My edition of NMS is the ps5 console version, so no save editing. On a normal save
i am very close to the center of the euclid galaxy, so in the mean time, i am trying to roll for an S class freighter. i warped over four times, then afk'd in a space station for over three hours, then warped to a T3 rich system (never figured out the galaxy map economy filter, colors told me nothing), and on two restore points, i rolled a sentinel freighter. instead of saving it, i went to the space station to make another restore save, then flew out of the station to see the sentinel freighter gone. sadge
i've been researching all the youtube vids on how to potentially roll a good freighter, but they just go on and on about useless crap when all i care for and want to know is only the essential details on how i can best roll/manipulate RNG to give me some good crap. Some other dude on a different forum said the echoes update potentially ruined all known freighter farm methods. so level with me, the galactic hub, are there any spots in there that are good for freighter farming, or am i essentially SOL and at the unrelenting merciless whims of RNG?
Well I can tell you what I know but it is certainly possible that the latest update has changed everything. I haven’t tried getting a freighter since the update. The fact that there is now a chance to encounter a pirate freighter definitely mixes things up… I don’t know how that might affect things though.
It used to be that you’d play until you encountered a freighter battle then load up your previous restore point so you know that next time you warp you’re going to encounter a freighter battle. You could then go to the galaxy map and select a star system, warp in, take a look at the capital freighter and decide if it’s one you like. If not, reload your restore point and choose another star system (each star system has its own capital freighter that never changes).
It’s best to choose 3 star economy systems or pirate systems when looking for a freighter. As I remember, a 3 star system has a 2% chance of spawning an S class freighter, that’s a one in 50 chance so you may have to do a lot of reloading until you get S class. Pirate systems have a better chance of S class at 5% but the freighters will have less cargo slots so you’ll need to spend more time upgrading their storage. 2 star economies only have a 1% chance of S class and 1 star economies cannot spawn an S class.
Once you find a freighter you like just keep reloading your previous save until it spawns as S class. Now, I always do it by just reloading my save and then warping in to the system, but apparently you can warp in to the system, land at the space station, exit your ship to create a new restore point and then use that restore point to keep loading from. So you’d load up that restore point, fly out the space station and the freighter battle should still be there.
To check the freighter you can ignore the battle and just fly straight in to the freighters landing bay. Exit your ship (this doesn’t create a new restore point as a save isn’t made on npc freighters) bring up your scanner and look at the floor/wall/whatever of the landing bay and it will give you the freighter info including it’s class, no need to go up to the bridge. If it’s not S class, reload your restore point and try again.
That’s how it used to work anyway. I don’t know if you can just ignore the battle anymore and fly straight in to the hangar.
on that "ignore the battle, fly into space station, make a restore point, then fly back out" biz, it didnt work. i reloaded multiple times in the same system i chose as my freighter fight save, yet in the end, the battle didnt respawn at all. it acted like i chose to full sale abandon it, and at that point i figured "now i gotta afk for a few more hours again....cute :/"
afk'ing while i did that was a bit yikes, because when i went back to my settlement to check on the bar i was having built, my population went from 40 to 38. i don't have many people, and i don't want them dead
More bad news: I had a go at this earlier and flying straight into the freighters hangar and ignoring the battle is bugged. If you try to land in the freighter without killing all the pirates first the whole freighter fleet and all the ships involved in the battle simply vanish in to thin air. Hopefully that one will get fixed at some point.
So right now that means you have to finish the battle each time before you can even see what class the freighter is which will add significantly more time to your search.
well, i did five warps, afk'd at a station for over three hours (partially, had to travel to my settlement to take care of crap that had to be settled), and i managed to find a sentinel freighter in the hubert dimension galaxy. i even made a PS+ cloud save backup so i could restore in-case i screw up the roll somehow (also, side note, i tried heading into the freighter as it was getting shot at by pirates, but it blinked out of existence). what im PARTICULARLY HATING about re-rolling the class stats, is the god damn pirates.
it feels like the AI is getting smarter, the damn pirates are ducking in and out of the freighter shield systems so half the time im trying to shoot them, my rounds hit the freighter shields. they're making me waste ammo, and im on a normal save. god forbid what trickery they're capable of on the most extreme difficulty settings
The pirates always follow you, so just fly a bit further away from the freighter and they’ll follow and won’t be able to duck in and out the freighter shields.
about half of the pirates i shoot try to follow and shoot me, otherwise i always get either two or three that clip in and out of the freighter, some right at the hanger area, the one area i can't approach unless i want the freighter to vanish out of nowhere. it works, sort of, but its still absolutely infuriating