Who will be my teammates

[superd]

Thanks for pointing out I have been so ignorant about this game. Now I have to weigh painfully whether to have a MS piloted by AI or have it run by one of my pilots, at the obvious cost that my small fighter team will be down from 3 to 2.

Based on my limited experience on SW 1, pilots can only be found through different missions.

Can MS use pilot's special abilities? Can it snipe, etc?

[untouchable]

Originally Posted by superd

Thanks for pointing out I have been so ignorant about this game. Now I have to weigh painfully whether to have a MS piloted by AI or have it run by one of my pilots, at the obvious cost that my small fighter team will be down from 3 to 2.

Based on my limited experience on SW 1, pilots can only be found through different missions.

Can MS use pilot's special abilities? Can it snipe, etc?

alrite noted that.

At the moment, my mothership with Tennie piloting it (she has those nice accuracy perks) seems to kill many of my enemies faster than my fighters. Maybe it because i was treasure hunting cache asteroids earlier, and nick myself some awesome high level turrent guns and heavy calibre guns for my MS.

Sadly, the pilot on MS cannot use his/her active skill. Tennie has a starting snipe skill rite? When she's piloting my MS, the icon for Snipe is not there. However, my hero's Sixth Sense does effect the MS as well, even my hero is piloting a fighter outside MS.

[superd]

Is there an accuracy spec about MS? Can you see the difference in specs with or without human piloting MS ? Also if your Ternie kills many her XP should have a higher increase rate that others. But I heard she will die at some point. Need confirmation from veterans in this game.

note that too about the 6th sense. What have you looted from those caches? I never got those Wyverns mentioned in other posts. Guess because I am playing normal. So far I only got a couple of gunslingers and tridents.

[Nblade]

No you can't use any active ability and obviously missile skill is useless.

Actually it's an easy choice if you buy the firmware upgrades at the maintenance stations since those bonuses take effect only if no char is assigned as pilot and the mk3 versions are usually provide better or equivalent bonuses then even a maxed out character. What it's good for is changing your bonuses. say your MS gets heavily damaged than you could change from your flight spec firmware to a system spec pilot to boost your shield/armor regen or switch to a gunner if your having trouble hitting your enemies.

Oh and Tennie survived my first play through on alex path.

[superd]

Thanks. I haven't eaten or drunk to save about 500 g for the firmware. Will purchase MK3 when I have a little extra cash for emergency merc hiring.

[valky]

Ternie didn't die in my finished NESF/Corsair campaign. Just started MSF and any info regarding her death 'd be nice? I don't really want to lose her

Oh and the last thing I'd do is to let her sit in the mo-ship, I know the guns 'll be better, but she was one of my best gunner in my latest campaign (particle rifles with her skill deliver quite a punch)

I'll stick with system Mk. III, wasn't that bad

[Nanaki]

Okay, your pilots are determined by your choice of weither to embark on the MSF, NESF, Triada, Inoco, or Alex mission lines...

These are the pilots you will get no matter what:
Hero
Ternie
Greyhair
Kalem
Joseph - He temporarily joins your party for the artifact expedition, and leaves after that.

If you go NESF (going to the mercenary base), you will get:
Che - You get him when you have to fight off a massive pirate fleet while doing one of Alexandra's missions.
Alexandra - Shes the one who comes to the rescue you after you rescue Ternie

If you go MSF (going to the Patrol headquarters), you will get:
Validol - You get an optional mission to find him, I recommend you take it.
Viper - Shes the one who rescues you after you rescue Ternie
Adm. Trump - If you decide to side with Trump rather than Viper, Viper leaves and you get Trump in her place

If you go Triada (going to the Triada Headquarters), you will probably get (I never played the Triada line, so I donno):
Aja
Alice

If you go Inoco (Betraying triada after given the option by Inoco), which you probably wont because its so badly bugged:
Jana
SAM

If you go Alex (if you fail a mission):
Alex
Cleric

Ternie didn't die in my finished NESF/Corsair campaign. Just started MSF and any info regarding her death 'd be nice? I don't really want to lose her

I played NESF, Alex, and MSF Campaigns and did not lose Ternie in any of them...

Just before that, you will be able to recruit a guy named Silverlight (I will have to double to check to confirm, once I got home).

You probably mean greyhair... there is no such thing as a pilot named silverlight.

[superd]

Thanks Master Nanaki. Would you mind telling me when I will have pilots after Greyhair?

[Nanaki]

Originally Posted by superd

Thanks Master Nanaki. Would you mind telling me when I will have pilots after Greyhair?

Depends which mission line you pick.