1) Terrapin also has a good capacitor, so while the guns are only size 2s, they also can shoot about 125 shots each before recharging I think. Also has 3 coolers so overheating should never be an issue. 2) The gun rack has enough spaces to fully arm 2 people with 2 rifles, 1 pistol, 1 multitool, and 1 medical gun each, so once the unique radar scanner works then it's a reliable little ship for a couple explorers.
During one patch 3.10 maybe,, you could swap out the scanner turret for a two size 2 turret and control for the 4 guns from pilot. The turret had over 200 shots. Yeah, it was bad ass!
This ship is well-liked by many players, but it would have been so much more popular if it had cost $150-$180 instead of $220. Apart from its price, it's a great little ship!
I agree, if it was priced a bit more affordably, it would definitely have more backers! I’m curious if the price reflects the intended utility once its supporting gameplay loops are introduced 🤔
Despite the cost, I'm upgrading my Sabre and melting my Titan during Invictus. I really miss it after the last wipe. It will be worth it. I still have a Defender to fill in for the Sabre. 🙂
i'm noticing that most ships that brag about armor in their marketing are priced noticeably higher than what seem like their competitors. there are a few exceptions though such as the Cutter, Caterpillar, Nomad, and Legionnaire.
It's ability to vent heat by opening it's armor and then slow it's release by closing the armor it's going to be one of the best picket ships. You can watch over a group of miners or salvagers, staying out of sensor sight as much as possible while listening for any incoming ships. You can watch and listen further than the miners will and be able to alert them when to get packing, call in reinforcements, and directing allies to targets. It's one of those ships that will have more to do when all those features are implemented, but not much to do now sadly.
I didn’t realize it had that armor venting feature to lower its sig, but that’s very cool! It’ll be an invaluable scout and reconnaissance ship to coordinate tactics from, once we have the supporting gameplay for it to really shine that is!
@@ViciDeum Aye, it's one of the reasons I got it. You can see the plates open when it's landing gear is deployed. One of those features that's not in the game yet, the heat venting, but you can see kind of how it would work. Well, that and full sensor gameplay, signature management, and a few other things. But that's how it goes in Star Citizen. XD
I’d love to see this get a variant with medical systems, I know we already have the cutty red and the Apollo and not the Pisces medical but still, It Looks kinda like an AV-4 and with it’s armour and interior soace it would be brilliant as a combat medic ship especially with the strong VTOL thrusters and smaller size
I agree, it would seem to fit the design styling of the Terrapin well, and play to the strengths of the ship! I hope they decide to do a medical variant for it 👍
@@ViciDeum bro how do you respond to EVERYONE????? Like bravo for the community dedication and interaction but holy shit my guy you need to take a vacation and take some you time cuz you clearly communicate with your community TOO much hahahah
@@pandemoniumcrow Hahaha, not at all! I enjoy getting the chance to touch base with people who comment, and love sharing in the engagement/dialogue! While it can be hard sometimes, I just schedule time to respond back throughout the day and try and touch base on it intermittently 😁👍
@@ViciDeum then I gotta tell you man, keep up the great work, you’re probably one of the best SC UA-camrs I’ve interacted with and I’ll continue supporting you man!
Just watched your 5 uses video. Great info, thank you. I still dont know how the scanners are going to work but look forward to running it, now to see if it fits in a carrack landing bay
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed this video! I'm really curious to see how scanning expands in the future as well. But sadly this is a bit too big for the Carrack; I like your thinking though!
I keep coming back to look at the Terrapin. Deep inside I want one, but even though I am trudging through to Space Marshal I just never seem to be able to justify it with cash or even with aUEC. I think the only way it is going to find it's way into my fleet prior to scanning/data running would be a best in show.
Those are excellent points, and I think a lot more utility would have to get added to the Terrapin (or supporting gameplay loops) before this ship gets added to my fleet. But if it does become an invaluable pathfinder, I’ll have to give it another consideration!
If modularity was in the game allowing for the scanner and seat to be replaced with a turret, the rear compartment to be changed to a small cargo grid, or space to put a small ground vehicle or a couple pods for live bounties. Put in a few more seats sacrifice some of that quantum fuel for more air to transport a special ops insertion team. upgrade the scanner to be a jammer, blocking or scrambling enemy ships or give it the capability to target for torpedoes off of an eclipse and to pick up stealth ships. Things I would love to see included not only for the Terrapin but other ships. kind of how they do the Titan, 'Cutty, i100,i300 series of ships. Same chasse but with a variety of internals to focus on one profession or the other, to at least let a player the option of a different and not some game breaking change. but for now, it is my favorite ship frame without a functional game loop. The price is clearly ridiculous for the ship type, functionality, and size. like the blade, the pricing is clearly used to keep the ship out of the game as much as possible. the blade being an alien fighter ship is light, under gunned, lower performance capabilities and hugely more expensive than ANY other in its class. The Terrapin is priced, even by the lore, way above what it should be and made difficult to get. As a ship made for the wars that are no longer out there the manufacturer would have dropped the price and at least attempted to convert or made a convertion for the ship available to get them into the market, but nope, just create more luxury yacht types and gimmicky ships to put out there for multi crew roles and elite players, don't expand the availability of entry or even second tier solo casual player base.
These are some excellent points and the Terrapin is a really cool ship without much purpose, and an extremely high price tag. I hope they come to expand its utility with supporting gameplay soon, and really hope they look to add other useful modules for this ship as well!
I've used it at JT, Tanky, can hover for literal hours, weapons rack, bed, enough room for an scu box. Looking forward to getting the mighty space turtle back at IAE.
Hahaha, ain’t nothing wrong with that, especially with its limited use currently. And congratulations on the BMM pickup, that’s one hell of an upgrade!
@@ViciDeum especially considering that it was the 2018 exploration pack: Carrack, Dur, Terrapin, Dragonfly, and Cyclone RN for $695. Talk about a Coup. Terrapin -> BMM +$130 DUR - > Corsair I think I had some Warbond CCUs to bring it down to about +$70. RN - > Nomad I think was $5 or $10. At under $1000 I'm sitting on a BMM, Carrack expedition, Pisces expedition, Corsair, Nomad, and LTI token Dragonfly (which I think will become an M2 after a few more Warbond CCUs at IAE.
Honestly would make sense with a dropship variant as well replacing the single censor seat with a couple of dropseats and possibly adding a side door on the other side similar to the cutlass
I love the idea of a Trauma Team Terrapin! The name has such a great ring to it alone haha. Just swap the bed and bathroom for a medical bed and you’re in business!
My favorite ship. I use her to do bunkers often, especially when the turrets bug out and try to shoot my down. She can take the hits and tuck in behind the building quickly.
@@keys299 I’d go with the Titan personally, for its more affordable purchase price and overall utility. I’d go for the Terrapin only when supporting gameplay comes to bolster its usefulness, and only in tandem with a specific pathfinding use. For the price of a Terrapin, I’d much prefer buying a Constellation, a Defender or for a bit more, a Corsair!
Thing deserves a combat dropship or medical variant. It looks so amazing, it would be far more useful and could easily outperform the pisces rescue and cutlass red
it’s a shame that this great looking hull is just relegated to a very narrow and non existent role in sc. would love a cargo hauling or a turreted version for this hull. great vid
Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed this video! And I agree completely, it’s really unfortunate the Terrapin doesn’t have the corresponding gameplay to make it worthwhile atm, but really hoping we get those features implemented soon!
The 220 USD price tag for the pledge version is intriguing. I feel like when its game loop is released the terrapin will be the "better" version of the Drake Herald since they both fill the same role but the other is 3x the price. CIG pledge prices reflect how much uec you can earn in-game.
When is it available though for USD, IAE or the one in spring covering just military ships? I am not in game so don't see that uec price anytime on vids or shorts as no one seems to even think about it even with listing ships to buy or not it tends to get ignored or glossed over.
@@Volf1916 It’ll be available for cash during IAE in a few weeks! And it’s in-game for 4.5 million aUEC. Also, if you go to the site “erkul.games” you can find every ships in game price, where it’s purchasable, and additional customization options, I highly recommend! I only don’t list prices because they tend to fluctuate over time!
@@Derzull2468 It's part of the "data" profession hence it's the same gameplay loop. also a year late but ok had to comment lol. The MSR is also part of this gameplay loop, that wasn't even mentioned at CItcon so it hella matters.
That’s true, once stealth mechanics come into play it could be useful as a dropship! Although with force reactions and a lack of multiple jump seats, it would have to be a smaller squad, unless they open up a more dedicated variant for it🤞
That's a great question! Unfortunately the scanner, along with the rest of the Terrapin's features aren't currently working as designed. The Terrapin currently has a size 2 scanner, which while helpful, will likely be buffed in the future to align it more closely with its intended utility!
@@ViciDeum I found its quite tanky doing some bounty missions, it can hold up quite well against medium to heavy fighter ship like hornets and hurricane (but NPC of course not players), the ship just got some minor scratch and that's about it, at one time one of the ship kinda rammed me to the sides, i thought my ship was going to explode , but it didnt, and only the enemy ship got destroyed lol but it did take quite a while to take down enemy ships especially if its not light fighter ( medium and heavy ones), due to guns been only size 2.
Hum still not sure about this ship. Problem right now is they did not implamant armor so….. but later for scooting or scan hostile in a squad org yes could work let see what in the futur will become scanning spécialise . Ps by the way link discord out to date can’t join 😉
I feel similarly and think the Terrapin is in a strange place atm, although it will definitely get more attention as features are added to support its utility! And my apologies, I’m not sure what happened to the links but I’ve fixed them on all my videos, and they should work now! Thank you for bringing that to my attention 😁👍
I definitely had to dive into the dev Q&A along with SC’s projected features, since it lacks a lot of utility it in the current game. But I think it’ll be useful once features come to support it!
The biggest problem with buying the Terrapin with real money is the question: "Do I really trust CIG to finally follow through with implementing it's designed purpose anytime soon?" The MSR has been out for 4 years, the Terrapin for 3 years. Proper scanning/data mining is STILL not in the game. CIG has a nasty habit of introducing ideas or half-baked ships and then never returning to finish the job. The Polaris sat on the shelf for 7 years before they finally decided to try and make it. The Endeavor is still waiting. Even worse, once CIG decides to start working on a ship for game feature, it takes them years to create it. Bear that in mind when thinking about this ship as CIG hasn't really even talked about data running in a long time.
I love how she looks and flies, also the theme of "not really much firepower but very tanky" give it character. However in the current game, as sad as it is for me to admit that... This ship is garbage. It has 0 scu, then i thougt i use it for ground missions with its weapon racks, but first of all the weapon racks seem bugged, second the internal storage is not even enough to store the loot of 10 NPC-s And i once lost ONE of the four side engines and the ship instantly becomes unflyable. I just got shot to death by the few npc ships around as i just couldn't escape or fly literally anywhere anymore
I completely agree, and really hope the introduction of armor or another system breathes new life into this ship. Because it's really cool aside from it and deserves the love!
It’s a really cool design with a ton of potential, but I absolutely agree that it’s overpriced for its current utility. And a dedicated medical variant would be an amazing addition I really hope they consider 🤞
The ONLY thing this ship currently has is "potential". As it stands now, it is one of the most useless ships in the game. No storage, no firepower, and poor range for being called a "pathfinder"
I agree, the Terrapin really comes up short in the current game. But I think after a polish pass, armor implementation and further exploration improvements, this ship will finally offer a lot more value in that "pathfinding" niche!
@@ViciDeum it was one of the OG ships I always wanted. And then it finally came, and I was really disappointed. Even though it really has no use and a lot of the interior is difficult to use due to huge detection boxes, i still try to make it work while bunker running with 2SCU boxes.
1) Terrapin also has a good capacitor, so while the guns are only size 2s, they also can shoot about 125 shots each before recharging I think. Also has 3 coolers so overheating should never be an issue.
2) The gun rack has enough spaces to fully arm 2 people with 2 rifles, 1 pistol, 1 multitool, and 1 medical gun each, so once the unique radar scanner works then it's a reliable little ship for a couple explorers.
Great capacitors and auto gimbals on the pilot guns! And that gun rack is one of the more robust ones I’ve seen in game yet 👍
Aside from the single bed
@SphenForTheWin can anyone say hot bunking?
During one patch 3.10 maybe,, you could swap out the scanner turret for a two size 2 turret and control for the 4 guns from pilot. The turret had over 200 shots. Yeah, it was bad ass!
@@chrishoppner150 real, real weak explanation
This ship is well-liked by many players, but it would have been so much more popular if it had cost $150-$180 instead of $220. Apart from its price, it's a great little ship!
I agree, if it was priced a bit more affordably, it would definitely have more backers! I’m curious if the price reflects the intended utility once its supporting gameplay loops are introduced 🤔
Despite the cost, I'm upgrading my Sabre and melting my Titan during Invictus. I really miss it after the last wipe. It will be worth it. I still have a Defender to fill in for the Sabre. 🙂
It would be even more popular at $5. Or you could just buy it in game, it's a small ship and will cost next to nothing like all the other small ships.
If you play the CCU game... It can drop to around 150
i'm noticing that most ships that brag about armor in their marketing are priced noticeably higher than what seem like their competitors. there are a few exceptions though such as the Cutter, Caterpillar, Nomad, and Legionnaire.
The lore also mentioned the Terrapin being the Marine’s preferred troop-carrier-dropship. I wonder if anyone has tried that in game yet
I didn’t know that, but that’s interesting! I personally prefer to use ships with size 3 shields, but the Terrapin does have a good amount of hull hp!
It's ability to vent heat by opening it's armor and then slow it's release by closing the armor it's going to be one of the best picket ships. You can watch over a group of miners or salvagers, staying out of sensor sight as much as possible while listening for any incoming ships. You can watch and listen further than the miners will and be able to alert them when to get packing, call in reinforcements, and directing allies to targets. It's one of those ships that will have more to do when all those features are implemented, but not much to do now sadly.
I didn’t realize it had that armor venting feature to lower its sig, but that’s very cool! It’ll be an invaluable scout and reconnaissance ship to coordinate tactics from, once we have the supporting gameplay for it to really shine that is!
@@ViciDeum Aye, it's one of the reasons I got it. You can see the plates open when it's landing gear is deployed. One of those features that's not in the game yet, the heat venting, but you can see kind of how it would work. Well, that and full sensor gameplay, signature management, and a few other things. But that's how it goes in Star Citizen. XD
I loved this intro to the ship. It was refreshing compared to many others. Well done!
Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed this!
I’d love to see this get a variant with medical systems, I know we already have the cutty red and the Apollo and not the Pisces medical but still, It Looks kinda like an AV-4 and with it’s armour and interior soace it would be brilliant as a combat medic ship especially with the strong VTOL thrusters and smaller size
I agree, it would seem to fit the design styling of the Terrapin well, and play to the strengths of the ship! I hope they decide to do a medical variant for it 👍
@@ViciDeum bro how do you respond to EVERYONE?????
Like bravo for the community dedication and interaction but holy shit my guy you need to take a vacation and take some you time cuz you clearly communicate with your community TOO much hahahah
@@pandemoniumcrow Hahaha, not at all! I enjoy getting the chance to touch base with people who comment, and love sharing in the engagement/dialogue! While it can be hard sometimes, I just schedule time to respond back throughout the day and try and touch base on it intermittently 😁👍
@@ViciDeum then I gotta tell you man, keep up the great work, you’re probably one of the best SC UA-camrs I’ve interacted with and I’ll continue supporting you man!
@@pandemoniumcrow I will! And thank you, I appreciate your kind words of support!
Just watched your 5 uses video. Great info, thank you. I still dont know how the scanners are going to work but look forward to running it, now to see if it fits in a carrack landing bay
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed this video! I'm really curious to see how scanning expands in the future as well. But sadly this is a bit too big for the Carrack; I like your thinking though!
I keep coming back to look at the Terrapin. Deep inside I want one, but even though I am trudging through to Space Marshal I just never seem to be able to justify it with cash or even with aUEC. I think the only way it is going to find it's way into my fleet prior to scanning/data running would be a best in show.
Those are excellent points, and I think a lot more utility would have to get added to the Terrapin (or supporting gameplay loops) before this ship gets added to my fleet. But if it does become an invaluable pathfinder, I’ll have to give it another consideration!
Exciting future for the Terrapin; thanks for the steadfast enthusiasm!
It really is, and I can’t wait to see this ship grow with the gameplay! And thank you so much, I’m glad you’ve been enjoying my content 😁👍
If modularity was in the game allowing for the scanner and seat to be replaced with a turret, the rear compartment to be changed to a small cargo grid, or space to put a small ground vehicle or a couple pods for live bounties. Put in a few more seats sacrifice some of that quantum fuel for more air to transport a special ops insertion team.
upgrade the scanner to be a jammer, blocking or scrambling enemy ships or give it the capability to target for torpedoes off of an eclipse and to pick up stealth ships.
Things I would love to see included not only for the Terrapin but other ships. kind of how they do the Titan, 'Cutty, i100,i300 series of ships. Same chasse but with a variety of internals to focus on one profession or the other, to at least let a player the option of a different and not some game breaking change.
but for now, it is my favorite ship frame without a functional game loop.
The price is clearly ridiculous for the ship type, functionality, and size. like the blade, the pricing is clearly used to keep the ship out of the game as much as possible.
the blade being an alien fighter ship is light, under gunned, lower performance capabilities and hugely more expensive than ANY other in its class.
The Terrapin is priced, even by the lore, way above what it should be and made difficult to get. As a ship made for the wars that are no longer out there the manufacturer would have dropped the price and at least attempted to convert or made a convertion for the ship available to get them into the market, but nope, just create more luxury yacht types and gimmicky ships to put out there for multi crew roles and elite players, don't expand the availability of entry or even second tier solo casual player base.
These are some excellent points and the Terrapin is a really cool ship without much purpose, and an extremely high price tag. I hope they come to expand its utility with supporting gameplay soon, and really hope they look to add other useful modules for this ship as well!
I've used it at JT, Tanky, can hover for literal hours, weapons rack, bed, enough room for an scu box. Looking forward to getting the mighty space turtle back at IAE.
Good to know it holds up well at JT, those shields and armor definitely give it good staying power!
I love this ship! It’s my daily driver for deliveries. I love ships with VTOL. It flys so good too! 😀
It’s an awesome ship and really cool! I’m just looking forward to more utility behind its scanner and armor plating!
Great review! Thank you! I'm doing some upgrading and melting to get this ship again at Invictus.
You're welcome, and good luck on the pickup! And thanks for taking the time to share your feedback, I really appreciate it!
I got an Anvil paperweight in an exploration pack. Upgraded it to BMM just as fast as I could
Hahaha, ain’t nothing wrong with that, especially with its limited use currently. And congratulations on the BMM pickup, that’s one hell of an upgrade!
@@ViciDeum especially considering that it was the 2018 exploration pack: Carrack, Dur, Terrapin, Dragonfly, and Cyclone RN for $695.
Talk about a Coup. Terrapin -> BMM +$130
DUR - > Corsair I think I had some Warbond CCUs to bring it down to about +$70.
RN - > Nomad I think was $5 or $10.
At under $1000 I'm sitting on a BMM, Carrack expedition, Pisces expedition, Corsair, Nomad, and LTI token Dragonfly (which I think will become an M2 after a few more Warbond CCUs at IAE.
Honestly would make sense with a dropship variant as well replacing the single censor seat with a couple of dropseats and possibly adding a side door on the other side similar to the cutlass
A Terrapin dropship is a great idea, even swapping out the bed and bathroom alone could add a few extra seats to it!
Still need a trauma team style medical variant for the terrapin
I love the idea of a Trauma Team Terrapin! The name has such a great ring to it alone haha. Just swap the bed and bathroom for a medical bed and you’re in business!
Might add it back into the fleet during IAE.
It’s really tempting! At least grab a CCU 😉👍
3 key features it needs to be added ingame ASAP, scanners, Hull armor, heat signatures
Absolutely agreed! And sadly the Terrapin is awaiting all three before it really shines in game!
My favorite ship. I use her to do bunkers often, especially when the turrets bug out and try to shoot my down. She can take the hits and tuck in behind the building quickly.
It’s crazy how tanky the Terrapin is! Not only it’s twin shields but the strong armor and high hull HP!
How would you compare this to the avenger titan? I know it doesn’t have a use right now but I like the fact the terrapin has a bathroom.
@@keys299 I’d go with the Titan personally, for its more affordable purchase price and overall utility. I’d go for the Terrapin only when supporting gameplay comes to bolster its usefulness, and only in tandem with a specific pathfinding use. For the price of a Terrapin, I’d much prefer buying a Constellation, a Defender or for a bit more, a Corsair!
@@ViciDeum Thanks for the insight! I’m leaning more towards that way now.
@@keys299 You’re welcome, happy to help!
Thing deserves a combat dropship or medical variant. It looks so amazing, it would be far more useful and could easily outperform the pisces rescue and cutlass red
I completely agree, and think the Terrapin has a ton of potential for other amazing variants!
Plz don’t stop making videos bro😍
Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you've enjoyed my content! And the videos will keep coming!
it’s a shame that this great looking hull is just relegated to a very narrow and non existent role in sc. would love a cargo hauling or a turreted version for this hull. great vid
Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed this video! And I agree completely, it’s really unfortunate the Terrapin doesn’t have the corresponding gameplay to make it worthwhile atm, but really hoping we get those features implemented soon!
I would use it, small cargo haul, hand mining, rescue, investigation missions.
In lore there is a CAS Evac and a drop ship variant so hopefully some day.
@@ElijahNMitchell I didn’t know that, but those would be cool variants!
@@Volf1916 And the Terrapin is a great ship for those roles!
One of my most prized ships.
Congrats on the pickup, the Terrapin is one tanky turtle! It’ll be a great exploration addition once supporting features are implemented!
The 220 USD price tag for the pledge version is intriguing. I feel like when its game loop is released the terrapin will be the "better" version of the Drake Herald since they both fill the same role but the other is 3x the price. CIG pledge prices reflect how much uec you can earn in-game.
That’s a good way to put it, and I’m curious to see how its appreciation and recognition will change as gameplay systems supporting it are introduced!
When is it available though for USD, IAE or the one in spring covering just military ships? I am not in game so don't see that uec price anytime on vids or shorts as no one seems to even think about it even with listing ships to buy or not it tends to get ignored or glossed over.
@@Volf1916 It’ll be available for cash during IAE in a few weeks! And it’s in-game for 4.5 million aUEC. Also, if you go to the site “erkul.games” you can find every ships in game price, where it’s purchasable, and additional customization options, I highly recommend! I only don’t list prices because they tend to fluctuate over time!
The herald shares nothing in common. The herald hacks or intercepts data and runs as fast as possible. The terrapin gather said data.
@@Derzull2468 It's part of the "data" profession hence it's the same gameplay loop. also a year late but ok had to comment lol. The MSR is also part of this gameplay loop, that wasn't even mentioned at CItcon so it hella matters.
Suggestion for the next Best Uses video: Valkyrie!
That’s an excellent suggestion, thanks for the recommendation! Keep an eye out for that video in the near future 😎👍
Very promising little ship. Too bad neither armor nor long range scanning are implemented yet. As always, love to hear your takes on ships.
Agreed! The Terrapin has a ton of potential, but it’s atoll awaiting supporting features to be implemented before it really shines!
I just love the look of this ship.
It’s got a really cool design, I definitely like the armored space turtle vibes!
Holy sht this thing looks so cool, I need one.
It really is a cool ship! While it lacks a lot of gameplay currently, it’ll be really useful once supporting features are added!
You forgot dropship. Not only is it tanks, it's stealthy too.
That’s true, once stealth mechanics come into play it could be useful as a dropship! Although with force reactions and a lack of multiple jump seats, it would have to be a smaller squad, unless they open up a more dedicated variant for it🤞
Does it actually have a longer range scanner than normal ships (CURRENTLY IN GAME)?
That's a great question! Unfortunately the scanner, along with the rest of the Terrapin's features aren't currently working as designed. The Terrapin currently has a size 2 scanner, which while helpful, will likely be buffed in the future to align it more closely with its intended utility!
@@ViciDeum Thats all i needed to know, wont waste my aUEC ;)
@@ColTeH Happy to help! And I recommend buying in-game or asking someone in chat for a loaner to test out!
terrapin does look like trauma team ship from Cyberpunk
It really does! Here's to hoping we get a medical Terrapin variant!
@@ViciDeum I found its quite tanky doing some bounty missions, it can hold up quite well against medium to heavy fighter ship like hornets and hurricane (but NPC of course not players), the ship just got some minor scratch and that's about it, at one time one of the ship kinda rammed me to the sides, i thought my ship was going to explode , but it didnt, and only the enemy ship got destroyed lol
but it did take quite a while to take down enemy ships especially if its not light fighter ( medium and heavy ones), due to guns been only size 2.
you forgot that it is really good for things like jumptown and ghost hallow
I almost exclusively rely on ships with large shield generators for these types of events, but the Terrapin does have some high hull hp!
Does the long range scanning currently work ?
This ship is sooo sexy! I love the looks of it. Just not the use. But I always get giddy when I see on in the verse!
It’s such a great looking ship with a really cool design, I just hope it’s utility comes to match its aesthetics soon!
Hum still not sure about this ship. Problem right now is they did not implamant armor so….. but later for scooting or scan hostile in a squad org yes could work let see what in the futur will become scanning spécialise . Ps by the way link discord out to date can’t join 😉
It’s a ship that the average org may ignore while larger well organized orgs will use to a decided advantage. Not a ship to be underestimated.
I feel similarly and think the Terrapin is in a strange place atm, although it will definitely get more attention as features are added to support its utility!
And my apologies, I’m not sure what happened to the links but I’ve fixed them on all my videos, and they should work now! Thank you for bringing that to my attention 😁👍
Making this thing seem useful is quite a task
I definitely had to dive into the dev Q&A along with SC’s projected features, since it lacks a lot of utility it in the current game. But I think it’ll be useful once features come to support it!
When is the turtle going to get some livery love
That’s a great question! Hopefully sometime soon, the turtle could definitely use some livery love ❤️
As with every ole ship - this one needs an urgent internal rework. =)
SC ships do often fall into that cycle, although the Terrapin isn’t as bad as most!
@@ViciDeumI guess. Just needs to get a bit more... comfortable in there. Drake is bypassing Anvil in amenities these days ^^
@Winter X at least it has a shoilet
The biggest problem with buying the Terrapin with real money is the question: "Do I really trust CIG to finally follow through with implementing it's designed purpose anytime soon?" The MSR has been out for 4 years, the Terrapin for 3 years. Proper scanning/data mining is STILL not in the game.
CIG has a nasty habit of introducing ideas or half-baked ships and then never returning to finish the job. The Polaris sat on the shelf for 7 years before they finally decided to try and make it. The Endeavor is still waiting. Even worse, once CIG decides to start working on a ship for game feature, it takes them years to create it. Bear that in mind when thinking about this ship as CIG hasn't really even talked about data running in a long time.
A s2 quantum drive away from being the most popular ship in the game.
Although it’s got really good quantum capacity for a small ship!
@@ViciDeum the speed. an xl1 will get you across stanton in a third of the time any s1 will. give the terrapin a s2 qdrive and it warrants 4 variants.
we need a medical variant
This would be a perfect stand-in for Star Citizen’s Trauma Team!
I love how she looks and flies, also the theme of "not really much firepower but very tanky" give it character.
However in the current game, as sad as it is for me to admit that... This ship is garbage. It has 0 scu, then i thougt i use it for ground missions with its weapon racks, but first of all the weapon racks seem bugged, second the internal storage is not even enough to store the loot of 10 NPC-s
And i once lost ONE of the four side engines and the ship instantly becomes unflyable. I just got shot to death by the few npc ships around as i just couldn't escape or fly literally anywhere anymore
I completely agree, and really hope the introduction of armor or another system breathes new life into this ship. Because it's really cool aside from it and deserves the love!
I really like the ship, but it's so very overpriced. If they had a medical evac variant I'd own one in an instant though.
It’s a really cool design with a ton of potential, but I absolutely agree that it’s overpriced for its current utility. And a dedicated medical variant would be an amazing addition I really hope they consider 🤞
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The ONLY thing this ship currently has is "potential". As it stands now, it is one of the most useless ships in the game. No storage, no firepower, and poor range for being called a "pathfinder"
I agree, the Terrapin really comes up short in the current game. But I think after a polish pass, armor implementation and further exploration improvements, this ship will finally offer a lot more value in that "pathfinding" niche!
@@ViciDeum it was one of the OG ships I always wanted. And then it finally came, and I was really disappointed. Even though it really has no use and a lot of the interior is difficult to use due to huge detection boxes, i still try to make it work while bunker running with 2SCU boxes.