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Space Engineers

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Cooperative NPC Takeover
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Cooperative NPC Takeover

Description
Getting frustrated by taking over NPC grids, one block at a time? Look no further!

Cooperative NPC Takeover allows you to capture grids with ease - once you fought past the defenses and are on board, in any case!

The challenge of capturing an enemy ship should be getting actually into it, and overcoming its defenses, not a frustrating time with your grinder in hand.

This mod is based on the older Easy NPC Takeovers from Meridius_IX.

How to capture a NPC?
Simply hack all control stations. Thats it. Grind them down, weld them back up, and the grid is yours.

Control stations include:
- The remote control
- Flight Seats / Control Seats / Cockpits
- Cryo Chambers

Once the last of these blocks is hacked, you will automatically take ownership of the grid.

In particular, this works in Co-Op, as long as everyone is on the same faction. All hacked control stations need to be owned by the same faction.

Where is the remote control?
Sometimes it can be quite difficult to find the remote control in a NPC ship. If you ever took half the ship apart to find it, you'll know.

To take the frustration out of grinding front to back through the ship to find it, the Remote Control now has an audible audio cue ("beep"), which you will start hearing at a distance of about 10 meters from the remote.
70 Comments
nevcairiel  [author] Dec 8, 2024 @ 11:38pm 
Since players capture blocks in the process of taking over the grid, that would mean at the second captured block it would crash for everyone. But I've not been able to reproduce that. Capturing works smoothly.

Please provide the actual crash log.
cheese Dec 8, 2024 @ 7:05pm 
method `TakeOver.IsvalidNPCGrid()` crashes in the main thread when the subject NPC grid contains any blocks owned by a player
Invalid_Maus Nov 22, 2024 @ 10:55pm 
you'll need to claim the grids PCU, it's on the top right of the info tab
LiveLaughToasterBath Oct 26, 2024 @ 5:07pm 
so im using this, but when i takeover something, i get ownership, but looking at armour blocks, it says 'unowned blocks will despawn' with a countdown, and when the timer runs out everythign dissapears! i had full ownership, double checked, tried using console to make sure everythign was mine. but its happening everytime to npc encounters now.... dunno whats going on
Maphias Oct 17, 2024 @ 12:12pm 
not sure if this is working any more with the new update i love using it
Kaneki Nalla Sep 23, 2024 @ 10:54am 
hi for some reason the beep sound is not working on dedicated servers? can you please verify that and let me know whats wrong?
WHITE Sep 5, 2024 @ 1:51pm 
Thank you for the clarification, now that you say so, it's true that the ship I tried to grind also had a cryo chamber on it as well.
nevcairiel  [author] Aug 26, 2024 @ 9:57pm 
@WHITE
The remote control is not the only thing you need to take over, its all control blocks - seats/cockpits, and cryo chambers, because of how SE made them.
WHITE Aug 26, 2024 @ 8:30am 
I have noticed that some ships doesn't give up ownership when grinding down the remote controller, is that normal? Some do works so I was wondering if it was luck based.
0043{WolfStreak} Aug 20, 2024 @ 7:14pm 
The beep audio is nice, but with how terrible the Directional Audio is in this game, Sucks trying to find the beep that is in the right and left ear no matter what way I look