crewmates hired with resources have more base points than those hired with credits.

There is one use for npc pilots I've found: Even if they suck at flying, keeping the railjack moving while you're doing something else significantly reduces the damage it takes.

The crew is waaaayyyy more usefull than the players 90%

The repair crew mate will defend, only if there is no damage to repair.

I always just say to the people in missions with me "Nah don't worry about repairing the Railjack, the crew mate I hired never runs out of Revolite"

As a solo player I personally found having a pilot, a repair guy and a lich with a hammer to be the best option for intrinsic farming as you get points for repelling boarders and for repairing. The pilots as said are bad but just reassign role when taking artillery shots 😉

After the sisters of parvos update, pilots are finally useful The lock onto crewship when you're inside the slingshot or the artillery And they try to attack main objective outside targets like the ones found in grineer missions, though they success varies depending on the weapon In my experience carcinox is best for pilots

I'm very excited about this, FINALLY I CAN BE A CAPTIN

Since he's not here, You should equip your crew with the MIGHTY SEER for maximum effectiveness.

Personally I’d really like to see an unlimited duration towards on call crew mates as the rank 10 upgrade. I’ve grown rather attached to mine and have her dressed up to look like me main frame.

This will change things drastically for me. I’ve never liked tailback, mainly due to being a solo player for the most part so some missions I failed at miserably, repeatedly.. now that I’ve reached 5 on my command instrinsics, and have added some crew members, and thanks to your video, now I know how to assign them, I’m actually looking forward to playing rail Jack. Thanks man.

honestly with a good setup, a pilot and 2 gunners can just cruise you through most of each mission, minus objectives of course

So glad I've found your channel. I hope you get more subs, you really deserve them.

Thank you so much for this guide, since I had trouble figuring out what's best for the crewmates.

Actually one quick correction. You said crews don’t overlap roles. Engineers will actually default to defenders when there is nothing to repair. It’s best to get an engineer with 5 in repair and as close to 5 in combat. Crew you hire for resources have 10 points by default while those you buy for credit have 8 points. So if you look daily you can find one with all 10 points invested between repair combat and endurance. You than put the 3 upgrade points in the ones missing.

all the info i was looking for in sweet little video :) love it, thx 4 ur time and effort

The recent patch allows the pilot to line up and destroy exterior objectives so pilots are no longer useless. Additionally it appears the level of the lich when you finished them has an impact on its combat so a tier 5 lich appears to be a much better defender. Would love to know the scaling of the damage. If you have a rank 5 lich can you test vs a lower tier 1? My rank 5 seems to do much better than the rank 3 but that could be due to the fourth ability that he spams. Seems there is more to this .

I solo'd all the railjack missions and intrinsics with an NPC crew. Engineer, Gunner, Defender. A balanced team indeed able to defend my ship. Enemies may board, even take down the engineer and wreck the ship a bit but they cope and I can go off and do objectives happily. Even when they spawn in during relic missions. The defender I have is especially useful as every kill heals everyone for a few hundred health. Coupled with an unlimited ammo acceltra and max combat skill she is deadly. She can single-handedly take down an acolyte or lay waste to a mass of enemies.

Every time I go to look up some minut detail about how something works in warframe, your videos always come up. Thanks for the great content 👍

Real shame that Lichs don't make good crewmates. I think this can be fixed with two changes to them as Railjack crew members 1: Give them customization as with the Syndicate crewmates 2: Make it so that while they can't change roles as they have no proper Railjack crewmate training, give Lichs the unique role of "Commander" as they _do_ have experience in such a role, sending out minions in Murmur missions. The role of Commander would make it so that the Lich can actively swap the roles of Syndicate crewmates depending on the situation at hand. Enemy fighters nearby? The Commander assigns a crewmate to Gunner. Is there an objective for the Railjack crew that's out of reach and nobody's piloting? The Commander assigns a crewmate to pilot the ship into position to complete the objective. Is the ship damaged? The Commander assigns a crewmate to repair it. Is the ship being boarded? On top of aiding in the defense, the Commander assigns a crewmate to help in repelling the boarders. This could make Kuva Lichs far more viable as part of your Railjack crew, as well as adding a bit more dynamic and fun gameplay. As for balancing it out, I suppose the downside would have to be that you can only have one Lich on your crew at a time, but it would still be worthwhile. EDIT: Kinda forgot to add that the Lich's Commander role could potentially take into account the points in other crewmates' stats For example, say you have one crewmate who can be both Gunner and Pilot, while another can be a Gunner and an Engineer. A Commander Lich could assign them both to being Gunner while you're piloting the Railjack, and when you get off to do anything else, the Commander assigns the crewmate with the best Pilot stat to take the wheel in your stead, and just as quickly sends them back to the Gunner role if you get back into the pilot seat. And while you're doing away team stuff, if the ship gets too damaged and needs repairs, the Commander will have the Gunner with the best Engineer stat get off the turret to make the repairs then send them right back to the turret. And this ability to govern the other crewmates won't even be hampered if the Lich is repelling boarders.

MIGHTY SEER! XD Great video as always! I'm watching all your videos , I saw your riven rarity video , and i was like : man this guy is Einstein if he was a gamer x'D Very complex stuff , hats down to you man. Keep up the great content.

Helped a lot actually, i dont like playing in squads and i cant farm sevagoth without good crew and i didnt know there was dome charge in forge, thanks a lot man

Thanks very much for making this video!

Cheers for this. I stopped playing around when Railjack was released. Mostly because I didn't have time. Poked around for a bit but dropped it because it was a team activity and I'm more of a solo person. This is just what I needed.

And of course the main game tells you nothing about this. Thanks so much for the vid

Top stuff as always. Just stasrting on Railjack stuff. Key learning points there are "arm the crew" and I can reassign in L menu in flight.

Thank you, to the point short and sweet and still super informative.!

i loved this guide, super helpful and detailed

Concise to the point loved it man

Wish they change some of the stuff on the comand intrinsic tree, at least let me summon my lich on normal missions

It would be cool if syndicate weapons did more damage in the hands of their respective crew

super helpful and easy to understand thank you!

This needs an update in regards to pilots because now pilots do have special mechanics

Thank you for this video.

Thank you for explaining all of this

thx for that, clear and to the point

I have 1 maxed in gunnery, 1 maxed in combat and endurance (also my on call and yes I believe their health and damage is increased even in normal or open world missions) and 1 maxed in repair and endurance. So I have 1 on a turret at all times and 2 patrolling the ship. 1 looking for borders and 1 ready to repair if needed. Now we have command 10 intrinsics, we get to buy enhanced crew mates from tickers. These crew mates have some nice enhanced abilities (like +50% damage if below a certain amount of health). I have this too, and buying enhanced crew mates are so much more expensive (even New Loka or Perrin Sequence ones, which I get 50% off still cost 1 million credits).

Elite crewmates in adition with more stat points, they have a elite buff, like bonus crit damage, bonus damage in lavan,zetki,etc turrets or on kill: aoe healing

6:00 I personally think that colors in uniforms have to mean something, and because I support the Steel Meridian, I made all my crewmates, and my Warframe, white. And I chose to have an ice element lich in my crew for that reason.

Recently I've been doing a lot of RJ as I use it to farm resources, credits and endo. Also, I have one more part left for the Shedu, so been doing anomaly missions. What I have found is that even a fully ranked pilot will screw up, especially on the second stage of a mission. For example, say you are dealing with an asteroid hangar.....(I'm playing solo) you set one of your gunners to defense, as the fighters & crewships are already dealt with. You leave the ship in the hands of your engineer (max rank repair, max rank defense) & your defender (max rank gunner, max rank combat). Your third crewmate is a max rank pilot, max rank gunner, whose primary job is gunner. I jump into the asteroid hangar and fight through to the first stage, where you expose the first radiator for the RJ to shoot. I open my Command menu, select my gunner/pilot and order him to pilot the ship. He does, and quickly takes out the radiator. Whereas before, I would have had to warp back to the ship, take out the radiator, then go back into the asteroid myself to continue to the second stage....now the pilot saves me time.....BUT, when I expose the second radiator, nothing happens.....I wait, and wait, and wait.....nada. So I warp back to the ship, just in time to see the pilot FINALLY take out the second radiator! So, I jump back out, re-enter the asteroid, and finish the mission. This happens EVERY..........SINGLE.........TIME. DE have some more tweaking to do, for sure. Overall, though, I quite enjoy railjack missions.

Fun fact, I accidentally hit Y on controller to switch weapons while on the forward artillery turret and it popped a 3rd turret up. So 3 turrets in all for Tenno friends to bombard an enemy Crewship. Btw amazing and helpful vids :)

8:35 That "Mighty Seer" guy, LOL. I actually did a 6x3 Eidolon hunt with the Seer at his request 😆

Thanks for your good info video.

The Sisters if Parvos update supposedly reworked NPC pilots (so that they'll actually work with you in firing artillery at mission targets), in addition to adding the command rank 10 (unlocks elite crewmates at ticker, which are just NPC crew with higher base stats) and I'm not sure is the titular Sisters (aka Corpus Liches) work the same as Kuca Liches for Railjack, or if their overly specialized roll will be different. Edit: this was in my recommendations before I saw the updated guide, so perhaps what I said here might have been a bit on the moot side.

Great video. Thank you.

I gave my engineer a kuva Oris with nightwatch napalm and he obliterates boarders

I had an engineer, gunner, and a kuva lich protecting from boarders and it seemed to be pretty good and obviously lavos as my frame because free railjack ability’s.

one of few reliable warframe creators.

Best pilot weapon is the beam that pierces shields. Highly rated gun for a defender/repairer is a furis with the syndicate mod as they become almost unkillable

Thanks for this

Thanks so much

as of now I would recommend to get one pilot, one engineer and one gunner, I got lucky and ticker offered me a perfect engineer with 5 repair 5 endurance and 2 combat so I could have all at 5 and his special effect was to heal everyone but 1k health when his hp falls below 30% which isn't a lot but it's ok I guess but I gave him a phantasma prime and he's immortal now, gunner the other stats don't matter since he will spend most if not all his time on turrets but get gunnery 5, he will demolish anything I can just afk all the 70 fighters on skirmish missions, I do recommend a pilot with rank 5 piloting and IF you can rank 5 gunnery, I will transfer him between gunner and pilot if I have to leave the railjack, that's why I can solo missions so fast

an Engineer will attack enemies that have boarded your Railjack, however they will first try their best to prioritize any hazards or hull breaches, and only then will attack enemies. sometimes they will attack enemies on their way to repair something ive noticed

Currently I have a gunner, an engineer and a converted sister on my ship. No issues at all, the sister destroys boarding parties and at the same time revives the engineer in case she gets incapacitated. The engi figths as well if there is no repair to be done and the gunner well he is form Red Veil so yeah. I wish we could add a fourth member to take care of the Artillery or maybe like mark a crew ship to make the gunner change to the artillery gun and destroy it, but that's just me.

Oh I don’t have to pay anything thank your the best youtuber

great advice im rolling eng hunner def/kuva lich but a second gunner would probably be best

On point, no BS, clear pronunciation with subtitle, too! Thank you for video, really insightful 🎉🎉

Great video, all the points you listed are good ones. The only thing I'd stress more on is the dominance of gunners at the time of writing. As the saying goes: "The best defense is a good offense". I use 5 turret mods on my plexus, which allows my gunners to shoot everything out of the sky instantly. I've never been boarded since I switched to this setup, and rarely get damaged enough for hazards. All my crew members have rank 5 gunnery, with the first crew also having rank 5 repair. In duo missions, I'd rather have 2 gunners, than 1 gunner and 1 engineer. It's just much more effective that way since there won't be anything to repair in the first place.

Assigning one as Pilot is useful for when you leave the railjack.

So far I've got two crew members with +50% turret damage for zetki and one for vidar turrets, two each for +50% engine speed Lavan and Zetki. Zet sounds freaking awesome with headphones, I also picked up one with +150% crit chance with pistols and one with +250% damage with rifles.... anyhooo, rank 10 command is worth getting Elite crew members.

do u know if endurance and combat points afect their damage or resistence in normal missions when on call?

I would prefer if we could give liches our gravimagd heavy weapon.

I hate piloting, so I set a crewmate for pilot in the last slot so he’s the first to leave when a friend joins. I usually go out in archwing, so them being able to man the ship without me is nice.

Watch for game crashes in the individual crew member menus.

There are three "ranks" of crew available: I call them basic, advanced and elite. Basic and advanced are available when you can start hiring crew, Elite crew become available once you reach Command Intrinsics rank 10. Basic crew have 8 skill points, Advanced crew have 10 skill points, Elite crew have 12 skill points. This means it is possible to get an Elite crew member with 5/5/2 in skill that you want (i.e: repair, endurance, combat or gunnery, endurance, combat) and then use the 3 extra skill points to get 5/5/5. Now you have an ace gunner or engineer who will also perform amazingly well as on-call crew.

Although piloting as a stat is bad, seeing your railjack fly around while in a grineer base is awesome. Makes me wish railjack was more involved in warframe.

I put one on pilot. I find it better to kill all the small fries first then get close enough to the crews ships so that the pilot npc will notice them. Then I post a pilot and take the main Canon and I walla single minded focus

You actually don't want to assign NPCs to gunners since they don't give you affinity. Two engineers and a defender is the best route to take since your ship basically can't die and the NPC defender will kill the boarders. This will let you farm the fighters for more affinity and intrinsics. I gave my defender an ignis wraith and it shreds every boarder that steps in the ship

When I talk to Ticker I don't have the "Hire railjack crew members" option even though I have a railjack (0:42). I have the other 3 options but that 4th one is missing. Any ideas?

does the crewmate NPC's stat like repair's heal rate and damage increase from combat skill still active when being called with on call tool?

I'm a part of Steel Meridian and Red Veil. If I get an npc crew member from another syndicate, I won't get raided by the enemy syndicated they're a part of? I was hesitant on getting a third crew member that was a part of the New Loka or Perrin Sequence because I didn't know they'd turn on me or whatever.

One question. How do I "release" them? Great video btw

1) Only one on call at a time? 2) Can you have more than one of a gun and assign them both to an NPC? 3) Can your crew have ephemeras? 4) Can your on call crew member join you on an enemy ship? 5) I wish someone explained the different levels of your crew. I think you mentioned the more diamonds they have as a pilot, the faster they will fly. What does that mean for the other levels in everything else?

awesome

What equipment's are you using?

So are you gonna do a video on the Seer?

Which syndicate crewmate is your favourite?

And now u need to do a video about mighty seer ;0

What’s weapon are you using on your railjack

@TheKengineer do npc crewmates only do the job their assigned to? Like if their on guns but can they fire their primaries to defend themselves?

Could you do a currency guide? We got platinum, Edo, credits, syndication points etc Please

Hi, Console Player, we just got the update cause excuses. Does Command rank 7 (Level point reset) do anything? I keep trying it and nothing happens. Also do crewmates level up? I've only been able to give them 3 points to use and then nothing else.

you know, i used to think i hated railjack, but i think i just hated how little the game actually explained it to me, so thanks for that!

I got a question can they die and do you have to rehire and rebuy them if they die and hie them in each battle?

well since there is no pinned comment you ether forgot to update as you said you would or you missed the fact that we now have elite crew members. as a question I would like to ask what happens if you don't assign a crew member? will they fallow there stats or just wonder about the ship?

I cant wait for my crew 💙🤍❤ ( iam on console )

how do i make my sister of parvos a crew mte after i converted her?

But how u do u assign your crewmembers ?

Will my engineer shoot intruders if there are no breaches or repairs needed? Or only defenders do so? Ty this was helpful 👍

Who is Ticker and where do I find them in Fortuna?

okay i have questions... 1. If you have multiple of the same weapon with the same mods attached, like 3 kuva nukors, can you load out with them all running off the same mods? 2. does the level of the kuva lich effect their health? like if i purposely mess up a lich like 20 times will he be a end game boss or is reverted to his initial level? 3. does the kuva lich maintain their warframe abilities for combat? would a oberon lich still be able to cast hallowed ground during combat? im wondering because this could be a source of unstoppable crew mates after future updates expand their roles.

How to swap your crew in the dry dock without ending contract?

How to dismiss a crewmember if i dont want him anymore? did i miss that?

Yes

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Can you use npc crew more than once?

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Good video. Straight to the point and I didn't even have to skip 3 min in to get past the usual "Welcome back~ Dislike comment and leave the video" part. 10/10

who is ticker where do you meet him and so on would be nice to add to this complete guide

do pilots still suck at aiming at crewships?