Foxy, this video is a perfect example why imho you are the best Star Citizen content creator today! :) Thank you for the very logical and systematic ship walk-through!
Yo Captain, do you ever stop working!! NO rest for SC Scientist!!🎉 Keep up the great work Sir, you make this Alpha bearable, by allowing us to learn from your experiments.
I cannot confirm this but the color coding on the deck near the brig and sick bay may indicate something else. Orange may actually be red and blue may be green. Red indicating the starboard side of the ship and green indicating the port side of the ship. They can be navigational aids.
I'm loving the ship so far. I can't wait for blades to come in down the line to help keep these manned . I've been soloing mine and leaving the hanger in a medium/heavy fighter to do bounties. Would be cool to have turrets protecting the ship while gone.
such a cool looking ship. the cargo hanger being on the side is awesome to me. only thing this bad boy is missing is AI crew, as cool as having a human crew would be its gonna be hard coordinating play times so AI is the only way to fully enjoy it
Dotation crew of this ship says 10+1 but it seem that to be fully combat ready it would need 2 shifts and rotate on the rooms. Some of these need to wear full armor in case a boarding party arrives while keeping the guns firing, the engine rolling and the fighters supplied. 😅 BRIDGE - 1 captain - 1 flight-deck officer/XO (copilot) - 1 helmsman - 2 guners HULL - 5 guners - 2 torpedo operators / 1 auxiliary - 1 brig sentinel /auxiliary - 1 medic - at least 2 crew to move amunition and resupply the flight deck and ship. ENGINEERY - 1 chief engineer - at least 2 auxiliary engineers
Pretty good walk through showing how to get everywhere. So many of these reviews are so sporadic and just all over the place. 18:16 what is that opening to the left of the air lock? It seems to have a door that opens. Edit: ahh turret. Nice
I have a video idea for you. You can show the in-game camera system key bind saves and use them to save shots from various areas of your ship internals to simulate video cameras and even a landing camera.
Very nice! One question, I get that you cannot change the Coolers, Power Supply, or shield generators, at least at this time, and we saw the QT drive, which you can change, but where is the shield generator located on the ship? IF you want to target the shield generator, where is it physically? Same for power supply and coolers.
I like the Polaris but I like the Idris more. Does CIG sell the Idris M in limited quantities at IAE? I have a CCU to a Polaris but have to put new money in as well. Enough that I could melt my 890 and buy an Idris or at least try to. Thoughts?
Less confusing then any other tour I've seen, but... I counted 10 armor lockers and 12 weapon racks + 4 heavy racks in armory. Couldn't count (didn't try pausing) how many crew rooms there are.
This ship has quite a few design stumbles, it's actually baffling. The vehicle bay ramps literally have 2x more surface area than the ship vehicle bay. To have that many layers of an extending cargo ramp sandwiched together and extending outward is just folly. You would never design or build this way. The vehicle bay should've had an efficient single lift elevator (like what's on a modern aircraft carrier) or even a super max lift tractor beam system to load and unload vehicles into the bay. Like a suspensor field lift system. Imagine trying to load cargo or vehicles from an orbital dry-dock while the ship is moored in a ship paddock. Now extend one of those goofy side ramps all the way outside the periphery of the hull. Head scratching. The second baffling design choice was not elevating or pushing forward the pilot and co-pilot seats to clear the strut structure from their peripheral views. Either the entire flight deck should've been raised to clear the strut or the strut itself stepped down to allow for the PILOT to see clearly while helming the ship. As it stands, you have this massive strut frame obstructing one side of your peripheral as you try to helm the ship up along-side another vehicle, docking area or into a ship paddock. Not even a few external additional screens with cameras to aid the pilots.
To hear someone say the Captain's chair is the most useless chair because it does not have control over more things... Wow. Otherwise, pretty good job.
Am fairly disappointed in how the Polaris turned out but knew it was a risk as CIG often changes original layouts, mainly due to laziness. Just CC'd mine. Good riddance.
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Foxy, this video is a perfect example why imho you are the best Star Citizen content creator today! :) Thank you for the very logical and systematic ship walk-through!
the torpedo incident LOL
I cant imagine how many Polaris are going to show up to jump town! LOL
That's gonna be so cool...
I appreciate the color coding the port and starboard sides like that. Feels like an easy ship to learn and not get lost in after you know all that.
Fantastic and comprehensive tour, thank you Cpt_Foxyloxy!
They really need to have an option to just open the doors without extending the ramp as well: just need a second button.
8:27 the second console is labeled engineering instead of fire control.
It's likely needed for loading up torpedo's on the storage spindles.
And other engineering stuff.
Yo Captain, do you ever stop working!! NO rest for SC Scientist!!🎉
Keep up the great work Sir, you make this Alpha bearable, by allowing us to learn from your experiments.
I cannot confirm this but the color coding on the deck near the brig and sick bay may indicate something else. Orange may actually be red and blue may be green. Red indicating the starboard side of the ship and green indicating the port side of the ship. They can be navigational aids.
I would love CIG to add the ability to open elevators, doors, and ramps with a Mobiglass app
You have access on tractor beam from control panel in cargo bay and copilot seat
I'm loving the ship so far. I can't wait for blades to come in down the line to help keep these manned . I've been soloing mine and leaving the hanger in a medium/heavy fighter to do bounties. Would be cool to have turrets protecting the ship while gone.
I really appreciate the video. Do not have a Polaris and if I did, wouldn't have the time to check it out. I feel like I know the ship now.
Way to go with the torpedo bro that was the best
Fantastic Foxy does it again, supreme kudos for this video. Extremely well done.
such a cool looking ship. the cargo hanger being on the side is awesome to me. only thing this bad boy is missing is AI crew, as cool as having a human crew would be its gonna be hard coordinating play times so AI is the only way to fully enjoy it
Great job! Seems it makes more sense to operate form the right seat and not then left.
Dotation crew of this ship says 10+1 but it seem that to be fully combat ready it would need 2 shifts and rotate on the rooms. Some of these need to wear full armor in case a boarding party arrives while keeping the guns firing, the engine rolling and the fighters supplied. 😅
BRIDGE
- 1 captain
- 1 flight-deck officer/XO (copilot)
- 1 helmsman
- 2 guners
HULL
- 5 guners
- 2 torpedo operators / 1 auxiliary
- 1 brig sentinel /auxiliary
- 1 medic
- at least 2 crew to move amunition and resupply the flight deck and ship.
ENGINEERY
- 1 chief engineer
- at least 2 auxiliary engineers
The tractor beam appears to be accessible via the co pilot seat controls also
Pretty good walk through showing how to get everywhere. So many of these reviews are so sporadic and just all over the place.
18:16 what is that opening to the left of the air lock? It seems to have a door that opens. Edit: ahh turret. Nice
I have a video idea for you. You can show the in-game camera system key bind saves and use them to save shots from various areas of your ship internals to simulate video cameras and even a landing camera.
Very nice! One question, I get that you cannot change the Coolers, Power Supply, or shield generators, at least at this time, and we saw the QT drive, which you can change, but where is the shield generator located on the ship? IF you want to target the shield generator, where is it physically? Same for power supply and coolers.
the storage of the suit lockers (armoury) is at the top
it only has one remote cam for the torps, so you have one term to use said cam
Nice walk through. Thanks man
Great tour. Thanks!
The second torpedo screen says engineering on it, I think that will be yet another engineering screen.
I like the Polaris but I like the Idris more. Does CIG sell the Idris M in limited quantities at IAE? I have a CCU to a Polaris but have to put new money in as well. Enough that I could melt my 890 and buy an Idris or at least try to. Thoughts?
Less confusing then any other tour I've seen, but... I counted 10 armor lockers and 12 weapon racks + 4 heavy racks in armory. Couldn't count (didn't try pausing) how many crew rooms there are.
This ship has quite a few design stumbles, it's actually baffling. The vehicle bay ramps literally have 2x more surface area than the ship vehicle bay. To have that many layers of an extending cargo ramp sandwiched together and extending outward is just folly. You would never design or build this way. The vehicle bay should've had an efficient single lift elevator (like what's on a modern aircraft carrier) or even a super max lift tractor beam system to load and unload vehicles into the bay. Like a suspensor field lift system. Imagine trying to load cargo or vehicles from an orbital dry-dock while the ship is moored in a ship paddock. Now extend one of those goofy side ramps all the way outside the periphery of the hull. Head scratching.
The second baffling design choice was not elevating or pushing forward the pilot and co-pilot seats to clear the strut structure from their peripheral views. Either the entire flight deck should've been raised to clear the strut or the strut itself stepped down to allow for the PILOT to see clearly while helming the ship. As it stands, you have this massive strut frame obstructing one side of your peripheral as you try to helm the ship up along-side another vehicle, docking area or into a ship paddock. Not even a few external additional screens with cameras to aid the pilots.
the suit lockers have storage walk in look up and you get a F to access
To hear someone say the Captain's chair is the most useless chair because it does not have control over more things... Wow. Otherwise, pretty good job.
Can it dock with the space stations like the 890j? I dont think I've seen any videos showing that.
Yes it can
7:50 - That would be the anti-engineering console.
I love and hate the Polaris
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Am fairly disappointed in how the Polaris turned out but knew it was a risk as CIG often changes original layouts, mainly due to laziness. Just CC'd mine. Good riddance.