Is the Astrid Worth it?

[Faptor]

I recently got the fully upgraded Erlking and was filled with regret that I didnt bother getting it sooner with all its tech and now im really curious about the Astrid.

Does she fly as nice as she looks?

[Dreamer]

Yes, the best player ship imo.

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by Faptor:

I recently got the fully upgraded Erlking and was filled with regret that I didnt bother getting it sooner with all its tech and now im really curious about the Astrid.

Does she fly as nice as she looks?

i can only recomment to read up the customer reviews of all the parts that are build into that ship...

*cough* read the enzyclopedia descriptions for shields, weapons, engines and the ship it self *cough*

[Aieonae]

Pretty good a ship, very fancy to sit in, while the universe move around you.

[Kajar]

Yes and no.
It is very nice to get around quickly.
It is absolutely not suitable for combat. The main guns are incredibly weak and equal to small mk 1 pulse lasers in damage output.
Technically it got the best beam turrets in the game though but don't expect destroying anything larger than a light fighter to be quick.
While having high top speed, it has horrible acceleration and brakes, especially on the travel drive. If flying a Katana is like flying on ice-physics. Flying an Astrid is like flying with zero-friction and you will drifting and sliding everywhere.
Survivability is also questionable. While it got the equivalent of an L shield, the hull is extremely flimsy. If the shields should ever go down, the hull will be gone faster than you can say BoFu Burger.

But it got a big ol Condensate cargo hold for hauling lots of protectyon from REDACTED.
It also has the only bed in the galaxy.

[Faptor]

Thanks, guys! I think I got to get it. I always ended up rejecting the offer and went on a huge killing spree but the bed sealed the deal.

[NMGSGaming]

It's a nice Trophy and faster than pretty much everything. It's the "Sit back and Relax" ship while your peons do everything else, including flying it as it will take a long time to brake.

[Rejected Spavvn]

Originally posted by Faptor:

Thanks, guys! I think I got to get it. I always ended up rejecting the offer and went on a huge killing spree but the bed sealed the deal.

The way you phrased that indicates you don't know that you can obtain two Astrids by going against the scumbag twins. You need to savescum a bit for this though, tutorial below.

You're bes off saving before going into Leap of Faith so you can go back and try with a better suited ship if you didn't manage the dogfights, they can be handled with many high specced M fighters but are hard to pull off. When you are at the stage where they have you take a look around the ship to tempt you to side with them, make a hard save and then talk to the marked jerk, have Boso launch the hack attack and immediately teleport to the ship you brought to Leap of Faith. Immediately attack the Astrid that starts moving, or it'll escape and be forever out of reach, the other won't move as long as you stay in system and don't do anything to it. The one you attacked should bail the instant you pound through the shield, BE CAREFUL not to blow it up, if it refuses to bail and blows go back to the previous save. Once it's abandoned you can attack the sitting duck but QUICKSAVE before you fire the first shot. This ship won't bail at all most likely, you CAN get lucky but yeah... if it refuses to bail load the quicksave and try again. If it still won't bail, exit the game and start it up again, should bail as dead easy as the first ship did now. Clearly this entire situation is drenched in bugs but until 6.00 or some later version fixes that mess this procedure works veeeery reliably, done it multiple times with identical results.

[Faptor]

Originally posted by Rejected Spavvn:

The way you phrased that indicates you don't know that you can obtain two Astrids by going against the scumbag twins.

You, sir, are amazing!

[mar3usmc]

Still "drenched" in bugs. Guy just won't bail as the boron said he would.

[Aieonae]

Originally posted by mar3usmc:

Still "drenched" in bugs. Guy just won't bail as the boron said he would.

Try harder!

[mar3usmc]

I only got the one that immediately runs away to bail. I have a life. I am not going to reload more than a couple times. (load times are still sooooo long)

[Humble]

If player lost Astrids, is there way to recover other than reload game? I know that if Erlking lost, player always had chance to research and get other Erlking but can't build more than one at a time, but I'm not sure about Astrids, thought. I know Astrids is great for peaceful player who like to managed from ship personal officer if they prefer not to do that in Headquarter Personal office, but I think Headquarter personal officer is much safe to manage empire from there, assumed player do design headquarter very well, heavy defense but depend player's computer, it's can be lag when headquarter got mega, so Astrids is good and backup personal office and for adventure, check out Trade guild and War guild, then manage fleet to do that for mission from there.

[Donauwelle]

Originally posted by Kajar:

It also has the only bed in the galaxy.

Biggest Pro about astrid tho.
Design is fancy and there was obviously lots of efford put into it.

Ship itself is a Ok Protectyron transporter, but Protectyron isnt rly worth trading anyways. Unique Shield is cool, but the weapons are wet noodles and not changable.

[Humble]

Well, it's not war ship but at least it's proved speed and heavy shield ensure keep people safest travel of all ship beside teleport. It's business travel, not war travel. I guess that's why weapon might be meh, other than basic of defense.

[DrKartoffelsalat]

It has a pool. Do i need to say more? Granted, you can't swim in it, but still.