I miss my dear Darling and New Atlantis, As I wander the Blackness of the deep abyss. My Ship is in tatters all dented and worn, But I trust my old engine to get back by morn. Way ho, out in the blackness, Way ho, out in the void. Way ho get me back to my true love, as quick as an old asteroid.!!!
the fact i met him out in the complete edge of the map while just jumping through systems is hilarious to me. i barely made it to that system with 25ly jump range and i just thought "man he would never make it back to society if it werent for the fuel auto recharging thing"
Until you actually play the game and notice that you pay 90% of the ship value as "registration fees" if you want to sell it, making profit from piracy non existent lol
@@abnnizzy crimson fleet piracy bounties are where your gunna make the most being a pirate and if you are using the neon street rat trait from when you start you will make double money from them
I got a tip for everyone. Normally after you dock anenemy’s ship and take control you have to jump somewhere to claim it. Everything in your ships inventory moves to the new one which can be realllly annoying. Instead. Jump in the enemy ships seat . Go to your ships menu and “Claim the ship”. Doing that undocks you but your original ships still in the vicinity. Re dock to your ship and pilot that instead. So now you keep your ship and you have one that you don’t have to leave the system to keep. This has saved me a lot of headache and time.
Not really a headache, unless you display a bunch of stuff in the ship interior. I swapped to a smaller ship when I grabbed the Razorleaf (had almost 3k storage, nearly filled, on the first ship) you can't store anything else in the ship until you upgrade the cargo space, sell the excess, or switch back to the other ship, but there are no issues beyond that.
I would have loved if this was the content of the video, because that's actually useful information. I am constantly having to deal with all the interior crap from one ship or another filling up my cargo space and then throwing s*** out. It's very annoying
@@TheGreyBush420 if you're a pirate registering your ship shouldn't be so bad. The amount of money you're making off of contraband should be enough for you to have a whole lot of money. Plus selling all the weapons and ammo they carry that you don't use. I don't ever have problems with money and my character isn't even a pirate
Everyone and their mother tries to monetize everything they can with whatever is trending. It's sad an entire generation of leeches have grown into this mold, resulting in spam levels of feed invasions.
Keep in mind, you have to disable their engines first in combat before docking. Also for certain ships you need to level up your piloting skill to control them
You can also board a vessel by charging up the ramp while they're disgorging ground attackers, then entering the ship itself. The pilot will still take off, so by the time you've defeated everyone aboard you're in space, but it's a simple matter at that point to just sit down in the pilot's seat and take command. I picked up my first ship upgrade that way, quite accidentally - investigating a planet, I went to where the map showed a Ship Landing, picked off the Eclipse troops around it, then boarded.
@@rolandosanchez2019 Weirdly, you can apparently fly the ship just fine, even if it's rated higher than your piloting skill. You can't do that if you build it yourself, but I swiped a B-class Eclipse ship while only having a A rating in piloting and got it back to Jemison just fine. (Then I did the Mantis mission, and found that the Razorleaf outclassed it despite being A-class. Then I joined the Freestar Rangers, and got an A-class Star Eagle that made them both look limp.)
You also can't take or keep "M-Class" ships, AKA "legendary ships". A friend spent hours trying to commandeer the Shroudbearer but even if you down their engines and beat it to a sliver of it's health, you still can't board it.
New info. You have to go to a port and register the ship for a price. The better the ship the higher the price But first you have to learn a skill that let's you target individual part of a ship like. Let's say. The engines then it will give you the option to dock. ships.
To those wondering how I found its easier to use EM pulse weapons and using tier 1 of the locking (weapon aim perk) to focus on the enemy engines to prevent the ship from going anywhere and opening the option to dock withing 500ft
The additional fun kicks in when you pilot the ship without killing all the crew. I found myself having to get out of the pilot seat to go rescue my crew 😂
Pro Tip: it is more cost effective to register captured ships in your ship management screen than it is to register it at a space port. Capturing enemy ships is a much cheaper way to get a new ship when you want to build. And next to making drug labs, this is the best way to make money. Between the bounty, selling everything that’s not nailed down, and the ship itself, you can easily net around 10k per job.
He's forgetting to mention that most of the time the cost of registering the ship, a neccessary action for selling the stolen ship, far outweighs the selling price. Even if you do turn a profit, 90% of the time it's only like 2-3000 credits max. It's honestly more profitable in the long run to destroy enemy ships and board occassionally, as their lootable wreckage usually contains 2500-ish credits.
I’ve never once seen a ships registering price be more then what the ships worth is, I’m like 99% sure that’s impossible lmao I’ve also never seen 2500 ish credits in the wreckage lol register your ship in the normal ship menu, it’s cheaper then at a landing dock.
@@samuelyeet6006 For the 2500 credits thing I mentioned, tell me you're under level 50 without saying you're under level 50 lol Even if I'm wrong on that, wtf is the point of going through all that effort when a literal random encounter space battle has a bigger payout from the UC or Freestar ships you save? Either way, it's not worth it and is a huge waste of time.
The majority of the ships I've stolen have some form of contraband onboard that ranges from 8-13 thousand credits. lol you have probably blown up hundreds of thousands of credits and sifted though the wreckage to mainly just get resources and ship parts. Add in all the profits from selling all the equipment and weapons from the crew and it ends up being SEVERAL TIMES the weak sauce rewards from destroying them. Tell me you don't pay attention or have very strong logic without saying you don't pay attention or have very strong logic.
@@davidmurphy1207 Dude at what point in my comment did I say that I didn't board enemy vessels? Learn to read 🤡 I said stealing ships to sell isn't worth it. Not boarding and stealing the stuff on them.
I completed tons of these "go to this system and destroy the pirate ship" quests off the boards without realizing I could jack the ship and all its illicit cargo then sell it for more than the bounty was ever worth to begin with. Hardest part is just finding the illicit goods on board.
Just don't dock the damn thing at New Atlantis or you trigger a major series of bugs in the game where the ground goes missing in the spaceport area. It's a long known and unaddressed bug that causes a lot of problems and survives all the way through
Three things 1. You need to be able to lock on to the shops engines and destroy them to be able to board (or Dock) without destroying the ship 2. You will only be able to take control of you have the skill to pilot ships of the same class ie ships A, B or C 3. Once in control of the ship you’ll need to land at a spaceport and select that ship as your home base and register the ship to own
I’m down for this but I want this to be pretty risky so I think I’m gonna play on hard mode. I hope they worked out difficulty balancing in this game and it’s not just enemy health and damage increase.
You make it sound so simple but leave out needing to have a class c license and having to take out shields, grav, and engines without destroying the ship, THEN you can dock lol
I've made an extremely fast and highly maneuverable small ship for this exact purpose. Covered with weapons including EM weapons to cause minimal damage to the ship so that I can take them over and board them. This is definitely one of the best ways to earn money especially if you do them as bounties because not only do you get the bounty payout once you clear the ship, you also get tons of loot to sell, and theres always credit reserves on every ship if you loot them this way. Credits that you dont always get if you simply blow them up. Any of the larger Crimson Fleet, Ecliptic, Spacer, and Va' Ruun ships will have so much sellable gear that you could easily make 20k+ total from what you sell including contraband and what you find in the captains locker and cargo hold. This is particularly for large ships starting at level 20 and above, and even the small ones at these levels will still give you at least 10k.
Yeah its definitely good. Not incredible or perfect.... but good. 7/10 or 8/10. Especially if you enjoy immersion. I just wish we got some kind of land vehicle... and were able to fly in atmosphere... but those are small gripes compared to how big the game is. Exploring is fun
It's def a 9 for me, easy. I've been having so much fun with it. It's absolutely huge (that's what she said) and the amount of missions is incredible. Some missions are massive. I'll be playing and having fun for years. Maybe even more than Skyrim. We'll have to see how it goes but it's goty for me. It's personal taste too though so don't want to argue 😎✌️
I target the enemy engines and I usually end up destroying the attacking ship before their engines get disabled, starting my second playthrough today and I plan to use EM weapons to disable ships easier.
There once was a ship that's put to space, and the name of the ship was the legendary Starborn. The engines blew up, the weapons engaged, Oh blow, my spacer boys, Blow
Honestly my favourite way to make money, if you join the crimson fleet accept their piracy missions, you can take out the engines, kill everyone, collect the quest item from the hold and take their ship back to the key to sell
Yes you can dock...after tsking out the engines. Kill all personnel on board and then step into the pilot seat. Fly away. Its yours. Pro Tip: instead of flying to a shipyard, go into your menu and select ship (southwest menu option) register newly acquired ship. Its much cheaper than registering at a spaceport.
You can only dock with an enemy ship if you disable their engines(or in certain instances where you cant destroy the ship due to mechanics fequiring you to dock with that specific ship) And you can only take control of the ship if all modules on said ship are a class that you can use, if not you wont even be able to sit down in the seat
I actually run EM weapons instead of missile launchers to board ships. This is also a great way to get a lot of contraband goods since a lot of these ships will have 1 or 2 contraband items on board scattered somewhere on the ship (this can be a downside if you’re trying to not get caught jumping to certain systems to switch ships, I get around this by jumping to my outpost which isn’t patrolled with contraband scanners)
I like how the entire problem of "needing to disable their engines without blowing them up and survive them shooting at you the entire time while you are trying to do this" is just not mentioned at all. Space magic at its finest, "just dock your ship, it just works"
Wanna know how to make your ship "invincible"? The program, makes the enemy aim at your ship's center. So.. got to a ship building menu, and look for those metal RADIATORS. When you fit one to the side of your ship.. your ship moves over! If you put a few radiators on your ship.. in a chain, your ship is no longer in the center.. the radiators are. The enrmy starts shooting at you, completely missing your ship and only hitting the radiators, and you can just pick them off one by one 😁
Fun fact... if you steal a ship that has contraband the ship and contraband become yours. And if that ship has no shielded cargo now you have to jump to a system that wont scan your new ship or else youll be like all the guys in the cops videos "i swear those arent my drug, its not my car! Im borrowing it!"
Yes, use EM to disable them then kill the crew and you don’t have to bother looting the bodies because EVERYTHING inside the ship will drop to your home ship’s inventory simply by switching which you can sell to shops, just check for contraband first! Play it safe and go to The Den and sell any naughty items
If you don't want to waste skill points in order to get better with piracy just keep Vasco and Barrett on your ship. They make it super easy to do ship fighting.
Yes, you have to disable their engines first and depending on the class of ship its hard to target just the engine instead of blowing them up entirely.
Or, during a bounty to destroy an outlaw ship, you can disable it, kill the crew, raid its storage for credits, and then destroy the ship. You get 3x the credits and exp.
Only if you disable the engines by locking on to engines. Which is a perk you have to upgrade to. And certain ships need you to have the piloting perk up to 3 or 4 to be able to fly that ship. It’s a process
Picked a wanted trait at character creation, and had 2 level 30 bounty hunter ships ambush me right after another fight i had with low hull left. Barely defeated them, and decided to keep one of their ships, and it was a huge ship with best there is particle gun turrets and missiles that almost 2 shot any ship/its shields and a class C 29 reactor. Upgraded it a bit and safely retired my heavily modded Wanderwell ship I got as a gift from my character’s dad.
Technically yes, but you won't be able to sell the ship or customize it until you registered it. Registering a ship cost credits. This is set up so you can't just go stealing ships and then selling them. That would break the economy of the game.
@@Grimjr7I honestly don’t get this excuse the ships already sell for considerably less than what the ship is actually worth. 18000 registration fee for a ship that only sells for 22000 and that they’ll resell for 15000. So I’m making 4000 credits for a ship they sell for 150000. That’s 2% of its value while everything else goes for 10% without the commerce skill. Selling for the 22000 without the registration fee is only 14% which is still less than what you get for other goods with only 1 point in commerce. You can’t tel me this would break the economy
Woah! I had no idea! This like never comes up in any missions or anything ever! Thank you so much, I would have never known this since I hadn't played the game for more than 5 minutes and it was in their big reveal for the game. 😱
Be careful though. If you do this to a ship that has contraband and return to a planet that scans you, you’ll immediately get a bounty and possibly fired upon. Oh and it’s not as easy as “just docking” lol. You need the targeting perk and need to disable their engines.
Yep. And I loot all the contraband and register the ship. Note register the ship though your menu. Go to ships find it then register it. It’s way cheaper then going to a technician.
Tip of the day: Once you clear the ship from its occupants, undock without neither making it your home ship nor registering it, target your floating ship and select it with E, open the ship menu and make your current one your home, close the menu and quickly dock on the other ship before it jumps away, board the ship back and reselect it as your home. Congrats, your new ship will now fly home using the auto pilot system.
It's easier to steal the ship when it lands on a planet that you happen to be on. I have nine ships in my fleet Now by doing that and every single one is completely different. When stealing it from space you have to upgrade your targeting so that you can Target their grab drive so they can't flee as well as targeting their engines to put them out of commission and then you have to Target their weapons so that they can't shoot you while you're trying to come up to them to dock. Much harder to do it in space than on a planet where you just go inside and kill the spacers or Pirates.
I’m surprised there’s no contraband mechanic for taking certain ships, like you hijack a certain ship, like a trade ship, certain space ports might not be friendly to hijackers, so you have to find ways to falsify records or smuggle it to someone who will buy it.
Dude this is already known. Either use an EM mounted gun to shortcircuit their systems, in this case the Engines, or use the Targeting System skill to hit the Engines with precision. There are 2 downsides with the later. 1st Downside is that the ship is at risk blowing up first before the Engines are cut. 2nd Should you take their ship the damage you inflicted will remain, including the Engines so good luck moving. Note that the Grav Drive is most likely to bust first so don't expect to jump to a spaceport for repairs until an actual minute passes unless you're in the same Star System. Also to make alterations with your newly obtained ship it needs to be Registered, which requires money so chances are you're stuck with the perks it already has.
This reminds me of a trick you can do in assassins creed black flag. If you board an enemy ship by yourself instead of using your ship, you can do something similar. Not more efficient then just attacking it with your ship, but neat
Yea unless there is more then one piece of the ship you can loot you don't seem to get much loot si docking and taking everything that isn't nailed down is definitely the move
It isn't quite as simple as that. If an enemy attacks you it is not easy to just dock with them. Docking with a ship that does not want to be boarded will make it difficult. I find it is way easier to find ship landing sights on random planets and monitor a couple of those sights from a distance. Once a ship you want lands at one of those sights you just kill and crew that exits the ship, then board the ship and kill anyone on board. Then you can fly it off planet and pay to register it and add it to your fleet.
Ah the roman approach. For those who dont know, during the first punic war, Rome was weaker than the Carthage at naval battle, but they were great on land, so they invented the corvus, a giant gangplank with a hook at the tip so they can board the Carthegenian ship and turn the sea battle to a land battle.
You can't "just dock" with an enemy ship. You have to penetrate their shields, disable their engines (you need a perk for that), not have any other ships attacking you around, and only then you can dock with disabled ship.
Make sure you upgrade your piloting skill or attack a ship lower than your class. If you attack a C class ship but your pilot skill is low, it will deny you from piloting that ship.
Took a pirate ship, flew it to a port to sell it. Turns out there was contraband just sitting on a desk in one of the habs. Did not work out well for me.
Use EM weapons when shields are down you’ll do minimal hull damage while doing crit damage to internal systems. You can only dock once engines have been knocked out. Fly safe out there
This is true but you need to be a high enough level and have the perks upgraded to do so. Otherwise you'd be as disappointed as I was at first. Luckily it's fast to level up lol
I miss my dear Darling and New Atlantis,
As I wander the Blackness of the deep abyss.
My Ship is in tatters all dented and worn,
But I trust my old engine to get back by morn.
Way ho, out in the blackness,
Way ho, out in the void.
Way ho get me back to my true love, as quick as an old asteroid.!!!
Vibes
the fact i met him out in the complete edge of the map while just jumping through systems is hilarious to me. i barely made it to that system with 25ly jump range and i just thought "man he would never make it back to society if it werent for the fuel auto recharging thing"
Nice
Valentine! I had that encounter last night
I met that lovely man yesterday
Piracy is back in session
Until you actually play the game and notice that you pay 90% of the ship value as "registration fees" if you want to sell it, making profit from piracy non existent lol
@@abnnizzyya but it’s cheaper than buying a ship
@@jamman_rl9604 to use it you need to register either way. 10% discount is nothing if you have that amount of money to register a ship.
@@abnnizzy crimson fleet piracy bounties are where your gunna make the most being a pirate and if you are using the neon street rat trait from when you start you will make double money from them
@@abnnizzyimagine having to pay to steal something 🤣
I got a tip for everyone. Normally after you dock anenemy’s ship and take control you have to jump somewhere to claim it. Everything in your ships inventory moves to the new one which can be realllly annoying. Instead. Jump in the enemy ships seat . Go to your ships menu and “Claim the ship”. Doing that undocks you but your original ships still in the vicinity. Re dock to your ship and pilot that instead. So now you keep your ship and you have one that you don’t have to leave the system to keep. This has saved me a lot of headache and time.
No you can register it in the menu.
Not really a headache, unless you display a bunch of stuff in the ship interior. I swapped to a smaller ship when I grabbed the Razorleaf (had almost 3k storage, nearly filled, on the first ship) you can't store anything else in the ship until you upgrade the cargo space, sell the excess, or switch back to the other ship, but there are no issues beyond that.
Legend thank you
You keep your other ship anyway. Mine as well just jump onto the next system anyway
I would have loved if this was the content of the video, because that's actually useful information. I am constantly having to deal with all the interior crap from one ship or another filling up my cargo space and then throwing s*** out. It's very annoying
YO HO HO, PIRACY IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!
cue every single sea shanty being sung.
“Hahaargh” - Mr. Krabs
Hahahaaa! Registration fees say otherwise. 🤣
@@TheGreyBush420 if you're a pirate registering your ship shouldn't be so bad. The amount of money you're making off of contraband should be enough for you to have a whole lot of money. Plus selling all the weapons and ammo they carry that you don't use. I don't ever have problems with money and my character isn't even a pirate
@@TheGreyBush420 I made $100k in my first hour of playing the game just off of bounty missions
the algoriythm thinks i need 15 different content creators to tell me how to commendeer a ship
209% bro its wild
Everyone and their mother tries to monetize everything they can with whatever is trending. It's sad an entire generation of leeches have grown into this mold, resulting in spam levels of feed invasions.
I’m an old, stupid man-child. This was for me. I found it useful. lol
Only if you disable their engines first.
and weapons Don't want them point blank shooting you as your boarding with their big guns.
Their engines, weapons and grav Drive. So much easier just to kill the guys and take the ship when it lands on a planet that you're on.
I was able to do it by using an emp
@@CommanderM117they dont. Once you start to dock you are both immobile.
And you are high enough piloting level to control it. That was a sad lesson.
“Your ship? It’s my ship, you just don’t know it yet”
Keep in mind, you have to disable their engines first in combat before docking. Also for certain ships you need to level up your piloting skill to control them
You can also board a vessel by charging up the ramp while they're disgorging ground attackers, then entering the ship itself. The pilot will still take off, so by the time you've defeated everyone aboard you're in space, but it's a simple matter at that point to just sit down in the pilot's seat and take command. I picked up my first ship upgrade that way, quite accidentally - investigating a planet, I went to where the map showed a Ship Landing, picked off the Eclipse troops around it, then boarded.
@@DeaconBlues117The problem comes when you do not have the skill to pilot that ship xD
@@rolandosanchez2019 Weirdly, you can apparently fly the ship just fine, even if it's rated higher than your piloting skill. You can't do that if you build it yourself, but I swiped a B-class Eclipse ship while only having a A rating in piloting and got it back to Jemison just fine. (Then I did the Mantis mission, and found that the Razorleaf outclassed it despite being A-class. Then I joined the Freestar Rangers, and got an A-class Star Eagle that made them both look limp.)
You also can't take or keep "M-Class" ships, AKA "legendary ships". A friend spent hours trying to commandeer the Shroudbearer but even if you down their engines and beat it to a sliver of it's health, you still can't board it.
And don't forget to equip EM weapons to take out their engines rather than their entire ship..
*Take their ship*
Shipyard: That's 3 dollars. Best I can do.
The Spaceport Techs should apply for Pawn Stars 😂
But I need papers first. Don't worry I can do it for you for 2.99
New info. You have to go to a port and register the ship for a price. The better the ship the higher the price
But first you have to learn a skill that let's you target individual part of a ship like. Let's say. The engines then it will give you the option to dock. ships.
You dont need to learn a skill
You technically don’t need that perk it just a lot harder to do unless you have an EM weapon on your ship
Also don’t register your ship at a port go to the ship menu and do it there it’s a lot cheaper
I just go really close when the enemy is heavily damaged and I can dock (maybe I disabled their engines without knowing? Could be)
@@AlbertMXG EM damage can disable ships systems including the engine. Nice shooting
To those wondering how I found its easier to use EM pulse weapons and using tier 1 of the locking (weapon aim perk) to focus on the enemy engines to prevent the ship from going anywhere and opening the option to dock withing 500ft
Once you obtain the enemy ship it's yours. You can use it in all of your loading screens moving forward
The additional fun kicks in when you pilot the ship without killing all the crew. I found myself having to get out of the pilot seat to go rescue my crew 😂
bro you forgot, you HAVE to disable their engines first
Conveniently left out...like the enemy ship's Captain will roll out a red carpet, and invite you to do just that... 🙄🤦
@@afamiliarraven1054 then get gud
Pro Tip: it is more cost effective to register captured ships in your ship management screen than it is to register it at a space port.
Capturing enemy ships is a much cheaper way to get a new ship when you want to build. And next to making drug labs, this is the best way to make money. Between the bounty, selling everything that’s not nailed down, and the ship itself, you can easily net around 10k per job.
RIP to those who forget to remove any contraband and end up getting lit up upon entering Alpha Centuri
I like how the title of this is, did you know?……………………………………….. well yes I did when I watched the interview just like you did……………
He's forgetting to mention that most of the time the cost of registering the ship, a neccessary action for selling the stolen ship, far outweighs the selling price. Even if you do turn a profit, 90% of the time it's only like 2-3000 credits max. It's honestly more profitable in the long run to destroy enemy ships and board occassionally, as their lootable wreckage usually contains 2500-ish credits.
I’ve never once seen a ships registering price be more then what the ships worth is, I’m like 99% sure that’s impossible lmao I’ve also never seen 2500 ish credits in the wreckage lol register your ship in the normal ship menu, it’s cheaper then at a landing dock.
@@samuelyeet6006 For the 2500 credits thing I mentioned, tell me you're under level 50 without saying you're under level 50 lol
Even if I'm wrong on that, wtf is the point of going through all that effort when a literal random encounter space battle has a bigger payout from the UC or Freestar ships you save?
Either way, it's not worth it and is a huge waste of time.
The majority of the ships I've stolen have some form of contraband onboard that ranges from 8-13 thousand credits. lol you have probably blown up hundreds of thousands of credits and sifted though the wreckage to mainly just get resources and ship parts. Add in all the profits from selling all the equipment and weapons from the crew and it ends up being SEVERAL TIMES the weak sauce rewards from destroying them.
Tell me you don't pay attention or have very strong logic without saying you don't pay attention or have very strong logic.
@@davidmurphy1207 Dude at what point in my comment did I say that I didn't board enemy vessels? Learn to read 🤡
I said stealing ships to sell isn't worth it. Not boarding and stealing the stuff on them.
@@davidmurphy1207 yo, you got to pay attention, because that 12k contraband only sells for like 1300.
Uses the cheapest ship to raid Warships
I completed tons of these "go to this system and destroy the pirate ship" quests off the boards without realizing I could jack the ship and all its illicit cargo then sell it for more than the bounty was ever worth to begin with. Hardest part is just finding the illicit goods on board.
I like the part where you didnt explain how to dock with an enemy ship
Just don't dock the damn thing at New Atlantis or you trigger a major series of bugs in the game where the ground goes missing in the spaceport area. It's a long known and unaddressed bug that causes a lot of problems and survives all the way through
when you spend days to build your perfect ship and some max level tryhard grabs it as soon as you leave the planet
Who's going to steal it, a rogue npc lol?
Three things
1. You need to be able to lock on to the shops engines and destroy them to be able to board (or Dock) without destroying the ship
2. You will only be able to take control of you have the skill to pilot ships of the same class ie ships A, B or C
3. Once in control of the ship you’ll need to land at a spaceport and select that ship as your home base and register the ship to own
Gonna be legendary
Well..
Maybe in a few years or so.. the legendary edition
@@BlackEagle352 true
@@TheRealBillixit is
Legendarily flawed, good ol Bethesda.
7 years to make a game on an out of date engine...it just works.
I’m down for this but I want this to be pretty risky so I think I’m gonna play on hard mode. I hope they worked out difficulty balancing in this game and it’s not just enemy health and damage increase.
Its enemy health and damage increase 😂
@@arkadihughes4893yup this game will be dead by the end of the year in terms of it'll only have a small group of players and modders
You make it sound so simple but leave out needing to have a class c license and having to take out shields, grav, and engines without destroying the ship, THEN you can dock lol
If only we could have more than 10 ships
Just like the Roman’s
Exactly like the Romans
Docking? 👀
Have to knock out the engines on the ship first before you can dock.
I've made an extremely fast and highly maneuverable small ship for this exact purpose. Covered with weapons including EM weapons to cause minimal damage to the ship so that I can take them over and board them. This is definitely one of the best ways to earn money especially if you do them as bounties because not only do you get the bounty payout once you clear the ship, you also get tons of loot to sell, and theres always credit reserves on every ship if you loot them this way. Credits that you dont always get if you simply blow them up. Any of the larger Crimson Fleet, Ecliptic, Spacer, and Va' Ruun ships will have so much sellable gear that you could easily make 20k+ total from what you sell including contraband and what you find in the captains locker and cargo hold. This is particularly for large ships starting at level 20 and above, and even the small ones at these levels will still give you at least 10k.
Oh yeah, we goin full Mandalorian with this one.
Man I want it to be good please god let it be good
Its good mannnn🎉
Yeah its definitely good. Not incredible or perfect.... but good. 7/10 or 8/10. Especially if you enjoy immersion.
I just wish we got some kind of land vehicle... and were able to fly in atmosphere... but those are small gripes compared to how big the game is. Exploring is fun
It's def a 9 for me, easy. I've been having so much fun with it. It's absolutely huge (that's what she said) and the amount of missions is incredible. Some missions are massive. I'll be playing and having fun for years. Maybe even more than Skyrim. We'll have to see how it goes but it's goty for me. It's personal taste too though so don't want to argue 😎✌️
Oh it good😏
Imagine Fallout, but every area separated into a seperate map that you have to click to go to and wait for it to load.
I target the enemy engines and I usually end up destroying the attacking ship before their engines get disabled, starting my second playthrough today and I plan to use EM weapons to disable ships easier.
It's not even worth it tho, better to blow it up
There once was a ship that's put to space,
and the name of the ship was the legendary Starborn.
The engines blew up, the weapons engaged,
Oh blow, my spacer boys, Blow
Honestly my favourite way to make money, if you join the crimson fleet accept their piracy missions, you can take out the engines, kill everyone, collect the quest item from the hold and take their ship back to the key to sell
I don't need it, I definitely don't need it. I NEED IT
Yes you can dock...after tsking out the engines. Kill all personnel on board and then step into the pilot seat. Fly away. Its yours. Pro Tip: instead of flying to a shipyard, go into your menu and select ship (southwest menu option) register newly acquired ship. Its much cheaper than registering at a spaceport.
You can only dock with an enemy ship if you disable their engines(or in certain instances where you cant destroy the ship due to mechanics fequiring you to dock with that specific ship)
And you can only take control of the ship if all modules on said ship are a class that you can use, if not you wont even be able to sit down in the seat
This game was fun for like a week lmao once I maxed out my ship size and beating the story there’s nothing to do except shoot people
I actually run EM weapons instead of missile launchers to board ships. This is also a great way to get a lot of contraband goods since a lot of these ships will have 1 or 2 contraband items on board scattered somewhere on the ship (this can be a downside if you’re trying to not get caught jumping to certain systems to switch ships, I get around this by jumping to my outpost which isn’t patrolled with contraband scanners)
I love that people defend the realism of this game, while you can blast away in a cockpit without depressurisation.
"Did you know?"
That's what I mainly did. Like. That's what my whole gameplay looked like.
I like how the entire problem of "needing to disable their engines without blowing them up and survive them shooting at you the entire time while you are trying to do this" is just not mentioned at all. Space magic at its finest, "just dock your ship, it just works"
Wanna know how to make your ship "invincible"? The program, makes the enemy aim at your ship's center. So.. got to a ship building menu, and look for those metal RADIATORS. When you fit one to the side of your ship.. your ship moves over! If you put a few radiators on your ship.. in a chain, your ship is no longer in the center.. the radiators are.
The enrmy starts shooting at you, completely missing your ship and only hitting the radiators, and you can just pick them off one by one 😁
“So apparently”
Well no, there’s no apparently here at all. We’ve literally been told about it and seen footage lol
So apparently in CZcams shorts we explain very basic mechanics in an even less effective way than the game itself does. Good job.
Easy money get the wanted trait every couple jumps you can get between 20-60k worth of bounty hunter ships
This reminds me of the ship combat in assassin’s creed odyssey, you fight a ship, you board and then you fight the crew.
Fun fact... if you steal a ship that has contraband the ship and contraband become yours. And if that ship has no shielded cargo now you have to jump to a system that wont scan your new ship or else youll be like all the guys in the cops videos "i swear those arent my drug, its not my car! Im borrowing it!"
Yes, use EM to disable them then kill the crew and you don’t have to bother looting the bodies because EVERYTHING inside the ship will drop to your home ship’s inventory simply by switching which you can sell to shops, just check for contraband first! Play it safe and go to The Den and sell any naughty items
Not surprised the enemy AI is so bad that two ships of equal size can just dock with each other in a fight.
If you don't want to waste skill points in order to get better with piracy just keep Vasco and Barrett on your ship. They make it super easy to do ship fighting.
Yes, you have to disable their engines first and depending on the class of ship its hard to target just the engine instead of blowing them up entirely.
Downside is it costs almost as much money to register the ship as you get for selling it, unless you dump a bunch of points into commerce.
Or, during a bounty to destroy an outlaw ship, you can disable it, kill the crew, raid its storage for credits, and then destroy the ship. You get 3x the credits and exp.
Only if you disable the engines by locking on to engines. Which is a perk you have to upgrade to. And certain ships need you to have the piloting perk up to 3 or 4 to be able to fly that ship. It’s a process
They don't mention the registration fee that's almost the cost of the ship... fuckin bureaucracy ruins everything
This probably the coolest thing I've seen you can do, but also from what I've seen... there's not a lot you can actually do/explore
I don’t care what people and reviews say about Starfield: I love this game and I’m enjoying it.
Picked a wanted trait at character creation, and had 2 level 30 bounty hunter ships ambush me right after another fight i had with low hull left. Barely defeated them, and decided to keep one of their ships, and it was a huge ship with best there is particle gun turrets and missiles that almost 2 shot any ship/its shields and a class C 29 reactor. Upgraded it a bit and safely retired my heavily modded Wanderwell ship I got as a gift from my character’s dad.
so you could steal the mot expensive ship while some rich kid jut flying
Technically yes, but you won't be able to sell the ship or customize it until you registered it. Registering a ship cost credits. This is set up so you can't just go stealing ships and then selling them. That would break the economy of the game.
@@Grimjr7I honestly don’t get this excuse the ships already sell for considerably less than what the ship is actually worth. 18000 registration fee for a ship that only sells for 22000 and that they’ll resell for 15000. So I’m making 4000 credits for a ship they sell for 150000. That’s 2% of its value while everything else goes for 10% without the commerce skill. Selling for the 22000 without the registration fee is only 14% which is still less than what you get for other goods with only 1 point in commerce. You can’t tel me this would break the economy
All I've seen about this game is flying, shooting, flying, shooting, some running, flying, shooting. So fun.
Woah! I had no idea! This like never comes up in any missions or anything ever! Thank you so much, I would have never known this since I hadn't played the game for more than 5 minutes and it was in their big reveal for the game. 😱
Be careful though. If you do this to a ship that has contraband and return to a planet that scans you, you’ll immediately get a bounty and possibly fired upon. Oh and it’s not as easy as “just docking” lol. You need the targeting perk and need to disable their engines.
Yep. And I loot all the contraband and register the ship.
Note register the ship though your menu. Go to ships find it then register it. It’s way cheaper then going to a technician.
My most favourite part of the game, boarding ☠️ gives me an adrenaline rush everytime
Tip of the day: Once you clear the ship from its occupants, undock without neither making it your home ship nor registering it, target your floating ship and select it with E, open the ship menu and make your current one your home, close the menu and quickly dock on the other ship before it jumps away, board the ship back and reselect it as your home. Congrats, your new ship will now fly home using the auto pilot system.
It's easier to steal the ship when it lands on a planet that you happen to be on. I have nine ships in my fleet Now by doing that and every single one is completely different. When stealing it from space you have to upgrade your targeting so that you can Target their grab drive so they can't flee as well as targeting their engines to put them out of commission and then you have to Target their weapons so that they can't shoot you while you're trying to come up to them to dock. Much harder to do it in space than on a planet where you just go inside and kill the spacers or Pirates.
I’m surprised there’s no contraband mechanic for taking certain ships, like you hijack a certain ship, like a trade ship, certain space ports might not be friendly to hijackers, so you have to find ways to falsify records or smuggle it to someone who will buy it.
They need to make it so you don't need to register the ship that are taken in this way.
Exactly. Registering a ship i stole😂 how is it you dont get busted for this
Dude this is already known. Either use an EM mounted gun to shortcircuit their systems, in this case the Engines, or use the Targeting System skill to hit the Engines with precision.
There are 2 downsides with the later. 1st Downside is that the ship is at risk blowing up first before the Engines are cut. 2nd Should you take their ship the damage you inflicted will remain, including the Engines so good luck moving. Note that the Grav Drive is most likely to bust first so don't expect to jump to a spaceport for repairs until an actual minute passes unless you're in the same Star System.
Also to make alterations with your newly obtained ship it needs to be Registered, which requires money so chances are you're stuck with the perks it already has.
The ship is yours - Unless the game breaking bug hits and NONE OF THOSE SHIPS show up in your fleet. Yeah, the game needs fixed.
This reminds me of a trick you can do in assassins creed black flag.
If you board an enemy ship by yourself instead of using your ship, you can do something similar.
Not more efficient then just attacking it with your ship, but neat
U gotta damage the ship enough first before being able to dock the ship.
Im the captain now boi....
Yea unless there is more then one piece of the ship you can loot you don't seem to get much loot si docking and taking everything that isn't nailed down is definitely the move
Two things have to happen first:
1. You need EM lasers to disable otherwise you’ll blow it up.
2. You need to pay to register the ship.
U you don’t need em lasers, target the engines
It isn't quite as simple as that. If an enemy attacks you it is not easy to just dock with them. Docking with a ship that does not want to be boarded will make it difficult. I find it is way easier to find ship landing sights on random planets and monitor a couple of those sights from a distance. Once a ship you want lands at one of those sights you just kill and crew that exits the ship, then board the ship and kill anyone on board. Then you can fly it off planet and pay to register it and add it to your fleet.
Ah the roman approach.
For those who dont know, during the first punic war, Rome was weaker than the Carthage at naval battle, but they were great on land, so they invented the corvus, a giant gangplank with a hook at the tip so they can board the Carthegenian ship and turn the sea battle to a land battle.
You can't "just dock" with an enemy ship. You have to penetrate their shields, disable their engines (you need a perk for that), not have any other ships attacking you around, and only then you can dock with disabled ship.
You're telling me I can hord potatos and ships? Fuck now I really wanna buy this game
AFAIK, you can dock with them after you target and disable their engines. Not otherwise.
"It's yours!" Yeah after you pay a fee that is nearly the same as what you would get for selling it.
I stole a UC security chimera last night, gonna get a little bit of money, retrofit it a bit and it’s gonna be solid
The only thing that sucks about stealing a ship is you can't steal a class B or C if your pilot skills isn't upgrade all the way.
Playing this game and doing this is why I haven't had enough sleep in the past few days😂
Make sure you upgrade your piloting skill or attack a ship lower than your class. If you attack a C class ship but your pilot skill is low, it will deny you from piloting that ship.
Equip some EM weapons to specifically target (with targeting skill) ship parts - disable their engines for easy docking
Took a pirate ship, flew it to a port to sell it. Turns out there was contraband just sitting on a desk in one of the habs. Did not work out well for me.
Use EM weapons when shields are down you’ll do minimal hull damage while doing crit damage to internal systems. You can only dock once engines have been knocked out.
Fly safe out there
Unlock targeting systems target their engines as long as there isn't any other threats you can 100 percent steal their ship
You still need to clean the tile which is like 80% of the value of the ship. So not free. Just discounted
Heads up if your Pilot perk is not high enough depending on what type of class it is you won’t be able to hijack it
I did know this. However don’t dock with every ship you see. You may come across an Interloper.
There's space battles in space? So far my ship just gives me like 4 more loading screens to get to the next place.
Because docking with an evading enemy vessel in space is so easy, you simply push and button and voila...
I wanna deconstruct every ship I find to make my own honestly
This is literally “I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW!”
This is true but you need to be a high enough level and have the perks upgraded to do so. Otherwise you'd be as disappointed as I was at first. Luckily it's fast to level up lol