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Elite Dangerous VR: My new Imperial Cutter - Best biowaste hauler in the galaxy

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• published: 24 Jul 2016
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The Imperial Cutter is the largest and most expensive ship in the game. Ship tour in VR with HTC Vive. One of my goals in Elite: Dangerous during the past few weeks was to get the Imperial Cutter and use it as credit making machine with long range hauling. The Imperial Cutter can be outfitted with up to 792 tons of cargo, the largest cargo capacity of any ship in Elite: Dangerous by a significant margin. Today I bought the ship after grinding out data delivery missions for the Empire to reach the rank of Duke (rank 12) in the Imperial Navy. The ship costs 207 million credits but I bought it at the space station in the Harm system for a 15% discount and saved 30 million credits. I outfitted the ship with cargo racks, an A-rated FSD and D-rated internals, which cost me an additional 75 million. I kept the ship's weight as low as possible with D-rated internals and no weapons, and I modified my FSD drive with a rank 5 range mod from the engineer Felicity Farseer, which gave me a jump range of 35 LY unladen, and 22 LY fully laden. Then I took the cutter to Sothis and Ceos for longe range hauling, earning 73 million credits on my first run. I play Elite: Dangerous in VR with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift CV1 VR HMDs. I was introduced to the game through virtual reality about 2 months ago and now it's my favorite game in VR. Elite: Dangerous is incredibly immersive in virtual reality, it also has great graphics, realistic space flight controls and physics, and an entire galaxy to explore that is to scale with the real Milky Way. In Elite: Dangerous you start out with a basic spacecraft, a few credits, and almost no direction. You have to head out into the galaxy and earn credits however you can through a variety of different activites like combat bonds, bounty hunting, piracy, smuggling, trading, hauling, mining, or exploration. As you earn credits you can buy new ships or upgrade your current ships. I currently own an Asp Explorer and a Fer-de-Lance, but I gutted the FDL to help pay for my Imperial Cutter. I recorded this video right after buying the most expensive ship in the game, the Imperial Cutter. The Imperial Cutter is a multipurpose ship that can perform nearly any task in the game, but it excels at hauling cargo with a cargo capacitiy over 50% larger than the cargo capacity of the Type-9 hauler, the ship with the next largest cargo capacity in the game. The downside of the Cutter is that it is weaker in combat than the other ships in its price-range like the Federal Corvette or the Anaconda. However, it does have some combat advantages. The Imperial Cutter has room for a Size 8 Shield and a Size 8 Shield Cell Generator, and 8x utility mounts, giving it great defensive options. It is also very fast for it's size, and has the highest mass of any ship in the game, making it great for both ramming and mass-locking other ships. In-game description of the Imperial Cutter: "The Imperial Cutter fulfils a similar role as the corvette for the Imperial Navy. The design philosophy reflects Imperial sensibilities as it is faster and more elegant than the corvette, but doesn't quite match it in firepower. As with other Imperial warships the cutter is also used for projecting soft power, via diplomatic missions and support for friendly powers. It is possible, although rare, for a well connected client or patron to own one of these ships. Like the corvette it can deploy two small fighter class ships." Official game description of Elite: Dangerous: "Elite Dangerous is the definitive massively multiplayer space epic, bringing gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions. Starting with only a small starship and a few credits, players do whatever it takes to earn the skill, knowledge, wealth and power to survive in a futuristic cutthroat galaxy and to stand among the ranks of the iconic Elite. In an age of galactic superpowers and interstellar war, every player’s story influences the unique connected gaming experience and handcrafted evolving narrative. Governments fall, battles are lost and won, and humanity’s frontier is reshaped, all by players’ actions. 400 Billion Star Systems. Infinite Freedom. Blaze Your Own Trail." Check out Elite: Dangerous on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/359320/ If you are interested in virtual reality, check out my channel. I put out VR gameplay videos on a regular basis. Please subscribe if you want to see more! Follow me on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/obumble Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/obumble