Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Star Citizen

starting out in Star Citizen can be tough  you can get lost in the starting locations   and if you manage to make it to your ship  hanger once you kind of get out into space   it's hard to tell what you're even looking at  what should be prioritized and what should be   ignored and if those initial lessons that can  be the largest barrier from getting into Star   Citizen those first hours what you're trying  to figure out what it is you're doing these   are the tips that I wish I knew when I first  started playing Star Citizen things that I had   no reference for were so obscure I didn't even  know if it was something that could be Googled   or I've looked stupid for asking about my name's  Dave leader let's take a little Tippy too means [Music] now the first one is when you're claiming a  vehicle and you have the opportunity to pay   to have it expedited if it says that the expedited  time isn't instant then why bother paying for it   just yet don't just click on it and then pay  expedited fee wait until that time is up since   the amount that it costs keeps going down with  time and if you're going to wait that amount of   time anyway you might as well wait until it counts  down so you can get the cheapest price possible   sometimes when you're locked onto a location  that you want to Quantum to even though it   says that spooling is complete and it's all  calibrated it won't engage this happens quite   common probably every time you play and  the way to fix it is just look up so you   break a connection to it and then make  contact with it again and just rescore   that's it it'll probably happen almost  every time you play and instead of just   sitting there wondering why the button doesn't  work just break contact and then respool again   if you're likely to waste more time sitting  there wondering what the hell is going on now when you go to mining Outlets or any location  really that has loot when I first started looking   at these boxes I really was it Bamboozled what  I was looking at I couldn't tell if what I was   looking at was worth the London I should  be collecting it or just living it alone   so at these mining outposts essentially the  red boxes will always have armor pieces and   under suits but they're never really that  good but in these gray ones you'll see   all these different types of things in here  like clothing Foods weed fruit looking stuff   um if you click on filter you can kind of filter  through to see what all these are but the only   things that you really want are probably going  to be the the food and utility pieces these   like weird fruit looking things are actually  Commodities so you can't eat that melon looking   thing on this weird ball sack looking Beast is it  purely to sell at commodity kiosks so if you're   not interested in that sort of gameplay I just  sort of dump them and a good tip here when you're   looking at all these different food bars some  of these foods can dehydrate you meaning that if   you eat them your hydration level is going to go  down a quick way to tell which one's a witch are   if they're thin they're going to dehydrate you if  they're thick boys they'll be fine so just leave   the thin bars behind and pick all the thick ones  and you'll be good here's an example of the type   of things that I would take away from a mining  Outpost and the other things he saw I just left   them all behind every time I would have emptied  my inventory into the ship I'll usually take these   items out and keep with me a couple drinks maybe  a piece of food and any health items that I have be quite confusing looking at all these  markers in space but a good tip to know   is that if it says om and then a number that  means orbital marker and these are placed all   around the planet and they're purely just so  you can navigate around the planet you might   notice sometimes if you look into QT somewhere  a planet might be in the way of the location   and so you have to find your way to kind of get  around the planet or if you set a course you'll   often see that there's audible markers added  into the course destination other than that   these little kind of a square with a pointy bit  at the bottom that means that's a city location   so each main sort of Planet will have you know  say Louisville's a city in the city on Hurston   um Area 18 is the main city in our Corp all these  other ones around here all these little um I   don't know what that shape is called they're just  different points uh that you can jump to otherwise you see here Square markers are space  stations so above each main Planet there'll   usually be a space station and so if you're  looking at all these different blue markers   the ones to keep the key ones to know  are square ones at the space stations   and square with a little pointed  at the bottom are the main cities now I did a whole video on this but there  are farms on a lot of planets where if you   had to they're actually loot Farms you can  head directly there and they'll just be in   relatively good Loop just sitting around  on unprotected no NPCs will be there but   recently it does seem like they may have nerfed  the loot table for him I used to get a whole   bunch of guns and it was usually quite full  it's either that they've nerfed it or since   my last video they kind of got a little bit  popular and so they're often diluted by the   time you get there but they are a good source  of um getting Tiger Claws uh knives multi-tools   and multi-tool attachments those are found are  still there I don't know if that's that's the   majority of the loot you can find there now  or that's just the stuff that people leave   behind but hey yeah it's always important  to have a good ready source of Tiger Claws the next tip is crime is free well at  least if you turn the local comms around   see in the top right here there's that on the  top of my screen and probably in front of your   screen as well there's a little satellite looking  icon at the top right this means that the comma   Ray is active in the area that you're in and  that crimes can be reported but if you go to   your local comms array and you fly around so  it's I mean what do you call them wings look   flat uh you can move right up in on it it is a  protected area with turrets on top of it so if   you get close to these things they will fire  on you but I come into this angle where it's   flat here you see the turrets are actually on  top of this and so they can't hit me without   hitting the comma Ray itself so if you come in  sneaky like this you can head right in without   taking any damage there you go you can see the  the turret icon over there and they can't get me   so once you're out of your ship head in  this little on these little entrances here   and if you remember before I said the loot Farm  is about those Tiger Claws well this is what you   need them for one of one of the reasons because  you use them to hack uh certain computers in the   game so if I go up to this little console  here it's asking for uh maintenance it's a   maintenance control panel that's asking for a  pass key authorization but I'll select one of   my Tiger's claws here that I just grabbed at that  loot Farm and insert it into this little dock here and automatically the crypto key will initiate  and it's going to start hacking the system so   it's going to attempt to access the system here as  this bar fills up um at this point I really needs   to do anything um every now and then it will give  you this little like alert uh where the progress   will Halt and you've got like 90 seconds to click  continue but I mean it's pretty easy it doesn't   take very long to do just keep in mind that when  you do hack these there will be a mission being   sent out to other people saying that you know  this comrade is being hacked and there'll be   a bounty on them to stop it from being hacked  but you won't get a crime stat for doing this   um once that you've hacked in with that crypto  key you'll have the maintenance control access   and you can shut down the network in this area  which is essentially like around this planet uh   or on the planet and around in space and it could  do it with every planet and moon so once you've   done that as you can see the top right here I  don't have that satellite icon anymore let me   means I could kill someone or someone could kill  me and no one would get a crime stand for it so   you can go and straight up kill lawful security  guards and blow up other players and not get a   crime stuff I have to go to jail as long as you  take down that comma in the area and that'll stay   down until someone else gets back online next tip  here is that the only way to get extra space onto   a ship is to make large crates and the best way  to do that is to blow up your own ships as you   can see someone actually had done this right to  me doing it for the test for this video as you can   see there's Pisces here a very easy very good and  easy way of doing this is if you've got a Pisces   you fill it up with whatever kind of gear that you  can as much as possible take it out of a an arms   of Zone and sense to self-destruct and once that  bad boy blows up all the loot that was contained   inside of the ship will now be turned into these  little boxes so you can use a tractor beam and   take these boxes away and put them back on your  own ship and just use them as general storage   this is particularly handy for ships like the  Redeemer that I'm actually using at the moment   where it has a very very small internal amount of  space so having like a few of these on board is   really helpful uh and also because you can use  these crates uh to take into bunkers or other   missionaries and load them up with loot as you go  and so instead of having to only instead of only   being able to carry you know what you can carry  on you in your backpack you can carry a whole   lot more inside of these crates uh as long as you  bring them around with you can be quite precarious   you need to be able to fit them in corners but it  is a good way of getting the loot out of places as you can see here in the Redeemer  two sco crate which you get for   it's particularly you've got a lot of looting  but if you blow up you can get one of these   ones that's twice as the other one it fits  right there in that little cargo area well these smaller ones are the  better ones to be able to   take into bunkers as they're a lot  easier to sort of maneuver around you can see here I'm uh going into this  bunker to load up it's not the best with   like armor pieces because you can't access  the you know the dead person inventory and   the Box inventory at the same time to drag  them in when it comes to things like guns   um you can actually when you're in this mode  here when you're looking in the storage of   something you actually drag things that are on  the ground directly into the storage now so say   I've got these guns that are just sitting on the  ground here if I've got this box nearby I can just   drag and drop them in the box without having  to actually ever pick them up onto my person and his boxes now like guns don't weigh all  that much as well so this box is just loaded   with guns I don't know why it's doing this  little wobble but I like the fields because   knew how full of goodies it was and if you press X you'll lie down like this and  then if you press Q or e you'll learn your back   like this and then if you hold up and down on the  mouse it kind of looks like it's something you do and if you if you do it well enough you might get  people joining you as well that's always a bonus   so backpacks are actually Invincible as in boards  can't penetrate them so technically this outfit   I'm wearing here is the most defensible outfit you  could wear in the game it's the largest backpack   you can have and if you're holding one in front  of yourself where you get one behind you you've   essentially got two indestructible shields on  either side of him another tip here is these   small Fighters which usually wouldn't have uh  an inventory of their own now do uh when you   hover over the entry button you'll now see an open  storage button so I'm gonna Chuck this uh backpack   in here and we're going to test out exactly how  uh Invincible you can be with these backpacks   I've seen people do tests with these before or  they've just had like friends shoot them and they   don't do any damage but I've never seen anyone  actually try to like go into a bunker with them   so let's just do this let's just do a little bit  of science quickly I'm gonna head in here and I'm   gonna have a big backpack on my back a big pack  in front of me let's just see if I head real deep   in here how long I can kind of survive I've got a  bounty here for someone I'm supposed to take out   um this is actually the same bunkers in previously  so you may notice these dead bodies look pretty   similar I'm hoping that uh they're still just dead  there's no way they can still be dead but I mean I   can't see anyone around here there's got to be  people spawn doing I just don't see them again yeah these are all I missed these guns last  time that's where I was loading those in before still don't see anyone keep talking wait hold this [ __ ] hold up like a shield right am I dead I'm alive sucked in oh [ __ ] uh run run  I don't have my shield there's nothing you   guys I don't have my backpack Shield  a cocktail and I tried to kill myself   as a guy supposed to kill hey hey  come here I got a message for you there you go Mission complaint  uh you know so I'm just tramps   yeah okay boom standing around guys hello and he's a it's time for another tip if you wanna  if you wanna wear the inventory of a dead body   that's around it's easy to Chuck everything on  at once if you are naked all you gotta do is   with anything on walk up just a body gotta loot  it then you can just double click or drag the   undersuit on and it'll bring everything that's  attached to that body with you that's important   where if you go down and you're trying you know  you revive and you want to get back to where your   body was to save all your gear uh it's a good  thing to like you know clear out as many people   in that area as possible and want to think it's  safe strip down run up to your body as fast as   possible click Loot and then drag everything and  then get back to safety and just sort of regroup   and make sure you're ready to go and not being  shot at all right I think I could hear someone   in here but I'm just gonna Bolt it's mine now  I got my my shield backpack okay yeah we could you know what I mean kind of seems like we  stuffed that up but I didn't I I didn't die   the backpack trick what look at that there's  only there really is just like a small amount   of space to get hit fryer I mean look yeah I was  shot and everything but hey I did pretty good   and if you forget the keys to your car a or  spaceship a gun works just as well and this   is how Pirates will be gaining in true to your  ship as well because while you can't open the   doors of someone else's ship if you just do  enough damage to them then eventually they   will just automatically open and so that's how  you get ordered by other people yep there we go uh next tip here I'm gonna go to a website here  called local dot games and in this area you can   pick a ship that you want to fit out and you can  look at all the different components that will   fit that ship so here I'm looking at uh Quantum  drives I'm gonna sort them by grade so the top   ones and and it's Echo attached which has 100 max  speed and quite a large distance but this TS2 has   twice the amount of speed and still a good amount  of distance so let's say I want that one uh I want   to get a couple f r 86 shields on here which  have a better full charge time and more health   as you're doing you can see on the right here how  much electricity or how much heat your system will   be generating and if as long as it's not like  maxing out any of those then you don't really   have to worry about changing or upgrading your  power or cooling system as long as everything   that you've when you've changed here and sort of  loaded it out is within means then it's all good   so you can see here which guns uh the  the range the amount of damage they do   um how much power that they um draw or how much  they like raise your em signature or IR a lot of   these uh different things will change the Heats  and electricity output of your ship you can see   here the em and IR ones and uh that essentially  means like how much more of a Target you'll be   like when you'll pop on someone else's radar or  when you um when a missile is coming after you if   it's like an electric or a heat uh based missile  so once you've got everything you want click uh   non-stock items the card and when you get a little  card up here it's actually going to make a little   shopping list for you of all the items that you  selected that you wanted on your ship and it   will say where you can get them from how much  all the pieces are going to cost and what the   total is So this is a great tool for uh setting  up you know what you want your ship to look like   um you know when it's and it's at its peak you can  set it all out here and then you'll have a goal   of how much money you need to make in the verse  and where to go get these pieces to upgrade it   I recommend starting with a QT Drive um because  that'll make getting around the entire verse a   lot faster and will speed the whole thing up now  this website here is another one I'd like to use   for cargo trading and just ship information so  for instance here basically we sit here that I   want to buy and sell medical supplies in a in my  A2 Hercules star lifter uh I want to buy them at   Deacon's research for 16.05 and 7 bajini for  19.35 it'll tell you how much money you need   to invest and how much profit you'd make from this  cargo trip and from here it lets you know you know   what's kind of worth it what's a bit risky and  what's not even worth kind of buying it to do it   and on this ship page here it actually has a list  of all the ships in game uh how much they cost   thing in real world money uh how much they cost  in the game how much you can rent them in game or   not uh it'll even have the SCU like capacity  of how much they can carry and it also have   if cig made like a commercial for it or if they  made a special website or a brochure for it you   can actually click and it will take you directly  to the official brochure so you can really find   um like great background on on the ships  uh including like things that they may   eventually have that may not be in the game yet  uh if you weren't around for when something was   concepted this is all the material that came  out when uh they were first sort of offered   so you can find out where the ship is what it  was supposed to be or where it may be kind of   going really well by looking at this ship  I think these two websites really just you   know when when used correctly they'll you'll  get as much information as anyone uh else in   the verse has on these ships you'll  be a pro in no time trust me [Music] and I recently just started a patreon so I wanted  to thank my wall of Legends Zale Ray I once saw   you in a bar and you kicked my ass uh when I came  up say hey but you were really nice at the end and   I'll always respect you for how forgiving you were  of my presence Jaden oh my God I once saw you slam   dunk a basketball so hard that the the whole call  it exploited Mark Rowley man Rosie Rosie Posey you   you you're right up there you're right next to  little terry you're my big Terry sexy Russell   oh my god I've I've seen a lot of sexy wrestles  in my time and trust me they all look like dog   [ __ ] compared to you drug lord Frain oh you  have some of the finest drugs that I've ever had   the privilege sample and Peril where I once saw  Terrell they eat a kangaroo up 50 kangaroos up and   they all later died from complications my name's  dead leader I'll see you out there in the verse

Channel: DedLeader

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Keywords: star citizen, CIG, Robert Space Industries, RSI, tips, things I wish I knew, how to, navigate space, comm array

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Length: 23min 12sec (1392 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 07 2023