hello and welcome back to elite dangerous well i've gone and found myself of the scorpion the
vodal scorpion is the new srv in game and was announced yesterday prior to update nine dropping
now i went to a couple of military economies couldn't quite find one so i went straight
to founders jameson memorial in the shinrata system and um used my elite privilege to gain
access and get one which i was a bit surprised about really it did say in the patch notes
they would be available at military economies tried a couple of those they weren't there anyway
i found one let's not dwell on things so we've got we can do a good side by side comparison here now
between the vodal scarab and the vodal scorpion so straight away as we all know the scarab we're not
going to dwell too much on this dual repeater and the data link scanner it's got four cargo capacity
a whole mass of four tons fuel capacity of half a turn i'm a health of 108 and shield health of 40
lovely but what about this new vodal scorpion well let's just take a look at that look at that
straight away so we've got a reduction of two tens straight away on cargo capacity um so that's two
less than before the scarab had it's a lot heavier it's 26 tons heavier must be the great big honking
space gun that's stuck in it and also the armor health is about 54 um more than what the scarab is
also shield health is up to 130 whereas the scarab shields by default are 40. you'll also notice it
not only has a data link scanner but it has the surge repeater and the i'm going to call it oculus
and i'm sure someone in the comments is going to pick me up on my pronunciation but there you go
it's nearly christmas the oculus launcher which is the missile launcher so there you go those are the
comparison on the stats fantastic stuff let's click on it let's buy and equip oh yes indeedy
so here we are on a nice landable planet that i found in system the sun is out it's shining and it
gives us a good idea of what the vogel scorpion's all about it's the fault configuration very much
sort of like that top sandstone sort of color very aggressive looking look at those wheels straight
off the old batman tumbler straight off the bat you can see exactly where they are as you can
see that same old suspension dynamic has carried over from the vogel scarab fantastic stuff taking
a look at the back that back looks very car like with the the rear panels okay with the rear lights
um no idea where the cargo scoop is on this we can see how cram packed the cockpit is to squeeze
two of you in there you and your crew member but i'm sure we're all gonna manage one thing
i noticed as well is that you know it's quite a used interior bearing in mind these are new srvs
i do always did think that the srv interior should wear over time especially with some of the new
ships as well we've seen this when the crate was released either way it's looking fantastic so
what we got here now right so i have another look around look at the wheels fantastic look at the
sides yeah great same thing with the old headlamps as well you've got three stages of the headlamps
that's not a problem but how does it stack up against the vogel scarab well next to
it you can see it's pretty much the same floor plan as as the old run around shall we call it
okay drastically less field wheels i mean there's eight on the old scarab and a typical four wheel
configuration on the vogel scorpion um gone are the big thrusters either side as you can see and
it's one of those things you don't really realize until you put the two srvs side by side so you can
tell it's from the same manufacturer by the design but obviously they've got their own identity
that is perhaps not evident straight away it's the fact there is no sonar
right there's no sonar showing you where things are in this srv it is for war and war only combat
not expiration if you remember in the scarabs
you could then find objects you know other things as well um you're gonna have to rely on
the original disc and not the sonar on the top of the dashboard so that's probably not on a
mission but by design but something commanders are gonna have to think about before they
replace their scarabs for a scorpion
so let's talk about that great big honking space gun fitted to the scorpion so not only does it
have two seats your driver and your gunner you can also fire that gun as a driver as well and
switch to the turret or use your multi-crew so the surge repeater is a rapid-fire weapon that
gets more accurate the longer it is fired for cool and also the oculus that's what i'm going to call
it launcher which is a missile launcher either locked on or dumb fire let's have a quick look
in regards to what it's like standing next to it with an old commander and you can see yeah you
know it's a comparative scale this scale between the two models i mean it's definitely the newer
refiner build i'm not sure how many people are going to stick to the old faithful scarab unless
they're new commanders and the new commanders um a short on many either way though a more aggressive
looking vehicle aggressive looking stance and a nice bigger weapon so let's get into the scorpion
let's check out the other scarab
now you know what's coming next i'm going to get it in my sights let it have it
how long will it last do you think here's the thing not very long there you go
shields are down hit it with a missile goodbye srv that's quite compelling when you think about it
it's going to be great against goliaths etc etc
so that's great let's go and get ourselves another one and see what all that's about um
what i have found with the scorpion mind is that even though the inside of the cockpit
is nice and warm and all the rest of it a bit cramped good field of fire the weapon
is savage 2 000 rounds of ammunition right i think it's 10 or 12 rounds in the rocket launcher
but the horrendously savage weapon you can really make a mess of some things with this it's gonna
be interesting to see how or if the community has srv scorpion wars or a frontier actually
do put some sort of missions like this into the game that would be good but you can see hey if
those rocks shattered making a right mess of them so here i am getting into another vodal scarab
uh and we're going to pull up alongside and let the vodal scorpion have another good go at that
just for science really we've already seen it once let's see if we see it again what i'm going to do
this time is i'm going to set all the pips to the shields and just give the scarab a bit of a chance
um although really it's not going to take that much to destroy this these things are
made of tissue paper as they are whereas the scorpion is more your war based method
so let's get out let's get all the way over here one thing i found as well at the moment
if you approach the vehicle from the front and press e you can't get in you've got to go to the
side i'm sure that may well be fixed let's line up the scarab there it is go to the turret mode let
rip the dogs of war of course we've locked on but um let's hit it with the gun first there you go
stood up to it so far this is dang barrage there's the shields whap with the rocket
no more scarab so what do i think of it so far okay two tons of cargo capacity
but you can carry one of your crew around with you in multi crew honking great big space gun
you gotta love it right you gotta love a space gun and it's got a dual mode with a rocket on it as
well it's not a slouch it can travel it can it can hoof around a bit as they say and i think it looks
fantastic and just to see what it looks like with some of the other paint packs on there as well be
quite interesting to see what the model looks like in different colors not so much black but perhaps
some of the other ones so far i think it's great lucia performs in the field with missions and also
a multi-crew on some of the streams on the weekend i've been ricardo thanks very much for watching
this review and comparison between the two srvs hope you enjoyed it let me know in the comments
you