Star Citizen 10 Minutes or Less Ship Review - F8C LIGHTNING ( 3.22 )

It’s definitely weird that they just put the ship out and it doesn’t have its gold pass. It makes me feel like the shoved it out of the door to make sure they hit a certain amount of funding by the end of the year. Because it was kind of a random time to put this thing out. I’m not mad about it though, outside of not having the gold pass I really can’t wait for them to give ships their gold passes.

I would definitely want one. I missed my chance to get one unfortunately. Never even flown one yet.

Its not OP, its the best Jack of All Trades Fighter, which is as it should be. It doesnt outperform other vehickes in ANY one category, but it does well across the board. In a 1v1 it loses to at least one fully manned ship in every category. Light fighters and snubs like the Fury straight up dominate it thanks to manueverability, the Superhornets go toe to toe with it in brawls and slaughter it in group combat, and i know i have yet to lose an engagment with a fully manned Scorpius against any of the F8Cs ive fought yet. Add to that the fact that it has no weapons large enough to deal with heavy armor and it will be effectively neutered against some Large ships, many Subcaps, and almost all Capital ships. Powerful, but not Overly so.

The ship was hangar ready several years ago. It's far from being a new ship. They just made it available recently.

While it might be the "meta" for now, it is in no way "over powered" nor is it pay to win. I'm not a big PvPer... yet. I got jumped by an F8 and a Mantis while I was flying my Hurricane that was loaded out with only the 2 laser cannon, not repeaters. And it was just me in it at that point. The F8 had the split Badger/Distortion build like you talk about. I kept them both at bay for several minutes until the F8 finally got enough distortion on me to bring down my shields and MFD's. So I boosted out and Quantumed out. Going by all of those whine about the F8 being a super ship, that fight should have lasted 30 seconds once they engaged. And I damn sure shouldn't have been able to end it whenever I wanted to like I did. The F8 is a great fighter. But really only in the hands of someone who is already good. At least PvP.

They've done through a few polish passes on the ship since it's release. I remember Day 1 it had no engine sound, haha. I also believe that the ship is not necessarily OP. Several YouTubers have shown that in actual combat scenarios. Pro and Casual players, alike. It's definitely a very powerful ship in the right hands (as things are) but not OP. I speculate that several things will change and be rebalanced after MM covers more ships.

04/22/2024...... (3.23) F8C Lightning has just been nerfed....... Damn it. The F7 HORNET MK II with the remote turret and nose gun attachment is an animal, and it's a medium fighter.

What song did you use at the beginning of the video?

This ship is currently overtuned because all ammo sizes works against all ship armors and hulls equally. I believe this will change in the future once lighter ammo will struggle to penetrate bigger ship hulls. So I expect that once that happens, people will fly the F8C to support light fighter engagements because of the high ammo velocities, the Ares to focus on large ships, and the Vanguards being able to handle both light and heavy ships, but not as well as the more specialized ones for their respective targets.

Need some skins for this ship

Just chatting with you in game lol

Hello all, I'm new and need help, when I get my ship and try and take off, it says i'm blocking a loading bay then it impounds my ship. I'm running out of money because it keeps doing this

It's an anti fighter, but it's biggest weakness is the 2 best pvp ships in the game, gladius and the arrow. F8C can't do anything against a good pilot using a glad or arrow. It's counter measures BARELY works AND the ships has a high IR/EM presence w.e you call it. It was made before the projectiles gets auto aim assist and then implemented in the game after the patch so it didn't get it so you don't have the auto aim repeaters like other ships. I'm not sure how that makes it overpowered.

it has way too much QF, supposed to be a carrier based fighter, not a long range fighter. Also that distortion meta is way overpowered across the board right now.

It's not overpowered 😊. At this point in time small fighters are overpowered

Don't worry, it will get nerfed.