Star Citizen Crusader Intrepid New Starter Ship First Look & Combat

A first look at the Crusader Intrepid

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00:00 Ship Exterior Look
03:28 Interior Tour
06:28 Rental and More Exterior
09:30 Flying The Ship
10:53 Crusader Intrepid Combat

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[Dracounguis]

I'm a big sucker for a nice interiors, it carries enough cargo for a starter ship... But god dammit, that ONE S3 gun is a deal-breaker. Unless it's going to be MUCH cheaper than a Titan, this is essentially the ROC DS of spaceships.

[JLBlazer]

Big Crusader guy here. I love my Inferno, Spirit, and Hercules. I have been stoked for the Intrepid, but I am left heartbroken. Give me beauty, or firepower, or cargo... It ends up anemic in every field. I prefer the Titan or the 300s. I hope many folks enjoy it, because I would hate to see a Crusader ship go to waste, but it is the first one I am a hard pass on.

[Shanex]

They could totally fit a size 4 in that gun mount. It's like a mini Ares with living quarters.

CIG, you gotta save this ship. The gun gots to be a size 4 for it to just have 1 gun and 1 shield.

[wild_lee_coyote]

With one gun I would want a size 4, there are plenty of starter ships with more firepower and a lot smaller. It would make a nice explorer with a nice scanner.

[Accipiter]

A guy on reddit photoshopped out/broke up that big flat white plate on top of the ship and it's amazing at how much it improves the exterior of the Intrepid.

[CaptWinky]

This thing needed a single size 5. Otherwise everyone is just going to take the Avenger over it. (The Avenger will probably also be the same price or slightly cheaper)

[tgjaedan]

Definitely blocky, and something is just off all around. Total Crusader fanboy here and this one kinda disappoints. Looks like a Lego version of a Crusader ship. And the one small gun just tacked on the front is eh. Also, cargo could have been much better in the back if the engineering 'stuff' was on one side and it was one larger double stack 2x8 cargo grid on the other.

[chadley]

Diehard Crusader fan but this is a picture perfect example of how NOT to do asymmetry. Perhaps if Crusader ships didn't have a senseless tram ride in their cockpit this wouldn't stick out so far and make it look ridiculous. Hard pass

[wiggyone]

Make that size 3 cannon bespoke and make it fire twice as fast with a generous capacitor and you might have something interesting here.

[vicsid]

They should have made the cockpit wider and made it a two person ship. I'll keep my Tana, better view, more firepower, armor, ramp for a bike, etc.

[house]

The blockiness comes from the fact it is a shrunk down version of a larger design language. When you are scaling a design language you have two choices. Keep the flats the same and squish the corners, or squish the flats and keep the corners. They have gone with extreme corner squish to keep those wide, flat panels. It keeps the language at a distance the same but makes it look like a Lego set when you get close.

[drksideofthewal]

An NPC Prospector beat his ass in the Intrepid oh nah…

[PrimeBeardman]

You can crawl into the ship from the 2 cargo areas it has, they go up into the ship and you can open up into the engineering part of the ship. So it does have more than the standard 1 exit from most crusader ships.

[Sephiroth]

The real question is how are they gonna nerf it? It’s already down to minimum components and weapons.

[charlespickering]

The intrepid is an interesting ship smaller than I thought but the inside is pretty well used. The only major knock I have is the gun seems small for what it looks like it should be. Seems like there should a single bigger gun. Possibly there are going to be some models like the cutter series maybe there is a more combat varient of it that mounts a bigger boom.

[senn]

So disappointed personally. The size 3 gun has to be a mistake. I was so looking forward to this one, i love the starter ships. This looks terrible in my opinion. The interior is very nice at least.

[NattCrowt]

It’s a bit on the odd side. I believe it was designed to use a bigger gun that would balance it visually. Maybe a S4 or S5?

In any case, not a combat ship.

[Rooakh-xndf]

Now that you've said you want a Crusader Zeus, I can say I want an Anvil Zeus.

[Beardfrey]

The good thing about this ship is that you can make phone calls to distant relatives while trying to take out a Gladius with its single S3 with 10 shots.

[edwarddomenico]

To be honest, I just cannot like the exterior enough to overlook the astounding interior. I love the way the rooms and hallway are laid out, but that lord. It doesn't hold a candle to most of the starters for offensive capability, and it's speed is not even close to being on par with the Avenger overall. There are way too many downsides to it to overlook other much better(and older) starters. The mustang alpha even would be a more preferable choice over this ship due to having more available offensive capability. This is a swing and a miss for me. I love Crusader, but to me this isn't one of them.