in the right hands, I'm a fan of two thermal vent beams and a PA on mine had my pretty courier since the emperor's coronation.
What is the name of the song that plays at 4:36?
This is without a doubt my most favorite ship in the game, especially with the body kits options. Prior to Update 14, I kitted it out for PvE big ship hunting (2 cytos with kinetic engineering and multicannon with corrosive shell) and now I'm using it to hunt thargoids (2 modified shard cannons and thermal vent beam laser.)
It's insanely fun to do, especially with a HOTAS. I'm not a really good pilot to begin with but that setup lets me take down Cyclopses easy enough unless I get ganked by scouts on the side. 😅 Rebuy's cheap tho, so there's that!
I'm not that much a fan of the bigger Imperial ships... but I like the Courier
Was that first minute a car commercial? I was waiting for the company logo to pop-up.
MCs and a PA make this thing a vicious bounty hunter, and a prismatic shield just helps you stay in the fight longer
I run a build with gimballed frag cannons in the nacelles and a plasma accelerator under the nose. A modded iCourier with enhanced performance drives can out-turn and out-speed pretty much anything. I basically just strafe targets...get in close, blast them with five rounds rapid of superheated buckshot, and pull away before they can even turn around, then do it again. The hardest part is actually landing hits with the plasma accelerator because the thing is so squirrelly, so I mostly use it to start and end engagements (NPCs trying to run away tend to forget they need to maneuver as so not to have a lump of plasma fired up their tailpipe).
It's not much use against large ships, but it turns small ships into Swiss cheese in a hurry, and it's a lot of fun. I have a Cobra and a Vulture, too, and while I like blowing up pirates with those ships too, I spec them for utility (the Cobra is my light multirole ship and the Vulture is my planet-scanner) and I spec the iCourier for agility. After a few sorties in the iCourier, when I get into my Python to make some money trading and delivering cargo, it feels like I'm driving a school bus full of hippos. Even the Cobra feels sluggish by comparison.
I got my IC to nearly 500m/s (boost) and fitted it with 3 fixed beams (yeah.. lol) engineered to be efficient. It's not fully modded but it can stay on the tail of any large ship for long enough to actually kill it and in case of getting rekt it can just boost and get out of range in 10 seconds or less. I enjoy that ship quite a bit. I have Krait II for tanking though
@@Radovanslav Mine goes about 450 m/s and boosts to close to 650. I have to pull the throttle back to like 40% just to stay behind a Python or AspX in a dogfight. If someone manages to come to bear on me, I open up the throttle and park myself on their six again. So far, the only thing that can actually touch me are large laser turrets.
Yes! Refresh ship vids! Great job, I’m subbed!