I forgot to mention boost pack modification for Spacesuit Modding, but it still isn’t worth it for me. Consider that you will need pack mods 3 which as we talked about in the video requires the special projects skill (rank 1). So you would need to spend 13 skill points in Science to be able to change your boost pack to a power pack or a balanced pack. You need pack mods 2 for the skip capacity boost pack but it's still a big opportunity cost just for that. As always, if it suits your build and your roleplaying and you really want it then go for it. Especially if you're already invested in science for other reasons :) Otherwise always remember opportunity cost. I'd still recommend saving those skill points for something else.
I was going to mention the boost pack, but I agree. My current playthrough is doing all the science stuff. But the investment to get to changing your boost pack is ridiculous. I feel like I'm being called out on the engines, lol. I was paying close attention to shields and weapons. Recharge rate on shields is important right? Or did I get that wrong too? I did take advantage of the pirate thing, when I first played. I could grab a "kill the pirate leader " quest off of a kiosk, walk into a base and kill the leader, for the xp and credits. No aggro from the other pirates. No Crimson Fleet bounty from that either.
Plus the different boost pack modifications sometimes spawn on packs. While they are VERY nice for any kind of boostpack oriented build, spending 4 perk points just to get them isn't necessary.
One thing i haven't seen anybody mention is the Serpentis system. It's up in the upper right side of the map, and a great place for space combat. About 80-90% of the time you jump into any planet in the system, you get jumped by multiple Va'ruun ships. The ships are worth good money, and the va'ruun have some pretty good gear.
This system is my go-to. I think Va’Ruun gear is the coolest so I’ll hang around and farm ‘em pretty often. Also Serpentis V-D can be a decent outpost spot
I thought it was just me who figured this out. Always high level ships and enemies too. Great way to farm xp for both ship combat and regular if you board them. Some of their bigger ships have a lot of va’ruun on board.
@@kmcbride0808 I spend WAY too much time up there, boarding ships. It's good for XP and credits. Some of the bigger ships can turn a decent profit, even with registration fees.
Spacesuit Design is 100% worth the investment just for the boost pack mods so you no longer need to be disappointed when you get a pack with great stats and perfect legendary effects but it doesn't come with the type of boost you prefer.
I rarely comment on video's but I just want to say that it is so good to see you and all the other TES creators go nuts on Starfield. So cool to see how both the game, the players and the online content experience and dive into this world together.
Genuinely not being rude or snarky, but personally, I've found plenty of other channels with great guides on that already, while FudgeMuppet's themed builds are fairly unique. I get the other channels aren't FM, but if it's one or the other, I'm digging the theme builds much more.
My latest ship build had the goal of having the cockpit see the entrance to the landing bay (for security reasons? who knows). This resulted in a cargo hauler shaped like a donut with a 3x1(x3) hole in the middle and 12 cargo pods on either side of the interior. Almost feels like I have a little courtyard when I first walk out onto planets.
Just a tip on weapons, Auto weapons like Vanguard auto obliterator beams will always do full damage even if you only giving them 50% allocated power. Non auto weapons require full power to do max dps, auto weapons do not as the power you allocated them only determines their reload time.
@@calvinthehermit5370only if you shoot constantly, so it depends on fighting style. If you use a fast ship, and you fight by making a straffing run, then move away, do another, the guns recharge while you are flying away. If you use a larger ship with more shields and just stet there using overwhelming firepower, then yes, the overall damage will be affected by recharge rate
@@calvinthehermit5370 It is minimal really as you melt ships so fast in the burst fire from them. You cannot beat the range and accuracy as well as you can hit them from 3km outside of most weapons range.
I feel bad for the people who hated on this game just for the views and clicks. They will have to pretend this game sucks forever while we all can enjoy this masterpiece!
I feel bad for the idiots who bought this game expecting it to be some insane sandbox galaxy where you can do anything and everything hyping themselves beyond imagination ignoring the fact that it's a Bethesda game
@@wintertrooper7918 Even if you don't like Xbox, there is no way you look at this game and criticize it. This game will be hot for 3 console generations. A game where other gamers can create mods and make money from it. When the hardware gets better this game will continue to improve. What other game do you know where you can build a whole city on a moon? The example on how to infiltrate the pirates. How you can double cross them, which game does that?
@@TekkLuthor the fact you can play Skyrim ultra remastered holo version 4D BS doesn’t mean it’s a 3 console generation buddy, it’s pure greed and laziness (enjoy your NG+10!)
Roleplay design for starships has been HUGE for me. The smartest thing I did was look at a commandeered Spacer Scarab with it's epic engines and ask "How do I get my USCG cutter into THAT" I LoVe my BOAT ❤
I too discovered the friendly pirates issue after starting the pirate quest line. My solution was simply to spend the hours necessary to complete the quest line to the exclusion of all else.
The worst part is that mission boards are about 70% Crimson Fleet, even when it says "outlaw". I had soooo many missions in my backlog because of this.
@@brandonquist8394you can reject missions you don't want to complete and they'll be removed from your backlog. Alternatively, you can do the missions anyway and just pay off your fleet bounty afterward
I'm perplexed by people describing this as an issue. To me, one of the biggest and best perks of being in the fleet is not having to fight them whenever you see them.
@@jawbone78yea but without combat they offer NOTHING, so the obvious fix would be to make us more likely to find Sysdef, spacers, ecliptic or Va’ruun, some handcrafted locations are in effect ruined because they’re hard set to spawn fleet members
Spacesuit design rank 3 is a must have for me. Must have pocketed, extra O2 capacity, Regeneration, balanced boost pack, sensor array etc. Science is one of my main trees. Im level 82 un NG+1. Aneutrinic Fusion is another must have.
Ship Building: I started out wanting a mobile base of operations. That meant Bed, Workshop, and lots of cargo space for all the resources I might need. Since I maxed out crafting, I've dropped the Workshop, sold the resources, and removed cargo bays. In fact, I sold all my ships but the Frontier and . I decided to make an entirely Class-A assault scout ship. I have nearly maximized its potential (just need Vanguard stuff) while keeping it in the shape of a small, sleek fighter craft. Skill Utility: I'm finding that most skills are situational. The only skill I consider a must-have across all character types is Boost Pack. Literally, everything else exists to flesh out a concept. Starship Gear: Yeah. Crimson Fleet: My only interaction with the Crimson Fleet will be from the barrel of a loaded gun. My head canon allows for moral ambiguity, but I get nothing from being the bad guy.
I must have watched 50 tips and tricks videos for starfield, I can unequivocally say this is the 'S' tier top video, real useful information backed by actual testing, not just "oh look I found this random feature that I didn't know about so I'm making a video". Good work!
I was blown away with the design of the Frontier, and basically stuck with Nova Galactic for most of my builds. the Frontier i only upgrade, i don't expand the interior or add more structure to it, but i did make evolutions on the design with more interior space for a larger crew and later as i 'found' more ships of Nova Galactic design i adapted those too. i like making evolutions on several of the premade designs ingame.
I'm gonna follow this thread. I'm doing the same with the Razorleaf. Just to be lore friendly with it. I painted it a brighter white and gave it gold accents, upgraded the reactor, weapons, and cargo holds, and gave it a longer fuselage. Other than that, I kept the existing design language. The idea was to expand the ship to be useful for all around use, while still maintaining some ability to brawl against the few ships that don't run from it. My first playthrough, I heavily modified the Frontier. i liked what I had but it wasn't the Frontier anymore. Now I'm just looking for a similar ship to build upon to get a similar rebuild back. Ship building isn't as easy as I initially thought it would be either. But it's fun to dip into once in awhile
To further your point about "read the fine print of ship parts" - there's a Vanguard shield out there that, on paper, is leagues better than any of its competitors (~1,400 shields when the closest competitor is ~650-700 with equivalent recharge rates). It seemed like a no-brainer purchase... until I realized how much power it needed. It left me little power for any other system, which is a problem in a dog fight when you have to either keep weapons at low power or sacrifice shields. That was my learning experience...
I never ran into the friendly pirate thing because once I went undercover I figured I needed to maintain my cover as a pirate, which meant putting everything else to the side until the operation was complete. Plus the missions I got all had the sense of urgency behind them so I didn’t think it was an appropriate time to go do other quests or random fuckabouts.
I think with one of the problems with the pirates (I’m going down the SysDef route with Ikande) is that there’s too many of them, and we already have other factions that are indiscriminate bad guys - spacers, zealots and syndicate. Get some of the pirate spawns out; put the other guys back in.
Tbf the crimson fleet is the largest alliance of pirates in the galaxy and their the only true organization of them out there And if it wasn't for Delgado and The Spacefarer(us) the fleet would eventually fall to infighting anyways since their biggest issue is the constant infighting everyone is looking for some way to screw over the next guy
@@wintertrooper7918 yeah, but I’m talking about the fact that these guys are now friendly with me. It’s a bit difficult to find fights to get challenges completed to unlock skills… it’s a bit of a spiral that’s neutering my character growth. If a faction can become friendly, I think they shouldn’t be as common as this so that we have more mooks to shoot at, basically.
@@wintertrooper7918 no, you misunderstand me. I’m not talking about roleplaying or disposition of NPCs. What I am saying is, it would be better if Bethesda upped the amount of non-pirate enemies in the game and lowered the amount of pirates. This is because so many of the challenges that are needed to progress the character’s level are combat based, and turning the pirates friendly eliminates a lot of those combats from the game because there are so many pirates. So - more zealots, ecliptics and spacers, fewer pirates. It’s got to the point where space and planets are absolutely swarming with friendly pirates… and I don’t have many chances to fight enemies as a result.
It does kinda give the impression that the Settled Systems are right on the edge of collapsing into an orgy of violence at the hands of the massive number of hostile factions out there. I mean shit, for every surface POI with friendly locals in it, there are 20 which are either abandoned (presumably because the inhabitants were either killed or run off) or overrun by pirates, Va'ruun zealots, Ecliptic mercs, or spacers. I can also kill hundreds of pirates and vaporize dozens of their ships without making any obvious dent in their numbers. It makes it feel like the largest and most powerful factions in the game aren't the UC and Freestar, but the various roving hordes circling like hungry wolves. That's what I thought they were going for at first, until I played for a while and realized all of the "major" factions treated them as irritating problems rather than existential threats. Although I admittedly have not finished the game, so no spoilers if I was closer to correct than I realized.
Just FYI I'm SUPER HAPPY I went all in on armor mods because it lets me change any random loot pack I get into a balanced pack which is the only kind I use. It's so hard to find a pack with good shats AND the appropriate boost type
In my first playthrough I organically upgraded the frontier to meet my needs, by the end of the playthrough I had a massive ship with next to no maneuver but an hp and weapon pool that did not matter. The frontier took everything and dished it right back. It was awesome.
I would absolutely LOVE more ship builds on your channel! The 5 small ship showcase is some of the best shipbuilding I've seen to date, and all of them gave me great ideas to play around with in my own building.
I thought it was such a cool concept that you could get arrested and recruited for SysDef, however my experience with it was ruined since i was arrested for stealing a singular digipick, but they were talking to me like I was a master thief and had the perfect skill set for infiltrating a very violent pirate faction. On that note i also wish that joining multiple factions had some sort of consequence. For example I had done the Freestar Rangers quest line before joining the Crimson fleet and you would think that since there's only 13 Rangers including you in the entire galaxy, at least one Pirate would recognize you and call you out for it. It's a nitpick but those little details are what really make you feel immersed in a game
Worst case of this is the Pocketed mod for suits. On lighter suits, it makes sense, you're getting 5 kg of extra carrying capacity at the "cost" of 1 kg or so, for 4 carrying capacity profit. On heavy suits though, they gain 3 kg in mass because the mass gains are percentage based, meaning you're going through all this effort to add 2kg of effective carrying capacity. Add in the other mod that slot can lighten the suit by 4kg, and then Pocketed looks mighty silly when making the suit lighter gives you MORE effective carry capacity than the mod whose sole purpose is to add carrying capacity, while having additional upsides!
@@DatMageDoe Yeah, Pocketed is just weirdly underpowered for what it's meant to do - I think it should add 10-15kg, or perhaps be percentage based as well so that it'll always give you a similar boost in comparison to the weight it adds.
I worked through the Crimson Fleet storyline as fast as I could! Just so I could get the pirates mad at me again! I was so tired of not being able to kill them. And yes, they were absolutely everywhere!
I always go into ship building with a general shape in mind. How closely I can reach that shape varies, but the results have been great, producing something new and, sometimes, unexpected.
The first thing i did with ship building was. I went Small/Quick and deadly (as a Pirate i joined the Crimson fleet straight away) i can get in and out quickly with deadly force, plus the jammers and a small shielded cargo hold if needed for those contraband goods. loving the small fighter i have. It's fun and a blast to play around with. Almost 30 hours in and haven't touched the main missions yet and don't see me doing it anytime soon.
I managed to get the mantis armor set with Assisted Carry - Reduces O2 drain from being overloaded by 75% Fastened - 20 Extra carry capacity O2 Filter - Use 25% less O2 Mechanized - 40 extra carry capacity Resource Hauler - Resources weigh 25% less I wanted O2 Boosted (20% extra oxygen capacity) as well but I rerolled for a whole hour Other good mods are Weapon Holsters - Weapons weigh 50% less The extra carry weight and O2 and ESPECIALLY assisted carry have been a huge help
Majority of peoples XP definitely come from combat, eliminating it by siding with Crimson too early may hinder your ability to level up. I realised it after I fought everyone in All Money Can Buy mission and how I got an extra level by fighting instead of stealth. You could still sneak kill Crimson for XP. You could sneak and side with Crimson if fighting isn't your type. If you find the enemies too difficult I suppose stealth is an option.
I've really been noticing those issues with the Crimson Fleet being friendly, and it's become one of my bigger frustrations with the game. It also stuffs up some missions - I went to do one where clearly I was intended to save someone from a Fleet ship attack as a quest step, only when I showed up the person would be like "hey pls help with the Fleet" and the pirates would be like "hey bud" with nothing happening. I had to start an attack on the Fleet ships and get a bounty to progress the quest.
When I joined SysDef I assumed it would make all my pirate encounters friendly, I just didn't realize how many there were. It offered some cool moments with the main quest line, but my biggest disappointment was how boring the outposts became. I would have loved some radiant missions from the pirates, like you get from civilian outposts. Like imagine the pirate captain being like "We got word that a merchant ship is going to this location, take out the crew and you'll get a cut of the cargo" or defending against spacers attacking their base or something.
science tree has so many good things in it IMO, i never fellt like i was wasting points and even ones i thought were gonna be wastes ended up being dark horses and glad i invested in. its the best skill tree. It might not have any MANDATORY skills like tech does or physical, but it has so many useful ones that unlock new things in the game.
WHen it comes to ship building my ship usually does reflect my character's background. Like I made a combat medic and my was relatively large but sleek ship with an infimary and made to transport people while the longhauler was a basically a massive battleship with tons of cargo specifically the ones the ones that jut out and come in a bunch of different colors and purposely kept them colorful like it's the most secure freighter in the universe.
I liked the ship i built. To me utility in the first universe was important, so i ask "what can i make that can do everything pretty well whuile looking sleek" its 1700 mass, max speed 180, and holds 3400 mass cargo. 3 leveled. Loved the freedom the game gave me to get there and build something truly unique to what i wanted
The starship construction portion really makes me wish that dedicated shipyards like Deimos and Stroud (and I'm sure others) that are "we own this entire place, not renting space" really should have a simulator booth, maybe one you have to pay to unlock, where you can load a test flight with your newly constructed ship. Even the vanguard test simulator only lets you fly a pre-built.
If you do not use stealth in the mission Absolute Power (Crimson Fleet) then Ikande will chew you out and expel you from Sysdef, at which point you can go to jail or chose to fight. The mission itself is a pain in the ass, especially if you haven't specced into stealth, however if you wish to do it the "good" way then taking off everything equipped really helps. Also note you cannot kill anything, even a sanitation droid will result in expulsion.
I don’t think he realizes that even when you’re in the crimson fleet you can still fight them and as long as you kill them all there will be no bounty it will actually pop up on the screen after the last one is killed and say something like “all witnesses killed” and remove the bounty. So this gives you the chance to play all factions at once without it affecting your exploration and gameplay experience. So when exploring it’s irrelevant to me what type of enemy is there and if they are crimson fleet as long as I kill them all it ends up being exactly the same as if I never joined them. I recently just found this out and thought the same as you because I played stealthily and I just would still pick them off pretending like they were enemies but one of the last enemies was elite and I don’t get a crit bonus and one shot him in the head and he attacked me and added a bounty but as soon as I killed him and the remaining enemies it popped up on screen and said bounty removed and I went to the key just to make sure it didn’t have any other effects and sure enough it was fine so since then I treat crimson fleet the same as if they were ecliptic when I encounter them at a location
YOOOO the crimson fleet joining info is HUGE. I literally refused to do that quest on my darker characters because I didn't want to report to sysdef at all (I save that for my military/marine good style characters). That's exactly what I wanted. LFG
2:00 I approach ship building with the simple rule of "I work alone but Vasco can come too." So nothing is made bigger than a Class-B. The ship is only one floor, has a minimum of 3,500 Mass Capability, 95% Maneuverability or better, 250 Fuel Minimum, and maximum speed is at least 200 w/o any perks. I am your typical bounty hunter and occasional smuggler. My current ship looks like the Star Eagle on steroids. It's black as night except for a dark gray cockpit and it is called "Nevermore" Yes, it's a lame name but I like it. It's my sandbox! Get your own!
He he, i went into the Crimson Fleet quest line as a bounty hunter going after his biggest score. Played the side of the cops, all while wearing a SysDef beret hat and doing the Steve Buscemi meme of "Hello my fellow criminals! Any crimes to be doing today?" 😂 Came out of it with a nice paycheck and some sweet secure cargo holds and jammers for my bounty hunter ship (that also sells contraband on the side)
Spacesuit design is worth it just to get to the special projects skill since there is nothing better in the skill tier with spacesuit design and being able to mod weapons with the special projects skill unlocked granting top tier weapons mods is ohhhhh soooo worth it regardless of what build you’re going for. Even if you don’t mod your own weapons (you’d have to be crazy not to) you can make literally millions of credits over time with very little resource investment (especially if you have the suit you get from the warlock guy who’s ship you board during UC quest line that gives about a 20% chance each weapon mod costs zero resources) just buy modding weapons before you sell them
Could you guys also do an Outpost guide? Like what resources are essential for a first outpost, how do we tell the wind and solar for a planet to determine the power types. We can look at the generators once we have an outpost down but it would be handy to understand the planet 'types' and stuff
For those who decide to choose violence on the Sysdef Flagship, there are many, many essential characters on that ship who go back to full health as soon as they hit 0. I wanted to waltz into the Krx system on the Vigilance but fate had other plans
I would like a automated ship. Something that can just stroll through a system and all its systems just shoot for me. If you could make that build it would be fun. Just as like a family ship for the average person, but set to take on the crimson fleet via AI.
The whole thing about the Crimson Fleet is how I’ve always felt about the idea of being Forsworn. If I could change just one thing about BGS’s content, I would make it to where factions are not so collectivized or centralized, it’s extremely small minded and quite unrealistic
The Crimson Fleet is an organized faction with a hierarchy as opposed to the spacers who are a collection of independent raiders. You can become a spacer at any time yourself, but other spacers will still attack you because they aren’t actually an organization while the Crimson Fleet is an organization which you have to work to join but since they’re allied, they don’t attack each other, including you. If the Crimson Fleet just acted like spacers, they wouldn’t be the Crimson Fleet, they’d be spacers in red spacesuits. Makes sense to me. Meanwhile, the Foresworn are actually a collection of Reachmen tribes with no actual central authority, so if you help out the “king” of the Forsworn, you ally only with his tribe.
My issue with the White Dwarf 3015/3030/(etc) series is that each engine has a 3 MAX POWER value, whereas those from Slayton Aerospace (Most notably the SA-4330 model and the rest of its series) only have a 2 MAX POWER value - meaning that a comparison should be made between 4 White Dwarf engines vs 6 Slayton Aerospace, not on an individual engine-to-engine basis.
It seems it is more in depth than expected. Basically A ships rely on their speed and mobility ideally. C ships are meant to be large tanky ships. Obviously this leaves B in the middle ground. This could actually lead to some unexpected and interesting qualities developed from blending the 3. 🤔
Please, I'd absolutely love a full breakdown of ship parts. I've built very powerful ships, but it required an incredible amount of skill point, credit, and time investment. Don't get me wrong shipbuilding is one of my favorite things in game but a breakdown would be a good watch.
In general, system power demand is very important for optimizing ship builds... other commenters already noted that auto ship weapons only require 1 pip of reactor power to be functional... and you basically get a full barrage out of them. Great if you just want to delete ships before they can fire on you with long range particle weapons. Regular weapons require max power to fire at the listed fire rate. In general, managing reactor power demand is key to an efficient ship build. If you can achieve max speed and mobility with less reactor power, DO IT. That means reducing the number of engines. Also with Astroneering and Sarah as crew, you can really extend your jump distance so you really don't need a massive Grav drive/fuel either. Shield regen rate is pretty darn useless if you build your ship right. Don't forget to do simple arithmetic on DPS for weapons and cargo capacity per mass. One thing I found out recently is that you can buy cargo shielding and shield cargo modules from the Ship vendor at the Red Mile. I haven't gone down the UC faction quest nor Crimson Fleet so that was my only option.
According to the stats, less than 20% of players choose to side with the Pirates. My suggestion is to avoid going undercover with the Crimson Fleet until just before the endgame, and then betray them. That way they will remain hostile to you for most of the game, and then you can clean them up at the end of your undercover mission.
The one thing I would say that is worthwhile in pack mods is being able to swap the boost. I had a lot of legendary packs that had basic boost, and you can turn them into balanced or power.
Legends I’m loving Starfield, some npc jank lol I get a laugh though and I wish neon was more of a pleasure city, games r18 I wish neon was more wild and crazy. I also hope they will fine tune things and make planet scanning exploration better and more rewarding to. Thanks again.
I really wish every ship manufacturer had a ‘show ship’ so you could see how all the cockpits and habs looked inside. Even a showroom with demo habs you could walk in to would be good. The ‘blind building’ can be a real pain.
1. I’ll be honest, I do not have the hang of ship building at all. My ship is still the basic Frontier Barrett gives you, just painted and with an EM gun instead of a missile launcher. 2. Could you guys make a UC Vanguard heavy weapons soldier build in the future? That’s what I’m attempting now but I lack direction.
I'm playing a bounty hunter build so I followed a guide to build the razor crest and then spent AGES perfecting it to make it even more screen accurate and gaming practical.
I did the crimson fleet story line by accident. I was just trying to be undercover for the UC, failed a stealth mission and so i ran through it making sure I didnt kill anyone but sysdef still acted like I did and made me an enemy forcing me to be a crimson fleet pilot..
When it comes to ships I generally try to stick with the rough design of the Frontier... although wider as I add two additional habs and use structural pieces to not make it a giant block.
My ship is called Miss Take. It's jet black, all around ship, with switching around energy, makes it a slow-motion bulldozer. I just wish that the decorations outside of the ship did something, and not just make it looks nice and give more mass. My dudes, I fly an apartment, so no, that radiator that's just about 5 mass? Is just a waste of mobility.
I wonder if you can do a gravity drop where you drop down if you are super high. I haven't figured out how to do that and it seems more fun to boost jump and then bust down and land.
Because of a possible glitch where I could not rename my ship, the Derelict became a character itself on my playthrough, I've memorized it's base layout and still iterating on that, as RP, it's a medium sized ship, confortable and functional, made for a large crew as I ike being surrouded by my friends
Spacesuit design is worth if you don't plan on using the physical tree. You get progress through the science tree and also don't need to spend points on more health and defesne from the physical tree so it evens out.
This might be a played out suggestion or the wrong place to request but…. I would love if you guys did a professor build! I tried to create a cool role play experience for my pay through where I’m a jaded former professor of physics who has been exiled from academia because of a controversial publication on the effects of grav drives. My background traits include the adoring fan who praises me for the hard truths that got me fired and caused me to go looking for any work I could find off world (out of new Atlantis) which is how I ended up with argos. I love your guys’ content and can’t wait to see more of it!
That Crimson Fleet 'problem' is the reason why I got myself a suppressed pistol. I can kill them all, and still have no bounty! Plus, it makes it more fun: will I do this; F9 this; or pay 45k+ when I get back to The Key?
I did the undercover op against the pirates. They still see me as a friendly. I went to Kryx, killed everyone on their space station and blew up a bunch of their ships. Now I have a million credit crimson bounty on my head and they fight me. (There are work arounds lol).
Crimson Pirates as friends is the best! Just shoot them with a silenced weapon and don't get detected for 5-10 seconds and you can roll through them one at a time without incurring a bounty.
Hah! You get what you deserve joining the Crimson Hypocrites! In all seriousness, it's cool you found a third way to join...I'm not sure I've seen any other videos on it- well done! You earned a sub, Pirate trash!
Informative. I've found most of the skills trees to be uninspired. There's either an all-or-nothing effect, like the first rank of Stealth enabling the Stealth Meter, or needing the first rank of Boost Pack Training to utilize boost packs at ALL... or they're tiny, numerical bonuses that don't really change anything, like Nutrition (argh! what a horrible waste!) or Surveying (great. now I can scan the alien bug-dinosaurs from 50 meters away instead of 10 meters, so the NEXT hundred-or-so planets I have to survey won't be QUITE so tedious...)
I feel you on the Fleet problem with enemies I wish Pirates werent just crimson They should separate them and call them specifically crimson and still have hostile pirates.
For me when I ran into the ship with the gravity working and failing it was Spacers I fought. Maybe you'll run into that situation again and it will be different. I do think your suggestion about changing the odds for Crimson Pirates as who you encounter when you're a member is a good one. Hopefully BGS is watching. 🙂
I’d love it if you could ship parts that you’ve previously bought kept in some kind of ship services inventory so if you want to switch back to a different ship weapon or module, you wouldn’t have to buy it again.
Thanks for the tip about the crimson fleet it was annoying having to report back to the vigilance I am going to redo it now it was a cool asf questline
i need to get to building another ship so i can build from scratch, I got the Mantis ship, and now i’m at the Pirate base where you can get, at least at this point in my playthrough, better parts than at the main cities, so i have ship of Theseused it into something totally different. went from a sleek Space Hero ride to a pirate smuggler home base. it is technically three levels, but the upper levels are in the back left and right. imagine it like this, the max width is three hams wide. the back left and right are a stack of three 2x1 habs stacked. living quarters are in the right, “work space” is on the left. (all-in-one, crew bunks and captains quarters for living space and armory, workshop and science lab on the left. in terms of length, it is the length of two 2x1 habs and the middle section is mostly for role playing. in between the triple stacks described above, i have the computer core and the control deck and above those is an engineer room, mostly for role playing value, and the cockpit is in the front in the middle. i find it to be a best of both worlds kind of build. i can enter the ship and get to the cockpit without having to climb any ladders, but i have all the stuff i need to role play with my character as a real captain of a ship. i have structural bits all around to keep it for looking like a bunch of shipping containers. my favorite part is that i have overhanging structural pieces off the top of the triple stacks that hang over the cargo holds, so it keeps them from looking ugly as heck just hanging off the sides. a little tip. try using structural arms to hold engines off the main body of the ship. i find this helps make designs look much cooler. also, find a way to get landing gear that look like engines when flying. the ones from the mantis do this, but when you get it they are on the front of the ship. find a way to move stuff around so that those go where the engines sit when you get this ship. it makes the ship look a lot cooler. i moved the original smaller engines forward on the sides of the ship and between the landing gear, the big engines out on arms and the smaller engines, it looks like the ship is super fast…but i’m really not. the ship is pretty slow because i made it so heavy, but it is super maneuverable…maybe because of the engines being in arms? not sure if shape has any effect on maneuverability, but if it was a real ship, it would turn much tighter than it otherwise would…but again, not sure how the game physics actually work. also, lot’s and lot’s of space for weapons. i have three missed launchers, three laser guns and two big EMP cannons. i’m pretty much unbeatable unless heavily outnumbered, and that becomes less and less an issue the more money i make and levels gained and the better shields and weapons i can buy.
I am addicted to trying to build the perfect Star Destroyer or the fighter with weapons and armor of a Super Dreadnaught. I’ve lost sleep spending HOURS building ships
I forgot to mention boost pack modification for Spacesuit Modding, but it still isn’t worth it for me. Consider that you will need pack mods 3 which as we talked about in the video requires the special projects skill (rank 1). So you would need to spend 13 skill points in Science to be able to change your boost pack to a power pack or a balanced pack. You need pack mods 2 for the skip capacity boost pack but it's still a big opportunity cost just for that. As always, if it suits your build and your roleplaying and you really want it then go for it. Especially if you're already invested in science for other reasons :) Otherwise always remember opportunity cost. I'd still recommend saving those skill points for something else.
Yessss
I was going to mention the boost pack, but I agree. My current playthrough is doing all the science stuff. But the investment to get to changing your boost pack is ridiculous. I feel like I'm being called out on the engines, lol. I was paying close attention to shields and weapons. Recharge rate on shields is important right? Or did I get that wrong too? I did take advantage of the pirate thing, when I first played. I could grab a "kill the pirate leader " quest off of a kiosk, walk into a base and kill the leader, for the xp and credits. No aggro from the other pirates. No Crimson Fleet bounty from that either.
Plus the different boost pack modifications sometimes spawn on packs. While they are VERY nice for any kind of boostpack oriented build, spending 4 perk points just to get them isn't necessary.
I really like your videos but come on, bring forth the Ronin :-)
Did you not know the game was trash?
One thing i haven't seen anybody mention is the Serpentis system. It's up in the upper right side of the map, and a great place for space combat. About 80-90% of the time you jump into any planet in the system, you get jumped by multiple Va'ruun ships. The ships are worth good money, and the va'ruun have some pretty good gear.
This system is my go-to. I think Va’Ruun gear is the coolest so I’ll hang around and farm ‘em pretty often. Also Serpentis V-D can be a decent outpost spot
I thought it was just me who figured this out. Always high level ships and enemies too. Great way to farm xp for both ship combat and regular if you board them. Some of their bigger ships have a lot of va’ruun on board.
@@kmcbride0808 I spend WAY too much time up there, boarding ships. It's good for XP and credits. Some of the bigger ships can turn a decent profit, even with registration fees.
100% would love to see a dedicated ship building guide with top picks for every part.
Spacesuit Design is 100% worth the investment just for the boost pack mods so you no longer need to be disappointed when you get a pack with great stats and perfect legendary effects but it doesn't come with the type of boost you prefer.
100%
Totally agree the boost pack is essential for me
Indeed..
100%. i change between the 3 based on the gravity of the planet I'm on and the chance its free is huge for that
That is a LOT of skill points to invest.
I started off building a ship that matched my character, a daring ship captain. What I am rocking now is, in essence, Voyager from Star Trek.
It would be sick if when you joined the pirates, a new version of the pois would appear with pirate corpses and sys def enemies
talk to the mod community. unlocking like pirate outposts or seomthing like that i hear you
What is pois? Is it shortened for that luxury ship or am I dumb?
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I rarely comment on video's but I just want to say that it is so good to see you and all the other TES creators go nuts on Starfield. So cool to see how both the game, the players and the online content experience and dive into this world together.
Would really like a ship building guide video that explains the basics.
They have one
Genuinely not being rude or snarky, but personally, I've found plenty of other channels with great guides on that already, while FudgeMuppet's themed builds are fairly unique. I get the other channels aren't FM, but if it's one or the other, I'm digging the theme builds much more.
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Link?
My latest ship build had the goal of having the cockpit see the entrance to the landing bay (for security reasons? who knows). This resulted in a cargo hauler shaped like a donut with a 3x1(x3) hole in the middle and 12 cargo pods on either side of the interior.
Almost feels like I have a little courtyard when I first walk out onto planets.
If you could somehow verticalize that design you may end up with an invincible ship.😂
Sounds really cool though. I think I’ll try it.
That sound pretty cool
Just a tip on weapons, Auto weapons like Vanguard auto obliterator beams will always do full damage even if you only giving them 50% allocated power. Non auto weapons require full power to do max dps, auto weapons do not as the power you allocated them only determines their reload time.
So _that's_ what it means! I thought it was just flavor text.
won't having lower reload speed affect dps also?
@@calvinthehermit5370only if you shoot constantly, so it depends on fighting style. If you use a fast ship, and you fight by making a straffing run, then move away, do another, the guns recharge while you are flying away. If you use a larger ship with more shields and just stet there using overwhelming firepower, then yes, the overall damage will be affected by recharge rate
@@calvinthehermit5370 It is minimal really as you melt ships so fast in the burst fire from them. You cannot beat the range and accuracy as well as you can hit them from 3km outside of most weapons range.
I feel bad for the people who hated on this game just for the views and clicks. They will have to pretend this game sucks forever while we all can enjoy this masterpiece!
I feel bad for the idiots who bought this game expecting it to be some insane sandbox galaxy where you can do anything and everything hyping themselves beyond imagination ignoring the fact that it's a Bethesda game
@@wintertrooper7918 Even if you don't like Xbox, there is no way you look at this game and criticize it. This game will be hot for 3 console generations. A game where other gamers can create mods and make money from it. When the hardware gets better this game will continue to improve. What other game do you know where you can build a whole city on a moon? The example on how to infiltrate the pirates. How you can double cross them, which game does that?
@@TekkLuthorhot for 3 console generations? Come on people, it’s a 100 to 200 hour game, all the NG+ stuff it’s a filler
@@hadriusreznor3247 I'm going to save this so I can troll you for 3 console generation
@@TekkLuthor the fact you can play Skyrim ultra remastered holo version 4D BS doesn’t mean it’s a 3 console generation buddy, it’s pure greed and laziness (enjoy your NG+10!)
Roleplay design for starships has been HUGE for me.
The smartest thing I did was look at a commandeered Spacer Scarab with it's epic engines and ask
"How do I get my USCG cutter into THAT"
I LoVe my BOAT ❤
YES to an in depth look at ship parts please! That would be awesome!
I too discovered the friendly pirates issue after starting the pirate quest line. My solution was simply to spend the hours necessary to complete the quest line to the exclusion of all else.
The worst part is that mission boards are about 70% Crimson Fleet, even when it says "outlaw". I had soooo many missions in my backlog because of this.
Wish you made more enemies working with the fleet. Or that the haul from the legacy led to a lot of splinter groups trying to take it.
@@brandonquist8394you can reject missions you don't want to complete and they'll be removed from your backlog. Alternatively, you can do the missions anyway and just pay off your fleet bounty afterward
I'm perplexed by people describing this as an issue. To me, one of the biggest and best perks of being in the fleet is not having to fight them whenever you see them.
@@jawbone78yea but without combat they offer NOTHING, so the obvious fix would be to make us more likely to find Sysdef, spacers, ecliptic or Va’ruun, some handcrafted locations are in effect ruined because they’re hard set to spawn fleet members
Spacesuit design rank 3 is a must have for me. Must have pocketed, extra O2 capacity, Regeneration, balanced boost pack, sensor array etc. Science is one of my main trees. Im level 82 un NG+1. Aneutrinic Fusion is another must have.
Ship Building: I started out wanting a mobile base of operations. That meant Bed, Workshop, and lots of cargo space for all the resources I might need. Since I maxed out crafting, I've dropped the Workshop, sold the resources, and removed cargo bays. In fact, I sold all my ships but the Frontier and . I decided to make an entirely Class-A assault scout ship. I have nearly maximized its potential (just need Vanguard stuff) while keeping it in the shape of a small, sleek fighter craft.
Skill Utility: I'm finding that most skills are situational. The only skill I consider a must-have across all character types is Boost Pack. Literally, everything else exists to flesh out a concept.
Starship Gear: Yeah.
Crimson Fleet: My only interaction with the Crimson Fleet will be from the barrel of a loaded gun. My head canon allows for moral ambiguity, but I get nothing from being the bad guy.
I must have watched 50 tips and tricks videos for starfield, I can unequivocally say this is the 'S' tier top video, real useful information backed by actual testing, not just "oh look I found this random feature that I didn't know about so I'm making a video". Good work!
I was blown away with the design of the Frontier, and basically stuck with Nova Galactic for most of my builds. the Frontier i only upgrade, i don't expand the interior or add more structure to it, but i did make evolutions on the design with more interior space for a larger crew and later as i 'found' more ships of Nova Galactic design i adapted those too. i like making evolutions on several of the premade designs ingame.
Hopetech mixes well with Deimos
And Stroud with tayio.
Still working on hybridizing with Nova G.
I'm gonna follow this thread.
I'm doing the same with the Razorleaf. Just to be lore friendly with it. I painted it a brighter white and gave it gold accents, upgraded the reactor, weapons, and cargo holds, and gave it a longer fuselage. Other than that, I kept the existing design language. The idea was to expand the ship to be useful for all around use, while still maintaining some ability to brawl against the few ships that don't run from it.
My first playthrough, I heavily modified the Frontier. i liked what I had but it wasn't the Frontier anymore. Now I'm just looking for a similar ship to build upon to get a similar rebuild back. Ship building isn't as easy as I initially thought it would be either. But it's fun to dip into once in awhile
I think you should do a researcher or scientist build with a research out post, and research lab style ship.
The Crimson Fleet becoming friendly really is a game changer
You can "rob" their ships with no consequences
Thx for the tip
To further your point about "read the fine print of ship parts" - there's a Vanguard shield out there that, on paper, is leagues better than any of its competitors (~1,400 shields when the closest competitor is ~650-700 with equivalent recharge rates). It seemed like a no-brainer purchase... until I realized how much power it needed. It left me little power for any other system, which is a problem in a dog fight when you have to either keep weapons at low power or sacrifice shields. That was my learning experience...
I never ran into the friendly pirate thing because once I went undercover I figured I needed to maintain my cover as a pirate, which meant putting everything else to the side until the operation was complete.
Plus the missions I got all had the sense of urgency behind them so I didn’t think it was an appropriate time to go do other quests or random fuckabouts.
I think with one of the problems with the pirates (I’m going down the SysDef route with Ikande) is that there’s too many of them, and we already have other factions that are indiscriminate bad guys - spacers, zealots and syndicate. Get some of the pirate spawns out; put the other guys back in.
Tbf the crimson fleet is the largest alliance of pirates in the galaxy and their the only true organization of them out there
And if it wasn't for Delgado and The Spacefarer(us) the fleet would eventually fall to infighting anyways since their biggest issue is the constant infighting everyone is looking for some way to screw over the next guy
@@wintertrooper7918 yeah, but I’m talking about the fact that these guys are now friendly with me. It’s a bit difficult to find fights to get challenges completed to unlock skills… it’s a bit of a spiral that’s neutering my character growth. If a faction can become friendly, I think they shouldn’t be as common as this so that we have more mooks to shoot at, basically.
@@steveharrison76 you signed up with a fleet of pirates what did you expect them to all be wanting to kill you?
@@wintertrooper7918 no, you misunderstand me. I’m not talking about roleplaying or disposition of NPCs. What I am saying is, it would be better if Bethesda upped the amount of non-pirate enemies in the game and lowered the amount of pirates.
This is because so many of the challenges that are needed to progress the character’s level are combat based, and turning the pirates friendly eliminates a lot of those combats from the game because there are so many pirates.
So - more zealots, ecliptics and spacers, fewer pirates. It’s got to the point where space and planets are absolutely swarming with friendly pirates… and I don’t have many chances to fight enemies as a result.
It does kinda give the impression that the Settled Systems are right on the edge of collapsing into an orgy of violence at the hands of the massive number of hostile factions out there. I mean shit, for every surface POI with friendly locals in it, there are 20 which are either abandoned (presumably because the inhabitants were either killed or run off) or overrun by pirates, Va'ruun zealots, Ecliptic mercs, or spacers. I can also kill hundreds of pirates and vaporize dozens of their ships without making any obvious dent in their numbers. It makes it feel like the largest and most powerful factions in the game aren't the UC and Freestar, but the various roving hordes circling like hungry wolves.
That's what I thought they were going for at first, until I played for a while and realized all of the "major" factions treated them as irritating problems rather than existential threats. Although I admittedly have not finished the game, so no spoilers if I was closer to correct than I realized.
Just FYI I'm SUPER HAPPY I went all in on armor mods because it lets me change any random loot pack I get into a balanced pack which is the only kind I use.
It's so hard to find a pack with good shats AND the appropriate boost type
I have over a 150 hours now and it seems like the weapon and armor mods need to be expanded on tremendously.
In my first playthrough I organically upgraded the frontier to meet my needs, by the end of the playthrough I had a massive ship with next to no maneuver but an hp and weapon pool that did not matter. The frontier took everything and dished it right back. It was awesome.
I would absolutely LOVE more ship builds on your channel! The 5 small ship showcase is some of the best shipbuilding I've seen to date, and all of them gave me great ideas to play around with in my own building.
Honestly, I found your bounty hunter ship build to be pretty much the natural thematic result that I went for my character.
I thought it was such a cool concept that you could get arrested and recruited for SysDef, however my experience with it was ruined since i was arrested for stealing a singular digipick, but they were talking to me like I was a master thief and had the perfect skill set for infiltrating a very violent pirate faction. On that note i also wish that joining multiple factions had some sort of consequence. For example I had done the Freestar Rangers quest line before joining the Crimson fleet and you would think that since there's only 13 Rangers including you in the entire galaxy, at least one Pirate would recognize you and call you out for it. It's a nitpick but those little details are what really make you feel immersed in a game
Biggest problem with armor mods is that they add loads of weight, so most mods ends up feeling like a penalty rather than a buff.
As long as you have either mechanised weapon holsters or resource hauler perks it is fine
Worst case of this is the Pocketed mod for suits. On lighter suits, it makes sense, you're getting 5 kg of extra carrying capacity at the "cost" of 1 kg or so, for 4 carrying capacity profit. On heavy suits though, they gain 3 kg in mass because the mass gains are percentage based, meaning you're going through all this effort to add 2kg of effective carrying capacity. Add in the other mod that slot can lighten the suit by 4kg, and then Pocketed looks mighty silly when making the suit lighter gives you MORE effective carry capacity than the mod whose sole purpose is to add carrying capacity, while having additional upsides!
@@DatMageDoe Yeah, Pocketed is just weirdly underpowered for what it's meant to do - I think it should add 10-15kg, or perhaps be percentage based as well so that it'll always give you a similar boost in comparison to the weight it adds.
I worked through the Crimson Fleet storyline as fast as I could! Just so I could get the pirates mad at me again! I was so tired of not being able to kill them. And yes, they were absolutely everywhere!
I always go into ship building with a general shape in mind. How closely I can reach that shape varies, but the results have been great, producing something new and, sometimes, unexpected.
The first thing i did with ship building was.
I went Small/Quick and deadly (as a Pirate i joined the Crimson fleet straight away) i can get in and out quickly with deadly force, plus the jammers and a small shielded cargo hold if needed for those contraband goods. loving the small fighter i have. It's fun and a blast to play around with.
Almost 30 hours in and haven't touched the main missions yet and don't see me doing it anytime soon.
I managed to get the mantis armor set with
Assisted Carry - Reduces O2 drain from being overloaded by 75%
Fastened - 20 Extra carry capacity
O2 Filter - Use 25% less O2
Mechanized - 40 extra carry capacity
Resource Hauler - Resources weigh 25% less
I wanted O2 Boosted (20% extra oxygen capacity) as well but I rerolled for a whole hour
Other good mods are Weapon Holsters - Weapons weigh 50% less
The extra carry weight and O2 and ESPECIALLY assisted carry have been a huge help
Majority of peoples XP definitely come from combat, eliminating it by siding with Crimson too early may hinder your ability to level up.
I realised it after I fought everyone in All Money Can Buy mission and how I got an extra level by fighting instead of stealth.
You could still sneak kill Crimson for XP.
You could sneak and side with Crimson if fighting isn't your type.
If you find the enemies too difficult I suppose stealth is an option.
I've really been noticing those issues with the Crimson Fleet being friendly, and it's become one of my bigger frustrations with the game. It also stuffs up some missions - I went to do one where clearly I was intended to save someone from a Fleet ship attack as a quest step, only when I showed up the person would be like "hey pls help with the Fleet" and the pirates would be like "hey bud" with nothing happening. I had to start an attack on the Fleet ships and get a bounty to progress the quest.
Very nice quick in-depth video about the ship mods. It really helped put it into perspective for me. Thanks!
Massively happy about the treasure planet reference, that's one of my favorite movies of all time
When I joined SysDef I assumed it would make all my pirate encounters friendly, I just didn't realize how many there were. It offered some cool moments with the main quest line, but my biggest disappointment was how boring the outposts became. I would have loved some radiant missions from the pirates, like you get from civilian outposts. Like imagine the pirate captain being like "We got word that a merchant ship is going to this location, take out the crew and you'll get a cut of the cargo" or defending against spacers attacking their base or something.
I build ships that hide all the components like shields, reactors and such.. I think it helps in firefights as the AI might not hit them first.
Some actual good and in-depth explained tips. 90% of channels post generic stuff everyone already knows. Also, yes ship parts video please.
science tree has so many good things in it IMO, i never fellt like i was wasting points and even ones i thought were gonna be wastes ended up being dark horses and glad i invested in. its the best skill tree. It might not have any MANDATORY skills like tech does or physical, but it has so many useful ones that unlock new things in the game.
Loved the gravity flip ship and the puzzle involved. Can't imagine not having to fight my way through it.
This game deserves its own exam. There's way too much useful stuff to learn.
WHen it comes to ship building my ship usually does reflect my character's background. Like I made a combat medic and my was relatively large but sleek ship with an infimary and made to transport people while the longhauler was a basically a massive battleship with tons of cargo specifically the ones the ones that jut out and come in a bunch of different colors and purposely kept them colorful like it's the most secure freighter in the universe.
I liked the ship i built. To me utility in the first universe was important, so i ask "what can i make that can do everything pretty well whuile looking sleek" its 1700 mass, max speed 180, and holds 3400 mass cargo. 3 leveled. Loved the freedom the game gave me to get there and build something truly unique to what i wanted
The starship construction portion really makes me wish that dedicated shipyards like Deimos and Stroud (and I'm sure others) that are "we own this entire place, not renting space" really should have a simulator booth, maybe one you have to pay to unlock, where you can load a test flight with your newly constructed ship. Even the vanguard test simulator only lets you fly a pre-built.
If you do not use stealth in the mission Absolute Power (Crimson Fleet) then Ikande will chew you out and expel you from Sysdef, at which point you can go to jail or chose to fight.
The mission itself is a pain in the ass, especially if you haven't specced into stealth, however if you wish to do it the "good" way then taking off everything equipped really helps. Also note you cannot kill anything, even a sanitation droid will result in expulsion.
I don’t think he realizes that even when you’re in the crimson fleet you can still fight them and as long as you kill them all there will be no bounty it will actually pop up on the screen after the last one is killed and say something like “all witnesses killed” and remove the bounty.
So this gives you the chance to play all factions at once without it affecting your exploration and gameplay experience.
So when exploring it’s irrelevant to me what type of enemy is there and if they are crimson fleet as long as I kill them all it ends up being exactly the same as if I never joined them.
I recently just found this out and thought the same as you because I played stealthily and I just would still pick them off pretending like they were enemies but one of the last enemies was elite and I don’t get a crit bonus and one shot him in the head and he attacked me and added a bounty but as soon as I killed him and the remaining enemies it popped up on screen and said bounty removed and I went to the key just to make sure it didn’t have any other effects and sure enough it was fine so since then I treat crimson fleet the same as if they were ecliptic when I encounter them at a location
YOOOO the crimson fleet joining info is HUGE. I literally refused to do that quest on my darker characters because I didn't want to report to sysdef at all (I save that for my military/marine good style characters). That's exactly what I wanted. LFG
2:00 I approach ship building with the simple rule of "I work alone but Vasco can come too."
So nothing is made bigger than a Class-B. The ship is only one floor, has a minimum of 3,500 Mass Capability, 95% Maneuverability or better, 250 Fuel Minimum, and maximum speed is at least 200 w/o any perks. I am your typical bounty hunter and occasional smuggler.
My current ship looks like the Star Eagle on steroids. It's black as night except for a dark gray cockpit and it is called "Nevermore"
Yes, it's a lame name but I like it. It's my sandbox! Get your own!
He he, i went into the Crimson Fleet quest line as a bounty hunter going after his biggest score. Played the side of the cops, all while wearing a SysDef beret hat and doing the Steve Buscemi meme of "Hello my fellow criminals! Any crimes to be doing today?" 😂
Came out of it with a nice paycheck and some sweet secure cargo holds and jammers for my bounty hunter ship (that also sells contraband on the side)
Spacesuit design is worth it just to get to the special projects skill since there is nothing better in the skill tier with spacesuit design and being able to mod weapons with the special projects skill unlocked granting top tier weapons mods is ohhhhh soooo worth it regardless of what build you’re going for.
Even if you don’t mod your own weapons (you’d have to be crazy not to) you can make literally millions of credits over time with very little resource investment (especially if you have the suit you get from the warlock guy who’s ship you board during UC quest line that gives about a 20% chance each weapon mod costs zero resources) just buy modding weapons before you sell them
I'd love a video about "best ship part" by category and for each use case
Could you guys also do an Outpost guide? Like what resources are essential for a first outpost, how do we tell the wind and solar for a planet to determine the power types. We can look at the generators once we have an outpost down but it would be handy to understand the planet 'types' and stuff
I invested in Space Suit design almost exclusively for being able to add the balanced boost pack to any pack I wanted.
Beat me too it! Had so many legendary packs drop with Basic boost.
Why balanced over skip boost?
I'm a space trucker and I made a big ship for intergalactic hauling, I called it The Optimus Prime OP, even painted it red and blue.
For those who decide to choose violence on the Sysdef Flagship, there are many, many essential characters on that ship who go back to full health as soon as they hit 0. I wanted to waltz into the Krx system on the Vigilance but fate had other plans
I would like a automated ship. Something that can just stroll through a system and all its systems just shoot for me. If you could make that build it would be fun. Just as like a family ship for the average person, but set to take on the crimson fleet via AI.
The whole thing about the Crimson Fleet is how I’ve always felt about the idea of being Forsworn. If I could change just one thing about BGS’s content, I would make it to where factions are not so collectivized or centralized, it’s extremely small minded and quite unrealistic
The Crimson Fleet is an organized faction with a hierarchy as opposed to the spacers who are a collection of independent raiders. You can become a spacer at any time yourself, but other spacers will still attack you because they aren’t actually an organization while the Crimson Fleet is an organization which you have to work to join but since they’re allied, they don’t attack each other, including you. If the Crimson Fleet just acted like spacers, they wouldn’t be the Crimson Fleet, they’d be spacers in red spacesuits. Makes sense to me.
Meanwhile, the Foresworn are actually a collection of Reachmen tribes with no actual central authority, so if you help out the “king” of the Forsworn, you ally only with his tribe.
My issue with the White Dwarf 3015/3030/(etc) series is that each engine has a 3 MAX POWER value, whereas those from Slayton Aerospace (Most notably the SA-4330 model and the rest of its series) only have a 2 MAX POWER value - meaning that a comparison should be made between 4 White Dwarf engines vs 6 Slayton Aerospace, not on an individual engine-to-engine basis.
It seems it is more in depth than expected. Basically A ships rely on their speed and mobility ideally. C ships are meant to be large tanky ships. Obviously this leaves B in the middle ground. This could actually lead to some unexpected and interesting qualities developed from blending the 3. 🤔
Please, I'd absolutely love a full breakdown of ship parts. I've built very powerful ships, but it required an incredible amount of skill point, credit, and time investment. Don't get me wrong shipbuilding is one of my favorite things in game but a breakdown would be a good watch.
In general, system power demand is very important for optimizing ship builds... other commenters already noted that auto ship weapons only require 1 pip of reactor power to be functional... and you basically get a full barrage out of them.
Great if you just want to delete ships before they can fire on you with long range particle weapons. Regular weapons require max power to fire at the listed fire rate.
In general, managing reactor power demand is key to an efficient ship build. If you can achieve max speed and mobility with less reactor power, DO IT. That means reducing the number of engines. Also with Astroneering and Sarah as crew, you can really extend your jump distance so you really don't need a massive Grav drive/fuel either.
Shield regen rate is pretty darn useless if you build your ship right.
Don't forget to do simple arithmetic on DPS for weapons and cargo capacity per mass.
One thing I found out recently is that you can buy cargo shielding and shield cargo modules from the Ship vendor at the Red Mile. I haven't gone down the UC faction quest nor Crimson Fleet so that was my only option.
According to the stats, less than 20% of players choose to side with the Pirates. My suggestion is to avoid going undercover with the Crimson Fleet until just before the endgame, and then betray them. That way they will remain hostile to you for most of the game, and then you can clean them up at the end of your undercover mission.
The one thing I would say that is worthwhile in pack mods is being able to swap the boost. I had a lot of legendary packs that had basic boost, and you can turn them into balanced or power.
Legends I’m loving Starfield, some npc jank lol I get a laugh though and I wish neon was more of a pleasure city, games r18 I wish neon was more wild and crazy. I also hope they will fine tune things and make planet scanning exploration better and more rewarding to. Thanks again.
I really wish every ship manufacturer had a ‘show ship’ so you could see how all the cockpits and habs looked inside. Even a showroom with demo habs you could walk in to would be good. The ‘blind building’ can be a real pain.
So glad I found this channel
1. I’ll be honest, I do not have the hang of ship building at all. My ship is still the basic Frontier Barrett gives you, just painted and with an EM gun instead of a missile launcher.
2. Could you guys make a UC Vanguard heavy weapons soldier build in the future? That’s what I’m attempting now but I lack direction.
I'm playing a bounty hunter build so I followed a guide to build the razor crest and then spent AGES perfecting it to make it even more screen accurate and gaming practical.
I love your fallout build videos so long ago but those videos are gold
Damn I'm super early this time! Thanks for the awesome content guys
I did the crimson fleet story line by accident. I was just trying to be undercover for the UC, failed a stealth mission and so i ran through it making sure I didnt kill anyone but sysdef still acted like I did and made me an enemy forcing me to be a crimson fleet pilot..
When it comes to ships I generally try to stick with the rough design of the Frontier... although wider as I add two additional habs and use structural pieces to not make it a giant block.
My ship is called Miss Take.
It's jet black, all around ship, with switching around energy, makes it a slow-motion bulldozer.
I just wish that the decorations outside of the ship did something, and not just make it looks nice and give more mass.
My dudes, I fly an apartment, so no, that radiator that's just about 5 mass? Is just a waste of mobility.
I wonder if you can do a gravity drop where you drop down if you are super high. I haven't figured out how to do that and it seems more fun to boost jump and then bust down and land.
Because of a possible glitch where I could not rename my ship, the Derelict became a character itself on my playthrough, I've memorized it's base layout and still iterating on that, as RP, it's a medium sized ship, confortable and functional, made for a large crew as I ike being surrouded by my friends
14:00 check your companion changing in and out of his/her spacesuit when artificial grav goes on/off😅
Spacesuit design is worth if you don't plan on using the physical tree. You get progress through the science tree and also don't need to spend points on more health and defesne from the physical tree so it evens out.
This might be a played out suggestion or the wrong place to request but…. I would love if you guys did a professor build! I tried to create a cool role play experience for my pay through where I’m a jaded former professor of physics who has been exiled from academia because of a controversial publication on the effects of grav drives. My background traits include the adoring fan who praises me for the hard truths that got me fired and caused me to go looking for any work I could find off world (out of new Atlantis) which is how I ended up with argos.
I love your guys’ content and can’t wait to see more of it!
At this point… it’s like 35 Things to wish to have known about…
I sided eith uc sysdef, but unstalled CF equipment on 5 of my ships first 😉.. great upload!!! Enjoying your content.
That Crimson Fleet 'problem' is the reason why I got myself a suppressed pistol. I can kill them all, and still have no bounty!
Plus, it makes it more fun: will I do this; F9 this; or pay 45k+ when I get back to The Key?
I did the undercover op against the pirates. They still see me as a friendly. I went to Kryx, killed everyone on their space station and blew up a bunch of their ships. Now I have a million credit crimson bounty on my head and they fight me. (There are work arounds lol).
A video of which ship parts are actually best for different roles would be great.
Crimson Pirates as friends is the best! Just shoot them with a silenced weapon and don't get detected for 5-10 seconds and you can roll through them one at a time without incurring a bounty.
Hah! You get what you deserve joining the Crimson Hypocrites! In all seriousness, it's cool you found a third way to join...I'm not sure I've seen any other videos on it- well done! You earned a sub, Pirate trash!
Informative. I've found most of the skills trees to be uninspired. There's either an all-or-nothing effect, like the first rank of Stealth enabling the Stealth Meter, or needing the first rank of Boost Pack Training to utilize boost packs at ALL... or they're tiny, numerical bonuses that don't really change anything, like Nutrition (argh! what a horrible waste!) or Surveying (great. now I can scan the alien bug-dinosaurs from 50 meters away instead of 10 meters, so the NEXT hundred-or-so planets I have to survey won't be QUITE so tedious...)
I feel you on the Fleet problem with enemies I wish Pirates werent just crimson They should separate them and call them specifically crimson and still have hostile pirates.
What do you think about adding maomer and padomaic islanders (asain people who live on esroniet and yneslea) as playable races in tes 6?
I would love that always hated that their wasn't a Asian race for men ... tsaesci don't count cause we don't know what they are
Also having maomer would be fun if the game is set in the iliac bay region
For me when I ran into the ship with the gravity working and failing it was Spacers I fought. Maybe you'll run into that situation again and it will be different.
I do think your suggestion about changing the odds for Crimson Pirates as who you encounter when you're a member is a good one. Hopefully BGS is watching. 🙂
I’d love it if you could ship parts that you’ve previously bought kept in some kind of ship services inventory so if you want to switch back to a different ship weapon or module, you wouldn’t have to buy it again.
I punched a child about 2 hours into my first play through then told sysdef to do one and instantly joined the crimson fleet
Thanks for the tip about the crimson fleet it was annoying having to report back to the vigilance I am going to redo it now it was a cool asf questline
i need to get to building another ship so i can build from scratch,
I got the Mantis ship, and now i’m at the Pirate base where you can get, at least at this point in my playthrough, better parts than at the main cities, so i have ship of Theseused it into something totally different.
went from a sleek Space Hero ride to a pirate smuggler home base.
it is technically three levels, but the upper levels are in the back left and right.
imagine it like this, the max width is three hams wide. the back left and right are a stack of three 2x1 habs stacked. living quarters are in the right, “work space” is on the left. (all-in-one, crew bunks and captains quarters for living space and armory, workshop and science lab on the left. in terms of length, it is the length of two 2x1 habs and the middle section is mostly for role playing. in between the triple stacks described above, i have the computer core and the control deck and above those is an engineer room, mostly for role playing value, and the cockpit is in the front in the middle.
i find it to be a best of both worlds kind of build. i can enter the ship and get to the cockpit without having to climb any ladders, but i have all the stuff i need to role play with my character as a real captain of a ship.
i have structural bits all around to keep it for looking like a bunch of shipping containers. my favorite part is that i have overhanging structural pieces off the top of the triple stacks that hang over the cargo holds, so it keeps them from looking ugly as heck just hanging off the sides.
a little tip. try using structural arms to hold engines off the main body of the ship. i find this helps make designs look much cooler. also, find a way to get landing gear that look like engines when flying. the ones from the mantis do this, but when you get it they are on the front of the ship. find a way to move stuff around so that those go where the engines sit when you get this ship. it makes the ship look a lot cooler. i moved the original smaller engines forward on the sides of the ship and between the landing gear, the big engines out on arms and the smaller engines, it looks like the ship is super fast…but i’m really not. the ship is pretty slow because i made it so heavy, but it is super maneuverable…maybe because of the engines being in arms? not sure if shape has any effect on maneuverability, but if it was a real ship, it would turn much tighter than it otherwise would…but again, not sure how the game physics actually work.
also, lot’s and lot’s of space for weapons. i have three missed launchers, three laser guns and two big EMP cannons. i’m pretty much unbeatable unless heavily outnumbered, and that becomes less and less an issue the more money i make and levels gained and the better shields and weapons i can buy.
Last time i was this early starfield was a fever dream 🔥
Just to be clear, if I finish the Crimson Fleet questline and betray them, the pirates you find during exploration turn back hostile right ?
Yes the Fleet who remain will be hostile.
I am addicted to trying to build the perfect Star Destroyer or the fighter with weapons and armor of a Super Dreadnaught.
I’ve lost sleep spending HOURS building ships
Just an idea, but what if we share ideas to keep the game fun. Like a "What to do when you're bored in Starfield".