Have you ever been taken into space while attempting to hijack a ship?
from AzPsycho@lemmy.world to starfield@lemmy.zip on 19 Sep 2023 04:23
https://lemmy.world/post/5328758

So my kid was playing and while attempting to hijack a ship it took off into space. Once he killed the crew he was unable to fly the ship due to having too low of a level. Being overburdened he dumped all of his gear and then fast travelled back to his destination. About an hour later he returned to that planet and found the ship floating in space and when he boarded everything was floating like the power was off. Pretty cool for sure.

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MrPommeroy@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 04:56 next collapse

Yep. Happened twice to me so far. The first time I completed the hijack in space. The second time the (pirate) ship was attacked in orbit by security forces, and destroyed before I had time to eliminate the crew.

dan1101@lemm.ee on 19 Sep 2023 13:57 collapse

Life with a bounty on your head is tough.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 05:03 next collapse

Just happened to me. Didn’t notice going up. Did notice that “eh… why is there a planet out there…?” when I took over the cockpit.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 09:31 next collapse

Fun starts when the game informs that your level is not high enough to sit on the pilot seat, so you can’t commandeer or control it.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 09:41 collapse

And that’s why I use the UC vanguard flight sim to level piloting 2 or 3 trips are enough to get through the final challenge

DarkThoughts@kbin.social on 19 Sep 2023 12:24 collapse

There should be more space POIs spawning. Getting that skill up naturally is a real pain because there's usually barely anything going on anywhere.

AzPsycho@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 14:24 collapse

On my playthrough I just unlocked the Mantis questline. With the Razorleaf for my combat ship I just jumped around stars and went to any and all POIs that were hostile activity. Got to level 3 really fast like that.

DarkThoughts@kbin.social on 19 Sep 2023 21:03 collapse

I literally almost never see any POIs when I open the map.

AzPsycho@lemmy.world on 21 Sep 2023 13:25 collapse

The easiest way to get POIs is to buy slates from vendors, pick up tracker missions for combat, and when you scan planets land at the first random place that shows up. Also, it really helps to hail ships and ask.

DarkThoughts@kbin.social on 21 Sep 2023 15:59 collapse

Wait, slates from vendors?!

AzPsycho@lemmy.world on 21 Sep 2023 22:05 collapse

I found some in a misc items for sale at a couple of different places. Maybe I sold them? IDK but they weren’t in the buy back part.

variants@possumpat.io on 21 Sep 2023 12:44 collapse

Yeah I noticed that too was kind of cool, but how come we can’t get to space that way normally haha

Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee on 19 Sep 2023 06:30 next collapse

Huh, that’s awesome.

I had one where I killed everyone who was on the planet/moon and then I got into the dock area when the door was closing. It closed on me and the ship took off but I glitched out and fell back to the ground.

This seems to have been patched out in one of the latest updates as I tried it again but the door wouldn’t close until I left the docking area.

halon5@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Sep 2023 07:07 next collapse

Yeah I’ve had this, got stuck in the cargo bay when the ship took off and couldn’t get inside, then glitched out the ship and fell back to earth.

zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works on 19 Sep 2023 17:10 collapse

That happened to me last night, so I’m not sure it’s been patched out just yet.

thesprongler@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 13:36 next collapse

So, your kid is a reaver.

AzPsycho@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 14:22 collapse

In my defense he’s probably a bully at school too.

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca on 19 Sep 2023 15:03 collapse

That’s a strange defense to take

thesprongler@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 17:44 collapse

In my defense my kid sucks IRL too 😂

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 19 Sep 2023 18:24 next collapse

Several times. Its annoying as hell, cause its always on a shit tier ship I dont want to take ownership of or fly anywhere.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 20 Sep 2023 00:10 next collapse

Only when I’ve jumped on top of them as they were taking off just to see what would happen.

(At some point it becomes incorporeal so you just fall through)

You get some serious air, though!

Stovetop@lemmy.world on 21 Sep 2023 00:47 collapse

A similar thing happened to me when I was actually attempting to board a ship. As soon as I walked up the hatch and tried to open the door, the hatch closed and the ship started moving. Couldn’t enter at that point, and I was also now trapped in the airlock as the ship was taking off into space.

Was actually a bit terrifying, because in theory I was now completely at the mercy of these pirates and had to hope they didn’t just jettison me off into space after they noticed I was there. In reality, I just phased out of the ship as it went too high up and was a bit disappointed that nothing that exciting can actually happen.

JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world on 23 Sep 2023 06:56 collapse

i had a save right before they trigger a hostile spaceship landing. The spaceship will always take off once I have boarded it.

i replayed the save 6 times. each time different ship is spawned. And the sequence is always the same

  1. Boarded the ship
  2. Alarm buzz
  3. Ship take off
  4. Game enter loading screen
  5. Exited to space
  6. Ship will be in grav jump

at this point i must kill all crew fast and stop the grav jump. Otherwise my character will always die instantly.

the ship will stop once all crews are dead

emptyother@programming.dev on 23 Sep 2023 08:30 collapse

Leave one alive outside and they won’t take off. But if you kill everyone inside, loot everything, and goes back out and take out the remaining guy, it will fly off despite everyone inside being dead.

I found the same ship in orbit after (a red enemy dot that didn’t attack got me curious), boarded, found them still dead but returned to their seats. And the illegal cargo on their dashboard having respawned. No loot in cargo or captain’s locker. It could have been a different ship, but that would be one hell of a coincidence, exact same ship layout, and missing cargo loot?