Pirate Dreadnought destruction doesn't give me rewards.

[Dust Pyro]

From what i've been told, whenever you manage to defeat the pirate dreadnought in a space battle, and you haven't boarded it before you destroyed it, and if the civilian freighter is still alive, you should be getting a reward. Something along the lines of bulkheads or an S tier freighter upgrade. I've destroyed multiple dreadnoughts now, with the civilians intact (spare for the shield, cause i just can't seem to manage to balance all the fighters, torpedo's and the constantly firing lazers), and the game tells me that i've gotten a substantial reward via the log notification in the bottom right. But I see no new rewards pop up the way they usually do and no new item in any of my inventories. I'm also not getting a call from the freighter like you do in what is essentially the tutorial space battle, where you earn your first freighter for free.

My question: Is there something i'm missing? The dreadnought surrenders, I blow it up without even boarding it. Often times the civvie shield is down, but she's still flying. Is it a bug? And if so, is there something I can do to fix it?

[Dust Pyro]

I happened to stumble upon a pirate attack today and did this:
1. Turrets
2. all shield generators
3. all fuel rods
then got the message the dreadnought is trying to flee
4. pounding the hull until it was destroyed.
I even managed to save the civvies (only their shield went down)

And this time i did get the S-class upgrade.
Do note that a pretty solid gun will be needed. I solely used the Infra-Knife, which has max amount of upgrades, but is a long shot from max stats. And I didn't even rerouted power to weapons.

Thank you all so much for the help and research.

EDIT: It appears that i happened to be lucky, cause with this last on I had barely destroyed the turrets or the bastards were already fleeing. Zero chance of my taking down the shield AND the hull in those few seconds you're getting. :/ Guess for me it's a matter of luck and how big of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the pirates are...

[frazzled]

Rathyel lähetti viestin:

After some testing, it looks like there are currently 3 possible outcomes:

1. Destroying the dreadnaught without disabling it:
S-Class Mod or Bulkheads from the dreadnaught and additional
credits and nanites if the civilian freighter is still intact.

2. Disabling the dreadnaught before the civilian freighter is defeated:
Credits and nanites from the freigther and
tribute/bounty from the dreadnaught.

3. Disabling the dreadnaught after the civilian freighter is defeated:
S-Class Mod or Bulkheads from the dreadnaught and
tribute/bounty from the dreadnaught.

I also just tried Option 3 from above, and got 3 bulkheads. So I can also confirm that works.
Takes a while, but it works.

[Wile E. Coyote]

Rathyel lähetti viestin:

After some testing, it looks like there are currently 3 possible outcomes:

1. Destroying the dreadnaught without disabling it:
S-Class Mod or Bulkheads from the dreadnaught and additional
credits and nanites if the civilian freighter is still intact.

2. Disabling the dreadnaught before the civilian freighter is defeated:
Credits and nanites from the freigther and
tribute/bounty from the dreadnaught.

3. Disabling the dreadnaught after the civilian freighter is defeated:
S-Class Mod or Bulkheads from the dreadnaught and
tribute/bounty from the dreadnaught.

Confirmed as well, option 3 works. Thanks for the info

[PureProdigy]

Dust Pyro lähetti viestin:

From what i've been told, whenever you manage to defeat the pirate dreadnought in a space battle, and you haven't boarded it before you destroyed it, and if the civilian freighter is still alive, you should be getting a reward. Something along the lines of bulkheads or an S tier freighter upgrade. I've destroyed multiple dreadnoughts now, with the civilians intact (spare for the shield, cause i just can't seem to manage to balance all the fighters, torpedo's and the constantly firing lazers), and the game tells me that i've gotten a substantial reward via the log notification in the bottom right. But I see no new rewards pop up the way they usually do and no new item in any of my inventories. I'm also not getting a call from the freighter like you do in what is essentially the tutorial space battle, where you earn your first freighter for free.

My question: Is there something i'm missing? The dreadnought surrenders, I blow it up without even boarding it. Often times the civvie shield is down, but she's still flying. Is it a bug? And if so, is there something I can do to fix it?

Hey everyone i figured it out. If you allow the dreadnaught to surrender you will never get the s class modules, it only rewards you nanites and units.

In order to get an s class module everytime you have to do the following steps exactly as i lay them out.

1. Destroy the shield generators
2. Destroy the fuel rods.
3. Once you initiate the phase of the battle where it says they are going to warp and you have 30 seconds left DO NOT DESTROY THE WARP DRIVES OR WEAPONS. This will cause them to surrender which is what you dont want.
4. Once the 30 second countdown starts for them to warp you unfortunately have to destroy the ship just by shooting anywhere on the hull within 30 secs. If you dont have a weapon on your ships that deals at least 30,000 dps easy you wont be able to do it in time.
5. Once you destroy the dreadnaught before it warps you will be rewarded the units, nanites, and the s class module. Just tried it 3xs exactly like this and it worked every-time. Hope this helps everyone.