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Krowser
Canada788 Posts
 Ship: Kestrel Shields: 3 Engines: Almost Max Cloaking Transporter Drones Rock armor Stealth Weapons Burst Laser 2 Artemis Missile Breach Missile Glaive beam Anti-Ship drone The Glaive Beam is amazing. There's a reason it takes 4 power bars, it deals 3 damage. Lets say you hit the boss with a Burst laser and take out 3 shield bubbles, leaving 1. The Glaive will hit for 2 damage on every room it hits. If you target it correctly, you can cripple any ship even if they still have their shields on. | ||
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Reivax
Sweden214 Posts
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TheUnderking
Canada202 Posts
Edit: I sure jinxed it. I ran outta fuel and the fleet got me. :/ | ||
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
I used the rock cruiser and found weapon pre-igniter + the drone augment that lets you recover drone parts from non-destroyed drones. I also bought stealth weapons from a store so I could max my cloak. I used 2 burst lasers, mk 1 and 2, the starting artemis missile + a halbard beam. If that wasnt enough I had 2 lvl 1 anti-ship drones. Every fight I would insta-cloak, activate my drones and launch my missile at the enemys shields to make sure the missile hits before my lasers. I would then fire both lasers and then finally my halbard beam when the shields were down. Almost every single fight from sector 6 to 8 ended before my enemies could fire off a single volley,,,,,,including the boss! On a side note I encountered a ship that had 5 shields! never seen that before but he also bit the dust ofc. | ||
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Tal
United Kingdom1017 Posts
 Used the Kestrel A, and landed up with a lucky run so I could get all the best pieces together. Mantis boarding team, 2 defence drones, max shields, cloaking, and enough weapons to get through 4 shields. So I basically tanked everything, picked off his turrets (because the rest of the crew can't get there), and slowly whittled him away. Everyone said cloaking countered his 'power surge attacks', but often the cloaking would still be recharging when he did it again, so that hurt. Also he moved straight to my repair station after the first fight, and the other ones were ridiculously placed, so no repairing for me. Some thoughts on the game: Once your ship has some extra crew the amount of micromanagement gets insane - using multiple people to repair the most important thing, or even having multiple people ready in a room you are scared of getting hit is good. As a Starcraft player, accustomed to using every bit of supply, I had to drop part of that thinking. Because power gets progressively more expensive, in the midgame its often best to invest in more things than you can power - that flexibility is so important. I often land up in a bad fight but put everything to shields and engines so I can get out of there fast. Other times I can power up the right counters to the enemies loadout. I think there are some balance issues - boarding seems a bit good, and a lot of items/weapons don't, but these are small complaints. It's been one of the best indie games I've played in a long time - it utterly engrossed me, and makes me really hope they develop their wonderful world. Now to try that new Federation ship! | ||
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NET
United States703 Posts
I was using that cool looking cloaking ship which my friend already unlocked. | ||
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loginn
France815 Posts
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datscilly
United States529 Posts
About cloaking against the final boss: if you do a 10 sec cloak against the first power surge, then it will still be on cooldown when the second power surge hits. The best thing to do is to put 1 power on cloaking for a 5 sec cloak; it is still good to upgrade your cloak so that if the cloak room gets damaged, you still have cloak. | ||
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
On October 04 2012 20:26 datscilly wrote: Bit of spoilers on final boss strategy: About cloaking against the final boss: if you do a 10 sec cloak against the first power surge, then it will still be on cooldown when the second power surge hits. The best thing to do is to put 1 power on cloaking for a 5 sec cloak; it is still good to upgrade your cloak so that if the cloak room gets damaged, you still have cloak. Or simply kill him before the powersurge  | ||
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Reivax
Sweden214 Posts
Later I got a Beam I drone, which was basically the cherry on the cake, I only really had to use it on the last boss. Tactics were easy, use autofire and target the enemy shield generator with all weapons, when shields are stripped, keep Ion cannon I on it, fire heavy laser at the guns and target the cockpit with Ion cannon I. As soon as the cockpit is disabled, you win, which is quickly done with 4 second base cooldown and a maxed out gunner. I didn't have cloak, although the shipwide healing helped me a lot when boarded, also got the bonus 10% scrap augment, and kept the drone controller. So not optimized there. However, the Ion cannon II, Heavy laser I and Ion cannon I was only 5 power, I don't think it's possible to get anything better for 5 power tbh. I was looking for a burst laser II, since I easily had enough scrap to upgrade guns to max in the end, and it would have been better for stripping shields. Beam drone really rocks when all shields are pemadisabled too. | ||
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Deleted User 101379
4849 Posts
My most promising runs always get shut down when i least expect it. The last extremely promising run where i left sector 1 with 2 shields and had burst laser 3 was "Do you want to engage that automated ship?" - "Yeah, of course" - "Well, enjoy 2 rocket launchers and 3 shields that dodges 75% of your shots in sector 3". | ||
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On October 04 2012 23:11 Morfildur wrote: I still haven't finished normal after 15 or so attempts. My most promising runs always get shut down when i least expect it. The last extremely promising run where i left sector 1 with 2 shields and had burst laser 3 was "Do you want to engage that automated ship?" - "Yeah, of course" - "Well, enjoy 2 rocket launchers and 3 shields that dodges 75% of your shots in sector 3". Haha. What usually kills me out of nowhere are innocent looking ships that end up having 2 rocket launchers and 2 laser drones. Either I manage to shut them down quickly, or they'll make me unable to do anything at all within 30 seconds and then slowly kill me. >.> The most awesome death I had so far, however, was that one time where a series of unfortunate decisions led to a badly damaged, but not destroyed ship of mine. Half of the outer doors were open to kill various fires, and both my door system as well as the o2 system were destroyed, and all I had were three low-HP dudes clinging to their lives in the (still working!) medbay. They were healed just as quickly as they were suffocating, keeping them in some sort of limbo. I couldn't close any doors, and I couldn't send them to repair any stations because they would immediately suffocate if they'd leave the medbay. I couldn't come up with a solution for this (Of course I didn't have enough money to upgrade the medbay..), so after a minute of pondering I freed them from their suffering and turned off the medbay. | ||
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Tal
United Kingdom1017 Posts
On October 04 2012 23:11 Morfildur wrote: I still haven't finished normal after 15 or so attempts. My most promising runs always get shut down when i least expect it. The last extremely promising run where i left sector 1 with 2 shields and had burst laser 3 was "Do you want to engage that automated ship?" - "Yeah, of course" - "Well, enjoy 2 rocket launchers and 3 shields that dodges 75% of your shots in sector 3". Yeah some of those automated ships are incredibly strong. Is there a way to get information about enemy strength? Some upgrade I haven't seen? Also anyone with drones - if they have a beam drone and you even briefly have no shields things can collapse very fast. On October 04 2012 23:30 Conti wrote: Haha. What usually kills me out of nowhere are innocent looking ships that end up having 2 rocket launchers and 2 laser drones. Either I manage to shut them down quickly, or they'll make me unable to do anything at all within 30 seconds and then slowly kill me. >.>. Those too | ||
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Spidinko
Slovakia1174 Posts
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Spazer
Canada8033 Posts
On October 05 2012 00:19 Tal wrote: Yeah some of those automated ships are incredibly strong. Is there a way to get information about enemy strength? Some upgrade I haven't seen? Also anyone with drones - if they have a beam drone and you even briefly have no shields things can collapse very fast. Those too You can generally tell what weapons a ship will have just by looking at it. The weapons are retracted before combat, but you can usually still identify the type from the bit that protrudes from the hull. | ||
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Arevall
Sweden1133 Posts
I was thinking what if a Privateer remake or similar was done with the FTL combat system (but with multiple ships in combat too). | ||
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Simberto
Germany11686 Posts
On October 05 2012 00:19 Tal wrote: Yeah some of those automated ships are incredibly strong. Is there a way to get information about enemy strength? Some upgrade I haven't seen? Also anyone with drones - if they have a beam drone and you even briefly have no shields things can collapse very fast. Those too Don't think so. As far as i know, the enemy ships are completely random, with a power budget based on which sector they are in. If you are unlucky, you get a very bad roll and they got 2 rocket launchers. If you are lucky, they have 1 small laser and 2 defense drones or something stupid like that. | ||
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BlitzerSC
Italy8800 Posts
On October 05 2012 16:31 Simberto wrote: Don't think so. As far as i know, the enemy ships are completely random, with a power budget based on which sector they are in. If you are unlucky, you get a very bad roll and they got 2 rocket launchers. If you are lucky, they have 1 small laser and 2 defense drones or something stupid like that. I met a ship with a pike beam in sector 1 while I was playing as the stealth cruiser. Needless to say that my run didn't last very long... | ||
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Simberto
Germany11686 Posts
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Tal
United Kingdom1017 Posts
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