Boarding Enemy Ships No longer an Option?

[CMDR_MAXSON]

I am full vanilla game + watchtower mod.

Anytime I disable engines of enemy ships I no longer have an option to board them. I can board other things just fine, not enemy ships.

Also maybe asking too much but is there a way to be able to summon fleet ships and not have them around 24/7 constantly? Or at least have a combat setting to disable enemy ships and not kill them.

 

[twolargepepperoni]

Is this all Watchtower enemy ships, or just Watchtower Drones?

Unfortunately due to AI limitations in the game engine, it is not really possible to have them disable ships rather than kill them. During development we did test this out, but the behaviour is extremely unreliable and hard to 100% control.

Regarding your other query, there is a gameplay option that allows your ships to only show up if the enemy is Watchtower, which might be something you're interested in.

 

[CMDR_MAXSON]

All enemy ships - not even related to watch tower.
Spacers \ Red Legion \ Etc - The boarding option doesn't show up.

Boarding works fine for all friendly ships though - just not enemy ships


Oh yes, what gameplay option is that? Having fleet show up only for watch tower is exactly what i need. Is it in game or in options?

EDIT:
Found it in gameplay options - thanks

 

[twolargepepperoni]

There is an engine bug where docking with ships can sometimes be a bit unreliable - this goes for vanilla friendly ships, enemy ships, and even our own fleet ships at times - we have reached out to Bethesda about this, as it's something they'd need to address.

That said, if you are on PC, we can take a look at a save just to ensure there isn't some other cause or bug going on that may be affecting things for you.