Strike Suit Zero

Strike Suit Zero

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Capital Ship Weak-points
By hoimingmissile
Diagrams of the weakpoints for all three capital ship types: frigate, cruiser, and carrier.
   
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Frigate (10 weak-points total)
Frigate Diagrams
Here is the diagram featured in the game's manual, which I assume you never read.

Don't worry though, it's wrong. The top and the bottom are switched and some of the highlighting is misleading.
Here is my corrected diagram with added numbers for reference.

  1. Aft section of the conning tower
  2. Tip of starboard wing*
  3. Tip of port wing*
  4. Top of starboard nacelle
  5. Top of port nacelle
  6. Rear hatch
  7. Bottom of nose
  8. Bottom amidships
  9. Bottom of port nacelle
  10. Bottom of starboard nacelle

* The red sections on the original diagrams indicated where cosmetic damage would show once that weak-point was destroyed but NOT where specifically to shoot. Fortunately, this is only a problem for #2 and #3. I've found the optimal target point for these two weak-points to be from the front as shown here.
Only shooting the front tips of the wings will damage the weak-points' hitboxes.

Frigate Top Section Detail
Top down views of the frigate.
Notice, only the forward portions of the wings are circled.

Frigate Bottom Section Detail
Bottom up views of the frigate.

NB: The nacelles have separate weak-points on top and bottom (4, 5, 9, 10). The wings only have one each (2, 3).


Frigate Weak-points Destroyed
Top

Bottom
Cruiser (10 weak-points total)
Cruiser Diagrams
Here is the diagram featured in the game's manual.

Again, some of the highlighting is misleading.
Here is another corrected diagram with added numbers for reference.

  1. Top hatch amidships
  2. Fore section of conning tower
  3. Port bow "gills" on bottom
  4. Starboard bow "gills" on bottom
  5. Ribbed section amidships
  6. Debossed segment on port side pontoon
  7. Aft section of port side pontoon
  8. Bottom hatch amidships, between two reactor-looking structures
  9. Debossed segment on starboard side pontoon
  10. Aft section of starboard side pontoon

Cruiser Top Section Detail
Top down views of the cruiser.
Not many weak-points up here but lots of plasma turret defenses. You'll want to spend most of your time battering these guys from underneath.

Cruiser Bottom Section Detail
Bottom up views of the cruiser.


Cruiser Weak-points Destroyed
Top

Bottom

Notice that the cosmetic damage indications for weak-points 3 and 4 (the gills), once destroyed, match what the original manual highlights indicate are the weak-points but the true hitboxes are much shorter.
Carrier (11 weak-points total)
Carrier Diagrams
Here is the diagram featured in the game's manual.

It is.... COMPLETELY CORRECT! Surprise!
Nevertheless, here is mine with added numbers for reference.

  1. Base of fighter catapult
  2. Base of fighter catapult
  3. Base of fighter catapult
  4. Base of fighter catapult
  5. Turret tower
  6. Turret tower
  7. Base of fighter catapult
  8. Turret tower
  9. Turret tower
  10. Base of fighter catapult
  11. Base of fighter catapult

Yeah, this one is pretty straight-forward. Just remember weak-points #5, 6, 8, and 9 are the tower structures the turrets sit on, not the turrets themselves.

Carrier Top Section Detail
Top down views of the carrier.


Carrier Bottom Section Detail
Bottom up views of the carrier.


Unlike the cruiser, the top of the carrier has a dangerous amount of plasma turret defenses to match the large number of weak-points located there.
13 Comments
Hotshot 26 Mar, 2023 @ 11:11am 
That's a fantastic set of screenshots for labeling these things. Thanks for doing that for us. (Pity there's no real way to view the models out of game. They're actually rally fun just to look at)
hoimingmissile  [author] 6 Apr, 2018 @ 4:15pm 
(O_O)-b
lordg0at69 6 Apr, 2018 @ 1:53pm 
This will help very much against the carriers, thank you
hoimingmissile  [author] 18 Sep, 2017 @ 3:10pm 
I aim to please
LonSuder 18 Sep, 2017 @ 1:35pm 
Thanks for this information , very helpfull .
hoimingmissile  [author] 12 Jan, 2017 @ 2:21pm 
I can't remember a specific number, maybe all of them? Just fly around shooting them and the ships will take large amounts of damage, much more than if you just autolocked and fired at them. You don't have to destroy any turrets to kill a capital ship, though you'll miss out on a lot of points if you skip them.
NihlusGreen 12 Jan, 2017 @ 3:00am 
So how many weakpoints need to be destroyed to destroy a vessel?
7Soull 17 Sep, 2016 @ 11:07pm 
ty
Ivan Teurer 10 Jul, 2016 @ 2:08pm 
last dlc mission is still hard
hoimingmissile  [author] 10 Jul, 2016 @ 1:07pm 
(O_O)-b