Multicrew and Combat Rank?

[stormyuk]

So over the weekend I tried Multicrew on the PS5 which I have not really touched since the early days of getting the trophies on PS4.

It's suprisingly fun (when you can either find a ship to join or get crew on your ship and as long as the other person doesn't have a terrible internet connection).

Does the Multicrew session actually count towards your combat rank?

 

[tanner1ie]

I assume combat XP in Multicrew goes both ways - being shared between the ships' owner and crewmates, probably equally...

The fact combat XP is generally shared equally with other types of team-mates is often a point of contention among players, for example, while being in a wing might be helpful and fun, but it's not very fair if you happen to be flying in an Anaconda or Corvette etc and if you had three wingmates all in Sidewiders getting the same XP as you!

And in one of the most annoying ways, giving 50% of your combat XP to an a.i. fighter pilot, even AFTER they hit max rank! (not to mention the cut of your credits they get, which they never spend ).

 

[Aeorath]

So over the weekend I tried Multicrew on the PS5 which I have not really touched since the early days of getting the trophies on PS4.

It's suprisingly fun (when you can either find a ship to join or get crew on your ship and as long as the other person doesn't have a terrible internet connection).

Does the Multicrew session actually count towards your combat rank?

I am not sure combat rank is shared in multicrew; I spent in total 14 hours in combat multicrew (gunner role) with a friend of mine, and my combat rank never budged, same as before.

 

[tanner1ie]

I am not sure combat rank is shared in multicrew; I spent in total 14 hours in combat multicrew (gunner role) with a friend of mine, and my combat rank never budged, same as before.

I have to ask, were ye in combat or only mining etc? - if ye were in actual combat, i wonder why this is the only combat type treated differently

 

[Aeorath]

I have to ask, were ye in combat or only mining etc? - if ye were in actual combat, i wonder why this is the only combat type treated differently

Combat only, I was in the gunner role, and we ran bounty hunts and assassination missions.

 

[DikbutDaGrate]

My dream is to host a jousting tournament comprised of teams of 3 person multi-crew operated Type-10s. And the only weapons allowed on the Type-10s are turreted multicrew weapons operated by the gunner.

One person flies, one person acts as gunner, and the other pilots the fighter.

( It sounds like it would be a blast, up until the lag inevitably causes the entire ED game server to crash for all platforms. )