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Finally got my first ever victory in this loving game, admittedly on Easy with advanced content turned off. Still, it feels good  Screenshot since that seems to be in vogue: 
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Apr 7, 2014 00:21
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Logan 5 posted:Well now that I've figured out hacking things have generally gone a bit better. I still have yet to actually get a flak gun to use though, I'm so jealous of you guys, c'mon rng stop screwing with me. Where do I find them? Or rather, if I gave FTL away from Humble Indie Bundle 9, can I still find the soundtrack?
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Apr 7, 2014 00:23
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Tenebrais posted:The flagship is all about testing your ship's capabilities. Do you have the defences to handle missile barrages and swarms of drones? Are your weapons strong enough to pierce a four-bubble shield and a zoltan shield? The third wave now tests your crew as well - you need to be able to handle losing any one of them, as well as fighting off the enemy's crew. Populate your ship and make sure your autopilot and doors are up to scratch! I did. Unfortunately, it didn't matter. Doors followed after the cockpit. When I try again I'll try to pick up cloak, hacking/mind control, and maybe a teleporter and see. The annoying thing is easy, is, well, easy. I barely took even damage or lost shields until the flagship so for me it's either continuous kicks in the balls or a walk in the park followed by a single kick in the balls.  quote:Also the hacking malfunction song from the new soundtrack is my favorite on an already loving awesome soundtrack: http://benprunty.bandcamp.com/track...function-battle The new tracks are really nice and makes things a bit more interesting aurally. All the remixes are really good.
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Apr 7, 2014 00:30
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Where do I find them? Or rather, if I gave FTL away from Humble Indie Bundle 9, can I still find the soundtrack? If you go to your humble library (should be at https://www.humblebundle.com/home) at the top under "choose platform" there is an audio option. Clicking that should take you about to all the audio you have available, then just scroll down til you find the FTL Advanced edition, should be it's own separate thing underneath the original soundtrack. You should have access to it even if you gave the key/link away though, I did that and it still shows up there for me. Although I got ftl via humble long before it was in a bundle, so idk.
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Apr 7, 2014 00:40
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Handy tip for Lanius A - Teleport into their shield room and set your ion stunner to hit it. Enemies can't run out of the room when they are stunned and suffocate. Less effective than hacking a room, but doesn't cost a drone part. I wish disabling advanced features would also disable anti-ship batteries and plasma storms. Bring back reasonable rebel fleets in exchange for all the new features. Now that there are tons of new encounters, the encounter pool has been diluted making informed decisions more difficult. For example: - I would try to have level 3 med bays before heading into a zolton or engi sector. That "give them your medical records" encounter can happen several times in each playthrough. It can yield a weapon or a drone schematic, repaying the investment cost and then some. - Level 4+ engines and level 2 sensors and piloting were all worthwhile, cheap upgrades that gave you great blue options. Those blue options frequently paid back the investment. With a bunch of extra encounter options with all new ways to profit, it's much more difficult to predict and prepare for specific (high-likelyhood) options. Combine that with a more urgent need to upgrade yourself for survival, preparing for blue options isn't feasible. Hopefully we will be able to figure out which blue options are worth aiming for. But with a pool of encounters that seems to have doubled, it's gonna come down to luck more than ever.
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Apr 7, 2014 00:58
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Logan 5 posted:If you go to your humble library (should be at https://www.humblebundle.com/home) at the top under "choose platform" there is an audio option. Clicking that should take you about to all the audio you have available, then just scroll down til you find the FTL Advanced edition, should be it's own separate thing underneath the original soundtrack. Aha! Thanks!
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Apr 7, 2014 00:59
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Man. I got the augment that makes it so enemy defensive drones can't aim and dear lord did I crush the last boss with maxed hacking. Stage 1: Hack the hacker I guess to be safe? Stage 2: Hack their drone room either whenever it surges or whenever they launch a boarding drone and laugh as all the drones just kind of pop. Stage 3: Hack their teleporter and send all their people back. I got my first Zoltan B boss kill which is a ship I admittedly don't use enough. I eventually got an Ion Burst 2 to go with all of my 1s and at the last jump before the 8th sector I got an Ion Bomb with 40 missiles just chilling in cargo.
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Apr 7, 2014 01:35
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It's been a long time since I've played this on a regular basis, but the new content has definitely made things harder, especially the final boss. So far I've made it there 4 times but only taken him down once (with 1 hull point left) My last run was a Mantis B run where picked up 3 Flak 1's over the course of the run through stores or drops, and also got a super shield bypass for boarders. I was just getting handed crewmembers left and right, got plenty of scrap, but just couldn't find a drone (I'd sold off the starters early) and had no repair stations anywhere nearby in sector 8 Went into phase 3 with 1 hull point, and of course took a hit from a missile seconds before I destroyed the missile launcher edit: still on Normal, so far every Hard mode run I've tried has ended in disaster
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Apr 7, 2014 02:03
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I just beat Normal in (of all things), Engi A. Not that there's anything wrong with Engi A, but I don't think I'd ever beaten the game with it before, nevermind before Normal got quite a bit harder. At the end game I had 2 Flak-1s, a Fire Beam, a Pre-Igniter, L3 shields, Mind Control, and 2 Defense Drone-2s. Watching the hack drones try to continuously attach was pretty hilarious. Basic strategy was to bring down shields and set fires to subsystems in stage 1 and 2. I entered stage 3 with only one dude left piloting the boss, and then it just became a race to out-DPS it. Having a Mind Control unit was invaluable to counter the boss mind control, but I suppose Hacking could have saved me as well. Awesome update!
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Apr 7, 2014 02:10
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They still haven't fixed it where you can allow a ship to surrender while it's covered in fire and then just have it blow up from the fire killing all it's systems.
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Apr 7, 2014 02:26
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Just got my first normal win with the advanced edition after a couple easy wins. In all cases the hacking has been crucial just for the fact that I can kill all the crew in stage one with two boarders without taking on more than two at once and without them escaping to the medbay.
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Apr 7, 2014 02:29
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quote:They still haven't fixed it where you can allow a ship to surrender while it's covered in fire and then just have it blow up from the fire killing all it's systems. Also, I just had a missile hit me while I had a 100% chance to evade.
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Apr 7, 2014 02:30
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Alexzandvar posted:They still haven't fixed it where you can allow a ship to surrender while it's covered in fire and then just have it blow up from the fire killing all it's systems. I don't see a problem here.
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Apr 7, 2014 02:39
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Man... Boarding is so much better with the cloner. Although sometimes when my boarding crew is dying I just fire breach bombs and hull missiles where they are to kill their defenders.
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Apr 7, 2014 02:45
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Devour or Fire posted:I did an easy run with Engi B since the prospect of getting that thing to sector 8 in normal sounds like a load of hot poo poo and managed to finally unlock the Slug cruiser without really planning or thinking, first jump in the home nebula got me the quest. I beat Normal with Engi B but probably only because I got incredibly lucky and picked up two mantises and a teleporter in the first sector.
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Apr 7, 2014 02:49
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Alexzandvar posted:They still haven't fixed it where you can allow a ship to surrender while it's covered in fire and then just have it blow up from the fire killing all it's systems. Yeah after the ship explodes we should be able to grab more scrap metal. That's what you are saying right?
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Apr 7, 2014 02:51
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RBA Starblade posted:When everything's on fire the crew will move just far enough away to let the ship explode but not have it count as the crew dying, just to spite you. Did you cloak before or after the missile entered your shield bubble? If you cloaked afterwards, the calculation for it to hit was already made, so it's too late - at that point it's hitting you.
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Apr 7, 2014 02:55
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boredsatellite posted:Yeah after the ship explodes we should be able to grab more scrap metal. That's what you are saying right? Basically yes, although it would be very easy to exploit this by going just all out with fire weapons.
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Apr 7, 2014 03:09
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Leylite posted:Did you cloak before or after the missile entered your shield bubble? If you cloaked afterwards, the calculation for it to hit was already made, so it's too late - at that point it's hitting you. Before. Didn't stop me from beating advanced easy with the Shivan though! I accidentally burned all the crew on the flagship to death, because I left the wrong guy alive, but I took nearly no hull damage. Had a heavy pierce, burst laser, and alternated between a hull beam and fire bombs. Also had cloak, stealth weapons, mind control, and a teleporter. Basically if you want to beat the flagship, spend the scrap on mind control, then kill everything in the first wave. And hope no missiles hit anything important. And run away if the hacking drone does. The federation put up repair stations farther out than it'd take the flagship to kill them, so I don't know why they bothered.
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Apr 7, 2014 03:10
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I made a thing for shits and giggles in the steam gifting thread, figured I'd crosspost it here too:  
Logan 5 fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 06:03
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Should have the candles go out too.
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Apr 7, 2014 06:06
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SynthOrange posted:Should have the candles go out too. Son of a bitch. I knew I forgot something! e: fixed, thanks for pointing it out! Logan 5 fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 06:08
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I managed to get blown up and kill the flag ship at the same instant. I was playing the Mantis B cruiser on easy. It's unfortunate that the Mantis B cruiser only lets you get 1 additional system. I hilariously went with the mind control system because the thought of 4 dudes wrecking their shields or weapons while some other enemy runs in circles screaming "fire fire fire" instead of actually fighting you sounded funny. Anyway, it was a really strong build because with just a fire bomb I managed to slaughter the entire mothership crew (not the guns) with just one boarding attempt. I managed to beat the first 2 stages of the mothership and only took 2 damage. However that drat super weapon is tough when you can't cloak through it. When I finally managed to get through the super shield and kill that obnoxious rocket launcher I only had about 5 hull left. I had teleported all 4 boarders and taken out their shields and cockpit, but the timing was looking grim. Fortunately I had a Hull Smasher Laser II which made cutting through its hp a lot easier. It came down to the mother ship's 2 hp and my 5 hp and that terrifying super weapon imminent alarm. Both our ships fired at about the same time. I'm not sure who got hit first but the next thing I saw was both our ships blowing up and a victory notification on the top right. I was laughing so hard that I forgot to take a screen shot of it. I wish there was an instant replay feature. I also managed to get a mantis to level up 9 skills. I found an AI ship that couldn't hurt me at the beginning and made him train on shields, engines, and in the cockpit. I also made dinner in that time.
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Apr 7, 2014 06:09
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The very last jump before the final sector was the Zoltan quest, which gave me a free Zoltan Shield. Hooray! The game likes to give me redundant ship unlock quests on my winning runs, so I'm taking this as a good sign. E: And it was! Good thing I thought to grind up my shield and engine guys on stage 1 after I killed everyone but the three-bolt guy. Don't think I took more than two or three hits during the next two phases. Inadequately fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 06:19
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so I went about 2 sectors with events just handing me items early on. then I won the game with a pre-igniter, a flak II, a flak II, and a flak I. Engie-C hard run down~ 
TacMan fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 06:25
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Two flak II, that thing must have been destroyed really quickly.
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Apr 7, 2014 06:32
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Got an all mantis crew for some Mantis B action with a cloning bay  I will say getting set alight in the last sector was very heart breaking. Hearing the screams of your crew as their DNA is burnt in the cloning room is kinda scary. I teleported what crew I had to the mothership before I lost my cloning bay and my teleporter. Thankfully I had blast doors on my ship-- I choked out all the boarders, was able to eventually contain the wildfire (still lost cloning/teleporting) and was able to keep boarders away from my weapons which eventually won it for me (hacked shields + boarders in the shield room). I ended the game with 5 of the 8 crew on the mothership. There was no crew left on my ship when it blew up the mothership. For the good of the galaxy I guess. PS- a defensive drone is one of the best drat investments for second wave of the mothership, holy poo poo that thing saved me so much trouble. Bob A Feet fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 06:38
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Bob A Feet posted:
Seriously I used it because I had it lying around and had to power to spare and that thing went to work. Phase 2 was never easier.
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Apr 7, 2014 06:43
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Azuth0667 posted:Two flak II, that thing must have been destroyed really quickly. phase 1 only cloaked on combat start, phase 2 didn't get to use drones, phase 3 barely got a superweapon off.
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Apr 7, 2014 06:54
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Does a Flak III exist? Or Chain Flak? Flak Vulcan? 
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Apr 7, 2014 07:36
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They're going to nerf flak by making it cost 1 scrap to fire, I can feel it in my bones.
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Apr 7, 2014 07:37
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Hahaha, that was great. Mantis B. Quad Mantis Boarding Party. Cloning Bay. Reconstructive Teleport. Zoltan Shield Bypass. The mothership never had a chance. I chumped it even though it hacked my shields on stage one. The only damage I took were from stage one (the hacked shields) and stage three (overload attack). The enemy mind control is really a non-issue if you have your own to cancel the first attack and then you sic mantis boarders on the mind control room. By the way, shield hacking actually resets your shield energy usage. So I took waaaay more damage than I should have on stage one because I kept forgetting to reset my shields. For reference, I ended stage with only about 5 HP after fighting most of stage one sans-shields. Alkydere fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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Apr 7, 2014 07:38
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I did it. I unlocked all 'B' variants of all the ships. The worst ship was the Crystal ship, only because getting the 'A' variant was tough enough as is. I guess now I need to unlock the C variant, but that shouldn't be as hard as B was, would it?
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Apr 7, 2014 07:46
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IAmTheRad posted:I did it. I unlocked all 'B' variants of all the ships. The worst ship was the Crystal ship, only because getting the 'A' variant was tough enough as is. I guess now I need to unlock the C variant, but that shouldn't be as hard as B was, would it? Hahahaha...have fun unlocking Slug and Stealth C (which is sad because Slug C is actually very good).
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Apr 7, 2014 07:48
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SynthOrange posted:Does a Flak III exist? Or Chain Flak? Apparently the C layout of the federation cruiser has flak artillery and starts with no other weapons
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Apr 7, 2014 07:49
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So I play the game for 35 hours (according to steam) and only unlock one ship other than the starter in the process. I think I even completed the right random encounter to unlock the Zoltan ship but it didn't actually unlock. But I power through it and finally beat the boss for the first time (flying the Kestrel) but it apparently in the new expanded version that doesn't unlock the federation ship? It's kind of hard to find information since this version is so new but what possible reason could there be for that to be the case? I'm sick of playing with the starter ship over and over hoping to randomly land on the right random encounter to unlock something else.
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Apr 7, 2014 07:51
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IAmTheRad posted:I did it. I unlocked all 'B' variants of all the ships. The worst ship was the Crystal ship, only because getting the 'A' variant was tough enough as is. I guess now I need to unlock the C variant, but that shouldn't be as hard as B was, would it? There's no Crystal, or Lanius, C. Which is a pity (or not) cause Crystal B is monstrously easy to win with.
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Apr 7, 2014 07:53
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Ignimbrite posted:Apparently the C layout of the federation cruiser has flak artillery and starts with no other weapons But it does also start with a cloning bay and a teleporter so you can have a ship invading good time in it!
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Apr 7, 2014 07:54
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Inositol posted:So I play the game for 35 hours (according to steam) and only unlock one ship other than the starter in the process. I think I even completed the right random encounter to unlock the Zoltan ship but it didn't actually unlock. But I power through it and finally beat the boss for the first time (flying the Kestrel) but it apparently in the new expanded version that doesn't unlock the federation ship? It's kind of hard to find information since this version is so new but what possible reason could there be for that to be the case? I'm sick of playing with the starter ship over and over hoping to randomly land on the right random encounter to unlock something else. In the new version, you unlock the Fed Cruiser by either beating the boss with Engi A (or any other Engi layout), or by entering the rebel stronghold and beating the under-construction second flagship.
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Apr 7, 2014 07:56
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Devour or Fire posted:They're going to nerf flak by making it cost 1 scrap to fire, I can feel it in my bones. That's honestly how I assumed it was going to work.
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