You don't need to take down the shields, start with the engines and then destroy the ant-freighter canons then they will surrender. You can also just reload your last autosave and it will load up when you entered the system.
“May take 10, 20, 50 tries…” There goes the fast and easy part of the title… Edit: I don’t mind it taking this long or longer. This game is awesome. I’m very happy with NMS and it seeing what’s it’s become. Khraze
No all you legit need to do is just destroy the engines then the anti-freighter cannons along the TOP spine of the dreadnaught, its taken me only about a minute tops to force it to surrender every time, just make sure you divert your ships power to weapons and prioritize supercharged slots to whichever main weapon youre going to use each and every time
Just an FYI, you only need to take out the engines and then guns for it to surrender. Just makes it a little faster in those 20 + attempts without hitting all the shield nodes.
This game has such a nice community. Everyone has been so helpful since I started. Im still pretty new and have a lot to learn. But so many people will jump to answer questions when you're stuck. Nice stuff.
@@PeteDunes Literally everyone Ive asked for help taught me something new that I used. So yea... I cant really go by anyone else's experience when my own experience has had me meet with so many helpful and willing people. I mean, I can pretend that people have been mean if it brings you the comfort of the world being a terrible place 24/7 if thats the cover of safety you've built for yourself.
I found this to be true with Warframe(for the most part.) Been thinking of getting back into NMS(as 2 years ago, I wasn't into it)...but so much has changed since then.)
Faster way of doing this is to go to a space station in a neighbouring system , jump out get a restore point , then go to the pirate system , if it’s not the class you want , reload restore point , rinse and repeat!
Thanks for the vid, your solution worked really well. I'd like to add the following bonuses of doing this, especially if you need units, ships and nanites: First to add, I agree with other posts, its best to take out the shields slowly and destroy the fuel rods at the same time, then take out the warp engines and the dreadnought gives up. Once thats done land, check the class, if it is not an S Class, go to the captain, demand tribute, return to ship. rinse and repeat. My run to get an S Class took 24 attempts, results of the 24 runs was: 1 x A Class, 1 x B Class, 21 x C Class and the final 1 x S class with 25+13. Bonuses for those that are leveling, or still completing all research: 1. Captain - Every run, if you see the captain on the bridge you can select "Demand Tribute" and recieve 6.767 Million units every time. 2. Nanites - Every time the dreadnought gives up, you gain around 450 to 490 Nanites. 3. S Class Ships - Lot of s class ships landing on the dreadnought during my 24 runs. I recorded 1 x exotic and 5 x S class comprised of solar / other, (Not sure if this was my system or not) Total Gains of my 24 runs: S Class Dreadnought: 25+13 (Could of been better lol) Units: $155.64M Nanites: 10810 Nanites (at 470 Average) Hope this helps you :)
Take out the engines first. Then go into the canal, take out the shield generator wait for the fuel rod to come up. Shoot that I can get it all done in less than two minutes
@@LolSho0orTs the cannons take forever to take down, even with my best weapons. My best approach was the engines and the shields. One circuit on both "trenches", then make another lap for the nodes. The pirates will surrender in less than 2 minutes
Just fly into the shield and destroy 4 engines then 6 main turrets, it will immediately surrender, then land the ship, open scanning interface and check the rating. There is no bloody need to destroy the shield generators.
Faster way: 1. Before warping into a pirate system, go to a Space Station and save the game there (get out of the ship and enter again). 2. Then warp to the pirate system, go to the Dreadnought and destroy all 4 propulsors, and all 6 laser cannons, that should be enough to win the battle. 3. Then enter the ship and see it's class. If's not S-Class, then go to options and *Reload Restore Point* (NOT RELOAD AUTOSAVE), you should load at the Space Station before warping. 4. Repeat steps (2) and (3). Note: Before reloading the restored save, always remember the name and position of the system you warped, because you will need to warp there until you get the S-Class Dreadnought. Note 2: If there's not a Dreadnought on the system you warp-in, just go to the Space Station of this new system and repeat all the steps.
@@Beerpowered yeah but I mean other games like well "BLOX fruits" on Roblox platform if you heard have things that are a 1% drop chance and have to wait like almost 3h to even get the bosses or something, same thing for if you've heard of "elder scrolls" has like 0.25% takes years to get some item. Summery it takes time but "no man's sky" is really nice with there chance seeing 5% for a S lovely, knowing that it is the best it can be. Just time consuming and repetitive
@@jepwolf7 is there any specific thing to find them? I’ve been warping from pirate system to pirate system and haven’t gotten a single encounter yet. Maybe it’s just bad luck, maybe it’s me doing something wrong? I’ve been at it for like 30-40 mins now
@@JustinGonzalez-nv5pl Honestly I don't know. I have hit a Dreadnaught almost every other time I enter a system in one of my personal ships. I don't really do anything...hell sometimes I'm annoyed because I was just trying to get to the system. So I wish I could tell you.
Have been hunting for a S-class Ky'keen for hours now. Decided to search the UA-cam to see if there were any tricks I wasn't aware of. Saw this, tried this, on my first time warping back into the system after a C-class I got an S. Thankyou so much for this video. I was going insane because I already stumbled across an S-class Gek on accident and I don't like the Gek as much so yeah. 😂😂😂❤
For me personally i've found some differences in my game. Warping out and back results in no pirate dreadnought after loading. Going to a space station to generate a save point also results in no pirate dreadnought after loading the save. I feel like the only tactic that works is to keep killing it, checking class and then reloading the auto save. Also when it disappears it seems to trigger a cooldown to completely screw you over. I spent probably half an hour just warping around after playing for a couple hours to spawn my 2nd pirate frigate. Sad I really don't understand why they insist on making the freighter acquisition process effectively human torture.
You can also fly the trenches, go slow enough to shoot out the shiels AND the fuel rods that pop up where the shield globe was. Leave 1 fuel rod alone, which prevents the warp sequence timer, shoot out the engines then go shoot out the last fuel rod and the ship will surrender. You don't need to take out the turrets.
quickest way to make the dreadnaught surrender is to ignore the shields.. go for the warp drives first then followed by the anti-freighter cannons.. once you destroy those the dreadnaught will surrender..
What you want to do, is find a dreadnought that you like the look of. This is system locked. No matter the RNG, when you trigger an event in a system. That model is what you will get. Once you found your ideal, *then* you go to farm it via save scum RNGesus rolling. It may take a mind numbingly long time but you can force a S rank roll eventually. *OR* you can the sane option and use a save editor to upgrade the rank, once you got your ideal freighter.
Man, now we need a piracy overhaul. Like we should also be able to attack a freighter with our frieghter. Idc if it is exclusive to pirate freighters I still wanna.
3 tips: 1) after finding the first system with a dreadnought encounter, jump to another pirate system every time you dont get the dreadnought you want until you found 2 systems with dreadnought encounters. Then it is possible to just warp back and forth between them. 2) Shields dont have to be destroyed, first destroy warp engines and then the cannons. The dreadnought then will surrender. 3) after boarding for checking the Class, teleport to the captain and select the option demand tribute if its not an S-class. That always gives 6,767,000 units and makes the whole farming process worthwhile even without any luck. That makes enough cash that it is possible to buy all the S-class frigates that might be available for hire. At the time I had my S-class dreadnought I had a fleet of 10 S-class freighters also and still more than 100 million units surplus Good luck travelers :)
I actually use my Dreadnought to destroy sentinel cruisers in the blink of an eye, just piss of the sentinels right by your capital ship, get the cruiser to fire in its direction til you hear the alarm go off, drop the cruisers shield gennys and watch the anti freighter cannons obliterate it in as fast as you can swing a 180 to watch, but sometimes if you don't do hull damage yourself you won't get the Carrier AI
Krhaze i can confirm this as I do it all the time Just destroy the engines and the huge guns on the along the TOP section of dreadnoughts spine from aft (rear) to bow (front) and they immediately surrender
Taking an extra 5-10 secs to run to the bridge and demand tribute nets you 6.7 Mill, in addition if you take out the drives first but let the dreadnaught destroy the freighter and then you take out the shields you will get a freighter module, then you can demand tribute on top of that. Also, look for triple or double pirate systems, I found a nice 4 system pirate chain to do this in so I just jump from system to system and rake in the money.
Im loving your videos as a new player to nms, thanks for putting these vids together! By the way, what is the name of the starship you are using ? Its really cool!
Nice guide. Followed your tips (but skipped straight to disabling the engines) and got an A class on the first try! I’ll trade up for a s-class when and if I come across one. Thanks!
you should play it, go with an open mindset and patience and u will enjoy it, there is not better time to play this game, it has so much. You are mising out. I made the mistake of buying it on 2020 and decided to start playing it last year.
Do it dude, I bought the game when it came out. Was buggy and not interesting. Now it is so fun to play, started again about a week ago and it’s going great
if you go slow through the shields and destroy every fuel rod as they pop up the freighter will immediately surrender, provided the engines were taken out first. This is not only the fastest way it is the safest as most of your time is in the trenches. You need not destroy a single gun.
The rewards for defeating the dreadnought can be different depends on how the fight ends. If allied frighter lives you get clone to 700k units, 500 Nanites and 6 standing. If allied frighter dies you get an random s tier Upgrade. You can farm an s tier dreadnought + the Upgrades at the Same time. And yes the s tier is a safe drop. in both Cases go up to the captian!!!! you can Cash out and get close to 7 million units if you dont get the s-tier dreadnought.
I got a dreadnought thanks to you it's unfortunately a C class but it's better than nothing and I have 60 little ships around it when all of them are all around it it's crazy I absolutely love my dreadnought
Easier way to destroy the drednaught is to destroy all the freighter lasers except one and then do the engines, then go back to the last laser and destroy it. Fastest way to farm the dreadnaught
Yesterday I defeat one S class dreadnought. I thought it was just a basic freighter because there were not so many slots as my current freighter. After I got the money from captain I just get out of it and destroy it. Now that I find out you guys even wrap 20-30 times for it 8 kinda regret doing that ( BTW it was the first one that I get to defeat and it was the first warp that day)
Someone might’ve said it already but in case they didn’t, destroying the shields is optional. You can take out the engines and the cannons and they will surrender.
@@KidKizuki cannons are quicker for getting your S class but the following encounters after, shields would be the better choice for destroying it quicker for rewards.
Do you need to already own a freighter in order for the dreadnought to appear? I've been jumping from one pirate system to another and all I get is the other two styles.
A better method (IMO) rather than reloading a save point. Trigger the Pirate event on 2 systems (preferably ones you can warp with no special warp engines). 1. Defeat the pirate capital ship 2. Check class 3. If S class, you stop right here, else continue 4. Jump to the other system where this was triggered as well Rinse and repeat until you get your S class.
Unfortunately, that is not possible. Freighter battles, and pirate freighter battles, require 5 system jumps and 3 hrs of game play to trigger. That's why they reload the save to try for a different class, otherwise it would be 3hrs of game play later and 5 jumps to trigger another battle.
@@GiovanniV69I agree on that 3 hours requirement, but after having that and triggered the event. regardless if its just one system, you can just warp to another system then warp back to the system where it was triggered, and the battle will be triggered again. Lucky for me, i found 2 pirate systems which I can warp between (Indium drive + S class upgrades, so not really a problem for my ship). Those 2 pirate systems have the fight triggered so I just kept warping back and fourth until i got my S class pirate ship. More than 30 tries though, but its all good since I farmed a lot of units along the way.
You have never been able to upgrade your freighter. Ships and multitool, yes. Frigates yes with missions but never the freighter. You have always had to farm for S class freighters with the 3 jump fight mission and reload ways.
@onlineghost9813 it's definitely an rng gamble. Reddit used to have and might still have NMS threads where people would upload the pics of freighters that spawned in the systems. That way you can choose the one you like and farm it till an s class popped. It's better now that they added recoloring options to them. The best part is it's your mobile base and farm.
I searched for it twice. The first time, it got destroyed. Wasn't expecting that. The second time, I got one. It is a C class. But, I'm keeping it until I can get a better one. 😁
Bro. You need to let people know the first time they enter a pirate system the Dread fight is triggered. If the ship gets away you need to reload your save. I been to about 35 pirate systems and that DreadNot is no where.
Yeah my dreadnought escaped and I have yet to see another one 20+ warps later in and out I'm not sure If I have to find a whole new system now or what but it is quite irritating.
Well, I guess its one step easier than the old standard freighter farming method. Now, you can warp back and forth between systems instead of reloading your previous save and go again.
Another bug is if you had a Pirate Dreadnaught and end up getting a civilian Frieghter later like when converting a normal save from Expedition back to normal mode your Frieghter will be glitched missing the connecting section between base and hangar and the body of the ship as you’ll have the landable part of the Pirate Dreadnaught and the body of the civilian ship glitched together and it’s really bad looking.
I really like the look of your little fighter in this video, I don't think I've ever seen those rolled up wings. Is there a certain galaxy that has things similar?
I got lucky and won my second dreadnought encounter, it was an S class too! I had no idea that it was possible to take it over and I had to see how rare it is lol
This doesn't work anymore. Not your fault, as you posted this month's ago, but I landed on a b class dreadnought, instantly warped out and then back in, and there was nothing there.
To everyone saying that this works it doesn’t…..if you leave your pirate encounter you’ll lose the opportunity entirely you have to get a backup save and then do this and that’s only when that type of ship spawns which means you have to jump to random systems until the dreadnaught spawns and then you reload your game 1 jump before and rinse and repeat this guy is full of BS
I'm in the process of farming to find my S class thanks to this video, I'm in awe of the starship cannon rate of fire and power. What upgrades do you have to be able to melt everything that quickly? Thanks!
There is no point attacking the shield Generators Just fly to the rare, blow up the Warpdrives, it wont leave, and destroy the canons, it'll give up, all that can be done in 20 seconds.
I did this on my second try. It's not hard. Just attack the shields and guns to prevent it from destroying the civilians and make your life easy. After this it will try to get away, you just have to destroy the engines before it leaves, you have plenty of time. You board it and tell them to hand over them keys or something like that and it's done.
Hey I’ve got a question. I just got my s class pirate dreadnought but after I warped to a different system the bridge and hangar went back to the old civilian design. Did anyone else encounter this and is there news about it getting patched?
so once you get one to spawn, say a c class. do you keep warping back and forth to that c class you found hoping it will spawn an s class. or do you have to find an s class?
Im playing this game again while i waited for it to become what it is now. I knew there where battles where you could get freighters. But i think i got 2000ly in my new save when this just spawned. Still have the artemis ship but got lucky on this :D
Not dissing the game of course but I think it’s funny after defeating its crew you have to buy it/register it!😂 The Defeated Captain: You’ve bested me! I’ll give you this ship for a fair price! 🤣
I just tried today and noticed that in 15 tries the name of the dreadnought was always the same and it was always c-class and the only thing which was different was the number of slots it has.... good thing I was able to speed up the process by destroying this energy banners which come up after destroying the shield spheres make the frighter flee if you destroy all of them so you can directly destroy the warp drive dont know if that is very time critical but i always were able to destroy the warp drive if you do so you do not need to also destroy all the cannons.... But unfortunately my impression is that i was very unlucky or they fixed it so that per system/event the frighter will stay always same class and only the slots change.... if someone has other/better experience... let me know ;)
Took over 30 mins to find one, flying between systems…so far I’m on day 12 of trying to shoot down an S Rank. I’ve shot down at least 45 of them so far. 😖
You don't need to take down the shields, start with the engines and then destroy the ant-freighter canons then they will surrender. You can also just reload your last autosave and it will load up when you entered the system.
Just commented the same before I saw you beat me to it. 😅
They keep fleeing every time I do this. 😣
what was he talking about some max rank or something?
@@thren914 engine first
yup i was bout to say the same thing
“May take 10, 20, 50 tries…” There goes the fast and easy part of the title…
Edit: I don’t mind it taking this long or longer. This game is awesome. I’m very happy with NMS and it seeing what’s it’s become. Khraze
I counted. around 12 for me. You can dock at station first and load from station.
Pretty fast and easy to be honest, yeah it takes time but every S tier ship, weapon, upgrade etc takes time.
By far the fastest way to farm an s freighter… so I don’t understand the negativity of the comment
@@npcperson2158flying back and forth is way quicker then reloading every time though
No all you legit need to do is just destroy the engines then the anti-freighter cannons along the TOP spine of the dreadnaught, its taken me only about a minute tops to force it to surrender every time, just make sure you divert your ships power to weapons and prioritize supercharged slots to whichever main weapon youre going to use each and every time
Just an FYI, you only need to take out the engines and then guns for it to surrender. Just makes it a little faster in those 20 + attempts without hitting all the shield nodes.
to be honest I just broke them all by crashing into them while boosting and shooting at the same time. lol
Maybe they changed something but I couldn’t damage the warp drives until I took down the shields, it just showed 0 damage.
@heylady9108 you have to fly inside the shield or it doesn't take any damage
@@heylady9108 It's a relatively tight squeeze so you're pretty close to them to be inside the shields to get the warp drives.
This game has such a nice community. Everyone has been so helpful since I started. Im still pretty new and have a lot to learn. But so many people will jump to answer questions when you're stuck. Nice stuff.
What platform do you play on?
*_"This game has such a nice community"_*
You're joking, right? 😄
@@PeteDunes Literally everyone Ive asked for help taught me something new that I used. So yea... I cant really go by anyone else's experience when my own experience has had me meet with so many helpful and willing people. I mean, I can pretend that people have been mean if it brings you the comfort of the world being a terrible place 24/7 if thats the cover of safety you've built for yourself.
@@PeteDunes?
I found this to be true with Warframe(for the most part.) Been thinking of getting back into NMS(as 2 years ago, I wasn't into it)...but so much has changed since then.)
Faster way of doing this is to go to a space station in a neighbouring system , jump out get a restore point , then go to the pirate system , if it’s not the class you want , reload restore point , rinse and repeat!
Thanks for the vid, your solution worked really well.
I'd like to add the following bonuses of doing this, especially if you need units, ships and nanites:
First to add, I agree with other posts, its best to take out the shields slowly and destroy the fuel rods at the same time, then take out the warp engines and the dreadnought gives up.
Once thats done land, check the class, if it is not an S Class, go to the captain, demand tribute, return to ship. rinse and repeat.
My run to get an S Class took 24 attempts, results of the 24 runs was: 1 x A Class, 1 x B Class, 21 x C Class and the final 1 x S class with 25+13.
Bonuses for those that are leveling, or still completing all research:
1. Captain - Every run, if you see the captain on the bridge you can select "Demand Tribute" and recieve 6.767 Million units every time.
2. Nanites - Every time the dreadnought gives up, you gain around 450 to 490 Nanites.
3. S Class Ships - Lot of s class ships landing on the dreadnought during my 24 runs. I recorded 1 x exotic and 5 x S class comprised of solar / other, (Not sure if this was my system or not)
Total Gains of my 24 runs:
S Class Dreadnought: 25+13 (Could of been better lol)
Units: $155.64M
Nanites: 10810 Nanites (at 470 Average)
Hope this helps you :)
How many hours did it take you to
Fly between two systems that have spawned the fights, you can farm two instead of one.
Don't they just spawn every like 4 hours or so many warps or something?
@@publicguy1664I think it's different with dreadnaught
Take out the engines first.
Then go into the canal, take out the shield generator wait for the fuel rod to come up. Shoot that I can get it all done in less than two minutes
u only need to kill the engines and the canons
@@LolSho0orTsor the shields work too, options are awesome 🙂
@@Official_DumbTube_Commenter if you’re farming it 50+ times minutes make a difference
@@LolSho0orTs the cannons take forever to take down, even with my best weapons. My best approach was the engines and the shields. One circuit on both "trenches", then make another lap for the nodes. The pirates will surrender in less than 2 minutes
I've been away from NMS for a while, watching this video, seeing how menacing the new dreadnought looks make me want to come back
Just fly into the shield and destroy 4 engines then 6 main turrets, it will immediately surrender, then land the ship, open scanning interface and check the rating. There is no bloody need to destroy the shield generators.
Faster way:
1. Before warping into a pirate system, go to a Space Station and save the game there (get out of the ship and enter again).
2. Then warp to the pirate system, go to the Dreadnought and destroy all 4 propulsors, and all 6 laser cannons, that should be enough to win the battle.
3. Then enter the ship and see it's class. If's not S-Class, then go to options and *Reload Restore Point* (NOT RELOAD AUTOSAVE), you should load at the Space Station before warping.
4. Repeat steps (2) and (3).
Note: Before reloading the restored save, always remember the name and position of the system you warped, because you will need to warp there until you get the S-Class Dreadnought.
Note 2: If there's not a Dreadnought on the system you warp-in, just go to the Space Station of this new system and repeat all the steps.
i am waiting for the day capital ship battles are a thing. I want to build a space fleet and jump station to station conquering systems
You can transfer cargo between freighters. There is a tab above that says cargo go there and transfer
It's a flat 5% chance to be S Class in an Outlaw system. There are no modifiers to increase it.
Oh 5% is EZ
@@ZBEzMinezYT0 took me 36 reloads to get my S Class. So it's not too bad. Took out Engines then guns then landed and checked.
@@Beerpowered yeah but I mean other games like well "BLOX fruits" on Roblox platform if you heard have things that are a 1% drop chance and have to wait like almost 3h to even get the bosses or something, same thing for if you've heard of "elder scrolls" has like 0.25% takes years to get some item.
Summery it takes time but "no man's sky" is really nice with there chance seeing 5% for a S lovely, knowing that it is the best it can be.
Just time consuming and repetitive
@@Beerpoweredhey at least you got the freighter that's good (1month ago I'll assume)
@@Beerpoweredso a static 5%
I already have one, and I love how the customization flows better than the other freighters.
This video was extremely helpful. Got my Dreadnaught last night and got an S class first try. Thanks for the information. Was very helpful!
@@jepwolf7 is there any specific thing to find them? I’ve been warping from pirate system to pirate system and haven’t gotten a single encounter yet. Maybe it’s just bad luck, maybe it’s me doing something wrong? I’ve been at it for like 30-40 mins now
@@JustinGonzalez-nv5pl Honestly I don't know. I have hit a Dreadnaught almost every other time I enter a system in one of my personal ships. I don't really do anything...hell sometimes I'm annoyed because I was just trying to get to the system. So I wish I could tell you.
@@JustinGonzalez-nv5pl you have to have a freighter already. Doesn’t work if you don’t have one
Have been hunting for a S-class Ky'keen for hours now. Decided to search the UA-cam to see if there were any tricks I wasn't aware of. Saw this, tried this, on my first time warping back into the system after a C-class I got an S. Thankyou so much for this video. I was going insane because I already stumbled across an S-class Gek on accident and I don't like the Gek as much so yeah. 😂😂😂❤
For me personally i've found some differences in my game. Warping out and back results in no pirate dreadnought after loading. Going to a space station to generate a save point also results in no pirate dreadnought after loading the save. I feel like the only tactic that works is to keep killing it, checking class and then reloading the auto save. Also when it disappears it seems to trigger a cooldown to completely screw you over. I spent probably half an hour just warping around after playing for a couple hours to spawn my 2nd pirate frigate. Sad
I really don't understand why they insist on making the freighter acquisition process effectively human torture.
Nice vid. Like others, I have always just taken out the engines first, since that leaves them there at your mercy after that. :)
You can also fly the trenches, go slow enough to shoot out the shiels AND the fuel rods that pop up where the shield globe was. Leave 1 fuel rod alone, which prevents the warp sequence timer, shoot out the engines then go shoot out the last fuel rod and the ship will surrender. You don't need to take out the turrets.
quickest way to make the dreadnaught surrender is to ignore the shields.. go for the warp drives first then followed by the anti-freighter cannons.. once you destroy those the dreadnaught will surrender..
So the "guarantee" mentioned in the thumbnail that it is an S class is when it is an S class? Ok got it.
What you want to do, is find a dreadnought that you like the look of. This is system locked. No matter the RNG, when you trigger an event in a system. That model is what you will get.
Once you found your ideal, *then* you go to farm it via save scum RNGesus rolling. It may take a mind numbingly long time but you can force a S rank roll eventually. *OR* you can the sane option and use a save editor to upgrade the rank, once you got your ideal freighter.
Don't all dreadnoughts look the same
@@convergence1pointWill using a save editor prevent me from playing multiplayer?
@@dolanpls3330 not on Playstation at least
Man, now we need a piracy overhaul. Like we should also be able to attack a freighter with our frieghter. Idc if it is exclusive to pirate freighters I still wanna.
Holy crap, that took a long time. 4 full days of trying but I finally got my S class. Never once saw an A or B class, either.
From what I've read, which isn't a lot, B, A, and S all have a 5% chance of spawning with C being 85%
Keep it up K! You are my #1 source for NMS.
3 tips:
1) after finding the first system with a dreadnought encounter, jump to another pirate system every time you dont get the dreadnought you want until you found 2 systems with dreadnought encounters. Then it is possible to just warp back and forth between them.
2) Shields dont have to be destroyed, first destroy warp engines and then the cannons. The dreadnought then will surrender.
3) after boarding for checking the Class, teleport to the captain and select the option demand tribute if its not an S-class. That always gives 6,767,000 units and makes the whole farming process worthwhile even without any luck. That makes enough cash that it is possible to buy all the S-class frigates that might be available for hire. At the time I had my S-class dreadnought I had a fleet of 10 S-class freighters also and still more than 100 million units surplus
Good luck travelers :)
I actually use my Dreadnought to destroy sentinel cruisers in the blink of an eye, just piss of the sentinels right by your capital ship, get the cruiser to fire in its direction til you hear the alarm go off, drop the cruisers shield gennys and watch the anti freighter cannons obliterate it in as fast as you can swing a 180 to watch, but sometimes if you don't do hull damage yourself you won't get the Carrier AI
Ty for the video! Btw what kind of ship do you have?
Krhaze i can confirm this as I do it all the time
Just destroy the engines and the huge guns on the along the TOP section of dreadnoughts spine from aft (rear) to bow (front) and they immediately surrender
Thank you sooooo much for this info
Taking an extra 5-10 secs to run to the bridge and demand tribute nets you 6.7 Mill, in addition if you take out the drives first but let the dreadnaught destroy the freighter and then you take out the shields you will get a freighter module, then you can demand tribute on top of that. Also, look for triple or double pirate systems, I found a nice 4 system pirate chain to do this in so I just jump from system to system and rake in the money.
Im loving your videos as a new player to nms, thanks for putting these vids together! By the way, what is the name of the starship you are using ? Its really cool!
Nice guide. Followed your tips (but skipped straight to disabling the engines) and got an A class on the first try! I’ll trade up for a s-class when and if I come across one. Thanks!
Now we need to own two freighters. I can't swap my Oculus I just can't.
You can 1st take out the engines by flying within its shield bubble. Same for the turrets. Saves 2 strafing runs.
Glad youre still around to show me some more about NMS lol. Returning to see all this crazy shit after a few years of being gone. Wtf is all this @_@.
Thanks mate! .. i got S-class on my third run and yaa with Korvex captain
Thanks for the tips man, ingot it on my 7th try🎉
Awesome guide! If I get a S tier with bad storage slot amount, can I manually upgrade the slot capacity until it's at maximum capacity?
Man I’m thinking of jumping into this game. I bought it years ago and just never played
you should play it, go with an open mindset and patience and u will enjoy it, there is not better time to play this game, it has so much. You are mising out. I made the mistake of buying it on 2020 and decided to start playing it last year.
Jump in now with the expedition it's a great way to get back into it with a boost
Don't be afraid to customize your difficulty either. Make the experience how you want it it's always worth while.
Do it dude, I bought the game when it came out. Was buggy and not interesting. Now it is so fun to play, started again about a week ago and it’s going great
Cheers for the info! Got mine on 2nd try
if you go slow through the shields and destroy every fuel rod as they pop up the freighter will immediately surrender, provided the engines were taken out first. This is not only the fastest way it is the safest as most of your time is in the trenches. You need not destroy a single gun.
I was going crazy farming this so I settled for an A. Good enough.
The rewards for defeating the dreadnought can be different depends on how the fight ends. If allied frighter lives you get clone to 700k units, 500 Nanites and 6 standing. If allied frighter dies you get an random s tier Upgrade. You can farm an s tier dreadnought + the Upgrades at the Same time. And yes the s tier is a safe drop. in both Cases go up to the captian!!!! you can Cash out and get close to 7 million units if you dont get the s-tier dreadnought.
I got a dreadnought thanks to you it's unfortunately a C class but it's better than nothing and I have 60 little ships around it when all of them are all around it it's crazy I absolutely love my dreadnought
Excellente video as alaways!!!
Has been a while since I played, what fighter is that? Is that from the Omega?
Easier way to destroy the drednaught is to destroy all the freighter lasers except one and then do the engines, then go back to the last laser and destroy it. Fastest way to farm the dreadnaught
Yesterday I defeat one S class dreadnought. I thought it was just a basic freighter because there were not so many slots as my current freighter. After I got the money from captain I just get out of it and destroy it. Now that I find out you guys even wrap 20-30 times for it 8 kinda regret doing that ( BTW it was the first one that I get to defeat and it was the first warp that day)
Dude what is that main ship you are using? The booster effects are awesome
Someone might’ve said it already but in case they didn’t, destroying the shields is optional. You can take out the engines and the cannons and they will surrender.
Destroying the cannons is also optional if you take out the shields, kinda like multiple choice with no wrong answer 😅
@@Official_DumbTube_Commenter I didn’t even know that. I learned something new today thank you 😂
@@KidKizuki cannons are quicker for getting your S class but the following encounters after, shields would be the better choice for destroying it quicker for rewards.
You don’t have to destroy the cool cannons, just the shield and fuel rods and they will surrender
Storage containers are an excellent way to transfer cargo as well.
Take the engines out first! and then the shields or the cannons. You don’t have to do both.
I spent 2 hours grinding for one, totally worth it, better than my normal b class 😅
Do you need to already own a freighter in order for the dreadnought to appear? I've been jumping from one pirate system to another and all I get is the other two styles.
Yes this is something I wish they would cover for newer players. You do need an existing freighter for the fight sequence to spawn.
A better method (IMO) rather than reloading a save point.
Trigger the Pirate event on 2 systems (preferably ones you can warp with no special warp engines).
1. Defeat the pirate capital ship
2. Check class
3. If S class, you stop right here, else continue
4. Jump to the other system where this was triggered as well
Rinse and repeat until you get your S class.
Unfortunately, that is not possible. Freighter battles, and pirate freighter battles, require 5 system jumps and 3 hrs of game play to trigger. That's why they reload the save to try for a different class, otherwise it would be 3hrs of game play later and 5 jumps to trigger another battle.
@@GiovanniV69I agree on that 3 hours requirement, but after having that and triggered the event. regardless if its just one system, you can just warp to another system then warp back to the system where it was triggered, and the battle will be triggered again.
Lucky for me, i found 2 pirate systems which I can warp between (Indium drive + S class upgrades, so not really a problem for my ship). Those 2 pirate systems have the fight triggered so I just kept warping back and fourth until i got my S class pirate ship. More than 30 tries though, but its all good since I farmed a lot of units along the way.
In my opinion, instead of wating so much time just reloading the save, i think is best just to get w/e rank and thenupgrade to S class eventualy.
You have never been able to upgrade your freighter. Ships and multitool, yes. Frigates yes with missions but never the freighter. You have always had to farm for S class freighters with the 3 jump fight mission and reload ways.
@@VyseSolo really? wow thats quite the grind
@@onlineghost9813don’t worry. Save editors exist
@onlineghost9813 it's definitely an rng gamble. Reddit used to have and might still have NMS threads where people would upload the pics of freighters that spawned in the systems. That way you can choose the one you like and farm it till an s class popped. It's better now that they added recoloring options to them. The best part is it's your mobile base and farm.
Thanks for this. Just got an S-Class!
What ship are you flying is it a custom made or a sentinel
The star runner ship with some customized things he added on
I searched for it twice. The first time, it got destroyed. Wasn't expecting that. The second time, I got one. It is a C class. But, I'm keeping it until I can get a better one. 😁
It took me forever to get my S class Sentinel Dreadnought. I am not about to go through that all over again.
I'll stay with the class c if I have to do all that work. Maybe I'll do it for a B class.
Literally saw this yesterday and tried and succeeded on 1st try😅 Literally the only thing in nms to ever happen to me first shot❤
it's such a NMS thing for the Dreadnought to NOT fire in defense once YOU own it..... standard NMS mechanics..
Agreed, very cringe
You go program your version so we can clown it😅
Took me literally 2 tries for a S class Dread.
Thanks
Engines, shields, done... i have never done the turrets and i have went trough several so far.
Bro. You need to let people know the first time they enter a pirate system the Dread fight is triggered. If the ship gets away you need to reload your save. I been to about 35 pirate systems and that DreadNot is no where.
Yeah my dreadnought escaped and I have yet to see another one 20+ warps later in and out I'm not sure If I have to find a whole new system now or what but it is quite irritating.
Well, I guess its one step easier than the old standard freighter farming method. Now, you can warp back and forth between systems instead of reloading your previous save and go again.
Another bug is if you had a Pirate Dreadnaught and end up getting a civilian Frieghter later like when converting a normal save from Expedition back to normal mode your Frieghter will be glitched missing the connecting section between base and hangar and the body of the ship as you’ll have the landable part of the Pirate Dreadnaught and the body of the civilian ship glitched together and it’s really bad looking.
I really like the look of your little fighter in this video, I don't think I've ever seen those rolled up wings. Is there a certain galaxy that has things similar?
Thank you for sharing. I know why I'm subscribed :)
fleet: You've saved us! thank you!
me: you sure about that?
I got lucky and won my second dreadnought encounter, it was an S class too! I had no idea that it was possible to take it over and I had to see how rare it is lol
3% chanc
This doesn't work anymore. Not your fault, as you posted this month's ago, but I landed on a b class dreadnought, instantly warped out and then back in, and there was nothing there.
You have to reload your save and then warp again
To everyone saying that this works it doesn’t…..if you leave your pirate encounter you’ll lose the opportunity entirely you have to get a backup save and then do this and that’s only when that type of ship spawns which means you have to jump to random systems until the dreadnaught spawns and then you reload your game 1 jump before and rinse and repeat this guy is full of BS
I'm in the process of farming to find my S class thanks to this video, I'm in awe of the starship cannon rate of fire and power. What upgrades do you have to be able to melt everything that quickly? Thanks!
I got one yesterday after 4 tries. But man I was upset because the ship would stay damaged. But once I recalled it. The damage was fixed
I tried it an after like 5-10 tries it worked it’s awsome and is huge
I been fighting them all week and did not know we could claim them now!!
There is no point attacking the shield Generators
Just fly to the rare, blow up the Warpdrives, it wont leave, and destroy the canons, it'll give up, all that can be done in 20 seconds.
Its so nice that its possible to get an S class freighter without having to play for 10 hours just to be allowed the chance to encounter an S class
I did this on my second try. It's not hard. Just attack the shields and guns to prevent it from destroying the civilians and make your life easy. After this it will try to get away, you just have to destroy the engines before it leaves, you have plenty of time. You board it and tell them to hand over them keys or something like that and it's done.
you just said exactly what he says in the video
What spaceship is that and what loadout are you using ? It's very nice !
Man what character are you running? It looks nice
Hey I’ve got a question. I just got my s class pirate dreadnought but after I warped to a different system the bridge and hangar went back to the old civilian design. Did anyone else encounter this and is there news about it getting patched?
Hey, i have the same error. You can fix it by restarting the whole game.
I got my S-class yesterday. With a Vy'keen crew.
so once you get one to spawn, say a c class. do you keep warping back and forth to that c class you found hoping it will spawn an s class. or do you have to find an s class?
Im playing this game again while i waited for it to become what it is now. I knew there where battles where you could get freighters. But i think i got 2000ly in my new save when this just spawned. Still have the artemis ship but got lucky on this :D
Thank you so much. That's makes it way easier to find the dreadnoughts. I got the S class dreadnought but then my game crashed and now it's a B class😂
Btw I searched 6 hours for it
@@GoldenArrow_666 that's insane, and here I am about to giving up when it's not even 2 hours yet XD
Not dissing the game of course but I think it’s funny after defeating its crew you have to buy it/register it!😂
The Defeated Captain: You’ve bested me! I’ll give you this ship for a fair price!
🤣
What does the "rinse" process look like in the steps you documented?
You can avoid doing item swaps as long as you have matching storage bays in a primary base and in freighter
What ship do you have in this video? It looks cool.
I just tried today and noticed that in 15 tries the name of the dreadnought was always the same and it was always c-class and the only thing which was different was the number of slots it has.... good thing I was able to speed up the process by destroying this energy banners which come up after destroying the shield spheres make the frighter flee if you destroy all of them so you can directly destroy the warp drive dont know if that is very time critical but i always were able to destroy the warp drive if you do so you do not need to also destroy all the cannons....
But unfortunately my impression is that i was very unlucky or they fixed it so that per system/event the frighter will stay always same class and only the slots change.... if someone has other/better experience... let me know ;)
What is the Fighter you are in? i'm curious it looks cool.
How did you get your ship? I like it a lot
Ignore the Shields.
Take out the Hyperdrives at first;
then the Freighter-Turrets and the Pirate give up.
Took over 30 mins to find one, flying between systems…so far I’m on day 12 of trying to shoot down an S Rank. I’ve shot down at least 45 of them so far. 😖
Kill engines first to keep then from running.....even if they kill the civi fleet you can still take ship
Cool. Thanx.
I already have a S class capital freighter which upgraded. Will this pirate dreadnought replace my capital freighter? Is there any way to own both?
Apart from looks no