Real time ship battles & ship boarding combat

[Edrick]

From what I have seen from the trailer their will be space, ground and ship boarding combat. My question is how will you deal with real time space combat when someone "beams" on your ships bridge and starts to kill the ships bridge crew AKA your character. How can you be doing both at the same time.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Perhaps boarding and battling could happen at the same time and boarding is done by the AI? Or perhaps you can join the boarding party and let an AI/script handle space combat?

[Bazil]

Well first of all we're not sure boarding other players ships will be in the game, the video might very well be from a PvE encounter, mission, or something the devs whipped up to look cool.

However, I really really hope it's in, and if it is in then it might very well be a system in which you can only board someone who you are fighting against in a 1 on 1 scenario and not in a scneario in which you can be attacked by a third party.

Otherwise I can see your second in command taking over and defending the ship.

The third and least exciting option is that when you board someone else, you don't actually go with the boarding party, instead you send over NPC soldiers who attack vital systems and the bridge-crew.

[Ontas]

I've gotten the impression from previous interviews and information that this kind of boarding to win a ship-to-ship battle will not be in the game. I imagine that the scenarios of boarding a hostile ship will take place largely in PvE, and will be mostly unrelated to shipboard combat. If I remember correctly, I believe that a Cryptic representative said that boarding other players' vessels will be more geared toward socializing aspects.

Of course, this could all change. But for now I believe this would be a non-issue, at least until demand for such battles prove persistent enough that the dev team change their minds on the subject.

[KL0k]

there are areas (at least that is how i understood it), like the neutral-zone, where its open pvp. and i saw in the trailer some klingons on a fed-bridge. so my guess is, its possible to border your enemies ship if their shields are down.

[marscentral]

This might be where levelling up your First Officer is really important as they will either be leading a boarding party of making sure your party has a ship to come back too! It would be cool if you have the option to either lead the boarding party or let your First Officer (or Tactical Officer) do it.

[Cryptic_Fan_101]

Wait, why would you be simultaneously blasting a ship while attempting to board it? That's one away mission I sure as heck wouldn't volunteer for!