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Hey, unlocking C won't be as bad as unlocking the Crystal Cruiser was. All I need to do is get to Section 8, right? And I know that there's no C version of the Lanius ship or the Crystal ship. The Lanius cruiser was a blast to play in the A variant. Got myself a teleporter and the regenerative teleporting. A mind control mod and a battery too. Got the hack and the scrap achievements to unlock B, and it was just so much fun going into a ship and getting out when weak, then going back in if I didn't manage to get the people on the ship down first. The worst ship was a rebel ship with a Defense Droid II so I couldn't hack the medibay to make sure that their crew would go in and have their flesh seared off. I only won with the Engineer Cruiser. I got REALLY lucky with the RNG in that run. Vulcan cannons are OP. With two Automated Re-Loaders and a gold weapon guy, well, let's just say that the vulcan cannon didn't stop firing. Ever. I did notice one thing with the Stealth Cruiser. Didn't Long-Ranged scanners look across the entire map before and not just adjacent beacons?
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The best ship is Engi B because you get to play a space hermit who hates everyone but his robots. Or he's just playing FTL. Also because it's fun to leave your whole ship permanently depressurized minus the cockpit. Never worry about boarding parties again!
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Apr 7, 2014 08:25
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Yes, long range scanners did the entire map before.
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Apr 7, 2014 08:27
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Requested_Username posted:Also because it's fun to leave your whole ship permanently depressurized minus the cockpit. Never worry about boarding parties again! You can do that with the Lanius ship too. Except that while the boarders are suffocating to death they're also getting beat on by crazy alien T-1000s.
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Apr 7, 2014 08:38
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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. Honestly that's not an awful idea. Flak is just a bit on the OP side and by making it do less damage, take more power, etc that'd pretty much make it worthless but having to fling scrap with every shot would be okay with me.
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Apr 7, 2014 08:46
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I beat the game with Engi B but I'm about ready to hang myself trying to use Mantis A. I think the farthest I've gotten is sector 4 in about 7 tries. It's just so bad 
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Apr 7, 2014 09:07
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What's the best way to fight enemies when playing as the oxygen thieves? I was thinking boarding party into the O2 generator but I don't know if the drain is fast enough for that to work.
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Apr 7, 2014 09:58
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Dreggon posted:What's the best way to fight enemies when playing as the oxygen thieves? I was thinking boarding party into the O2 generator but I don't know if the drain is fast enough for that to work. Breach missiles combined with that? Another possibility would be hacking their oxygen room in combination with ripping holes in the ship. I can't think of any other way, possibly because I just used them on my ship rather than as an away party.
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Apr 7, 2014 10:03
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Stealth C was a paaaain to unlock. Slug C was also a pain but not as nearly as bad as the Stealth was. Just got Federation, Zoltan, Mantis, and Rock to go through, then I could try to win the game.
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Apr 7, 2014 10:27
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Dreggon posted:What's the best way to fight enemies when playing as the oxygen thieves? I was thinking boarding party into the O2 generator but I don't know if the drain is fast enough for that to work. I usually play the Rock B ship like this. Especially if I can get an early teleporter, then you can fire bomb their weapons, teleport your rock mans inside until it dies, fire bomb their O2 as well, then sit back and relax as they slowly suffocate and/or burn to death. The concept of two giant rock monsters punching people to death as fire rages around them is metal as gently caress. The concept of same giant rock monsters teleporting back to their ship to wait for the enemy crew to slowly die, all while enjoying the show on the sensors, is probably a sign I should start seeing a therapist. I want to try it out with a Hacking module, since hacking O2 drains the whole ship, but I haven't been able to yet.
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Apr 7, 2014 10:34
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How do you guys unlock ships? Specifically, do you just beat the game or do you do the achievement things? Also, I've played maybe 10 games, should I switch to ADVANXED?
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Apr 7, 2014 10:49
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Doing 2 achievements only unlock layout B. Using layout B and get to sector 8 unlocks layout C. To unlock new ships you have to complete certain task that's usually hinted by mousing over the black silhouette of the locked ship. For example, to unlock the federation cruiser you need to beat the game once, etc.
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Apr 7, 2014 10:55
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Dreggon posted:What's the best way to fight enemies when playing as the oxygen thieves? I was thinking boarding party into the O2 generator but I don't know if the drain is fast enough for that to work. Hack the Medbay, crew members won't stick around when they realise theres no oxygen but you've hacked their only way to heal.
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Apr 7, 2014 11:00
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Arglebargle III posted:Specifically, do you just beat the game or do you do the achievement things? Each ship has an event that will unlock its A layout, or you just beat the game with the ship before it. Each ship has three achievements, and completing two of them will unlock a B layout. Completing the game with the B layout will unlock the C layout. Lanius A gets unlocked when you have 4 ships total, Crystal A is unlocked via an unnecessarily convoluted event string.
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Apr 7, 2014 11:04
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pedro0930 posted:Doing 2 achievements only unlock layout B. Using layout B and get to sector 8 unlocks layout C. To unlock new ships you have to complete certain task that's usually hinted by mousing over the black silhouette of the locked ship. For example, to unlock the federation cruiser you need to beat the game once, etc. This is in vanilla. In advanced, you can also unlock a ship by beating the game with the previous ship in the list. Also, the federation cruiser has an unlock quest now.
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For anyone wondering where to encounter Lanius "in the wild," check out Abandoned Sectors. So far I've gotten owned at Stage 3 of the flagship. Mind control just sort of fucks everything up if you don't have your own system to counter. It might have been my own screw-up in the chaos, but I don't think the clone bay brings your guys back if they die while mind-controlled. Also FTL's been really crashy for me while playing with Zoltan A, but I didn't have any problems while playing the Federation B. Anyone having similar issues?
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Apr 7, 2014 11:57
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Kilty Monroe posted:So far I've gotten owned at Stage 3 of the flagship. Mind control just sort of fucks everything up if you don't have your own system to counter. It might have been my own screw-up in the chaos, but I don't think the clone bay brings your guys back if they die while mind-controlled. Getting your own hacking or mind control is basically as important as adding an extra pip to O2 just for security or a failsafe even if you never use it otherwise.
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Apr 7, 2014 12:00
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Fully upgrading doors and sticking a spare person in the doors system makes enemies boarding so much easier when your crew ends up only being Zoltan
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Apr 7, 2014 12:21
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Kilty Monroe posted:For anyone wondering where to encounter Lanius "in the wild," check out Abandoned Sectors. Yeah, I've been able to chew threw the first two stages like nothing, but that final stage. I usually am able to counter the mind control, but their invaders and the Zoltan shield just handicap me enough that I get whittled away before they do. I did show up once with Advanced Flak, Flak I, and Flak II though. 
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Apr 7, 2014 12:22
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Alkydere posted:Hahaha, that was great. Mantis B. Quad Mantis Boarding Party. Cloning Bay. Reconstructive Teleport. Zoltan Shield Bypass. Deploy your defense drone immediately on stage 1 next time, it usually shoots down every hacking drone the flagship sends at you.
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Apr 7, 2014 13:42
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My first victory on normal was a type A Stealth ship. Wow, that was one amazing game.
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Apr 7, 2014 14:09
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I've been having such a hard time with Stealth B. It was hard enough before, now it is worse because you get hard countered by autoassaults with beam or fire drones, or zoltan shielded ships. It's starting weapon is strong but takes ages to fire. I think it's an absolute must to leave sector 1 with level 3 cloak and no hull damage.
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Apr 7, 2014 14:13
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Panfilo posted:I've been having such a hard time with Stealth B. It was hard enough before, now it is worse because you get hard countered by autoassaults with beam or fire drones, or zoltan shielded ships. It's starting weapon is strong but takes ages to fire. Cloak 3, or shields. Getting shields in sector 1 almost hands you the game.
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Apr 7, 2014 14:21
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I did a stealth B run this weekend. Two major things to remember: the first is knowing how to get 4 damage off your mini beam on most ships (look on the wiki) and that if you time it you can cloak just before the drone fires and then queue up laser + beam combo on their drone / weapons to avoid any damage even with cloak 1. Also not cloaking until they fire but I assume you knew that. And don't ditch the laser beam combo until sector 3 when they get 2 shield. it's awesome, use your scrap elsewhere.
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Apr 7, 2014 14:47
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Stelas posted:Each ship has an event that will unlock its A layout, or you just beat the game with the ship before it. Each ship has three achievements, and completing two of them will unlock a B layout. Completing the game with the B layout will unlock the C layout. Lanius A gets unlocked when you have 4 ships total, Crystal A is unlocked via an unnecessarily convoluted event string. I don't think you drove home the crystal event. You have to A.) get the right randomly generated sectors in the right order B.) You have to take the right branches to actually hit those sectors C.) In those sectors the events must actually spawn at jump points D.) You must actually find the right jump point before the fleet catches up Ugh. Id rather it have been some secret hard as gently caress roving miniboss that shows up in sector seven sometimes with a big warning dot or something, the sheer random aspect of the crystal ship is way over the top.
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Apr 7, 2014 14:50
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I did a stealth B run this weekend as well. The game handed me a Flak II and pre-igniter in sector 2 and waved me goodbye. I never even bought shields, just maxed weapons cloak and engines in that order asap and ran to and through the end boss in like a 30 to 40 minute-long game.
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Stealth B has glaive beam. Unlike Stealth A you have almost no evasion, no Titanium plating, and any damage to Weapons room kills your recharge. Also, the powerup time for Glaive is like 17 seconds, while your starting level 2 cloak is only 10 seconds of invulnerability. You need to let the enemy ship fire, hit cloak and hope to evade, then fire your beam and hope you completely disable their weapons, kill them, or force them to surrender. It's tough. But Glaive pays off later since it penetrates 2 shield bubbles. Ideally you need the following ASAP: -Level 3 cloak -More reactor power so cloak and engines are always maxed, -Shields On the flip side, getting weapon pre igniter and/or stealth weapons early makes it a cakewalk. Drones are great too since they do their thing while you are stealthed.
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Requested_Username posted:The best ship is Engi B because you get to play a space hermit who hates everyone but his robots. Or he's just playing FTL. Dreggon posted:What's the best way to fight enemies when playing as the oxygen thieves? I was thinking boarding party into the O2 generator but I don't know if the drain is fast enough for that to work. The oxygen room is probably the best option if the ship represents no threat at all, though.
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Apr 7, 2014 15:16
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I wish you could breach your own ship so you didn't have to open doors to depressurize
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Apr 7, 2014 15:22
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Pretty sure you can target your own ship with breach bombs.
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Apr 7, 2014 15:27
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I think Engi B needs 4 drone slots. You're still limited by power requirements of drones but at least you have more options. My issue with Engi B is that while having a solo Engi flying a borgship with only a pressurized cockpit is cool, generally you're relying on a repair drone. That takes up one of your 3 drone slots and you're back to being like any other ship, except without bonuses to weapon or shield cooldown. If you managed to get a Lanius or two, and upgrade doors it would do okay.
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Apr 7, 2014 15:33
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So is it possible to get Lanius crewmbers? I really want to replace the Engi B guy with a Lanius or two and just fly around in airless silences with robots.
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nucleicmaxid posted:So is it possible to get Lanius crewmbers? Yeah, you can get Lanius crewmembers from some random events in Abandoned Sectors.
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My first try running Slug A. One jump in, I get a random event that hands me an Ion Blaster II. Two jumps in, I find a store and buy a long-ranged scanner. I'm now in sector 4 with three shields, hacking, cloaking and drone control. If anything's going to kill this run, it's hubris.
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The Lanius show up in stores and anywhere else random crew mates show up. They seem to have a lower chance of showing up than regular crew but a higher chance than crystal crew.
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Jose posted:Fully upgrading doors and sticking a spare person in the doors system makes enemies boarding so much easier when your crew ends up only being Zoltan It's so funny, watching your three zoltan huddled in one room, seeing the red blips against the blast doors. Then suddenly the red blips are slowing in frequency. Then they are no more. Shut the doors, event over. Lanius A your best strat is going into the O2 room, waiting for two guys to come in there with you, THEN hacking it, engaging hack. You have such a bigger combat advantage over other people because of the breathing thing. At that point you will just punch the O2 system till it breaks, I suggest going after weapons after that. The only thing is this strat doesn't really work against other Lanius. Well, boarding in general doesn't since they have a cloning bay.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=229171039 I forgot if this was posted before but it's still good. Interview with Ben Prunty.
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http://www.npr.org/2013/10/06/229171039/composing-game-soundtracks-that-move-faster-than-light Here's a version you can listen to, since it is NPR after all.
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Dreggon posted:What's the best way to fight enemies when playing as the oxygen thieves? I was thinking boarding party into the O2 generator but I don't know if the drain is fast enough for that to work. I had fun sending a third level hack to the oxygen room, giving it a moment, and then teleporting the lanius invaders there, so that the end of the hack's drain coincides with the system's destruction. This left the ship with about 40% oxygen. Then you take the oxygen thieves on a stroll, room by room, draining their air. It would usually take less than 20 seconds to make the entire ship into a death zone.
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Spaceman Future! posted:I don't think you drove home the crystal event. Which is why I'm so glad they included an alternate unlock for all the quest ships. Beat the game using 16 other ship models? Sure, I'd rather have fun doing that instead of grinding games trying to complete the crystal ship quest.
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