Star Citizen - F8C Lightning - Ballistics Build Is Nuts! - Patch 3.20

I'm a fan of the Tarantulas. Loved them when they were stock on the Freelancer.

Even with the VK-00 Quantum you can go Crusader to MT and back on one tank. So no point in taking anything else

Nice to see a video from you on this. I've been thoroughly impressed with this ship. I started doing Combat Beacons back to back along with some bounties. Seeing it take damage and still perform well was rather impressive. I was running a full laser repeater loadout, and that was working okay. But I swapped to 4 laser repeaters and 4 distortions, and I was having no issues with moderate and some high threat beacons, taking down hammerheads was a lot easier with distortions. I got one person in an Ion backing me up, and then we started doing the higher tier high threat beacons and a couple critical threat beacons with no issues. With how many hardpoints you have, it's worth the tradeoff in damage to run some distortions I think. As for the drama, I think its overblown and people are getting too mad about something that was going to happen anyway. SQ42 completion (with certain achievements ) was going to basically give you the same thing as a ticket, get it in game and/or purchase it through the store. I've seen plenty of concierge members okay with it, and a few who aren't. I think any notions of exclusivity are strange, since everyone was going to have it at some point. They've made it non-tradeable so there's no greymarket weirdness with it, and you have to play the game to get it. I think the event is fun, yeah it is a cash grab but so is every ship sale really. I think they wanted to build some hype before citcon.

So many people complaining that it’s OP and it’s getting nerfed.. blah blah. Is it strong? Yes, it’s supposed to be. Is it OP? No, it’s doing what it’s supposed to do. Does it need some tuning? Sure. Remove the ability to put turrets on the S3 points, lower the top speed by 100 m/s, and maybe drop a shield generator. It’s maneuverable enough to avoid fire and fast enough to engage at will, plus it has lots of hull HP. One power plant and two coolers doesn’t make sense for its current shield and weapon loadout (especially 10 weapons). We’ll see what happens. Either way, it’s a fantastic ship and I love it! It feels like a slightly fat Arrow and the Arrow was my go-to fighter. I will always recommend it to folks getting into combat because it’s just so good to fly. Side note: look how many people complained that the Corsair has too much firepower. Now no one cares. Just the latest thing to whine about.

I'm a concierge at the Wing Commander level and I'm glad to get my hands on this ship after all these years. I couldn't care less about the whining and how they went back on their word. blah blah blah. I bet that many of the people doing all the complaining don't even care about SQ42.

Great stuff love it. I have the same load out with 1 laser cannon size 3 replacing the twin 2

i found that changing weapon convergence to around 500 really made it even better

I like your drama-reducing style!

i must say... i really like that you reply to every single comment... someone gotta give you credit for it.

Good video, I like that they are pilot controlled weapons

Interesting build. So far I haven't lost a single pvp duel with my Ares Inferno against an F8C but maybe the fights would have been more interesting if they had Ballistics to punch through my shields

They need to bump up ballistics numbers before I consider going back. I love gatlings. But they have 265 shots at s2 and s3. Thats like 2 or 3 bursts on target. Cannons are a bit better but you still only get 200 shots which you'll burn through in a fight or 2. I love ballistics. Its why I got the inferno. But man they are just so not viable right now

I run 4 distortion repeaters on the wings and 4 gimbled attrition 2's, this loadout slaps harder than Will Smith at the Oscars!

as of the 10-12 PTU build it still has two s2 shields, fun video

OP ship sale of the month destined to be nerfed after the sale lol

Really fun looking loadout! What paint do us subs get sorry? Or did you mean the wing commander concierge?

I havent been active in over a year but when I was still playing actively in pvp it didnt matter how much firepower you brought. There is no chance in hell youll win with something cumbersome like even a hornet against a skilled pilot in a gladius or arrow. You simply wont hit them.

Nice work mate and great load out! Crazy this ship puts out more Alpha and DPS than something like a 600i with 3 x s5 Canons. I suspect a nerf inbound but we shall see. Kind of makes the Ion redundant as it puts out more than that and that’s a capital ship killer!? 😅

You didn't mention the main controversy. Platinum tickets are going mainly to streamers and group organised players because of that permanent marker.

How’d you change your missiles around? Mine seem to be locked for some reason, did you just fire them all and buy others?