Railjack Question : Shielded Crew Ships

[Burba]

The only way to take down their shield that I could find was to get out of my ship go over and hit their ship with my sword. Is that what I am supposed to do?

For context I have mk1 stuff on my railjack and I decided to fight level 80 bad guys. Highest guys I have ever fought in this game were 40-50 up to this point. So I thought it would be fun and it was. I nearly died a lot of times but I did win in the end.

[Drago]

It was pretty tough when it first released as the levels and base power level of most of the Grineer Railjack enemies was pretty impressive compared to their close land dwelling cousins. Its best to grab some higher Railjack gear and build up the intrinsics and ranks for hte Railjack skills themselves so its more useful but to be fair most players at release also tended to just solve the problem presented by those missions with blazing out in their archwings or boarding the ships to kill everyone aboard and sabotage from within.

[Alhazred]

If it's a Corpus crewship it can have a normal shield like an on foot enemy that has to be knocked out. They can also have a drone floating around it that projects a shield that's easiest to destroy by flying behind it in archwing so you can shoot around the barrier.

If it's a Grineer crewship, it can have an invulnerable shield with shield generators on the hull that have to be destroyed.

[Fire Guardian]

normaly i use Scatter burst(a railjack ability you can get on earth proxima). its basicly a wide area aoe attack that lingers to counter the drones that make corpus crew ships immune to dmg since they break easy as they dont have alot of health


but if you mean the big moving drone that blocks projectiles than you can use any photor type turret on your railjack. the beam ignores the "shield projector drone" meaning you can just shoot it down

[ParasiteX]

You can also take out crewships using your Railjacks Forward Artillery. You can get to it behind the navigation console on the Bridge. They do use up ammo that you have to replenish at the Railjacks resource forge.

[Burba]

Originally posted by Alhazred:

If it's a Corpus crewship it can have a normal shield like an on foot enemy that has to be knocked out. They can also have a drone floating around it that projects a shield that's easiest to destroy by flying behind it in archwing so you can shoot around the barrier.

If it's a Grineer crewship, it can have an invulnerable shield with shield generators on the hull that have to be destroyed.

I just got a Zetki Laith mk3 from another mission. I think it said it was a shotgun. Can I hit the Grineer shield generators with that? Last time I just flew up and started swinging my sword like mad. I had no idea why the shield went down.

[Fire Guardian]

for grineer the starting torpedo(the speicial shots normal turrets have) the thychon seeker. do the trick for those i would say. 2 torpedos and the grineer energy shields go down just aim at the top/roof of the ship rather than the front for this method

but i cant comment on the laith used it for like 1-2 missions when the thing was added and thats it since i tend to snipe crewships from at least like 2000 meters away. tho it probably works if you fly close

[Firefrye]

For the Corpus crewship rotating shields there are two ways I have used to deal with them.
1. When I started the strat I used was strafing sideways in the RJ itself. This can sometimes allow you to get a shot off at the drone projecting the shield, but this is annoying and unreliable

2. But then I learned that the Photor weapon can shoot THROUGH the shield to destroy the drone behind it (due to innate punch through). Ever since then, I've used a Zekti Photor as my Pilot's gun even though it has lower dps than many of the other weapons (my gunners get Zekti Talyns for example).

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

There are two types of shields. One has defense points, usually three, on the ship itself that must be shot to lower the shields and the reactive drone that faces you on corpus ships. Sometimes, they'll have both.

The first is easy, just shoot the points with your RJ weapons or use an RJ aoe nuke (Shatter Burst) to destroy them.

The second is a little harder to crack but is super easy once you get used to it. The drone reacts to the ship itself getting shot, so if you have AI in your turrets shooting at the crewship, you'll have a tougher time, so you can either nuke/disable the ship first or just go straight for the drone. BUT if you maneuver the nose of your ship in between the crewship and the drone (like so: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3299613354
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3299610518) you can shoot at the latter without it reacting and it can be destroyed without even moving. The easiest way is the Photor but aside from that, it's a huge drop in overall DPS, especially compared to Talyn with the cooldown intrinsic.

If your ship is poorly equipped but your frame is well equipped, it can easily be faster and easier to just launch yourself in using the launcher or flying out there yourself. Even then, with some piloting skills, those drones are easy to take out.