Star Citizen's F-22 Raptor: Anvil F8 Lightning | Star Citizen Lore

Come hear the story of how the most advanced space fighter in the Star Citizen Universe came about, the F8 Lightning. From the fall of a dictatorship, to marauding bands of alien raiders, the Lightning is forged from the fires of conflict to hopefully become the best superiority fighter ever made by humanity. A hope that only time will tell.

00:00 - Intro
00:57 - Lore
09:36 -Outro

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[Bullhead_JW]

Keep in mind there are two F7As. The Mk1 (the current basis of the F7C), and the Mk2, which is the current F7A. The F7A Mk1 was retired a while back in favor of the Mk2, which has no civilian counterpart at this time

[germfreepizzawi]

I got the F8C and I will say it is a meat eater. If you don’t know how to fly it you will really find yourself blacking out a lot because the blood is rushing to your legs from the g-force.

I constantly see people complaining about them blacking out, especially at high velocity turns, but that’s the problem, you are not supposed to fly at max speed all of the time, you need to know when max speed is needed and when it’s not. When flying the F8C in combat I recommend going about 60-75% at max, you will be fast but also be able to take those turns better. Only go max speed when you are trying to catch up or escape the enemies. I also recommend learning to use the boost (shift) for things other than a speed boost. It can be used as an emergency break if you just hold it and don’t hold w. But it can also be used to give emergency corrections if you are about to impact something like an asteroid to avoid it.

Weapon package wise, I recommend gimbaled, which sounds stupid, but due to the fact you will likely be maneuvering tight turns and trying to hit small targets like other fighters, it saves you a lot of waisted ammo. Speaking of ammo, I recommend 4 primary laser repeaters and for the secondary a split between ballistic repeaters or laser cannons. If you can max out your systems with all A grade military internals, do it, will give you all the more power.

Edit: Please do not take this as an insult, this is just something a lot of people have to learn and have learned. Everyone is new or inexperienced and some even think they know everything, but the truth is we all have something to still learn and adapting is far better than being stubborn and failing repeatedly. I still have things I’m learning and I’m far from the best pilot, but I took my tips from experienced pilots who I have gotten my butt handed to me by and learned from my failures.

[AbdiYohan]

Man, loooove these lore vids. Thank you so much for keeping us informed in such well organized and assembled way!

[delkenobi]

You are a master at your craft, sir. Well done and thank you!!

[GFOBigLebowski]

Really enjoyed this as well as all of your videos. Ty for your hard work.

[The_Opinion_of_Matt]

It seems the F8 lightning is a departure from the Leonard Casse ship designs. The thruster arrangement and overall design is remarkably different than the design of other Anvil ships. Edit: After reading more of the wiki article on Anvil, the circle in the middle seems to be a hold over from the Casse design language. Maybe the downward curving "wings" of the F8 fill that; but, to my eye, the F8 is more of a lifting body design without wings. Edit 2: I'm dumb. It has wings. I still stand by the design having significant departures from earlier designs. The most notable I see is 3 square thrusters verses 1 round (Arrow, Hornet) or 2 wide set round (Hurricane, Gladiator).

[lunamaria]

The Aegis Saber is the only fighter I own! I just rediscovered I have it while poking around my fleet. My brother bought it for me, because I love that F-14 inspired design! I was thinking, as powerful as the civilian F8C is, a military variant would be PRETTY spicy for pew pew players.

Thanks, Paul!

[aimlis]

Excellent quality as always - a fun watch for a very topical ship

[BennySouthSt]

"An entirely different competition with the exact same name" sounds *exactly* like something that would happen in real military procurement, haha!

[WaruiSushiiRoe]

After days of searching, I finally have this Beast. 🤯

Great Stuff, Love these Lore Vids.
✌️😎🚬

[yolo_xenophone]

Your lore vids always stun me no matter what the subject!! 🙌

[thegzn]

Great video Astro! I love your lore series much.

[nick_cartago]

Another masterpiece incl. support to the narrative team ;-)

[DFXKX]

even with the downsized weapons, that is a TON of firepower for one fighter. good lordy.

[josephquayle]

Thanks for this video, great lore, great everything. I guess I could find out about the lore by reading stuff but nowdays I'm into the videos. I have the F8 and its now my favorite ship. I only buy ships that I think look cool so I don't care if I have the best fighter or can kill everyone else. Anyway great video it was informative, fun to watch, and just GREAT. Ya I said great 4 times but so what.

[brickempire]

You know, I was doing really well without fomo in regards to the lighting. Now I want one! 😂 however, I think I’ll wait till it’s buyable in-game

[WitcherGary]

F8 is neat and all. But it just isnt dictator era, size 5 boomstick carring bird like Vanguards baby.

[tokinmonkey]

thanks for the lore info I enjoyed it and thinking now sence we got the F8C maybe if and when we beat S42 we get the F8A with the bigger guns and all :D lol

[arenomusic]

3:08-3:15 Anyone that has tried to swap the nose guns on one of these things has experienced this first hand.

[ozramblue]

It’s actually a breast vs vanduul and works well up to vs heavy fighters but the limited size on the guns makes it a bit less valuable vs the larger targets (on its own).