Star Citizen: Mirai Guardian Buyer's Guide

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[arenomusic]

1:55 NO ONE I watched cover this ship mentioned these two features. You're the best out there!

[ElPolloDiabloCH]

The base Guardian's paintjob is fire though.

[ShevaiAsan]

My concern for the QI variant is that CIG could very easily just change the mass of the QI component to be way more, thus skewing the QI variant's maneuverability way down. The QI range is 4.5k; so if someone is in NAV mode going 1.1km; they could easily turn and get away from you.

I like the QI in theory; and with maxed out components(quantum drive, best in slot powerplants, etc); you'll have the powergrid for stuff; but I know how CIG like to release something stronk, and then dial it back in future iterations.

I'm sticking to my standard Guardian, and I almost went ahead and got the QI variant just to have the QI module; but I'd rather wait and see.

Ultimately, love the design of the ship; it's probably the best use of space for any ship in the game; they did a phenomenal job with it; and worst case scenario I can always turn it into a Vanguard Sentinel(which was my first heavy fighter from years ago, which I truelly loved).

[DanakarEndeel]

I think people would do well to just use $10 of Store Credit and get a Guardian-to-QI CCU. We don't know how/if CIG is going to nerf one or both variants so I would suggest waiting until several months *after* the sale before applying anything.

At present time it seems the QI is just better for minimal drawbacks but CIG could easily nerf the QI variant into the ground.

I also noticed that quite a few people used store credits to get a Corsair-to-QI CCU because they were fed up with the way CIG nerfed the Corsair.

[Zaphod_]

Watching this after I bought it 😊
Got the base variant + unapplied QI CCU, which I may or may not use depending on future balanced changes.

[squirrellordsgaming]

I see this ship as a direct competitor to the Vanguard series. I would strongly advise against going after light or medium fighters with this, especially if they’re flown by players, but this can be an extremely good big game hunter. Plus, it looks pretty damn cool.

[blinkerfluid]

exiting ship cockpit to rear so you can bed log will often spit you out the ship so make sure you aren't moving when you try to get out cockpit to bed log.

[Pandobanzz]

I just got my first gaming pc can’t wait to play this game

[cv]

Oh, first i heard about those external compartments. I will probably have to wait until fleet week to test the Guardian but i imagine, the front half of the wings will be taking most of the hits and be able to be shot off, taking anything in there with them

[kendallscott]

Ya I got the QI, perfect tackler for The Polaris

[crackedjabber]

I ended up settling on the regular Guardian over the QI. I tend to use these ships for looting and exploration. So the QI gear doesn't benefit me in any meaningful way. I want to do damage and escape, in the confusion. I don't want to KEEP anyone there with me, that defeats the entire point. So I'll stick to the standard Guardian. Everything I want, nothing I don't.

[mr.u]

will be upgrading my QI with Galdereens and Lumacore power plants for small ship bounty hunting

[Syron]

I have one. Hunting light fighters is a pain in the ass. The Standard weapons are not good too imo. I’ll try to tune it a bit

[Auldus]

People wont be conplaining about S5s when maelstrom comes online and the guardian and ares are the only heavy fighters ripping through heavily armored hulls.

[dothedanmthing]

The Q is a $5 ccu from the cutlass steel. Where as the base is a $20 ccu from the hurricane

[fueler]

I feel like their should have been a bigger difference between the two versions. Maybe if one had 4x s4 on the wings with only 2 missle racks it'd make each one more distinct. As they are now, it seems hard to argue the base Guardian over the QI version.

[Toaster_The_Tall]

combat weakness I've noticed is the very limited gimbal up and down, so the way most people fight via pitching is gonna be a hard to shake. Much better range gimballing side to side, so try to dogfight by yawing

[zantrag]

CIG... Are the bright white lights, on either side of the cockpit, (shining directly in your face) really necessary?

[angelg]

What is the range of the Quandum Dampener? Where can we find this information? Can you give us a link to a web page that details the range / radius of the Quantum Dampener?

[JoeBryan-fz]

Got it but its not showing in fleet manager as deliverable....
Not sure if this is a bug or what.