What your go-to Frigates?

[M'osh]

Personally, I go for the first frigate I see when I have the necessary $$$ for it.

Curious as to your guys' strategy/choice.

[Zarinthal]

I like heavy guns, so I go Raven when i can find it, but the Beetle is deceptively OP if you equip it properly

[M'osh]

What do you mean by heavy guns? Do you mean like cannons and missile launchers, or just weapons with the word "heavy" in them?

[lalelunatic]

if you dont go from corvette to cruiser directly, for frigattes, id say archimedes all the way =P. crit, agi and cloak (if you get one) energy reduce, full turrets, no fixed guns.

i kinda like to play it like a submarine... strapping 6 pulson rocket launchers and 1 pd in it. together with a cloak and how the ship looks it really feels like playing silent hunter again =P.

get 3 missile gunners on passive and later on replace the pulsons with 3 peacemaker torpedos... fired directly aside your target going out of stealth its devastating. =)

[lalelunatic]

if you start as rebel you get acces imediately. for finding it... getting a rebel base to spawn is something you should eventally mange by just exploring (they tend to hang out with the venghi). as a little trick to get it beeing sold... save before jumping in a new sector. if it has a rebel base relaod and jump in again until it sells the archimedes. (unless you play hardcore)

[WeaverSong]

Personally, I prefer the Nightmare, V4G-A, or Archimedes. If I can get one, I certainly will.

[Zarinthal]

Originally posted by M'osh:

What do you mean by heavy guns? Do you mean like cannons and missile launchers, or just weapons with the word "heavy" in them?

Sorry, heavy was a bad adjective, I usually use improved or heavy laser beams on a raven. Sometimes I'll dual ultra laser, but only for range

[lalelunatic]

well technically youre terminology is correct, as all guns with 4+ size are counted as "heavy weapons" by the game, according to the silent hunter perk. =P

[MrPurple33]

Originally posted by lalelunatic:

if you dont go from corvette to cruiser directly, for frigattes, id say archimedes all the way =P. crit, agi and cloak (if you get one) energy reduce, full turrets, no fixed guns.

i kinda like to play it like a submarine... strapping 6 pulson rocket launchers and 1 pd in it. together with a cloak and how the ship looks it really feels like playing silent hunter again =P.

get 3 missile gunners on passive and later on replace the pulsons with 3 peacemaker torpedos... fired directly aside your target going out of stealth its devastating. =)

Dang this sounds excellent- Kind of a Klingon/Submarine/Stealth Bomber

I'm a new player, so hearing more unique ways the game can go inspires me

[lalelunatic]

as mentioned if you wanna go with terran ships, i strongly recommend doing a placebo playthrough (you will do this a few times i guess to get all the perks unlocked which are super usefull) to unlock the "rebel" starter background trait", by getting honored once with the faction. only downside is that you cant get friends with the aliens... the venghi (what doesnt matter in my book as everything they have to offer gearwise is claimable by force... =P).

this way you get access to all terran ships without grinding reputation again and a (in my opinion the best) bonus stat for background perks +1 speed.
i did most perks with terran ships so far actually. including certain hidden ship unlocks. as all of their ships are of blue/purple quality with superior stats (as are the venghi ships).

the cloak energy reduce is especially usefull as those drain huge amounts by default but are the perfect "panic button" if you overestimate your firepower until you get to the godmode gear (good thing terrans also sell you the best of those).