*IMPORTANT NOTE* In order for the Pirate Dreadnaught to spawn AT ALL, you must already own a Freighter. The class level doesn't matter (C-S) but you have to already have one or no Pirate Dreadnaught for you. Weirdly, no one seems to ever mention this crucial detail.
I got my S class last night. Seeing how the dreadnought is armed to the teeth with anti freighter and ship cannons, I wish capital ship vs capital ship battles was a thing in NMS
I know right! How can he not see that!? Wasting time taking out the mini fighter turrets. . Also you dont need to shoot the shield generators - just zoom and fly through them. They blow up nil damage to your ship.
To remember the system set a waypoint to it before making your restore point. If there is no freighter battle delete the waypoint and repeat. If there is a battle keep the waypoint there until you get the freighter you want.
Almost make me wish we can have more than 1 Freighter. 1 Freighter would be your Main and the others would be sub Freighters which you can send to other systems and can send out its own smaller ships that you give them on missions. Sub freighters can also attack or be attacked by other Freighters based on your own relationship of other races/pirates.
KhrazeGaming had a video and pointed out, after you stop the pirate dreadnaught, you can warp to a new system and back and the whole thing will reset, so, no needing to continue warping to new pirate systems once you find a dreadnaught you like.
You need at least - 3 hours of gameplay - A pirate freighter will spawn every 5th warp jump - make sure the 5 jump is going into a pirate system - save on a planet in the 4 jump system to keep trying
200+ jump, proven by the 200+ "new" system I found. not a single pirate freighter. What am I missing? I finished the expedition, got all the reward (except community research, still at phase 4). 5+ hours straight in the last/current session on a single savefile, didn,t reload, didn't exit. Playing in multiplayer mode though it's been a while since I went so far nobody shows up anywhere. Still nothing. The most i've got are random CIVILIAN freighter under attack by small starship or a whole pirate fleet appearing AFTER ME and scanning me for whatever they want to steal. that's it. Highest difficulty possible, about 4m ly away from the start of expedition omega. or so the game says. still not sure what that distance even means. Am I missing anything? Did any of you do ANYTHING aside from the EXPEDITION milestones? Do you need your OWN freigther before this pirate one can appear? do you need to finish any questline? What does "progress the story" even means in this story-less game? Atlas? Anomaly? Center? Or maybe I need to be the worst outlaw there is with all the milestone for it? Or complete Voice of Freedom? It's pirate related, is this it?
@@theprinnyranger Ok edit because i assumed wrong. The pirate dreadnought only spawns in specific pirate systems. So you will have to look through those to find one.
found one under 1 hour. kept jumping between pirate systems till I found one. defeated it, boarded, check stats, leave system then jump back again to "reroll" stats" till S class. the whole 3 hours thing is not necessary *(also make sure combat difficulty is ON)*
FYI you need to have played for three hours, it doesn’t matter if you have logged off, and 5 warps. On the 5th jump there will be a freighter battle. You should have made a restore point right before the 5th jump. To trigger another battle repeat from the beginning. The pirate freighter Jason has is only in outlaw systems. DESTROY WARP ENGINES FIRST THEN THE ANTI-FREIGHTER WEAPONS THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO DESTROY. JUST IGNORE THE SHEILD GENS AND ACTUALLY DESTROYING THE OTHER THINGS ON THE SHIP You will not need the combat scanner only economy because it will tell you if it is a black market and they only occur in the aforementioned outlaw systems. Hope this helps
Saw in another video that the dreadnought won’t spawn if you dont already own a freighter. C-class in pirate systems has a 85% spawn rate and S-class is 5%
I'm not sure if you noticed, but while you were looking for the pirate systems, you skimmed over 3 or 4 pirate systems that were yellow and green. Not all pirate systems identify as high conflict for some reason. Great video
Something I discovered is once you find a pirate system with a dreadnought battle you can use that system to spawn it constantly by warping in and out of the system. I used this before the update to farm for s class freighter upgrades and I used it now to get myself an s class pirate dreadnought. This method let's you get rewards for defeating the dreadnought that aren't s class while farming for your s class. If you don't care about getting rewards as you grind for it reloading is probably faster though
Hey, Jason! Just gonna let you know that you don’t have to reload from the restore point. You can reload from the auto save which will be from when you first entered the system. It auto saves the freight or battle when it starts and that way you don’t have to worry about remembering the system name and everything.
Here are some xbox updates...the anomaly can glitch and stop entry, so just travel to a new system and recall it. The refiner dup glitch works and will save you time on nanite farming and such. You can no longer duplicate upgrades at least in the expedition. You can duplicate small refiners lol so only make 2 to save mats. Sentinels are still broken and go stupid when you shoot from inside a building. This helps since my expedition backpack is bare. Good luck, Jplays Travelers
First dreadnought seen, was looking for a new freighter so standard saving before warping. Jumped to a 3* system and into the fight, a nice A class to start with 😁
11:40 if you’re playing on console and encounter a dreadnought you can quickly use the capture feature to record the last 15-30 seconds leading up to it so you know the name, and where on the map you selected to even get there.
It's funny because I didn't even know about this beforehand and encountered one. First thing I did was went for the engines. Not even realizing I could take the freighter. After doing all of that, I did the rest and was pleasantly surprised that I got to go aboard and negotiate with the captain and I immediately took the freighter. It was an S class at that and I even hired the A-S class frigates, so now I own a massive pirate fleet. I have over 25 frigates. I just thought it was funny you said to take out the engines first and that's what I did immediately. I do that when I can in most space Sims because it really leaves the enemy ships like a sitting duck and they can't attack you without gimballed turrets or unless you fly directly in their LOS.
Thx man! Just got my S class dreadnought thx to you. Only took about 15 minutes following your lead. As soon as I went to a pirate system I looked up your video 👍🏽
stopped counting at 43, kept trying another 4 hours or so after that, unsure how many i actually did. in that time got 2 A's and 1 B, the rest were all C's. Finding them isn't the problem, getting it to spawn an S seems extremely rare. FAR more rare than getting an S starship.
Unless they've changed it, you can find the ship, land in the station there, and create your restore point from there, which saves you from jumping constantly. It worked for the freighter I currently have, so I assume it would here.
You can beat a dreadnaught and warp to a different system then back again and the encounter will reset along with the dreadnaught's level (C, B, A, or S).
@@charlesmatignon1068 Yup, and that means save scumming, as no freighter is a set class. The shape and coloration is set, but the class is randomized once you warp in. So, it could be C, it could be S, only way to know is to land on it and scan it. I've literally spent hours save scumming to get an S-class freighter.
3 steps to getting a dreadnought 1. Find one by warping around. 2. Shoot the back warp engines out preventing escape. 3. Destroy all anti freighter cannons you do not have to destroy the shields or anything else just those 2 pieces of equipment. Upon doing so you'll get a message saying they surrender and you can board them.
it’s worth using your weapons boost toggle on your ship when dealing with combat, it might be a little annoying but it becomes natural flipping through the options. same goes for the engine boost for speed! just remember everytime you change a system or are far away from your ship it goes back to the balanced setting.
Nice, I like that you can upgrade for free, means you can take that first freighter in a new save and then upgrade to a pirate freighter later without piling up funds.
did not know i was this lucky got an S class pirate freighter second try just now and boy am i surprised oh and btw this was the second time defeating a pirate freighter too and without you i coud not have know to destroy the warp engines so thanks
Found a dreadnaught first warp in a pirate system and kept reloading my autosave cause it autosaves when you enter the system til I got an S tier. So you don’t necessarily have to just warp jump to a different system. It took a couple of reloads but I finally got one just takes good RNG
I'll be honest... the whole "You gotta play x amount of hours before something shows up" is bullshit. I'm a dad with 3 kids and just don't have time to sit down and play for 3 straight hours.
It's not like you have to play for 3 hours each time. It's just once and every fifth warp there should be a battle. By the time you even get to the point that you can get a capital ship. You will already be more than 3 hours in.
if you don't have time to play a game for more then 3 total hours, why waste money buying games? Even the shortest games out there are at least 6 hours, but most games required 20-30 hours to beat while some far more. You bought a game that is open ended and can be played for hundreds to thousands of hours and your complaining about needing to play just 3 hours? if you played 30 minutes a day you'd be at 3 hours in 6 days. Again why are you playing games if you don't have 3 hours to put into one.
We need to be allowed one 'carrier' freighter per race in the game, each allowing max of 12 ships per carrier. The individual ships would be 'anchored' to a particular freighter to keep things tidy. I'm not about to replace my S Class sentinel style freighter with one of these as I've way too much time invested with the interior layouts. Wish they'd have thought about it. Plus - I can't imagine the pita it would be transferring everything over.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was only playing for an hour and I found a dreadnought but it was a c :( I then reloaded the save and it was an S on the first reload!
If you get a c class pirate dreadnought, check the civillian freighter before reloading, it's rarity changes everytime making this the fastest way to find an s class freighter
Jason...two questions: 1) When I highlight "red" stars is says "No data available"...am I missing some equipment to give me that info? I do have the "conflict scanner"....2) Is it required that I be in "combat" mode? I am always in "friendly...non-combat" mode because I don't like being attacked and fighting a lot. After 3-hours of playing, I tried to find a pirate battle yesterday for a couple hours (at least 15-20 warps) and it would not happen so I gave up. Just want to see if I am missing something.
Loved the video Jason (as always) and I will be trying this out soon. I think I read that your cargo does NOT transfer, but I think your layout inside does transfer?...Do you know? Thanks again for ALL the great videos you make.
you can also spawn a dreadnaught in any system with sentinels : shoot a sentinel , go back to your ship, fight the sentinel ship and at max difficulty level the dreadnaught spawn ! yet idk if you can claim the one spawn this way
This is a very late comment but I just got my s tier dreadnought last night and the only thing you need to do is take out the engines first then take out every huge cannon shooting the red laser at the civilian freighter. I believe he missed one in the video that’s why he had to blow up the shields as well.
I don’t have a combat scanner and ended up encountering 3 pirate dreadnoughts. The first time I forgot to disable the warp drive so it got away. Got the 2nd and 3rd, B and C respectively. I’ll get a better one eventually~
If you want to go to the system that you want to keep going to you can put a marker on the system and you can have directions to go to the selected system and if you want it to stay there just save before you start or when you put the marker down. On Xbox I believe its X to put marker down
Hi JP. I have 4 outlaw systems in a 61ly total range. If I just jump between the 4 systems, will that count as warping? I have an A-class but looking for a S-class.
Another way is to land on space station and avoid the battle in that system and reload that save point. A normal freighter will be there and no conflict. Board and do visor scan. If not one desired reload the save and fly out and scan again. Don’t know if it works on pirate ship.
I just got my pirate freighter from the expedition i swapped some starship AI valves into the terminal at anomaly for quick units. I swear im getting freighter battles every few minutes
I was able to capture a pirate dreadnought but the next one I ran across I wanted to blow up. I was unable to, they surrendered and it looked like the shields were still active despite both trenches being fully cleared.
O.K, So my max output on weapons is half of your output. Makes a huge difference apparently. Second, I think I will save the civilian fleet instead. Had an offer for an A class freighter capital ship for 130 million units. Only had 40 million at the time. Currently have a B class Korvax from a C class Gek. The difficulty comes from actually balancing the attack between the dreadnought and the missiles being fired on the civilian fleet. Haven't got the right mix yet. The dreadnought escapes and or the civilian fleet is destroyed. Gotta work on this. It's amazing after I got the stone glyphs for the portal, the Traveler appeared 12 consecutive times at a space station without even trying. The freighter space battle for me has been occurring about 50 percent of the time for me while looking for and doing something else. Red system or 3 star s6stem or outlaw system is not having much of an effect. However my problem is not being able to get a win except once by accident it appears. Kind of like life. Well at least my life. Peace. Go Brandon!! FJB. Coincidence that this game came out 8 years ago and I only started playing this for the first time over a month ago? Who knows.
For me the latest update has broken this battle. I cannot save the civilian freighter because as soon as I warp in and start pulsing towards the pirate ship the shields on the civilian freighter get depleted before I even reach the pirate ship. A few seconds later the civ freighter is destroyed by the pirate lasers before they launch any missiles. This all happens in about in 15 seconds and it happens in every battle I come across. I can leave and re-enter the system infinitely to join the battle with the same results. Totally broken.
What about the freighter modules if you want to change? Does it also transfer like the base? Or you have to take them before the change? Nice video! I already have an S freighter but those lasers look extremely cool
I am going to make this my next mission. I will then work on getting a sweet base set up on mine, as if I don't have enough going on in NMS right now. 😉
I want to see in a future update in high economy low conflict systems a "Freighter Depo" it acts like a space station but you can upgrade a freighter's class or gather a TON of rare materials to build a custom freighter, but it can ONLY show up in HIGH economy and LOW conflict systems and even then its not a guarante one shows Edit: SO glad I watched this video cause like minuts after watching I got a totaly random freighter battle that need me an A class dreadnought
I got my S class pirate frighter after 6 tries was lucky I have a tip I'm not good in battles so what I did was once I was at the freightor battle I changed my settings to none for combat then it's much easie to cripple the frightor and you get less damage to your ship it makes it much easer to do try it if your not good at combat
I haven’t played for awhile since I thought the game got boring, I started playing again when they first added the dreadnaughts, are all the dreadnaughts the same design? Or are their different ones in the game looks wise ?
if they would still update the game imagine if you would create one largle fleet like with 3 capital ships and you could take over plantes and get into large multi system wars
I timed how long it takes from: checking the class of the freighter, warping in and out of the system, defeating the freighter again, checking class It takes me around 2:50-3:00 each time considering it says chance of an S class is 2% On average it should take 50 attempts so 150 minutes of consistent farming I have so far done 7 attempts, hoping to get my time down. so far I have seen 5x C class and 2x B
I appear to be INCREDIBLY lucky. The FIRST pirate freighter I captured was an S class!! 🎉 I saw another tutorial and the guy said it took him over 20 attempts!
Hey you mention to get this to trigger you have to play the game for 3hrs. Can you be more specific please? Like I just need to have played NMS for a cumulative 3hrs or the Expedition for cumulative 3hrs or do I need to play either for 3hrs that day before it triggers? I played for hours the other day and could not get it to trigger. Yes I have the conflict scanner and attempted all the scenarios I just mentioned and still can’t get a pirate freighter. Do you need to stay in the expedition to get this to trigger or can you go back to your primary save post expedition to do this? I appreciate your videos so I was hoping you could clarify. Than you!
1. 3 hours (continuously) 2. 3 star system with level 3 conflict or a pirate system 3. You should own 1 freighter 1st before going for this (not sure about this one)
Hey jason, i warped like 20 times and haven't found 1 single Dreadnought. Is there any Story Progression i need to do to spawn a Dreadnought? Im on a regular safe, not in Expedition
I believe you need to own a freighter already (any kind, either the regular ones you can find by pulse-driving around the system or the big capital ships that only spawn every 3 hours & 5 warps). Note that you can get your first freighter for free if you play for 3 hours straight and warp 5 times.
Can you clarify if we already need to have a freighter before getting this one? I can’t get one to spawn and most on Reddit say you need to have 1 before this version spawns
Say what you will but I waited until I can have my freighter both inside and out to be pirate themed and just use a save editor to replace the model, But kept everything else untouched. I had to many C Class Pirate Freighters. I dont have the patience for a S class right now. I made sure it was as legit to a the pirate ship you find normally as possible I dont want to much of my old freighter showing up. While still keeping my base, cargo, Technology all intact. The inside took a reload of the game to change from a normal Freighter Bridge to a Pirate themed version. Including the hanger. Atlas + Pirate Theme = Menacing!
also another note: it is better for you to claim the dreadnought or destroy it than demanding tribute, demanding tribute only gives like 4-5 million units, not worth it if y'all are rich tbh
I’ve been reloading for a couple hours now and will only get c class. I’ve yet to see a b, a, or s. Does going to reload point still work or is there a new method?
Got lucky and had a A class on the first event (by which i kind of got caught offguard). I guess its not important which species mans the freighter, but if i wanted a specific one, wouldt it be linked to the systems species like the normal freighters?
Great video! I remember the grind getting my s class freighter so I won’t get one on my main save but they’re awesome so will do with a different save I think. Thanks for the tips!
I'm sure this is a stupid question.. Do I need to take everything out of the freighter and stick it in my base first? The freighter is my main storage spot. That's going to take ages to sort out
Does this have to be done in the Expedition or can I do this at any time with a new save? I don't like the scheduled nature of the Expedition system forcing me to play when it is live.
*IMPORTANT NOTE* In order for the Pirate Dreadnaught to spawn AT ALL, you must already own a Freighter. The class level doesn't matter (C-S) but you have to already have one or no Pirate Dreadnaught for you. Weirdly, no one seems to ever mention this crucial detail.
Would you be willing to tell me your friend code? All my old friends stopped playing.
Bro thank you for this I spent like 3 hours looking for one and was like wtf is going on
thiss needs a pin
What!!!!!!!. I have been looking for one for 5 days now😢. I don't have a freighter. THANK YOU ❤
U my brother u are my Gotty
I got my S class last night. Seeing how the dreadnought is armed to the teeth with anti freighter and ship cannons, I wish capital ship vs capital ship battles was a thing in NMS
Soon(tm). just give HG some time
Recently got my s class normal freighter and got the interior just how I wanted it and now I WANT a s class dreadnought....BLOODY HELL☹☹
@@misterprecocious2491You can transfer your interior build between freighters.
@@misterprecocious2491 you can copy over your layout from your previous capital ship
got my B class dreadnought after warping to the rendezvous 2 location today
i was yelling at the screen "don't you see that GIANT laser beam shooting the other freighter???" good fun.
Same lol
Same!
I can't believe he didn't see it..
It was straight killing me 😅
I know right! How can he not see that!? Wasting time taking out the mini fighter turrets.
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Also you dont need to shoot the shield generators - just zoom and fly through them. They blow up nil damage to your ship.
To remember the system set a waypoint to it before making your restore point. If there is no freighter battle delete the waypoint and repeat. If there is a battle keep the waypoint there until you get the freighter you want.
Almost make me wish we can have more than 1 Freighter. 1 Freighter would be your Main and the others would be sub Freighters which you can send to other systems and can send out its own smaller ships that you give them on missions. Sub freighters can also attack or be attacked by other Freighters based on your own relationship of other races/pirates.
Already in the game. Sub-freighters are called frigates and you send them out on missions.
@@x626xblackI think they mean sub freighters that have their own fleet of frigates
Or a titan class would be dope
Or have them in your fleet and command the captains like the frigates
4:06 he scrolled past so many pirate systems and didn’t see
Lol!! Ok I was wondering if I was the only one to notice😹
KhrazeGaming had a video and pointed out, after you stop the pirate dreadnaught, you can warp to a new system and back and the whole thing will reset, so, no needing to continue warping to new pirate systems once you find a dreadnaught you like.
I wish I knew that before I warped 15 times trying to get one.
Oh well, I have an S class freighter _now_ .
Thanks for the info, though. 👍
That is not what Jason did. After you find the dreadnaught you just reload if it is not the class you want
@@x626xblack Which is faster? Reloading and warping back in, or warping from A to B and then B to A?
@@Craxin01 depends. On a ps5 it wouldnt matter too much bc loading is rlly fast. On a ps4 (or a ps of equivalent strength) warping
Hey i warped Like 20 Times and haven't found a single Dreadnought
Is there any Story Progression i need to Spawn one?
You need at least
- 3 hours of gameplay
- A pirate freighter will spawn every 5th warp jump
- make sure the 5 jump is going into a pirate system
- save on a planet in the 4 jump system to keep trying
200+ jump, proven by the 200+ "new" system I found. not a single pirate freighter. What am I missing? I finished the expedition, got all the reward (except community research, still at phase 4). 5+ hours straight in the last/current session on a single savefile, didn,t reload, didn't exit. Playing in multiplayer mode though it's been a while since I went so far nobody shows up anywhere. Still nothing. The most i've got are random CIVILIAN freighter under attack by small starship or a whole pirate fleet appearing AFTER ME and scanning me for whatever they want to steal. that's it.
Highest difficulty possible, about 4m ly away from the start of expedition omega. or so the game says. still not sure what that distance even means.
Am I missing anything? Did any of you do ANYTHING aside from the EXPEDITION milestones? Do you need your OWN freigther before this pirate one can appear? do you need to finish any questline? What does "progress the story" even means in this story-less game? Atlas? Anomaly? Center?
Or maybe I need to be the worst outlaw there is with all the milestone for it?
Or complete Voice of Freedom? It's pirate related, is this it?
@@theprinnyranger Ok edit because i assumed wrong.
The pirate dreadnought only spawns in specific pirate systems.
So you will have to look through those to find one.
@@Landogarner83does the Dreadnought Spawn outside of the Expedition?
@@sweeti-wf7jv yes.
It is part of the update but not exclusive to the expedition.
found one under 1 hour. kept jumping between pirate systems till I found one.
defeated it, boarded, check stats, leave system then jump back again to "reroll" stats" till S class. the whole 3 hours thing is not necessary *(also make sure combat difficulty is ON)*
FYI you need to have played for three hours, it doesn’t matter if you have logged off, and 5 warps. On the 5th jump there will be a freighter battle. You should have made a restore point right before the 5th jump. To trigger another battle repeat from the beginning. The pirate freighter Jason has is only in outlaw systems.
DESTROY WARP ENGINES FIRST THEN THE ANTI-FREIGHTER WEAPONS THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO DESTROY. JUST IGNORE THE SHEILD GENS AND ACTUALLY DESTROYING THE OTHER THINGS ON THE SHIP
You will not need the combat scanner only economy because it will tell you if it is a black market and they only occur in the aforementioned outlaw systems.
Hope this helps
Hey Jason, you are 1 of the only channels that explain things slowly and nice and clear. Thanks for that .👌
Saw in another video that the dreadnought won’t spawn if you dont already own a freighter.
C-class in pirate systems has a 85% spawn rate and S-class is 5%
O my god thank you ive been warping around for so long you‘re a hero!
Ouch… 5% is explanation why my 50+ dreadnoughts was c
I'm not sure if you noticed, but while you were looking for the pirate systems, you skimmed over 3 or 4 pirate systems that were yellow and green. Not all pirate systems identify as high conflict for some reason. Great video
Something I discovered is once you find a pirate system with a dreadnought battle you can use that system to spawn it constantly by warping in and out of the system. I used this before the update to farm for s class freighter upgrades and I used it now to get myself an s class pirate dreadnought. This method let's you get rewards for defeating the dreadnought that aren't s class while farming for your s class. If you don't care about getting rewards as you grind for it reloading is probably faster though
Hey, Jason! Just gonna let you know that you don’t have to reload from the restore point. You can reload from the auto save which will be from when you first entered the system. It auto saves the freight or battle when it starts and that way you don’t have to worry about remembering the system name and everything.
Cool you can get that freighter now. Wish the interior was completely different though.
I've been in a pirate system all last night reloading the battle, felt like groundhog day....I'm in a battle.....again.
Here are some xbox updates...the anomaly can glitch and stop entry, so just travel to a new system and recall it. The refiner dup glitch works and will save you time on nanite farming and such. You can no longer duplicate upgrades at least in the expedition. You can duplicate small refiners lol so only make 2 to save mats. Sentinels are still broken and go stupid when you shoot from inside a building. This helps since my expedition backpack is bare. Good luck, Jplays Travelers
@@VyseSolo I just dupe suspicious packets ;)
First dreadnought seen, was looking for a new freighter so standard saving before warping. Jumped to a 3* system and into the fight, a nice A class to start with 😁
I got lucky and got an S class first try. Had barely any inventory space though
Like others that have mentioned it @7:17 the laser is so clear. LOL Still, thanks for the tips. Especially the filter one. :)
11:40 if you’re playing on console and encounter a dreadnought you can quickly use the capture feature to record the last 15-30 seconds leading up to it so you know the name, and where on the map you selected to even get there.
It's funny because I didn't even know about this beforehand and encountered one. First thing I did was went for the engines. Not even realizing I could take the freighter. After doing all of that, I did the rest and was pleasantly surprised that I got to go aboard and negotiate with the captain and I immediately took the freighter. It was an S class at that and I even hired the A-S class frigates, so now I own a massive pirate fleet. I have over 25 frigates. I just thought it was funny you said to take out the engines first and that's what I did immediately. I do that when I can in most space Sims because it really leaves the enemy ships like a sitting duck and they can't attack you without gimballed turrets or unless you fly directly in their LOS.
Thx man! Just got my S class dreadnought thx to you. Only took about 15 minutes following your lead. As soon as I went to a pirate system I looked up your video 👍🏽
stopped counting at 43, kept trying another 4 hours or so after that, unsure how many i actually did. in that time got 2 A's and 1 B, the rest were all C's. Finding them isn't the problem, getting it to spawn an S seems extremely rare. FAR more rare than getting an S starship.
Did u get one
The game saves when you get into a freighter battle. You can just reload on that save until you get an S class. It worked for me.
Unless they've changed it, you can find the ship, land in the station there, and create your restore point from there, which saves you from jumping constantly.
It worked for the freighter I currently have, so I assume it would here.
i know for sure if you land on the station it instantly fails the encounter. i would assume it would also fail it if you land on a planet.
That's weird, maybe it's for this particular thing then @@jmcorp8021
You can beat a dreadnaught and warp to a different system then back again and the encounter will reset along with the dreadnaught's level (C, B, A, or S).
@@Craxin01 But how do you know which class the Dreadnaught is ? You should land in it and scan it, right ?
@@charlesmatignon1068 Yup, and that means save scumming, as no freighter is a set class. The shape and coloration is set, but the class is randomized once you warp in. So, it could be C, it could be S, only way to know is to land on it and scan it. I've literally spent hours save scumming to get an S-class freighter.
3 steps to getting a dreadnought 1. Find one by warping around. 2. Shoot the back warp engines out preventing escape. 3. Destroy all anti freighter cannons you do not have to destroy the shields or anything else just those 2 pieces of equipment. Upon doing so you'll get a message saying they surrender and you can board them.
Damn dude. How many upgrades do you have for your standard ship gun? You got that thing shooting faster than the infra knife.
it’s worth using your weapons boost toggle on your ship when dealing with combat, it might be a little annoying but it becomes natural flipping through the options. same goes for the engine boost for speed! just remember everytime you change a system or are far away from your ship it goes back to the balanced setting.
Nice, I like that you can upgrade for free, means you can take that first freighter in a new save and then upgrade to a pirate freighter later without piling up funds.
did not know i was this lucky got an S class pirate freighter second try just now and boy am i surprised
oh and btw this was the second time defeating a pirate freighter too and without you i coud not have know to destroy the warp engines so thanks
What are the tech ups for your sentinel cannon?!?
Also, I have that exact ship, its my sentinel starship
Do you remember where you found the ship I’ve been looking for one that looks like that for ages
Found a dreadnaught first warp in a pirate system and kept reloading my autosave cause it autosaves when you enter the system til I got an S tier. So you don’t necessarily have to just warp jump to a different system. It took a couple of reloads but I finally got one just takes good RNG
super helpfull!!! i was saving up money to buy a normal freighter.. but this 1 is free...?!?! so hell yeah ill go for this!! thanks
I'll be honest... the whole "You gotta play x amount of hours before something shows up" is bullshit. I'm a dad with 3 kids and just don't have time to sit down and play for 3 straight hours.
Then dont
3 hours is really not that long dude...
It's not like you have to play for 3 hours each time. It's just once and every fifth warp there should be a battle. By the time you even get to the point that you can get a capital ship. You will already be more than 3 hours in.
if you don't have time to play a game for more then 3 total hours, why waste money buying games? Even the shortest games out there are at least 6 hours, but most games required 20-30 hours to beat while some far more. You bought a game that is open ended and can be played for hundreds to thousands of hours and your complaining about needing to play just 3 hours? if you played 30 minutes a day you'd be at 3 hours in 6 days. Again why are you playing games if you don't have 3 hours to put into one.
3 hour of total play.
We need to be allowed one 'carrier' freighter per race in the game, each allowing max of 12 ships per carrier. The individual ships would be 'anchored' to a particular freighter to keep things tidy. I'm not about to replace my S Class sentinel style freighter with one of these as I've way too much time invested with the interior layouts.
Wish they'd have thought about it. Plus - I can't imagine the pita it would be transferring everything over.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was only playing for an hour and I found a dreadnought but it was a c :( I then reloaded the save and it was an S on the first reload!
I remember when I first got no man's sky and I religiously watched these videos like they were episodes so I could get info about the game.
This was simply put and to the point. Thank you very much, and great job on the video!
got my class-s after 3 reloads...
thanks for the guide, man!!!
If you get a c class pirate dreadnought, check the civillian freighter before reloading, it's rarity changes everytime making this the fastest way to find an s class freighter
Jason...two questions: 1) When I highlight "red" stars is says "No data available"...am I missing some equipment to give me that info? I do have the "conflict scanner"....2) Is it required that I be in "combat" mode? I am always in "friendly...non-combat" mode because I don't like being attacked and fighting a lot. After 3-hours of playing, I tried to find a pirate battle yesterday for a couple hours (at least 15-20 warps) and it would not happen so I gave up. Just want to see if I am missing something.
I don’t even land on the planet, I land on my freighter, hit the scanner room to upload everything, hit the restore point again and take off again
Loved the video Jason (as always) and I will be trying this out soon. I think I read that your cargo does NOT transfer, but I think your layout inside does transfer?...Do you know? Thanks again for ALL the great videos you make.
you can also spawn a dreadnaught in any system with sentinels : shoot a sentinel , go back to your ship, fight the sentinel ship and at max difficulty level the dreadnaught spawn !
yet idk if you can claim the one spawn this way
The first dreadnought I came across was S Class a nice update to my A Class freighter
Thanks for showing what to do 😊
is this still in the game? I havnt played in ages but am thinking of coming back and doing this?
This is a very late comment but I just got my s tier dreadnought last night and the only thing you need to do is take out the engines first then take out every huge cannon shooting the red laser at the civilian freighter. I believe he missed one in the video that’s why he had to blow up the shields as well.
Is it only in pirate controlled system ? I found a dreadnought in a system where the conflict is high
Great video! Clear instructions and lots of good information.
I don’t have a combat scanner and ended up encountering 3 pirate dreadnoughts. The first time I forgot to disable the warp drive so it got away. Got the 2nd and 3rd, B and C respectively. I’ll get a better one eventually~
If you want to go to the system that you want to keep going to you can put a marker on the system
and you can have directions to go to the selected system and if you want it to stay there just save before you start or when you put the marker down.
On Xbox I believe its X to put marker down
Hi JP. I have 4 outlaw systems in a 61ly total range. If I just jump between the 4 systems, will that count as warping? I have an A-class but looking for a S-class.
If you jump with ship it should work, if you use teleporter it won’t work
Another way is to land on space station and avoid the battle in that system and reload that save point. A normal freighter will be there and no conflict. Board and do visor scan. If not one desired reload the save and fly out and scan again. Don’t know if it works on pirate ship.
Just got mine! Took me 35 times about and 2 hours to get an S class. Thanks for the great video!
I have warped 20 to 30 times on my 100 hour save, and have had 0 dreadnought battles
Same
I got my s class one in one hour and only 2 reloads and I got the battle first jump
I just got my pirate freighter from the expedition i swapped some starship AI valves into the terminal at anomaly for quick units. I swear im getting freighter battles every few minutes
I was able to capture a pirate dreadnought but the next one I ran across I wanted to blow up. I was unable to, they surrendered and it looked like the shields were still active despite both trenches being fully cleared.
Thanks for all the information. Great video as always. You are greatly appreciated by the community.
O.K, So my max output on weapons is half of your output. Makes a huge difference apparently. Second, I think I will save the civilian fleet instead. Had an offer for an A class freighter capital ship for 130 million units. Only had 40 million at the time. Currently have a B class Korvax from a C class Gek. The difficulty comes from actually balancing the attack between the dreadnought and the missiles being fired on the civilian fleet. Haven't got the right mix yet. The dreadnought escapes and or the civilian fleet is destroyed. Gotta work on this. It's amazing after I got the stone glyphs for the portal, the Traveler appeared 12 consecutive times at a space station without even trying. The freighter space battle for me has been occurring about 50 percent of the time for me while looking for and doing something else. Red system or 3 star s6stem or outlaw system is not having much of an effect. However my problem is not being able to get a win except once by accident it appears. Kind of like life. Well at least my life. Peace. Go Brandon!! FJB. Coincidence that this game came out 8 years ago and I only started playing this for the first time over a month ago? Who knows.
For me the latest update has broken this battle. I cannot save the civilian freighter because as soon as I warp in and start pulsing towards the pirate ship the shields on the civilian freighter get depleted before I even reach the pirate ship. A few seconds later the civ freighter is destroyed by the pirate lasers before they launch any missiles. This all happens in about in 15 seconds and it happens in every battle I come across. I can leave and re-enter the system infinitely to join the battle with the same results. Totally broken.
Gek in the dreadnought hanger are waving hello, like Jason is their liberator.
What about the freighter modules if you want to change? Does it also transfer like the base? Or you have to take them before the change? Nice video! I already have an S freighter but those lasers look extremely cool
I am going to make this my next mission. I will then work on getting a sweet base set up on mine, as if I don't have enough going on in NMS right now. 😉
The best part about this game is you can kill time and get so much done and its fun thr whole ride along
I want to see in a future update in high economy low conflict systems a "Freighter Depo" it acts like a space station but you can upgrade a freighter's class or gather a TON of rare materials to build a custom freighter, but it can ONLY show up in HIGH economy and LOW conflict systems and even then its not a guarante one shows
Edit: SO glad I watched this video cause like minuts after watching I got a totaly random freighter battle that need me an A class dreadnought
I got my S class pirate frighter after 6 tries was lucky I have a tip I'm not good in battles so what I did was once I was at the freightor battle I changed my settings to none for combat then it's much easie to cripple the frightor and you get less damage to your ship it makes it much easer to do try it if your not good at combat
I haven’t played for awhile since I thought the game got boring, I started playing again when they first added the dreadnaughts, are all the dreadnaughts the same design? Or are their different ones in the game looks wise ?
if they would still update the game imagine if you would create one largle fleet like with 3 capital ships and you could take over plantes and get into large multi system wars
Are there different sizes like the venator or dreadnought?
When he says "you need to warp to a new system" does he mean just changing systems or does it have to be one you've never been to before?
I timed how long it takes from:
checking the class of the freighter, warping in and out of the system, defeating the freighter again, checking class
It takes me around 2:50-3:00 each time
considering it says chance of an S class is 2%
On average it should take 50 attempts
so 150 minutes of consistent farming
I have so far done 7 attempts, hoping to get my time down.
so far I have seen 5x C class and 2x B
I appear to be INCREDIBLY lucky. The FIRST pirate freighter I captured was an S class!! 🎉
I saw another tutorial and the guy said it took him over 20 attempts!
Hey you mention to get this to trigger you have to play the game for 3hrs. Can you be more specific please? Like I just need to have played NMS for a cumulative 3hrs or the Expedition for cumulative 3hrs or do I need to play either for 3hrs that day before it triggers? I played for hours the other day and could not get it to trigger. Yes I have the conflict scanner and attempted all the scenarios I just mentioned and still can’t get a pirate freighter. Do you need to stay in the expedition to get this to trigger or can you go back to your primary save post expedition to do this? I appreciate your videos so I was hoping you could clarify. Than you!
1. 3 hours (continuously)
2. 3 star system with level 3 conflict or a pirate system
3. You should own 1 freighter 1st before going for this (not sure about this one)
I was having the same issue, but when i bought my first freighter i found a dreadnought in the next system i went to
Hey jason, i warped like 20 times and haven't found 1 single Dreadnought. Is there any Story Progression i need to do to spawn a Dreadnought?
Im on a regular safe, not in Expedition
I believe you need to own a freighter already (any kind, either the regular ones you can find by pulse-driving around the system or the big capital ships that only spawn every 3 hours & 5 warps). Note that you can get your first freighter for free if you play for 3 hours straight and warp 5 times.
Can you clarify if we already need to have a freighter before getting this one? I can’t get one to spawn and most on Reddit say you need to have 1 before this version spawns
lol after saving the gmae and going to the galaxy, you highlighted 2 pirate systems but kept looking for one
Say what you will but I waited until I can have my freighter both inside and out to be pirate themed and just use a save editor to replace the model, But kept everything else untouched. I had to many C Class Pirate Freighters. I dont have the patience for a S class right now. I made sure it was as legit to a the pirate ship you find normally as possible I dont want to much of my old freighter showing up. While still keeping my base, cargo, Technology all intact. The inside took a reload of the game to change from a normal Freighter Bridge to a Pirate themed version. Including the hanger.
Atlas + Pirate Theme = Menacing!
wait the internals doesnt carry over to the new capital ship? i thought there was an option to move the base layout into the new one?
Does it have to be a new pirate system or can it be one you have visited before?
also another note: it is better for you to claim the dreadnought or destroy it than demanding tribute, demanding tribute only gives like 4-5 million units, not worth it if y'all are rich tbh
I did not know you could go that 😭 first time I fought one of those I didn't even read the text on the top and just went straight up to blowing it up
I have been searching for any dreadnought for 5 ish hours and still haven't found one.. Am I doing something wrong or am I just really unlucky?
Your ship looks awesome. What are the parts that you used for it?
I’ve been reloading for a couple hours now and will only get c class. I’ve yet to see a b, a, or s. Does going to reload point still work or is there a new method?
Update…. I got it 20 minutes after posting.😂
So could you theoretically just keep warping to the same pirate system over and over and keep reloading until a freighter battle occurs?
Thanks for always keepin us viewers up to date 😊✌👍😎
Got lucky and had a A class on the first event (by which i kind of got caught offguard).
I guess its not important which species mans the freighter, but if i wanted a specific one, wouldt it be linked to the systems species like the normal freighters?
Can you only get the Dreadnought in the Expedition or is just that way for the game now? Also can you change the exterior colors?
It's permanently in the game. You can change some colored parts, but not much.
You can actually do it like the original way play for three hours make a four jumps, save the game and then warp into a pirate system
I got a dreadnought battle in an any old vy’keen system, not even pirate but it was like B class 😢
Are all dreadnoughts the same size or is there different variants in whatever way, like with the capital ships?
Great video! I remember the grind getting my s class freighter so I won’t get one on my main save but they’re awesome so will do with a different save I think. Thanks for the tips!
I'm sure this is a stupid question.. Do I need to take everything out of the freighter and stick it in my base first? The freighter is my main storage spot. That's going to take ages to sort out
Does this have to be done in the Expedition or can I do this at any time with a new save? I don't like the scheduled nature of the Expedition system forcing me to play when it is live.
My apologies you’re right it is random though, because the ship was c rank then when it reloaded it was not there anymore
This earned a sub! Awesome!!
What upgrades do u have for ur weapons mine are really slow
Dumb question, but when you claim the ship, does all your crap from the starter freighter transfer automatically or are you giving that stuff up?
hey jason do you need to repair it after you claim it? thanks!
I went to the first pirate system i found, got a freighter to spawn reloaded twice and got an S class to spawn :joy:
I got an S Dreadnought freighter the first time i tried hunting for it! I couldn't believe it.