As soon as I walked through mine, I tore it down and rebuilt it to something that wasn't madness incarnate.

HopeTech does have a 2x2 Battle Station variant of their 2x2 hab. I know because I'm using one. It's admittedly hard to rationalize HopeTech offering a battle station until you build a giant cargo hauler and realize that all your guns need to be on turrets: I fly and the crew does the shooting.

I did a major refit on my Kepler to make it a freight hauler. She's a beast now. 100k hauling capacity with perks but still maintained some of the design aesthetic from the original Kepler R. She's the only one I use turrets on due to the mobility being a straight 0. I still equipped 6 vanguard obliterators on her though so of the turrets bugged out I could still shoot on my own. All in all, a great ship either as is or a base for upgrading for other purposes.

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

100k, damn, what sort of stuff are you carrying, a small black hole

@shadylite

8 ай бұрын

@@CrimsonFlyboy nah, I just wanted to see if I could achieve it. Maybe I'm compensating. 😂

Old news on an old video: To get a ship to populate, you need to leave the ship, save, and reload. I think saving, reloading, *then* leaving also works, but I am not sure.

As someone with close to 100 hours of messing around in the ship builder, seeing the hab layout & ladder placement of this ship makes my eye twitch....

Love the Kepler R. Best ship for me with modifications. It is a beast and will kill anything. I added 7k cargo and have low mobility but still kills high level ships with ease. Auto particle beam turrets and a manual. Does not lend itself well to boarding ships as there are alliterated when I spawn in. Love it.

@emperorofscelnar8443

Ай бұрын

For me it is the Narwhal Class, but unfortunately such a ship is a late game one, also to make a really cool looking Narwhal you have to put a lot of perks into Tech, the the same can be said about a lot of ships. The Taiyo Astroneering cockpits are only good on a stack of 3, by its self it does not look good. With the Narwhal and the Orca III I replace all the Taiyo Astroneering mid habs with HopeTech habs, a replace the gun mount with a HopeTech Reverse Thruster, then with the Taiyo Astroneering Reverse Thruster I replace it with a landing bay which causes a glitch which is when I have to highlight the ship move it then reattach the landing bay and nose area in the same spot again to get rid of the glitch. I also put wing like structures on the sides of the Narwhal to make it look better.

@emperorofscelnar8443

Ай бұрын

With the WatchDog I move the landing gear back by one and put weapon mounts on as well, I also replace the landing bay with a Deimos one, with one WatchDog I have managed to install a C Class reactor and grav drive, with the grav drive I have managed to intall 4 engines with 3 exhausts each adding up to 12 exhausts around a grav drive with multiple attachment points at the back, the ship I manage to keep at the same size as well.

My Kepler R got completely changed lol. I kept the same general big ship cargo/ exploration vibe but went all out with a completed design. Biggest stroud bridge, 10k cargo. 6 sal 6830’s, pinch 8z, j52, sg1600, 500 shielded cargo and multi frequency scan jammer, the two c class particle turrets and one c class auto particle beam. I think there’s literally nothing else I could add to it in the game, and I’m pretty close to or at module limit on it

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

I was pretty sad when I learned of the module limit. It doesn't seem like a lot of stuff. I wish they would up the limit by a large amount so we can build bigger ships

@BROCK_WARHAMMER

8 ай бұрын

@@CrimsonFlyboy perhaps in a dlc, I have a feeling we will be able to build our own star stations, and with that will come a ship module and size limit increase. There’s also mods but I’m liking vanilla rn

I liked the Kepler S better. the R is kind of a maze inside and though I like big C class ships I like the interiors easy to navigate and restricted to a single ladder for the whole ship. You can rebuild either one, but I prefer the starting point of the S. Personally I love the stroud bridge's but prefer hopetech interiors for the habs.

@ivanwm2513

8 ай бұрын

Agreed. The Viking Stroud -Eklund bridge is one of the better looking ones.

@emperorofscelnar8443

Ай бұрын

That’s another thing I hated about the Kepler R, it’s a maze on the inside and the outside it looks like a Frankenstein type of ship, it doesn’t surprise me when NPC who bought the ship want to deck the designer in the face which is a bit harsh but I do get it and I am not the one who designed it all I asked for is a multipurpose ship, it’s the other people at that table who drew it up and never bothered to show me. If I where Walter I would have fired all the designer staff for designing such a thing, people like me want a multipurpose ship not Frankensteins monster in ship form sorry to say but it’s true. Sure the Kepler R has good stats but I don’t want to go through a maze just to get to a cockpit, talk about a huge design flaw right there.

@emperorofscelnar8443

Ай бұрын

At least the Kepler S is great in its design unlike the Kepler R, the Kepler S is easy to modify as well while with the Kepler R your better off overhauling it completely.

There are a set of 2 power c drive engines with 7800 maneuvering thrust, you can have 6, bringing you to around 46000 maneuvering thrust, exceeding all other engine combinations by about 10k

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

I'm going to have to check that out, I like hope techs industrial aesthetic

Ah, a review for the Kepler Boondoggle. I know, right off the bat, looking at the teardown screen, that middle section with some structural bracers and 4 giant fuel tanks is a perfect candidate to be stripped out of the ship and replaced by an actual large hab. That also frees up 200 mass from those fuel tanks. Given the absurd amount of surfaces on the ship, for laughs I'd mount only weapons with 2-3 power drain, trying to get at least 14 of them on the frame; which would boost the crew count.

@Honor_and_Steel

7 ай бұрын

I've managed 16 before. The VG Obliterator Autoprojectors, the VG Hellfire autocannons, and 4 of any other 3 power draw weapons. Super fun to do them all as manual weapons.

LOL Cora standing by access to cargo. She knows where to stand to get attention!

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

That child loves ambushing me when I'm reviewing ships

I think all the amenities are missing because you sold it . I’m pretty sure that the stuff was moved to the cargo hold of your home ship. I could be wrong.

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

Usually, when I sell my ships, they don't lose the items dotted around thr vessel, but you could be right.

I finished the quest for this at the same time i finished the sydef/crimson fleet quest line. So i used my legacy money to upgrade this ship. My stats are great - first thing i did was put the best reactor i could find on it and upgraded the weapons . my shields are 1200+

i embraced this ships ugliness and turned it into my 'container ship' style starship for cargo, turned all the cargo pieces red like you did and got rid of alot of the cosmetic pieces and added more cargo to get it up to nearly 9k cargo, also got rid of the mess hall and added habs to boost the crew up to 9. I put a column of nova bracers down the back middle of the ship to snap the Poseidon engines to them :)

I would really like you to review my keplar custom , it has mobility of 71

I went with the Kepler S, but this one seems pretty nice, too.

I really liked using the Kepler R to build my endgame ship. My biggest dislike is the flow and getting to certain parts of the ship. But I managed 1500 hull and 51 mobility. Running 6 VG obliterators, 2 suppressors, and 3 of the monster missile launchers. Im considering getting rid of my 2x2 cargo hab for a slight redesign for better flow, but really like the ship. It was far better choice than the Kepler S to build off of.

I immediately proceeded to replace the mess hall with a living and Captain's quarters, added some all in one habs, armory, and workshop and it's become my favorite ship. Shame it just took a redesign for it to be

When I completed the quest and got this ship, I assumed I did the did something wrong and got rewarded the lesser of the ships. Imagine my surprise when I found out this WAS the good reward. Kept the engines, scrapped the rest.

@joanned8172

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I preferred the Kepler S as well, the R is a ridiculous maze inside.

i think the Keplar R is intended as a bit of a joke. A camel has been described as a horse designed by committee and the Keplar R was designed by a committee. I rebuilt it entirely making it look like a more usual Stroud-Ekland ship with a much nicer layout, less cargo and fuel modules, and hid the cargo and fuel. It also out performs and outguns what you are given but I did spend another 200K credits on it.

@ianhorn5466

8 ай бұрын

Just passed by 2 citizens in New Atlantis discussing the new Stroud-Ekland ship and how its really bizarre and whoever designed it was probably hopped up on Aurora so I think that confirms Bethesda were having a bit of fun with it.

I think the random clutter and stuff in the hab modules gets teleported to your inventory when you sell a ship and maybe even when you edit the modules in ship builder. I capture, sell, and modify a lot of ships and i feel like I'm always dealing with the chore of figuring out what to do with the 1000 lbs and random meal trays and super food paste I manage to collect in my main ships cargo hold.

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

That might have been the case, but I never noticed it before when I've sold other ships

@downix

8 ай бұрын

The sheer amount of liquor you get from Hopetech companionway is hilarious.

@MaeF1y603

8 ай бұрын

@@downix is that where all my brew is coming from?!?

@downix

8 ай бұрын

@@MaeF1y603 likely. I had two and after a few ship module swaps, I had over 400 ale in my cargo hold.

@MaeF1y603

8 ай бұрын

@@downix that's insane!

The ship models I like are the Star Semi, the Silent Runner, the WatchDog, the Orca III and the Narwhal, the ships I hate are the Ecliptic Stiletto, the Rumbler II and the Kepler R.

@emperorofscelnar8443

Ай бұрын

The Kepler R is like a Frankenstien ship.

I have this ship myself and I have encountered two NPCs flying it. They will contact you initially, saying to stay back as they are learning their new ship. The first one gave me an ego boost, saying something to the effect of it being an awesome ship. The second one (that I just encountered now, prompting this post) said that I suck at designing ships and that I should quit. LOL!!

This ship seems like Bethesda's attempt at an "omni" ship. Like all of their pre-builds, they leave a lot of potential on the table for the player to develop. Edit: In regards to the cargo bays, I used to watch cargo freighters come into port, and they always had mismatched cargo containers loaded onto them. I might sacrifice some cargo space, but I like to build my freighters the same way.

It's the N or house icon that points to the captains seat not the arrow. :D

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

That would explain it haha

It’s crazy that this huge ship only has one horrible bed lol. They count have a tiny room with six beds for the crew?

I turned one Kepler R in one game file into a Star Destroyer and yeah if I where Walter I would fire the people who designed it.

Why don’t you do these rebuilds at an outpost landing pad and have access to more parts from different manufacturers

@CrimsonFlyboy

4 ай бұрын

These are older videos. In newer ones, I do go to my outpost when I'm upgrading

Kept her as freighter ,did 20000k cargo on her . Perfect 😁👍

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

Are there even enough items in the game to reach that reach that amount of storage haha

Anybody else run into the random encounter where the lady is complaining about how this ship has so many problems with so many systems she wished she’d never bought it.

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

I have, it's pretty hilarious, reminds me of the random encounters in fallout 3 after you conplete the wasteland survival guide

@mtfreeman800

8 ай бұрын

@@CrimsonFlyboy exactly the type of vibe I got with the encounter, sort of Bethesda saying damned if you do, damned if if you don’t

Six SAL-6830's, that's modification number one when I aquire the Kepler R. Then I start to convert those numerous mid size cargos to the beefy 1200kg version. The engines are pricey but trust me, they give the Kepler R th mobility of an A class ship except with over 6,000kg cargo.

Screw the stairs... it needs an elevator

Humongous ship... one bed?

@play030

7 ай бұрын

Add more.

I find the Kepler S better, honestly.

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

I agree

@nolgroth

8 ай бұрын

I only got the S because I was trying to save my man some money. Seemed like a decent enough ship, but I had already built my class C omni-ship by this point. Consequently, I never actually took the ship out of dry dock.

@ivanwm2513

8 ай бұрын

@@CrimsonFlyboy It is a nice detail how the SSNN also acknowledges how the unseen NPC critics give higher scores to the Kepler S and you can even encounter NPCs in space flying either the Kepler R or the S.

Seeing as the quest that gets you this ship is called "Overdesigned" you can really see that the Kepler R is the punchline to that joke. A big, ugly, overdesigned, mess of a ship that while it does have a bit of everything it isn't particularly good at anything.

@CrimsonFlyboy

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's true

It's a mess, the S is better looking. I ended up spending so many credits to get it where I liked it.

This is a terrible ship. Full stop. That said, the point in going for it is the Class C grav drive that won't unlock in the ship builder until level 49. If you take the diplomatic path in the previous mission with Walter, then you'll be able to buy the best Class C engines in the game at the Stroud-Eklund Shipyard. You can start to build a far better ship using the Kepler-R as the starting point. In NG+ going for Kepler-R isn't even possible since chances are you'll already have access to that grav drive.

The only good part about this ship is you can do about anything you want and she wont get any uglier than she already is lol