And be sure that you only fire one weapon when you shoot the wreck the first time. It doesn't matter how powerful the wep is, and if nothing comes out on the first shot, there is nothing in the wreck.

That's not always true as I was hunting for a particular level 10 weapon (I can't say where spoiler). but I hit scan ship key and it showed the contents. However when I hit it with my lazor cannon nothing happened except the red bar at the bottom went down a little. So I shot it with a Blue Blaze shot once (I used the # keys to keep from a full armada blast) and still nothing so I hit it again and the ship disapeared and out came the loot floating in brackets. I tractored in the stuff and beat feet as I was in a tough spot and couldn't linger. Anyway hope it helps use the Scan ship key when looking at ANY ship you might find out some useful info like shield strength, weapons mounted, missles, etc. Just some thoughts from the edge of space.

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That's strange. I've never had that happen, it's always been the first shot or nothing for me. AFAIK that is, maybe I'll have to be a little more careful next time then...

Just wanted to let u know i found some nice weapons on a wreck called Diamondback . i didnt find something to buy they are WPC 10 and have a firepower like torpedos .. 1173 Hull Damage and 586 Shield Damage
Firerate isnt that fast with 2 but Hulldamage iss nice i only need a sabre or titan to use them but im still not friendly enough with hessians to buy the ship damnit

I have found (Named) wrecks too, some that already have some of the red health bar down. Does this mean that flyby attackers beat me to the loot? I'm in SP, so it must be the computer generated bad guys. I shot carefully with one gun, could see the quip on scanner, and stuff flew off at the end, but nothing in grey brackets that could be tractored in.

Yep flbob, they beat you to it. Good news if you have never looted the ship before it will respawn the loot if you have been there when you shoot it again it just makes an explosion sound when the stuff should fly out. Like I said before hit the scan ship key and then the little target icons next to it or you can simply put your cursor on the ship and press the left mouse button (assuming default settings) and it will tell you what is there again when you are in scan ship in the lower left hand HUD display. Hope this helps as you can pick up some pretty impressive stuff from these wrecks. Be careful though not everyone is freindly about you robbing the dead. Just some thoughts from the edge of space.

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