There are better EVA suits. You just have to progress further. Find the better loot.

Originally posted by davidbass:

There are better EVA suits. You just have to progress further. Find the better loot.

sorry, not acceptable answer. EV suits should start out with several minutes at the min, not a handful of seconds. I play this game to have fun and explore, I expect a little common sense to be applied to the game design elements.

Originally posted by Palad1n:

I play this game to have fun and explore, I expect a little common sense to be applied to the game design elements.

With the armored EVA-suits you find in certain areas, you are a lot more flexible, and can even do something crazy like boarding other ships while they're in transit.
They're supposed to be late-game but when you know where they are found you can get them early.

As for common sense; the yellow area you start in is simply very low-tech. The folks living there just don't have access to the good stuff.

Originally posted by redeyedraven:

Originally posted by Palad1n:

I play this game to have fun and explore, I expect a little common sense to be applied to the game design elements.

With the armored EVA-suits you find in certain areas, you are a lot more flexible, and can even do something crazy like boarding other ships while they're in transit.
They're supposed to be late-game but when you know where they are found you can get them early.

As for common sense; the yellow area you start in is simply very low-tech. The folks living there just don't have access to the good stuff.

I do more of my big ship killings on foot then in space now thanks to my suit and weapon. But, the enemies gear seems to scale with their ship complexity. At least for some ships anyway. Notice some take two shots with railgun to kill (which is hard to pull off without them gunning you down with their minigun first). But in some large tier 2 ships the enemies seem to not be wearing armour at all.

Fortunately they do tend to ignore you when they're busy repairing something. That's how I was able to confirm I wasn't just missing my first shot with the railgun. And they ignore your crew for the most part too so if you can dock you can just run after getting close enough to get aggro. Though you still need to deal enough damage to their ship to destroy the navigation console to have docking access. With EVA suit you don't need docking permission, even if entering through the airlock.

Originally posted by davidbass:

Though you still need to deal enough damage to their ship to destroy the navigation console to have docking access. With EVA suit you don't need docking permission, even if entering through the airlock.

Just punch a hole into the target-vessel, then exit your ship while they're not firing and head for the hull-breach you created to board it. As long as it's not turning and moving away super-quickly it should work if you're close enough.