Elite Dangerous - Imperial Cutter Review

How would 3 large beam lasers and 4 medium multicannons go - or even 2 multicannons and 2 missile racks - I love expirimenting with weapons :D

Getting the required imperial rank is just ludicrous, Frontier should really lower the amounts of missions required per rank up.

I guess we really need to wait and see what "Small fighter" class ships FDev allow us to dock inside the Cutter / Corvette / Anaconda. I mean, if they limit it to things like the Eagle / Sidewinder / Condor / Imperial fighter then it wont be all that useful. But imagine if they let us dock something like an Imperial Courier or Vulture? That's what I want.


Personally I use 2 railguns in the class 2 hardpoints under the nose for a bit extra punch.


I see you're pledged to ALD. Do I sense a Imperial hammer review coming soon?

I love the Cutter and using it for exploration at the moment. Have everything kitted for exploration and still have 320T cargo capacity for picking up goodies while on planet surfaces :) The A8 Fuel scoop is a joke as Doomlord117 stated. Using a B8 instead which is almost as quick as the A8 but is a whopping 200 million less in cost! Also using an A6 power distributor as it is still pretty light, lets you boost and has excellent heat management during fuel scooping. Yes the Cutter take a bit getting used to for anyone who has never flown a really big ship, but once you get used to it it is not that bad. With practice you can slip in pretty quick into starports, shaving a bit of time of those trade runs. After exciting supercruise put on full forward throttle, then I usually find putting it into full reverse thrust about 4km out and rolling 180 and listen to the engines start to whine down, The ship should drift, then full forward throttle at the right point with the ship pointing at the opposite vector and Presto! the drift should have you facing almost directly into the mail slot at about 2km away :) Then throttle back to a safe entry speed depending on where your landing pad is. Also remember that your cockpit is way out front so don't turn or pitch too early near the mail slot as the back end of the ship will still be in the mail slot. Takes a little practice :)

Haven't taken it into battle out side of the Beta. Bit concerned over the terrible maneuverability. Worse than the type-9.

You nailed it on the need for turrets on this ship. One of the problems people are having is trying to fight it like a Clipper. :D

I put a couple multicannons on mine for hull damage. Makes getting rid of targets a bit faster.

If you use long range beams on the large hardpoints you can quite effectively get a lot of "on target" time if you zoom and boom. Woe to whoever stands in your way!

Hi squidoflove, I am rank rear admiral and I cannot find the corvette in federation systems anywhere, any idea why? do I need to be on a federation side through power play?

I think Frontier lost a lot of players when they bought their Anaconda. I saw that with a couple live streamers. Once they had the most expensive ship they lost interest. Perhaps they're trying to keep players longer by making the most expensive ship just astronomically expensive.

Hey Squid - could you perhaps do a video on how to set up the controls for the SRV if using keyboard and mouse? It seems the SRV is designed to be used with a HOTAS or and game pad. I'm having a hard time setting up the controls so they're easy to use with keyboard and mouse.

Hey Stavros, I did my first planetary landing yesterday in my Imperial Eagle, even had it equiped with an SRV! Also landed without incident at a planetside base, although it did felt weird dealing with gravity! I also did some riding along the surface of a rocky moon collecting some raw ore and destroyed my first skimmer aswel! :D I did not find the SRV so hard to controll what you were saying during beta, I did have to fiddle around with the controlls alot before I got it to my liking though!

Oh btw I outfitted my Imp. Eagle with one of those Bi-weave shields aswel...I think I prefer them to the normal ones, they are less strong but regenerate much faster...no more need for Shield cells with a Bi-weave shield! :D But I do have a few questions Stavros (or anyone who can answer them)

1. Would a shieldbooster have any use when combining them with Bi-weave shields or would that make the boosters completely redundent?

2. You said the neccesary rank for the Cutter is Duke, but wich rank is that in actual numbers? Like Rank 10? I know that Baron is like rank 7 (wich is needed for the Clipper) and currently I am still at rank 5 (Knight) myself! :(

3. How much credits did you loose providing this video for us? After you upgraded it with almost all A-class modules I saw your credits decline from 1.250 Mil. down to around 750 Mil. and I remember that when you sell modules/ships you only get 90% of the value you initially paid back! So I'm guessing this cost you atleast 70 mil. thrown away just to make this video! :O

The Cutter is one of the largest THREE ships. The Annie is a part of the big three.

meh, for exploring, the asp with 2 srvs, all weapons, 2 shield boosters, class A6 fuel scoop and all A class modules (except LS&Sens), you get 27Ly jump range w 32T fuel, and better maneuverability on high G worlds (or if you need to escape a thar good attack ;) )

First time in a long time I've heard you v exited about a new ship.

Can you do a video on the new mission system please? I'm rank ensign, and I was stacking combat missions in arexe. Now all of the combat missions are gone and the only missions available are low paying (payout=rank points I'm assuming) search and return missions. There are also very few missions available now, which makes ranking near impossible for me because I cannot play video games all day. Does frontier want the game to be super grindy? Thanks!

You need to do a video on how you make your credits.Ive tried everything and I just can't seem to make anything significant.

Hi squid , what ship new or old would you recommend to upgrade rank in empire, I am currently at baron and want to achieve duke for the cutter. I have about 80 million that I want to spend to buy and upgrade it. Thanks in advance Iron

Meh, Empire gets the better deal again.

Grats for getting Cutter, I got my own too last night from Founders world too, tho if people want to save some outfitting cost, they can buy 256 cargo rack from Alliance space (they cost without any discount bout 3.5 mil and Alliance gives 20% discount for racks) and other moduls from Sirius space, like Bowen City HIP 20342 (for cheapest FSD you would need to visit neighbor system Kamito). And you can't buy Cutter in any Sirius station right now.

That A8 fuel scoop is hilarious, i mean its value over the B8 is only 200/second but the price is 200 million more.

"I don't think it would be wise to ram this Cutter..." Ha ha. I love your ship reviews, Squid. Best on YouTube. Always very informative. Looking forward to the other 1.5 ship reviews you'll no doubt be doing. :-) Have any of them changed much since the beta?