I've had to explain this a lot, so I'll make it short ~ish here. Far too many ppl have been explaining the same experience as me, for me to believe we were all just too dumb or inexperienced to do the process right. The wiki states you need a Freighter first, as well. Some ppl may be saying otherwise to try and help others, some just wanna call me stupid to feel good about putting some nobody on the internet down, but I'm telling you that's wrong info. If you got a Dreadnought without a Freighter, congrats, you most likely triggered a bug with the brand-new, not fully tested, content. The rest of us didn't have that luck
Ashran, while I am not in the least interested in getting a pirate dreadnaught, S-Class or otherwise, I thank you for making this video. We're not dumb, but some times I wonder about game developers who create a quest to do something and utterly forgot to provide a clue or a prompt for the first step. Your second point. Boy do I feel your pain brother. I am rather irate at ppl telling me I am playing the game wrong - doubly so when the complaint is about the game being buggy. Very informative video. Kudos!
3 months later. I can 100% confirm my friend got a dreadnought for his first freighter. I wonder if it has to do with the save being created before/after a certain update. Just a tip: Wikis are community efforts and often have misinformation. Personally I had far greater success going to max economy/max conflict systems, but luck is always a factor.
i just wanted to know how to defeat one, i am back in the game after years and i warped into a system and suddenly there is a weird message about a pirate ship, it didnt go well for me, because i didnt know about the engines and destroying the guns, but now i do, so this helps. a lot of new stuff i this game.
me and my friend both did it without a freighter. You don't need a freighter, just decline the first freighter you save and take the money instead. Then you can trigger pirate Dreadnought over and over and over again.
I don't play No Man's Sky. I watched this because a friend was watching it and I watched along. But THANK YOU. Because I've had innumerable software and Windows problems where I look for solutions online and, exactly as you said, everyone is describing steps 2-10 of fixing it, and skipping the crucial fundamental step one. The step that seems so obvious, no one mentions it, which is infuriating to everyone who doesn't know it. So one thousand blessings upon your brow for making a video like this.
Exactly what I figured, once I found the info on the wiki; all the NMS-focused UA-camrs prob have dozens of saves, all with freighters they've had for months/years, and never even thought it might cause a problem for a new person trying to go straight for the Dreadnought, or even realized it was a prerequisite.
I FREAKING KNEW IT! tried to get new Pirate Dreadnought. As a fresh player i have never seen those big ships encounters. After hours of jumping only to get the regular freighter defence encounter, i begin to wonder if i had to get my freighter first. Thanks for the video!
Recently started playing again. 3 hours after purchasing my freighter I triggered this event and had no idea what to do. I started attacking the ship wherever I could. Next thing I know, the ship vanished. This video was helpful. Thanks
I flew around checkign systems for HOURS.... had no freaking idea why i wasn't running into this event... I was like .. my first freighter is gonna be a dreadnought... so i went for a home run right? Well no luck - until i ran into this video.. so i purchased a freighter real fast and then boom next system i went to that was a pirate system had the conflict - THANK YOU
That's pretty much exactly what happened to me, except I didn't have my video, so I found the info buried on the NMS Wiki. That's why I made the vid, hours of looking in-game, trying to find the solution in other YT vids, and hunting through Forums/Wiki.
Took me 1,5 hours... on 2 different saves to get an S class. I did see a vid that stated I needed a freighter. Hope everyone gets their S class! Just bounce between 2 pirate systems, back and forth.
RNGezus hates me. After hours of trying, I settled for an A class. I will never pass up an opportunity to do a pirate freighter battle, so hopefully, I'll eventually come across one on my travels but in the meantime I'll just get rich extorting the crap out of them.
tbf, I spend 5 hours on a single-player Nexus mission. fairly often. -which usually ends in me having to abandon the mission due to game-breaking glitches. So if I can spend that amount of time and get a good freighter out of it, it would be time better spent.
I'm so torn on doing this. I've got an S Class of the one you traded but it has like 40 storage slots and 20 tech slots. good process for new players but what about those of us who are already established lol
Established players will just have to decide for themselves if they like the design of the Dreadnought enough to upgrade a new Freighter. It doesn't provide any technical benefit over other Freighters, so it's all about looks. GL deciding!
This is the correct method. Ive seen most videos on the subject & you're right, no one is talking about that one important detail. But I do have a question. I own an S class Dreadnought 25+ 13+ & ive been searching for a better one with atleast 30+ but ever since I aquired my dreadnought I cant find another one. Does owning a Dreadnought affect finding another one?
No, I still own my Dreadnought, and will still quite often jump into Freighter Raids, allowing me to take down another Dreadnought, and take it if I wanted to. The normal Freighter fights usually require 3 hrs of gameplay, and 5 warps before they can trigger again. Don't know if the Dreadnought fights also have that limitation, but maybe that's what's stopping you
After watching this video and after I tried to spawn a dreadnought without a freighter, I tried this and BAM the dreadnought spawned for me as well 1st warp. Thanks again ^^
I had ridiculous luck. Was just messing about and happened to jump into a pirate system with one. I'd seen some videos about getting one and only needed to reload twice before I got it. I may have used up all my luck in NMS with that one.
True. I guess I talk about Pirate systems enough, some ppl may think it's required...oops. But yes, this is true, you can trigger the Dreadnought fight in other systems. It's more likely in pirate systems, and if you're trying to farm S-Class anything, I tend to use Pirate systems, since it's more likely, but not necessary
I seldomly comment, but this has genuinely been a massive help. I wanted to make sure my first freighter was a really good one, hence I went for the pirate freighter as an easy choice. You have directly explained that I needed a freighter in the first place, so truly thank you because I was getting frustrated lol
Glad I was able to help! Was annoying that none of the vids I checked out ever mentioned this, so I finally decided to just make it myself. Glad I'm able to spare others hours of confusion
The 5% to roll an S-Class is a pirate system feature for any freighter, not just the Dreadnought. I think in non-pirate systems, the S-Class occurrence is 2% in "Wealthy" systems (3* Economy), and even lower is less wealthy systems. TL;DR if you want an S-Class tool, ship freighter, etc. just go to pirate systems, they're much better for it
Good advice, knock out the warp drive engines first. I immediately pull back and go top-side and knock out all the lasers cannons from back to front. After the last laser is out, I turn around to dock on the dreadnaught to collect my 6.7 million units. Then I fly out, knock out the shield generators, and blow the dreadnaught to pieces to complete the mission. Sure, they surrendered, but they are pirates and would do the same thing to me. There's no faction hit for destroying a pirate dreadnaught after they've surrendered and paid out to be set free.
One thing I found out that you have to be a normal mode I was doing it for like eight freaking hours and couldn't get a dread not to respond so I thought about it I said let me go back into normal mode as soon as I went to normal mode and jump One Time One appeared
If you mean you can't get it during Expedition, you can, I got the one in the video while on Expedition. If you mean difficulty, it should work on any difficulty setting. The only one I could think of is maybe in Creative Difficulty; I would expect it to still work there, but I haven't tested it
You only need to take out the engines and both trench runs of shield generators and the Captain will surrender his ship no need to shoot out the turrets, each shield generator needs to be blown up twice because they each regenerate after the first attack, can all be done in under 5 minutes.
I was thinking this. Cause I’m my expedition I made like 60 jumps. I wondered if I was just that unlucky. But it makes so much sense of you think about it.
Wrong!....You do need a capital ship yes.....But 3 hours between battles is completely wrong. Just go jump between pirate systems. There is always a chance that you will end up in a fight. It's how I got my S class Pirate Dreadnought. Around 6 - 7 battles in and around 15-20 pirate system warps. Did it in around a hour. The main problem is.....can your spaceship disable the Dreadnaught!
Even if you don't get an s class delreadnaught you can take whatever one you get and you still get a new one for free as well.. so I'd take an a class no problem, then when i get an s class it will just replace the one you have, snd you can just copy the layout over even. But thanks for confirming what i suspected about needing a freighter first.
Damn I wish I would've seem this 2 Days ago. I was warping for a whole day trying to get a dreadnought with no Luck. Go figure after i gave up and got a basic Freighter I finally found one. So I guess its true!
Annoying thing i would point at: got a S class pirate freighter on expedition, lost it once switched back to normal save. Could reclaim multitool, ship and inventory shit, but no option for the freighter. Fuck.
Thx for mentioning; I just heard about this recently, too. Was starting to farm upgrades for my Dreadnought...immediately stopped after finding this out. I'll wait till I go back to my normal save, and get a new Dreadnought there
What they also do not tell you: If you already have A class capital freighter you spent beefing up to 40 cargo slots, you'll throw away around twenty cargo slots in the process, which HURTS!
My save glitched the other day and changed my freighter skin (all the slots/stats the same), annoyed with this I went out to get a new one, stumbled across a pirate dreadnought, was S class first attempt, love it more than the old one :D
I have a conflict scanner. Fly to red pirate systems. Seven encounters with C class dreadnaughts and I got an S class. My previous freighter was an A class “star destroyer.”
I was hunting and not finding, then I watched more vid's and finally found a clip were it was mentioned, very off handed, so I hunted for a normal freighter (my first) and it was an S-class lmao. I traded for the S-class pirate. But your right ppl don't talk about it. Good job getting the word out there.
NO WONDER I NEVER FOUND ONE. Thanks for this. I wonder why nobody else mentions that you must own a Freighter already to get the pirate one to trigger.
You can get a freighter by saving them from pirates, or buying one out in space. Sometimes when you warp into a system, you have a event that says protect civilian freighter from pirates or something, if you destroy the pirates and then land on the freighter, you can claim it as your own
To trigger the normal freighter battle, you have to have 3 hours of playtime in the file and have to have warped 5 times. Both of these are required between each Freighter battle as well (if you claim a reward, at least). ...Except the Pirate Dreadnought. I've found that you can trigger the Freighter battle, claim the ship, then immediately trigger the Dreadnought fight on your next warp, with no downtime
But pirate dreadnought is ugly, no one wants that thing. And, btw, exist someone who maximize dreadnought skills and posted on UA-cam? Is better vs another freighter?
Thank you, this helped me greatly, I had been looking for hours with no success, I went ahead and booted up the game to get my first Freighter out of the way and I found an S-Class T3 Sentinel and now I'm not so sure if I still want to switch or not.
OMG THANK YOU! I wanted to get an S-Class freighter for free, so I started out by doing all the steps and got myself 1 jump away from triggering the second freighter encounter (Because the first is always a system freighter - which I was triggered and just took the reward) then I also made it so that an outlaw system was 1 jump away - then I started farming the encounter - and you're totally right - it was ALWAYS just a regular capital freighter fight - never the pirate fight - I wish I had watched this before I tried 27 times and finally just gave up then found a system with a freighter I liked and farmed me up an s-class of that version - and now - I get pirate freighter encounters all the time - this totally explains it and I can confirm the results here are accurate - earned a like - thanks again
TYVM! Yeah, I was having the same problem, prob 40-50 jumps with no luck, checked all the other YT vids I could find, and nothing; that's why I made it!
Count your blessings... The odds of S-class freighter is 1 in 100. I had to do 50 repeats to get my S class. Odds don't have a memory, 1 in 100 can take much, much longer than 100 tries.
ah, as someone with a freighter who constantly warps into galaxy with a dreadnought battle, i just assumed that was just the experience, However as i didnt read any notes around the pirate update i totally did not know i could commandeer one for myself. lol. time to go dreadnought hunting. lol
Great tip !! This was the one issue I was facing when hunting for a dreadnought. Didn’t own a freighter and could never trigger the event. Once I finally picked up a normal freighter, the event finally triggered in a outlaw system
I was looking for a Resurgent class Venator - I came away with one of these! It took THIRTY TWO battles and reloads BUT I got it and Ive maxed it out! I always keep loads off freighter bulkheads incase I want to upgrade. THEY ARE HUGE THE BEST FASTEST WEAPON is a MAXED OUT POSITRON EJECTOR!
Honestly, I find the Infra-Knife to work better maxed out. Though, it's mostly personal taste, Ejector works just fine, but I love the crazy "just spray thousands of shots" of the Infra-Knife. Glad you were able to find one!
are you sure? because i've had the freighter battle trigger without owning that freighter, and i've gotten the pirate freighter on the expedition when owning a normal freighter during the expedition
Yes, it says it's required to own a freighter on the wiki, and I personally wasted almost 6 hours trying the trigger the Dreadnought fight without a freighter unsuccessfully
I'm kinda torn... I have a fully decked out s-class Venerator. Visually, Pirate dreadlocks seems kinda step sideways. If 'only' there was something bigger to hunt with which one *needed* the pirate dreadnought.
Thank u so much for this video, I wasted some time trying to get a dreadnought, but it didn’t work, and I knew it wasn’t a bug. Now I know what the problem was. 😅
Holy crap thank you dude I was trying so much after i just grabbed a regular random C Class immediately after my first jump i booted up next day i found a pirate freighter
I've been at this for 3 hours and they all have been C rank. Is there something that's stopping it from spawning higher? Starting to think RNGusus hates me
What system did you get your ship? (Not the freighter) I think you were locked into the story and had to complete that part before you could move on. You may have been able to get the pirate freighter as your first free freighter even though its free anyway.
echoing lots of comments, as a new player to this game the past 3 days have been a pain and a half. there are a lot of newbie "how to" videos that have good tips but never tell you the actual basics the game doesnt explain, like how to read the hud and the icons, how to ise that 3d map in the ship (that took me hours to realize it was showing me entities outside the planet like planets, station and such) how to find depots when im desparate for selling or need items, and the most important one i have never found in a starter video, what the heck to do for each scenario of the game, IE what to do for each "map tile" encounter. for example, i didnt know what to do for the sealed compounds until 30 hours in and i skipped a bunch of them and could have been getting upgrades. theres only a few types of compounds, no one goes over what to do for each and the benefits of completing them.some are easy like drop pods, but it would be nice to know what to do and look for in those areas. same with deralict freighters, lots of videos about boarding them, no mention of the wreckage ones you cant board which are the only kinds i come across. i am able to find the info with google searches, but a new player must watch should go over these things as they are the basics of how to play
I have a freighter and have been hoping from pirate system to pirate system for like 6 hours and haven't seen a the pirate ship at all, not sure what I'm doing wrong
you don't need to reload, you can jump sistems and comeback, i did it and used the not Class S ones to farm some credits bribing the captain, and even some class S fragates to my fleet
I may be wrong so sorry if I am wrong, but after doing a ton of research myself, apparently the pirate dreadnought battle conditions are completely different to the regular rescue events. one difference is what you already stated which is you needing to own a freighter already, but another difference is that you don't have to do the whole 'wait 3 hours and 5 jumps' rule since apparently whenever you jump to a pirate system you ALWAYS have a 20% chance of triggering the event, regardless of time spent and jumps made. I MAY be wrong mind you as I haven't tested it out yet, but based on my research that seems to be the case. if it does turn out to be right, then I hope I helped out anyone reading this. EDIT: THIS IS RIGHT! i just tested it now, there is no cooldown or wait or anything, the moment you get your standard freighter you can instantly start hunting the pirate one!
Yes, this is right. I wasn't sure if I had to wait/warp x times when i made the vid, but yes, it is considered separate from the normal "freighter event"
One thing I found out that you have to be a normal mode I was doing it for like eight freaking hours and couldn't get a dread not to respond so I thought about it I said let me go back into normal mode as soon as I went to normal mode and jump One Time One appeared
I have been trying to do the pirate freighter event for more than a week, I searched everywhere for the requirements on UA-cam, Reddit, Discord, and there was no way to do it... something so simple but at the same time that no one says, I had already been suspecting if Having a freighter was not one of the requirements, thanks!
Pretty much how I was thinking, too. I started to wonder, then eventually went as far as checking the game's wiki, and dove deep enough to find like, one sentence on a page that said it.
I spent 2 hours searching yesterday because i was done with the expedition, but i wanted my first frieghter to be a dreadnought, and damn it was a waste now that I've seen this video
Thanks, Ash - I discovered this in my latest Expedition play-through, as well. Scored a low-tier C class freighter, and my next ship jump presented me with the pirate dreadnought. One added point - if you have plenty of cash accrued, you can add some of the pirate battle group to your personal fleet. You need the cash because those ships are 4M+ from what I've seen.
Yes I did this, talked to a few of the Pirate frigate’s and added them to my fleet before flying in and claiming the Pirate Dreadnought Freighter, but once I claimed the freighter and flew out all the rest of the frigates were gone so I couldn’t get any more of them. Not sure there is a time limit on how long u have to get them to join ur fleet or if once u claim the freighter they just leave.
This right here! I just streamed getting a SECOND Dreadnought (cuz didn't know I couldn't bring first back from expedition till it was too late), and found that (I believe) if you enter the Dreadnought, all the other Frigates warp away. Maybe it's time based, but felt like it happened quickly to me. SO, if you want any of the Frigates, I recommend hiring them before entering the Dreadnought to claim it
Yes definitely gonna wait and get the ones I want next time before entering the freighter. I was just so excited about defeating it and worried that it would time out and I wouldn’t be able to enter if I didn’t hurry lol. The one I got was in the Expedition too. Can’t wait to try again with my main. I’m gonna miss my old freighter though. @@AshranGaming
i was doing omega without capital ship *i have 1 in main save* then a Dreadnaught was attacking npc capital ship after i had jumped i took the ship but cant switch it to my main save 😭
The pirate dreadnought is not an expedition reward. It must be acquired separately in your main save. I owned a S-class dread before I did Omega, it's super easy to get. Omega is for the Starborn Runner : ) And... good call OP on having to own a freighter before a pirate dread fight even spawns. It never occurred to me that people play without freighters.
@@krac41 i found the Dreadnaught 1st on omega doing that and yeah i know its not a reward for completion, i did get it straight away with main save when I finished omega though
There's really no need to claim a freighter for you to activate the event. 1. 3 hours in the game 2. 5 jumps 3. Single Player (Coop not recommended) Higher chance on systems that are: 3 star system / level 3 conflict / pirate preferably. Another method which is faster than the save point is: 1. Trigger the event on 2 systems (3 if you want) 2. Defeat dreadnought 3. Check class (if S, you can stop here. Same for A if you're fine with it), else continue 4. Jump to the other system where this event was triggered as well. 5. Repeat from step 2.
I'm on my liquitidator expedition save and been hunting for Pirate Dreadnaught for hours for one until without one spawning than I gave up when I found a Capital Sentinel S-class, you can't leave that one and reload the save. Than the Pirate Dreadnaught spawn after a few hours of reloading battle I got myself an S-class. Interrestingly it seems the 5 hours window is gone any freighters battle drop every 5 jump now! Wondering if that is the new standard. Thanks for that video shame I've found it only now 🙂
I think the standard for Normal Freighters is still 3 hrs playtime and 5 jumps, but I believe the Pirate Dreadnought is on it's own timers. ie. you could get a Normal Freighter, then a Pirate Dreadnought on your next jump, but you're unlikely to find 2 Dreadnought fights back-to-back
I was lucky and found an a class fast and in the next warp an s class spawned. I was so happy I lost an inventory of stored mats from the old freightor
I wonder why a C-class dreadnought is 80mill (the 1st one was 80mil) but a B-class is about 30-40mill and an S-class is only 60mil.... Another question is do you keep your freighter when you commandeer the dreadnought or does it get replaced? Ive got a maxxed out in slots S-class, im not to inclined to lose for a mediocre dreadnought😅
While you can hire many Frigates to your fleet, you can only have ONE Capital Ship. If you take a Pirate Dreadnought, it replaces your Capital Ship (the one you land in, build a base in, and run expeditions from)
I don't beleve that I an dumb or inwxperenced having played now for well over 5 years, but as I already had my freighter when I got mine on my main save It never occured to me that it was nessessary so after jumping about 20 or more times and turning down many freighters I decided to search to find out the reason. It was as you said after claiming an ordinary one I got my first instance (of course it had to be a C class). I am still searching. Thank's for the video I wish that I had seen i sooner.
I think I only noticed this, instead of all the other creators for NMS, because I constantly make new Saves (for challenge runs, Expeditions, etc.) Seems like too many ppl start new content from saves with dozens/hundreds of hours already, so never think about things like this
Hey Thanks man... I will try your method out. by the way. I already completed my omega Expedition, am I still able capture the dreadnaught? and I already had a dreadnaught encounter but it scaped. Am I able to encounter it again?
May be a thing with the expedition, but i got a dreadnaught as my first freighter. Dont remember if i warped into a pirate system for it, but it was the first battle of any sort while doing the expedition. I accidentally got it to surrender just fighting it, and claimed it. It was a C class, but it was all new to me so i was happy. Was thinking about hunting down an S class today when i popped into a new fight and it just happened to be S class. Only the 4th one ive seen. Heh.
Had some other ppl accusing me of lying, so I think this may be a bug (maybe with Omega, maybe just Dreadnoughts in general, since they're very new). This likely also adds to why so few ppl mention this part, some may have gotten it first too, cuz of a bug Anyway, congrats on getting it, and hope you enjoy it!
If you started on Expedition, and are turning it into a Normal Save, yes. If you were on a Normal Save, and started the Expedition from it, no, it won't transfer back afterward
My homie put me on this game couple months ago and compared to his start on 2016 ima newbie lol. I watch your vid get an S class on my first try and dude cant believe it. Said he hasnt seen the Dreadnought but once in his many years on the game
Not surprising, the Dreadnought was added recently, and the ability to fight and claim it was added just a couple months ago. Welcome to the game, hope you enjoy your journey, Space Trucker!
You do not need a freighter to get the pirate dreadnought. Many have received one without having a freighter to begin with, myself included. If the pirate system you go to doesnt have a pirate freighter fight, reload your save and warp to a different pirate system until you receive the correct encounter.
I've heard this from others, and concluded it's most likely a bug, since Dreadnoughts are still very new. While a couple ppl have said this, far more have run into my experience, doing everything right, and still wasting an entire day without ever triggering the Dreadnought fight, only to grab a Freighter, and get one on our very next jump. Even the game's wiki states that a Freighter is Required to trigger it. Hence, why I believe that those that got it without must be experiencing a bug/glitch
Except that off-screen, I hunted for the Dreadnought for over 6 hours, jumping to prob over a hundred different systems. ...and the last thing I have, is it all (or anything) "figured out". I'm a self-proclaimed Idiot
Even though the focus was the first bit no one else seemed to talk about, I thought showing the whole process in one video would help some ppl. Glad to know it helped you out
Yeah, that one will kill ya. Even out of a pirate system, 100 is a LOT. You must've seriously offended RNJesus. it's 5% in pirate system (~20 tries), and 2% in others (~50 tries)
Dang I'm tempted to watch this video but I won't - - I played NMS 4 years ago and watched all the how too videos and it ruined the game for me, by the time I quit I even had a game editor installed (still do) and I could have everything I wanted - wheres the fun in that beyond 5 minutes - so - 4 years later I'm back in game with a new survival save, some stuff I remember but most stuff I've forgotten so I'm just gonna try and figure things out on my own - it's more fun and adventurous without cheating my way through it this time, let's see how long I can hold out, I'm 50 hrs in - tried to fight a sentinel capital ship last night but had to run away with half my ships systems crippled (that was exciting) - I'll have to try again when I get a better ship with better upgrades - I wasn't sure what to do so I focused on all the smaller ships coming after me, bad idea, I'll have to figure it out through trial and error - the adventure continues
It's okay. Without spoiling, what I go over is something that only really matters to players on a new fresh save that are trying to get the Dreadnought quickly. If you just play the game normally, you'll likely do everything you need to and encounter a Pirate Dreadnought on your own.
@@AshranGaming got a dreadnought, took it out with a C class Hauler, then died 5 minutes later walking around on deck - I got lost out there - - sadly I'm in expedition mode so I'm gonna lose the ship when it's over - - no big deal it's a c class ship
I came across a C class Dreadnought and it was worth like 86 million. I couldn't understand why when all the higher class ones was considerably cheaper in value. Any idea why?
@@Tube2097 If it was the Pirate Dreadnought, then I don't believe they've implemented different ship sizes yet. They're all currently the same huge size. All other Freighters do have multiple sizes.
I've had to explain this a lot, so I'll make it short ~ish here.
Far too many ppl have been explaining the same experience as me, for me to believe we were all just too dumb or inexperienced to do the process right. The wiki states you need a Freighter first, as well.
Some ppl may be saying otherwise to try and help others, some just wanna call me stupid to feel good about putting some nobody on the internet down, but I'm telling you that's wrong info. If you got a Dreadnought without a Freighter, congrats, you most likely triggered a bug with the brand-new, not fully tested, content. The rest of us didn't have that luck
Ashran, while I am not in the least interested in getting a pirate dreadnaught, S-Class or otherwise, I thank you for making this video. We're not dumb, but some times I wonder about game developers who create a quest to do something and utterly forgot to provide a clue or a prompt for the first step.
Your second point. Boy do I feel your pain brother. I am rather irate at ppl telling me I am playing the game wrong - doubly so when the complaint is about the game being buggy. Very informative video. Kudos!
3 months later. I can 100% confirm my friend got a dreadnought for his first freighter. I wonder if it has to do with the save being created before/after a certain update. Just a tip: Wikis are community efforts and often have misinformation. Personally I had far greater success going to max economy/max conflict systems, but luck is always a factor.
i just wanted to know how to defeat one, i am back in the game after years and i warped into a system and suddenly there is a weird message about a pirate ship, it didnt go well for me, because i didnt know about the engines and destroying the guns, but now i do, so this helps. a lot of new stuff i this game.
me and my friend both did it without a freighter. You don't need a freighter, just decline the first freighter you save and take the money instead. Then you can trigger pirate Dreadnought over and over and over again.
I don't play No Man's Sky. I watched this because a friend was watching it and I watched along. But THANK YOU. Because I've had innumerable software and Windows problems where I look for solutions online and, exactly as you said, everyone is describing steps 2-10 of fixing it, and skipping the crucial fundamental step one. The step that seems so obvious, no one mentions it, which is infuriating to everyone who doesn't know it. So one thousand blessings upon your brow for making a video like this.
Exactly what I figured, once I found the info on the wiki; all the NMS-focused UA-camrs prob have dozens of saves, all with freighters they've had for months/years, and never even thought it might cause a problem for a new person trying to go straight for the Dreadnought, or even realized it was a prerequisite.
I FREAKING KNEW IT!
tried to get new Pirate Dreadnought. As a fresh player i have never seen those big ships encounters.
After hours of jumping only to get the regular freighter defence encounter, i begin to wonder if i had to get my freighter first.
Thanks for the video!
Good thing I found this. I was not yet hunting for a Dreadnought, but I was wondering why, in almost 30 hours of gameplay, I never encountered one.
I've got close to 1000 hours in, and I've only seen two. I had no idea that I could commandeer the pirate ship at the time. Now that I do, I want one.
Recently started playing again. 3 hours after purchasing my freighter I triggered this event and had no idea what to do. I started attacking the ship wherever I could. Next thing I know, the ship vanished.
This video was helpful. Thanks
Followed your advice and it took me 7 runs, but I got me a S class Pirate Dreadnought...so thank you very much.
I flew around checkign systems for HOURS.... had no freaking idea why i wasn't running into this event... I was like .. my first freighter is gonna be a dreadnought... so i went for a home run right? Well no luck - until i ran into this video.. so i purchased a freighter real fast and then boom next system i went to that was a pirate system had the conflict - THANK YOU
That's pretty much exactly what happened to me, except I didn't have my video, so I found the info buried on the NMS Wiki.
That's why I made the vid, hours of looking in-game, trying to find the solution in other YT vids, and hunting through Forums/Wiki.
Took me 1,5 hours... on 2 different saves to get an S class. I did see a vid that stated I needed a freighter. Hope everyone gets their S class! Just bounce between 2 pirate systems, back and forth.
You're lucky, while I was looking through tons of YT vids, I never once saw anyone mention it. Had to find the info on the wiki
RNGezus hates me. After hours of trying, I settled for an A class. I will never pass up an opportunity to do a pirate freighter battle, so hopefully, I'll eventually come across one on my travels but in the meantime I'll just get rich extorting the crap out of them.
tbf, I spend 5 hours on a single-player Nexus mission. fairly often.
-which usually ends in me having to abandon the mission due to game-breaking glitches.
So if I can spend that amount of time and get a good freighter out of it, it would be time better spent.
I'm so torn on doing this. I've got an S Class of the one you traded but it has like 40 storage slots and 20 tech slots. good process for new players but what about those of us who are already established lol
Established players will just have to decide for themselves if they like the design of the Dreadnought enough to upgrade a new Freighter.
It doesn't provide any technical benefit over other Freighters, so it's all about looks. GL deciding!
This is the correct method. Ive seen most videos on the subject & you're right, no one is talking about that one important detail. But I do have a question. I own an S class Dreadnought 25+ 13+ & ive been searching for a better one with atleast 30+ but ever since I aquired my dreadnought I cant find another one. Does owning a Dreadnought affect finding another one?
No, I still own my Dreadnought, and will still quite often jump into Freighter Raids, allowing me to take down another Dreadnought, and take it if I wanted to.
The normal Freighter fights usually require 3 hrs of gameplay, and 5 warps before they can trigger again. Don't know if the Dreadnought fights also have that limitation, but maybe that's what's stopping you
I can see why so many have missed this important detail, although I already have a regular freighter I wanted to thank you for making this video.
After watching this video and after I tried to spawn a dreadnought without a freighter, I tried this and BAM the dreadnought spawned for me as well 1st warp. Thanks again ^^
No problem! Glad the guide was able to help you
I got A class and I am good with that and it was the first one I found
I had ridiculous luck. Was just messing about and happened to jump into a pirate system with one. I'd seen some videos about getting one and only needed to reload twice before I got it. I may have used up all my luck in NMS with that one.
I had the same issue, passed up 3 regular freighters yesterday trying to find a dreadnought. Little did I know
One think to note. You dont HAVE to be in a pirate system to get a pirate battle but there will be a 100% chance if you do jump to a pirate system
True. I guess I talk about Pirate systems enough, some ppl may think it's required...oops.
But yes, this is true, you can trigger the Dreadnought fight in other systems. It's more likely in pirate systems, and if you're trying to farm S-Class anything, I tend to use Pirate systems, since it's more likely, but not necessary
I completed the expedition but I didn’t get the ship. I feel like I got cheated idk what to do
I seldomly comment, but this has genuinely been a massive help. I wanted to make sure my first freighter was a really good one, hence I went for the pirate freighter as an easy choice. You have directly explained that I needed a freighter in the first place, so truly thank you because I was getting frustrated lol
Glad I was able to help! Was annoying that none of the vids I checked out ever mentioned this, so I finally decided to just make it myself. Glad I'm able to spare others hours of confusion
Skill issue, lol
Hmm, it took me 56 tries to roll an S class Venator freighter but if this has a 5% chance of rolling an S then it's a better choice, right?
The 5% to roll an S-Class is a pirate system feature for any freighter, not just the Dreadnought. I think in non-pirate systems, the S-Class occurrence is 2% in "Wealthy" systems (3* Economy), and even lower is less wealthy systems.
TL;DR if you want an S-Class tool, ship freighter, etc. just go to pirate systems, they're much better for it
Good advice, knock out the warp drive engines first. I immediately pull back and go top-side and knock out all the lasers cannons from back to front. After the last laser is out, I turn around to dock on the dreadnaught to collect my 6.7 million units. Then I fly out, knock out the shield generators, and blow the dreadnaught to pieces to complete the mission. Sure, they surrendered, but they are pirates and would do the same thing to me. There's no faction hit for destroying a pirate dreadnaught after they've surrendered and paid out to be set free.
One thing I found out that you have to be a normal mode I was doing it for like eight freaking hours and couldn't get a dread not to respond so I thought about it I said let me go back into normal mode as soon as I went to normal mode and jump One Time One appeared
If you mean you can't get it during Expedition, you can, I got the one in the video while on Expedition.
If you mean difficulty, it should work on any difficulty setting. The only one I could think of is maybe in Creative Difficulty; I would expect it to still work there, but I haven't tested it
@@AshranGaming combats won't spawn if you're not in normal or high since it turns off space combat.
You only need to take out the engines and both trench runs of shield generators and the Captain will surrender his ship no need to shoot out the turrets, each shield generator needs to be blown up twice because they each regenerate after the first attack, can all be done in under 5 minutes.
I was thinking this. Cause I’m my expedition I made like 60 jumps. I wondered if I was just that unlucky. But it makes so much sense of you think about it.
Wrong!....You do need a capital ship yes.....But 3 hours between battles is completely wrong. Just go jump between pirate systems. There is always a chance that you will end up in a fight. It's how I got my S class Pirate Dreadnought. Around 6 - 7 battles in and around 15-20 pirate system warps. Did it in around a hour. The main problem is.....can your spaceship disable the Dreadnaught!
Even if you don't get an s class delreadnaught you can take whatever one you get and you still get a new one for free as well.. so I'd take an a class no problem, then when i get an s class it will just replace the one you have, snd you can just copy the layout over even.
But thanks for confirming what i suspected about needing a freighter first.
That actually makes a lot of sense why I haven't seen one on the expedition. I do have a star destroyer on my main save though.
Got a cheap freighter, farmed pirate dreadnoughts, S-class on the third try.
I’m HIM.
Damn I wish I would've seem this 2 Days ago. I was warping for a whole day trying to get a dreadnought with no Luck. Go figure after i gave up and got a basic Freighter I finally found one. So I guess its true!
Annoying thing i would point at: got a S class pirate freighter on expedition, lost it once switched back to normal save. Could reclaim multitool, ship and inventory shit, but no option for the freighter. Fuck.
Thx for mentioning; I just heard about this recently, too. Was starting to farm upgrades for my Dreadnought...immediately stopped after finding this out. I'll wait till I go back to my normal save, and get a new Dreadnought there
What they also do not tell you: If you already have A class capital freighter you spent beefing up to 40 cargo slots, you'll throw away around twenty cargo slots in the process, which HURTS!
Life saver! I've been breaking my head trying to figure out why the pirate dreadnought never spawns...Thank you!
My save glitched the other day and changed my freighter skin (all the slots/stats the same), annoyed with this I went out to get a new one, stumbled across a pirate dreadnought, was S class first attempt, love it more than the old one :D
gt an s class first try.
I have a conflict scanner. Fly to red pirate systems. Seven encounters with C class dreadnaughts and I got an S class. My previous freighter was an A class “star destroyer.”
I found an A Class dreadnaught with 34 storage and 20 tech slots, and it was far superior to my S class freighter.
I was hunting and not finding, then I watched more vid's and finally found a clip were it was mentioned, very off handed, so I hunted for a normal freighter (my first) and it was an S-class lmao. I traded for the S-class pirate. But your right ppl don't talk about it. Good job getting the word out there.
NO WONDER I NEVER FOUND ONE.
Thanks for this. I wonder why nobody else mentions that you must own a Freighter already to get the pirate one to trigger.
so how do i get one in first place 😄
newbie here, day 2 playing
You can get a freighter by saving them from pirates, or buying one out in space. Sometimes when you warp into a system, you have a event that says protect civilian freighter from pirates or something, if you destroy the pirates and then land on the freighter, you can claim it as your own
To trigger the normal freighter battle, you have to have 3 hours of playtime in the file and have to have warped 5 times. Both of these are required between each Freighter battle as well (if you claim a reward, at least).
...Except the Pirate Dreadnought. I've found that you can trigger the Freighter battle, claim the ship, then immediately trigger the Dreadnought fight on your next warp, with no downtime
But pirate dreadnought is ugly, no one wants that thing. And, btw, exist someone who maximize dreadnought skills and posted on UA-cam? Is better vs another freighter?
Thank you, this helped me greatly, I had been looking for hours with no success, I went ahead and booted up the game to get my first Freighter out of the way and I found an S-Class T3 Sentinel and now I'm not so sure if I still want to switch or not.
OMG THANK YOU! I wanted to get an S-Class freighter for free, so I started out by doing all the steps and got myself 1 jump away from triggering the second freighter encounter (Because the first is always a system freighter - which I was triggered and just took the reward) then I also made it so that an outlaw system was 1 jump away - then I started farming the encounter - and you're totally right - it was ALWAYS just a regular capital freighter fight - never the pirate fight - I wish I had watched this before I tried 27 times and finally just gave up then found a system with a freighter I liked and farmed me up an s-class of that version - and now - I get pirate freighter encounters all the time - this totally explains it and I can confirm the results here are accurate - earned a like - thanks again
TYVM! Yeah, I was having the same problem, prob 40-50 jumps with no luck, checked all the other YT vids I could find, and nothing; that's why I made it!
Count your blessings... The odds of S-class freighter is 1 in 100. I had to do 50 repeats to get my S class. Odds don't have a memory, 1 in 100 can take much, much longer than 100 tries.
ah, as someone with a freighter who constantly warps into galaxy with a dreadnought battle, i just assumed that was just the experience, However as i didnt read any notes around the pirate update i totally did not know i could commandeer one for myself. lol. time to go dreadnought hunting. lol
Great tip !! This was the one issue I was facing when hunting for a dreadnought. Didn’t own a freighter and could never trigger the event. Once I finally picked up a normal freighter, the event finally triggered in a outlaw system
I was looking for a Resurgent class Venator - I came away with one of these! It took THIRTY TWO battles and reloads BUT I got it and Ive maxed it out! I always keep loads off freighter bulkheads incase I want to upgrade. THEY ARE HUGE
THE BEST FASTEST WEAPON is a MAXED OUT POSITRON EJECTOR!
Honestly, I find the Infra-Knife to work better maxed out. Though, it's mostly personal taste, Ejector works just fine, but I love the crazy "just spray thousands of shots" of the Infra-Knife.
Glad you were able to find one!
are you sure?
because i've had the freighter battle trigger without owning that freighter, and i've gotten the pirate freighter on the expedition when owning a normal freighter during the expedition
Yes, it says it's required to own a freighter on the wiki, and I personally wasted almost 6 hours trying the trigger the Dreadnought fight without a freighter unsuccessfully
I'm kinda torn... I have a fully decked out s-class Venerator. Visually, Pirate dreadlocks seems kinda step sideways. If 'only' there was something bigger to hunt with which one *needed* the pirate dreadnought.
Omg thank you so much! I've spend hours trying to find a Dreadnought thank god i've found this video ❤
Thank u so much for this video, I wasted some time trying to get a dreadnought, but it didn’t work, and I knew it wasn’t a bug. Now I know what the problem was. 😅
Holy crap thank you dude I was trying so much after i just grabbed a regular random C Class immediately after my first jump i booted up next day i found a pirate freighter
Turn up space encounters and go to trading, mining, shipping systems pirate controlled works to
I traded the freighter you get for free when the game thinks you're ready for freighters for an A class dreadnought
I've been at this for 3 hours and they all have been C rank. Is there something that's stopping it from spawning higher? Starting to think RNGusus hates me
What system did you get your ship? (Not the freighter) I think you were locked into the story and had to complete that part before you could move on. You may have been able to get the pirate freighter as your first free freighter even though its free anyway.
echoing lots of comments, as a new player to this game the past 3 days have been a pain and a half. there are a lot of newbie "how to" videos that have good tips but never tell you the actual basics the game doesnt explain, like how to read the hud and the icons, how to ise that 3d map in the ship (that took me hours to realize it was showing me entities outside the planet like planets, station and such) how to find depots when im desparate for selling or need items, and the most important one i have never found in a starter video, what the heck to do for each scenario of the game, IE what to do for each "map tile" encounter. for example, i didnt know what to do for the sealed compounds until 30 hours in and i skipped a bunch of them and could have been getting upgrades. theres only a few types of compounds, no one goes over what to do for each and the benefits of completing them.some are easy like drop pods, but it would be nice to know what to do and look for in those areas.
same with deralict freighters, lots of videos about boarding them, no mention of the wreckage ones you cant board which are the only kinds i come across. i am able to find the info with google searches, but a new player must watch should go over these things as they are the basics of how to play
Thank you so much! All the videos i watched never said anything about needing a freighter to obtain it so i spent 5 hours trying to find one 😂
Thank you for posting this. I looked for over 5 hours irl, then to also look at the nms wiki. I know this video will help others.
I have a freighter and have been hoping from pirate system to pirate system for like 6 hours and haven't seen a the pirate ship at all, not sure what I'm doing wrong
I had been trying for numerous hours trying to get a S class dreadnought I finally gave up jumped out to a normal system boom S class dreadnought 😑
For me, the freighter is like a venator.. dreadnought for me it is long and flat on the sides
you don't need to reload, you can jump sistems and comeback, i did it and used the not Class S ones to farm some credits bribing the captain, and even some class S fragates to my fleet
I may be wrong so sorry if I am wrong, but after doing a ton of research myself, apparently the pirate dreadnought battle conditions are completely different to the regular rescue events. one difference is what you already stated which is you needing to own a freighter already, but another difference is that you don't have to do the whole 'wait 3 hours and 5 jumps' rule since apparently whenever you jump to a pirate system you ALWAYS have a 20% chance of triggering the event, regardless of time spent and jumps made.
I MAY be wrong mind you as I haven't tested it out yet, but based on my research that seems to be the case. if it does turn out to be right, then I hope I helped out anyone reading this.
EDIT: THIS IS RIGHT! i just tested it now, there is no cooldown or wait or anything, the moment you get your standard freighter you can instantly start hunting the pirate one!
Yes, this is right. I wasn't sure if I had to wait/warp x times when i made the vid, but yes, it is considered separate from the normal "freighter event"
One thing I found out that you have to be a normal mode I was doing it for like eight freaking hours and couldn't get a dread not to respond so I thought about it I said let me go back into normal mode as soon as I went to normal mode and jump One Time One appeared
It would be cool if there were more differences with these freighters. It’s purely aesthetic it looks like, disappointing.
I have been trying to do the pirate freighter event for more than a week, I searched everywhere for the requirements on UA-cam, Reddit, Discord, and there was no way to do it... something so simple but at the same time that no one says, I had already been suspecting if Having a freighter was not one of the requirements, thanks!
Pretty much how I was thinking, too. I started to wonder, then eventually went as far as checking the game's wiki, and dove deep enough to find like, one sentence on a page that said it.
I have an S class normal dreadnought. Now I want an S class Pirate Dreadnought. 😮
I restarted again just recently being out for about a year, this is what tripped me up! Nice tip!
Thank you so much I’ve been struggling with this for since the update first came out
I spent 2 hours searching yesterday because i was done with the expedition, but i wanted my first frieghter to be a dreadnought, and damn it was a waste now that I've seen this video
They must have changed something because I got 3 dreadnaught battles back to back
Thanks, Ash - I discovered this in my latest Expedition play-through, as well. Scored a low-tier C class freighter, and my next ship jump presented me with the pirate dreadnought. One added point - if you have plenty of cash accrued, you can add some of the pirate battle group to your personal fleet. You need the cash because those ships are 4M+ from what I've seen.
Yes I did this, talked to a few of the Pirate frigate’s and added them to my fleet before flying in and claiming the Pirate Dreadnought Freighter, but once I claimed the freighter and flew out all the rest of the frigates were gone so I couldn’t get any more of them. Not sure there is a time limit on how long u have to get them to join ur fleet or if once u claim the freighter they just leave.
This right here! I just streamed getting a SECOND Dreadnought (cuz didn't know I couldn't bring first back from expedition till it was too late), and found that (I believe) if you enter the Dreadnought, all the other Frigates warp away. Maybe it's time based, but felt like it happened quickly to me. SO, if you want any of the Frigates, I recommend hiring them before entering the Dreadnought to claim it
Yes definitely gonna wait and get the ones I want next time before entering the freighter. I was just so excited about defeating it and worried that it would time out and I wouldn’t be able to enter if I didn’t hurry lol. The one I got was in the Expedition too. Can’t wait to try again with my main. I’m gonna miss my old freighter though. @@AshranGaming
thank you for getting us the details... the hunt is on... I will not waste time on upgrading until I get that ship.
LEGEND!
i was doing omega without capital ship *i have 1 in main save* then a Dreadnaught was attacking npc capital ship after i had jumped i took the ship but cant switch it to my main save 😭
The pirate dreadnought is not an expedition reward. It must be acquired separately in your main save. I owned a S-class dread before I did Omega, it's super easy to get. Omega is for the Starborn Runner : ) And... good call OP on having to own a freighter before a pirate dread fight even spawns. It never occurred to me that people play without freighters.
Yeah, that's prob what is happening with most ppl. Spent so long trying to trigger fight, and none of the vids i checked even thought to mention it
@@krac41 i found the Dreadnaught 1st on omega doing that and yeah i know its not a reward for completion, i did get it straight away with main save when I finished omega though
You are a time saver ❤ thanks a lot, looking for one whithout having one already 😅
There's really no need to claim a freighter for you to activate the event.
1. 3 hours in the game
2. 5 jumps
3. Single Player (Coop not recommended)
Higher chance on systems that are: 3 star system / level 3 conflict / pirate preferably.
Another method which is faster than the save point is:
1. Trigger the event on 2 systems (3 if you want)
2. Defeat dreadnought
3. Check class (if S, you can stop here. Same for A if you're fine with it), else continue
4. Jump to the other system where this event was triggered as well.
5. Repeat from step 2.
I'm on my liquitidator expedition save and been hunting for Pirate Dreadnaught for hours for one until without one spawning than I gave up when I found a Capital Sentinel S-class, you can't leave that one and reload the save. Than the Pirate Dreadnaught spawn after a few hours of reloading battle I got myself an S-class. Interrestingly it seems the 5 hours window is gone any freighters battle drop every 5 jump now! Wondering if that is the new standard.
Thanks for that video shame I've found it only now 🙂
I think the standard for Normal Freighters is still 3 hrs playtime and 5 jumps, but I believe the Pirate Dreadnought is on it's own timers.
ie. you could get a Normal Freighter, then a Pirate Dreadnought on your next jump, but you're unlikely to find 2 Dreadnought fights back-to-back
Ther is a weird glitch that in combat dreadnoughts will use ther anti freighter to destroy its anti ship cannons
since when do we BATTLE freighters??? i thought we were saving the freighter from pirates.. lol
lol, we still are, but the Pirates are sick of our crap, so they started bringing some bigger artillery
6 runs and all I found were C class ships, some worth 90 mil.
I was lucky and found an a class fast and in the next warp an s class spawned. I was so happy I lost an inventory of stored mats from the old freightor
That's why I always double check the cargo when destroying or dismissing a tool or vehicle
I wonder why a C-class dreadnought is 80mill (the 1st one was 80mil) but a B-class is about 30-40mill and an S-class is only 60mil....
Another question is do you keep your freighter when you commandeer the dreadnought or does it get replaced? Ive got a maxxed out in slots S-class, im not to inclined to lose for a mediocre dreadnought😅
While you can hire many Frigates to your fleet, you can only have ONE Capital Ship. If you take a Pirate Dreadnought, it replaces your Capital Ship (the one you land in, build a base in, and run expeditions from)
I don't beleve that I an dumb or inwxperenced having played now for well over 5 years, but as I already had my freighter when I got mine on my main save It never occured to me that it was nessessary so after jumping about 20 or more times and turning down many freighters I decided to search to find out the reason.
It was as you said after claiming an ordinary one I got my first instance (of course it had to be a C class). I am still searching. Thank's for the video I wish that I had seen i sooner.
I think I only noticed this, instead of all the other creators for NMS, because I constantly make new Saves (for challenge runs, Expeditions, etc.) Seems like too many ppl start new content from saves with dozens/hundreds of hours already, so never think about things like this
Is it special that I got a pirate S-Class on my first try
Hey Thanks man... I will try your method out.
by the way. I already completed my omega Expedition, am I still able capture the dreadnaught?
and I already had a dreadnaught encounter but it scaped. Am I able to encounter it again?
Yeah, you can get multiple encounters, and you don't have to be on the expedition to get the Dreadnought
May be a thing with the expedition, but i got a dreadnaught as my first freighter. Dont remember if i warped into a pirate system for it, but it was the first battle of any sort while doing the expedition. I accidentally got it to surrender just fighting it, and claimed it. It was a C class, but it was all new to me so i was happy. Was thinking about hunting down an S class today when i popped into a new fight and it just happened to be S class. Only the 4th one ive seen. Heh.
Had some other ppl accusing me of lying, so I think this may be a bug (maybe with Omega, maybe just Dreadnoughts in general, since they're very new).
This likely also adds to why so few ppl mention this part, some may have gotten it first too, cuz of a bug
Anyway, congrats on getting it, and hope you enjoy it!
bro where'd you get that starship? It looks sick as fuck
This is helpful! Will we be able to keep the S-class once we complete the Expedition? i.e., will it transfer to my non-expedition save?
If you started on Expedition, and are turning it into a Normal Save, yes.
If you were on a Normal Save, and started the Expedition from it, no, it won't transfer back afterward
I would like to have 3 capital ship with its on fleet of frigates
My homie put me on this game couple months ago and compared to his start on 2016 ima newbie lol. I watch your vid get an S class on my first try and dude cant believe it. Said he hasnt seen the Dreadnought but once in his many years on the game
Not surprising, the Dreadnought was added recently, and the ability to fight and claim it was added just a couple months ago.
Welcome to the game, hope you enjoy your journey, Space Trucker!
No wonder I couldn’t find one 😢I have many chance to get a free freighter but passed it looking for this thing 😑
Same. I was checking all the vids by the pros, and this wasn't in any of them. That's why I decided to make it myself
You do not need a freighter to get the pirate dreadnought. Many have received one without having a freighter to begin with, myself included. If the pirate system you go to doesnt have a pirate freighter fight, reload your save and warp to a different pirate system until you receive the correct encounter.
I've heard this from others, and concluded it's most likely a bug, since Dreadnoughts are still very new.
While a couple ppl have said this, far more have run into my experience, doing everything right, and still wasting an entire day without ever triggering the Dreadnought fight, only to grab a Freighter, and get one on our very next jump.
Even the game's wiki states that a Freighter is Required to trigger it. Hence, why I believe that those that got it without must be experiencing a bug/glitch
It’s really where you jump. Most of them are dissonant systems.Jsyk even though you have it all figured out🙄
Except that off-screen, I hunted for the Dreadnought for over 6 hours, jumping to prob over a hundred different systems.
...and the last thing I have, is it all (or anything) "figured out". I'm a self-proclaimed Idiot
I got lucky and got S class on my first try. I wasn’t even hunting the dreadnaught. I wanted the freighter it was attacking. It’s grown on me though.
I found one during the expedition. And one in a new game...
Thanks to this I now know how to claim a dreadnought instead of destroying it
Even though the focus was the first bit no one else seemed to talk about, I thought showing the whole process in one video would help some ppl. Glad to know it helped you out
8 tries? I had 100 and got 2 A's and claimed it just to end my suffering
*oh i wasnt in a pirate system
Yeah, that one will kill ya. Even out of a pirate system, 100 is a LOT. You must've seriously offended RNJesus. it's 5% in pirate system (~20 tries), and 2% in others (~50 tries)
Wasn't able to trigger pirate fight until I got a freighter myself. Thanks for making a vid!
Glad I could help
Dang I'm tempted to watch this video but I won't - - I played NMS 4 years ago and watched all the how too videos and it ruined the game for me, by the time I quit I even had a game editor installed (still do) and I could have everything I wanted - wheres the fun in that beyond 5 minutes - so - 4 years later I'm back in game with a new survival save, some stuff I remember but most stuff I've forgotten so I'm just gonna try and figure things out on my own - it's more fun and adventurous without cheating my way through it this time, let's see how long I can hold out, I'm 50 hrs in - tried to fight a sentinel capital ship last night but had to run away with half my ships systems crippled (that was exciting) - I'll have to try again when I get a better ship with better upgrades - I wasn't sure what to do so I focused on all the smaller ships coming after me, bad idea, I'll have to figure it out through trial and error - the adventure continues
It's okay. Without spoiling, what I go over is something that only really matters to players on a new fresh save that are trying to get the Dreadnought quickly. If you just play the game normally, you'll likely do everything you need to and encounter a Pirate Dreadnought on your own.
@@AshranGaming got a dreadnought, took it out with a C class Hauler, then died 5 minutes later walking around on deck - I got lost out there - - sadly I'm in expedition mode so I'm gonna lose the ship when it's over - - no big deal it's a c class ship
I came across a C class Dreadnought and it was worth like 86 million. I couldn't understand why when all the higher class ones was considerably cheaper in value. Any idea why?
Only thing I can think of is the C-Class may have come with many more of the Tech/Inventory Slots unlocked for some reason
@@AshranGaming I think it might have been a bigger freighter, regardless of class. I just realised there are bigger editions of each freighter.
@@Tube2097 If it was the Pirate Dreadnought, then I don't believe they've implemented different ship sizes yet. They're all currently the same huge size. All other Freighters do have multiple sizes.