@@TJ-314I don't know what was not working for you in 3.22, but I gimbals did not work in 3.23. They changed how they work and I don't like it. Dead zones are much bigger, especially in the centre. I had to move my mouse to the side of a screen to barely move the gimbals
I agree with your sentiment that it feels familiar yet new. As to the landing gear, at the bottom of "Flight - Movement" bind "Automatic Precision Mode - Disable". Once you hit this new bind you can fly at SCM with the gear down.
They should make it so that you can only break and salvage CM if you first strip the ship entirely or at least 90% of it. This way they don't need to worry and nerf the CM price since breaking the ship right away won't be an issue anymore, nor they will encounter the issue that we are now facing, that people are literally ignoring the breaking mechanic altogether, since it's not worth it at all. We also need an in game, real time monitor of the market, to know where to sell our RMC and CM. I imagine a stock market monitor within our mining, cargo and salvage ships that we can check at all times.
Or maybe just slow down the process of breaking the ship down by a factor of how much you stripped it first, so for an 80% strip you get the usual 15 seconds for breaking the ship down, while a 0% stripped ship would take 95 seconds for example. A 100% strip ensures a 7-8 seconds break down time maybe? I think this is a cool concept
Great video but the real secret to salvage is panels. RMC is so much more value than CM or weapons I completely skip both the latter. No need to spend money on the actual contracts either. Simply go to a Lagrange station and fly into the asteroid field. Narrow your scanner (in NAV - scan mode) to 75% and fly (avoiding asteroids) in a straight line, pinging [TAB] every few seconds. When you see an "unknown" marker ping it again and see if the Radar Signature is a multiple of 2000. If so then fly towards it but slow down as you get near. The marker will disappear and then there is a frustrating gap before the actual panels 'pop' in right in front of your ship (so go slow when the marker goes). You should be able to fill the cargo and the buffer with just two sets. That should be close to 375,000 aUEC per run, assuming you can actually sell it with all the people duping their cargo this patch.
Just telling all Vulture Pilots. The Panels are back, for those who know. They are no longer invisible, they come in a bunch. From 1-2 small, 2-3 medium, and 1-2 large panels. They only have RMC so you cant disinigrate them. But I got my Vulture full with one cluster of those panels. Wish you a good flight and stay safe!
@@ozas258 go out to an asteroid belt and ping for "unknown" markers, point at it, switch to scan mode and look at the value of the marker and if its 2000, 4000, 6000, 8000 etc (multiples of 2000) then its a salvage panel. You will fill up your whole vulture in 15-20 min.
yea thats what ive been doing, SUPER good money, its just obnoxious to actually find sometimes, the other thing that actually drives me CRAZZYYY is when your trying to quantum to say CRU L1, or really any asteroid belt, it quantums to the spot thats right before the asteroid belt... then when i actually try to fly to the belt itslef, it says "my location" when i click on it in the star map and i cant actually quantum to it even though the belt is still WAAY to far away to actually fly to without quantuming... so i either have to look through ALL OF THE THINGS I CAN QUANTUM TO and manually find it, or just give up, SUPPPERRR ANOYYING, happens for every one of those asteroid belts for me, ive just pretty much all but given up on doing them until its fixed, ill just stick with "in the wake of disaster" contract, its 200k now but you can easily make a couple mill and you can jump right to it, i was only able to fully scrape and munch a c2 last time and im not kidding i came back with about 2 mill, so i could only imagine if you could do all the ships there, ONLY PROBLEM WITH THAT CONTRACT THO, is you CAN jump right to it, but theres no location on star map and again, you have to manuially find the jump point, and instead of it being a yellow contract icon, its blue like ALLLL of the other points... last time i took it i thought i had wasted 200k, then i was manually trying to jump to an asteroid belt and saw one of the icons said "SALVAGE" and realized THAT was my wake of disaster contract XD such a shit show right now
@@Farristeragree, was hoping the drake ironclad was going to be a medium salvager but yet another heavy hauler…seems medium size salvaging of crews around 2-3 is not a thing CIG is interested in. Maybe if you know someone going to a bar citizen or Citcon ask them to hit up a dev and ask if maybe that’s on the horizon at all ?
I have only salvaged a couple of times with the Vulture, but my experience has made me realize that collecting and selling weapons is a waste of time, as well as breaking ships to get building materials. In +- two hours (with more experience I'm sure less time), I've gotten around 500,000 aUEC, only recycling the scrap parts in blue or green color, when they turn yellow I stop recycling and move on to another part. With the ship full of 24 boxes and the scrap hold full, to take out the rest of the boxes after selling the first ones. Thanks for the video 👍.
@Farrister You have a really good talent to make these videos. All your Star Citizen videos are so relaxing, and it's just simply fun to watch. The whole package, the speaking with your calm and relaxing tone, the choice of the mystical music in the background, the way how the music gets quieter when you start talking and then back to louder, the editing...you just got it, and got it everytime. Even the video description is well done and it's easy to see that you put effort into it. And I had already mentioned sometime before by another video of yours, I really like the unique and iconic 'Otherwise, and as always, thanks for watching' ending. (A little bit late, but congratz for the 50k, well deservered)
Totally agree about the Vulture cargo bay being too small. Like you I quite enjoy organising things in the space but having loose weapons or components in there is such a pain to organise that I just don't bother collecting them in the first place - which makes the whole experience less rich. If I were redesigning the ship I'd give it two cargo bays, one for the boxes of RMC and CM, and a separate smaller one where components could be thrown more haphazardly without interfering with the main grid.
Really hope we get some attachable cargo grids on the outside of ships like the vulture, similar to the Hull series, so we can attach componants and ship weapons on the exterior. Kind of like what you'd see on a 4wd roof when it's heading off into the bush for a couple weeks. Some see through storage 'cages' on the vultures arms would great.
20K for an Arrow salvage contract is too much, you're taking a loss or BARELY breaking even if you take your time with cinch and get every last drop of RMC off of it.
@@messybestie-d7i you literally can't get anything bigger than a MSR, you need to turn to illegal contracts like in the wake of disaster to get anything worthwhile for the reclaimer
Really well done video. Production values were through the roof and sound was immaculate. It had almost a found footage aspect to it and I found myself drawn in to the exploration aspects and wondering what would happen next. This had a genuine, real feal to it that made it a joy to watch and kept me from clicking away. Great work!
Thank you for the video very helpful. Your right about the fuel compacity with the vulture. I found a work-around by having 3 vultures, Orison, Arc Corp and MT. Very helpful when you are living on a reclaimer. It seems like I can (going solo) scrap faster with the vulture then the reclaimer.
Msr contracts pay out 150-200k+ depending on cargo but cost 50k to accept now. Since they removed the hercs. But for max profits got to run the belts scanning for scrap to salvage again.
278k from an MSR earlier today with my Vulture. I didnt even get the Construction Materials. That was another 70 SCU i think. 2 SCU Gold and 1 SCU of Quantanium inside.
I absolutely love decorating my vulture, it's got such a cozy space drake living quarter. And that feels weird to say, I just really lake the Vultures Habitation section.
really enjoy watching your videos. you have a great relaxed style. i like the fact that you speed up the boring bits. the balance is good for me. looking forward to the next one.
I just came across your channel for the first time and I have to say that I would really much like to see a series like that to see what the progression looks like for a given career path.
I hope tomorrow will be better since I could not choose legitimate salvage claims today.. They did not spawn. I am really fan of the new looks and the flying modes. Now something really feels lumpy and big when flying a big ship!
I recommend the Atlas QT. It is perfect for the Vulture. With Salvages being all over the System now, instead of staying local, the Atlas does the job. I had the VL, but kept running out of fuel.
atm, the ladder is bugged, go via the back, also i had the issue where i could turn on the fracture mode with alt-W, but when i left clicked the miningheads turned on, my solution was: alt-w and alt-s hope it helps someone if they have the same issue
Came here at 3.24 to say construction material is now much more worth it. Break the hulls then store it up in your cargo Elevator until you get a full cargo ship load for example I do about 110-120 for my Freelancer max then sell it in bulk.
I took the reclaimer I’ve had for a while but never used last night. It was really chill and zen doing it solo. I can imagine myself doing it while listening to an audiobook or music and just relaxing after work. Not in a rush to get to the endgame and be bored as a billionaire.
Really enjoyed this video. Quite the vibe. I've mainly been a mercenary but got myself a Vulture before the patch wipe so I've been interested in getting into salvaging.
I just completed my first 3.23 salvage run in the Cru-L5 La Grange.. 1 x Arrow mission ship and 2 x clusters of Panels for a total of 36 RMC giving a total payout of 519,000 aUEC.. Vulture salvage is still very much viable.
I love that idea, like a load of racks on the roof to store weapons, components, etc. They don't need to be plugged into anything other than a physical slot, so you can sell them planetside
@21:36 You mention the reduced speed. There is a way of toggling it off. You should bind that action on the same keybind you have your landing gear keybind on.
Scraping feels a little wonky to me right now, mostly with the visuals. Even on DX11 I see weird areas glowing and spots that you can't visually scrape (RMC is gone but the hull visual is still there)
Great video as always 👍. A few suggestions. Don’t bother stripping the weapons. The RMC is worth more than 14k per SCU, som cram as many boxes as possible in the back. When you run out of space, keep scraping until your internal 13 SCU buffer is full. Now go and cash in and this should net you over 400k. Only slight issue is you can’t use the multitool in armistice zones. Not sure if this is a bug. If this happens you need to go outside armistice zone to stack the remaining 13 boxes and come back to sell it. o7.
Thanks for showing the whole loop. great video and the paint is really stunning. I lost my vulture with the last wipe so I am really jealous trying to earn 1,2 Million before the next wipe in order to buy another one. Fells like being a handyman without tools haha
A few things. Lover your videos first off. Very useful. Questions: What are Master Modes? How do you change paint? Where do you buy heads? I have been to about 8 stations and can't find heads or paints.
Thanks :) Master Modes - it's a new series of toggles recently introduced which modifies how your ship flies and what functions are available depending on what's selected. Changing Paints - done through F1 menu and vehicle maintenance, your paint and ship need to be in the same physical location Buying Heads - erkul.games is a great resource website for this! But Cousin Crows on Orison is one example
I found in the bulture if you are flying in the Quantum nav mode then when u hit about 3.2k hold b to switch flight modes and take ur hands off the mouse and keyboard u pull right next to the ship u have to salvage
Play I know I'm late to this party so I hope that you still see this but honestly if you're doing a vulture the best thing to do is go to an asteroid belt scan for panels and strip them there's no cost for you and it's basically just free money it's roughly 500 k an hour scan for signals and anything divisible by 2000 are ship panels good luck!
Another great video, a bit of a heads up for you, it probably won't be any better in 3.23.1as that patch mainly concerns itself with Invictus and related matters
With a pair of Cinch, you get about 1 SCU worth of RMC and then you get ~.75 SCU for construction mats. I am annoyed that Arrows are the only thing spawning for 1000 and 5000 contracts... For the landing gear slowdown, you just need to disable the auto precision mode (it's in the keybinds,under flight). I just bound it to the same button as my landing gear. CIG should really have an option in the game settings to disable auto-precision on landing gear. I wish we could bulk sell those weapons... I think the cargo grid is a tad buggy.
My salvage previous was, going solo on a reclaimer, get hercules ships and only get the construction materials, I usually made runs to fill every corner of the ship with construction boxes and sell it, also there was a mission that even pay you 250.000 I was able to run that same mission over and over until my cargo was completely full, on that day I was able to made around 4.000.000 :D Then I bought all the ships I wanted before the reset... Now I don't know, salvage business is missing something, I already did a lot but the bigger ship contracts for now they don't show up, salvage was nerfed heavily, both in the prices you pay to get the claim and the return values are lower... still it's a way to make money
@@JaggedJack1 CMAT. RMC will be worth more but will take much longer to acquire. I think that’s how they’ve balanced it without requiring you to scrape before fracturing.
@@TiJayFLY I fully scraped a HH yesterday and got about 42 SCU of RMC. Filled up the remaining 198 SCU in the hopper with CMAT, and sold it all for a cool ~800k. Yeah, the scraping took a little while, but that's still 800k from a single hammerhead contract.
Salvage is no longer viable as a one man operation, not with the current price of missions. Not even close to viable. However, with a couple buddies in fighters, you can still make a killing with just a Vulture. I had two friends soft death some large ships in a VHRT and i just sat there doing my salvage thing while they continued doing bounties. One of them came back with a cargo ship and took two full loads back for me. Together we made over a million that night. Not bad for a small investment of two fighters, a Vulture, and a C1
Salvage missions shouldn't even cost you money to take. The space government should be giving us scrap locations for free since we are cleaning up space for them. Nothing is worse for space travel than debris
I flew to the scarp yard on daymar yesterday and there was a dead AI starfarer and C2, later even a hammerhead just lying next to the scrap yard. Made like 800k with no effort.
It's not all about grinding money though, some people enjoy the salvage loop same as mining to just enjoy it. But purely for money grind you are right it's not worth it early on in the Vulture.
"From zero" is wrong, but remember, that you can rent ships for a day and make more money than the rent cost so you can buy it. (also waiting for a freefly event + ship event can get you free rentables -> IAE)
Ive been running bunker missions in my vulture to avoid paying contract fees. If there is someones abandoned ship with the shields off, or a ramp open for me to turn them off. I salvage the ship. If the bunker didn't have any ships i just happily collect the 10K from clearing the bunker and move to the next one. I got 21 SCU (about 300k) in RMC from lucking out and finding a cutty black and C1 spirit at 2 bunkers i raided. All pure profit since i didnt have to pay a finders fee.
@@Moritz-dq8ps Not if you accepted a bunker mission. If you leave the mission alone and don't clear it, you keep your access to the area therefore not trespassing. Also as long as the ship is abandoned with no player, no one will be there to press charges and get you a crimestat.
@@LetsPlayBojangles what do you mean by press charges? had a longer break and just dived back in. u get the option to report a player now? so as long i am allowed to be there i can destroy other vehicles? interesting
@Moritz-dq8ps if another player damages your ship while you're close to it, you can accept or decline to charge them with a crime stat for vehicle destruction. Usually if a vehicle is left behind at a bunker it means they died and it's abandoned and the owner almost certainly isn't coming back for it because an insurance claim is way easier. Meaning you can salvage it without and negatives.
Salvaged that whole Arrow and didn't get even ONE crate of salvage. Since Arrow missions now cost 5000-20000, it means you'll need at least three of them to get one crate of material... which is worth around 13k. So, you'll spend 15k - 60k for the missions, and earn 13k from that. So, each mission will be a LOSS of 2k, at minimum.
They should make it so that you can strap the guns you salvage onto the back deck above the door, it's got little rails that look like tiedown spots, just need some space rachet straps.
Great Vid as always Farrister!! This was also the first thing I did when I jumped back in. Word of advise for ALL your subscribers and you of course. DO NOT VENTURE TO ARC L4, it is TOTALLY BUGGED AND NO DOORS OR ASOPS ON THE STATION WORK.
You could probably find a way to make more money for the time spent (say, quant mining) but salvaging is still good. And now with the server recovery you don't even lose contracts so easily when the server goes down.
considering atm 1 box of RCM goes for about 14k I dont see the point in storing 8 big guns that go for 10k together when they take up the same amount of space as 2-4 boxes, you could get 30-60k worth of RCU instead in that space since the vulture is as you say not very big.
420k per run in the Vulture if you strictly salvage panels. Didn't take long to get a couple mill. I love that they have options if you don't want to buy contracts.
@@scharrk You can get way more than 12 boxes in there, and also fill up the hopper before heading back. If it does not bug out. If it bugs out and says cargo full after selling you'll have to go to somewhere else to sell a second time, maybe a salvage yard. Or claim ship.
Master modes let's you stop super quick... If you're at top speed on nav mode then change to scm mode you'll stop immediately. I got 19gs in a Hull C stopping from full speed.
I enjoy this video. I also like that skin. I think i am going to look at getting it. It would be nice if you could buy a weapon rack to stack weapons efficiently. I also enjoy stacking boxes. I like the new star map also but there are some minor details I think could use improvement. Better direction to star ports would be nice and the search feature does not seem to be working for me. also, you can land on the planets surface and use the surface entrance so you don't have to ride the train. I am wondering if you have to build rep to get larger ship contracts like bounties.
How do you get both of the Scraper Beams to converge to a single spot. Mine are nowhere close to each other. And most of the time only one beam is contacting the ship I am scraping. I have used Left Alt + Mouse Wheel and it does Nothing At All. Also I have scraped several ships Completely and it still doesn't give me credit for scraping the ship. Are you using Gimbal Mode?
Hey Farrister would you consider making a video for new people on the packages please ? My friend is getting it soon and would love to show.him your thoughts. A sort of aurora v mustang thing and the pros and cons
Anyone else having issues with changing the salvage modules? I bought a few abrades but it won't let me, it's actually stuck as empty so my vulture is completely useless right now. Changed in the menu just don't save.
@@Brandon-bd8fk relax pal, it's called feedback, and no there's not - at least not specifically targeted to the vulture. Been away from SC for a bit, and when I come back - Farrister's one of the first I go to, hence the suggestion.
I filled my vulture cargo grid and pathway, only to notice i can't sell on seraphim station anymore.😢 Then I remembered I can't use the ladder so I can't get back into my ship. But have no fear, storeing the ship made all the cargo on the grid disappear 🤬🤣
I prefer doing satellite missions(illegal monitors detected). They grant 16k instead of paying and you can salvage all enemies around the 3 satellites after taking them out. Fighting them is imho quicker than everytime travelling. Just my opinion. Made 350k in a single mission. Just keeping rmc kicking other out into space. Possible are 21 scus in cargo room and another 13 of course in salvaging storage. Lead to half a million in rmc possible. Rmc comes only from hull dismantling and construction parts from the broken bodies so dont pick them up. Try yourself.
Would be nice to play this patch but for some reason the game keeps crashing on me 30 minutes to 1 hour of playing and then i cannot join any servers because my character stays in the server for a loong time.
Hit G while salvaging to change mode. It allows you to sit still in one spot while only moving the salvage heads.
For some reason it doesn't work for me, must be bugged out. Though I never got gimbles to work in 3.22 either lol
@@TJ-314I don't know what was not working for you in 3.22, but I gimbals did not work in 3.23. They changed how they work and I don't like it. Dead zones are much bigger, especially in the centre. I had to move my mouse to the side of a screen to barely move the gimbals
@@sinner506 interesting, thanks I'll have to do some more testing I think
You might be able to change the size of the dead spot in the settings.
some people dont do it out of choice, I prefer to move the ship instead of the salvage heads. but then again I use a HOTAS
I agree with your sentiment that it feels familiar yet new. As to the landing gear, at the bottom of "Flight - Movement" bind "Automatic Precision Mode - Disable". Once you hit this new bind you can fly at SCM with the gear down.
They should make it so that you can only break and salvage CM if you first strip the ship entirely or at least 90% of it. This way they don't need to worry and nerf the CM price since breaking the ship right away won't be an issue anymore, nor they will encounter the issue that we are now facing, that people are literally ignoring the breaking mechanic altogether, since it's not worth it at all. We also need an in game, real time monitor of the market, to know where to sell our RMC and CM. I imagine a stock market monitor within our mining, cargo and salvage ships that we can check at all times.
Is SC trade tools updated constantly?
I completely agree. It went from nobody scraping in 3.22 to nobody structural salvaging in 3.23
Its updated @archangelari3420
Or maybe just slow down the process of breaking the ship down by a factor of how much you stripped it first, so for an 80% strip you get the usual 15 seconds for breaking the ship down, while a 0% stripped ship would take 95 seconds for example. A 100% strip ensures a 7-8 seconds break down time maybe? I think this is a cool concept
90% is to high only 50% will be ok
Really high quality video man! I love watching people do things in this game that I don't do, it makes the universe feel so vast
Great video but the real secret to salvage is panels. RMC is so much more value than CM or weapons I completely skip both the latter. No need to spend money on the actual contracts either. Simply go to a Lagrange station and fly into the asteroid field. Narrow your scanner (in NAV - scan mode) to 75% and fly (avoiding asteroids) in a straight line, pinging [TAB] every few seconds. When you see an "unknown" marker ping it again and see if the Radar Signature is a multiple of 2000. If so then fly towards it but slow down as you get near. The marker will disappear and then there is a frustrating gap before the actual panels 'pop' in right in front of your ship (so go slow when the marker goes). You should be able to fill the cargo and the buffer with just two sets. That should be close to 375,000 aUEC per run, assuming you can actually sell it with all the people duping their cargo this patch.
Just telling all Vulture Pilots.
The Panels are back, for those who know.
They are no longer invisible, they come in a bunch.
From 1-2 small, 2-3 medium, and 1-2 large panels.
They only have RMC so you cant disinigrate them.
But I got my Vulture full with one cluster of those panels.
Wish you a good flight and stay safe!
could you please elaborate?
@@ozas258 go out to an asteroid belt and ping for "unknown" markers, point at it, switch to scan mode and look at the value of the marker and if its 2000, 4000, 6000, 8000 etc (multiples of 2000) then its a salvage panel. You will fill up your whole vulture in 15-20 min.
yea thats what ive been doing, SUPER good money, its just obnoxious to actually find sometimes, the other thing that actually drives me CRAZZYYY is when your trying to quantum to say CRU L1, or really any asteroid belt, it quantums to the spot thats right before the asteroid belt... then when i actually try to fly to the belt itslef, it says "my location" when i click on it in the star map and i cant actually quantum to it even though the belt is still WAAY to far away to actually fly to without quantuming... so i either have to look through ALL OF THE THINGS I CAN QUANTUM TO and manually find it, or just give up, SUPPPERRR ANOYYING, happens for every one of those asteroid belts for me, ive just pretty much all but given up on doing them until its fixed, ill just stick with "in the wake of disaster" contract, its 200k now but you can easily make a couple mill and you can jump right to it, i was only able to fully scrape and munch a c2 last time and im not kidding i came back with about 2 mill, so i could only imagine if you could do all the ships there, ONLY PROBLEM WITH THAT CONTRACT THO, is you CAN jump right to it, but theres no location on star map and again, you have to manuially find the jump point, and instead of it being a yellow contract icon, its blue like ALLLL of the other points... last time i took it i thought i had wasted 200k, then i was manually trying to jump to an asteroid belt and saw one of the icons said "SALVAGE" and realized THAT was my wake of disaster contract XD such a shit show right now
We could do with a medium salvager I think. An Argo design would be pleasing
Remember to slow down when you are getting close to the panels or you may miss them
Dreaming of a salvage ship size between this and the Reclaimer
Yes please!
@@Farristeragree, was hoping the drake ironclad was going to be a medium salvager but yet another heavy hauler…seems medium size salvaging of crews around 2-3 is not a thing CIG is interested in. Maybe if you know someone going to a bar citizen or Citcon ask them to hit up a dev and ask if maybe that’s on the horizon at all ?
I have only salvaged a couple of times with the Vulture, but my experience has made me realize that collecting and selling weapons is a waste of time, as well as breaking ships to get building materials.
In +- two hours (with more experience I'm sure less time), I've gotten around 500,000 aUEC, only recycling the scrap parts in blue or green color, when they turn yellow I stop recycling and move on to another part. With the ship full of 24 boxes and the scrap hold full, to take out the rest of the boxes after selling the first ones.
Thanks for the video 👍.
Hull stripping is the only way to make significant money in salvage.
@Farrister You have a really good talent to make these videos. All your Star Citizen videos are so relaxing, and it's just simply fun to watch. The whole package, the speaking with your calm and relaxing tone, the choice of the mystical music in the background, the way how the music gets quieter when you start talking and then back to louder, the editing...you just got it, and got it everytime. Even the video description is well done and it's easy to see that you put effort into it. And I had already mentioned sometime before by another video of yours, I really like the unique and iconic 'Otherwise, and as always, thanks for watching' ending. (A little bit late, but congratz for the 50k, well deservered)
I have always liked salvaging. It is mindless, and relaxing, and good solo play.
Totally agree about the Vulture cargo bay being too small. Like you I quite enjoy organising things in the space but having loose weapons or components in there is such a pain to organise that I just don't bother collecting them in the first place - which makes the whole experience less rich. If I were redesigning the ship I'd give it two cargo bays, one for the boxes of RMC and CM, and a separate smaller one where components could be thrown more haphazardly without interfering with the main grid.
16:40 Stacking boxes in a Reclaimer is not bad. Reclaimer runs in general are pretty chill.
Really hope we get some attachable cargo grids on the outside of ships like the vulture, similar to the Hull series, so we can attach componants and ship weapons on the exterior. Kind of like what you'd see on a 4wd roof when it's heading off into the bush for a couple weeks. Some see through storage 'cages' on the vultures arms would great.
that would be great just a bunch of dummy wepoon hardpoints could work because at this point i don't see a reason to take a gun over more RMC.
It might not make as much aUEC now, but salvaging is still a really chill way to spend an hour or two.
20K for an Arrow salvage contract is too much, you're taking a loss or BARELY breaking even if you take your time with cinch and get every last drop of RMC off of it.
Well that was done because of the reclaimer owners who within 2 weeks they’re billionaires and it makes you work for it
@@calebkepple1964 Reclaimer Owner popping in. You're absolutely correct. I'm the Doug Dimmadome of Salvage.
@@calebkepple1964 I cant imagine Reclaimer owners are still wasting their time on Arrow contracts once they have access to larger ships.
@@calebkepple1964reclaimer owners aren't doing arrow runs
@@messybestie-d7i you literally can't get anything bigger than a MSR, you need to turn to illegal contracts like in the wake of disaster to get anything worthwhile for the reclaimer
I greatly enjoy Salvage gameplay, so this gets a huge thumbs up from me. Thanks for the video, Farrister!
Really well done video. Production values were through the roof and sound was immaculate. It had almost a found footage aspect to it and I found myself drawn in to the exploration aspects and wondering what would happen next. This had a genuine, real feal to it that made it a joy to watch and kept me from clicking away. Great work!
Thank you for the video very helpful. Your right about the fuel compacity with the vulture. I found a work-around by having 3 vultures, Orison, Arc Corp and MT. Very helpful when you are living on a reclaimer. It seems like I can (going solo) scrap faster with the vulture then the reclaimer.
absolutely amazing! Totally missed that New Babbs had the Admin AND Comod terminals so close!!! Brilliant!
Msr contracts pay out 150-200k+ depending on cargo but cost 50k to accept now. Since they removed the hercs. But for max profits got to run the belts scanning for scrap to salvage again.
278k from an MSR earlier today with my Vulture. I didnt even get the Construction Materials. That was another 70 SCU i think. 2 SCU Gold and 1 SCU of Quantanium inside.
I absolutely love decorating my vulture, it's got such a cozy space drake living quarter. And that feels weird to say, I just really lake the Vultures Habitation section.
Lol
Nice - I'm doing a zero to hero run using the Reliant Kore. I'm really enjoying it as a courier ship, a lot more than I expected I would.
really enjoy watching your videos. you have a great relaxed style. i like the fact that you speed up the boring bits. the balance is good for me. looking forward to the next one.
I just came across your channel for the first time and I have to say that I would really much like to see a series like that to see what the progression looks like for a given career path.
I hope tomorrow will be better since I could not choose legitimate salvage claims today.. They did not spawn. I am really fan of the new looks and the flying modes. Now something really feels lumpy and big when flying a big ship!
I recommend the Atlas QT. It is perfect for the Vulture. With Salvages being all over the System now, instead of staying local, the Atlas does the job. I had the VL, but kept running out of fuel.
20k for an arrow contract is daylight robbery. Who made that change???
They don’t want us salvaging anymore
atm, the ladder is bugged, go via the back, also i had the issue where i could turn on the fracture mode with alt-W, but when i left clicked the miningheads turned on, my solution was: alt-w and alt-s
hope it helps someone if they have the same issue
17:20 prime example for liberator as a mother ship to transport the vulture lol
Came here at 3.24 to say construction material is now much more worth it. Break the hulls then store it up in your cargo Elevator until you get a full cargo ship load for example I do about 110-120 for my Freelancer max then sell it in bulk.
Yay for CMs :)
"Auto Precision Mode"! Set a keybind to toggle that each time you board your ship, and you won't be speed limited when landing anymore!
I don't mind it sometimes, though if you forget when taking off it's a bitch hahah
I took the reclaimer I’ve had for a while but never used last night. It was really chill and zen doing it solo. I can imagine myself doing it while listening to an audiobook or music and just relaxing after work. Not in a rush to get to the endgame and be bored as a billionaire.
Really enjoyed this video. Quite the vibe. I've mainly been a mercenary but got myself a Vulture before the patch wipe so I've been interested in getting into salvaging.
Wow, this video come to me just in the right moment, thank you so much farrister💯💯💯🎉
It is better to go for ship parts around lagrange points then doing mission... 4 big chunks will give you 40SCU of RMC..
I just completed my first 3.23 salvage run in the Cru-L5 La Grange.. 1 x Arrow mission ship and 2 x clusters of Panels for a total of 36 RMC giving a total payout of 519,000 aUEC..
Vulture salvage is still very much viable.
The panels are fantastic, I may show that on one of my next ones
Excellent video Farrister. Thanks!!
I always enjoy your chill gameplay sessions.
Question: Is it safe to quantum outside of your seat? Seem like a good time to do all the box organizing.
They could add some ship weapon mounts for the vulture. Throw the guns on the roof instead of bouncing them around inside
I love that idea, like a load of racks on the roof to store weapons, components, etc. They don't need to be plugged into anything other than a physical slot, so you can sell them planetside
@21:36 You mention the reduced speed. There is a way of toggling it off. You should bind that action on the same keybind you have your landing gear keybind on.
"Sorry, but that's the kind of person I am."
You're my kind of person, Farrister. ^^
o7
You are a hero keeping space tidy!
I also use the same paint on my Vulture. I agree, it looks fantastic 👌
Scraping feels a little wonky to me right now, mostly with the visuals. Even on DX11 I see weird areas glowing and spots that you can't visually scrape (RMC is gone but the hull visual is still there)
Great video as always 👍. A few suggestions. Don’t bother stripping the weapons. The RMC is worth more than 14k per SCU, som cram as many boxes as possible in the back. When you run out of space, keep scraping until your internal 13 SCU buffer is full. Now go and cash in and this should net you over 400k. Only slight issue is you can’t use the multitool in armistice zones. Not sure if this is a bug. If this happens you need to go outside armistice zone to stack the remaining 13 boxes and come back to sell it. o7.
Thanks for showing the whole loop. great video and the paint is really stunning. I lost my vulture with the last wipe so I am really jealous trying to earn 1,2 Million before the next wipe in order to buy another one. Fells like being a handyman without tools haha
Really, then what’s the point of buy a ship? I’m trying to save up to buy one and it’s such a pain.
A few things. Lover your videos first off. Very useful. Questions: What are Master Modes? How do you change paint? Where do you buy heads? I have been to about 8 stations and can't find heads or paints.
Thanks :)
Master Modes - it's a new series of toggles recently introduced which modifies how your ship flies and what functions are available depending on what's selected.
Changing Paints - done through F1 menu and vehicle maintenance, your paint and ship need to be in the same physical location
Buying Heads - erkul.games is a great resource website for this! But Cousin Crows on Orison is one example
I found in the bulture if you are flying in the Quantum nav mode then when u hit about 3.2k hold b to switch flight modes and take ur hands off the mouse and keyboard u pull right next to the ship u have to salvage
Play I know I'm late to this party so I hope that you still see this but honestly if you're doing a vulture the best thing to do is go to an asteroid belt scan for panels and strip them there's no cost for you and it's basically just free money it's roughly 500 k an hour scan for signals and anything divisible by 2000 are ship panels good luck!
I'm glad you posted this I am really bummed about salvage in 3.23
Another great video, a bit of a heads up for you, it probably won't be any better in 3.23.1as that patch mainly concerns itself with Invictus and related matters
With a pair of Cinch, you get about 1 SCU worth of RMC and then you get ~.75 SCU for construction mats.
I am annoyed that Arrows are the only thing spawning for 1000 and 5000 contracts...
For the landing gear slowdown, you just need to disable the auto precision mode (it's in the keybinds,under flight). I just bound it to the same button as my landing gear. CIG should really have an option in the game settings to disable auto-precision on landing gear.
I wish we could bulk sell those weapons...
I think the cargo grid is a tad buggy.
My salvage previous was, going solo on a reclaimer, get hercules ships and only get the construction materials, I usually made runs to fill every corner of the ship with construction boxes and sell it, also there was a mission that even pay you 250.000 I was able to run that same mission over and over until my cargo was completely full, on that day I was able to made around 4.000.000 :D Then I bought all the ships I wanted before the reset... Now I don't know, salvage business is missing something, I already did a lot but the bigger ship contracts for now they don't show up, salvage was nerfed heavily, both in the prices you pay to get the claim and the return values are lower... still it's a way to make money
I used to organize the boxes while i am quantum jumping to destination
Salvage is still king. Full Reclaimer (grid filled) is 400k, and fracturing is still very quick. No other gameloop currently comes close.
No game loop comes close? Okay. I hope everyone keeps thinking that's true. Lol
Reclaimer full of RMC, CMAT, or a mix of both?
@@JaggedJack1 CMAT. RMC will be worth more but will take much longer to acquire. I think that’s how they’ve balanced it without requiring you to scrape before fracturing.
@@IIITangentIII Trading and bounties haven’t changed - what’s your secret sauce? 😅
@@TiJayFLY I fully scraped a HH yesterday and got about 42 SCU of RMC. Filled up the remaining 198 SCU in the hopper with CMAT, and sold it all for a cool ~800k. Yeah, the scraping took a little while, but that's still 800k from a single hammerhead contract.
Salvage is no longer viable as a one man operation, not with the current price of missions. Not even close to viable. However, with a couple buddies in fighters, you can still make a killing with just a Vulture. I had two friends soft death some large ships in a VHRT and i just sat there doing my salvage thing while they continued doing bounties. One of them came back with a cargo ship and took two full loads back for me. Together we made over a million that night. Not bad for a small investment of two fighters, a Vulture, and a C1
Salvage missions shouldn't even cost you money to take. The space government should be giving us scrap locations for free since we are cleaning up space for them. Nothing is worse for space travel than debris
This all seems to be trying to force more players into group play. Which is fine by me.
I flew to the scarp yard on daymar yesterday and there was a dead AI starfarer and C2, later even a hammerhead just lying next to the scrap yard. Made like 800k with no effort.
It's not all about grinding money though, some people enjoy the salvage loop same as mining to just enjoy it.
But purely for money grind you are right it's not worth it early on in the Vulture.
@@scharrk this is the other gameplay I want more of, just scanning and flying looking for wrecked ships
"From zero" has a vulture already. okay.
"From zero" is wrong, but remember, that you can rent ships for a day and make more money than the rent cost so you can buy it. (also waiting for a freefly event + ship event can get you free rentables -> IAE)
Rent the ship
It’s free to rent right now from Rikers on Arccorp
Ive been running bunker missions in my vulture to avoid paying contract fees. If there is someones abandoned ship with the shields off, or a ramp open for me to turn them off. I salvage the ship.
If the bunker didn't have any ships i just happily collect the 10K from clearing the bunker and move to the next one. I got 21 SCU (about 300k) in RMC from lucking out and finding a cutty black and C1 spirit at 2 bunkers i raided. All pure profit since i didnt have to pay a finders fee.
dont u get a crimestat if u salvage in the bunker area?
@@Moritz-dq8ps No, why? If you have accepted a bunker mission, you have lots of time to salvage and even complete the bunker afterwards if you like.
@@Moritz-dq8ps Not if you accepted a bunker mission. If you leave the mission alone and don't clear it, you keep your access to the area therefore not trespassing.
Also as long as the ship is abandoned with no player, no one will be there to press charges and get you a crimestat.
@@LetsPlayBojangles what do you mean by press charges? had a longer break and just dived back in. u get the option to report a player now? so as long i am allowed to be there i can destroy other vehicles? interesting
@Moritz-dq8ps if another player damages your ship while you're close to it, you can accept or decline to charge them with a crime stat for vehicle destruction.
Usually if a vehicle is left behind at a bunker it means they died and it's abandoned and the owner almost certainly isn't coming back for it because an insurance claim is way easier. Meaning you can salvage it without and negatives.
Salvaged that whole Arrow and didn't get even ONE crate of salvage. Since Arrow missions now cost 5000-20000, it means you'll need at least three of them to get one crate of material... which is worth around 13k. So, you'll spend 15k - 60k for the missions, and earn 13k from that. So, each mission will be a LOSS of 2k, at minimum.
They should make it so that you can strap the guns you salvage onto the back deck above the door, it's got little rails that look like tiedown spots, just need some space rachet straps.
So Vulture still have the UI indicating the amount of cmats it's munching, but somehow Reclaimers don't have that anymore
Great Vid as always Farrister!! This was also the first thing I did when I jumped back in. Word of advise for ALL your subscribers and you of course. DO NOT VENTURE TO ARC L4, it is TOTALLY BUGGED AND NO DOORS OR ASOPS ON THE STATION WORK.
You could probably find a way to make more money for the time spent (say, quant mining) but salvaging is still good. And now with the server recovery you don't even lose contracts so easily when the server goes down.
Getting 15 bucks for a small city destroying missile will never not hurt my feelings
lol
considering atm 1 box of RCM goes for about 14k I dont see the point in storing 8 big guns that go for 10k together when they take up the same amount of space as 2-4 boxes, you could get 30-60k worth of RCU instead in that space since the vulture is as you say not very big.
I love the Ice Breaker livery.
"Starting Salvage from Zero" - stats in a 2.6m Vulture
Just a warning, loose guns in the back can blow up your ship. No idea if they fixed that but it's very common and usually nobody does it again.
How are you not experiencing the hull scraping bug where the speed to scrape is twice as long?
love the ui change and new graphic change settings.
Well, it's not really start from 0. You already have kitted out Vulture.
There's no such thing as a tedious journey in SC. You can grab a drink and a snack. It's all part of the immersion. ☺
Take your vulture on bunker missions, so far since update there has always been at least 2 ships sat there from players who died
I too enjoy playing box boy on a salvage mission
I don't like that you lose your ship shields when you switch between flight modes. That doesn't make any sense to me.
420k per run in the Vulture if you strictly salvage panels. Didn't take long to get a couple mill. I love that they have options if you don't want to buy contracts.
How ? If i sell a 12 scu of RMC i get like 136k
@@scharrk You can get way more than 12 boxes in there, and also fill up the hopper before heading back. If it does not bug out. If it bugs out and says cargo full after selling you'll have to go to somewhere else to sell a second time, maybe a salvage yard. Or claim ship.
wher do you buy the abrade slavage heads??????
From one of the orbital stations - sadly I don't remember which!
@@Farrister basically all dumpers depot/platinum bays
Master modes let's you stop super quick...
If you're at top speed on nav mode then change to scm mode you'll stop immediately.
I got 19gs in a Hull C stopping from full speed.
Yup! I'm starting to get used to it now
What's the button to fracture again ? didn't play in a while
I enjoy this video. I also like that skin. I think i am going to look at getting it. It would be nice if you could buy a weapon rack to stack weapons efficiently. I also enjoy stacking boxes. I like the new star map also but there are some minor details I think could use improvement. Better direction to star ports would be nice and the search feature does not seem to be working for me. also, you can land on the planets surface and use the surface entrance so you don't have to ride the train. I am wondering if you have to build rep to get larger ship contracts like bounties.
How do you get both of the Scraper Beams to converge to a single spot. Mine are nowhere close to each other. And most of the time only one beam is contacting the ship I am scraping. I have used Left Alt + Mouse Wheel and it does Nothing At All. Also I have scraped several ships Completely and it still doesn't give me credit for scraping the ship. Are you using Gimbal Mode?
Th amount of material needs increased. It’s silly to get only a couple boxes after compressing a whole ship.
Vulture needs a roof rack for components and guns!
Hey Farrister would you consider making a video for new people on the packages please ? My friend is getting it soon and would love to show.him your thoughts. A sort of aurora v mustang thing and the pros and cons
I just wish the Vulture had at least a little more cargo area.
I know what you mean, and it kinda already does with the internal hopper!
how come some pilots seem to see the legit missions but not showing for me in 3.23
how does one get that paint???
Icebreak paint, it was a free gift for Luminalia (Christmas)
@@VoltKraken5555 oh okay. Thank you!
Anyone else having issues with changing the salvage modules? I bought a few abrades but it won't let me, it's actually stuck as empty so my vulture is completely useless right now. Changed in the menu just don't save.
Would like to see starting from ACTUAL zero - like without a ship so we know where to buy, outfit, etc...
There are tons of beginners guides out there just search for them
@@Brandon-bd8fk relax pal, it's called feedback, and no there's not - at least not specifically targeted to the vulture. Been away from SC for a bit, and when I come back - Farrister's one of the first I go to, hence the suggestion.
@@cuberille “relax pal” lol maybe you relax there baby girl
I filled my vulture cargo grid and pathway, only to notice i can't sell on seraphim station anymore.😢 Then I remembered I can't use the ladder so I can't get back into my ship. But have no fear, storeing the ship made all the cargo on the grid disappear 🤬🤣
I prefer doing satellite missions(illegal monitors detected). They grant 16k instead of paying and you can salvage all enemies around the 3 satellites after taking them out. Fighting them is imho quicker than everytime travelling. Just my opinion. Made 350k in a single mission. Just keeping rmc kicking other out into space. Possible are 21 scus in cargo room and another 13 of course in salvaging storage. Lead to half a million in rmc possible. Rmc comes only from hull dismantling and construction parts from the broken bodies so dont pick them up. Try yourself.
Still a good way to earn. I’m enjoying using the vulture. I need to break out the Prospector again. Been about 2 patches since I mined anything.
They need to add more hammerhead contracts :O
Would be nice to play this patch but for some reason the game keeps crashing on me 30 minutes to 1 hour of playing and then i cannot join any servers because my character stays in the server for a loong time.
What paint is this? I cant find it online. Such a nice paint.
Question is the salvage laser/sucker lethal?
where do you find the new ship part and how much is it?
I like going to Grim Hex and salvaging panels I find it better than the contracts
I think so too, I might show the panels in my next salvage video
still not sure why the reclaimer doesnt have bigger better hull scrapers.
I wish it could break larger ships. I prefer it to the Reclaimer (SC Nostromo).