Xenon H, impossible boarding

[Grek the Shrek]

I tried capping the xenon h in the new sectors with 16 perfect ( 5/5 Star) marines.

But the boarding chance is impossible and the boarding button is grayed out. Attack and defence are both 1600.

Has someone else tried it with the same result?

[Ketraar]

Its not supposed to be easy to board. But its not impossible, many have done it.

MFG

Ketraar

[Grek the Shrek]

hi Ketraar,

thx for the answer. It looks like this

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3431543654

Vanilla and unmodded

The problem is that I cant press the board button because it stays grayed out :(

[SirProsik]

I boarded a few before the change to 1600. But after the change to 1600 could not board even with elite marines. At the time the board button was usable.

Beware even if you get the button to work try and remove all the drones on the ship as they will destroy boarding pods before marines can even reach the ship.

My stripper ship Pulsar heavily modded with TER Shields and PAR Burst Ray Mk2 makes quick work of removing turrets, engines and shields for boarding ops.

Only way to make this reasonable to board is to use terraforming marine training otherwise the ramp up to train marines the long way makes this too expensive to do.

[Grek the Shrek]

Thx for the reply. Everything is disabled and destroyed. I just cant press the button which stays grayed out no matter what I did. 😅

[SirProsik]

If after a save and reload of the game you can not board then sending Egosoft the save might help them resolve both the boarding and ridiculous increase in difficulty.

[Grek the Shrek]

I'll try that, thx 🙂

[Wolfsblut]

does mission guiding say´s something like "wait for marines" etc kind of thing. unless it say´s "do this and that" its working but need time. at times my entering did take place in around hours.. (so much time that i just activated seta for an 1-2 hours..)

[Grek the Shrek]

I just tried capping another ship and had no problems. It's just that new "xenon h" that spawns with the new DLC/update sectors that I can't capture because the button is gray.

And in the capture risk Assessment it said: impossible

[Wolfsblut]

Originally posted by Die Katastrophenschwester:

I just tried capping another ship and had no problems. It's just that new "xenon h" that spawns with the new DLC/update sectors that I can't capture because the button is gray.

And in the capture risk Assessment it said: impossible

did you enter ships a lot before? just curious. i also did wrong in the first 5 enter misisons till i got how it works..

[Grek the Shrek]

Originally posted by Wolfsblut:

Originally posted by Die Katastrophenschwester:

I just tried capping another ship and had no problems. It's just that new "xenon h" that spawns with the new DLC/update sectors that I can't capture because the button is gray.

And in the capture risk Assessment it said: impossible

did you enter ships a lot before? just curious. i also did wrong in the first 5 enter misisons till i got how it works..

I thought the same too because I rarely cap ships nowadays. But I used to "fly-by boarding" capture a lot of asgards without problems 😅

I just left the "h" and captured another ship without problems doing exactly the same method. Went back to the "Xenon h" and it does not work. Which makes me think if that specific ship is maybe not boardable. I have an "h" already But as all the other xenon are extinct I was hoping to capture this one too 😒

[Doom]

Originally posted by Die Katastrophenschwester:

I tried capping the xenon h in the new sectors with 16 perfect ( 5/5 Star) marines.

But the boarding chance is impossible and the boarding button is grayed out. Attack and defence are both 1600.

Has someone else tried it with the same result?

Save before boarding it. You can cap it with 16 4.5 star marines, though you'll lose a lot of them. The ship is not that special, but devs insist that "it must be this difficult".

[Wolfsblut]

Originally posted by Die Katastrophenschwester:

Originally posted by Wolfsblut:

did you enter ships a lot before? just curious. i also did wrong in the first 5 enter misisons till i got how it works..

I thought the same too because I rarely cap ships nowadays. But I used to "fly-by boarding" capture a lot of asgards without problems 😅

I just left the "h" and captured another ship without problems doing exactly the same method. Went back to the "Xenon h" and it does not work. Which makes me think if that specific ship is maybe not boardable. I have an "h" already But as all the other xenon are extinct I was hoping to capture this one too 😒

sounds like you found a bugged ship and not wanted to be this way. i trust a mod say it should be possible to board. might be worth reporting. since xenon are new this could still be a bug.

[Epathos]

Get the Large ship with 226 crew, fill it all with marines. you can win any boarding attempt with this thing. i have two of them parked out side in a uncapped sector stealing all the XL ships arg sends threw.

[Doom]

Originally posted by Epathos:

Get the Large ship with 226 crew, fill it all with marines. you can win any boarding attempt with this thing. i have two of them parked out side in a uncapped sector stealing all the XL ships arg sends threw.

Only 16 marines are used when you board H. It also instantly regenerates defense after failed boarding attempt.

[Epathos]

ah, didnt know that. just got back to trying this out after the new update.