Best fighter ship?

[select_21]

Starting out my journey. I have a lot of hours in this game but no saved game past 20 hours or so. I writing a back story for my character and my vision for my pilot is to be commanding forces from a "formidable fighter" and be in the midst of all the action.

What are some recommendations? Most of my hours before were spent developing my miners/traders and trade hubs so focusing on combat will be a lot newer to me.

[redeyedraven]

And what attributes would your "formidable" fighter specialize in?

What is it that you want? More guns? More shields? More speed? Are Aesthetics important?

[select_21]

Originally posted by redeyedraven:

And what attributes would your "formidable" fighter specialize in?

What is it that you want? More guns? More shields? More speed? Are Aesthetics important?

I'm not really a fan of the Paranid tbh. Firepower and speed is how I think of my pilot.

[Bozz 💀]

The moreya is very good ! stealth fighter
I also like the Argon eclipse a lot for it's WW2 design ! Haven't tested the terran fighters yet I'm planning on starting to build some terran military soon so we'll see

[-Ripper-]

Best terran fighter is the Katana... it fly 500-600 m/s (only earth ship that does this) its a medium ship and use Proton Barrage 2 ...those kill anything medium or down instant...

Rest of earth ship are meeehh.. the gunship is good in a swarm with all plasma turrets...then they can take out destroyers fast..

very wierd even the fighter and interceptors"" of Earth all slow as a bulky capital ship ..

[select_21]

Awesome thank you, excited to get started.

[Lemdoran]

Personaly i tend to consider the Dragon M Ships the more versatile and comfortable for a player ship.
Medium shield for his class, one of the fastest M ships with the Split family engines (actually faster than most S ships), enough weapons for soloing a xenon K if needed / wanted. All purpose combat ship that has little, if any, drawback xD

An external website can help you to compare "base" stats easily
https://roguey.co.uk/x4/ships/

[rasabt]

the Katan ain't a fighter...

When comes to fighters it's more about personal taste (if you pilot yourself; for the AI there are objectivly better ones and worse ones).
Looks, shields, speed, weapon slots, cockpit...you are best of testing it yourself, even on a high-loadout they aren't that cost-heavy.

you could make an argument for many fighters, even those that some kinda disregard. The Ares for example gets often tossed aside because of it's speed, but i'm at a point that my offensive fighter-fleets (40 ships+) are all made out of Ares (1plasma, rest differs).
I currently use the Takeba (as my personal small ship)...or whatever it's called, the only crux it's it lack in cockpit and not having the 4 weapon slots other fighters can have.

Buy some, test em.
If you want to branch out of S ships for your personal craft, which i would recommend, then i can strongly recommend M ships, specificaly the Dragon, Nemesis or the Katana (just don't let the AI handel the Katana).

[redeyedraven]

Originally posted by select_21:

Firepower and speed is how I think of my pilot.

Split Fighters.

[Gregorovitch]

TBH @OP I would try an M ship for your purpose and think of it as a "super-fighter" for role playing purposes.

Dunno if the Terrans have got a good one for this (any sign of Springblossom in X4?) but the two ships that come to mind as ideal personal player ships are

The Split Dragon
The Paranid Nemesis

These two ships are far faster and more nimble than any fighter in the game and pack a serious wallop in terms of weaponry. A properly modded Dragon will exceed 1000 m/s speed. A Nemesis a bit less than that, but the Nemisis looks a lot cooler (to my eye anyway) and the cockpit is a lot more comfortable.

The thing about an M ship is that it's going to beefy enough for you to get involved in big battles fighting along side your fleets whereas even the best of the S class heavy fighters would mean you have to be very careful to avoid getting shot to pieces with millions of enemies buzzing around. Too careful for my taste anyway.

[select_21]

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

TBH @OP I would try an M ship for your purpose and think of it as a "super-fighter" for role playing purposes.

Dunno if the Terrans have got a good one for this (any sign of Springblossom in X4?) but the two ships that come to mind as ideal personal player ships are

The Split Dragon
The Paranid Nemesis

These two ships are far faster and more nimble than any fighter in the game and pack a serious wallop in terms of weaponry. A properly modded Dragon will exceed 1000 m/s speed. A Nemesis a bit less than that, but the Nemisis looks a lot cooler (to my eye anyway) and the cockpit is a lot more comfortable.

The thing about an M ship is that it's going to beefy enough for you to get involved in big battles fighting along side your fleets whereas even the best of the S class heavy fighters would mean you have to be very careful to avoid getting shot to pieces with millions of enemies buzzing around. Too careful for my taste anyway.

Awesome, thanks for the advice. Maybe I'll roll split then. Still downloading the game atm and still planning a little.

[-Ripper-]

The Xenon (Yaki) ships are very good... if you unlock them at the new expansion mission.
Have other post how to do it..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2433493840
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2433493803

[Oddible]

The ships people usually mention in this are:

- Dragon (you want the one from the ZYA not the one from the FRF, you don't want the Dragon Raider.
Load it up with Tau Accelerators and zoom through combat with your shotguns blasting everything in front of you

- Nemesis Vanguard - This was the ship of choice til the Split expansion came out

- Katana - this is the new contender, not sure how it fares but seems fun

After that as you move up into destroyers:

- Rattlesnake - this thing is a beast, so many main batteries! Short range
- Odysseus - looks like a hairdryer but delivers a beating. Perfect mix of more guns and long range
- Behemoth - Fan favorite, not my fave personall - basically just a tank, slow and low number of guns

[-Ripper-]

Originally posted by Oddible:

The ships people usually mention in this are:

- Dragon (you want the one from the ZYA not the one from the FRF, you don't want the Dragon Raider.
Load it up with Tau Accelerators and zoom through combat with your shotguns blasting everything in front of you

- Nemesis Vanguard - This was the ship of choice til the Split expansion came out

- Katana - this is the new contender, not sure how it fares but seems fun

After that as you move up into destroyers:

- Rattlesnake - this thing is a beast, so many main batteries! Short range
- Odysseus - looks like a hairdryer but delivers a beating. Perfect mix of more guns and long range
- Behemoth - Fan favorite, not my fave personall - basically just a tank, slow and low number of guns

Terran Syn battleship (old school) no idea why they say that.. its stronger then the modern version.. also have 3 main frontal guns (you control) and 8 Large turrets and 2 Medium Turrets.. i am about to test it vs Xenon Battleships.. dough there is a Xenon Type i (the gigant Xenon that shoot down any other battleship in seconds) .. we need a same strong Ship that they have :)

wow it melted the Xenon K version fast. love it

[Lapo]

The Segaris Pioneers Takoba is probably my favorite fighter in the whole game, looks good, is fast enough in combat and travel drive, even with Terran combat engines, turns on a dime and has 2 shield slots and decent hull strenght, but it only has 2 weapon mounts. For speed and firepower you have, armed with 5 weapons, the Zyarth Split Chimera and with a weapon less than that the Yaki Moreia.

[Kreon91 [GER]]

yeah, Takoba with Terran combat engines is my new favorite by far. Of course its not very powerful, but can be total ninja during early game. Constantly kiting with Boost, Travel Drive, Flight Assist on/off. I'm so close to them and still they can't hit me anymore :-)
Split engine travel drive acceleration sucks. Can't be used during combat. Now it's Terran combat engines or nothing for me.