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Amazing that people don't know this. But thanks for getting it out there. EM Damage good, Auto Turrets bad when it comes to boarding ships. I'm flying an off the shelf Narwal, simply switched out the Auto Turrets for EM weapons, boarding anything is not an issue. I won't even touch ship builder until I can save my creations, especially as I'm just about ready for NG+
Quick tip, not sure if everyone knows it but it took me a bit to notice... when you're routing power quickly and trying to max out a weapon or shields for example, just hold the button down and it'll fill all the way, or as far as it can with what power is available. Works the same to completely empty it
There is one more tip you missed out, after taking over a ship, you can auto pilot the ship you have taken over back to port without you needing to fly back to port, just switch home ship to your boarded ship, and then redock to your original ship and switch home ships back to your original ship, the stolen ship will then self pilot back to port.
Thank you so much for this comment. I had taken over a ship but the engines were dead and I was trying to figure out how to get it home. This actually worked!!! 🎉😊
How to do this exactly? As far as I know i need to be in the ship I've taken over to make it my home ship via menu. But as soon as I do this, my original ship instantly undocks and autopilots to to port without any option to reboard it and make it my homeship again...
@@Benneification There are 3 ways, 1st is when they undock, quickly retarget your original ship and redock with it, board, sit in the captains chair and set the home ship back 2nd undock and target your original ship 1st before changing the captured ship to your home ship thenafter you change the home ship, you can easily redock to your original ship. 3rd undock with your original ship and redock with it before changing home ships. For some reason after you do that, when you switch home ships, they do not undock after that. Then you can just board back your original ship and set the home ship back Hope that helps
Also doing this allows you to overfill a ships hold so you can carry all your resources in the cargo hold without having to leave them laying all over the ship.
A Coachman with Hornets Nest is perfect for clearing ships as the crew tend to be in groups of 2 or 3. Jus tkeep a reasonable distance to avoid roasting yourself, but it's especially effective when clearing out the cockpit as in most cases there will be 3 people in there on the larger ships.
Two things I don't think I've seen on any video. I was having problem docking, press e on PC. When close. Second hold space bar down and use direction buttons to use thrusters. That was game changer for me piloting
I didn't realize what those electromagnetic weapons could do since you have explained it so well I'm going to start up Starfield right now and equip some on my ship, so thank you for that I very much appreciate the advice.
@@04AMofficial In fact since I equipped these electromagnetic weapons to my ship I have found it to be much more combat effective. It must be frustrating for the pirates and raiders when I shut all their weapons down and just shoot the c*** out of them lol!
Thank you for this guide. It has everything I needed to find out. Great job, 04AM! I've watched a number of videos about how to bord ships, and they have all said to take out the shields first and then the engines, and after doing that you should be able to board. But I have never been able to board. It doesn't matter how high or low my difficulty setting is, it always ends with either my ship being blown to pieces, or the ship I wanted to board being blown up. Now I understand what the problem is, more than anything else I've done wrong: Use EM weapons. I never did that, but now I'm going to. 😊
You don’t need the EM weapon. You also don’t need to target weapons. You just have to disable engine and reach 500m from the ship. You’re ready to dock.
@@pedrovaladao. a true issue. However: if ships are exploding too fast- try to use a single weapon at a time, and attempt to board the highest level ships. I’m lvl 95 now. Ships level lower than 10 are impossible to board: a single volley of my weapons will destroy it. Besides: it is a useless effort…. It’ll sell for barely any credits at all. Not worth it! I love the va’run prophecy iii - that’s some nice cash! And boarding it is fun! Plenty of holes to dump grenades, stairs for the enemies to climb slowly while I unload my shotgun… it is a fun boarding.
@@pedrovaladao. Check and see if you have any auto turrets on your ship, some stock models will have them. These will fire regardless depending on the angle.
@@HelenoPaiva Yeah I only go for high value ships now, nothing below level III, I've also hit a bug where I can register the ship in space from the menu, but when I get to the starport to sell it, It wants me to register it again. (currently level 80)
@@helvete983 that’s a new one! Damn. It appears that the longest you play the more tiny bugs crawl into your game. Like those stones following your ship, they are the visual representation of the bugs infestation.
Thanks so much...this answers a lot of questions and resolves a lot of issues I've had. I appreciate the effort you put into the video. Love the channel name...I remember my 04 gamming days...long behind me now though. I'm still a fan of zero dark thirty though. Subscribed.
If you want to steal the ship easily and quickly, then do this: when you are docked and have eliminated everyone, sit in the captain's chair. Then go to the menu and make that ship your home ship, also register it-this is cheaper in space than when you do it at a vendor. Once you have done that, exit the menu and DON'T undock, but BOARD your old ship. Then go to your old ship's captain chair, go to the menu, and make it your home ship again. You're done! You've stolen a ship. Now you can undock and fly, and find other ships.
side note : F5 is default quicksave button as standart use for like 20+ years of pc history and games :) and either F9 or sometimes F6 is Quickload. you dont need to bind it. it already has buttons designated ^^
I have my cannons on the top / rear (mostly facing back) of my ship (not the sides), so if I keep my belly / front to the ship I'm aiming at, then they won't hit it.
Yes you can, but the timing can be tricky. I keep my turret weapons highlighted on the power track for my ship, and when I knock the ship's shields down I hold the down arrow (or down D pad) and after a second all of the power drains from my turret weapons. Not many folks know you can de-power something quickly by just holding the arrow/D-pad down for a full second instead of taking the power away one bar at a time. @@SimmerCK
@@JemearlSmith , yeah, that's a new one for me for sure. I was dying too fast in fights and raced to get turrets. Now THEY are dying too fast and I often don't get to board either because my turrets softened everyone up too much or my manual weapons (missiles / guns) do too much damage in one volley. I think I may just see if there's a turret that is more of a suppressor (leave everything around me disabled) and adjust my manual weapons so that I can better disable / destroy depending on which I fire.
very impressive. You are the first to explain something without saying too many unimportant things. Everything is explained very well, straight to the point and so that everyone can understand it. I like your style, keep it up. 👍
[spoiler alert] the ship you get from completing the FSR quest line is VERY effective at this. It's a Class A and crews 5. HUGE cargo. [/spoiler alert]
To take a ship, have only 1 remaining ship, shoot out engines with targeting skill, 500m board. Kill everyone, sit in pilot seat, go to menu and bottom left for ship options, make hom ship, register it. You should either be able to redock with your original ship, or just jump to the Den. At the den modify the ship, add a porthole or something, everything will be put into the hold, sell it at the trade authority. Then go elsewhere and sell the ship if you don't want to keep it.
I find using vanguard particle beam as the primary weapon and then using a power swap for when their shields are out for maximum power for the EM guns. I make sure that it takes 12 units of power worth of particle guns (6 in total) and 12 units of power for the EM guns (4 in total "barring no skills in ship upgrades"). I don't even use the targeting and once the shields are gone it's free range to rapidly disable and swiftly dock. Earlier levels I found myself having to eject the contraband into space until I discovered I can store it at a bass until I learned how to have shielded cargo. Anyway, there's a lot of fun ways to do it however disabling without using EM is what the targeted systems are for.
You don't NEED target locking as I discovered in my first play through when the story mission wanted me to disable a ships engines and I didn't have target locking skill, but if you don't have it you need to DESELECT The target or else your shots will always go to center of mass. With the target deselected they go where the circle is and you can manually target anything you want.
The problem is, on higher difficulties the ships will blow up before the engines or other parts you want to take down first, so target lock is quite essential. Especially if you want to make it a safe board - to disable weapons as well
Yoo thank you!! I actually didn't know this before this comment and because of you I now am docking all these enemies ships without the perk. Hell yeah
Thats because its part of the mission, as you prgress and ships get tougher you WILL NEED target lock to be able to disable engines/weapons otherwise you will end up destroying the ship nearly every time
@@pauwwauw6330 Quick answer: It's not worth it. Paying off the bounties will always cost you more than you could ever make farming Contraband or selling ships after you pay the registration fees. It is part of the game design to discourage piracy unless you are intent on being a jerk just for shits and giggles.
Nice video. Just a heads up the razorleafs storage will take all of your items as a glitch. They say it was patched and I patched as well but it did it again to me. Lost over 100k
Don't need Targeting Control Systems skill at all. Blast enem6 ship with lasers until shields are down, the use your EM weapon to disable the ship. No need to target specific areas.
I board ships all the time without the targeting skill unlocked. I'm on my first play-through level 30 and board ships all the time. Still haven't unlocked targeting. I just get em to near death and ram right into em and hit the board button really quickly.
Only works if you get the engine down, which usually exclusively works with that method on lower difficulties - Hard difficulty will destroy ships way before you can board them if not using the targeting skill
I was kinda hesitant getting em weapons on my ship incase I’m in a big battle and I’m just shooting electromagnetic waves at everyone trying to win😂, I think I’ll keep my razor leaf as a fighting ship and my starter ship as a piracy ship so I can get a better ship
Also. I seem to run our of amo alot during missions or in caves , or any where ,,, so how do I find the right ammo box. For my guns. As I never know what I should look for. ??????
Very soon - do your Main missions until you get this UC quest where you have to 'infiltrate' the Crimson Fleet (red skull icon). You will very soon get access to Shielded Cargo to smuggle contraband and unlock skills like targeting systems to make boarding easy mode!
is there a way to prevent my energy setting going totally bogus while in "aiming - mode" ? my presets allways go to max gravdrive energy 0 shield 1 per weapon type with ~10 unallocated during aimmode...
I am very new to the game, like 10 hours in. Is there a specific vendor I would go to in order to sell captured ships or some way to part them out to keep good pieces I would want to put on mine?
Boarding is effed up for me at present. Ships on the ground don’t drop the ramp and in space ships are empty in space so you never get the prompt to take over the ship. There are a bunch of us on Reddit who have the problem. So yeah… no ship taking for me until the game is finished. It’s also broken Sarah’s and Sam’s missions as you cannot do what they tell you to do as no enemies spawn… but the weird thing is you can board the Starborn ships… except they are crap. So yeah… if ships land and don’t open up… you are screwed like us.
One time I disabled the pirate ship, docked and everyone in that spaceship were dead. I don't know what I did... with just EM Suppressor, is the EM suppressor able to kill crews too... is it a bug or what? I was expecting a CQB from the pirate crew, but no, they were all dead in their spacesuit and all, floating.
200h of gametime and all it needs to board is to just disable the engine and you can board fast and easy. No need to go through all systems...... Even with grav untouch, with no engine the ship will not go anywhere. Engines OFF > Board > Leave > Sell back to them, THATS IT.
Boarding some va’ruun ships with the big cargo hold is fun - once you take out the turrets you can catch them coming down the ladder one at a time , sorry about that guys
Stealing ships in space is very easy can see why they made it not so profitable would be game breaking. Game already easy is enough on normal skill level.
You make boarding look so complicated when it's not..... just target the engines from the get go and use lasers and ballistic weapons to take shield down and then engines...... all you need to do is have the ship selected and be close enough to board once engines are out. Simple
no you have to deselect the ship, else most of the time the ship will get destroyed because if you have the ship selected all your shots automatically goes to the hull, doesn't matter which part of the ship you're targeting
I keep blowing everything up ships guns are crazy strong have rhe nova weapon mount on the front with 2 nutron turrets and 4 vanguard hellfires and 4 em guns on wings two turrents on back
just yesterday i had a quite big enemy ship that i just couldnt dock to. disabled the engines mutliple times, was always close enough but the game just wouldnt give me the docking prompt.
I'm playing on a PC and when I have the problem with the right and left in the target selection, then I press the left alt key and right or left and that works. I don`t know how it works on controlers. Also in order to board, you just need to get within 500 meters, and you only need to disable the shields and engines.
nice worst thing i did was steal aship that could not jump to sell, then I landed on planets to steal a new ship, but all that kept landing was starborn ships.....
The advice to remap them is to put them closer to your left hand so you don't have to move far to quicksave/quickload. I personally have not remapped them but may one day if I find I use them in frantic situations.
Damn I just beat a fleet of 4 level 24 ships and I'm only level 16. I managed to board the last one and kill the crew. When I went to claim my new ship it told me I have to upgrade my piloting skill! 😭
Cool video but 90% of that is completely unnecessary btw. Much easier to make sure you just leave the ship you want, alive until the end of the dogfight, smoke it’s engines, boost fast af at it until you get 500m and then hit dock! It literally takes 1/10th of the time and effort of disabling all systems. Plus when you steal it, all the weapons and grav drive are jacked up! I guess if your doing a super serious, realistic run then it would probably make sense to disable the weapons first, I guess. Ship jacking is one of my favorite things in this game, brilliant move by the devs imo.
Try Hard and Very Hard. You'll have a much harder time capturing ships ^^ thats why taking out weapons is recommended before you fly in that 500m boarding range as you might get blasted to pieces when you do. This is for a safe guarantee boarding strategy to secure what you want, not to take unneccessary risks to die or blow up the enemy craft to lose your shots
True, but try doing that on certain ships, they kill you before that happens so THEN its recommended to first take out their guns, then the engine safely
If you register the ship fron your pause menu its cheaper than doing it at a star port. Just set it as your hone ship and on controller it would be the "share" button or back button or select or whatever y'all call it lol
Thats the fastest way indeed, while in harder difficulties you might get destroyed before you get in Docking range, so thats why I recommend taking down weapon systems from afar first!
@04AMofficial yes I have problem too. I have ship with emp weapon. Because I'm so use to just destroying the ships. I think very hard is not made for game. Auto turrets off. Emp on.
Yeah unless your bugged (along with 30% of the users) where basically you can board and there is NOTHING on board. No mobs, no contraband. Cant get in ships that are landed either. They need ot fix this crap.
Here's your Ultimate guide to Boarding Ships properly in Starfield! Target lock debugs, disable engines super fast, board without danger and reap the rewards!
*Enjoy my content? Don't forget to smash that like button, helps out the channel. Cheers!*
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Amazing that people don't know this. But thanks for getting it out there.
EM Damage good, Auto Turrets bad when it comes to boarding ships. I'm flying an off the shelf Narwal, simply switched out the Auto Turrets for EM weapons, boarding anything is not an issue. I won't even touch ship builder until I can save my creations, especially as I'm just about ready for NG+
Quick tip, not sure if everyone knows it but it took me a bit to notice... when you're routing power quickly and trying to max out a weapon or shields for example, just hold the button down and it'll fill all the way, or as far as it can with what power is available. Works the same to completely empty it
There is one more tip you missed out, after taking over a ship, you can auto pilot the ship you have taken over back to port without you needing to fly back to port, just switch home ship to your boarded ship, and then redock to your original ship and switch home ships back to your original ship, the stolen ship will then self pilot back to port.
Thank you so much for this comment. I had taken over a ship but the engines were dead and I was trying to figure out how to get it home. This actually worked!!! 🎉😊
Plus it will auto loot everything in the ship, and move the cargo for you
How to do this exactly? As far as I know i need to be in the ship I've taken over to make it my home ship via menu. But as soon as I do this, my original ship instantly undocks and autopilots to to port without any option to reboard it and make it my homeship again...
@@Benneification There are 3 ways,
1st is when they undock, quickly retarget your original ship and redock with it, board, sit in the captains chair and set the home ship back
2nd undock and target your original ship 1st before changing the captured ship to your home ship thenafter you change the home ship, you can easily redock to your original ship.
3rd undock with your original ship and redock with it before changing home ships. For some reason after you do that, when you switch home ships, they do not undock after that. Then you can just board back your original ship and set the home ship back
Hope that helps
Also doing this allows you to overfill a ships hold so you can carry all your resources in the cargo hold without having to leave them laying all over the ship.
My favorite way to clear out the cockpit is to open the door, yeet a grenade or two inside, then close the door again so they can't run out. :p
I like standing below those staircase hatches and just make it rain upstairs with grenades as well :D So satisfying
I love that "YEET" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Daddy's got a present for ya!
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Really? I empty it clean with ballistics in the comfort of my cockpit
Thank you, exactly what I needed. And exactly what the in-game UI gives no clue on how to do.
A Coachman with Hornets Nest is perfect for clearing ships as the crew tend to be in groups of 2 or 3. Jus tkeep a reasonable distance to avoid roasting yourself, but it's especially effective when clearing out the cockpit as in most cases there will be 3 people in there on the larger ships.
Two things I don't think I've seen on any video. I was having problem docking, press e on PC. When close. Second hold space bar down and use direction buttons to use thrusters. That was game changer for me piloting
I didn't realize what those electromagnetic weapons could do since you have explained it so well I'm going to start up Starfield right now and equip some on my ship, so thank you for that I very much appreciate the advice.
My pleasure! Happy to help ^^
@@04AMofficial In fact since I equipped these electromagnetic weapons to my ship I have found it to be much more combat effective. It must be frustrating for the pirates and raiders when I shut all their weapons down and just shoot the c*** out of them lol!
@scruffylookingNerfherder5742, ditto. 😊
Thank you for this guide. It has everything I needed to find out. Great job, 04AM!
I've watched a number of videos about how to bord ships, and they have all said to take out the shields first and then the engines, and after doing that you should be able to board. But I have never been able to board. It doesn't matter how high or low my difficulty setting is, it always ends with either my ship being blown to pieces, or the ship I wanted to board being blown up.
Now I understand what the problem is, more than anything else I've done wrong: Use EM weapons. I never did that, but now I'm going to. 😊
Thanks for the video man. I’ve watched so many videos trying to find crimson wight and I found one in orbit and took out engines and boarded. Finally!
You don’t need the EM weapon. You also don’t need to target weapons. You just have to disable engine and reach 500m from the ship. You’re ready to dock.
Yeah but for me i was destroing the enemy ship every time with the regular guns
@@pedrovaladao. a true issue. However: if ships are exploding too fast- try to use a single weapon at a time, and attempt to board the highest level ships. I’m lvl 95 now. Ships level lower than 10 are impossible to board: a single volley of my weapons will destroy it. Besides: it is a useless effort…. It’ll sell for barely any credits at all. Not worth it! I love the va’run prophecy iii - that’s some nice cash! And boarding it is fun! Plenty of holes to dump grenades, stairs for the enemies to climb slowly while I unload my shotgun… it is a fun boarding.
@@pedrovaladao. Check and see if you have any auto turrets on your ship, some stock models will have them. These will fire regardless depending on the angle.
@@HelenoPaiva Yeah I only go for high value ships now, nothing below level III, I've also hit a bug where I can register the ship in space from the menu, but when I get to the starport to sell it, It wants me to register it again. (currently level 80)
@@helvete983 that’s a new one! Damn. It appears that the longest you play the more tiny bugs crawl into your game. Like those stones following your ship, they are the visual representation of the bugs infestation.
You made starfield alot more enjoyable thank you mate
Thanks so much...this answers a lot of questions and resolves a lot of issues I've had. I appreciate the effort you put into the video. Love the channel name...I remember my 04 gamming days...long behind me now though. I'm still a fan of zero dark thirty though. Subscribed.
Thanks!
Thanks John, very much appreciated! 👌happy to help!
If you want to steal the ship easily and quickly, then do this: when you are docked and have eliminated everyone, sit in the captain's chair. Then go to the menu and make that ship your home ship, also register it-this is cheaper in space than when you do it at a vendor. Once you have done that, exit the menu and DON'T undock, but BOARD your old ship. Then go to your old ship's captain chair, go to the menu, and make it your home ship again. You're done! You've stolen a ship. Now you can undock and fly, and find other ships.
^^ This is what I wanted to know. I suspected it, but confirmation is nice. Thanks 🍪
Quick tip.. Disable Grav first then target what you want. Many ships run
side note : F5 is default quicksave button as standart use for like 20+ years of pc history and games :) and either F9 or sometimes F6 is Quickload. you dont need to bind it. it already has buttons designated ^^
I always separate Quickload to F9 or even F12. If you have F6 as Quickload it is too easy to hit the wrong key when you are trying to Quicksave.
Make it 35+ :)
@@Zayphar prolly thats why it changed to f9 i know in 90s some games had f5/f6 combines and exacly i had the same issue you have mentioned 😅
My Autocannon always destroy enemy ships before I even attempt to board. Power off your Autocannons if you wish to capture any ship.
Oh yes, they can be a pain too! Especially because they wont disable, but simply destroy parts of the ship :D
I have my cannons on the top / rear (mostly facing back) of my ship (not the sides), so if I keep my belly / front to the ship I'm aiming at, then they won't hit it.
The other thing to mention is to steer clear of turret weapons which may end up dealing too much damage before you get close enough to board
Can you take energy away from turret weapons to prevent them from firing?
Yes you can, but the timing can be tricky. I keep my turret weapons highlighted on the power track for my ship, and when I knock the ship's shields down I hold the down arrow (or down D pad) and after a second all of the power drains from my turret weapons. Not many folks know you can de-power something quickly by just holding the arrow/D-pad down for a full second instead of taking the power away one bar at a time. @@SimmerCK
@@JemearlSmith , yeah, that's a new one for me for sure. I was dying too fast in fights and raced to get turrets. Now THEY are dying too fast and I often don't get to board either because my turrets softened everyone up too much or my manual weapons (missiles / guns) do too much damage in one volley. I think I may just see if there's a turret that is more of a suppressor (leave everything around me disabled) and adjust my manual weapons so that I can better disable / destroy depending on which I fire.
very impressive. You are the first to explain something without saying too many unimportant things. Everything is explained very well, straight to the point and so that everyone can understand it. I like your style, keep it up. 👍
Space…. Space never changes
if you can not take over a ship, you should loot the cargo first before destroying. gives you more different items in general
[spoiler alert] the ship you get from completing the FSR quest line is VERY effective at this. It's a Class A and crews 5. HUGE cargo. [/spoiler alert]
Attack from behind, aim the engines and the docking shows up once the engine is down and you are within 500 meters. 5-10s tops.
To take a ship, have only 1 remaining ship, shoot out engines with targeting skill, 500m board.
Kill everyone, sit in pilot seat, go to menu and bottom left for ship options, make hom ship, register it.
You should either be able to redock with your original ship, or just jump to the Den.
At the den modify the ship, add a porthole or something, everything will be put into the hold, sell it at the trade authority. Then go elsewhere and sell the ship if you don't want to keep it.
I find using vanguard particle beam as the primary weapon and then using a power swap for when their shields are out for maximum power for the EM guns. I make sure that it takes 12 units of power worth of particle guns (6 in total) and 12 units of power for the EM guns (4 in total "barring no skills in ship upgrades").
I don't even use the targeting and once the shields are gone it's free range to rapidly disable and swiftly dock. Earlier levels I found myself having to eject the contraband into space until I discovered I can store it at a bass until I learned how to have shielded cargo.
Anyway, there's a lot of fun ways to do it however disabling without using EM is what the targeted systems are for.
Instead of taking the Contra to Base, why not just fly to the DEN and sell it, No use for Shielded cargo.
You don't NEED target locking as I discovered in my first play through when the story mission wanted me to disable a ships engines and I didn't have target locking skill, but if you don't have it you need to DESELECT The target or else your shots will always go to center of mass. With the target deselected they go where the circle is and you can manually target anything you want.
The problem is, on higher difficulties the ships will blow up before the engines or other parts you want to take down first, so target lock is quite essential. Especially if you want to make it a safe board - to disable weapons as well
How do you deselect?
@@Igni-bu5mzA or whatever your selection button is on pc
Yoo thank you!! I actually didn't know this before this comment and because of you I now am docking all these enemies ships without the perk. Hell yeah
Thats because its part of the mission, as you prgress and ships get tougher you WILL NEED target lock to be able to disable engines/weapons otherwise you will end up destroying the ship nearly every time
I love boarding ships,thank God for the targeting sistem
I just steal them when they land on a planet near my location :) Loved when one of them took off while I was still fighting my way to the cockpit.
Yeah, not doing it wrong. Thanks for trying to tell me you know more than I do about how I’ve been taking over ships for the last 3 weeks.
i love how when you joined the Crimson fleet nobody is hostile when you board. only downside is that i have a 100k+ bounty with them now
Those are rookie numbers, I have 350K now, I dont dare going back to the Key now xD
@@04AMofficial i'm just wondering if the bounty was worth the amount of money i'll be making off contaband
@@pauwwauw6330 Quick answer: It's not worth it. Paying off the bounties will always cost you more than you could ever make farming Contraband or selling ships after you pay the registration fees. It is part of the game design to discourage piracy unless you are intent on being a jerk just for shits and giggles.
All you need to board a ship is the targeting skill. Disable the engines and then board.
Yeah this feels like the hardest.
EM weapons make it easier for sure though.
I’ve never really had the need to shoot anything but engines
Very good guide! 👌 Thank you for your work!
Thank you for the vid, I just end up destroying the ship before I can board so hopefully that'll stop happening now.
Nice job buddy thanks
Nice video. Just a heads up the razorleafs storage will take all of your items as a glitch. They say it was patched and I patched as well but it did it again to me. Lost over 100k
Well, technically speak in the Crimson Fleet did say if you’re gonna steal from each other don’t get caught
Thanks.
Thanks
I got invited to board a ship by some couple celebrating their anniversary 😅
Yoink.
Don't need Targeting Control Systems skill at all. Blast enem6 ship with lasers until shields are down, the use your EM weapon to disable the ship. No need to target specific areas.
I board ships all the time without the targeting skill unlocked. I'm on my first play-through level 30 and board ships all the time. Still haven't unlocked targeting.
I just get em to near death and ram right into em and hit the board button really quickly.
Only works if you get the engine down, which usually exclusively works with that method on lower difficulties - Hard difficulty will destroy ships way before you can board them if not using the targeting skill
I was kinda hesitant getting em weapons on my ship incase I’m in a big battle and I’m just shooting electromagnetic waves at everyone trying to win😂, I think I’ll keep my razor leaf as a fighting ship and my starter ship as a piracy ship so I can get a better ship
even i , the mantis ,who has ships aplenty found it interesting
Also. I seem to run our of amo alot during missions or in caves , or any where ,,, so how do I find the right ammo box. For my guns. As I never know what I should look for. ??????
Thank you for this!
You got a build video for the ship you’re using in this video?
Good day excellent video.. question i got this game to be a hansolo ,Pirate how soon or what level can I start piracy ?
I just got to New atlantis at level five
Very soon - do your Main missions until you get this UC quest where you have to 'infiltrate' the Crimson Fleet (red skull icon).
You will very soon get access to Shielded Cargo to smuggle contraband and unlock skills like targeting systems to make boarding easy mode!
Love this game
is there a way to prevent my energy setting going totally bogus while in "aiming - mode" ? my presets allways go to max gravdrive energy 0 shield 1 per weapon type with ~10 unallocated during aimmode...
It's a shame that the ships don't have a power plant that can shut down all the ship's systems, as in the Elite.
Awesome bro, used this strategy and stole my first ship, I'm a bad man 😂
My W3 is EM. I use 1&2 until shields are down and then only 3. No targeting skill strictly necessary.
Lasers work fine on the bigger ships, its like performing brain surgery with a sledge hammer, but it works.
I don't see the option to purchase Spark 750 Suppressor. Do I need a certain skill first?
Is it possible to board legendary ships?
That enemy ai is *chefs kiss*
I am allied with the Crimson Fleet, so they are friendly, makes it easy to position for takeover and fire up 🤓
I am very new to the game, like 10 hours in. Is there a specific vendor I would go to in order to sell captured ships or some way to part them out to keep good pieces I would want to put on mine?
so when you lock on in pc how do i navigate to the attack certain parts screen what do ipush
I keep destroying the ships having a hard time stealing them
I was doing it correctly, actually. I assume most players were, too.
Boarding is effed up for me at present. Ships on the ground don’t drop the ramp and in space ships are empty in space so you never get the prompt to take over the ship. There are a bunch of us on Reddit who have the problem.
So yeah… no ship taking for me until the game is finished. It’s also broken Sarah’s and Sam’s missions as you cannot do what they tell you to do as no enemies spawn… but the weird thing is you can board the Starborn ships… except they are crap.
So yeah… if ships land and don’t open up… you are screwed like us.
The simplest way to level piloting is to run the vanguard simulation repeatedly until you max out. Free xp and no damage to your actual ship
10 XP/ship destroyed isn't something worth mentioning.
How are you doing the target lock and viewing the systems?
You need one skill point in the Tech skill "Targeting control systems"
One time I disabled the pirate ship, docked and everyone in that spaceship were dead. I don't know what I did... with just EM Suppressor, is the EM suppressor able to kill crews too... is it a bug or what? I was expecting a CQB from the pirate crew, but no, they were all dead in their spacesuit and all, floating.
I have more fun. Blowing the ships to kingdom come , complete with crew on board. ,,,,body parts go EVERYYYYY WHEREEEEEE
200h of gametime and all it needs to board is to just disable the engine and you can board fast and easy. No need to go through all systems...... Even with grav untouch, with no engine the ship will not go anywhere. Engines OFF > Board > Leave > Sell back to them, THATS IT.
For me crimson fleet bounties are astronomical.
Boarding some va’ruun ships with the big cargo hold is fun - once you take out the turrets you can catch them coming down the ladder one at a time , sorry about that guys
Stealing ships in space is very easy can see why they made it not so profitable would be game breaking.
Game already easy is enough on normal skill level.
You make boarding look so complicated when it's not..... just target the engines from the get go and use lasers and ballistic weapons to take shield down and then engines...... all you need to do is have the ship selected and be close enough to board once engines are out. Simple
no you have to deselect the ship, else most of the time the ship will get destroyed because if you have the ship selected all your shots automatically goes to the hull, doesn't matter which part of the ship you're targeting
I keep blowing everything up ships guns are crazy strong have rhe nova weapon mount on the front with 2 nutron turrets and 4 vanguard hellfires and 4 em guns on wings two turrents on back
just yesterday i had a quite big enemy ship that i just couldnt dock to. disabled the engines mutliple times, was always close enough but the game just wouldnt give me the docking prompt.
I'm playing on a PC and when I have the problem with the right and left in the target selection, then I press the left alt key and right or left and that works. I don`t know how it works on controlers. Also in order to board, you just need to get within 500 meters, and you only need to disable the shields and engines.
I have some auto-turrets on my ship, and they destroy the other ship completely before I can perform this task.
May I ask where you got that Crimson Fleet outfit? Is it a reward for completing the Crimson Fleet quest line
Its a random drop when to kill a Crimson fleet captain
nice worst thing i did was steal aship that could not jump to sell, then I landed on planets to steal a new ship, but all that kept landing was starborn ships.....
Can't do boarding at all anymore, for landed ships anyway. And Bethesda won't even acknowledge this game-breaking bug.
remap quicksave and quickload to F1 and F3? they're already F5 and F9
The advice to remap them is to put them closer to your left hand so you don't have to move far to quicksave/quickload. I personally have not remapped them but may one day if I find I use them in frantic situations.
You don't actually clearly explain how to disable a ship without risking to disable it. That part was done poorly
Can I visit the Key after the legacy mission ?
You didn't show us how to target specific areas. What keys target what systems?
On Xbox I had to press B to deselect the actual ship so I could manually shoot the engines. Someone said A here but it didnt work for me
you can board as soon as their engines are disabled and you are within 500m
Damn I just beat a fleet of 4 level 24 ships and I'm only level 16. I managed to board the last one and kill the crew. When I went to claim my new ship it told me I have to upgrade my piloting skill! 😭
I have a guide for that too :D to get Piloting 4 in no time hehe
I'm pretty sure you can use the Ship Combat Simulator at UC to clear the prerequisites for piloting skill upgrades.
Hey I really love the design of your ship! Can you post a vid showing how to build it?
He already did, check up in his into comments!
Cool video but 90% of that is completely unnecessary btw. Much easier to make sure you just leave the ship you want, alive until the end of the dogfight, smoke it’s engines, boost fast af at it until you get 500m and then hit dock! It literally takes 1/10th of the time and effort of disabling all systems. Plus when you steal it, all the weapons and grav drive are jacked up! I guess if your doing a super serious, realistic run then it would probably make sense to disable the weapons first, I guess. Ship jacking is one of my favorite things in this game, brilliant move by the devs imo.
Try Hard and Very Hard. You'll have a much harder time capturing ships ^^ thats why taking out weapons is recommended before you fly in that 500m boarding range as you might get blasted to pieces when you do. This is for a safe guarantee boarding strategy to secure what you want, not to take unneccessary risks to die or blow up the enemy craft to lose your shots
This was precisely what I was looking .. because I was always destroying everything ;( was so frustrating hehehe lol .. but now I know .. thanks a lot
I had the same problem earlier, thats why I made the guide :D Happy I was able to help!
You don't have to disable their weapons. Disabling the engines is enough to be able to dock
True, but try doing that on certain ships, they kill you before that happens so THEN its recommended to first take out their guns, then the engine safely
@@04AMofficial Fair point
If you register the ship fron your pause menu its cheaper than doing it at a star port. Just set it as your hone ship and on controller it would be the "share" button or back button or select or whatever y'all call it lol
Is there a way to do this and not have your primary ship start flying away?
I have so much contraband I just throw them in a big old pile
First i disabile the engine dock always shows up. No problem
Thats the fastest way indeed, while in harder difficulties you might get destroyed before you get in Docking range, so thats why I recommend taking down weapon systems from afar first!
@04AMofficial yes I have problem too. I have ship with emp weapon. Because I'm so use to just destroying the ships. I think very hard is not made for game. Auto turrets off. Emp on.
what keys cycle through the subsystens on xbox?
Use the D-pad!
The Registration fee is bullsh-t. It makes ship stealing worthless, so you have to loot the ship first to make any real profit from selling it.
I have a bounty of 100K on me from the Crimson Fleet.
And the legendary ship??
Yeah unless your bugged (along with 30% of the users) where basically you can board and there is NOTHING on board. No mobs, no contraband. Cant get in ships that are landed either. They need ot fix this crap.
Ok so it is a little wonky. I thought for sure I was doing everything right but couldn’t get a dock prompt.
You need to be under 500m distance, from that ship, in order to get that docking prompt!
If you're boarding them in space, you're doing it wrong. ;)
Is that so? :D I primarily hunt for spaceships on planets, but boarding in space can be fun too
I still seem to destroy ships even though I target the engines. Guess I'm too trigger happy.
probably the weapon type you are using. Stick with lasers or EM weapons and you should be okay!
@@clint4237 Thanks, I'll put some EM weapons on my ship.