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Brilliant game. I bought it in the sale and have played it every spare minute since.
I love games like this where they're just incredible crisp. Everything just comes together brilliantly.
It reminds me of broodwar lol.
I like how there are so many different ways to win and you have to adapt really well to what you're given.
I just had a really fun game as the A stealth cruiser where I managed to get burst laser III, hull laser II, mini beam and weapon pre-igniter just before the first boss.
Jumped in and unleashed my 8 laser shots on the shield bay. Shields rocked, Hull laser lands and breaches, then the mini beam does even more damage. Hit cloak while I safely wait for them to recharge and do it again. Boss was almost dead before he got chance to fire a missile!
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On December 19 2012 11:46 Fyrewolf wrote:
I just had my luckiest run ever so far, for a second normal win(only second highest score so far though, 4312).
Started with the federation ship a, and bought a teleporter first early in the first sector and found another mantis crew pretty fast. Focused on shield and engine upgrades first, and boarded almost every ship I met to kill them. Ended up with way more scrap and upgrades than I knew what to do with. The only upgrades I didn't have were 2 weapons, 1 engine, 1 pilot, and 1 door upgrade. Never bought drone control or cloak. When I finally did upgrade weapons after sector 6 I had the starting burst laser 2, heavy laser 2, and the small bomb. I have a new appreciation for the bombs now, they're really good for weakening system and crew without killing the ship for boarding, even though I didn't get them until late.
Final boss barely even touched me every phase, went in with less than half health and never went to red. Bombed the pilot to keep him from dodging, took out missiles/ion, teleported my maxed uber boarding party in, and when they ran away kept bombing the medbay. Second phase I kept my boarding party to fight off the boarding drones while I bombed their drone control, which set their ship ablaze, and tele to take out the missiles again. Third phase power surge got through a few times, but finished him off quick. Almost never used the artillery beam all run(not enough power/boarding)
All of my crew made it out alive (1 rock, 1 human, 3 engi, 2 mantis, and 1 zoltan). Managed to get the quests and unlock both the stealth cruiser and the zoltan ship on this run. Really looking forward to trying both of them out soon. Every run of this game always brings new surprises and challenges, still finding new events after dozens of hours playing.
You'll soon realize that FTL has three difficulties, Easy, Normal and Stealth Cruiser.
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I love the Stealth Cruiser, it's my favourite ship that I have so far.
At first it APPEARS really hard. Until you play around with the mini beam and learn to time your shots correctly.
You don't need to damage the actual shield bay to land your beam, all you need do is disrupt the shield.
Turn off auto-fire and watch their shields when your lasers strike; the milisecond their shield is down pause the game.
Then aim your beam starting in their shield bay. The first tic will land instantly before the sheilds go back up, doing 1 dmg and taking the sheild out allowing for the rest of the beam to land. Even with the mini beam you can hit up to 4 rooms in one shot! You only need to have 1 pixel of the line in a room to do damage to it.
Combine this with level 2 cloaking (cloak the instant the battle starts) and you're almost guaranteed to do decent damage before the enemy gets chance to do anything.
I find with the stealth ship im using the sensors early to pick fights because it's just so powerful at lvl1!
Then you continue on depending on what you find. If you can find/buy crew and get a teleporter then you can go the full defense route. A full 15sec cloak gives your boarding team lots of time to do damage.
Or if you can get more lasers (preferably slow charging) try the strategy of high instant damage off of cloak with your OP beam.
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Same here, I am on a type b stealh cruiser run as i type. That thing is so much fun to play. I also like the engi ships and the fed cruiser with the imba beam.
BUT i have never finished the game with the standard ship.
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I've been playing Infinite Space and I always die in the 2nd sector. I always end up encountering some ship with 4 shields that just fucks me up. Shit's hard yo.
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i'd argue that engi B is on a similar level to stealth cruiser because only 1 guy. Also slug B to some degree because no feasible weapons and you have to run a 2 slug boarding crew. Try those if you haven't yet ^^
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God, Stealth Cruiser gets gg'd so hard if you go against any ship with laser beams. I just try to run away if I see that they those.
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The main secret to playing as a stealth cruiser is that you have to always go for their weapons system. The only really annoying thing are enemies with drones before you get shields. And you should have a priority of getting more and larger guns before you get shields. Your goal is to take out their offensive capabilities with one salva, while dodging their first salva with your cloak. That works against most early enemies. After their guns are down, you can take your time and slowly pick them apart.
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Stealth cruiser is one of the easiest i think cause the glaive beam is basically the best weapon ever and solves a lot of your gear check in the endgame
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I bought this game 50% on sale a couple of days ago... well i don't know how long ago exactly, but i've already logged 56 hours. I haven't been this addicted to a game since November 23, 2004 happened >_>
I did not think i'd like this. I usually can't get into sci fi type stuff, fantasy is definitely my area. I was always Warcraft > Starcraft but i'm so in lesbians with this game.
So far i've failed to get past phase 2 on final boss on all three (or four? pretty sure three) attempts. Only unlocked Engi, Rock and Crystal ships. Using Crystal a lot but its weapons are decidedly shit once you start seeing ships with 3+ shields and decent dodge. I shall persist.
I swear, any other game would have me raging so hard at the RNG this thing dishes out, but i can't get enough.
Soundtrack is great too.
edit: i've yet to try out teleporting either, i should give it a go for shits and giggles at least
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hmmm i almost always aim for their guns to minimize damage to my own ship. giving me more money for other things. am i the only one who does this?
only times i dont do it is if they only have lasers and beams that cant penetrate my shields in one volley. then ill go for shields.
*Goibon if you can kill all the crew on the enemy ships you will get better rewards all the time. more scrap. your choice of a crew member if its a slave ship. easiest way to do this is to teleport ppl onto their ship.
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On January 04 2013 00:21 gostunv wrote:
hmmm i almost always aim for their guns to minimize damage to my own ship. giving me more money for other things. am i the only one who does this?
only times i dont do it is if they only have lasers and beams that cant penetrate my shields in one volley. then ill go for shields.
*Goibon if you can kill all the crew on the enemy ships you will get better rewards all the time. more scrap. your choice of a crew member if its a slave ship. easiest way to do this is to teleport ppl onto their ship.
There is almost never a reason to not go for their guns (going for engines or cockpit if the enemy is fleeing being the only exception I can think of.) since there is no such thing as a time limit in combat. If you manage to disable their weapons the fight is pretty much over already.
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Also with the stealth cruiser the mini beam can hit 3 sections at once quite easily, once I worked that out it, it was a little help. Still haven't passed the game on normal yet though with any ship 
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The red-tail is the easiest to win with imho.
Get a teleporter early and practice boarding. Pretty soon you're destroying everyone and getting great rewards. You just have to remember to start looking for a boss-beating weapon set around sector 6ish.
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Just started trying this out (on easy, to my shame).
On January 04 2013 01:34 Kerotan wrote:Also with the stealth cruiser the mini beam can hit 3 sections at once quite easily, once I worked that out it, it was a little help. Still haven't passed the game on normal yet though with any ship
I had a fairly successful run with the stealth cruiser but the RNG aggressively prevented me from finding weapons worth a damn. Ended up vs the flagship with the starting dual laser 1, a burst laser 1, and a hull laser 1 (which apparently never hits). Got to phase 2, but couldn't actually land hits consistently enough and my 5 remaining crew couldn't deal with boarding drones.
On January 04 2013 06:26 Klive5ive wrote:
The red-tail is the easiest to win with imho.
Get a teleporter early and practice boarding. Pretty soon you're destroying everyone and getting great rewards. You just have to remember to start looking for a boss-beating weapon set around sector 6ish.
I forgot the last part. Crushed my way to the end in a Rock ship with a boarding crew of 4 Mantis/Rock/Crystal, dual Ions shutting down everything on the enemy ships - except I forgot that damage is useful. Took out all the flagship guns and realized I didn't have a lot of actual options there. Ended up trying to take on the ship itself and completely mishandling it. Left the game with near full health and an incapacitated flagship because I couldn't do anything :p
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I hate the fact that if you dont buy/find a good burst/heavy laser by 4th/5th sector. You're pretty much sol. I always reset when this is the case and when enemy ships start to have 3+ shields on.
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On January 04 2013 10:00 Emnjay808 wrote:
I hate the fact that if you dont buy/find a good burst/heavy laser by 4th/5th sector. You're pretty much sol. I always reset when this is the case and when enemy ships start to have 3+ shields on.
You can also manage that with enough ion weaponry. Knock out their shields (and their weapons, if you have two) and it doesn't matter how bad your damage weapon is.
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On January 04 2013 10:00 Emnjay808 wrote:
I hate the fact that if you dont buy/find a good burst/heavy laser by 4th/5th sector. You're pretty much sol. I always reset when this is the case and when enemy ships start to have 3+ shields on.
Ways to deal with shields:
1) Teleporter
2) Ion weapons
3) Stacked lasers
4) Missiles
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3 is pretty much superior, though, because it is frontloaded enough that it usually lets you take out some of their weaponry without taking any damage, especially if you also have cloak.
Teleport takes ages to take out anything on the enemy ship, ion weapons have to slowly chew through their shields unless you got many, and missiles can get shot down or even miss. All of that makes you take lots of damage, which costs money, which is bad.
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Anyone know how to check pathing while jumping? I was watching Frag today and he was checking what spots he could jump to in his next move.
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