Combat Frigates in battle

[perpetualprose]

Are they supposed to come to your aid in a battle? I could have sworn a few updates ago they did but now I can blast 5 AI ships in front of my freighter and my combat frigates do nothing.

[japp_02]

Yes, in 1.61 when I face more than 1 pirate one of my best combat frigates will spawn near me and launch ships to my support, after the combat it returns to your freighter. You also get a message onscreen.

Note: you can actually land on the combat frigate during combat, but don't do it, you die in space...I think what happens is: the frigate warps back to the freighter and will leave your ego in space :)

[^^o^^ BatCat]

One of you Combat frigettes will come, I belive its the "best" one.. if your in the same system.
Not seen them come to another system as yet.

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

Are you sure it is your frigate? If i have a battle my frigate just sends explosive drones and some of the pirates get destroyed. i have to fight the other ones to the end.

If i get attacked by pirates sometimes a sentinel frigate spawn and send sentinel ships to fight the pirates. i have to be careful not to shot the sentinel ships...

i guess, if it is my frigate the ship trails should be green. Never seen that except for ships coming from everywhere to get in the fight.

[^^o^^ BatCat]

Check wich of you ships have the Drone's perk, that will tell you.
Could be your "best combat" isn't a combat ship at all. Then I would think you'd need to re-think your fleet(s).

...as I understand it, Frieghters are not actulay fighters, like a carrier ship, they are. They have some defensive turrets that do NO damge so can take the agro' while you do the mop up or one of the frigettes do.

[perpetualprose]

I usually have about 4-5 S Class Combat Frigates available and they don't help at all. They did about a month ago. Unless there's a delay because I can kill 5 enemy ships pretty quick with the Positron Ejector.

[Lindy Bomber]

I think it only comes when you are attached. It does not seem to come if you are attacking a bounty target.

[^^o^^ BatCat]

Messaggio originale di perpetualprose:

I usually have about 4-5 S Class Combat Frigates available and they don't help at all. They did about a month ago. Unless there's a delay because I can kill 5 enemy ships pretty quick with the Positron Ejector.

Just this last session, I was shopping for frigettes, got attacked.
Message popped up, one of my Combat class jumped in.
I ignored them and went back to shopping.
Some time later they dissapear.
Of note, Kill count did not update but numbers dwindled.

[japp_02]

The combat frigate as well as these 'Defense chits' which call-in sentinel ships to aid you, all their support is very modest...I see them always firing at pirate ships but I never see them destroying any, I have to do the entire work. The only benefit of them is forcing pirate ships to do some evasive maneuvres which are then easier for me to terminate them.
Also you need to be careful not to fire against friendly targets.

Has anyone ever made a hit with non-upgraded rocket launchers? I have not yet landed a single hit.

[JTracx]

When my frigate shows up and the small combat ships start in, they do most of the damage and then I do the clean-up usually. If I take too long, they finish off the Pirates.
I've not noticed combat drones at that time. I assume we are talking about like the ones I can send on Combat Missions.
For a Sentinel Frigate or Freighter to show up, that means that I have taken WAY too long to accomplish the task or that I 've accidentally taken out an NPC ship that was only trying to help.
Either way, it is near time to get out or plan on a never ending battle.

[Tom]

Just yesterday I was getting hammered by pirates and what I suspect were system authority ships in a system in which I'd summoned my freighter. Out of the blue my best combat frigate, an S-class Dreadnought - thankfully not out on a mission - jumped into the fight. So now I think I'll reserve it for backup and not send it out on missions.

[japp_02]

Messaggio originale di JTracx:

When my frigate shows up and the small combat ships start in, they do most of the damage and then I do the clean-up usually. If I take too long, they finish off the Pirates.
I've not noticed combat drones at that time. I assume we are talking about like the ones I can send on Combat Missions.
For a Sentinel Frigate or Freighter to show up, that means that I have taken WAY too long to accomplish the task or that I 've accidentally taken out an NPC ship that was only trying to help.
Either way, it is near time to get out or plan on a never ending battle.

Yes, I notice now that support ships from frigates or sentinels are doing damage to pirates, this will indeed help a lot.

[Jenna Junebug]

Japp - Yes, my non-upgraded rockets score hits and damage, but only when the pirate is coming at me centered straight in front of me.

As for my frigates helping me in a fight - sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. I never took the time to see a pattern in this.

Today I had something weird happen - 3 pirate ships showed up and started to attack me. I turned my ship around and flew into a fleet that had shown up a minute earlier. It was NOT my fleet, just a random one. I flew behind the freighter and waited there. The pirate ships did not follow me and disappeared. Did this fleet destroy them? If they did, I got no message saying so

[goldengoose7]

Messaggio originale di ^^o^^ BatCat:

One of you Combat frigettes will come, I belive its the "best" one.. if your in the same system.
Not seen them come to another system as yet.

Yeah... They don't automatically move to your system if they are not already there.

The Frigate itself doesn't actually engage any enemy fighters. It sends out ships that look the same as the Sentinel Ships. Obviously a less expensive way for HG to bring this feature into the game.

Would still prefer seeing our own fighters instead. Like a user defined fleet of Exotics for example. That would be cool.

[2ugly]

Messaggio originale di japp_02:

The combat frigate as well as these 'Defense chits' which call-in sentinel ships to aid you, all their support is very modest...I see them always firing at pirate ships but I never see them destroying any, I have to do the entire work. The only benefit of them is forcing pirate ships to do some evasive maneuvres which are then easier for me to terminate them.
Also you need to be careful not to fire against friendly targets.

Has anyone ever made a hit with non-upgraded rocket launchers? I have not yet landed a single hit.

I've noticed it's all some sort of arcade gimmick. The whole combat feature is just plain lame. Beyond lame really for a game like this. I don't even bother unless forced. The whole frigate/capital ship acquisition feature other than storage seems like a complete lack luster experience and a waste of time. Was looking for more info to see if there was any redeeming gameplay to it....but I'm finding otherwise.

[NMSPlayer]

Messaggio originale di japp_02:

The combat frigate as well as these 'Defense chits' which call-in sentinel ships to aid you, all their support is very modest...I see them always firing at pirate ships but I never see them destroying any, I have to do the entire work. The only benefit of them is forcing pirate ships to do some evasive maneuvres which are then easier for me to terminate them.
Also you need to be careful not to fire against friendly targets.

Has anyone ever made a hit with non-upgraded rocket launchers? I have not yet landed a single hit.

If you watch Gaming Mike on Youtube (and a number of other places) he has a permadeath run going from start to center -- for the ps4 reward, he uses rockets and its hilarious and amazing at the same time. He is hilarious and amazing LOL. You should check him out.