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While exploring the Settled Systems, encounters with vicious pirates or mercenaries in space are unavoidable. These battles are usually mild at first, but tend to get much more difficult at higher levels and during certain quests. Strategy and ship design are essential for surviving these fights.
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One of the best ways to design your ship forStarfield’shigh-level space fights is to place turret systems on it. These can fire ballistic projectiles, lasers, or particle beams. But, while they benefit from some of the same skills as other weapon systems, ship turrets are still very different.
Ship Turrets Can’t Be Fired Manually
Once a set of turrets is assigned to one of yourship’s weapon groups, the button which controls that weapon group becomes unusable. Pressing it will instead trigger a message at the top of the screen, which says that “Turrets Cannot Be Fired Manually.”
This is due to two factors:
Turrets are some ofthe best ship partsin the game because they can aim virtually any direction from wherever they’re placed. Turrets can potentially aim up, down, and side-to-side, while normal ship weapons can only ever fire forward. This gives turrets an exceptional field of view. But, the pilot’s field of vision is always going to be limited by comparison.
Pilots also generally need to pay attention to where they’re going. The third-person perspective shows the outside of the ship, but not different directions. So, even if the pilot could manually fire turrets, the aiming would still be terrible.
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How To Improve Ship Turrets
Any and all turrets on your ship can be improved with theAutomated Weapon Systems skill. They also directly benefit from the weapon systems skills that benefit specific types. For example, Ballistic Weapon Systems also improves the damage of ballistic turrets. They can also be greatly improved by stacking upcrew memberswith corresponding weapon system skills.
One skill that may not be so obvious is theTargeting Control Systems skill. After all, since turrets cannot be fired manually, it would logically follow that you cannot aim with them either. But, this is not the case; in fact, every rank of the Automated Weapon Systems skill actually benefitstargeting with turretsas well. Both skills together can provide extraordinary results when fighting individual enemy ships.
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