I am an American and pronounce it "crack-en" like many others, but also realize that it is of Norwegian Etymology and Farrister's pronunciation is closest to its sound in Norwegian. Having said that, this situation often makes for debate: common pronunciation versus actual pronunciation.
The Kraken has been released into the dry dock series! This was an excellent video which I have a personal interest in. Can’t wait for the next episode of dry dock.
What an interesting ship design. I can't wait for SC to be developed enough to support this style of group game play. Thanks for another excellent episode, Farrister!
The Kraken having weaker armor compared to other ships of similar size would make perfect sense. It is an aircraft carrier, and as an aircraft carrier, its primary function is to extend the effective range of fighter craft that otherwise wouldn’t be able to reach the combat zone, not be the spearhead of a capital ship assault. I can’t wait to see the inevitable UA-cam videos of people getting their hands on this ship and see how many Mirai Furys fit on the deck of this thing. Ooo, ooo….two Krakens, both loaded with Furys, or other snub fighters, massive space battle that looks like something out of Star Wars.
This has to be one of the most wanted ships but how will it be used in the gameplay is still not fully known. Can't wait to see it in-game and find out how expensive it is going to be to keep a ship of this size moving in the verse.
I just discovered this series of yours yesterday, and it led to me watching all your ship reviews as well (not that I'm done yet). Really enjoying the time and thought you've put into these.
Ah, the wonderful Drake Kraken. Luckily it makes for a great poster, or monitor background. As it is not going to be anything else in my lifetime. I don't expect to make it to 2053.
I want this ship for the so many possible roles it can play for everyone who wants to use it for a jump off point and storage facility and not have to return to a home planet,allowing them to continue to work, it would require you to stay on line for long periods of time on this ship to work,while others run their operations and that is where I see the overall problem.Besides that I think it is glorious ship and I love it and the differences between the base Kraken and the Privateer are important those additional fuel tanks on the base ship for refueling are very important and without them I don't see how the privateer will function properly unless you have a Starfarer parked on the side of the ship constantly refueling but there again another game play loop for Starfarers/Gemini those guns and missiles would be a welcome addition if attacked.thank you as always great job,have a great day and see you in the verse.
I could definitely see this as the mobile base/squadron mobile carrier of potentially any in game player made factions, surrounded by a number of escorts meant for ship to ship combat while this ship carries most of their fighters. I love this ships concept and I wanna see more of it soon
@@Farrister that is true indeed 😊 anything can happen, from what I heard it’s a possibility we can at somepoint hire npc’s of sorts to run certain parts of a ship you have, not sure how true it is but if so that’ll make things interesting. might be a cost over time type thing since ya gotta pay them and all that but for richer in game players it would prolly be worth it. If that happens ofc 😅
I hope we get a Drydock episode for the Idris in terms of speculating how we could see it in SQ42 and how that relates to SC's lore. It's in an interesting position of being the campaign's main ship while also being gated behind whenever the campaign is considered playable (regarding the ship's mechanics that will be used in different points of the campaign) in order for anyone to be able to fly it in the Persistent Universe,\.
Listening to how you describe the Krakens "heavy armament" the ship started to remind me of the Graf Zeppelin. A carrier that was built by Nazi Germany during WW2. The ship was almost complete but never finished. What made that ship "special" was it´s heavy artillery to defend itself against other ships or directly get involved in commerce raiding. I can see the Kraken do the same thing. Instead of staying far away from the action the Kraken could stay close and engage once some of the bigger threats have been taken of the board by the deployed quadrons.
Yes! 'Teller' has a great cinematic footage from when it was first announced, 'Star Citizen RSI Orion Preview', as does 'GrayheadedGamer' with 'RSI Orion scale and mining mechanics'...
Place a Kraken fully loaded with ships and a Starfarer at a jump gate.....lots of stories to come out of that...Great job on the Vid Farrister, well done!! Keep more Dry Dock coming Buds!!
An org with a Kraken, a Javelin, maybe a few Polaris, Starfarers and Liberators … plus a LOT of fighters, could OWN the Pyro system and move through it with impunity. Org members could accompany it and pay a tithe from the massive profits that such protection could make possible. As long as enough org members are online to keep the ships in game, you could have duty rosters and specialists for each post. And an engineer … a Scottish engineer.
I can see orgs becoming practical with Pyro … being part of a group that owns a Kraken and travelling in the safety of a heavily armed fleet would be very appealing and the profits made possible by that bubble of protection could make an org very wealthy and influential in the ‘verse. The logistics of org administration and finances needs to be imbedded into the game before Pyro and capital ships are released. The power of officially sanctioned player orgs needs to mesh seamlessly with the economy and reputation systems now, or chaos will ensue when people start to join them in earnest.
Kraken has to stay online and operate to certain degree without his owner. So we need full persistence, AI crew and log off model. At least. About log off model: - Will my ship disappear if i log out while landed? I guess yes, in other case it's possible to troll Kraken with secondary accounts - occupy all spots and never log in again. In that case we can have ANY number of fighters aboard. Need 100 people? Land and log out one by one. Then log back, retrive ships and take off. - Will i disappear if i log out while in bed? Same question. If i take bed until i log in - thats bad. We can get permanently occupied beds. And if you disappear - why do you need beds? ANY number of people can log in on Avenger Titan.
The Kraken Q&A addressed some of this, by suggesting that once everybody logged off, ship despawns. But whenever one person comes online, it comes back
This is the perfect flagship for a small to medium size org. I can imagine having a couple of terrapins or stealth ships like the razor ex aboard to scout safe routes or as an early warning system, and the Kraken itself escorting large mining or salvage operations (like salvaging a huge haul after a big fleet battle in the verse). The possibilities are really endless. You could base your whole org on being security service for industrial ops, though I bet it will mostly get used as a pirate base...
It's going to be very cool to see a Drake carrier group take out some Hull series ships. The Kraken can sit near a trade route, maybe a few hundred km off the cargo travel path, and deploy a snare ship, and some buccaneers. If they can disrupt it, they can steal it and bring it back to the Kraken, potentially outside of comms range, and essentially un-findable. Very cool.
"...I don't fink it's "kra'ken" anyways. Always heard it said "krayken"." "What, wiv a long 'a'?" "Uh-huh." "N-n-n-n-n-nah. "Kroken's" how it's pronounced in the original Scandinavian, and "kra'ken's" closer tuh that." "Well we ain't original Scandinavians, are we? Krayken." "It's a myfological creatuh, I can calls it what I wants."
We wants it, we wants it Preciousss. Being a Drake ship the sanitation installation design philosophy will be "if a landed ship has facilities the crew are to use their own, otherwise the ship head is on C deck. There may be a queue so plan accordingly". As dor combat, those turrets make little sense and even a cargo hauler might outrun it unless it is fast by capital ship standards. More theorycrafting, with no fghters or support craft how does it fare against a couple of Hammerheads which seems to me to be a very plausible scenario. I'd want to know that the S8 and any S6 turrets that will bear would be able to make nasty holes in the Hammerheads because it seems to me that in classic wet navy style if the on board air wing is neutralised you are in very big trouble and say 5 fighters isn't very many. I look forward to more on this ship. As a mobile base becomes a whole new thing to support reconnaisance in force missions. That vast cargo bay may need to be full of spare parts and, I fervently hope, somewhere is a respawn facility with T 1 med bay. It would be interesting to be able to have a fixed number of carried ship respawns from sets of components in easy assemble flatpack style stowage or replicators or whatever such that each carried ship can respawn locally a (very) limited number of times or attrition makes the ship unviable quite quickly and I'm thinking Pyro here. The implication being that the range nerf bat is coming for a lot of combat ships and maybe the only small craft that can get back by itself will be those specifcally intended as having a long range. An air wing of Pisces and Cutters does have a certain grin factor, each with the ramp down and a crewman with a railgun poised for action!
Excellent introduction to the Kraken with a video well done! But... 10:26 "Note: I still expect that to be a mulitplayer experience. I don't envisage a situation where a single player is somehow operating both the Kraken AND multiple on-board space craft at the same time." YOU just watch me young man! It'll be my personal mobile space station! Off to a bit of mining? Just park the kraken somewhere safe near the mining zone and pop out your miner and go! Bounty hunting? No problem, again park at a safe distance and pick a fighter and go at it! You already mentioned salvaging. I'll even make a marketplace out of it, forget the Banu! In all seriousness, that ship just seems like too much effort, but during expos I will rent it and do exactly what I said!
Haha it sounds like you agree with me though! Flying one ship at a time, that's what I'm saying! (They could both be spawned, but you'd only be flying one)
@@BosieUA-cam oh I'm sure that's possible, I can imagine pronunciation from Scotland or Norfolk or Cornwall being very different too! But Google seems to say I'm not far off
Great coverage. I love the Kraken but sadly will never own one since I am mainly a solo player. Would be nice if the remote turrets can be swapped out for 4 quad s3. That would make for much better protection from light fighters.
It's just really hard to have group play right now with the current state of the game, so I sympathize. I too enjoy solo play because I dont have to rely on people for timing my gameplay. I hope that NPC's and Blades can solve this problem because it seems to be a common cry for people who want solo play with their massive ship.
I dunno, I see it differently. I was group playing at the weekend, and loved it. I think having these larger ships being multi crew only creates a real purposeful reason for people to get together. It may not be an every day experience, but it's special when it happens.
Another great theory Drydock. I’ve bought a Liberator (and id love to see an episode in it) 😮as I think it’s probably more “reasonable”….. but a Kraken is a long term goal for myself and the group I play with. As a mobile base it just seems cool, and so far it appears to be able to enter atmosphere, so that’s super useful. Also…. I don’t want to play back cause I’m lazy, but I think you missed that there are 2 internal small hangers on, so a total of 6 small pads. Also there’s a bay of some sort for 4?? hover bikes.
Great video!!! You should try and get Drachifinel to do a drydock video with you! Between both of your enthusiasm, perspective, intelligence and similar yet varying interests in naval/space combat it would be so interesting!!! He also holds an engineering degree that could only add some value and interesting takes!!
Seeing how rearming is at the moment, one torp ship could re-arm and fire from close range of the kraken making it able to dish out an extreme amount of damage without being close to the target. Easy to have autocannons in the weapons slots to target smaller ships and with increases to ammo I can see it being pretty effective.
One god thing about the Kraken (if yer foolish enough to own one) is you can operate an all Drake ecosystem, using the Kraken for a deep space home for all your other Drake ships.
What I want from my Kraken: To slowly build up credits and eventually reach a point where I can hire a whole crew and fighter compliment armed with Buccaneers and Cutlasses from my Hangar, wherein I essentially become the head of an NPC mercenary company, funding the vessel and crew with the spoils of our contract missions uniquely suited to our large size. What I will get from my Kraken: A very large paperweight that will be no more than a glorified garage landed in the middle of nowhere planetside unless I can somehow convince my friends to not only play the game regularly, but to also invest in a computer capable of doing so. I am truly aware that CIG will not make it so, but I dream of a Star Citizen where I pay the costs of crew pay and maintenance with the profits obtained from using the ship like you would in a real life business venture. Unfortunately, I doubt the NPC crew will be robust enough to make that happen. As much as I want to be a crew captain, my social anxiety and overall avoidance of strangers is stronger.
i think CIG mixed it up, whether or not the kraken is a new or an old ship. - at least, there was mentionings in various interviews that the developement decision behind the kraken spring the requirement of having an mobile pirate base for squadron.
What S.C. ships would make up their equivalent (carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, subs, supply ships and tenders) "Battle Fleet"? What S.C. would make up an "Exploration Fleet" (survey ship[s], science ship, escort ship, supply ship, etc...)?
This should make it a great mobile base for players and their friends to secure important places of interest, which will provide a new gameplay element to star citizen: base capturing Also i wish the kraken to have all the amenities seen in ships such as the Polaris and the carrack
Still only at 0:49 but I wanted to ask... doesn't it require server meshing? If you own one of these it's probably your main base, so you'd probably have your ship on it, and fly them off places to do things. When you come back, you need it to still be there, and that might be several days later, depending on your availability. I know PES is in, but we can't select specific shards, and if we can, who's to say it won't be full?
@@Farrister 2 eclipses, 2 freelancer MIS, then first mis fires 50 missiles and in that chaos the eclipses fire theirs, good luck. thats how hamas overwhelmed israeli defense.
Furies need to be NPC swarm ships, like TIE Fighters. I wouldn’t waste my time flying a light fighter without a quantum drive, but having a squadron of them pouring out of an NPC capital ship would be awesome.
My first thought; can a ship jump to a Kraken's location? Maybe jump to one or two OM's (to escape any tail), than jump to the Kracken out of scanning range of battle, but in detection range from a prearranged OM? Used as an "Exploration Fleet" escort and/or supply ship for the fleet (Hull ships rendezvous with it every two weeks, moth)?
I mean you summed it up pretty good and I do agree that it's going to be the glue for multi-roll gameplay especially with the new mechanics of multi roll coming out but can I see a video on dry dock of the RSI Polaris
As a owner of one i cant wait to fly mine through recently obliterated pirates or security forces and have my crew stand on the deck and salvaging the scraps while flying by. 😉
Imo ships like the kraken exclusively exist for org gameplay. There is simply no way this ship is useful in any shape or form for a single person (tho I'm well aware that this won't stop said players from soloing the kraken anyway). And whether or not multi crew gameplay will work out in the long run depends entirely on how CIG is gonna implement it. If they find a way to have people log out and back in to a multicrew ship without it having to be manned 24/7 I don't see any issues there...but if not I'd also be in the camp of "multicrew gameplay will crash and burn in the long run", but we'll see (hopefully).
$2000 real money for a digital ship I seen the carrak for $1100 that's crazy I've only been playing for 3 weeks I got the starter aorua Mr for $40 dollars then upgraded it to the vulture which I love. I'll just wait until it's able to purchase in game in 8 years lol I have about 20 ships 890j carrack c2 m2 a2 vulture 600i Caterpillar Corsair redeemer reclaimer hull a plus others I got them all for about $15 granted I know the next wipe there gone I just cannot justify spending over $400 for a digital ship
Intresting ship but easy to obtain ingame. No rep needed for drake ships. Don't buy with real cash. Idris is alot harder to obtain ingame need very high good rep
Bengal would be a heavy carrier. Pegasus might be a medium, thought it's almost as big as a Bengal, but doesn't have the firepower or multiple flight decks.
In the real world, the price of a Kraken won't buy a car, won't make a mortgage payment, cover a month of rent, or even keep the wife happy for very long. In the game world.... For the price of a Kraken, you could be a pirate king... I'm going to have to do some thinking.
Careful you're starting to do some mental gymnastics 🙃 It's still a lot of money in real life if you're not rich, a lot of groceries or fuel, hell you must live in an expensive place it'd cover my rent for multiple months. Plus you won't be any pirate king just for getting a Kraken, not without a small horde of friends or accommodating ORG. Everyone is captain in their own fantasy. Lot of Kraken owners start sweating when CIG mentions blades, NPCs, etc, cause their whole dream rests on systems that are still theoretical.
@@Fe7Ace All valid points. I'm just a little spicy that my phone's wearing out, trucks got rust, house is sinking funds, but meanwhile my Aegis Avenger is as shiny and new as the day I ordered it.
One does not simply pronounce 'Kraken' 🙃
Nah if I realised I pronounced something this poorly I'd reupload I stg 🤣🤣
Love you man but how do you mispronounce something so badly
@@99_sam I actually covered this in another video - I'm not so sure it is a mispronunciation! It's certainly how the word is pronounced where I am!
Kraken, not Kraaken. ❤
@@Farrister I’m not sure I’ve never heard anyone in the Uk pronounce it that way but it’s nice that we have such unique regional dialects lol
I am an American and pronounce it "crack-en" like many others, but also realize that it is of Norwegian Etymology and Farrister's pronunciation is closest to its sound in Norwegian. Having said that, this situation often makes for debate: common pronunciation versus actual pronunciation.
My 1000 IQ Kraken plan is the fit as many tanks onto the land decks as possible, and use them for broadsides, it's foolproof
Oh gosh
You can do that with the 890 rn
One day when it’s in the game, I would love to be a crew member for something like this 😂
@@kaimanberkey I would honestly have tons of fun RPing as the head chef on the ship running the chow hall
Very drake of you. I like it
Speculation of Star Citizen is 3/4 of the fun and entertainment value of the project so far .
The Kraken has been released into the dry dock series! This was an excellent video which I have a personal interest in. Can’t wait for the next episode of dry dock.
If you haven't already, I would love a DryDock series on the Anvil Liberator. That's the pocket carrier I'm looking forward to (mining and salvage).
Dry dock is a great addition to all your series!
Thank you! They are very fun to make
I second this assertion.
This ship is so needed right now in the universe
>spawn it in
>server FPS hits 3 average
>door to get on the kraken doesn't respond
i can see it now
What an interesting ship design. I can't wait for SC to be developed enough to support this style of group game play. Thanks for another excellent episode, Farrister!
Thanks, I think more of the work would be in the modelling for this thing than the actual gameplay implementation - might be wrong though!
The Kraken having weaker armor compared to other ships of similar size would make perfect sense. It is an aircraft carrier, and as an aircraft carrier, its primary function is to extend the effective range of fighter craft that otherwise wouldn’t be able to reach the combat zone, not be the spearhead of a capital ship assault.
I can’t wait to see the inevitable UA-cam videos of people getting their hands on this ship and see how many Mirai Furys fit on the deck of this thing.
Ooo, ooo….two Krakens, both loaded with Furys, or other snub fighters, massive space battle that looks like something out of Star Wars.
Totally!!
I really can’t wait to fly this ship out of dock with my Org mates for the first time. Just so many possibilities. Thanks Farrister!
So many!!
Can't wait to use mine! LETS GO!
Ahhh the ship of my dreams. I hope to see the day when I earn this in game.
This has to be one of the most wanted ships but how will it be used in the gameplay is still not fully known. Can't wait to see it in-game and find out how expensive it is going to be to keep a ship of this size moving in the verse.
I don't really want one myself, but I'd love to be one of the fighter pilots based out of it!
I bought one lol
I think for many, that's precisely the appeal
@@mercilessyoungproductions1613how much was it lol
@@Pathologic9I’m not happy about it but 2K 😅. I melted majority of my fleet for it.
Very well put and said. Thank you! Love the dry dock series 😊
Thank you, and I'm glad! More to follow :)
I just discovered this series of yours yesterday, and it led to me watching all your ship reviews as well (not that I'm done yet). Really enjoying the time and thought you've put into these.
I really appreciate this kind of content. Have a nice weekend
Thank you, and to you!
cool video, nice to dive into things a little deeper. Thanks
Ah, the wonderful Drake Kraken.
Luckily it makes for a great poster, or monitor background.
As it is not going to be anything else in my lifetime. I don't expect to make it to 2053.
I want this ship for the so many possible roles it can play for everyone who wants to use it for a jump off point and storage facility and not have to return to a home planet,allowing them to continue to work, it would require you to stay on line for long periods of time on this ship to work,while others run their operations and that is where I see the overall problem.Besides that I think it is glorious ship and I love it and the differences between the base Kraken and the Privateer are important those additional fuel tanks on the base ship for refueling are very important and without them I don't see how the privateer will function properly unless you have a Starfarer parked on the side of the ship constantly refueling but there again another game play loop for Starfarers/Gemini those guns and missiles would be a welcome addition if attacked.thank you as always great job,have a great day and see you in the verse.
i LOVE the drydock, keep it up
I've heard a few players wanting to get this ship. I'm more of a solo ship style. Thanks for the video.
I really don't think this will be a ship for the solo crowd, but perhaps I'm wrong!
I could definitely see this as the mobile base/squadron mobile carrier of potentially any in game player made factions, surrounded by a number of escorts meant for ship to ship combat while this ship carries most of their fighters. I love this ships concept and I wanna see more of it soon
For sure - lots of people required though!
@@Farrister that is true indeed 😊 anything can happen, from what I heard it’s a possibility we can at somepoint hire npc’s of sorts to run certain parts of a ship you have, not sure how true it is but if so that’ll make things interesting. might be a cost over time type thing since ya gotta pay them and all that but for richer in game players it would prolly be worth it. If that happens ofc 😅
I hope we get a Drydock episode for the Idris in terms of speculating how we could see it in SQ42 and how that relates to SC's lore. It's in an interesting position of being the campaign's main ship while also being gated behind whenever the campaign is considered playable (regarding the ship's mechanics that will be used in different points of the campaign) in order for anyone to be able to fly it in the Persistent Universe,\.
Well hello there... ua-cam.com/video/373hkHEZD7U/v-deo.html
Listening to how you describe the Krakens "heavy armament" the ship started to remind me of the Graf Zeppelin.
A carrier that was built by Nazi Germany during WW2. The ship was almost complete but never finished.
What made that ship "special" was it´s heavy artillery to defend itself against other ships or directly get involved in commerce raiding.
I can see the Kraken do the same thing. Instead of staying far away from the action the Kraken could stay close and engage once some of the bigger threats have been taken of the board by the deployed quadrons.
You know, it totally has Graf Zeppelin vibes! Now I gotta go back and revisit Hearts of Iron, sigh
I would love to see a drydock video of the rsi orion 😊
Yes! 'Teller' has a great cinematic footage from when it was first announced, 'Star Citizen RSI Orion Preview', as does 'GrayheadedGamer' with 'RSI Orion scale and mining mechanics'...
Oooh, an oldie!
@@Farrister I still love it tho
Place a Kraken fully loaded with ships and a Starfarer at a jump gate.....lots of stories to come out of that...Great job on the Vid Farrister, well done!! Keep more Dry Dock coming Buds!!
An org with a Kraken, a Javelin, maybe a few Polaris, Starfarers and Liberators … plus a LOT of fighters, could OWN the Pyro system and move through it with impunity.
Org members could accompany it and pay a tithe from the massive profits that such protection could make possible.
As long as enough org members are online to keep the ships in game, you could have duty rosters and specialists for each post.
And an engineer … a Scottish engineer.
I can see orgs becoming practical with Pyro … being part of a group that owns a Kraken and travelling in the safety of a heavily armed fleet would be very appealing and the profits made possible by that bubble of protection could make an org very wealthy and influential in the ‘verse.
The logistics of org administration and finances needs to be imbedded into the game before Pyro and capital ships are released.
The power of officially sanctioned player orgs needs to mesh seamlessly with the economy and reputation systems now, or chaos will ensue when people start to join them in earnest.
Kraken has to stay online and operate to certain degree without his owner. So we need full persistence, AI crew and log off model. At least.
About log off model:
- Will my ship disappear if i log out while landed? I guess yes, in other case it's possible to troll Kraken with secondary accounts - occupy all spots and never log in again. In that case we can have ANY number of fighters aboard. Need 100 people? Land and log out one by one. Then log back, retrive ships and take off.
- Will i disappear if i log out while in bed? Same question. If i take bed until i log in - thats bad. We can get permanently occupied beds. And if you disappear - why do you need beds? ANY number of people can log in on Avenger Titan.
The Kraken Q&A addressed some of this, by suggesting that once everybody logged off, ship despawns. But whenever one person comes online, it comes back
This is the perfect flagship for a small to medium size org. I can imagine having a couple of terrapins or stealth ships like the razor ex aboard to scout safe routes or as an early warning system, and the Kraken itself escorting large mining or salvage operations (like salvaging a huge haul after a big fleet battle in the verse). The possibilities are really endless. You could base your whole org on being security service for industrial ops, though I bet it will mostly get used as a pirate base...
It's going to be very cool to see a Drake carrier group take out some Hull series ships. The Kraken can sit near a trade route, maybe a few hundred km off the cargo travel path, and deploy a snare ship, and some buccaneers. If they can disrupt it, they can steal it and bring it back to the Kraken, potentially outside of comms range, and essentially un-findable. Very cool.
I am so interested in the kraken. I hope it comes to the game sooner than later
"...I don't fink it's "kra'ken" anyways. Always heard it said "krayken"."
"What, wiv a long 'a'?"
"Uh-huh."
"N-n-n-n-n-nah. "Kroken's" how it's pronounced in the original Scandinavian, and "kra'ken's" closer tuh that."
"Well we ain't original Scandinavians, are we? Krayken."
"It's a myfological creatuh, I can calls it what I wants."
We wants it, we wants it Preciousss. Being a Drake ship the sanitation installation design philosophy will be "if a landed ship has facilities the crew are to use their own, otherwise the ship head is on C deck. There may be a queue so plan accordingly". As dor combat, those turrets make little sense and even a cargo hauler might outrun it unless it is fast by capital ship standards. More theorycrafting, with no fghters or support craft how does it fare against a couple of Hammerheads which seems to me to be a very plausible scenario. I'd want to know that the S8 and any S6 turrets that will bear would be able to make nasty holes in the Hammerheads because it seems to me that in classic wet navy style if the on board air wing is neutralised you are in very big trouble and say 5 fighters isn't very many. I look forward to more on this ship. As a mobile base becomes a whole new thing to support reconnaisance in force missions. That vast cargo bay may need to be full of spare parts and, I fervently hope, somewhere is a respawn facility with T 1 med bay. It would be interesting to be able to have a fixed number of carried ship respawns from sets of components in easy assemble flatpack style stowage or replicators or whatever such that each carried ship can respawn locally a (very) limited number of times or attrition makes the ship unviable quite quickly and I'm thinking Pyro here. The implication being that the range nerf bat is coming for a lot of combat ships and maybe the only small craft that can get back by itself will be those specifcally intended as having a long range. An air wing of Pisces and Cutters does have a certain grin factor, each with the ramp down and a crewman with a railgun poised for action!
Haha I enjoyed the comment about "use your own bathroom" especially xD
Excellent introduction to the Kraken with a video well done! But...
10:26 "Note: I still expect that to be a mulitplayer experience. I don't envisage a situation where a single player is somehow operating both the Kraken AND multiple on-board space craft at the same time."
YOU just watch me young man! It'll be my personal mobile space station! Off to a bit of mining? Just park the kraken somewhere safe near the mining zone and pop out your miner and go! Bounty hunting? No problem, again park at a safe distance and pick a fighter and go at it! You already mentioned salvaging. I'll even make a marketplace out of it, forget the Banu!
In all seriousness, that ship just seems like too much effort, but during expos I will rent it and do exactly what I said!
Haha it sounds like you agree with me though! Flying one ship at a time, that's what I'm saying! (They could both be spawned, but you'd only be flying one)
I just discovered the kraken as a future ship! Absolutely cannot wait to get one and fly it around with a vulture crew
Dude, the way you say Kraken makes me go all Michael Scott!
Haha it's the British way, it seems!
@@Farrister As a fellow Brit I say it quite different!
@@BosieUA-cam oh I'm sure that's possible, I can imagine pronunciation from Scotland or Norfolk or Cornwall being very different too! But Google seems to say I'm not far off
Great coverage. I love the Kraken but sadly will never own one since I am mainly a solo player. Would be nice if the remote turrets can be swapped out for 4 quad s3. That would make for much better protection from light fighters.
That would be, although I wonder whether this was a conscious design choice too
Great video as always. I love the new series idea!
More to come!
It's just really hard to have group play right now with the current state of the game, so I sympathize. I too enjoy solo play because I dont have to rely on people for timing my gameplay. I hope that NPC's and Blades can solve this problem because it seems to be a common cry for people who want solo play with their massive ship.
I dunno, I see it differently. I was group playing at the weekend, and loved it. I think having these larger ships being multi crew only creates a real purposeful reason for people to get together. It may not be an every day experience, but it's special when it happens.
Cant wait for this beauty of a ship.
Might have to :(
Another great theory Drydock. I’ve bought a Liberator (and id love to see an episode in it) 😮as I think it’s probably more “reasonable”….. but a Kraken is a long term goal for myself and the group I play with. As a mobile base it just seems cool, and so far it appears to be able to enter atmosphere, so that’s super useful.
Also…. I don’t want to play back cause I’m lazy, but I think you missed that there are 2 internal small hangers on, so a total of 6 small pads. Also there’s a bay of some sort for 4?? hover bikes.
Ah I did refer to those briefly, but perhaps should have made more of a deal of them!
Great video!!!
You should try and get Drachifinel to do a drydock video with you!
Between both of your enthusiasm, perspective, intelligence and similar yet varying interests in naval/space combat it would be so interesting!!!
He also holds an engineering degree that could only add some value and interesting takes!!
Maybe one day!
Seeing how rearming is at the moment, one torp ship could re-arm and fire from close range of the kraken making it able to dish out an extreme amount of damage without being close to the target. Easy to have autocannons in the weapons slots to target smaller ships and with increases to ammo I can see it being pretty effective.
Once CIG gets another capital size ship released, then I’ll get my hopes up for this. Hopefully……Soon.😬
Love this ship. So versatile
One god thing about the Kraken (if yer foolish enough to own one) is you can operate an all Drake ecosystem, using the Kraken for a deep space home for all your other Drake ships.
What I want from my Kraken: To slowly build up credits and eventually reach a point where I can hire a whole crew and fighter compliment armed with Buccaneers and Cutlasses from my Hangar, wherein I essentially become the head of an NPC mercenary company, funding the vessel and crew with the spoils of our contract missions uniquely suited to our large size.
What I will get from my Kraken: A very large paperweight that will be no more than a glorified garage landed in the middle of nowhere planetside unless I can somehow convince my friends to not only play the game regularly, but to also invest in a computer capable of doing so.
I am truly aware that CIG will not make it so, but I dream of a Star Citizen where I pay the costs of crew pay and maintenance with the profits obtained from using the ship like you would in a real life business venture. Unfortunately, I doubt the NPC crew will be robust enough to make that happen. As much as I want to be a crew captain, my social anxiety and overall avoidance of strangers is stronger.
I really liked the idea of the kraken when it was revealed. Id aim to be the only lawful kraken user in the verse if I had it, though!
2 of us
Lawful Kraken, kudos!
@@Farrister If its the only bike in town you ride it your way!
+1 Lawful Kraken captain 👍
i plan on using my kraken as a mobile station for salvaging and mining ops
A very cool use case
U may not be able to spawn ship. But u can probably allow ur ship to be "stored" on the kraken and logout and in on it
Yes, expect so
i think CIG mixed it up, whether or not the kraken is a new or an old ship. - at least, there was mentionings in various interviews that the developement decision behind the kraken spring the requirement of having an mobile pirate base for squadron.
I imagine lots of players will do exactly that...
Finally got one this year at IAE, can't wait to use it!!
Might have to wait a bit!
What S.C. ships would make up their equivalent (carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, subs, supply ships and tenders) "Battle Fleet"?
What S.C. would make up an "Exploration Fleet" (survey ship[s], science ship, escort ship, supply ship, etc...)?
It's a good question! Probably depends on the size and nature of the mission though...
This should make it a great mobile base for players and their friends to secure important places of interest, which will provide a new gameplay element to star citizen: base capturing
Also i wish the kraken to have all the amenities seen in ships such as the Polaris and the carrack
Still only at 0:49 but I wanted to ask... doesn't it require server meshing? If you own one of these it's probably your main base, so you'd probably have your ship on it, and fly them off places to do things. When you come back, you need it to still be there, and that might be several days later, depending on your availability. I know PES is in, but we can't select specific shards, and if we can, who's to say it won't be full?
Would you really leave it unattended and undefended?
the difference with the privateer and kraken is also that the privateer might come with a med bay and the plain kraken wont.
Good to know!
Great vid can’t wait for my kraken and idris k
Might have to :(
kraken against idris/javelin could win if it had 2-4 eclipses on board, then if those rearm quickly its done
I would assume Idris/Javelin would just shoot down the torpedoes
@@Farrister 2 eclipses, 2 freelancer MIS, then first mis fires 50 missiles and in that chaos the eclipses fire theirs, good luck.
thats how hamas overwhelmed israeli defense.
@@aka-47k that could work!
Imagine how many Furies you could fit in this bad boy.
Furies need to be NPC swarm ships, like TIE Fighters.
I wouldn’t waste my time flying a light fighter without a quantum drive, but having a squadron of them pouring out of an NPC capital ship would be awesome.
My first thought; can a ship jump to a Kraken's location?
Maybe jump to one or two OM's (to escape any tail), than jump to the Kracken out of scanning range of battle, but in detection range from a prearranged OM?
Used as an "Exploration Fleet" escort and/or supply ship for the fleet (Hull ships rendezvous with it every two weeks, moth)?
Not sure - but right now you can quantum jump to party members, so if there's still somebody aboard, maybe?
I have the feeling these will be chronically understaffed and usually pretty easy pickins.
Quite possibly!
we spent years asking for it, and we will spend more years asking
Quite possibly :(
We need this ship for Pyro! How does one get cargo from the landing pads to the cargobay?
Supposedly there is an internal tram!
@@Farrister There apparently is, and hopefully big enough for some cargo boxes. There's one on the Bengal too, which is definitely a necessity.
I mean you summed it up pretty good and I do agree that it's going to be the glue for multi-roll gameplay especially with the new mechanics of multi roll coming out but can I see a video on dry dock of the RSI Polaris
He already has one ua-cam.com/video/Oi2srMnwT10/v-deo.htmlsi=OSlY_iD9JK0QjeGX
Sea of Thieves seems to show people like multicrew instead of only flying their own.
I think so :)
5 years and work still hasnt been started on it...
Chris Roberts is the biggest obstacle to CIG
With how much is packed in the Kraken I would certainly expect it to bloat in width.
CitizenCon the next ship vote? 👀
I shudder to think!
Wait so we got the other two concepts that list first!!!
I am on the fence here with the Kraken.. I melted mine to get the endeavor master pack… I often wonder if that was a mistake.
As a owner of one i cant wait to fly mine through recently obliterated pirates or security forces and have my crew stand on the deck and salvaging the scraps while flying by. 😉
I got myself an Odyssey ...i would like more information
Having 4 air superiority fighters and 2 cutless for troop transport
Staging an invasion? :D
Excellent content, I’m off to sell my kidney then
haha
How's about a drydock about the Genesis Starliner. But, if your looking for a vid that catches more eyes, the Banu Merchantman is a sureshot.
Imo ships like the kraken exclusively exist for org gameplay. There is simply no way this ship is useful in any shape or form for a single person (tho I'm well aware that this won't stop said players from soloing the kraken anyway). And whether or not multi crew gameplay will work out in the long run depends entirely on how CIG is gonna implement it. If they find a way to have people log out and back in to a multicrew ship without it having to be manned 24/7 I don't see any issues there...but if not I'd also be in the camp of "multicrew gameplay will crash and burn in the long run", but we'll see (hopefully).
BAh! Drake junk! :P ( I still liked the video ;) )
Lol
Cig coming soon TM
I gotta know, did you choose to pronounce it "Kroh-ken" or is that how brits actually pronounce it?
How most British people would pronounce it I think
BMM next?
Will add to wishlist :)
The Kraken would be a cool ship, if my Idris didn't just derp it with it's smexy S10 boom boom machine
Your Idris needs server meshing first and PES and many more. So maybe in the next 10 years, if someone want to pay for dream
Great vid............ but one thing bugged me,
Is it "krar ken" or "Crack en" the 2nd is how I thought it was pronounced,
I think my way is more British English (although not exclusively), and the second is more American English (although not exclusively either)
$2000 real money for a digital ship I seen the carrak for $1100 that's crazy I've only been playing for 3 weeks I got the starter aorua Mr for $40 dollars then upgraded it to the vulture which I love. I'll just wait until it's able to purchase in game in 8 years lol I have about 20 ships 890j carrack c2 m2 a2 vulture 600i Caterpillar Corsair redeemer reclaimer hull a plus others I got them all for about $15 granted I know the next wipe there gone I just cannot justify spending over $400 for a digital ship
Concept Ships might never be released... just like concept cars. Those who can afford that even might not have the lifespan left to wait for it.
:(
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Kraken party!
Im wondering what a "luxury" carrier looks like 😆 🤣
[Origin has entered the chat]
This IS an unabashedly Org Vessel, not suited to an individual owner.
Agreed!!!
I want one! o7 🤣👍
Intresting ship but easy to obtain ingame. No rep needed for drake ships. Don't buy with real cash. Idris is alot harder to obtain ingame need very high good rep
I don't think that's clear at all at this stage...
is this ship going to be released soon?
……Soon. In SC terms means no.
10 more years....
Let's hope not :(
Long live the 🦑!!!!
Release the Kraken!
Do 890 :3
890 is in game! I'm hoping to do a refreshed ship review in the next few weeks :)
If they call this a *light carrier* i dont wan to know what a heavy carrier or even a normal carrier is gonna be.
Bengal would be a heavy carrier. Pegasus might be a medium, thought it's almost as big as a Bengal, but doesn't have the firepower or multiple flight decks.
$2,000 irl money
Scary
@@Farrister very 😆
In the real world, the price of a Kraken won't buy a car, won't make a mortgage payment, cover a month of rent, or even keep the wife happy for very long.
In the game world.... For the price of a Kraken, you could be a pirate king...
I'm going to have to do some thinking.
Careful you're starting to do some mental gymnastics 🙃
It's still a lot of money in real life if you're not rich, a lot of groceries or fuel, hell you must live in an expensive place it'd cover my rent for multiple months.
Plus you won't be any pirate king just for getting a Kraken, not without a small horde of friends or accommodating ORG. Everyone is captain in their own fantasy. Lot of Kraken owners start sweating when CIG mentions blades, NPCs, etc, cause their whole dream rests on systems that are still theoretical.
@@Fe7Ace All valid points. I'm just a little spicy that my phone's wearing out, trucks got rust, house is sinking funds, but meanwhile my Aegis Avenger is as shiny and new as the day I ordered it.
me first i love u mustache man
The concept ship that will never happen
:(
Too expensive, and the crew size is too big for my taste. I'd like to see a sleeker carrier of that size from a different manufacturer though.
Fair enough!