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First win after playing this drat game for 46 hours! It was on easy but hey, a win is a win. Pretty neat that Chris Avellone did some of the writing for the expansion.
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I got two rock brides on my lastest run. Sadly neither Ariadne were all that special; one became my pilot and the other a boarder when I stupidly lost my mantis on Crystal B. Victory on hard. Has anyone recruited Kazaakplethkilik yet, and does he have good skills?
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Apr 6, 2014 11:13
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I'm playing Zoltan B and in the 3rd sector. Just picked up a halberd beam. Should I use that or the pike beam? I added 1 to the weapons system because I also have an ion bomb I've yet to need. Edit: Just got a heavy Ion too  . Not sure which weapons to use
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Apr 6, 2014 11:14
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Why do some of the screenshots in here have a really weird, kinda gross tint to them? It's not really a big deal, it's just odd. Normal: 
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Apr 6, 2014 11:34
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Ugh, I keep forgetting to upgrade the O2 module before the flagship. My last two runs have ended with the flagship hacking my O2 and suffocating my crew.
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Apr 6, 2014 11:43
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Kitan posted:So the Lanius are pretty much complete badasses. The best way to make this shine is to take into account the most optimal way to PLAY as a Lanius is with basically the whole ship completely O2 drained. I like to imagine Lanius look something like the T-1000 when it isn't imitating a person, just this ball of semi molten metal in the vague shape of a person.
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Apr 6, 2014 11:56
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counterfeitsaint posted:Why do some of the screenshots in here have a really weird, kinda gross tint to them? It's not really a big deal, it's just odd. That used to happen to my screenshots back when I used a program called F.lux, which dims the screen during evening hours and supposedly helps you sleep.
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Apr 6, 2014 12:01
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I finally got my first win but it felt pretty cheap considering I used the Federation Cruiser with the alternate unlock that I mentioned on the last page. The artillery beam is pretty crazy.
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Apr 6, 2014 12:32
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:I like to imagine Lanius look something like the T-1000 when it isn't imitating a person, just this ball of semi molten metal in the vague shape of a person. They're pretty much a gigantic reference to The Shrike from Hyperion, so spikes everywhere. Sadly their racial abilities don't match, but I guess letting them control spacetime and cut ships in half with their claws might be a bit too strong
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Apr 6, 2014 12:36
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Came so close to my first victory on normal iPad. Zoltan A, three Flak I and a chain laser. Unfortunately there were no repair stations so I had to go into stage 2 and 3 with red health. Managed stage 2 but stage 3 was just too much, though I still managed to get the flagship down to about 5 health. 
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Apr 6, 2014 12:39
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Wow, the Federation Cruiser's C layout is a mobile bloodbath. Every game I've played with it so far is a series of clones running to the teleporter so they can die again, while missiles slowly chip away at the ship.
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Apr 6, 2014 12:41
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counterfeitsaint posted:Why do some of the screenshots in here have a really weird, kinda gross tint to them? It's not really a big deal, it's just odd. I would imagine they are using flux.
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Apr 6, 2014 12:55
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Fun fact about the clone bay: the reincarnation skill loss in hand-to-hand is either equal to or slightly less than the amount of skill gained by teleporting your guy into an auto-drone's oxygenless rooms and bashing on the system continuously until they asphyxiate. So with clone bay, there's no reason not to send your boarding party into certain death. I just had a game where a Rockman made the hall of fame with eighteen skill masteries, all from maxing out his hand-to-hand, losing a bit of skill on death, and then maxing out again from breaking enemy ship systems until his next demise.
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Apr 6, 2014 13:18
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I don't understand how f.lux would tint a screenshot. Anyway, I beat the new game for the first time with Engi C   Thought for sure I was going to lose because everything was going wrong, but the Vulcan gun kept doing its thing.
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Apr 6, 2014 13:24
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How do I win a game? On easy I've gotten to the boss ship in two runs out of 10 or so, but once I get there its second form is just so full of DPS. I got the Kestrel there today with max reactor upgrades and max weapon upgrades, sold a hull laser 1 to make room for a good weapon and... the stores didn't have any weapons. I couldn't do enough damage with my burst laser and heavy laser. Should have had a 3rd weapon!
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Apr 6, 2014 13:44
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GuavaMoment posted:I got two rock brides on my lastest run. Sadly neither Ariadne were all that special; one became my pilot and the other a boarder when I stupidly lost my mantis on Crystal B. Victory on hard. Maxed out engines and piloting. Which means he got stuck in my engine room while me real mantises murdered everything. I had a blast with Reconstructive Teleport, a maxed teleporter, and maxed mind control this morning. MC the pilot, board weapons and bomb the medbay.
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Apr 6, 2014 13:47
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Arglebargle III posted:How do I win a game? On easy I've gotten to the boss ship in two runs out of 10 or so, but once I get there its second form is just so full of DPS. Easiest way to win is to teleport people into the boss weapons. Kill all but 1 person (or else AI takes over) and then just murder the ship with your TP crew.
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Apr 6, 2014 13:58
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Arglebargle III posted:How do I win a game? On easy I've gotten to the boss ship in two runs out of 10 or so, but once I get there its second form is just so full of DPS. I got the Kestrel there today with max reactor upgrades and max weapon upgrades, sold a hull laser 1 to make room for a good weapon and... the stores didn't have any weapons. I couldn't do enough damage with my burst laser and heavy laser. Should have had a 3rd weapon! A bad third weapon is better than no third. Did you not come across any stores or did you have too few scrap for some 'ideal' weapons?
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Apr 6, 2014 14:03
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GuavaMoment posted:I got two rock brides on my lastest run. Sadly neither Ariadne were all that special; one became my pilot and the other a boarder when I stupidly lost my mantis on Crystal B. Victory on hard. I got him, you need an 'advanced clone bay'. He showed up with gold pilot skill for me so I had to dismiss him (already had gold pilot, already had 4 mantis boarders etc.)
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Apr 6, 2014 14:08
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jm20 posted:A bad third weapon is better than no third. Did you not come across any stores or did you have too few scrap for some 'ideal' weapons? Nope, just sold it because surely the next store will have a weapon! Dumb thing to do.
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Apr 6, 2014 14:14
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Arglebargle III posted:Nope, just sold it because surely the next store will have a weapon! Dumb thing to do. Don't you just love this game sometimes 
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Apr 6, 2014 14:18
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I don't use missiles too often because of the limited ammo, but if you can't get a good number of lasers or flak guns you should strongly consider picking up a missile or bomb for the capital ship because 4 shield bubbles + dodge needs a ton of shooting per volley to batter down.
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Apr 6, 2014 14:30
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 Gotcha. The update sure shakes things up in the boss fight. Phase 2 was by far the easiest (thank you anti-drone drone) and phase 1 and 3 terrifying as I had to deal with shields being hacked and my mantises being mind controlled. I'm glad Robert "the human" Smith survived to be a hero of the Federation like he always wanted. Swarm missile and Chain ion are great. Has anyone had a multi-charge weapon and a preigniter and does it charge it fully or just the first shot?
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Apr 6, 2014 14:30
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jm20 posted:Don't you just love this game sometimes That's pretty much what makes this game awesome; most of the failures come from your own fuckups.
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Apr 6, 2014 14:31
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Man the glaive beam is ridiculously powerful. Used 2 ion blasts, ion bomb and the glaive beam with max cloak and a defense drone and just slaughtered each flag ship stage
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Apr 6, 2014 14:33
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Victory with Mantis B Phase 1 of the boss was an enormous stalemate until I realized that just because my teleporter has 4 slots, it doesn't mean I should limit myself to having 4 boarders. Sent over another two boarders and I actually got the upper hand.
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Apr 6, 2014 14:47
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Has anybody else noticed some particularly nice balance changes? The Anti-ion augment was mentioned earlier. I was pleased to see Autopilot get a strong boost (50%/80% evasion instead of 25%/50%). Now it might actually be feasible to abandon piloting more often, especially on the Engi B. Mantis and Crystal B get unneeded boosts from that too, though. The teleporter price going up ($75 to $90) has caught me by surprise - not a huge difference, but you're a bit more likely to have to sell something to buy it early.
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Apr 6, 2014 14:48
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Has anyone actually beaten hard mode? I mean, it's really just a kick in the balls. I thought I might be able to do well with my trusty Mantis-B and getting additional scrap by killing off the crew, but I can't even get past the first sector.
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Che Delilas posted:That's pretty much what makes this game awesome; most of the failures come from your own fuckups. lol no wrong
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Apr 6, 2014 15:10
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Bhodi posted:Has anyone actually beaten hard mode? I mean, it's really just a kick in the balls. I thought I might be able to do well with my trusty Mantis-B and getting additional scrap by killing off the crew, but I can't even get past the first sector. I lost my old saves so I'm starting off from scratch on hard mode. I made it to sector 6 but didn't do so well on a couple of engagements and lost most of my crew. Going through a Mantis sector with 2 crew doesn't end well.
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Apr 6, 2014 15:11
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rchandra posted:Has anybody else noticed some particularly nice balance changes? The Anti-ion augment was mentioned earlier. Slugs now see a silhouette of the enemy instead of a dot, making them almost as good as level 2 sensors. Really useful when you're in a nebula and thinking about boarding. E: I think the biggest balance change is the rebel fleet taking pot shots at you. I now let those last nodes go rather than face the fleet. One time before the expansion and before showing next hops was enabled by default I had this happen to me:  The thought of backtracking through that now... bitterandtwisted fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Apr 6, 2014 15:13
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That was a really frustrating run. Mantis A with maxed out energy, teleporter, mind control and hacking device, along with a Flak II, Burst Laser 3 and Swarm missile launcher and a clone bay. Practically a perfect setup for crippling the boss and out-damaging it on phase 3. But the path to the boss involved me hopping through pretty much every single rebel-controlled spot in sector 8 just to get there in time, and I didn't even survive stage 1.
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Apr 6, 2014 15:16
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Getting and running double vulcans is insanely rewarding. Just pouring fire onto one system with staggered firing so fast that the sheilds can't even regenerate.
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Apr 6, 2014 15:23
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Holy hell, flak is really, really strong. This was on hard difficulty. First wave, mothership only got to cloak once. Second wave, I blew it up mid-drone attack. Third wave, it only got to shoot the superweapon once. The rest of my ship is actually pretty weak, but I had an auto-reloader and a weapons preigniter. I had only collected 1746 scrap by the end of the run, a fairly low amount. edit: may as well post this one too, this was on normal.  this one took about 45 minutes between the three waves, and the only reason I won is because I had a handful of missiles. TacMan fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Apr 6, 2014 15:32
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bitterandtwisted posted:Slugs now see a silhouette of the enemy instead of a dot, making them almost as good as level 2 sensors. Really useful when you're in a nebula and thinking about boarding. Yeah this change really affected how I play the game. Prior to this patch, fighting the rebels was really a no brainer depending on your setup. If you had cloak and a decent engine level, they could barely get a round off before you had the chance to warp away. Now, I try to avoid facing them at all costs.
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Apr 6, 2014 15:42
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Apr 6, 2014 16:03
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Is hard mode playable only with advanced addition turned on, or is it feasible in vanilla mode as well.
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Apr 6, 2014 16:31
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Whoa, shields are only $125 now. I was thinking about trying shieldless with the Hacking Module on stealth B, but I think I'll save that for after I've at least unlocked Stealth C.
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Apr 6, 2014 16:54
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GuavaMoment posted:I got two rock brides on my lastest run. Sadly neither Ariadne were all that special; one became my pilot and the other a boarder when I stupidly lost my mantis on Crystal B. Victory on hard. Yeah, he's got gold in everything. I got him the same run that I got a Virus engi and a vulcan, too. Kind of a sick run all around.
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How is the Zoltan-C supposed to kill anything? The battery doesn't last long enough for the beam drone to finish anything off.
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