Weapons

[humanevil]

I have free hard points for more weapons but it keeps saying "no more than 3 different guns" well I have 2 lasers 2 ballistic and I can't add a missile why? How do you get round it?

[Iratus Machina]

You can only have three different weapons on your ship at once. The amount of those weapons only really depends on if you got enough weight to distribute each certain weapon (for example, I got four lasers of the same version on my ship, two ballistic of the same version, and one missile launcher), but because the game only gives you three buttons, one of each version of said weapon which all fire at once, you're limited to only three different specific weapons on the ship. While the game suggests you carry a weapon of each type, you can just have three different lasers/ballistic/missile if you want, granted three different versions of laser/ballistic/missile tops. You can make your ship a laser or gun or missile boat, but only three weapons tops. You can't have four different weapons and the game won't agree to two different weapons. Has to be three if you're customizing.

Yes, it's a confusing mess until you figure out how it clicks. I don't even know if what I said makes sense, but it's probably the best way I can make sense of how the ship weapons system works. I seriously wish Bethesda could have explained it better themselves.

Edit: You could also skip the mess of adding weapons and making sure they match on your ship by going to the upgrade screen instead, but then it's kinda boring when your modified Frontier only has five guns in total.

[jadenedaj on x]

You might have two different types of lasers or ballistics?

[KungFury]

Are there turrets in the game that can shoot independantly of your front weapons? Maybe by giving control to an NPC?

[humanevil]

OK so I need for example 2 mk3 nipple thumper 2 mk1 hair curling cannons so I can then get a mk5 fur missile launcher .

However if I go for 1 thumper 1 stomper and 1 cluster missile I can't then have 1 fur missile correct ?

[Jaggid Edje]

You have the right of it, @humanevil. Creative weapon names too.

[Steppenrazor]

Originally posted by KungFury:

Are there turrets in the game that can shoot independantly of your front weapons? Maybe by giving control to an NPC?

yes, though ive not found them. but there is a top tier skill for them.

[SaltnVinegar]

Turrets are absolute dog in this game. They shoot ships randomly and never hit the same ship. They fire at all sorts of different targets all tracking their own independent targets.

Its like playing a dot spec in WoW and rotting everything down. Except everything kills you before you can even get half of everythings HP down. Turrets killed the game for me as the automatic targeting is dumb as hell.