Hijacking

[Tactrix]

So throughout waiting for this game to release we've discussed a lot of stuff about exploration and fighting and land formations but I'm wondering can you hijack someones ship? And when I say someone's I mean I've seen npc freighters, giant massive ships out in space, and I'm wondering if instead of destroying some parts of them and getting some loot we could board one and hijack it?

[VolcanoSheep]

I know Sean said you can steal a ship on the ground or in a station, but I doubt you could step in front of one and order the occupant out of the cockpit, in deep space. :p

[CyraNova]

Yes. you need build a chip and override their parking lot near alien lab. watch the IGN last video. Sean show it to us how to steal it. but I don't think you need hijaking. since you just shot their ship and explode. and the loot appear

[Tactrix]

Originally posted by Tartaurus:

I know Sean said you can steal a ship on the ground or in a station, but I doubt you could step in front of one and order the occupant out of the cockpit, in deep space. :p

Well I was thinking more like land on one and break into it via hacking or shooting, whatever method works, just something where you break in and then get to the cockpit and steal it from there.

[Tactrix]

Originally posted by LoveCraft:

Yes. you need build a chip and override their parking lot near alien lab. watch the IGN last video. Sean show it to us how to steal it. but I don't think you need hijaking. since you just shot their ship and explode. and the loot appear

Yea but the thing is I don't want their loot I want the actual ship, I'm trying to figure out if we'll be able to upgrade from these tiny ships to gigantic ships eventually. Because the tiny ships while having speedy advantages look and feel like they're relatively flimsy when facing a fleet of opposing ships, meanwhile if we had say a real battle ship then we could take it on no problem.

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by killer1h:

Because the tiny ships while having speedy advantages look and feel like they're relatively flimsy when facing a fleet of opposing ships, meanwhile if we had say a real battle ship then we could take it on no problem.

Not sure at this point how powerful the upgrades on ships are, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could take on a fleet in a hit and run fashion over time and at least be able to take out 1 small freighter or two with a heavily upgraded small fighter. I'd imagine the larger ships have blindspots you can exploit once you've dispatched their fighter support (which you can probably kite away from the main fleet). You may even be able to kill steal off npc pirates depending on whether or not they aggro you without you shooting at them first.

The main thing is how far they would chase you once you engage and how realistic it is to run away if you start losing.

[Antang]

You can either buy ships or steal it by hacking(which is not a guarantee). This ain't Just Cause or GTA in space.

[Cmdo.Delta]

Good question.. Can we own one of those giant traders ship? For those of us who want to play trading gurus? ;p

[Tactrix]

All good points, soon enough we'll find out :)

[Seamless]

Assuming Sean did in fact steal a ship when he hacked the console on the Korvax landing pad, what happened to the ship he used to get to the planet? I remember he died from the sentinel attack (which I thought would respawn put him next to his starter ship), but he also saved his game before hacking the console to call the Korvax science ship. Shouldn't his old ship still be out there? If so, does it just... disappear when he gets into the Korvax ship? Perplexed, I am.

[Tactrix]

Originally posted by mortia40:

Assuming Sean did in fact steal a ship when he hacked the console on the Korvax landing pad, what happened to the ship he used to get to the planet? I remember he died from the sentinel attack (which I thought would respawn put him next to his starter ship), but he also saved his game before hacking the console to call the Korvax science ship. Shouldn't his old ship still be out there? If so, does it just... disappear when he gets into the Korvax ship? Perplexed, I am.

I would say yes the old ship should be there since it was saved at that point, it doesn't disappear, it remains, ok here's how it goes, when you leave your ship it doesn't just vanish, it remains so that you or anyone really that can use it can pick it up. I think ships are one of those suggnificant events that sean was talking about when he mentioned that some things can change and be uploaded for all the users to see.