Easiest way to deal with them is to upgrade doors and hope they dont board anything crucial, while burning the boss down. Trying to fight them really only delays the inevitable since the ship will send them over and over and over.

Defense drone mark 1 helps alot too.

BlitzerSC

Italy8800 Posts

April 05 2014 10:17 GMT

#445

Okay, hacking needs to be nerfed.
I got to the final boss and it hacked my weapon system, I literally couldn't do anything because my setup was about comboing my weapons instead of nuking everything in one go. Quite annoying to play with a game winning setup and then lose because the Rebel Flagship hacked the only system it shouldn't have hacked.

jrkirby

United States1510 Posts

April 05 2014 11:14 GMT

#446

Hacking is also really strong for you too. There's so many more options now that you can hack shields. Beams are really strong now.

And the AI kinda sucks. While you can hack the right system 100% of the time, the AI usually hacks your doors or something. Sure there's the occasional time it hacks your weapons, but even then, it's only about ~10 seconds you get delayed, then you need to target their hacking system and disable it.

Dfgj

Singapore5922 Posts

April 06 2014 00:19 GMT

#447

On April 05 2014 16:44 jrkirby wrote:
Anyone beaten hard mode yet? I'm scared to try it, still unlocking ships.

Just beat it with Crystal B.

Went in with 6 crewmembers because I lost 2 of my crystal boarders in sector 7. Barely survived phase 3.

JumboJohnson

537 Posts

April 06 2014 01:37 GMT

#448

The final boss usually hacks my O2, it only has hacking for stage one though. But damn it drained my O2 to zero, it's a good thing a had engi-med bot dispensers. Only reason I lived through it.

puppykiller

United States3126 Posts

April 06 2014 01:47 GMT

#449

Anyone else a boss who doesn't ever pause and only plays this on the hardest difficulty?

Obsidian

United States350 Posts

April 06 2014 01:54 GMT

#450

Phase 3 just kicked my butt hard...

Zoltan A with a Halberd, Charge Ion and Pegasi Missle + Hacking, Drones and Mind Control, stomped hard by Phase 3, actually didn;t take any damage phase 1 or 2, but the boarders kicked my butt.

Azerbaijan

United States660 Posts

April 06 2014 02:26 GMT

#451

Check out lethalfrag on twitch; he plays FTL quite a lot. Pretty helpful stream if you feel like you suck at this game.

Noocta

France12578 Posts

April 06 2014 02:50 GMT

#452

Flak canon are so fun. Who care about accuracy, I'm just throwing so much junk at them it tear through everything lol

Xafnia

Canada874 Posts

April 06 2014 04:29 GMT

#453

So I've been unlocking the type Cs. If I make it to the 8th sector, boss has never been anything but an easy kill.

Hacking trivializes final boss. 100x better than cloak. If you have a hack AND a breach. lol.

My goal for bosses/purchases are: boarding > one of breach/hacking, pref both> ion 2 (the 4second cooldown one or 2 slow ions, staggered) > weapons.

Breach, ion 2 are rare so i'll pick them up before boarding if I see them but yea.

Phase 1: board and kill missiles > gun > ion. Hack ion or missiles if you need to, depending on what is most dangerous for you if you need too, else I save it for crew killing. if you hack the med bay, it deals damage.
When all the guns and gunners are dead, you can spend as much time as you want killing crew since you can't get attacked. Don't kill'em all, leave a few. If i can I leave like 2-3, so I don't wipe them all out by mistake on next phase.
Spend scrap on doors. (I'm pretty sure you always get enough for a t2)

Phase 2 hack drone while you destroy all guns. Man the doors for a door bonus, you have minimum t3 doors + Hack for the boarding drones. Hack also works for the "drone spam warning" as far as I can tell. I just keep weapons on drone till I win. (ion on shields as always if I have them).

Phase 3, hack MC it clears the control, board guns. Take your sweet time to win.

Boarding is even better now than before, because a mind control is a near guaranteed pickup, unlike finding something like a breach, for fast disabling. If you have a good sector 1, the B layout mantis ship is crazy strong.

Mind control does not work well at all with boarding strats, there doesn't seem to be a way to cancel the mindcontrol? If they only have a mindcontrolled target you have to sit there taking damage from the ship.

Edit: I've had my guns hacked vs the boss, didn't even matter.

Dfgj

Singapore5922 Posts

April 06 2014 05:17 GMT

#454

On April 06 2014 13:29 Xafnia wrote:
Hacking trivializes final boss. 100x better than cloak. If you have a hack AND a breach. lol. .

Phase 1: board and kill missiles

Cloak is for evading surges, which hacking does nothing against. Admittedly, hacking shields makes the RNG challenge of 'do I have enough guns' a lot easier.

You also can't board missiles/tri-laser in hardmode because they're connected to the rest of the ship. Well, you can, you just won't be able to destroy them realistically.

Shock710

Australia6097 Posts

April 06 2014 05:38 GMT

#455

how useful are the burning techniques, i remember i tried going through (easy) run by like using firebombs and targeting their oxygen, so i could like get the most scrap, i died before the last boss anyone tried that one on him?

Pooshlmer

United States1001 Posts

April 06 2014 06:08 GMT

#456

Burning is more fun, but you have to sit there taking damage until you finally finish off the weapons. Could be 1-2 more cycles of attacks. Good if you can't get through shield though.

puppykiller

United States3126 Posts

April 06 2014 06:10 GMT

#457

I don't know if you know this yet from using boarding parties but the last boss doesn't die like a normal ship when its crew are all killed. Also his third form has a zoltan shield that regens during a power surge if it is depleted so missiles and bombs can be a bit of a pain.

I've killed the final boss before with the help of fire but it wasn't too easy and I lost crew in the process. It automatically repairs its subsystems when all of its crew are dead so you end up slowly burning its hp away. Just make sure that you have cloak. to avoid power surges and a gun or better yet a beam weapon to destroy the zoltan shield.

Tal

United Kingdom1014 Posts

April 06 2014 08:06 GMT

#458

Just played three games with the new update: it's really cool. Definitely a step up in difficulty, but in a good way: you and the enemies have a lot more options. I just lost a sweet engi ship to an ion pulsing star...it ionized my shields against a ship which had two attack drones. Another time I was trying to be clever with clones when the bay was destroyed and I lost 3 crew.

Looking forward to unlocking some C classes and then trying for glory on hard.

Fencar

United States2694 Posts

April 06 2014 13:04 GMT

#459

Another time I was trying to be clever with clones when the bay was destroyed and I lost 3 crew.

My life in a nutshell.

I definitely enjoy having a cloning bay, though!

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

April 06 2014 14:22 GMT

#460

opened steam and saw ftl was downloading, had no idea what changed and gave it a try. My first run went smoothly boarded raided got rich, never found a weapons shop though. And then I encountered a ship of the new alien race with shields, was rather surprised to find out that they are doing quiet well against boarding.
Second run I ended up in a Pulsar, didn't realize it until it hit my weapons and engine, while my rocket wielding opponent only got shields and engine turned off. Couldn't do a thing, because the pulses came to fast. Love the update though.
Clone armied over the boss afterwards with the new alien race which was awesome.