I just wanted to add that if you think you'll get an S class by happy accident just by playing, in my over 2500 hrs of playtime over 5 years, it's happened ONCE.
For anyone interested in non capital freighters: You can also just fly up to the freighters that spawn in each system and buy them directly. But there won't be any Sentinel or Star Destroyer looking freighters. But you can geht through more freighters in a shorter time. Just reload at the space station and fly to the three fleets of freighters which will spawn in shortly after and check them out. Why would you want a non capital freighter? Because there is more variety in their looks and to stand out from the crowd.
I agree with this, some of the non capital freighters can get pretty cool looking. I had one save i took the first one i got which had that cool looking wheel on the front and pods on the side. Looked totally weird but i liked it.
THIS NO LONGER WORKS. HG CAN'T STOP BREAKING THEIR TOYS. Honourable mention: when you find the freighter style you want(colour doesn't matter because you can change that for a few nanites), *DO NOT* engage the pirates. Fly directly into the space station, land and jump out to create an auto save. This way, you can just reload prior the fight and recycle from there. Instead of trying to make the exact jump again and again.....
@@Lordoftheapes79 why would a manual save help when you're already in the system? Pick what up later? The only save you need to recycle a freighter battle is an auto save. Logging out and back in will bring you right back to the station....Unless you buy the freighter, the quick save doesn't apply when in an unowned freighter when jumping out to check the class.....
@@tidust7514 because this can take hours or DAYS sometimes. RNGesus is a fickle god. A manual save before the warp basically gives you the option to stop for now, without sacrificing the battle.
Also, you can use a current freighter to get your 5 waps without activating the battle sequence. Then just save and warp with your starship. Help with finding specific ones listed via glyphs.
Just a note, Permdeath actually has 2 saves. Every time a new one is made, the one before it moves to the Cache folder in the save folder named like an iteration number.
Pro tip: it’s best to choose an A class instead of spending hours trying to get an S. An A tier only have a couple less slots and pretty much the same stats as an S, and when you add a lot of good upgrades to that A class it won’t matter that it’s not an S
It would bug me knowing there’s better out there. I spent weeks looking for mine. I’d spend an hour or two every session then give up. Then a few days ago I’d been trying for a while and thought “I’ll give it four more reloads and I’ll give it a rest for the day”. Second go I hit the S class. And it was my first one so I had it for free. Then day before yesterday I started the new expedition and hit an S class third go, so I got lucky and hit two S classes in a few days - both free.
Honestly, I just got an A class and changed it to an S class in a save editor because I find it extremely frustrating you have to put literal days of grinding in the worst-case scenario or get absolutely insanely lucky to get the best class of freighter. The grind in NMS can be already tedious enough when you want the best ship, multitool, mods, and all the other stuff, but the freighter S class hunt in another level of brain cells killing borefest.
ive heard people saying that outlaw systems have higher chances for s class than 3 star systems, with 3 star systems having a 3% chance and outlaw systems having a 5% chance. the downside to outlaw systems is the core stats are very slightly worse and they start with less storage (but when fully upgraded they have the same storage)
Pro tip: in order to do this trick with your free freighter, you have to save the freighter and actually decline it outright. Talk to the captain and when you examine it, hit the decline button. Then play until you get a different one, do this trick and voila! Free freighter of your choosing. Also, I believe the 3 hour bit was removed. I know it used to be a thing because I AFK'd while I slept and immediately got the freighter on my next jump. But in my most recent save, I got the event immediately upon booting the game and jumping for the 5th time. (I had already jumped 4 times in my previous session) just an FYI
Only issue with declining the free freighter is there is a known bug that prevents you from ever having the encounter happen ever again, so you do take a risk refusing that free freighter
When Jason saw that exotic come in and lamented how he couldn't buy it is the reason I love his videos. Jason has the best attitude in all of video game UA-cam culture
(Disclaimer: I am new to NMS and found this last nite, so apologies if you already know about it) If you jump into a system and the freighter battle starts, go back to your last save. Then u know u are 1 jump away from triggering the battle. If you are after a specific capital ship or freighter and have a base already set up next to a monolith portal you can take the portal to the system where the capital ship spawns. Once you reach the target system I would chuck down another save here for speed. Next hyperdrive to a red star system nearby that does NOT have a space station (you'll need the hyperdrive technology upgrade for this on your ship). The freighter battle will not trigger in this system as there is no space station in the system. Then hyperdrive back to the previous system you were in (where the capital ship u need spawns) and the battle should start. Rinse and repeat from your save until u get the capital ship as an S class! It takes a lot of set up, but works!
i love how jasons just trying to tell everyone how to get a freighter and a royal red gup just flies into the station like "oh pardon me guys im just gonna fly into here..."
Anyone else take all the materials the freighters have when comparing them? In the compare menu when your current freighter is next to the one youre looking at, you can click on their materials (usually iron, gold, and platinum) and itll transfer to your freighter lol not much but hey its free.
FYI - In PC VR landing on a pad (the landing areas that makes your ship rotate) requires you exit the ship and reenter to lift off. I can only confirm this for Normal and Survivor. So keep that in mind while doing this. I am not sure if this happens PSVR.
For those people that have all 16 glyphs. You can find a freighter you want on nms coord exchange. Plug in the cords to that system, than simply warp to the nearest system to make a save. So once your ingame for 3 hours, can do your 5 warps near the system you used the glyps to reach. A bit more prep work. But it works if you got the glyphs :)
I've always had a problem with their freighters & ranks. There should be much more variety and HUGE differences between classes, size & rarity I don't miss a thing being in a B class and don't really care about upgrading since there isn't much difference.
A few tips to save you some time: 1. You don’t have to fight the pirates at all. (EDIT: They fixed this part now.) When you get in the system ignore the pirates, go to the freighter in the front of the group that is under attack, and just fly into the blue hangar area. Battle is over. If you like the ship and the class, go ahead and claim it. If you don’t like the class, don’t claim or take the reward, just leave and go do an auto save at the station and reload. Then keep going back to the freighter and checking the class. It will say you are buying it, but it will still be free. 👍🏻 2. If you wait until your 10th warp instead of your 5th, you will be guaranteed a capital class freighter. Not S class, but the capital style of freighters. 👍🏻 Edit: Finish the freighter battle on the 5th warp, but don’t accept the freighter, just get the reward instead. Now when you do your 10th warp, the freighter will still be free.
I believe he means that you should not accept the first freighter you get, the one you get the first time you do your 5th warp. The first freighter will always be a system freighter, so it is best to receive a reward (manures, gold, etc) instead. Then, all subsequent freighter battles will feature a Capital ship, and you will still be able to claim one for free.
@@takewithfood Yes, sorry guys. You finish the freighter battle on the 5th warp, or you simply enter the freighter instead of fighting, which ends the battle. Then you need to play 3 more hour of game time and on your 10th warp you are guaranteed a capital ship. Sorry I wasn’t super clear.
Also, I believe they fixed the hanger thing. I got my first freighter without having fought any pirates by flying into the hanger, but now I'm going for an s class and I tried to do it again, but they are sealed up until the fight is over. That could be a patch only for vr, but I don't know
Came back after 5 years not playing and found a nice class S freighter with a 1,965ly hyperdrive.. After upgrading it. I'm playing creative & didn't have to fight pirates to get it, I played 3 hours and warped 3 or 4 times. My advice to guarentee a class S freighter is to jump to geck pirate systems with pirate stations. Thanks Jason!
It's kinda hard to actually shoot the freighters, unless you hit a cargo pod it won't damage the ship unless the shield is destroyed, and if you stay on the outside of the shield you have no issues..
I finally got mine today for FREE. I watched another video that said to take the "reward " for the first freighter you save then this even will happen a second time after another 5 jumps and it will be a capital ship. If you B line it for the space station and save every time you reload the enemies are no longer there and you can just try to go in the freighter, scan and then reload if needed. Took me 98 NINETY EIGHT reloads to get my S Class Capital ship. I saw 19 A Class ships, 42, B class ships and 36 C Class ships in that time and it took me just under 2 hours.
For anyone who wants the freighter they found but want it in another class, you DO want to create a restore point at the space station, that way you can go to the freighter - Scan for class - Reload restore - fly back - hope for S class.
The warp count is definitely a bit janky. The 3 hours is 100% in my opinion. But I’ve occasionally had one pop in for me say after 4 warps. All I can assume is that after the 3 hour play time mark, the “warp counter starts to count down. “ meaning hypothetically if you play for 6 hours and don’t warp any, maybe it takes only 3-4 warps
I could be wrong, but I think the warp counter starts when you start playing, and then the battle will trigger only if after you've played for 3 hrs and warped at least 5 times in that playing session. So if you've warped 2 times before 3 hours, then you need only 3 more to get that 5 warp min. Likewise, if you've already warped 5 times within that first 3 hours, then your next warp after 3 hours should be the battle. My theory at least. Second theory is the warp count is a random between like 2 and 5 or something. So after 3 hours of playing, the RNG for warp count kicks in.
Crazy last night I got into a battle and on the first run it was an S class sentinel battleship only 3 slots in length I went ahead and traded my A class Dreadnaught for it because hell it was an S class even though smaller in size it was fully decked out. I upgraded the storage to max on both storage and tech and I am good the total worth of my new freighter is now 600,000,000.00 600 million . I have to say it's the most expensive so in the future if I did trade it I don't have to worry about ever needing cash to cover lol.
1. I've heard that you can claim your first freighter for free and if you decide not to take it you can take the 2nd and it is always better class than the 1st one.
I was actually able to pick up my S class after warping into a wealthy system and just checking the freighters that randomly spawn in. No battle or anything, landed on one and it was an S class. You may get lucky like that also.
I always liked the one you found at the beginning (3:00 to 5:00 mark), it looks similar to a Star Destroyer. I have that one, but it has 6 sets of cargo pods per side where the one you saw only had 2. I need to upgrade in class, though, mine's only a B-Class I think.
I finally found my dream freighter. I would look and get distracted/discouraged rocked a class for all most two yeas before the game game me a s class that I wanted. By then my a class was so decked out I almost didn't want to swap but knew the upgrade was worth it in long run :]
The rng in this game is ridiculous farmed it for 6 hours in a 3 star booming system. Had to get off cause it is so late rn. Made a manual save before getting off to hopefully be able to pick it back up later on. At the same time though why can't we use nanites to upgrade class like any other item. Makes no sense why you can't turn an a class into an s class.... this venture was soul crushing. Great video and info though. Hopefully everyone else having better luck than me.
I've heard you always get a freighter battle on the 5th jump .. it did not happen , I ended up buying a freighter , played at least 4 hours jumped 5 times first day I owned the game 4/20 (it was half price) , been playing since , love the game make lots of units and nanites because I do what you guys tell me work and it dose couple mil. units an hour no prob , more nanites than I know what to spend them on , but the freighter thing never worked for me , oh well , thanks for all the awesome vids and advice its worked wonders , so long and thanks for all the fish , oh and liked of course
Thank you jason, im starting the grind now, I'll update when i get my star destroyer, i didn't know this was in the game and im a star wars fan so i have to get it
A new guide is needed, which YTer will be first with the new guide? Since Endurance, if you land on the station, the battle ceases and will not restart, if you make a save in the battle system and fly back, the battle is over and your chance is gone It seems the only way now is to reset back to your pre-warp save point, or to fly in to an uninhabited system (like a red, green or blue one) and save there But since Endurance or possibly before(?) It is possible to claim your freighter from a random battle that beings once youre flying around the system - the "rescue a distressed freighter" mission. So as i say new guide needed I bet Xaine is already working on it, will you beat him to it? :)
The battle does not matter, you can reload your save, just fly back into the freighter and the options will be "claim" ship. No need for a new guide. Trust me I just did my reload 98 times in a row, no pirates, no fighting just me flying to the freighter as fast as possible, scanning and reloading.
I just started playing no man's sky and I recently got a freighter and it just so happens to be S class (first try). I came here on UA-cam searching for a video guide on using freighters since it's my first playthrough and it all looks so confusing and I stumbled upon this video. Now seeing how difficult it is to get S class I feel so lucky 😄.
Main takeaway I got from this video: "go to space station if you accidentally shoot the fleet". I'm definitely glad I watched this whole video because I was about to leave. I've seen several videos like this but never heard about the space station thing
If you find the design and style you like, go straight to the space station and create the autosave. You will always have the battle ready when you leave it. So if you dont like the class of it just reload and leave the station and do the battle again. Rince and repeat until you get the class you want. It's a lot quicker and easier than having to relocate the system again.
@@luc2o agreed, I haven't been able to get this save method to work. I'll land and save then finish a fight. Reload and combat is done, no freighter offer. Three different saves I've tried and it's been the same.
Someone mentioned that you have to save before entering combat, maybe that's what I was doing wrong. I'd head straight to the station but perhaps I was getting flagged for combat before hand from being close to a freighter battle.
A tip would be that you can tell which class the freighter is by looking at how many segment it has. That way you dont have to beat the pirate and waste time, thats what i did for my s class.
Love ya Jason, but I still hope we're getting a freighter update soon making this obsolete. I've done this grind too many times now and would rather have a system like we have for multitools and starships.
They've added so much to this game, but still have so much they could add. Like allowing us to have multiple freighters like the AI does, allowing us to expand our ship inventory space, or maybe just adding 6 more slots for each freighter your own. Also they need to be better about fixing glitches like the dup glitch so many people use it and ruins a lot of the game
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660 I just happened to come across this while reviewing other stuff, it baffles me how hit or miss youtube notifications are... Anyway, if you still "need" that much inventory space, you might want to take a look at what you're holding on to. I struggle to use half of what's available at this point.
I got a S-Class on boot up of my game, didn't need 3 hour game play. Didn't need a battle to save a freighter, when you go to a new system warp or teleport to station or base. When you see a fleet in space at least 1 will allow you to board, then scan the deck once aboard and see it's class.
Have to add, the shit looks terrible and it was after 3 days of warping around, but it was the first warp of that game session if found it. Testing now to see if I have another way to get an s class with out having a battle to fight.
Yep. Ok. So you don't need space battle, I have a base in a well off system, teleported there and zipped up to space. There was 1 fleet and another warped in. So I had 2 choices, as 1 always allows boarding. First hour game play C and B class ships, teleported away through said base waited for over an hour game play, went back to that system same fleet in space same one warped in. Both were now A class. Went back out of system waited 20 minutes went back to that system first one was S class. Bought it and now have a better looking S-class Frighter.
Fun fact: there r set systems with the 2 biggest capital freighters in elucid galaxy I have tested these from yt and the cord exchange the classes will mostly be a B/A class but ones the white star destroyer and the other is the juggnuaght class
i got an s class freighter for free on my first try at a two star system and it had 4 supercharged slots. 3 together and 1 to the right. thx for your help
great vid, i didn`t do the battle for one, so had to put the freighter is always mod in your first system when u get there, finally after 2 days i found 1 , not the tiny ones , the big fat one, i was like omg, as i was almost done searching, then landed at the space station and saved and was looking for a s one, took a while and bought 1 S Class
I finally did it! Got the big boy black and red striped Venator for FREE as my FIRST EVER freighter in NMS BUT, after a 10+hours reloading, I learned you CANNOT have a Capitol ship spawn as the first ship. So if you want an S class capital ship, DECLINE THE FIRST, wait 3+ hours, make your 10th jump to the 3 star system with the freighter you want. After 10+ hours, I could only ever get the most basic of cargo freighters to spawn and only B and C class in 3 star systems. Seems HG don't want you to get an S class roll on the first one.
@@dukecunning7046 since this is my first time playing the game, I don't know for sure, but I assume you can, due to the Galaxy controlling what type of freight spawns. Every time you visit, it SHOULD be the same freighter, with the only variable being class.
I played for a few hours tonight like he mentioned. Not liking my chances so far haha does that really work? Saving it at the space station and it refreshing it would save time lol
Yep, I'm not too worried about getting an S-class either. The A does the trick. It takes work to grind out more storage slots! I still haven't bothered getting them all, since the 9 storage contrainers hold all my stuff!
I was farming my current ship for hours when I autopilot hit e when landing after accidentally hitting the freighter. Thank god for steam cloud, I was able to download my save and overwrite that mistake.
Another thing I believe ships are also larger in 3 star systems because I got my max size destroyer, but I’m not sure about higher s-class chances bc it took me 16 hours for a s-class
Hey Jason. Ty For this video. Got lucky and got an S class starship instantly. I want to request you for a video on s class multitool hunting. I am having no luck finding one. Ty again 👌🏻
Love your videos Jason they’re so helpful been playing nms since day 1 but honestly waiting for the switch release in august to continue playing just for the portability factor 😁❤️
I’ve warped so many times and never seen one of these freighters. So many warps and 3 star systems. Not once. Always the bulky cargo pod freighters. I guess you set this up for the video. Too much good luck finding 4 in a row!
Dude....J-Dog.....You are AWESOME. Look at you. What you did. Thank you so much for all your hard work and effort. Not only do you do what you do, you got something that makes you so personable and pleasant and good....for me anyways. Love your work. Thank you.
Good news everyone; I got my S-Class Freighter after playing another 1 hour; so thats 10+1 hours in total… 😬🥳 I did not get option to keep my Freighter base; so I have to rebuild; so that should take another 1 hour but thats OK. So now I have 4 Saves with 2 S-Class Freighters and 2 A-Class Freighters 🤓
So what most of these seem to fail to mention is that if you skip that 2nd freighter because you didn't know these rules, you won't get the chance for a 3rd freighter encounter. 😑
What hurts me is that I followed these instructions (albeit not on purpose. I was trying to find some exosuit upgrades), I found the VERY same ship as the one in the thumbnail, S-class and everything. But since I was just 10k units away from a purchase, and since I wasn't planning on buying a freighter, I had nothing to trade with on the station, and I had to let the damn ship go. Complete bs :(
In my new play through, I was never offered a freighter. When I finally got into a fight for a capital ship, they offer to let me buy it. Strange I never got into this fight earlier and got the free one.
This happened to my roommate two days ago who just started playing; I told her the first one is free, but she said they only offered for her to buy it… Not sure what happened, my only theory is that one of the latest patches may have messed up the free first freighter, since one was a fix for when people weren’t given the 1st map piece from a freighter captain in the Blighted expedition.. I’m just gonna join her game and help her get 150mil to buy one now 😅
@@blankoneenyo3394 I did this today. I have only 50m and the ship was 120m. I thought it was suppose to be free so I click on the "purchase" button anyway. Surprisingly, it gave me the ship for free and I kept the 50m. It also auto-saves the game though so be careful if you change your mind. Luckily I also did a manual save at base before heading out for the hunt. I just reload the manual save and I'm still on the hunt for that free capitol ship.
Also been doing axactly this before checking the video without reloads cause i'm on expedition sessions so it doesn't reload the sections like how it goes for this video, anyhow only 34 hrs in the game and already ready to get my last thing which is a S class Freighter xD Thanks for the tips though, Edit : also i got lucky with each warp to a pirate conflict, i had to battle against Pirate destroyers, so each battle gave me 3 cargo bulks cause i destroyed it easy and then upgraded my B class freighter to where it costs 200mil :3 no need for money needs!
This isn’t really about freighters themselves, but if you start a freighter battle with 5 pirates, the exotic ship of that system will fight in that battle and will almost always land in the space station afterwards, so doing this is also a decent way for you to find a desired exotic ship
out of the times iv done this i think once or twice i got an s class pretty quick other times spent hours farming one newest save i just went with an A class
Don't you get your first one for free?
Yes, you do get your first for free
Yep, but most people have already accepted it. If you have not then you can keep reloading a save to get that S Class.
@@JasonPlaysNMS well nevermind I reloaded my save and the Frighter event trigger stopped happening.
@@finn9000 jump to another system and jump back, it will trigger, given the RNG is in your favor!
All the freighters look the same to me. Is the S class really worth all those credits?
I just wanted to add that if you think you'll get an S class by happy accident just by playing, in my over 2500 hrs of playtime over 5 years, it's happened ONCE.
150hrs here. I got really lucky my second freighter for my new save was a S class. My old save from back in 2018 took hours of this method.
@@ryanlarkin4405 yall gonna hate me, 16hrs here and i got the exact same S-Class Freighter he found in the video
110 hours here. Encountered S-class freighter in my first 10 hours.
110 hours here. Encountered S-class freighter in my first 10 hours.
@@J4m3sik yeah, it happens. RNGesus is funny like that, however, I've seen 3 since this post, so I'm starting to think they tweaked the spawn rates.
For anyone interested in non capital freighters: You can also just fly up to the freighters that spawn in each system and buy them directly. But there won't be any Sentinel or Star Destroyer looking freighters. But you can geht through more freighters in a shorter time. Just reload at the space station and fly to the three fleets of freighters which will spawn in shortly after and check them out.
Why would you want a non capital freighter? Because there is more variety in their looks and to stand out from the crowd.
I agree with this, some of the non capital freighters can get pretty cool looking. I had one save i took the first one i got which had that cool looking wheel on the front and pods on the side. Looked totally weird but i liked it.
I like how thr non supercap ships actually look like freighters. But I like thr more storage of the super caps.
Umbrella capital freighters have more space right.
THIS NO LONGER WORKS. HG CAN'T STOP BREAKING THEIR TOYS.
Honourable mention: when you find the freighter style you want(colour doesn't matter because you can change that for a few nanites), *DO NOT* engage the pirates. Fly directly into the space station, land and jump out to create an auto save. This way, you can just reload prior the fight and recycle from there. Instead of trying to make the exact jump again and again.....
Additionally, if you're going to use this method, make sure you make a manual save before warping so you can pick it up later.
Read this just as i came across the style and color i want you’re the MVP thank you 🙏
*Morgan Freeman voice* "He's right you know"
@@Lordoftheapes79 why would a manual save help when you're already in the system? Pick what up later? The only save you need to recycle a freighter battle is an auto save. Logging out and back in will bring you right back to the station....Unless you buy the freighter, the quick save doesn't apply when in an unowned freighter when jumping out to check the class.....
@@tidust7514 because this can take hours or DAYS sometimes. RNGesus is a fickle god. A manual save before the warp basically gives you the option to stop for now, without sacrificing the battle.
Thanks for the method. Used it to get my S class 7 segment black and gold sentinel capital ship last night. Took 57 resets in a 3 star system.
Also, you can use a current freighter to get your 5 waps without activating the battle sequence. Then just save and warp with your starship. Help with finding specific ones listed via glyphs.
Just a note, Permdeath actually has 2 saves.
Every time a new one is made, the one before it moves to the Cache folder in the save folder named like an iteration number.
Pro tip: it’s best to choose an A class instead of spending hours trying to get an S. An A tier only have a couple less slots and pretty much the same stats as an S, and when you add a lot of good upgrades to that A class it won’t matter that it’s not an S
It would bug me knowing there’s better out there. I spent weeks looking for mine. I’d spend an hour or two every session then give up. Then a few days ago I’d been trying for a while and thought “I’ll give it four more reloads and I’ll give it a rest for the day”. Second go I hit the S class. And it was my first one so I had it for free. Then day before yesterday I started the new expedition and hit an S class third go, so I got lucky and hit two S classes in a few days - both free.
I spent somewhere around 3 hours to get my dream freighter in a wealthy system. But if A class does the job for you, I won't be the one to judge.
Honestly, I just got an A class and changed it to an S class in a save editor because I find it extremely frustrating you have to put literal days of grinding in the worst-case scenario or get absolutely insanely lucky to get the best class of freighter. The grind in NMS can be already tedious enough when you want the best ship, multitool, mods, and all the other stuff, but the freighter S class hunt in another level of brain cells killing borefest.
Agreed with OP here. Afterall after getting rich and money start to be useless, then....those S Class Freighter can be the money sinker.
That’s what I ended up doing. That’s how I got a resurgent class
ive heard people saying that outlaw systems have higher chances for s class than 3 star systems, with 3 star systems having a 3% chance and outlaw systems having a 5% chance. the downside to outlaw systems is the core stats are very slightly worse and they start with less storage (but when fully upgraded they have the same storage)
Pro tip: in order to do this trick with your free freighter, you have to save the freighter and actually decline it outright. Talk to the captain and when you examine it, hit the decline button. Then play until you get a different one, do this trick and voila! Free freighter of your choosing. Also, I believe the 3 hour bit was removed. I know it used to be a thing because I AFK'd while I slept and immediately got the freighter on my next jump. But in my most recent save, I got the event immediately upon booting the game and jumping for the 5th time. (I had already jumped 4 times in my previous session) just an FYI
Only issue with declining the free freighter is there is a known bug that prevents you from ever having the encounter happen ever again, so you do take a risk refusing that free freighter
Can you decline the second one and still get another one offered in 5jumps? Can you do that over and over, rather than reloading save? Cheers
@@Moz29 yes, it does keep happening forever.
i accidentally claimed the first freighter n it keeps offering more to me for free when i beat the pirates n go on the comms
When Jason saw that exotic come in and lamented how he couldn't buy it is the reason I love his videos. Jason has the best attitude in all of video game UA-cam culture
I stopped looking for an S class freighter a long time ago. I have and totally upgraded and outfitted A class and are happy with it.
Nice!! A Class Freighters are so close, especially with upgrades. The small increase is almost not worth the time looking for S Class
@@JasonPlaysNMS That is true
good move - I have like 600+ hours in NMS and have never seen an S-class.
(Disclaimer: I am new to NMS and found this last nite, so apologies if you already know about it)
If you jump into a system and the freighter battle starts, go back to your last save. Then u know u are 1 jump away from triggering the battle. If you are after a specific capital ship or freighter and have a base already set up next to a monolith portal you can take the portal to the system where the capital ship spawns. Once you reach the target system I would chuck down another save here for speed. Next hyperdrive to a red star system nearby that does NOT have a space station (you'll need the hyperdrive technology upgrade for this on your ship). The freighter battle will not trigger in this system as there is no space station in the system. Then hyperdrive back to the previous system you were in (where the capital ship u need spawns) and the battle should start. Rinse and repeat from your save until u get the capital ship as an S class!
It takes a lot of set up, but works!
i love how jasons just trying to tell everyone how to get a freighter and a royal red gup just flies into the station like "oh pardon me guys im just gonna fly into here..."
good video as always!
Anyone else take all the materials the freighters have when comparing them? In the compare menu when your current freighter is next to the one youre looking at, you can click on their materials (usually iron, gold, and platinum) and itll transfer to your freighter lol not much but hey its free.
the fact you ignored a exotic just to go on with the video really shows your dedication. its not much but it is the little things that give it away.
FYI - In PC VR landing on a pad (the landing areas that makes your ship rotate) requires you exit the ship and reenter to lift off. I can only confirm this for Normal and Survivor. So keep that in mind while doing this. I am not sure if this happens PSVR.
For those people that have all 16 glyphs. You can find a freighter you want on nms coord exchange. Plug in the cords to that system, than simply warp to the nearest system to make a save. So once your ingame for 3 hours, can do your 5 warps near the system you used the glyps to reach. A bit more prep work. But it works if you got the glyphs :)
i don't undestand. Where is de nms coord exchange? how to select a freighther from there? how to use the glyphs? i have all the 16.
@@Page157 1. It's an internet site.
2. You don't select anything.
3. You need a portal to activate your glyphs.
Will I get a freighter for free is I use coordinates?
@@odte7083 no.
@@odte7083 the cords just give you a chance for a specific one
I've always had a problem with their freighters & ranks. There should be much more variety and HUGE differences between classes, size & rarity I don't miss a thing being in a B class and don't really care about upgrading since there isn't much difference.
I agree with almost everything, but the swag tho
@Jason just to add to this, I believe the Pirate systems have an increased chance of S-Class over a 3-star economy system
A few tips to save you some time:
1. You don’t have to fight the pirates at all. (EDIT: They fixed this part now.) When you get in the system ignore the pirates, go to the freighter in the front of the group that is under attack, and just fly into the blue hangar area. Battle is over. If you like the ship and the class, go ahead and claim it. If you don’t like the class, don’t claim or take the reward, just leave and go do an auto save at the station and reload. Then keep going back to the freighter and checking the class. It will say you are buying it, but it will still be free. 👍🏻
2. If you wait until your 10th warp instead of your 5th, you will be guaranteed a capital class freighter. Not S class, but the capital style of freighters. 👍🏻
Edit: Finish the freighter battle on the 5th warp, but don’t accept the freighter, just get the reward instead. Now when you do your 10th warp, the freighter will still be free.
What do you mean wait until your 10th warp? If the event spawns on the fifth warp? Do you just not engage the event and keep warping?
Point 2. Doesn't work for me
I believe he means that you should not accept the first freighter you get, the one you get the first time you do your 5th warp. The first freighter will always be a system freighter, so it is best to receive a reward (manures, gold, etc) instead. Then, all subsequent freighter battles will feature a Capital ship, and you will still be able to claim one for free.
@@takewithfood Yes, sorry guys. You finish the freighter battle on the 5th warp, or you simply enter the freighter instead of fighting, which ends the battle. Then you need to play 3 more hour of game time and on your 10th warp you are guaranteed a capital ship. Sorry I wasn’t super clear.
Also, I believe they fixed the hanger thing. I got my first freighter without having fought any pirates by flying into the hanger, but now I'm going for an s class and I tried to do it again, but they are sealed up until the fight is over. That could be a patch only for vr, but I don't know
I believe Outlaw/Pirate systems have the highest change to spawn an S class.
Really? I’ll try it out
@@lemonpie9633 how’d it go
Came back after 5 years not playing and found a nice class S freighter with a 1,965ly hyperdrive.. After upgrading it. I'm playing creative & didn't have to fight pirates to get it, I played 3 hours and warped 3 or 4 times. My advice to guarentee a class S freighter is to jump to geck pirate systems with pirate stations. Thanks Jason!
It's kinda hard to actually shoot the freighters, unless you hit a cargo pod it won't damage the ship unless the shield is destroyed, and if you stay on the outside of the shield you have no issues..
I finally got mine today for FREE. I watched another video that said to take the "reward " for the first freighter you save then this even will happen a second time after another 5 jumps and it will be a capital ship. If you B line it for the space station and save every time you reload the enemies are no longer there and you can just try to go in the freighter, scan and then reload if needed.
Took me 98 NINETY EIGHT reloads to get my S Class Capital ship.
I saw 19 A Class ships, 42, B class ships and 36 C Class ships in that time and it took me just under 2 hours.
For anyone who wants the freighter they found but want it in another class, you DO want to create a restore point at the space station, that way you can go to the freighter - Scan for class - Reload restore - fly back - hope for S class.
You can scan for the class? I always thought you had to beat the pirates to be able to board it to find out.
@@davidhuynh2560 same here, I had to wait 5 hours to try again
Great video, thanks very much!
Followed your excellent advice. Now got an S Class Resurgent after around 12 reloads. Well happy.
The warp count is definitely a bit janky. The 3 hours is 100% in my opinion. But I’ve occasionally had one pop in for me say after 4 warps. All I can assume is that after the 3 hour play time mark, the “warp counter starts to count down. “ meaning hypothetically if you play for 6 hours and don’t warp any, maybe it takes only 3-4 warps
I totally agree. It never happens before 3 hours but warping is a little iffy. For this one I had to warp 3 times, but it can take up to 5 sometimes.
I could be wrong, but I think the warp counter starts when you start playing, and then the battle will trigger only if after you've played for 3 hrs and warped at least 5 times in that playing session. So if you've warped 2 times before 3 hours, then you need only 3 more to get that 5 warp min. Likewise, if you've already warped 5 times within that first 3 hours, then your next warp after 3 hours should be the battle. My theory at least. Second theory is the warp count is a random between like 2 and 5 or something. So after 3 hours of playing, the RNG for warp count kicks in.
Crazy last night I got into a battle and on the first run it was an S class sentinel battleship only 3 slots in length I went ahead and traded my A class Dreadnaught for it because hell it was an S class even though smaller in size it was fully decked out. I upgraded the storage to max on both storage and tech and I am good the total worth of my new freighter is now 600,000,000.00 600 million . I have to say it's the most expensive so in the future if I did trade it I don't have to worry about ever needing cash to cover lol.
You don't need to land in the space station to clear your heat. Just finish killing the pirates, and you'll still get the reward prompt.
1. I've heard that you can claim your first freighter for free and if you decide not to take it you can take the 2nd and it is always better class than the 1st one.
For all my NMS needs, your channel always delivers
I was actually able to pick up my S class after warping into a wealthy system and just checking the freighters that randomly spawn in. No battle or anything, landed on one and it was an S class. You may get lucky like that also.
Was it a super capital? I think you only get those from thr missions
Found mine on first try too. I thought its normal
I always liked the one you found at the beginning (3:00 to 5:00 mark), it looks similar to a Star Destroyer. I have that one, but it has 6 sets of cargo pods per side where the one you saw only had 2. I need to upgrade in class, though, mine's only a B-Class I think.
I finally found my dream freighter. I would look and get distracted/discouraged rocked a class for all most two yeas before the game game me a s class that I wanted. By then my a class was so decked out I almost didn't want to swap but knew the upgrade was worth it in long run :]
The rng in this game is ridiculous farmed it for 6 hours in a 3 star booming system. Had to get off cause it is so late rn. Made a manual save before getting off to hopefully be able to pick it back up later on. At the same time though why can't we use nanites to upgrade class like any other item. Makes no sense why you can't turn an a class into an s class.... this venture was soul crushing. Great video and info though. Hopefully everyone else having better luck than me.
Great tipp!!!
First attempt found my arrowhead s-tier capital freighter. Now building up my base...👍️🤗
I've heard you always get a freighter battle on the 5th jump .. it did not happen , I ended up buying a freighter , played at least 4 hours jumped 5 times first day I owned the game 4/20 (it was half price) , been playing since , love the game make lots of units and nanites because I do what you guys tell me work and it dose couple mil. units an hour no prob , more nanites than I know what to spend them on , but the freighter thing never worked for me , oh well , thanks for all the awesome vids and advice its worked wonders , so long and thanks for all the fish , oh and liked of course
I wish you had gotten the glyphs for that red exotic :D
Goes to show how dedicated this legend is, he just happily stumbles across a wave exotic and just brushes it of😮😂
cheers! reinstalled after 2 years n it's about time i upgrade my a-class freight to an s-class.
Thank you jason, im starting the grind now, I'll update when i get my star destroyer, i didn't know this was in the game and im a star wars fan so i have to get it
I got lucky. The 2nd freighter I saved on the latest expedition save was an S-Class. I'm making that my main save for sure.
I would too!😂😂
A new guide is needed, which YTer will be first with the new guide?
Since Endurance, if you land on the station, the battle ceases and will not restart, if you make a save in the battle system and fly back, the battle is over and your chance is gone
It seems the only way now is to reset back to your pre-warp save point, or to fly in to an uninhabited system (like a red, green or blue one) and save there
But since Endurance or possibly before(?) It is possible to claim your freighter from a random battle that beings once youre flying around the system - the "rescue a distressed freighter" mission.
So as i say new guide needed
I bet Xaine is already working on it, will you beat him to it? :)
The battle does not matter, you can reload your save, just fly back into the freighter and the options will be "claim" ship. No need for a new guide. Trust me I just did my reload 98 times in a row, no pirates, no fighting just me flying to the freighter as fast as possible, scanning and reloading.
I just started playing no man's sky and I recently got a freighter and it just so happens to be S class (first try). I came here on UA-cam searching for a video guide on using freighters since it's my first playthrough and it all looks so confusing and I stumbled upon this video. Now seeing how difficult it is to get S class I feel so lucky 😄.
Main takeaway I got from this video: "go to space station if you accidentally shoot the fleet". I'm definitely glad I watched this whole video because I was about to leave. I've seen several videos like this but never heard about the space station thing
NMS version of Ground Hog Day. Thanks Jason, learning tons from your videos...
If you find the design and style you like, go straight to the space station and create the autosave. You will always have the battle ready when you leave it. So if you dont like the class of it just reload and leave the station and do the battle again. Rince and repeat until you get the class you want. It's a lot quicker and easier than having to relocate the system again.
I did that 60 times last night in a wealthy system and never an S Class. I gave up, I'll try it again later.
@@luc2o 61 was the one.
@@mmack66 it probably was , I just keep my eyes open
@@luc2o agreed, I haven't been able to get this save method to work. I'll land and save then finish a fight. Reload and combat is done, no freighter offer. Three different saves I've tried and it's been the same.
Someone mentioned that you have to save before entering combat, maybe that's what I was doing wrong. I'd head straight to the station but perhaps I was getting flagged for combat before hand from being close to a freighter battle.
A tip would be that you can tell which class the freighter is by looking at how many segment it has. That way you dont have to beat the pirate and waste time, thats what i did for my s class.
wtf how have i never noticed that. Mind blown
Finally got the S-class after 432 attempts.
Love ya Jason, but I still hope we're getting a freighter update soon making this obsolete. I've done this grind too many times now and would rather have a system like we have for multitools and starships.
They've added so much to this game, but still have so much they could add. Like allowing us to have multiple freighters like the AI does, allowing us to expand our ship inventory space, or maybe just adding 6 more slots for each freighter your own. Also they need to be better about fixing glitches like the dup glitch so many people use it and ruins a lot of the game
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660 I just happened to come across this while reviewing other stuff, it baffles me how hit or miss youtube notifications are...
Anyway, if you still "need" that much inventory space, you might want to take a look at what you're holding on to. I struggle to use half of what's available at this point.
0:33 I have the exact same reaction when I see an exotic ship. lol I've been playing for over 50 hours and only saw 3. I currently own 2. Hahahah.
I like that aliens awesome head, it's brain swirls like a atomic symbol.
It's got lights around its head too.
I findly got one !! Took like 200 reloads but I finally got S Class freighter.! Looks like the one in the thumbnail but bigger.
I got a S-Class on boot up of my game, didn't need 3 hour game play.
Didn't need a battle to save a freighter, when you go to a new system warp or teleport to station or base. When you see a fleet in space at least 1 will allow you to board, then scan the deck once aboard and see it's class.
Have to add, the shit looks terrible and it was after 3 days of warping around, but it was the first warp of that game session if found it.
Testing now to see if I have another way to get an s class with out having a battle to fight.
Yep. Ok. So you don't need space battle, I have a base in a well off system, teleported there and zipped up to space.
There was 1 fleet and another warped in. So I had 2 choices, as 1 always allows boarding.
First hour game play C and B class ships, teleported away through said base waited for over an hour game play, went back to that system same fleet in space same one warped in. Both were now A class. Went back out of system waited 20 minutes went back to that system first one was S class. Bought it and now have a better looking S-class Frighter.
Fun fact: there r set systems with the 2 biggest capital freighters in elucid galaxy I have tested these from yt and the cord exchange the classes will mostly be a B/A class but ones the white star destroyer and the other is the juggnuaght class
which systems are they in? do you know?
i got an s class freighter for free on my first try at a two star system and it had 4 supercharged slots. 3 together and 1 to the right. thx for your help
great vid, i didn`t do the battle for one, so had to put the freighter is always mod in your first system when u get there, finally after 2 days i found 1 , not the tiny ones , the big fat one, i was like omg, as i was almost done searching, then landed at the space station and saved and was looking for a s one, took a while and bought 1 S Class
I finally did it! Got the big boy black and red striped Venator for FREE as my FIRST EVER freighter in NMS
BUT, after a 10+hours reloading, I learned you CANNOT have a Capitol ship spawn as the first ship. So if you want an S class capital ship, DECLINE THE FIRST, wait 3+ hours, make your 10th jump to the 3 star system with the freighter you want. After 10+ hours, I could only ever get the most basic of cargo freighters to spawn and only B and C class in 3 star systems. Seems HG don't want you to get an S class roll on the first one.
Does this work even if the you have already visited the system with the freighter you want?
@@dukecunning7046 since this is my first time playing the game, I don't know for sure, but I assume you can, due to the Galaxy controlling what type of freight spawns. Every time you visit, it SHOULD be the same freighter, with the only variable being class.
Once you've found the ship you like, auto save in the space station. Then every time you reload, it shuffles the class.
I played for a few hours tonight like he mentioned. Not liking my chances so far haha does that really work? Saving it at the space station and it refreshing it would save time lol
@stevenflaton2693 Yeah it works. At least it did at the time. Updates may have changed it.
@@rider3859 unfortunately it doesn’t work ;/ but, today I found a dreadnought and did 8 fights and I got an S class ☺️
Tysm this has helped a lot. Keep up the good work, i love ur vids😊
Good Info
knowing that the Style is set by the system, but the Class is re-rollable.
Best explanation yet! I finally understand how to get one thankyou!
FYI, In 4.0, if you get out on the freighter, it DOES autosave. I learned the hard way. PLEASE PIN.
Over 200 hours played and i still have A class Freighter 😀
Yep, I'm not too worried about getting an S-class either. The A does the trick. It takes work to grind out more storage slots! I still haven't bothered getting them all, since the 9 storage contrainers hold all my stuff!
Yeah me too I’m in the same boat , I’ll eventually get it an S class !
With all the ways to manage inventory, especially after getting cargo slots on our spaceships, A-Class works just fine for me too.
I was farming my current ship for hours when I autopilot hit e when landing after accidentally hitting the freighter. Thank god for steam cloud, I was able to download my save and overwrite that mistake.
Don't forget if you compare freighters check the cargo, you can take the stuff they have without having to buy it.
THANK YOU, got my dream S class dreadnort sentinel freighter .
I had a 15 slot S Class in the Leviathan Expedition but I wanted the slots and I wanted to find a better looking ship.
Ah man! You are the best! You help and entertain at the same time. You are the first NMS UA-camr whos videos want to watch until the end! 😀
Another thing I believe ships are also larger in 3 star systems because I got my max size destroyer, but I’m not sure about higher s-class chances bc it took me 16 hours for a s-class
Hey Jason. Ty For this video. Got lucky and got an S class starship instantly. I want to request you for a video on s class multitool hunting. I am having no luck finding one. Ty again 👌🏻
I got an S Class Freighter not long time ago,i named it = Tector-class Star Destroyer= just because its the flat freighter,i love it!!!
Love your videos Jason they’re so helpful been playing nms since day 1 but honestly waiting for the switch release in august to continue playing just for the portability factor 😁❤️
You already can play portable, if you're on Xbox and you have an Android anyway.
Cloud gaming bro.
@@ineptspecimen2280 mainly on switch that’s why
Very helpful. Thank you kindly.
Hopefully this still works to this day because I’m playing no man sky for the first time after seven years. I don’t want to mess up my first choice.
First freighter in a new save is free. That's why you do it. Easy money for starting industrial.
I’ve warped so many times and never seen one of these freighters. So many warps and 3 star systems. Not once. Always the bulky cargo pod freighters. I guess you set this up for the video. Too much good luck finding 4 in a row!
Dude....J-Dog.....You are AWESOME. Look at you. What you did. Thank you so much for all your hard work and effort. Not only do you do what you do, you got something that makes you so personable and pleasant and good....for me anyways. Love your work. Thank you.
With the economy scanner you can go to wealthy systems that has a significantly higher chance of having an S-class freighter.
Good video J man
been loving the videos, maybe turn down the in game sound a bit though, it's realllly loud
I didn't know when swaping freighters, it would transfer everything you done to previous freighter.
Helped, thanks.
Good news everyone; I got my S-Class Freighter after playing another 1 hour; so thats 10+1 hours in total… 😬🥳
I did not get option to keep my Freighter base; so I have to rebuild; so that should take another 1 hour but thats OK.
So now I have 4 Saves with 2 S-Class Freighters and 2 A-Class Freighters 🤓
So what most of these seem to fail to mention is that if you skip that 2nd freighter because you didn't know these rules, you won't get the chance for a 3rd freighter encounter. 😑
What hurts me is that I followed these instructions (albeit not on purpose. I was trying to find some exosuit upgrades), I found the VERY same ship as the one in the thumbnail, S-class and everything. But since I was just 10k units away from a purchase, and since I wasn't planning on buying a freighter, I had nothing to trade with on the station, and I had to let the damn ship go. Complete bs :(
In my new play through, I was never offered a freighter. When I finally got into a fight for a capital ship, they offer to let me buy it. Strange I never got into this fight earlier and got the free one.
This happened to my roommate two days ago who just started playing; I told her the first one is free, but she said they only offered for her to buy it… Not sure what happened, my only theory is that one of the latest patches may have messed up the free first freighter, since one was a fix for when people weren’t given the 1st map piece from a freighter captain in the Blighted expedition..
I’m just gonna join her game and help her get 150mil to buy one now 😅
@@blankoneenyo3394 I did this today. I have only 50m and the ship was 120m. I thought it was suppose to be free so I click on the "purchase" button anyway. Surprisingly, it gave me the ship for free and I kept the 50m. It also auto-saves the game though so be careful if you change your mind. Luckily I also did a manual save at base before heading out for the hunt. I just reload the manual save and I'm still on the hunt for that free capitol ship.
Thanks Jason
Do you have a video for the coordinates for the solar ship used in the guide? that's pretty close to the exact one I want!
Where was this video yesterday night. I've just started to move around after tens of hours and saved a junkyard-worthy freighter. Drat.
You don't have to fight the attacking ships you can just go in the freighter after warping and you can buy it like normal
I got one after my 3rd day playing. Probably my 4th freighter fight.
I have read that if you deny the first freighter offered you are almost always guaranteed a capital freghter on the second go
wait.. i want that ship thats in the first few seconds of the video. that thing was nuts!
Also been doing axactly this before checking the video without reloads cause i'm on expedition sessions so it doesn't reload the sections like how it goes for this video, anyhow only 34 hrs in the game and already ready to get my last thing which is a S class Freighter xD Thanks for the tips though, Edit : also i got lucky with each warp to a pirate conflict, i had to battle against Pirate destroyers, so each battle gave me 3 cargo bulks cause i destroyed it easy and then upgraded my B class freighter to where it costs 200mil :3 no need for money needs!
This isn’t really about freighters themselves, but if you start a freighter battle with 5 pirates, the exotic ship of that system will fight in that battle and will almost always land in the space station afterwards, so doing this is also a decent way for you to find a desired exotic ship
Also I would recommend making a manual save before you warp just in case
This still work? Also, how do I start a battle with 5 pirates?
I wish you could upgrade the class of your capitalship/frigate with nanites like you can with starships.
Problem with Sentinel Freighters
I keep crashing into that antenna cluster when I take off....
out of the times iv done this i think once or twice i got an s class pretty quick other times spent hours farming one newest save i just went with an A class