Which Ship Weapon is the Best? (NMS Endurance) 

Infra knife can reach about 90-100k DPS with overclock modules. You can delete sentinel capitals within 20 seconds of shooting

I wanted a high powered sniper weapon for my ship for the longest time something like a railgun. Or dumb bombs for striking planetary targets and gathering resources.

issue with the phase beam, it will sometimes jump to a different target, so you have to be VERY careful with it if you're flying near anything you don't want to piss off.

A little tip to avoid overheating; mash the button and dont hold it. If you get the timing right, you can have the exact same fire rate except the overheat bar barely rises

The positron ejector is also great for farming resources from planet surfaces.

I personally used to use the positron ejector but after maxing out my photon cannon I almost never use any other weapons.

Some things to note for Infra Knife: It's the best weapon for taking down Sentinel capital ships however for faster moving targets the auto-aim can be a little wonky (on Xbox, don't know about other versions) and will often send a stream of bullets to where the enemy *was*, so the actual DPS drops down significantly. Funny enough, the regular Photon Cannon (and its Sentinel's variant) is a lot more accurate with the auto-aim. I suggest disabling the auto-follow feature and flying on full manual, using reverse thrust if the enemy comes too close. If you align yourself properly you can expect to vaporize a regular Sentinel in 1-2 seconds depending on how many supercharged slots you could spare for the IK and the ship's class damage bonus.

Soften ‘em up with the cyclotron ballista and then close distance, and delete with rocket and the positron ejector. After seeing it in action in this video, I can’t wait to add an infra knife to the mix.

Depending on the ship, Knife, Ejector. Use phase beam for mining, but will look into the photon. Very informative video.

Knife, with two supercharged slots, and the beam, even just by itself without maxing it out, and you'll tear through ships like they are made of paper, and rarely even need to recharge your shields with the beam, but it's handy to have.

Infra-Knife is king. Especially when after hours of re-rolling X-graded modules I got an absolutely beautiful roll. Then I archived the module, duplicated it twice, installed them around the Infra-Knife in a 2x2, Infra-Knife on a supercharged slot. I'll edit this comment later with the actual stats.

I'm using the INFRA-KNIFE with it outputting 46,293 DPS on the Hull and 30,862 on shieds

The infra-knife is just brokenly overpowered. Tune it up and you'll be able to shred anything at good range in a handful of seconds without caring if it's shielded or not. Pair it with a Phase Beam and put said phase beam's shield leach into a super charge slot to get 88% of damage delt to shields added to your own. You'll rarely ever need to worry about getting shot down ever again. Great for large engagements, and mauling Sentinel Capital Ships. My favorite weapon though is the Cyclotron Ballista. Shut down the target's shields and engines? Heck yeah! Cripple them and swap to what ever floats your boat for an easy kill. The 'Shotgun' is only really optimal if your ship is FAST as it works best at almost point blank range. Last, I hope the rocket pods get some love at some point. Trying to find X-mods for them is driving me insane.

Infra-knife accelerator is OP with a few upgrade modules

infra knife, 3 mods in main, 3 mods in tech, don't need anything else.

Just to add important info Phase Beam also recharges your shields while the enemy has shields for you to drain Cyclotron Ballista has about 50% more range than the Photon Rockets are of course something you toggle to when letting your guns cool and when the rockets are ready to fire If you have at least 2 or 3 guns (rockets included) you can just hold the Fire button down while slowly toggling through the Guns, allowing plenty of cooling time for overheating, while maintaining constant streams of damage My choice is Positron Ejector, Cyclotron Ballista and Rockets Great Info, and i dont think ive ever used the Infra Knives, i may try them out but i felt they were the worst in the old days, but i may look into them

nice to the point vid with no fluff to lengthen the runtime, i prefer to use the old faithful photon cannons myself, i used to use photons to take shield down then infraknife after but when fighting sentinel ships they quite often do that loop da loop move a lot and the shield is back up usually so ended up switching back so i did away altogether with the infra but i may give the cyclotron a blast as i aint tried it yet, cheers for the vid much obliged for the input

I've been happy enough with just the photon, to drop sheilds, then missiles to finish off. Works well enough I have no worries, plus leaves me feeling like I'm doing fighter pilot stuff. However, I was unaware of what you say about the cyclotron affecting enemy drives, and someone else below saying it has longer range. I'll give that a try as a phot replacement. Thanks for the info!

Cyclo, Rocket and Positron are a good combo, Phase & Infra too. I treat each ship like it has its own personality and try to craft its weapon loadout based on that.

I could only last long enough for taking down a sentinal frigate with a phase beam, infra knife, and photon cannon. When getting swarmed, phase beam shield leach is godly. Pirates and sentinels are nothing if I can leech off their shield. Phase beam mods and maxed-out photon cannon are Too Perfectly OP.

Ima be honest past 20k DPS nothing matters because everything you see melts like it was never there

Max out Photon cannons and your in business.

I have 4 installed: Photon Cannon, Rocket Launcher, Positron Ejector and Infraknife Accelerator / Gatling Cannon. I usually switch between them during the fight to keep any single one from overloading, the RL is mostly the one to finish damaged enemies off with

I use Infra Knife and Photon Beam, but after first two minutes of the video I'm definitely adding Cyclotron Ballista in my build, the slow against Sentinels is invaluable

Infra-knife for damage and phase beam to replenish shield. Anything else is practically useless.

The best combo is the ballista to delete shields/stun the ship and infra knife to shred the hull

I swear my infra knife broken, it does no damage to non shielded enemies and only to shielded ones

You can get your Photon much more powerful than the stats in this video.

There is only the infra knife, even vs shields its way, way better than anything else.

The infra knife is very strong with upgrades. I pair it with the rocket launchers. As you said, wear out the shield, then rocket launcher. However, the rocket launcher isn't the most accurate, but the infra knife is just as effective on the hull as the shield. With upgrades, the infra knife fires a lot faster, and you'll get much more generous overheating. Pair that with very minimal bursts, for endless fire, can easily fully take care of any ship, should your rocket miss/not one shot

Infra Knife for quick damage. Rockets for a heavy finishing blow. Phase Beam to vampire enemy shielding, as my Sentinel ship doesn’t accept star shield batteries and I don’t want to use all my sodium/radiant shards.

God tier your Photon and it’s lethal.

I use 3, photon, missiles and the shield charging weapon. Cycling through these keeps my shields up and theirs down....especially useful combo while playing solo vs 4+ enemies

Infra Knife....

I've been really happy with my Photon Cannon with three S class upgrades. It's not the ultimate, I know, but it takes down both shields and hulls fairly quickly. I wanted more of an edge, though, so I just installed the Cyclotron Ballista. Now I can take down enemy shields quick with the Ballista, then switch to my Cannon to finish them off.

There are plenty of slots for tech if you expand your slots the right way, so there won't be issues for those who wouldn't mind using three weapons. I roll with the Infra-Knife, Cyclotron, and Rocket Launcher. Open with Cyclotron until their shield is gone, shoot a rocket, then quickly switch to Infra-Knife. You can spam Infra-Knife while the Rocket Launcher cools, so it'll be ready for you to move on to your next target. With upgrades to these weapons on a capable Fighter, you can expect to shred a single pirate fighter ship in a matter of seconds. Sentinels take a little longer, of course, but the strategy still works on them.

Phase beam is great in permadeath where I dont want to risk dying.

nice, i have two ship setups already both sentinel ships. one uses positron ejector for about 30k dps to shields then rocket launchers to 1 tap ship and the other ship uses infra knife overclocked to the max so it is always just a beam. I'm just floating around space with a c-ram in NMS lol

Rocket launcher... IT IS ACTUALLY THE LAST AND THE LEAST. Both rocket launcher and positron need huge buffs

Epic informative NMS upload @Colmatt, thank you! We haven't gamed NMS on PS for some time and I was confused when after the update all my starship's weapons and tech were all misconfigured or not installed. With the current version can we still setup the weapons with the chain of upgrades in the general cargo inventory? Also that is new to us that we can still 3 more connected upgrades in the technology section per onboard weapon, I've never tried that. That's some off the hook firepower. Game On • Be well kind gamers!

When I first started the game, I was really excited and looking forward to min-maxing the weapons. Once I finally got a ship I really liked and wanted to upgrade, I headed over to the anomaly to find the optimum weapon loadout. Just be reading the description of the weapons, I figured that the simplest but most effective combo would be cyclotron to drain shields, then infra-knife to deal hull damage. After installing and upgrading both weapons as much as was practical with the resources on hand, I noticed that the infra-knife (although stated to be primarily a hull damage dealer) did significantly more damage to shields than the cyclotron (whose whole purpose for existing is draining shields). I thought this was silly but immediately got rid of the cyclotron, freeing my ship up for many more upgrades. Also, with the upgrades I had, the cooldown was nearly instant, and it took about 10-15 seconds of consistent fire to overheat, so there really wasn't any penalty to only using the one weapon. tl;dr INFRA-KNIFE GO BRRRRRRRR

I’ve ran the Infra-Knife and Positron Ejector and I’ve had no want or need for anything else. For enemy ships, Positron shots until I overheat, then switch to Infra to finish them off (if they weren’t dead already). For freighters/“boss” ships, the Infra melts everything

On my Deck/PC, all my ships gets upgraded Knife and base rocket. All ships, provided theyre not performing spins on me, die within 5-8 seconds after I've targeted them

I almost completely rely on a 114k damage infra knife, i keep a shield sucking green plasma thingy as an emergency back up, but that's it for weapons. NOW if a hotas setup was implemented, i'd probably have a lot more variants, but it's not, so i don't.

Your settings must be very different that mine. Photon Cannon barely scratches anything for me.

1:20 this is going to be very immature of me but I just can't help it. He said do do 😏 for those who are just like me have fun replaying it over and over 🤣

You can take out the shields on a Sentinel Interceptor very easily with just the proton cannons, and then quickly switch and fire the rocket launcher to instantly kill the Sentinel and/or any other ship with its shields down. This is also the *’starting technology’* of any starting ship for a new save. So, unless you want to pair the space shotgun that can shred hulls with the space ballista that can tear through shields, just from the start you can very quickly and easily dispatch most enemy fighters with just protons and rockets. Just remember to craft some starship batteries for when your own shields get low. Especially against a Sentinel Dreadnought.

Infra Knife for me.

If you keep pressing the fire button instead of holdinging it, no weapon other than the rocket launcher can overheat, even without upgrades.

The Infra knife keeps auto aiming for no reason and missing most of the shots. Positron ejector is way better!

I literally just have the knife and ballista for my fighter, the ballista with 4 shots destroys the Shields, and the knife proceeds to mow down the health within 5~ ish seconds. I do have to note: i have knife supercharged twice & balista super charged once

Imagine putting positron ejector in a 2x2 overcharged slots, with all maximum x class upgrades. I'd wager you can probably one shot anything in the game!

I have an interceptor but I couldn't do any damage fights were taking so long. Then I found out I had not installed my infra knife on an overclocked slot. That makes a huuuuuuge difference I smoke every ship in few seconds.

I use maxed photon cannon, but I also have a shuttle with Positron Ejector for resources hoovering when planetside

Photon cannon is crap. Missiles which only shoot once, are garbage.. The ballista is decent but not great - secondary weapon for sure for when your infra-knife overheats. The green laser thing is good for pealing sheilds and feeding your own in the process, and for asteroid farming. Infra-knife is king.

Great video. I tend to use the infraknife most of the time. It just looks good and sounds good to me. I enjoy it for combat and mining roids. The best weapon is actually the positron ejector though. It us actually the best weapon and roids tool period. A couple of upgrades on it to allow for more rounds before overheat and it's a true beast. It tears through ship shields and then hull like paper. Fast and efficient at mining too.

Infra knife is better against big ships... but misses a lot manouvering small ships... Id prefer either Cyclotron to slow ship then kill it emidietly... or just Shotgunning anything. Its bit slower for me against freighters but hey... they are not dangerous

I used to use only the Cyclotron and the Photon Cannon, but then I got two supercharged slots for the Infra Knife and I uninstalled my Cyclotron and the Photon Cannon for i am become death destroyer of fleets. The rate of fire is obscene and shreds shields almost as fast as the Cyclotron itself. If it has one failing it's that sometimes you are aiming with a prayer when dealing with high maneuvers so I think I should learn to use the rocket. Does the rocket have homing? I can't even believe I'm asking this.

my positron ejector does 18k DPS.. I can take out wave after wave of sentinels no issues and even destroy the sentinel frigates weapons while relaxing.. then go back to farming asteroids.. I haven't even beat the main story of the game yet.. or unlocked the portals.. by time my ejector over heats the sentinel is already dead..

Phase beam isnt really a weapon. I use it to recharge my ships shields and then use infra to destroy everything. I melt everything having topped out black market mods.

I really wish the Rocket Launcher got its own upgrade modules, rockets are so cool

for me the best weapon is the guardian cannon, rapid fire, overheating occurs very slowly, no need to switch, quickly destroys the shield and the enemy

i imagine a good combo is cyclotron and infra knife, with a rocket launcher in the mix too just for some variety ive never used the cyclotron though but i love my infra knife. only problem is the auto pilot combat aiming is terrible with it and it leads too far ahead so you have to manual aim

A few hundred hours into the game and Ive never used infra knife or the shotgun variant for my ship 🤣 will definitely give them a try!! TY!!!

the phase beam isn't supposed to be held down. you tap it and it drops enemy shields and hull faster than holding it down.

They should really do something about those poor rockets, it only ever had a single c class upgrade, what we need is some more rocket boosting s class modules, as well as flavor upgrades like rpg or heat seeking! We need an explosives update!

I only use the infra Knife it is the fastest and best hard hitter, just getting the upgrades in a pain to get the higher dmg ones I agree that sometimes one ship does turn faster so using the positron ejector a few shots make it ready for being finished in no time with the infra knife Am actually considering to remove all others besides the photo cannon as that is handy for farming on asteroids costs less and does overheat never :D As we all know you can not shoot constant fast on the asteroids their is plenty time for weapons to cool down. With the infra knife there is a big chance you hit the freaking slowdown ships which do not allow you to actually totally destroy all asteroids :D

if your blowing up capitals, infraknife till overheat then fire your missles and repeat

when upgraded to max i think the infraknife kills the fastest like within 1-2 seconds if you can keep shots on point

I love the photon blue lasers maxed and infra red knife

Because when I'm looking at my ships it just shows technology and cargo

I like the cyclotron ballista is like a chunky infra knife accelerator although it damages the hull like you are cooking a chicken by slapping it

if you put the accuracy boosting upgrade for the positron onto a supercharge slot, it may become accurate enough with enough range to really be an insane choice, especially if all supercharge slots are close by for a huge positron boost

my first dreadnought battle, the civilians died the pirates escaped, my second one the same thing happened but i realized i can just fly through their shield generators breaking them doing little to no damage to myself lol

does enemy health scale with your damage? my infra knife has 77k dps, yet its not really that much faster ttk than my photon cannons at 10k dps

I run knives, and rockets, haven't had an issue. The knives melt through anything❤

Photon Cannon - Infra Knife triple barrel , Max shields ,

I am a former positron acolyte, loved that shotgun. Recent changes in the game have made the Infraknife supreme. Im rocking 60k+ dps and it tears up shields and hulls with not much noticeable difference.

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Fun fact: if you use the cyclotron on a dreadnaught, it does A TON of damage

I presonally use the basita with rockets and photon to destroy shield damage most of the hull with rockets and finish them off with the photon. I find it annoying to switch between all the other weapons and like to have a select few

Why would you use anything but the Infra-Knife? It's too good.

I usually just use cycltron ballista to take down shield and slow enemy then use the rockets to one-shot them If there is any health left (usually almost none) I can just use a third weapon to take that down

InfraKnife all day everyday. My build in game knocks more that 70k DPS using IK. It's just an infinite pink death beam at this point. I only use positron for low orbit mining. Cyclo is what I use for a backup

Phase beam for shield drain, sentinal photon cannon for range and positron ejector up close.

If you put the infra knife in a super charge slot, it is.. overpowered

Personally, I go with a positron, cyclotron combo.... sometimes with a little rocket finisher just for a little flare or free fireworks. Otherwise I go with the infraknife/positron combo so it cover distance and up close all on 1 little ship.

The phase beam actually charges your shield with no upgrades, the upgrade just gives you extra on the initial impact

You forgot the sentinal photon cannon. It's the fastest weapon in the game.

Infra knife is best positrons great to till ya fight sentinel frieghter then its crap haha infra knife is best hands down

I build my photon cannon and rockets for when the shield is down

Seems like Ballista to take out shields and Knife to take out hull is the best combo.

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Photon cannons and missiles are all you need combat is paper thin in this game

Phase wont over heat if you just spam A and it will do the same stuff but no over heat

The Positron Ejector has been the most useful ship weapon for me. It does a lot of damage to enemy pilots. And gets rid of their shields quickly.

Infra knife then rockets, but use shield stealer thing when I need to.

Did they take out general and all those other slot categories that I see y'all showing?

Since update 4.0 all of this has changed

where can i find Infra-Knife Accelerator?