Ship combat is stupid difficult

[BossManJosh]

I'm loving this game, but ship to ship combat when fighting 3+ enemies is just frustratingly difficult. I upgraded my ship to have both better fire power and better defense, and I still just get insta-melted when there are multiple enemies, even those that are much lower level than me. It has essentially soft-locked me from completing some side quests I am trying to work on. I'm pretty decent at ship combat in star citizen, I understand the power allocation and targeting systems in starfield. Rolling, thrusters, and boost do absolutely nothing in trying to dodge enemy fire, they are just constantly locked on and landing shots.

[BBoaBrim]

I wanted to say "git gud", but I won't as I am awful at battles myself. Yet, I have not yet lost a ship battle. Not yet.

[Æternum]

odd, because i have the shieldbreaker (class b ship) with upgraded missiles, upgraded ballistic turrets, upgraded laser turrets, upgraded shield, upgraded reactor, and i am absolutely melting everyone who crosses my path. sounds like a skill issue.

[Shemmie]

Get targeting. I'm taking on 3-4 at a time. Focus on shield, then boom. Shield, then boom.

If you can get behind them and remain behind them, they're toast.

[Sreve]

Get another ship or two and get crew for them. Otherwise they will just Concentrate fire on you.

[hottnova75]

Also not shooting friendlies in dogfights is helpful. Look at who is fighting who before you start shooting.

[Dailao]

I recommend investing in upgrades and perks.

[Deadly]

Need to take the spaceship skills more shields hull etc...

[chosenxeno]

Tell me you are bad at the game without telling me....

[fox]

LOL star citizen ai is non existent

[RoboFox]

It's easier than Elite Dangerous... but to be fair I have played it so much I can survive flying into the middle of battle with just an ASP Explorer and killing them all with 5x "BRRRRT" cannons.

[BossManJosh]

Originally posted by fox:

LOL star citizen ai is non existent

I'm talking PVP

[PopinFRESH]

Originally posted by Shemmie:

Get targeting. I'm taking on 3-4 at a time. Focus on shield, then boom. Shield, then boom.

If you can get behind them and remain behind them, they're toast.

^this. Get ship combat traits and tune your weapons to target specific things.

You don't need all weapon slots with weapons assigned. Your weapons and shield will scale with the power you are able to allocate to them.

Upgrade reactor to biggest class A
Upgrade 3x class A lasers with highest damage to shields
Upgrade 2x class A cannons with highest damage to hull
Upgrade shield to highest class A

Put 3 points into your engines, then max your shields and put as much into laser and cannons. Left click to melt a ships shields with lasers, then switch to right click to melt their hull with cannons. Then retarget the next ship.

EDIT: Also if you didn't, go join the UC Vanguard and you can use the training simulator to gain XP to upgrade your piloting and ship combat traits.

[Red Says]

Yeah the dogfighting is not well fleshed out imo, the way you change power systems is too clunky to do quickly during combat.

[His Divine Shadow]

Originally posted by ÆTERNUM:

odd, because i have the shieldbreaker (class b ship) with upgraded missiles, upgraded ballistic turrets, upgraded laser turrets, upgraded shield, upgraded reactor, and i am absolutely melting everyone who crosses my path. sounds like a skill issue.

“That’s weird it takes you an hour to get to the store on a bicycle. I can get there in 15 minutes with my car. Skill issue.”

[BossManJosh]

Originally posted by Shemmie:

Get targeting. I'm taking on 3-4 at a time. Focus on shield, then boom. Shield, then boom.

If you can get behind them and remain behind them, they're toast.

I have targeting, but as far as I can tell it is impossible to get behind an entire group, there is always at least one putting in persistent damage which prevents my shields from regenerating.