Can you maybe do a video of which ships work the best with ai controll? As the ai controll is not the best most of the time there may be stats that are more important for their playstyle. Thank you for the content and keep up the great work mate! :)

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Barracudas used to be M4 Class in X2 and it seems they just moved it to M5 without upping the speed and just nerfing combat capabilities

egosoft still does occasional updates for X3 and less often X2 and thats partially to keep them playable, especially since some of the team like to go back to the older games occasionally, for instance the voice of Boso Ta like to revisit the older games a lot

And it looks the best as well :)

Omg yes, it's just guns with an engine, those things just keep shooting non stop. Also love the cockpit design. Ever since i can make them, these are the basis of my fighter core.

There's plenty of reason - the little S couriers are faster. Once a new station gets its initial sales done and needs to continuously sell to customers, the traders start getting sent out with much smaller cargos. The S traders can go faster and hopefully stay out of the way of the pirates better. (Plus, having more trips makes the pilot gain stars a little faster.)

How much production you got in your game

@@thanhosnugyen2274 If you mean for engine parts, my HQ have 8 production modules for them, but I could not tell how much per hour, because the storage is full with 180k engine parts.

You can easily get to hyperlane speeds with mods, it just needs a while to get up there. The controls are also extremely sensitive, I had to keep MK1 thrusters on it AND install that one mod which reduces mouse deadzone. To also point out, it has no strafe. If you want to use it for fighting, the only good way I see it working well is by installing a missile or torpedo launcher and doing bombing runs. I don't know if missiles keep the ship's momentum at least briefly, but zooming in and out does help you avoid getting hurt and you can release your payload much closer than any other fighter would feel comfortable being, so much so that I don't believe flares can do anything even with the NPCs' cheat reaction times. The alternative is repositioning and taking advantage of the superior pitch/yaw, but the ship's just too sensitive and I often have to suffer low average fps.

Yeah, but he is probably not alone to fall into that trap. Honestly, devs are LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG overdue of showcasing all of the stats of equipment, like there are equipment modifications that e.g. Influence "Travel Mode Attack Time" and as someone who plays this game the first time you won't have the slightest clue, what that actually means (afaik how fast a ship needs to charge up the travle mode) and you can't see anyhwere, how much "Travel Mode Attack Time" this or that engine has. So if you got no clue and compare e.g. TER Engines to ARG Engines, you might think, that TER Engines are shit, since they got a fairly lower travel mode max speed. So much for the Terrans being advanced in Tech compared to the Commonwealth of Planets, right? Right? What the game doesn't tell you is that the ARG Combat Engines first need time to charge their travel mode and then they need fairly long in travel mode to actually reach that top speed. The TER Combat Engine on the other hand instantly switches to Travel Mode, no Charge up time, and accelerates extremely quickly up to travel speed. So despite what the game seems to suggest, with TER Combat Engines you travel in many cases quicker across a sector than with ARG Combat Engines, total opposite what one might think. And imho that is something, that desperately needs to be fixed, devs need to make all the stats and characteristics of equipment available in the encyclopedia, upgrade windows, comparison window etc. Players shouldn't have to rely on installing 3rd party mods to see that stuff ingame.

@@MagiconIce Yeah, the documentation of mechanics and effects is essentially non-existent. Not helped by the fact that a lot of numbers displayed are wrong to begin with. *cough*weapons*cough*

It feels like a slightly better Pegasus in all aspects. And it's actually a good fighter, at least in a 1:1 against Xenon. It doesn't get hit much because it's so small.

Irukandji can catch a Xenon T, but that's all they're good for. Lux with mk2 equipment would be better.

I tried it with the M gunboat. Let them fire a missile at the Xenon station and turn around, let the turrets shoot... (The ion gun turret with the 4,3km range) very very bad result. They don't get close enough for the turrets to hit and shoot the missile everywhere, but not at the station. Against the K it was better, they mostly got close enough for the turrets to do a lot of damage, but it would probably have been better with an energy weapon.

@@steemlenn8797 yes saddly the ai is quite rudimentary, and its scripts a bit meh... e.g. when set on defensiv duty your troops make perfect strafing runs while on bombard they sit right infront of the target and beeing shred to pieces, while in defensive they try shooting defense drones, other fighters etc. with their dumbfire missiles ...

The barracuda can be pressed into a kind of horrifying swarms of torpedo bombers, take the guppy it can launch more or less 16 barracudas within a very short period of time, and each barracuda could have anywhere from 1 to 3 torpedo launchers enabling a torpedo salvo of at most 48 torps at a time. Also for the boron anti fighter load outs, ion weapons to drop shields and cripple engines, followed up by a missile to finish off the crippled enemy. And that's just for the S ships.

Can't put Boron shields on anything but Boron ships, otherwise, yeah it would clearly be best. And paranid is at least just as good as terran for small ships.

Moreya is probably still the best interceptor in the game if you can get it. Shih or Chimera for best heavy fighter and strike craft. Shih is too slow for intercepting imo. You want wat least 300+ m/s for that.

i feel the Moreya is overlooked by so many, but its definitly my go to non heavy fighter, its also amazing as a light transport for raising rep quick, when not in combat i love using them as temporary couriers, i wouldnt say they are hard to unlock either, you can get access to the blueprint very early if you progress the terran plot to the syn. or if doing budgeted custom starts u can start friendly with the yaki and have access from the start.

@@KalisaFox It would be awesome if there would be a "Yaki Start" where you'd get the Camouflaging Technology against Xenon all the time or the Pirate Camouflaging Technology in General and could also research it with the other starts. ToA that was marketed as the "Pirate Expansion" felt lackluster in that regard, yeah they brought us a new pirate faction with Vigor and a new Economic System, the Closed Loop, but no new game mechanic related to piracy and the game overall still feels very lacking in that regard, since there is next to no blackmarket economy and pirates simply can do stuff you can't do as player like camouflaging their ship with ID's of other factions.

@@kajarslibrary5404 Yeah, I've tried to use Shih to intercept role but they didn't shine. Brobably Takobas are better in the role even if you can't access the Moreya

Lux would be better for intercept duty, but Moreya has 4 guns. 2 guns is usually good enough, though. But it's nice to have 4 on a player ship to switch to something use-case specific, like burst rays to cripple with capital ships. So, yeah, I like to use Moreyas as personal ships peppered around the map to teleport into to help deal with capitals. But many other ships will do well enough in that role, too... basically anything with at least 2 guns (burst ray + tracking launcher with heavy swarm) that can move fast enough to avoid capital ship weapons.

He basically hinted at it, any ship that has high yaw, pitch and roll stats and also ships that can keep up with enemy ships. Xenon S-sized ships have high boost and travel speeds, but are mediocre with their regular top speed, I think it was 300 something to catch up to them to actually shoot them. You can see these stats in the ingame encyclopedia. Also Captain has compared the ships with their native equipment, so Boron Ships with BOR Equipment. I haven't touched the Boron Content yet but I guess, just like you can dow ith Terran Ships, you could attach e.g. TER Engines onto Boron Ships? So yeah, you can try mixing stuff to min-max and find a ship that suits best your needs and those of your pilots, good enough speed to catch up with Xenon S-sized ships, good roll, yaw and pitch. I don't think AI Pilots strafe that much, so that is something that is only interesting to the Human Player imho. AI's imho fight like they'd fly combat jets but in space and jets physically can't strafe.

You can use "roguey's" (just search for it), but I used screenshots directly from the game, no website. 👍

Shih is not closed loop exclusive. It takes the same materials as any other ship - hull parts and energy cells. No difference there. Closed loop only affects argon equipment, some teladi equipment, and missiles, drones, satellites etc.

@@kajarslibrary5404 Well by that metric, every ship except for the Terran and possibly Boron ones are closed loop, as that merely means the modules are build with hullparts, claytronics and energy cells. I do not yet have tried to build Boron ships myself.

@@sim.frischh9781 Correct! Boron ships require water to be built so they don't fully fit with the Closed Loop style. But yeh, as long as you use Argon equipment and basic weapons like Pulse, Bolt, Plasma, you can make ships with just those three wares. Using Claytronics though is rather expensive and will really slow down station construction. Claytronics are really complex and extremely slow to produce.

@@kajarslibrary5404 Claytronics come out of the Scrap Processors, so you build a station with Scrap processor in a region with a lot of wrecks, like Faulty Logic or the last of the Silent Witness sectors. Send out those wreck harvester ships and let them bring back those cubes. The process requires insane amounts of energy, so put about 18 solar energy modules for each processor on the station. With that, you can put a ship production module on and produce whatever Argon equipped ship you like.

Vigor Syndicate

Hi, yes it's from Tides of Avarice and the faction is Vigor Syndicate (VIG). Should have said that

I love the way it looks. Best looking ship in the game... The Kyd looks cool too, but it's a crap ship. I bet you'd hate Minmatar ships in Eve Online. ;)

@@DaemonJax I did. Didn't really like the looks of ANY of the ships in Eve Online. One of the reasons I stopped playing.