Pirate Dreadnaught

[Paladin]

I’ve watched a lot of videos and read about getting the dreadnaught and was wondering if getting it is really worth it. I’ve seen a class C and class A dreadnaught and none compare to my current freighter which has a class S which has a lot more tech and cargo slots. What does the dreadnaught have versus a regular freighter.

[Guyver8]

the dreadnaught is a capital class freighter so it will be superior stat-wise to any same class system freighter... but the big selling points are
1) it's new
2) it's shiny
but even then it's basically just a personal choice about the looks (cos the stat differences don't mean much)

[Indominus Blix]

I have swapped freighters so often, It was just a hoot. Won't be around long.

[<RED>Pirate King Undead<>]

arg, join my crew

[Paladin]

As I've not obtained the dreadnaught yet for those of you that have are the turrets operational to use on future missions?

[UTMaster]

I have one namely because I chose to be a space pirate in this game, and I can't be a true pirate without a Pirate Dreadnought.

[Sinjuro]

i can't even seem to find one of these Dreadnoughts. can you find them in Expeditions or normal game?

[Phaedrus]

I have battled them 4 times and all four times they were C class. I am not going hunting for an S yet, but will battle when they show up. They give you about 6 mil bounty if you don't claim the freighter. I have found them in pirate systems. But I did find out with a new save you have to have a regular freighter for one of these to show up.

[ohiorice]

Originally posted by Sinjuro:

i can't even seem to find one of these Dreadnoughts. can you find them in Expeditions or normal game?

If/when you encounter a fleet under attack by pirates (most likely in a system in conflict) a PD will be there.

You cannot tell what class it is, nothing much about it. Take out its engines, then its main cannons. At that point you can board or destroy it.

I am still of the opinion we ought to be able to have one 'freighter' (more like a carrier actually) per class/race/species... at this point that would be one each for the three primary species (G/V/K) then one for the autophages and finally one for the pirates.

Five in total. Max ships could stay at twelve - and whatever ship you are in command of has those ships "on it" or "attached to it". Would be nice.

[Spocks Toupee]

Also, I hear the pirate dreadnoughts can hold 9 ships, on display

[taniwhat]

The turrets certainly shot at me when I left AFTER I'd boarded and claimed it. So they aren't just decoration ;)

[Nox]

My pirate dreadnought has only opened fire on an enemy once and it popped like popcorn.

[Kobs]

Originally posted by Spocks Toupee:

Also, I hear the pirate dreadnoughts can hold 9 ships, on display

Nope, just 6 like all other ships

[Edelgris]

I've been trying to get the Dreadnaught encounter to pop, but I'm having very little luck. I've seen it happen twice and I've made a LOT of jumps.

After my 2 Dreadnaught encounters, I decided to make a route where I jump between 5 different Pirate sectors, but have made 50-60 jumps by now and all I ever see is the event with pirate fighter ships attacking freighters and never the Dreadnaught :(

Is the encounter really this rare, or am I doing something wrong?

[ohiorice]

Hmm... I don't think you want pirate sectors, perhaps? From what I've been able to see/discern, you want a system in conflict with some potential pirate action ongoing.

I've seen it happen every time a civilian fleet is under attack, there's the Dreadnought.

[umop-apisdn]

In my experience, a given system will either always have a "pirate attack" scene, or a "pirate dreadnought fight" scene; if you experience one of those when warping into a system, then it will always be that one when it triggers in that system.

It may just be my own experience (or the part of the galaxy I did my testing in), but I have found that 3-star economies tend to have the "freighter vs freighter" battle more often than the "pirate starships vs freighter" battle. An economy scanner (or mapping out the area) could be useful.