EPTFTL: Faster Than Light - Page 4
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Simberto
Germany11686 Posts
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
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TunaBarrett
Sweden1045 Posts
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tyr
France1686 Posts
And you should have some good firepower too. Lasers are pretty good, I'd avoid beams unless you know what you're doing, missiles and bombs are both okay, though bombs are probably better because they won't get intercepted by the defense drone in phase 2. Note that it's a Defense drone mk2, so it'll shoot lasers, so if your only option is to weaken the shields with a missile, try to sloot everything at once, the lasers will come first and get shot by the drone, and the missile should come right after (as it's slower) and get through. Ion bombs are incredibly powerful and quite cheap and require only one energy to operate. I highly recommend getting one if you have trouble with the boss. | ||
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jtype
England2167 Posts
Pretty hilarious how fast things can go wrong for you in a randomly-generated game.  | ||
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
instead of winning i got a "the ship was taken over by an AI control" and it just continues to fight x.x federation cruiser is easymode btw, made three attempts with this thing and won all of them -.- somewhat takes out the fun | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
On September 18 2012 16:30 ChezGod wrote: Wow I finally beat the final boss ... my ship and the stage 3 ship exploded at the same time. Thought I had lost but I got the victory screen!! Got me hype! That's 100% AWESOME. | ||
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Thezzy
Netherlands2117 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Finally defeated the boss, on Easy, but still. My ship was the Engi Cruiser / Torus with: Ion Blast II Burst Laser II (not beam) Anti-Personnel Drone Defense Drone II Shields at 6 (3 blocks) Navigation/Engine at 6 (same amount as shield) Maxed doors, Pilot, Gunner, Engine and Shield crew member all maxed No cloak Due to bad luck with the map and boss ship positioning I was not able to use any repair station but luckily I had a Hull Repair drone and 7 drone parts left and was able to get my hull to about 80%. I dodged half the fire, the defense drone got most of the rest and what came through usually did not penetrate the shields. I focused the third weapon (from the left) with my Laser (those missiles hurt a ton) and kept the Ion Blast on his shield room. As a result, the amount of incoming damage to my hull was low and the crew (one mantis, mostly Engi) + personnel drone managed to hold off any boarding party. I slowly wittled through the boss' shields until eventually shots start bleeding through and the Ion Blast keeps the shields down, firing very quickly at 4 seconds (19% faster due to crew member). My Lasers were aimed at his weapons, which are separate rooms (atleast in my engagement) and thus did not recieve repair once they were down. This worked for all three Phases, the defense drone played a crucial part I think in holding off all the fire. Final screenshot (also shows ship setup): + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/jltzO.jpg) Stealth Ship unlock spoiler + Show Spoiler + I came across an Engi quest in (I think) sector 3, asking me to go somewhere and fight Mantis. I found the Mantis ship, which was manned by Rebels and destroyed it. Engi's rewarded me with the unlock. Not bad for a ship that nearly died on its first jump, where I ended up on top of a sun and getting boarded in combo with a nasty solar flare, setting fire to half the ship with the O2 down. Luckily Engi's repair quickly enough and the nano med drones kept them alive! On to Normal! | ||
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No_Roo
United States905 Posts
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
On September 19 2012 11:31 a176 wrote: the combat is kind of flawed. if you have a breach weapon, hitting shields or weapons (usually shields first, allowing you to hit weapons with normal weapons) greatly swings the fight in your favor, whereas the AI just aims at random rooms on your ship ... Which makes it possible to actually beat the game, at least on easy. | ||
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thesideshow
930 Posts
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shabby
Norway6402 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Get cloaking lvl 2 (lvl 3 if you have stealth weapons augmentation) Get weapon pre-igniter Get 2 burst lasers (6-10 shots) Get 1 bomb, I recommend regular bombs, not ion bombs You'll come out of FTL, take out his weapons and/or shields, fire another volley, then cloak while he fires. By the third volley you should be in firm control of the fight without having taken pretty much any damage. | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
My second game is going very well so far, I'm in my second Engi sector, I already unlocked the stealth ship... I realize the game will get harder soon, but at the moment I'm doing perfectly fine with my shield having 2 layers (so pretty much nothing gets through) and my laser + anti-ship drone easily lets me take out enemy weapons quickly. Will get much harder when enemy ships get better shields. Does anyone know if the devs have said anything about DLC, Expansions, Mods or anything? I can see this game just getting deeper and better constantly. | ||
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Deleted User 101379
4849 Posts
On September 19 2012 20:31 Tobberoth wrote: I was completely surprised by this game but since it seemed like an amazing concept (basically, the best way to make a Star Trek-like game) I tried playing it, and it's awesome. First game I lost immediately (more or less second place I went to was by a red star and an enemy ship... while I was able to beat the enemy ship, the star constantly started fires on my ship which destroyed my engines... I tried to repair them, but at that point my whole ship was burning so I had to use the doors to get rid of the oxygen, which was fine to get rid of the fires but my pilot was harmed from fixing fires and couldn't get back to the cockpit (because of lack of oxygen) so there was no way out. Hell, just reading through that proves what an awesome game it is. My second game is going very well so far, I'm in my second Engi sector, I already unlocked the stealth ship... I realize the game will get harder soon, but at the moment I'm doing perfectly fine with my shield having 2 layers (so pretty much nothing gets through) and my laser + anti-ship drone easily lets me take out enemy weapons quickly. Will get much harder when enemy ships get better shields. Does anyone know if the devs have said anything about DLC, Expansions, Mods or anything? I can see this game just getting deeper and better constantly. I don't know about DLCs or such, but i would love a multiplayer mode where everyone controls his own part of the crew, maybe with bigger ships. | ||
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Keltanokka
Finland279 Posts
Spoilers on the secret ship + Show Spoiler + Been trying to get to the secret sector to get both the achievement for the rock ship as well as unlock the crystal cruiser (last ship I don't have). I've done like 30 runs and only gotten the pod 7 times, but never found the rock homeworld for the final bit. It's gotten to the point where I backup the save of any promising looking map since even just looking at most of the map layouts I get in sector 1, most of them are impossible to get to the sector on /rant | ||
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DoomBox
Sweden73 Posts
I was gonna attempt the cloaking strategy, and pretty early in the game I found a weapon pre-igniter. I had to sell both my advanced sensors augmentation and my burst laser to afford it but pretty soon I found a burst laser mk III and in the end I had one of each burst laser (I, II and III) for a total of 10 laser shots straight out of jump. I don't actually see how you beat the boss without cloaking to avoid his power surges. The two other times I reached the boss I succumbed to his drones in stage 2. I was about to resort to lowering the difficulty but thankfully I didn't have to. | ||
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Pobearo
United States351 Posts
Also, so far I've unlocked the Engi and Zoltan ships. What is the best way to go about getting the rest? Are any significantly easier to get than the others? | ||
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soullogik
United States1171 Posts
trying to unlock all the ships have not come anywhere close to beating the game on normal yet lol definitely a fun little addicting game for sure | ||
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BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
On September 18 2012 23:00 Simberto wrote: Ho? Pure cloaking is obviously not a good idea endgame, because you can't disable their weapons in a single cloak. Early game it works pretty well. Later, you want shields and cloak, but i still don't see how it is a gamble. You activate cloak when they launch the first thing that you want to dodge, and then the fight rarely lasts long enough for a second cloak to be relevant, unless you have a pretty bad weapon layout or they have zoltan shields, which of course can happen. I am saying 'gamble' as in considering the involved luck factor of saving enough scrap and then you need to meet the right store to buy Stealth system, or sometimes you see some good but expensive weapons in store I'd rather grab that instead. On September 20 2012 03:57 DoomBox wrote: On the 30:th playthrough I finally beat the boss, on normal in the kestrel. I was gonna attempt the cloaking strategy, and pretty early in the game I found a weapon pre-igniter. I had to sell both my advanced sensors augmentation and my burst laser to afford it but pretty soon I found a burst laser mk III and in the end I had one of each burst laser (I, II and III) for a total of 10 laser shots straight out of jump. I don't actually see how you beat the boss without cloaking to avoid his power surges. The two other times I reached the boss I succumbed to his drones in stage 2. I was about to resort to lowering the difficulty but thankfully I didn't have to. haha grats! I was in easy mode and when he hit me with power surges i just repaired everywhere like a mad man. I just need to make sure my weapons and hull repair drone are working. | ||
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