Star Citizen | Behind the Ships: Esperia Prowler Utility

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   The Prowler Utility is a brand new dedicated cargo ship with enhanced stealth abilities. It trades some of its combat capabilities for more industrial uses. If you don't want to get detected during your cargo runs, this is the perfect ship. This ship is for someone who wants to do cargo, who wants to remain stealthy, and who wants to look sick doing it. The Prowler utility is different from the baseline Prowler. Because we had to carve out extra space for the new cargo, that meant that the belly section of the ship had to increase in size just a tiny bit. It also has a vententral size 2 remote tractor beam which can be accessed from

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   the pilot or co-pilot seat and that will allow you to move cargo freely in and out of the ship. The base version of the ship has these feathers on the wings which get deployed down when you land, but those are no longer really needed since the functionality is slightly different. And so what we've done now is when you land with this ship, those feathers get tucked up, giving you more space to actually move cargo around the ship freely. It features two size four guns under the wings instead of the original two size five guns while retaining the remote turret on top with the two size three weapons. As the Prowler utility is a variant of the Prowler rather than a standalone chassis, it gets to share all the cool

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   paints between both versions. And existing Prowler owners of course get to benefit from all the new paints that come with the launch of this vehicle. We've updated the lighting quite a bit in order to sort of just give a little bit more feedback to the player. We've chosen to really lean into sort of the red lighting that we've been doing on the interior of the Prowler in general and push that to the exterior. And so if you're coming down above someone, you just look like this incredibly aggressive silhouette with red lights flashing everywhere. I think it looks awesome. Compared to the base Prowler, we have stripped out the lower interior by removing the main section of drop seats

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   and replacing that with a 32 SDU cargo hold and added a sort of clamshell door opening on the unders sides to allow easy access to the cargo bay. It essentially looks like a face hugger, but it face hugs your cargo. There's a new engineering room on the upper deck, which is previously where a component closet was, and it retains three of the four jump seats up front in the co-pilot foyer, and replaces one of those drop seats with a storage rack for handheld cargo boxes. I'm super happy with how it turned out and I'm excited to see the feedback from players and how they end up using it in

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   the game. We wanted to try and come up with an arrangement of the cargo hold and the tractor beam in such a way that you could potentially swoop in and grab cargo that maybe necessarily doesn't belong to you. My dream would be to just see a bunch of people stealing other people's cargo with this thing in the dead of night and just flying off into the distance without ever landing, which would be super sick. I'm just super excited that we get to launch a more accessible version of the Prowler, which I think is a fan favorite visually, but it's just never had its time in the verse. So, hope to see lots of these flying around now. [Music]