A couple things worth mentioning… 1st, if you are unsure if you want one or not, there is a $5.00 usd (Valkyrie to Galaxy) CCU available for the next couple of days through IAE. That is a very cheap way to lock in a Galaxy at concept pricing for later. If you decide against it you can always melt the CCU for store credit. 2nd, not many people are talking about the fact that CIG also pretty much committed to a Manufacturing module as well as others for the Galaxy. Outside of the Pioneer, this is the only other ship where that’s been mentioned afaik.
Yeah, the $5 CCU is probably the best option for everyone. Currently the RSI Galaxy is in a weird spot where it doesn't really make much sense. It's not flexible nor multirole while other ships offer better functionality and often for less money. So let's see where CIG plans to take it.
The one screenshot I saw of the rear bay being a hangar with a C8R ambulance 100% sold me on the ship. I absolutely love it I just wish I could afford it! I'd have to melt everything I have to get it and then I still wouldn't have the Ambulance to complete that dream. Been waiting for a hospital that is smaller than the Hope for a while. Definitely looking forward to getting it in game for sure!
I think it has to be the Corsair, the MSR is great but getting in and out is painful. Connie handles rough in atmosphere, 400i firepower is below average but shields are amazing.
Just wanted to let you know that I very much appreciate your ship "reviews". I find yours some of the most informative videos existing, spoken with a very soothing tone! Please keep them coming!
Super pumped for this ship, fits alongside my RSI shill fleet of Polaris and Perseus. Hopefully the galaxy will arrive in game prior to the Polaris and Perseus, on a relatively quick timescale for its size - it fills a lot of the current gameplay loops, so it would fit in pretty well as soon as ship refineries and tractor beams are in.
I want to expand on that and maybe include a XXS mining vesslel that's equipped with 2 saddlebags, allowing the Galaxy to stay out longer on mining trips
We know the Apollo has space for 3 S3, 2 S2 or 1 S1 bed for each side, so I expect the galaxy to have a similar arrangement or, possibly slightly better but not by much. From the pictures I'd guess 2 carracks equivalent.
Actually Law is correct, T2 beds can and will continue to be able to support respawn. It’s the T3 beds that lost the respawn ability. For reference please read their (CIG’s) Hospitals and Healing article from when they introduced medical in patch 3.15.
@@deltaecho2621 I heard, when they removed spawning from the Cutlass red, that the Carrick would have it temporarily. But it would eventually be limited to T1
Incorrect John Crew was very direct about the Carrack having the ability to respawn due to its role as a deep space explorer ship, in the future a respawning will be a last resort when rescue is impossible due to permadeath, healing T2 injuries will be much more beneficial than a respawn.
My suggest: if u can afford it just get it as a base 380$ version now cause: 1st u'r gonna get a hella cheap carrack as a loaner for 380$ for at least 2 years. and 2nd even if u end up not likeing the ship in the future, your 380 $ ship is gonna be worth 450-500$ for sure in a couple year, so u can just upgrade it to something else and save 100-150$
...or just buy a cheap CCU for 5$ on the Valkyrie and keep it sleeping. You won't get the Carrack, if you already own it or you are not interested but at least you'll freeze the price at a minimum.
You should not pay full price for it or any other ship other than a LTI CCU token as in the Cutter this time around, a CCU chain was only $270 so a savings of $110 with LTI.
One issue I've seen is that the cargo is only 64 scu without the cargo module. Refinery isn't listed as having cargo room. So that means you can pick up 2 prospector loads only and you fill your hold. That is very low, can't even take a full mole load
This ship appeals to the very same people who saw the Carrack announced on 11/26/13. Modulation, exploration, medical facility, flight hanger, 456 scu. I know that’s not everything the carrack has to offer, but I would like to see some more progress on existing challenges than dreams that are still 3-5 years off. Great description of the Galaxy LoTW, I really enjoyed the work you did.
I'd love the turrets to swap from double S5's to quad S3's. Though I doubt CIG will ever allow us a dual gimble mount to mount two guns 2x size lower than the larger one. The S5's are great against other large ships, however against smaller fighters etc it's an issue. With the XXS hangar instead of XS it can't bring a fighter with it outside of maybe an arrow to help be a screen for it.
That would be great in my opinion as it would give some much-needed customizability which is sorely lacking at the moment. For me, I would love to change the top turret of the Hammerhead from 4xS4 to 2xS5 (or 2xS6 depending on how the changes go) in order to give it one larger caliber 'deck gun'. Now customizing your ships is severely limited to just the type of gun, modules, and a paintjob. We really need more options and being able to attach things to weapon hardpoints in order to modify them from 2x to 4x would already help immensely in diversifying ships out there.
Well presented Man, while I am surely one who loves the support role (caretaker for life!) I did skip this ship at the end. I am way more a fan of the smaller specialized options. The Expanse as a refinery and the C8R or maybe Cutty Red for First Aid. In the Cargo role I see myself as well flying more with a Freelancer MAX or the Hull ships (size depending on future missions from A to maximum C). Great video again!
It has been nice seeing notifications from you lately!... The Galaxy looks ok, but I have an Apollo for medical and an Endeavor that will be modular so can also do medical lol.. I have my Caterpillar for cargo too, which is also supposed to be modular lol.. I love utilitarian designs, so love my Cat!
@@lawofthewestgaming Yup I have the Endeavor!.. The pods have 120 months insurance, so I bought all of them lol.. It remains my dream ship, for a more completed Star Citizen!.. Only needing a crew of 3 to 5, it will be the only capital ship I'll ever buy with real money lol. How is your fleet looking?
I ended up getting the Endeavor master set a few years back because it embodied so many different game play loops all within one ship and I couldn't resist. This was one of the leanest years for me when it comes to buying ships. My fleet is about as complete as I'd like it to be for now. Although I was looking forward to adding a carrier to my already existing pantheon of ships. Unfortunately I lost out on the F5 war trying to get a Kraken using store credit. Ow well, maybe next year. Or maybe I'll just hold off until they sell a "Kraken slayer" and get that instead, lol. Other than that my only purchase using real money was the C8R Pisces.
Give this ship on more back mounted top turret and it would be a great bounty hunting for a small group or military frigate to pair with the Perseus, Polaris, and hammerhead for a solid fleet.
Even without the whole 'bounty hunting' this ship should have a rear-faced turret; even if just a pair of automated point-defense turrets like the RSI Perseus has. The RSI Galaxy now has a massive blindspot in the rear with zero anti-fighter turrets. It definitely needs some defensive turret covering the rear of the ship imo.
@@DanakarEndeel it’s just another example of them purposefully making illogical ship flaws to stop the ship from being OP. It’s getting kind of frustrating at this point.
@@gregbagel791 Yeah, which in this case wouldn't even make any sense as it's not a combat ship at all. Weak shields, zero anti-fighter turrets for protection, and the only weapons are turrets with weapons meant to be used against larger ships. The Galaxy in its current iteration just makes no sense at all. Instead it should have had more turrets but with smaller guns. Now it's a ship with an identity crisis.
@@DanakarEndeel this has been the case with every large ship they announce, they write themselves into corners trying to make multirole do everything ships so people buy them but they can’t let them be to OP. Liberator is one of the worst offenders. Makes zero sense design wise.
@@gregbagel791 Yeah, I also skipped on the Liberator because it didn't make any sense. That and CIG giving it giant fuel tanks on the sides only to turn around and call them "rule of cool greeblies with no function" when they could have simply said "yep, those are the external fuel reserves". Meanwhile all ships fly on space magic because the ridiculous amounts of fuel listed for each ship can't even physically fit inside any of these ships. Most of these new ships make absolutely no sense.
The single size 3 shield is a bit of a joke for something that size. And the hanger should've been designed around fitting at least a prospector. Love the look of it and still bought it. But whether I keep it or not I'm still 50/50.
@@MrEsphoenix combat ship or not something that size still needs more than what a Connie has. It's a big target and with pyro around the corner, with solar flares ECT. It's really under prepared. The 600i has 2 size 3s why wouldn't this.
I believe the 512 was in addition to the 64 but we won't know for sure until the ship and its modules are flightready I'm afraid. Still, it has a decent amount of cargo. Not as much as a Hercules C2 but I guess you pay extra for the supposed 'modularity'.
I love being the 666th viewer of a video and yes I already have the Galaxy because I have no self control. Also I am hoping it will have a manufacturing module that would make it a mini Pioneer.
I feel like this fills a nice gap between Jack of all trades like the Carrack, and dedicated ships like the reclaimer, giving you a more specialised experience but with the flexibility to easily respec it for a different job.
@@lunamaria1048 The difference is, something like the Carrack can do a bit of everything with one loadout, where as this can only do one thing at a time, but in theory it can do that one thing better since it has one single module rather than the Carracks the smaller ones.
The Carrack is the premiere dedicated explorer ship in Star Citizen not a jack of all trades ship like the Galaxy, the modularity for the Carrack enhances its role as an explorer it does not define it.
@@rooster1012 Dedicated explorer is what it was first designed as in the lore, but gameplay wise it's a Jack of all trades. Even without the modules it has a med bay, repair room, drone bay, cartography room, advanced sensors, an armory, cargo, decent combat capability, a hangar and a vehicle bay. Then on top of that is going to have three modules, that although we don't know what they are yet, are only going to increase its versatility.
@@MrEsphoenix Because the Carrack is meant to deep exploration, so need to be self-sustainable. It will not be a jack of all trades, the moment you intend to use the ship to just transport cargo, or a mobile hospital, you would loose money.
so much dead space with this one. it looks great, but it looks like it uses substantially less internal space than the 600i or the Carrack. what a waste.
A little over a year on, good to see you still doing videos. Yours were the ones that finally got me to invest in the game!
A couple things worth mentioning… 1st, if you are unsure if you want one or not, there is a $5.00 usd (Valkyrie to Galaxy) CCU available for the next couple of days through IAE. That is a very cheap way to lock in a Galaxy at concept pricing for later. If you decide against it you can always melt the CCU for store credit. 2nd, not many people are talking about the fact that CIG also pretty much committed to a Manufacturing module as well as others for the Galaxy. Outside of the Pioneer, this is the only other ship where that’s been mentioned afaik.
Yeah, the $5 CCU is probably the best option for everyone. Currently the RSI Galaxy is in a weird spot where it doesn't really make much sense. It's not flexible nor multirole while other ships offer better functionality and often for less money. So let's see where CIG plans to take it.
The one screenshot I saw of the rear bay being a hangar with a C8R ambulance 100% sold me on the ship. I absolutely love it I just wish I could afford it! I'd have to melt everything I have to get it and then I still wouldn't have the Ambulance to complete that dream. Been waiting for a hospital that is smaller than the Hope for a while. Definitely looking forward to getting it in game for sure!
Please keep the vids comin! Love this regularity lately. Hope to see some more comparisons soon!
400i vs MSR vs Connie vs Corsair? 👉👈
100% need this!
Maybe for 3.18?
Either way, we need to see multi-crew ship comparisons! (Go 400i!)
I think it has to be the Corsair, the MSR is great but getting in and out is painful. Connie handles rough in atmosphere, 400i firepower is below average but shields are amazing.
Just wanted to let you know that I very much appreciate your ship "reviews". I find yours some of the most informative videos existing, spoken with a very soothing tone! Please keep them coming!
Super pumped for this ship, fits alongside my RSI shill fleet of Polaris and Perseus.
Hopefully the galaxy will arrive in game prior to the Polaris and Perseus, on a relatively quick timescale for its size - it fills a lot of the current gameplay loops, so it would fit in pretty well as soon as ship refineries and tractor beams are in.
Seeing the Galaxy's hangar, I'm hopeful that RSI will manufacture their own shuttlecraft and dedicated light fighter. Fingers crossed...
I want to expand on that and maybe include a XXS mining vesslel that's equipped with 2 saddlebags, allowing the Galaxy to stay out longer on mining trips
My understanding is that tier 2 beds are only for spawning temporarily. Eventually that will be reserved for tier one beds
We know the Apollo has space for 3 S3, 2 S2 or 1 S1 bed for each side, so I expect the galaxy to have a similar arrangement or, possibly slightly better but not by much. From the pictures I'd guess 2 carracks equivalent.
Actually Law is correct, T2 beds can and will continue to be able to support respawn. It’s the T3 beds that lost the respawn ability. For reference please read their (CIG’s) Hospitals and Healing article from when they introduced medical in patch 3.15.
@@deltaecho2621 I heard, when they removed spawning from the Cutlass red, that the Carrick would have it temporarily. But it would eventually be limited to T1
@@LordTiberius52 source please? (like I provided).
Incorrect John Crew was very direct about the Carrack having the ability to respawn due to its role as a deep space explorer ship, in the future a respawning will be a last resort when rescue is impossible due to permadeath, healing T2 injuries will be much more beneficial than a respawn.
Nice that they kept the Elevator Garage from the Connie, instead of using a Ramp. :)
My suggest: if u can afford it just get it as a base 380$ version now cause: 1st u'r gonna get a hella cheap carrack as a loaner for 380$ for at least 2 years. and 2nd even if u end up not likeing the ship in the future, your 380 $ ship is gonna be worth 450-500$ for sure in a couple year, so u can just upgrade it to something else and save 100-150$
...or just buy a cheap CCU for 5$ on the Valkyrie and keep it sleeping. You won't get the Carrack, if you already own it or you are not interested but at least you'll freeze the price at a minimum.
You should not pay full price for it or any other ship other than a LTI CCU token as in the Cutter this time around, a CCU chain was only $270 so a savings of $110 with LTI.
@@Leptospirosi yep, totally already bought a couple of them x)
One issue I've seen is that the cargo is only 64 scu without the cargo module. Refinery isn't listed as having cargo room. So that means you can pick up 2 prospector loads only and you fill your hold. That is very low, can't even take a full mole load
This ship appeals to the very same people who saw the Carrack announced on 11/26/13. Modulation, exploration, medical facility, flight hanger, 456 scu. I know that’s not everything the carrack has to offer, but I would like to see some more progress on existing challenges than dreams that are still 3-5 years off. Great description of the Galaxy LoTW, I really enjoyed the work you did.
I'd love the turrets to swap from double S5's to quad S3's. Though I doubt CIG will ever allow us a dual gimble mount to mount two guns 2x size lower than the larger one. The S5's are great against other large ships, however against smaller fighters etc it's an issue. With the XXS hangar instead of XS it can't bring a fighter with it outside of maybe an arrow to help be a screen for it.
That would be great in my opinion as it would give some much-needed customizability which is sorely lacking at the moment. For me, I would love to change the top turret of the Hammerhead from 4xS4 to 2xS5 (or 2xS6 depending on how the changes go) in order to give it one larger caliber 'deck gun'. Now customizing your ships is severely limited to just the type of gun, modules, and a paintjob. We really need more options and being able to attach things to weapon hardpoints in order to modify them from 2x to 4x would already help immensely in diversifying ships out there.
RSI. We totally are not using the same ship names from 'Wing Commander: Privateer'.
Well presented Man, while I am surely one who loves the support role (caretaker for life!) I did skip this ship at the end. I am way more a fan of the smaller specialized options. The Expanse as a refinery and the C8R or maybe Cutty Red for First Aid. In the Cargo role I see myself as well flying more with a Freelancer MAX or the Hull ships (size depending on future missions from A to maximum C).
Great video again!
It has been nice seeing notifications from you lately!... The Galaxy looks ok, but I have an Apollo for medical and an Endeavor that will be modular so can also do medical lol.. I have my Caterpillar for cargo too, which is also supposed to be modular lol.. I love utilitarian designs, so love my Cat!
Ah, so you ended up getting an Endeavour. So which modules did you get to go with it?
@@lawofthewestgaming Yup I have the Endeavor!.. The pods have 120 months insurance, so I bought all of them lol.. It remains my dream ship, for a more completed Star Citizen!.. Only needing a crew of 3 to 5, it will be the only capital ship I'll ever buy with real money lol.
How is your fleet looking?
I ended up getting the Endeavor master set a few years back because it embodied so many different game play loops all within one ship and I couldn't resist.
This was one of the leanest years for me when it comes to buying ships. My fleet is about as complete as I'd like it to be for now. Although I was looking forward to adding a carrier to my already existing pantheon of ships. Unfortunately I lost out on the F5 war trying to get a Kraken using store credit. Ow well, maybe next year. Or maybe I'll just hold off until they sell a "Kraken slayer" and get that instead, lol. Other than that my only purchase using real money was the C8R Pisces.
It's a cool ship, kinda looks like a mini star destroyer
Give this ship on more back mounted top turret and it would be a great bounty hunting for a small group or military frigate to pair with the Perseus, Polaris, and hammerhead for a solid fleet.
Even without the whole 'bounty hunting' this ship should have a rear-faced turret; even if just a pair of automated point-defense turrets like the RSI Perseus has. The RSI Galaxy now has a massive blindspot in the rear with zero anti-fighter turrets. It definitely needs some defensive turret covering the rear of the ship imo.
@@DanakarEndeel it’s just another example of them purposefully making illogical ship flaws to stop the ship from being OP. It’s getting kind of frustrating at this point.
@@gregbagel791 Yeah, which in this case wouldn't even make any sense as it's not a combat ship at all. Weak shields, zero anti-fighter turrets for protection, and the only weapons are turrets with weapons meant to be used against larger ships. The Galaxy in its current iteration just makes no sense at all. Instead it should have had more turrets but with smaller guns. Now it's a ship with an identity crisis.
@@DanakarEndeel this has been the case with every large ship they announce, they write themselves into corners trying to make multirole do everything ships so people buy them but they can’t let them be to OP. Liberator is one of the worst offenders. Makes zero sense design wise.
@@gregbagel791 Yeah, I also skipped on the Liberator because it didn't make any sense. That and CIG giving it giant fuel tanks on the sides only to turn around and call them "rule of cool greeblies with no function" when they could have simply said "yep, those are the external fuel reserves". Meanwhile all ships fly on space magic because the ridiculous amounts of fuel listed for each ship can't even physically fit inside any of these ships. Most of these new ships make absolutely no sense.
So relaxing
It seems someone asked “how can we make an endeavor that is not insane to implement?” When designing this.
Tier 2 Med beds are currently allowing respawn but eventually that will be a Tier 1 only beds
Incorrect, CIG already stated that T2 will have respawn as they are needed for exploration gameplay.
Space stations have tier 2, which makes it weird unless they want everyone always respawning on planet
How many USS 3nTeRpR1Se are we going to have in game?
Great video
The single size 3 shield is a bit of a joke for something that size. And the hanger should've been designed around fitting at least a prospector. Love the look of it and still bought it. But whether I keep it or not I'm still 50/50.
It's not a combat ship, and I'm pretty sure the prospecter fits an xs hangar
@@MrEsphoenix yes but its a XXS hanger not a XS this was a typo so no prospecter
@@MrEsphoenix combat ship or not something that size still needs more than what a Connie has. It's a big target and with pyro around the corner, with solar flares ECT. It's really under prepared. The 600i has 2 size 3s why wouldn't this.
@@DJDB95 I'm thinking either it's going to be heavily armored or they will add a size 3 shield along with it's current one.
@@Bland-79 I hope so something that size with the survivalablty of a Connie and not a Carrack is pretty poor.
So if it has 64 scu without cargo module and the cargo module adds 512 scu then it has 576 which is the same as a cat? Or does the 512 replace the 64?
I believe the 512 was in addition to the 64 but we won't know for sure until the ship and its modules are flightready I'm afraid. Still, it has a decent amount of cargo. Not as much as a Hercules C2 but I guess you pay extra for the supposed 'modularity'.
It's mostly a Caterpillar competetor
I love being the 666th viewer of a video and yes I already have the Galaxy because I have no self control. Also I am hoping it will have a manufacturing module that would make it a mini Pioneer.
I remember you!
I feel like this fills a nice gap between Jack of all trades like the Carrack, and dedicated ships like the reclaimer, giving you a more specialised experience but with the flexibility to easily respec it for a different job.
Modularity is totally the jack of all trade ships.. It will do each job good enough to get it done, but dedicated ships will do each job better
@@lunamaria1048 The difference is, something like the Carrack can do a bit of everything with one loadout, where as this can only do one thing at a time, but in theory it can do that one thing better since it has one single module rather than the Carracks the smaller ones.
The Carrack is the premiere dedicated explorer ship in Star Citizen not a jack of all trades ship like the Galaxy, the modularity for the Carrack enhances its role as an explorer it does not define it.
@@rooster1012 Dedicated explorer is what it was first designed as in the lore, but gameplay wise it's a Jack of all trades.
Even without the modules it has a med bay, repair room, drone bay, cartography room, advanced sensors, an armory, cargo, decent combat capability, a hangar and a vehicle bay. Then on top of that is going to have three modules, that although we don't know what they are yet, are only going to increase its versatility.
@@MrEsphoenix Because the Carrack is meant to deep exploration, so need to be self-sustainable. It will not be a jack of all trades, the moment you intend to use the ship to just transport cargo, or a mobile hospital, you would loose money.
Great purchase if you want a Carrack
i wish they would make a bigger version of this so that i can pretend to sit in a star destroyer
I bought it
It's difficult listening to technical details being delivered with such a smooth bedroom murmur. 🍆 Keep it up!
so much dead space with this one. it looks great, but it looks like it uses substantially less internal space than the 600i or the Carrack. what a waste.