it is supposed to be modular. But CIG forgor i think. As for now they just mentioned it in the broshure, on the original concetsale and inthe QßA. then they sold the concept and we never heard about modularity for the caterpillar again.
The MOAB Bomb could be refitted as a ground penetrating radar device dropped drom low orbit to map caves and search for materials in the ground or to find hidden shipwrecks satellites.
When designing care spaces always ensure that personel can access both sides of the bed, IRL in fact access to the head of the bed in an emercency is a must (but in SC the beds need their kind of sci fi heal-ly bit. For a hospital ship you essentially need a Triage/reception area for fresh casualties from the vehicles, and for them to be passed down to the relevant care area depending on severity after assessment (or in SC terms, which tier bed they need) It's important to have flow in one end, out the other to prevent congregation at any point which would cause interuptions to care or impede the entry of new casualties. The Triage area can be bare bones in terms of treatment options, in order to facilitate larger number of patients, but the inner rooms need to be very much set up for intensive care. The upper area where the gangway goes could actually create a 2nd floor for the care areas, those high ceilings are industrial, they don't help medicine, this would facilitate the room needed for all the beds and carespaces. Having the privacy screens retractable and more opaque would be good too, so they can be applied when needed. The triage area and the exit are the only doors that should remain operational, the main care areas should be sealed at all times to ensure cleanliness and privacy, you don't want flow of fresh patients into those areas until the triage area has differentiated them into their Tiers of treatment. (IRL there's various ways of doing this, such as the Manchester Trauma System) To my eye the Front end is Triage, next room is Tier 1 beds, next is Tier 2 beds, then the last modules are for storage of essential kit and a general exit. The rest is just awesome as always
Bit late but high ceilings do actually somewhat matter. They allow for better circulation of air to prevent patients or staff getting sick due to aerosols. That's what I was told at least.
It is all awesome! It was cool to see the titan suits, and the poor orgs bomber. The mining support setup and salvage and repair are my favorites, but the Cat has so many possibilities with the modules. I loved the Free Willy Stormwal poster. You always put such clever bits in these. Lots of fun to explore. I need to go make myself a Klescher Rehabilitator now.
I want a dedicated intermediate fabrication Caterpillar. A ship that takes damaged but serviceable parts from a Reclaimer or refined mineral stock from an Orion and then turns it into a complex, finished product module suitable for a Crucible repair ships or Pioneer constructor. A flying machine shop so to speak.
The detail and effort put into these is amazing. Most ideas are great, but I dislike so many of the modules being one sided and the large cargo module would block access to other modules. The rest are very interesting ideas though.
This goes right into that low budget, high detail feel of commercial promotional videos. I feel like an investor watching this, and I'm about to spend some money on your refitting company.
Having the standard cargo module doors for a lot of these pods just feels kinda off. I think you could have good luck mocking up different exteriors. For example, the drone module's exterior would be solid, but with hatches for drones to dock in/out of like the Carrack. Maybe an upper window for the store module and the lower half doubles as stairs as those are more convenient for casual shopping? Also, we need Caterpillar Phoenix modules like the Constellation Phoenix. And to follow Phoenix tradition, the passengers are only able to enter it by going up the janky lift and through the crew cabins :)
Crickey you done a lot of work I want the Battle Cat :) The refueling i think better for a FPS game mode, carry fuel line to landed ship, connect and refuel. Medical module we need for Valkyrie. Prisoner transport would be a cool game loop. Hope that comes in with passenger game loops. Drug lab... grow your own illegal drugs?
Three modules I'd like to see: - Torpedo module: Holds 12-16 size 5 torps that get spat out the side doors. - Fuel tank module: this one is obvious, adds 5,000 Quantum fuel units. - Weapons module: adds four size 5 weapons mounts that extend from the sizes of the Caterpillar. OR - Capital killer module: replaced front most cargo section and front section. One Size 7 Ballistic cannon.
I would love to see the ability to shorten the ship by taking the standard modules out. Would be the perfect daily driver and instantly my favourite ship if that was possible
Imagine having a Clubbing/Luxe Caterpillar that change his position and stops on orbit everyday where people meet together after a long journey. With events. Would love to run such a thing haha
Just a thought on the Drone bay in the research and exploration variant. If you put the drone launcher bay at the bottom you could have the bottom only section open to release the drones, Then you could have a repair and refit coming up through the floor to pull the drone up into the next level where you could put the control chairs as well, and then make the top hatch stay locked down and be a window instead. would give exceptional view and you could launch one side and retrieve from the other side, Seriously you don't want to have to vent a section to space every time you deploy drones.
I absolutely will love that if that's the type of modularity you can get... I would even buy a Cat then and probably more or all of the modules lol. Especially if you can mix and match modules instead of just going with a preset selection. I was thinking similar things for the Carrack if that ever gets its modularity. But with the Carrack's semetrical walkway, I can aslo see the 3 module sections split into 6 modules half the size. I could also see the top hanger being a module, also being full or split. Like a split fuel module, with fuel scoop half and quantainium mining half, like a smaller version of... the Oddesy I think? Not able to sell what it harvests, just extend its own range, at least for the half-size combo modules... maybe a full size quantanium mining/refining module could also store 5 or so SCU of quant to sell or refule smaller ships with? I can see having full or half modules for sensor and/or hacking where half-size modules have like... a size 3? dish like the Terrapin, but need to be paired to a data storage module, or a full size that uses size 4 dish and has some built-in storage that can be expanded by pairing to a data module? So many possibilities.
I'd love to see a Krak-Baby module... Mini Kraken, can carry 3-4 Buccaneer... Move the top turret to the rear so that the whole front storage area has landing pads bolted on Drake style. One or two storage bays are retrofitted with some fuel tanks off a Starfarer....
A fair number of those ideas would actually make sense given the ship's clearly modular design, but honestly half of them are just things to throw at the wall to see if they stick, and either wouldn't be practical given the role of the ship, or are features that other ships would do better.
This concept works well with your newest. If the Laurion should mine quantanium, it would have to find huge rocks to mine 512 SCU of quantum, otherwise it would not fill it, or end up blowing up. This would work like a combine and a tractor on a field. The combine harvests, but can't store a lot, so it would go directly to the tractor. In this case, the quantanium from the Laurion would be refined instantly, and turned into a safe load, that would then be carried by the Caterpillar.
Would be nice if the fast-food looking ones like at 08:54 had a staircase to lead up to it, could be annoying having to walk through an entire ship just to get a quick drink or whatever. Btw great job the module swapping interface at the end. I can barely imagine how long it would take CIG to create something simple and efficient like that...
Would you consider doing a Medium sized Salvaging ship? With salvage coming soon theres definently a major gap in the Salvage ship roster as we only have the entry level Vulture and the Capital sized(and very buggy) reclaimer. I generally prefer the Mid scale ships as I find them a nice balance but CIG has not even hinted at a new salvage ship...
Would also like to see different door options instead of all these units sides just open the entire module to space. Having doors with ramps or elevators or even just elevators instead would be an added benefit!
Would think that a "gunship" Module could be interesting (going the way of the AC130 gunships) Otherwise an actual further outward extending bay Module which gives you more space when landed as a workshop / building module.
I wish they had the modules readu, heck i wish they had half the stuff in the PDF ready , (side doors that go out and down, cockpit that detaches, etc)
You should make the caterpillar into a luxury vessel. Redesign it from inside out. Cross between the 890 and the Phoenix. !!!!!! I mentioned this on a comment on Star Citizen you tube page, but you could design the first concept of a variable fighter similar to "Robotic", or "Macross". Seeing a fighter transform into a big robot would be the next level of fighters. Even create a android that goes along with the ship and becomes part of it. Star Citizen does use movie references so you could do the same thing.
Okay so I want to play star citizen my only question is, is there a way to pilot a freighter? Something with every module? So that way you can solo pilot this freighter with friends or a crew? I know this would be ver expensive of a ship given what I’ve seen but I am wondering if there will ever be a fright or type of ship
the cat. is one of my Favret ships in the verse 2nd to none i use as carrier with snubs i use for hulling i use for mining like in this video the tractor and the ability to home over 60 pods off the Mole and prospector does wonders as of now i take the wheels off the med URSA and use for Spawning if you can think of what all this ship can do you will have all 3 versions also but love this video i hope they rework this ship to do half what is in this video .. also i keep MOB on bord my ship in case i need to refit a A2 or A1` sky is the limit for this ship
Anyone know how modules will work for someone only wanting to spend the base $45? Will there be an in game buyable option? Or will all ships be barren from in-game purchase from module release on
its a cargo ship at the moment, you can not buy this at the base game price, you buy it for real money or buy it in game with money you earn from doing stuff in-game. as of right now no modules for the cat are in-game.
At this point I'm convinced the Caterpillar is doomed to remain forever a dedicated cargo ship. Pretty sure CIG have completely given up on ship modularity, or it's so far down the priority list that it'll be another 10 years before they even mention it again.
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I like they idea of a Caterpillar being a kind of mother ship. Hope the devs take some notes here ;)
it is supposed to be modular. But CIG forgor i think. As for now they just mentioned it in the broshure, on the original concetsale and inthe QßA. then they sold the concept and we never heard about modularity for the caterpillar again.
If modules like these were available for the Caterpillar, I'd definitely buy one. Ultimate support ship.
Did you ever fly one? Its flying like a sack of beans :)
@@SamTeil lol i have a visual i cant forget now because you are so spot on
I dont se why not- oh yeah "technology"
The MOAB Bomb could be refitted as a ground penetrating radar device dropped drom low orbit to map caves and search for materials in the ground or to find hidden shipwrecks satellites.
When designing care spaces always ensure that personel can access both sides of the bed, IRL in fact access to the head of the bed in an emercency is a must (but in SC the beds need their kind of sci fi heal-ly bit.
For a hospital ship you essentially need a Triage/reception area for fresh casualties from the vehicles, and for them to be passed down to the relevant care area depending on severity after assessment (or in SC terms, which tier bed they need) It's important to have flow in one end, out the other to prevent congregation at any point which would cause interuptions to care or impede the entry of new casualties. The Triage area can be bare bones in terms of treatment options, in order to facilitate larger number of patients, but the inner rooms need to be very much set up for intensive care.
The upper area where the gangway goes could actually create a 2nd floor for the care areas, those high ceilings are industrial, they don't help medicine, this would facilitate the room needed for all the beds and carespaces.
Having the privacy screens retractable and more opaque would be good too, so they can be applied when needed.
The triage area and the exit are the only doors that should remain operational, the main care areas should be sealed at all times to ensure cleanliness and privacy, you don't want flow of fresh patients into those areas until the triage area has differentiated them into their Tiers of treatment. (IRL there's various ways of doing this, such as the Manchester Trauma System)
To my eye the Front end is Triage, next room is Tier 1 beds, next is Tier 2 beds, then the last modules are for storage of essential kit and a general exit.
The rest is just awesome as always
Bit late but high ceilings do actually somewhat matter. They allow for better circulation of air to prevent patients or staff getting sick due to aerosols. That's what I was told at least.
love this content your animations are so good especially becuase its star citizen and i hope the developers learn a thing or two from it
It is all awesome! It was cool to see the titan suits, and the poor orgs bomber. The mining support setup and salvage and repair are my favorites, but the Cat has so many possibilities with the modules. I loved the Free Willy Stormwal poster. You always put such clever bits in these. Lots of fun to explore. I need to go make myself a Klescher Rehabilitator now.
These are some great ideas, really wish we could lay out each one like you show to fit out game play style.
Adoring your work. Really hope CIG sees this art and takes inspiration!
I want a dedicated intermediate fabrication Caterpillar. A ship that takes damaged but serviceable parts from a Reclaimer or refined mineral stock from an Orion and then turns it into a complex, finished product module suitable for a Crucible repair ships or Pioneer constructor. A flying machine shop so to speak.
Great ideas and amazing work!
Thank you! 😊
This is EPIC and definitely worth the sub.
Thanks
The detail and effort put into these is amazing.
Most ideas are great, but I dislike so many of the modules being one sided and the large cargo module would block access to other modules. The rest are very interesting ideas though.
Thanks for the tips!
Research Science & Exploration is beautiful man
This goes right into that low budget, high detail feel of commercial promotional videos. I feel like an investor watching this, and I'm about to spend some money on your refitting company.
I hope we see most of these come to the pu in some form
I would love the mining/refining module. Looks great! All what you need in one ship, that’s amazing!
Having the standard cargo module doors for a lot of these pods just feels kinda off. I think you could have good luck mocking up different exteriors. For example, the drone module's exterior would be solid, but with hatches for drones to dock in/out of like the Carrack. Maybe an upper window for the store module and the lower half doubles as stairs as those are more convenient for casual shopping?
Also, we need Caterpillar Phoenix modules like the Constellation Phoenix. And to follow Phoenix tradition, the passengers are only able to enter it by going up the janky lift and through the crew cabins :)
You should work for Star Citizen ... we'd have so much more content and gameplay !
Brilliant job sir, thank you for sharing !
Really nice work with the racing module! I love the skid into the corporate logo.
Crickey you done a lot of work
I want the Battle Cat :)
The refueling i think better for a FPS game mode, carry fuel line to landed ship, connect and refuel.
Medical module we need for Valkyrie.
Prisoner transport would be a cool game loop. Hope that comes in with passenger game loops.
Drug lab... grow your own illegal drugs?
RSI should be taking some notes
Three modules I'd like to see:
- Torpedo module: Holds 12-16 size 5 torps that get spat out the side doors.
- Fuel tank module: this one is obvious, adds 5,000 Quantum fuel units.
- Weapons module: adds four size 5 weapons mounts that extend from the sizes of the Caterpillar.
OR
- Capital killer module: replaced front most cargo section and front section. One Size 7 Ballistic cannon.
Your vision, our hope.
I would love to see the ability to shorten the ship by taking the standard modules out. Would be the perfect daily driver and instantly my favourite ship if that was possible
finally!! thanks for this video, and i was right! caterpillar is the best ship so far!!! i love it
Some pretty cool ideas my friend 👍
Absolutely marvelous.
Fantastically done sir!
awesome concepts and video, would like to see launch tubes for kruger snub fighters😁
Imagine having a Clubbing/Luxe Caterpillar that change his position and stops on orbit everyday where people meet together after a long journey. With events. Would love to run such a thing haha
Just a thought on the Drone bay in the research and exploration variant. If you put the drone launcher bay at the bottom you could have the bottom only section open to release the drones, Then you could have a repair and refit coming up through the floor to pull the drone up into the next level where you could put the control chairs as well, and then make the top hatch stay locked down and be a window instead. would give exceptional view and you could launch one side and retrieve from the other side, Seriously you don't want to have to vent a section to space every time you deploy drones.
I absolutely will love that if that's the type of modularity you can get... I would even buy a Cat then and probably more or all of the modules lol. Especially if you can mix and match modules instead of just going with a preset selection. I was thinking similar things for the Carrack if that ever gets its modularity. But with the Carrack's semetrical walkway, I can aslo see the 3 module sections split into 6 modules half the size. I could also see the top hanger being a module, also being full or split. Like a split fuel module, with fuel scoop half and quantainium mining half, like a smaller version of... the Oddesy I think? Not able to sell what it harvests, just extend its own range, at least for the half-size combo modules... maybe a full size quantanium mining/refining module could also store 5 or so SCU of quant to sell or refule smaller ships with? I can see having full or half modules for sensor and/or hacking where half-size modules have like... a size 3? dish like the Terrapin, but need to be paired to a data storage module, or a full size that uses size 4 dish and has some built-in storage that can be expanded by pairing to a data module? So many possibilities.
With the fury being introduced having a module dedicated to snub fighters would be amazing
I'd love to see a Krak-Baby module... Mini Kraken, can carry 3-4 Buccaneer... Move the top turret to the rear so that the whole front storage area has landing pads bolted on Drake style. One or two storage bays are retrofitted with some fuel tanks off a Starfarer....
I love the idea of giving the Cat a Q ship version (this is an anti pirate ship that surprises would be attackers).
CIG should definitely hire you, pr at least use your ideas. Great work!
A fair number of those ideas would actually make sense given the ship's clearly modular design, but honestly half of them are just things to throw at the wall to see if they stick, and either wouldn't be practical given the role of the ship, or are features that other ships would do better.
great stuff right here. would've liked to have seen a hanger module for the CAT, turning it into a small fleet carrier.
That would be cool
@@AstroChronicles yeah, if only the CAT's dimensions were slightly bigger. Still waiting on Star Citizens' equivalent to the Bebop from Cowboy Bebop.
This concept works well with your newest. If the Laurion should mine quantanium, it would have to find huge rocks to mine 512 SCU of quantum, otherwise it would not fill it, or end up blowing up. This would work like a combine and a tractor on a field. The combine harvests, but can't store a lot, so it would go directly to the tractor. In this case, the quantanium from the Laurion would be refined instantly, and turned into a safe load, that would then be carried by the Caterpillar.
Sees a very smooth framerate:
"ah... its a 3d animation by someone that is not CIG"
And now I want a realy realy long Caterpillar with all those modules stacked together... like a tugboat.
Would be nice if the fast-food looking ones like at 08:54 had a staircase to lead up to it, could be annoying having to walk through an entire ship just to get a quick drink or whatever. Btw great job the module swapping interface at the end. I can barely imagine how long it would take CIG to create something simple and efficient like that...
yes - if we would land to provide services would be nice to access module directly - great idea, thanks
Now I really want a Klesher Rehabilitator
These would be epic
Would you consider doing a Medium sized Salvaging ship? With salvage coming soon theres definently a major gap in the Salvage ship roster as we only have the entry level Vulture and the Capital sized(and very buggy) reclaimer. I generally prefer the Mid scale ships as I find them a nice balance but CIG has not even hinted at a new salvage ship...
WOW So Cool! :)
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow, so many great ideas. Like your hospital naming lol
But wait...are those cannons to fire people? 🤣🤣
Edit: apparently yes lol
I’m totally doing convenience and passenger modules, imagine how much you can charge for a seat with no legroom for a system hop.
Would also like to see different door options instead of all these units sides just open the entire module to space. Having doors with ramps or elevators or even just elevators instead would be an added benefit!
Love the trophy animal section
cant wait for it to be actually in the game
Easy for base building once they make make it so you can undock the small ship that's attached to the larger transport section.
Would think that a "gunship" Module could be interesting (going the way of the AC130 gunships)
Otherwise an actual further outward extending bay Module which gives you more space when landed as a workshop / building module.
imagine in each module you only have the moab bombs. 5 of these in a row and the whole settlement is annihalated
Simply awesome 👌 👏 👍 😍 💖 😎
Thank you! Cheers!
hahaha yea... imma stick to my BMM..... maybe the Cata will be good for new players to have to start with :)
Great video
Couple of typos
Profit, species, universal
just fyi
sorry about typos...
@@AstroChronicles
Oh no
It’s ok
Was just trying to help
Love your videos
Definitely not trying to be mean or rude
@@seotenin no no worries, i understand - thanks for your comment
@@AstroChronicles
Cool
I wish they had the modules readu, heck i wish they had half the stuff in the PDF ready , (side doors that go out and down, cockpit that detaches, etc)
So much promise with the modules.
This would all be amazing if it fit the business model of selling incredibly specialized chips for $300.
Still waiting for my Caterpillar Purple: "Rapid Response Mobile DJ" module.
Doors open up to reveal stripper poles and disco balls
You should make the caterpillar into a luxury vessel. Redesign it from inside out. Cross between the 890 and the Phoenix. !!!!!! I mentioned this on a comment on Star Citizen you tube page, but you could design the first concept of a variable fighter similar to "Robotic", or "Macross". Seeing a fighter transform into a big robot would be the next level of fighters. Even create a android that goes along with the ship and becomes part of it. Star Citizen does use movie references so you could do the same thing.
Your not getting away with that 400i helmet 😆
Hugs & Drugs 😂
Omg it would be a dream
man they never contacted you?
That would be too awesome
Hermoso trabajo! Buen.video!
Okay so I want to play star citizen my only question is, is there a way to pilot a freighter? Something with every module? So that way you can solo pilot this freighter with friends or a crew? I know this would be ver expensive of a ship given what I’ve seen but I am wondering if there will ever be a fright or type of ship
These videos always blow me away lol..But why you put baby Yoda in a cage lol!!!
now we just need the caterpillar steel, y'know for landing a small army for any reason
Add a lot of these features on to the cat.
Would be the best versatile ship ever
Baby Yoda in a cage, adorable and horrible at the same time
Yeah! Just let the MOAB drop out of the ship like that, LOL
NICE👏🤓👍
Thanks 👍
the cat. is one of my Favret ships in the verse 2nd to none i use as carrier with snubs i use for hulling i use for mining like in this video the tractor and the ability to home over 60 pods off the Mole and prospector does wonders as of now i take the wheels off the med URSA and use for Spawning if you can think of what all this ship can do you will have all 3 versions also but love this video i hope they rework this ship to do half what is in this video .. also i keep MOB on bord my ship in case i need to refit a A2 or A1` sky is the limit for this ship
Well done
E Q Q U P I E D
You've just killed Godzilla 🦎☠
@Astro Chronicles what's the sound track?
Moons of Jupiter
What a great ship
Drives me insane that they havent got the cargo lifts working for the CAT yet
hopefully with cargo refactor coming - there will be a fix
It would be great if "Astro Chronicles" concepts could be converted to the existing game engine so they could be used? ;-)
"HUGS & DRUGS" dfkm XD
that 400i helmet xD
I wish this would happen to the cat. Its one of my favorite ships.
Anyone know how modules will work for someone only wanting to spend the base $45? Will there be an in game buyable option? Or will all ships be barren from in-game purchase from module release on
its a cargo ship at the moment, you can not buy this at the base game price, you buy it for real money or buy it in game with money you earn from doing stuff in-game. as of right now no modules for the cat are in-game.
At this point I'm convinced the Caterpillar is doomed to remain forever a dedicated cargo ship. Pretty sure CIG have completely given up on ship modularity, or it's so far down the priority list that it'll be another 10 years before they even mention it again.
Is this just a concept video ? Or will be soon in the game ?
the CAT is a ship in-game, but its only the cargo ship. you can buy it with real money or with in-game money "aUEC"
Love it.
I wonder why CIG won't at least put in the lifts on the cat
Lmao the origin 400i helmet
We need a baby sandworm in the hunting module.
I'd love that
At this point they should just take your design and implement it as you took out most of the design work. 😂
Think the catepillar can be turned into a habitation mod?
This is so awesome, but way too smart and technical for where SC is currently at. Maybe in 4.0
you should be hired by CIG... xD
🤩🤩🤩
Hi, i love your content if u like build i recomended u the game space engineers, grettings!
Any of these modules planned?
yes.