Gotta be honest there, i turn on godmode whenever that happens. This is a major bug that apparently can´t get fixed and i do not consider it cheating, more like counter-cheating. Also, as i am in the mood for it today, i´ll leave you all with a slightly cursed picture.
Not cursed at all. It was a deliberate action by the Creator of this "Vessel" to add non SV/HV Devices to the Built. Those should have been replaced/removed within the Blueprints yet but as you can see...
Alright...I gave up. The infector I was in, I think, was bugged. I couldnt destroy any blocks on it, at all. I tried set charges, all firearms, and even my SV missiles. Wouldnt scratch the surface. And from watching a video of Spanj running through it I am pretty sure some doors need to be busted open or windows broken through. I am really trying not to use godmode to get past things, as for me it ruins the immersion. When I get done with the playthough I may go back. I decided to quickly clean up an old abandoned drone base nearby, and was pleasantly suprised to find a few flame throwers. I hadnt seen them yet in vanilla, so that was pretty cool.
I appreciate all the help because I lost one entire evening trying to fight a Periat Class Zirax Frigate. I have no idea how to penetrate the rain of fire it throws at me and my poor SV. Alright, I give up fighting that overpowered ship. Is there any way to defeat them? Any weaknesses, I wonder.
>IF< its the shielded one, I would say "wait until you have a shielded CV". The hardest part is breaking the shield, once that is down you can make strafing runs and take out its turrets. Once its defanged, then go for the thrusters. I believe there is a smaller corvette Zirax ship that is unsheilded, and with that one you could probably defang it and immobilize it with an SV. Personally, my tactic is to avoid direct space combat with shielded CVs until I can get into a moderately decent fighting CV myself. It doesnt take an end game "battleship" to take one out, but you need to be able to last long enough to drop the enemies shield and start damaging turrets. I like to have my turrets concentrate on generators and turrets. This leaves the thrusters as salvagable items after the battle. Once an enemys generators are blown, you can just climb aboard, kill the baddies inside, pop the core using rockets or set charges, and then salvage away in peace.
Some of the Patrol vessel turrets have blind spots like the ground based POIs. Is this in the starter system? I don't believe it has shields like ChumSickle mentioned. You may be able to avoid the turrets by hugging up against the nacelles. Probably easier said then done when it's moving though. I used a small CV with a T1 shield and circled it midship. This allowed my to dodge quite a bit of fire while my turrets took out it's weapons. Has anyone had any success taking out patrol vessels with an SV? It doesn't seem practical. If it's possible I'd like to give it a try for the thrill of it
Thank you for the valuable tips, @ChumSickle. I learnt the hard way to ignore the threat until I'm stronger. It's just that I had this beautiful shielded SV and even installed some turrets: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2170742845 This ship has no problem in shutting down every POI bases in every planet or space. But that Periat frigate in particular is my personal nightmare. I can't make strafing runs against all those homing missiles it shoots at me. Or maybe I need better side thrusters. Or maybe I'm just lame in fighting. Haha @bluemax151, Thanks for the tip as well. It is in my starter planet. But it's damn too hard for my current ships.
As you mentioned, I have tangled with them before, but it is tough with an SV as it doesnt take much to drop your shields. I think now that we can put turrets on our SVs it may be a bit easier, but I imagine it would be like boxing Mike Tyson...as long as you dont get hit, you may be fine.
I've split my time between making missions and getting a massive content update ready for the end of the month and working on builds. I was going to build a legacy patrol vessel for planets, but saw my half-finished Tursas and ended up working on that longer than i'd planned to. Polaris's Tursas-Class Battleship. Skenya-Class Destroyer for scale.
So coincidentally I was in a wreckage field today when I noticed what must have caused all the wrecks. After taking out a Zirax Corvette a Tavera Class Dreadnaught aggroed me. I managed to survive the massive barrage of opening fire (and the SV on the roof did too thankfully) but there was no way I could trade fire with that thing. I had to leave the area without looting the Corvette unfortunately. So I went to a different area in the system and started a guerilla war on the Zirax supply chain which is how I found 2 other interesting things. The Hakon is now used as a Zirax freighter and there's purple versions of regular cargo boxes. I found a couple of autominer cores and an Epic weapon before the ship self destructed.
Working on a new type of ice field: a Gas Dwarf planet that has a ring filled with rich ice asteroids and sometimes an ice mining operation. Unfortunately the normal gas giant models don't work in local space even when scaled down, so instead I'm using Needleship's old Gas Giant planets (although I can use any planet for this really). The ring is set to not randomly rotate, so that way the ice asteroids spawn near the ring itself. Also hard at work at all the other stuff coming in the next update of the scenario end of October/beginning of November.
Havent updated much lately, my playthrough has stalled a bit. I became pretty frustrated with the Legacy home world. The Infectors seem pretty obnoxiously difficult. I cant blast open any doors/windows, the jumping from the bottom to the top leaves me irritated when I miss a jump and fall all the way back down. So I just decided to pull back and mess around with other things. I scouted a few nearby neutral systems. Found a Polaris base if I need emergency repairs. Spent time mining and refreshing my erestrum stores as I am burning quite a bit of ammo when dealing with Legacy ships and POIs. I found a nice temperate planet nearby that has erestrum/zascosium deposits and plopped down a few T3 autominers on them. For me, they are pretty cool, but a pain in the butt to have to fly around harvesting them every few hours. But, they dont deplete based on my game settings, so its more reliable than zooming the galaxy and searching for asteroids. I also decided to plop down 8 or so water purifiers near one of the autominers. Finding ice in space isn't difficult, but while I am messing around on this planet may as well harvest some water. There are Zirax patrols around, so they keep ground life a bit more lively, but against my CV they are more like gnats than anything threatening.
I havn't really done anything for ages. Been doing other things since the alpha -> 1.0 re-labelling. So started a new game to see how things are and the most obvious thing was a need for something with teeth much sooner. So a few hours of hacking around with my Saturn exploration CV and I've come up with this: T3,L15 ground and space POI basher. Still all light steel. Inside is pretty much identical to the Saturn but with ammo capacity doubled to 160k. 10 x down and forward firing cannon (for ground pounding) 10 x forward firing rocket turrets 2 x minigun and 8 sentry guns for pest control All turrets retract. Also there are a couple of disposable small generators behind the front side antenna just in case your shields go down to serve as decoys. Mounts points for: - T4 upgrades - Another 8 retractable defense turrets (in the Saturn's original turret locations). - 16 guns type devices (mining drills, rocket launchers, pulse lasers etc) This has much higher thrust to mass ratio as well particularly at sides, but it is still just a light armor exploration CV and is now thrust balanced for space rather than planets making it a lot more maneuverable. Otherwise, still the same Saturn inside. This is really a quick weapon mounting prototype for a new late game combat vessel for legacy space - something similar, but with about 50 layers on combat steel on the bottom to give the near useless limited number of cannons time to trash the infestors (After a few more tweaks its now on the workshop at https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2254540124 and submitted to ZeroG's challenge 009)
I have probably been more Empyrion than I should lately. Been actually trying to expand my comfort zone a little by streaming. Not that I really know much about streaming successfully. Just thought if my PC can handle it, maybe I might just do it because.... Actually, I am not sure why. So if you are interested in seeing what I have been up to or may be doing, well, stop in for a moment and then go watch someone who has a better idea what they are doing. Why does this keep trying to change the link I post to a media link? After a couple tries, I though perhaps I should just link one of my videos because it was constantly acting like I was trying to link a video. And every time it kept complaining that it couldn't display it because of restrictions. So whatever, I give up trying to link anything. Maybe if I was streaming on YouTube.... but just learning to setup the one stream was enough for me at this time. Well, if you go to Twitch, you can find me as dpburke2. No fancy names. And so is my play. Not even great at hunting predators, so I let my HV turrets do most of the work. I do boring stuff like mining deposits....
