VIDEO Close-up view of the Imperial Capital Ship (Majestic Class Interdictor) in game

Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley
Yes - found one! Here is a decent video showing this massive Imperial Capital Ship (Majestic Class Interdictor) in action.

[video=youtube_share;hKSD-rNXgFs]http://youtu.be/hKSD-rNXgFs[/video]

Edit: And now me trying to take it out....

Well, I figured I would give it a try... After a few failed attempts last night where I managed to get the ship down a bit before being killed by smaller fighters, I came into today with a plan of exactly what I was going to attack first.

Unfortunately, I don't know if it is possible to kill this ship yet, as I had all three FSD drives listed as 0% yet it was still able to escape by jumping out.

Either the drives being at 0% makes no difference with this ship, Frontier don't have it setup right, or one of the drives was actually at 0.4% or something and being rounded down. I am tempted to believe the latter now after re-watching the footage, as when it jumps out you can clearly see two engines on fire, while one isn't.

I am not going to show footage of the entire battle, because it took me quite a bit of time to work out what to attack and when (along with a few insurance claims last night). So this video actually contains:
- Great footage of the ship jumping into the conflict zone.
- Some random strafing runs
- Some times when I had to leave the dreadnought to take care of fighters who wouldn't leave me alone
- Great footage of the ship jumping back out of the conflict zone with two FSDs on fire.
- me being caught in the jump wake from the dreadnought, which caused a lot of hull damage, then the 20 seconds or so it took to compose myself after being annoyed it happened. :)
- Some combat with smaller fighters after the dreadnought left, eventually jumping out with a slim 1% of my hull remaining.

Pro tip: Don't be near them when they jump.

Oh, and what the hell is that LEAKING out of the Viper 9mins into the video that seems to disable the pilot!?

Enjoy.

[video=youtube;DSAcu8_cdZA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSAcu8_cdZA[/video]
 
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Kandra

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Is it just me, or is the signage inside the docking bay 180 degrees relative to the signage outside the bay?
 

Oppenheimer

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awesome vid, some bad LOD popping though on that thing and at 8:40 you can see through it's hull at the front and see the rings below
maybe increase your viewdistance?
 
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DaBajan

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Loved the fact that the ship was damaged and you could see a hole that was on fire! So cool, what attention to detail FD!

:D

DB
 

Sentdex

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Sorry for my ignorance... but is this a ship we can eventually acquire, or is this purely for NPCs?

That thing is like a space version of a naval destroyer... incredible.
 

Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley
Kandra said:
Is it just me, or is the signage inside the docking bay 180 degrees relative to the signage outside the bay?
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Re-using textures (mirroring) is common in games. :) They probably didn't count on someone flying inside. :D

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Oppenheimer said:
awesome vid, some bad LOD popping though on that thing and at 8:40 you can see through it's hull at the front and see the rings below
maybe increase your viewdistance?
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It's at max. LOD popups seem to occur in ED right after you take a hires screenshot.

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Sentdex said:
Sorry for my ignorance... but is this a ship we can eventually acquire, or is this purely for NPCs?

That thing is like a space version of a naval destroyer... incredible.
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AFAIK it is NPC only.
 

Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley
AndyWeller said:
Very nice sir.

I'm new to it so would ask where I find such places to fight?
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Bulletin board info might tell you of your nearest conflict zone. Near Federation space there should be a zone in Eranin somewhere, this specific one is in HIP 22500, which is far from anywhere. :) Close to Imperial I guess.
 

Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley
Having just spent about 40mins trying to take down a Dreadnought and getting it to 42%, I'm of the opinion they cannot be killed (yet). I disabled all three FSD drives on the ship and it still jumped out. I don't want to give away too much information on the tactics and strafing directions used (it took me quite a while to work them out with the weaponry on it, and disable those in a specific way), but I'll have a video uploading soon - which if nothing else shows some super footage of the ship jumping in and out of the combat zone, and a few random strafing runs.
 

Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley
Scratch that, looking over the footage again, it seems 2 engines were on fire and 1 wasn't when it jumped out, so I guess one of the engines was being rounded down from 0.4% or less... ?
 

Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley
Edited first post, adding this: Well, I figured I would give it a try... After a few failed attempts last night where I managed to get the ship down a bit before being killed by smaller fighters, I came into today with a plan of exactly what I was going to attack first.

Unfortunately, I don't know if it is possible to kill this ship yet, as I had all three FSD drives listed as 0% yet it was still able to escape by jumping out.

Either the drives being at 0% makes no difference with this ship, Frontier don't have it setup right, or one of the drives was actually at 0.4% or something and being rounded down. I am tempted to believe the latter now after re-watching the footage, as when it jumps out you can clearly see two engines on fire, while one isn't.

I am not going to show footage of the entire battle, because it took me quite a bit of time to work out what to attack and when (along with a few insurance claims last night). So this video actually contains:
- Great footage of the ship jumping into the conflict zone.
- Some random strafing runs
- Some times when I had to leave the dreadnought to take care of fighters who wouldn't leave me alone
- Great footage of the ship jumping back out of the conflict zone with two FSDs on fire.
- me being caught in the jump wake from the dreadnought, which caused a lot of hull damage, then the 20 seconds or so it took to compose myself after being annoyed it happened. :)
- Some combat with smaller fighters after the dreadnought left, eventually jumping out with a slim 1% of my hull remaining.

Pro tip: Don't be near them when they jump.

Oh, and what the hell is that LEAKING out of the Viper 9mins into the video that seems to disable the pilot!?

Enjoy.

[video=youtube;DSAcu8_cdZA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSAcu8_cdZA[/video]
 
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