Inside Star Citizen: Spartan Warrior | Fall 2021

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   we're sitting on the pyro 4 storms have been raging for ages you can't get a ship down there turbulence is too much visibility is completely shot the people in the base they've got their anti-air set up as well and then suddenly they're hearing the rumbling of tyre moving across the hillside just hordes and hordes of spartans and you know they're filled to the brim with people who are just stocked up they're locked and loaded and they're just ready to get out and just go well this base is going to be ours now because you protected against the air but you did nothing for land as star citizen evolves and the systems get larger and more of them come online gameplay features come online we've been looking at the ways that players get to places and

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   as you sources and con one thing that is becoming very apparent is that a lot of locations are going to be well defended from the air you've got anti-aircraft cannons you've got protection for for this this this ground structure it might be there's a big storm coming in it might be the you know visibility's low and with with a lot of our ships yeah you're limited on on how you can approach and that's kind of where the anvil spartan comes in the anvil spartans our first dedicated armored personnel carrier you have three ways onto the vehicle you have two entrances in the middle so you have left and right entrance and exit and then you have a more traditional troop transport rear folding ramp

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   [Music] it can carry up to eight troops plus their weapon loadout it's got space for one crew member who's going to drive the thing it's fast because if it wasn't fast you may as well just run there yourself yeah anvil was a very well developed manufacturer within our universe and yeah we had a really strong base already with the ballista in terms of defense it is quite well armored especially compared to the ballista and it retains the dual size 2 gun that is operated by the driver on top of the cap

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   the button is built off the same chassis that the anvil ballista is which is we're terming the anvil atlas the amber atlas is the the shared platform that both the ballista and the spartans settle while it may seat it troops in the vehicle i don't see why you couldn't cram literally as many as can sit down or stand up on top of it just may want to be careful of the turret on the vehicle itself i mean i i tested it you can definitely shoot your friend if they're on top of it because there's nothing to stop it doing one of the sort of visual features a lot of people notice on the exterior of the spartan is the ladders on the side and at the initial release these are unfortunately not usable but they are fully intended that players will be able to get on them in the future and then

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   clamber on top of the vehicle and then it's up to you whether you want to do some offensive or defensive capabilities the spartan releases straight into the game and starts now for 3 15 1 and i'm super excited to see how players use it we always have our intention but there's always cooler innovative ways that players use our ground vehicles the anvil spartan is the latest ground vehicle making its way to the persistent universe and doing so straight to drivable during this year's iae festivities so be sure you check out the website for all the remaining details and up next a ship whose journey from concept to reality took a different path than most the aegis redeemer is up next in our iae special inside star citizen

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   the redeemer is the first ship that was actually designed by the backers it sort of was a product of its time and the game evolved quite a lot since then we knew we wanted to reinvent the ship and it's quite a different beast from back then we've spoken in the past about how the redeemer was originally a hybrid dropship gunship and over time we've expanded the lineup of our ships to sort of to make the dropship side of the redeemer redundant so it was decided that we would fully focus on the gunship side it is there to come to an area absolutely annihilate and control the skies in the ground around it i'd say the redeemer is good for a group

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   who want good offense while also having pretty decent defense at the front of the ship we have the cockpit which obviously holds the pilot seat and dashboard when it came to the redeemer cockpit we actually used the gladius as a base and we wanted to make sure we had very good visibility and obviously the gladius has that it's not exactly the same as the gladius but you might see the similarities there once you're piloting the redeemer the pilot guns are ballistic cannons you go down those steps and we've got the two remote turret seats at the front the guns that are attached to the remote

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   turret on the redeemer are actually size three laser cannons now if there is nobody in the front remote turret that gun can also be controlled by the pilot so then it has full control of its own guns and the front remote turret we've got the first manned turret in the turret room the man turrets are using size 5 ballistic gatlings these the guns that we've made for the manned turrets have actually been made new for the redeemer not specific to the redeemer but this is the first time that you'll get to see them and use them we have the four crew seats in the

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   turret room as well and then behind there is the component room where you can access all of the components we have huge power plant shield generators coolers they are massive if you go down the ladders where we have a airlock door control there as well we go into the habitation area in the habitation area we've got a fully stocked fridge with usable drinks so you know you can have a little party in the habitation area of the redeemer if you want we've got four escape pods for the crew and we have a toilet and a two scu cargo

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    hold at the back as well and you exit via the ramp one of my favorite bits of the redeemer is the the nutcrackers the you know the side engines yeah we haven't got anything else in game bits like that they add a lot of animation and life to the exterior of the ship so they will open up with increased velocity they're closed as default when the landing gear is out and we're hoping to get some more movements in the there in future um so we want to have them rotate side to side when you're like um when you're moving around more in the ship as well with all that said about the redeemer we've seen what it was how it is now um i think there's only really one last

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    thing to say about it and it's something that we've said many many times about various ships and the ship in particular and a lot of ships to the point where it has almost become a meme but this is absolutely the ship that punches above its weight class so what did we learn this week well we learned that a star citizen continues to expand into new gameplay systems like inclement weather and new outpost systems with advanced anti-air so too come with it the need for ground-based troop transports like the anvil spartan that we can finally close the book on the next great starship with the aegis redeemer and that it may look different than most but it looks deadliest when you're right in front of it it'll bring the pew now the intergalactic aerospace expo begins this week so don't forget to log in and make the trek to microtech to experience all the festivities and we'll

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    be back right here next week but looks into two more additions to star citizen's pantheon of spacecraft and vehicles for inside star citizen i'm jared huckaby enjoy your iae everyone and don't forget to check out new merch on the merch store and this look at this look at this how cool is that you