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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, I review the Star Citizen heavy gun ship, the Aegis Hammerhead, including a tour as well as detailed ship review. I include gameplay footage of the Aegis Hammerhead. The gameplay for this Star Citizen Aegis Hammerhead ship review is from patch 3.14
00:00 Introduction
01:33 Ship Tour & Deck Layout
07:10 Combat Performance
09:02 Visibility & Handling
10:26 Operating Costs
11:25 Verdict & Summary
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This ship (and so many others in SC) would be immensely improved with cameras on the hull to provide a visual feed to the pilot to cover all those blind spots. On the Hammerhead, a camera for viewing your front would change so many gameplay things.
Yes yes yes!
I think the dependency on glass windows and manned turrets versus remote turrets and virtual displays like the ones in the Prowler play a big part here. A virtual display with some kind of sensor overlay would make more sense on pretty much all the larger ships.
@@Shaiyo5 Definitely. I’m hoping we get to see more virtual displaying, camera functionality, sensor suites, and remote controlling going forward, even if just a massive quality of life change.
Yeah, they've acknowledged that, but have said it's basically technologically impossible with their engine. They've talked about having some sort of PiP terrain model or something for things like landing.
Unless ship sercurity is improved, i'm afraid that SC will be all about griefers running around stealing ships and either selling them back to the previous owners at discount or outright vendoring them.
Hope we will see that in the future - the Hammerhead has a big solid door to the bridge, if only it worked to lock!
Beautiful review! One of the biggest oversights, especially for a military ship is there is no armory or gun racks. If someone was brave enough to board the Hammerhead your crew is screwed. Compared to a civilian ship like the MSR that has a gun racks I think it's quite embarrassing!
I think they've spoken about that in the past and were figuring out a way to wedge some around the mess hall and the barracks. Loads of room around both for weapons I think!
Good point, although I'm not sure how much practical purpose an armoury would serve, given every player is walking around with like 3 guns right now xD
This, and a medical bay, is my greatest talking point as to why the hammerhead will get a rework.
I think the armory would be cool if it came out from under the floor of that vented section in between the two front turrets, that area feels like a lot of wasted space tbh, and there should be at least storage for a rifle at every turret
Absolutely great review Farrister. Having been one of the crew when you shot some of the footage here, I enjoyed being in the ship. It has great firepower and we did great against that Idris. I also remember the previously day where we had two of them against 2 Idris ships and we took a bit of time, but was able to take them out. Of course the support ships we had like the bombers and fighters were invaluable in the mission too. Working together as an Org was great. Take care, fly safe, and I'll see you in the verse.
It's a very Homeworld looking ship for sure. I wore that game out back in the day.
Was great to have you aboard for this one!!
@@Farrister is the Aegis Hammerhead still the most powerful military ship?
@@SpaceAdmiral792t I think so, but just my opinion!
Excellent review. First time I got invited to help gun a Hammerhead, I got so bloody lost. haha. What a beast of a ship. Thanks for the video, Farrister!
Oh I didn't think it was as complicated as some others!
the combat reminds me of when I would zoom in to watch my capital ships engage the enemy in Homeworld
Good Times. Those Kadesh Swarmers were tough on fighters.
So difficult to get good footage of the big fights, I still don't quite know how Morphologis always manages so well!
Deeply enjoying the reviews! Hes got such a relaxing voice and they are obviously very informative
That's very kind of you to say :)
I have always enjoyed flying this beast! Great review Farrister.
Thanks as ever Zman, glad you enjoyed!
One of the cool things about the Hammerhead is the ladders can be used entirely separately from the elevators. Might be useful if ship power becomes a more important gameplay mechanic.
Say you’ve just survived a fight and the elevators need fixing. Those ladders will allow you to still move around inside the ship.
It’s a very utilitarian military ship. Really sweet.
It's really cool, there are a few ships like that, I like the idea of the "backup" being thought out
Great job! I love this ship, I have one sat awaiting the introduction of NPC Crew when I can fill her up and go grinding out a load of claim jumper or bounty missions.
It's really fun with players too!
Always love the content. Commenting for that sweet algorithm
Thank you, and thanks for feeding the algorithm xD
Great take on a formidable ship. I'm looking forward to your A2 review. A ship I've been anticipating for some time now.
Oof I better get saving xD
@@Farrister if you need one to review I'll have one. Just not sure if I'll keep it yet lol.
Nice reviews, I've been trying to find a decent ship tour/review for a while now. Your format is easy to follow and consistent. It's a class above the usual time wasting channels that either don't know the ship layout or use the review to ramble on about game mechanics that will probably change in the future anyway. I will definitely check your channel out before I buy in the future.
Glad it was helpful, thank you for your kind words :)
Saw my Harbinger a few times, great shot at the end. Long live the Hamsterhead!
Yeah!!!!
Listen I hit that subscribe video because you did a good job. Now to watch the rest of your videos. Damn your smooth tour voice.
Haha thank you :) Hope you enjoy!
That sweet sweet 4k is delicious.
And also, wtf, i have been in many hammerheads yet I have never seen/been to the upper deck xD
Haha, now you know how to get there! And thanks for 4K love
Was a ton of fun to fully crew the hammerhead, wish I could get ahold of one myself as it seems like such a blast with even a small group!
Definitely!
Very helpful
I was thinking about asking a friend to use this ship, but since he's a solo player most the time it is very helpful to know you need to bring a crew
Glad it was helpful!!
I love our HH!! It’s wonderful for group play with my Peeps!!
Definitely!
I always pounce on any opportunity to work as a gunner for ships like the Hammerhead. those turrets really make any situation epic, especially in xenothreat.
Yeah, I love the Hammerhead!
I just realized something sad. I have this ship as a loaner and I have never been in the captain’s quarters. I better log on immediately and sit in there for a while.
Thanks for another awesome ship review!
Haha get in the big chair!
Great job man
Thank you!
I think the Hammerhead should have 3x S3 shields or maybe 1x S4. When you compare it to something like the Redeemer which also has 2x S3s and look at size difference between those two it makes sense size wise.
Yeah, it's a curious choice
Good review/overview, I didn't know it can have torps too. I got one as a loaner and rarely get chances to fly it but the events have helped with that and fun to wow new players during free fly weeks. The HH is a great 'big' ship a combat focused team could easily get in game without getting a full capital ship until maybe the Perseus arrives. With a crew of 8 a flight engineer/missile operator could allow the pilot to fly in 3rd person camera more often to overcome its visibility issues. The cargo platform I think can squeeze in 4 Dragonfly's so you could bring along ground transport for all 8 crew when planet side away from the ship if needed.
Yeah size 5 missiles skirt the definition of torpedo xD
Looks like something someone would design in Space Engineers.
I like it!
A tobii eye tracker really helps when piloting
I can see where the enemy ship blips are and keep them in the arc of the currently occupied guns
Absolutely! You can also assign targets with long press 1-3 for gunners to pick up
Cant wait to see the comparison between the Hammerhead and the A2 Hercules. They both seem similar in a lot of ways. Except the A2 is 20 meters shorter, has a smaller mass and may be able to maneuver slightly better.
Oh I think they'll end up being quite different - A2 I think will be more suited for ground combat. I may be wrong!
It's the one ship I've never taken out of hangar. Maybe with the xenothreat there's a chance now... Though the last XT was the same.
Definitely worth rolling out for Xenothreat!
Wow nice landing at PO :)
The gear is pretty sturdy so you can throw it around :P
Its been awhile sense I have played SC. I may need to get back on to check things out. I bought the Nautlalist and just been kind of waiting for it as I have jumped on and off. Which btw you are more than welcome to review the ship when it comes out. I really want there to be hired npcs or what did they call it slicers? or something to help man the guns. I have been waiting for that mostly
Oooh I'm excited to look around the Nautilus. I'm not convinced about NPC or server blades xD
@@Farrister The day it comes out we can meet up if you like and you can do a review. I am curious your thoughts good or bad. But who knows it could be years before we see it.
It is nice to see a fully crewed HH during the nine tails and Xeno Threat (when the missions aren’t bugged). Definitely need a crew or else it is just a sponge for enemy fire…..after it fires all its missiles.
I don't understand why you would fly it in without crew lol
Nice!
Thanks!
To be clear the HH is one of the best ships in the game when it comes to what it does and in general. That being said it has more wasted space than nearly any other ship in the game. You could reduce its size by 20-30% if you made a more intelligent/condensed layout for the ship and that is before you remove the hole in the middle. I look forward to the day when they remodel its interior. Also I know it looks cool but that hole the middle is completely useless. Either give it a purpose or remove it. Personally I would be ok with a cargo bay, armory, parasite craft bay, drones, aux fuel tanks, aux munitions' storage, titan suite bay or literally anything that isn't a hole. I know people talk about a medbay and there has been huge drama over that in SC circles but medical is so still in its infancy. I think it early to decide that. Look at what capacitors did. They massively changed the game to a level that I don't think most players really comprehend yet, especially the large amount of people that don't currently play SC. Imagine with medical gameplay could do. Anyway back to the HH, its needs a interior rework almost as bad as the cutlass black , and im excited to see what they do with it with how far they have come with ship interiors since its release.
"I bought a ship with a hole in it" - good suggestions for filling it! I know originally a lot of comments were about the "saved mass"
looks great.
It sure does!
I had a bounty mission where i lack the firepower to down a hammerhead, so I hop aboard and enter the ship, I had to look up where the cockpit is to trigger self destruct, luckily I found this video lol
haha
I'm really enjoying your ship reviews. I do wish, however, that you'd provide a bit of context for ship size. Seeing the Hammerhead next to, say, a Carrack, a Freelancer, and an Arrow would be helpful. For smaller ships, even a single comparator would be useful.
(You obviously provide combat video, but that doesn't always help with a sense of scale.)
Oh that's an interesting idea! Will have to ponder how to achieve that!
I’d love to see one about the 300 series (325a mainly)
Such a good vehicle for ‘camping’ in, wish the nomad was better!
325A is on my upcoming list :)
They need to get rid of the whitish interior that is now in 3.14. The black was much classier. That white clashes with the wood paneling in my 325a…..and 315p.
@@andyandreson3989 they changed the interior? They should let you choose like on the site. Building a crazy PC with a 3090, Ryzen 9 and 64gb RAM, haven’t played this yet but know I want to and I want the 325a, so can’t wait to see the video!
@@AgentXRifle Origin 300 series are some great handling ships. In space and atmosphere (though they seem to be a bit thirsty in atmosphere when pushing them hard). If you’re just coming into the Verse, be prepared for bugs. If you can’t handle “issues” in a game then wait awhile. When in doubt, ask in global. Most of the time there’s someone willing to answer or lend a hand.
The HH is one of the very few ships that you do not HAVE to upgrade to make it combat-worthy. Great ship to buy with AUEC for that reason. If you have the crew that is.
Yup, love that about the HH! Other than the QD...
Wow in the storage space in the mass hall the tempeature actually goes down meaning its for keeping food longer lasting
Haha I didn't even notice!
I REALLY like the Hammerhead. But that crew requirement... Probably better to hire one for cargo defense.
In trying to decide which big warship to buy, it was a close decision. But I picked the Polaris. If game development continues a few more Years, Maybe I'll get a HH. but I really want a Carrier.
I'm excited to walk around the Polaris - will be interesting to see if it's beefy or a glass cannon!
took me one week to grind for this ship. managed to get it right before 3.14 dropped.
What did you do to grind for it?
@@dabmaster24 ert group warrants
Nice!
I remember i heard some Dev`s asked how many turrets you will be able to automate in the future on the hammerhead, they said with its stock computeres it would be able us AI on 4 turrets
Will be interesting to see
The Aegis Rocinante
I really gotta watch that series xD
dont have alot of people i know that are interested in star citizen currently but im still going to get this ship when i finally get the game(at somepoint) bc of the possible inclusion of ai gunners
Hope you enjoy! Personally I'm a bit more nervous about implementation of AI, and impact it could have on multicrew
With the advent of the A2 now added to the game that is not only cheaper to buy than the hammer head, it has significantly more cargo, higher DPS, better maneuverability, and can drop devastating size 10 MOABs. There is no situation to where I would buy a hammer head over the A2. Sure the HH may very well be better in a swarm of arrows or glades, but there are far to many trade offs with the age old ship, hell the HH doesn’t even have a single gun rack for the 9 crew.
Oh I'm not sure I would agree with that - controversial! The Hammerhead has much better turret angles, not to mention significantly more firepower than the A2. And those bombs are highly situational, rather than general purpose for ship to ship combat. I do like the Hercules series, but to me I see the role as very distinct from the Hammerhead
Big Daddy gunship, love it.
Big daddy gunship!
yeah, taking the HH with the org is always a party :)
Always!
2 million to go for my hammerhead !
Ahhhh hope you enjoy!
Yes.
Or no
Just a quick thought but, maybe the captain of a HammerHead, is meant to not be a pilot... which has a pretty restrictive top view, instead the positioning of his cabin, next to a very capable, protected, and top 360 view of the battlefield to command the ship from. Kinda like a Tank. Seems like with a big slow ship it would be most appropriate this way
Perhaps - it's definitely helpful talking to other players about what's happening on the battlefield
Hey Farrister! Do you mind providing your PC specs? You run the game pretty smooth!
I always have them in the video description :)
@@Farrister Oh damn my bad. Your pc is fire, I envy you!
Hammerhead: Want an AC-130 with less Cargo space? C'mon, it looks like a shark.
haha "rammage for extra damage"
Hey I have a question
How do the escape pods work I have never seen a clip of them in use
Right now, they don't :(
@@Farrister oh that's sad
I guess most people got the HH ingame already :)
I guess quite a few, yes!
It’s an awesome torpedo target
Perhaps!
I wish instead of the missing space in the center that it had an expanded cargo bay
What would go in the cargo bay?
@@Farrister anything from cargo to speeder bikes and even if it wasn’t expanded cargo it could be armor/weapon racks. Or even something we wouldn’t think of. It’s just wasted space being a hole in the middle of the ship
Anti-Fighter!? XD More like Anti-Everything, a single turret has the firepower equivalent of a constellation's main guns (if you go gimbaled)! Which is why it's a tonne of fun being one of its gunners, for me personally anyway.
in most games, the inside of this ship would be just one pvp shooter map.
Yeah!
I'm about to buy this ship next week and my only gripe is that I cannot get a black paint for it. Don't lke the stormbringer one.
All black would be pretty sweet
@@Farrister Thing is, I truly hope that with server blades and ship CPU plus NPC crew this ship MIGHT become solo friendly. I'd love having an entire NPC crew to manage as the capitan of the ship. And I'm really curious about what modularity might bring to this hull in the future. I do think, however, that it desperately needs a medical bay.
@@ScumAndVillains I really hope not, I love ships like this that expect multi-crew, and am nervous that the more ships that can be solo'd, risks killing multi-crew gameplay in the future :(
@@Farrister My opinion on the matter is that NPC Crew vs Human Crew, the Human crew will always be the best and deploy the highest performance. I'm sure CiG is already aware of this. Sure, you might solo in ths ship with an entire NPC Crew (this will most likely happen for every ship), but nothing compares to the output that a human crew can give, thus, making it always better played with humans, but not ruling out the possibility of playing solo with NPC's. Of course having the entire ship for yourself with NPC crew comes at a cost of performance.
Modularity, on the other hand, and seeing what people think and the Q&A, might never exist for this ship, as the Hammerhead is a ship designed for a very specific role.
Wait didn't he do this vod before
2020 13th march
I did previously review the Hammerhead, good eye! This is a fresh review for 3.14 as things have changed a little, I even mention it at the end :)
@@Farrister all right anyways keep it up I enjoy your ship reviews. So ye have fun and make more vids
Not a fan of the ship but a nice and detailed video as always.
Thank you, although I must admit to being a big Hammerhead fan :P
@@Farrister
To clarify, I really like the idea of hammerhead-shaped ships since I've played KOTOR but on this one, I'm not really satisfied with the placement of the bridge and the "flat" engines.
A better placement for the bridge in my opinion would be where the gap in the Hull is.
Maybe even retractable in combat and equipped with digital interfaces connected to cameras.
I don't know why it won't let up, but the interiors of most these ships bug me. There's too much room to the point of wondering how these things are supposed to be powered. The only ship I've seen so far with a true "engine room" was the Reclaimer (update: and the Carrack). Every other ship I've seen seems to think that simply having thrusters is enough.
I know I'm nitpicking and there are probably numerous in game reasons for having so much interior space, but still. My suspension of disbelief can't be set aside.
Yeah - in the engineering room at the back are dual "engines", they look a bit like mini Star Trek warp cores on the side
@@Farrister Oh sure, I noticed that (great tour by the way. I don't even play this game but your's and a couple other content creators videos really sell it). Exposed engines in a game where attackers can board ships doesn't seem like a good idea, lol.
Anytime someone ask for crew on this ship, I Jump at the opportunity. Id save up in game credits for it if it wasnt so expensive XD
Well worth it!
Tempting buy!
Big crew requirement though!
Can it put a Nova in that cargo?
You know, I'm not sure!
@@Farrister Damn I really want to know what the nova can fit in besides the Starlifter
does the pilot control any guns?
Nope, missiles only
Can you fit A avenger titan in it?
No, it doesn't have any hangar
@@Farrister thank you for clearing that up :D
The MOST EXPENSIVE thing to run this ship might be Friendship.
Most rewarding too!
as a (basically) solo player, this ship would be leagues better if they implemented ai gunners
Wouldn't that risk devaluing the multi-crew experience though?
@@Farrister not really, they already have ai gunners for captured ships and they have shit aim.
Also sad to see you don’t understand the correlation of ship size via number in game to pad size that correlates to the ship size classification. If you fail to understand what I just said, you need to learn this ASAP.
What makes you think I don't understand ship size/pad size?
I don't want to watch this whole video since I know everything about this ship, I just want to make sure you mention that the side turret doors don't open from the turret side, locking any gunners in their turrets.
But how would you know if I mention it? :O
@@Farrister well if I watch it and find out you didn't, I'd be very disappointed
@@Yeeeeeeesh lol I referenced in the tour :)
The Hammerhead is my favorite ship in appearance. Sadly there is too many design flaws that I can’t overlook. Why this big space in the middle ? There is no other ship with such wasted space. This could be use for bombs, cargo, a medical room…
The corridors are way to big, the ship could be much smaller or better optimize. With all this wasted space in the corridors, the HH could have more cargo, gun racks, drop seats, anything !
The new ships (I’m looking at you Hercules) are very well designed, there is little wasted space and they are well weaponized. It’s almost shocking to see that the Hercules has so much firepower and sacrifice next to nothing (Hercules is slow, heavy armored, has cargo, weapons…)
HH suffers from being one of the early ships flyable (like the Carrack my other favorite ship)
I think it's probably due to reused assets from some of the larger ships, which do need lots of corridors. That said, I really like the Hammerhead!
A year later, are there any changes to the ship?
🐒🍂
At the current moment I don't think the Hammerhead is worth the asking price of $725. Its a very powerful ship for sure but its priced too closely to the Polaris which is a far, far more capable ship for a similar crew complement. The polaris will be more expensive to run, but the capabilities it presents far outweighs the cost of just merely $25 more than the Hammerhead. If anyone is planning to get the ship for real money I don't think financially speaking it makes sense right now, maybe that will change when the Polaris inevitably goes up in price.
Well Polaris isn't currently available in game, and I suspect from a combat perspective the Hammerhead may be a better choice for many situations, but only time will tell!
You buy ships with real money tf
@@BRUH-fe8wz You CAN purchase them that way, or you can do tons of missions in game to save up the credits to buy one(a mission could pay a few tens of thousand of credits, and the ship itself is over ten million credits, maybe a couple tens of millions of credits not sure. So you can buy with real money or grind and pay with in game money you earn.
Reading it as an American, I always pronounce your name Far-ister, and it throws me off when you say Fair-ister.
Oh strange, I'd have said I pronounce it Far-ister!
why does it look so much like the among us ship map?💀
All the captains qauters are horribly designed on these ships lol
Awww I liked it!!
@@Farrister donno man they seem to basic for what they are, the space isn't utilised properly.
Word to the wise do not park this ship at a station. The inner docking doors are bugged and won't open rendering the ship useless. If you want to use it park it planet side. Roberts ! you shithouse!
Oh damn, I need to test that!
Yeah. Cockpit bridge doors won’t open