Stealing a ship in Starfield through the target engines process is a far better thing to do than actually destroy the ship. With this method, you can board the ship and you loot valuable resources.
And even take control of that ship. Owning ships can literally cost you lots of in-game money. So, a better way is to steal those ships by disabling their engines. Sometimes, these ships are full of great resources that you can loot.
If you don’t know how to target engines in Starfield, then we are here for you. In this guide, we have covered the best way to disable the engine of your enemy’s ship. This can be a bit tricky but we have got you covered. So, let’s get started.
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Targeting Engines in Starfield
Space Battles are the battles in which you have to fight off other ships in space. You can loot them by defeating or disabling them; however, in order to disable the engines, you need to unlock the Target Control Systems Perk.
Once the perk is unlocked, you can target the engines in Starfield. The perk is easy to unlock because it is a tier 1 Tech Perk. This means that it gets unlocked at level 1.
As soon as you have unlocked the perk, you need to start a space battle with an enemy ship. Now, what you need to do is lock your aim at a ship and press the E button on your keyboard. Once the target gets locked, press the R key, this zooms in on your target ship, and the time will slow down. Once that happens, you can select any part of that ship to target.
You need to select the Engine part. As soon as you select the Engine, you can then start firing ballistics from your ship at the enemy’s ship engine. You can see the health of the engine in bars. Once it turns red, you can approach the ship as it’s engines are disabled now.
Looting Ships
Before looting the ships, you need to destroy them or in other you need to win a space battle against them. Get into a space battle against any ship. Destroy them with your ballistic attacks or any other weapon.
Once they are destroyed, you can get close to them. Make sure you are within 500 meters of range of that destroyed ship. You will see a chest icon on that ship. Just target and lock on to that icon using the E key on your keyboard.
Press the E key again to open up the loot. Now, the stuff you get from this chest loot won’t be much of a high value. You can do another thing to get the high-value stuff from the ship loot.
For this, you are going to destroy the shield and engine of the enemy ship. Once done, get close to it and dock that ship. As soon as the enemy ship is aboard, get on that ship and kill the onboard crew members.
Now, simply head straight to the Captain’s locker in the cockpit. That’s where you get high-value items. Now, with this method, you can also keep the ship and it in your collection if it seems great or you can simply destroy it after looting.
Boarding Enemy Ships
You can board enemy ships to control them or loot precious items from them. But, to do that, you need to already have unlocked the tier 1 perk Targeting Control Systems.
Once you have that ability, simply destroy the engines of the enemy ship by targeting and locking your aim at it. As soon as the engines are disabled, you can dock the enemy ship by getting close to it.
Once it is boarded, you can then move on to that ship and search it for loot. But, make sure that you take out the crew members on it. Now, you can easily loot the stuff or simply own this ship.
How Do I Target Engines in Starfield?
The ship engines can be disabled in Starfield to loot or take control of an enemy ship. But this does require unlocking the ability of Target Control Systems. It is a tier 1 Tech Perk.
So, you can unlock this at level 1. Once it is unlocked, just get into any space battle and target-lock the spaceship. Now, press the R key. With this, you can target any part of the ship. However, we are going to target the engine with this ability.
Once the target is locked at the engine, you can start shooting at it and the ship will be disabled as soon as the engine is destroyed. Once the engine is destroyed, stop shooting or else the ship will be completely destroyed.
How Do You Use the Targeting System in Starfield?
The target system can be used by hovering the target reticle on a ship. Once you have locked your target, a cutscene will play and the time slow down which allows you to target any part of the ship.
But, in order to target a specific part of a ship, you need to unlock the Target Control Systems ability at first.
That’s everything for Starfield’s How to Target Engines guide. It’s easy to target engines in Starfield. All you need to do is unlock the Target Control Systems perk. With this being unlocked, get into a space battle.
Target and lock your aim at the enemy ship and while using the target systems, simply select the engine and start shooting at it. Don’t overshoot because this may completely destroy the ship.
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