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I really don't find mind control to be an issue at all during the Mothership fight (or ever). Just ignore the mind controlled dude, he barely has time to damage a system.
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JayMax posted:I really don't find mind control to be an issue at all during the Mothership fight (or ever). Just ignore the mind controlled dude, he barely has time to damage a system. Eh, they'll get a bar of damage in if you don't stick someone in there to distract them for a bit but the big problem for me is that they almost always hit the pilot and kill my evasion.
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Apr 8, 2014 02:10
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You're forgetting one of the defenses against enemy mind control, where you target the victim with your own mind control. Really nice on Flagship 3 if you have the system and you've already taken out the enemy crew.
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Apr 8, 2014 02:13
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Anyone else have to resist the urge to narrate, out loud, whats going on when you play?
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Apr 8, 2014 02:13
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Are there any mods that just let you progress endlessly or something without worrying about the mother ship, preferably with just the vanilla weapons/systems/other content? I like the regular ship battles but forcing myself to build for the mother ship fight gets old.
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Apr 8, 2014 02:30
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Jibo posted:Eh, they'll get a bar of damage in if you don't stick someone in there to distract them for a bit but the big problem for me is that they almost always hit the pilot and kill my evasion. You can depressurize the room they're in to make them leave and herd them into an empty room where they won't do any harm.
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Apr 8, 2014 02:40
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Pornographic Memory posted:Are there any mods that just let you progress endlessly or something without worrying about the mother ship, preferably with just the vanilla weapons/systems/other content? I like the regular ship battles but forcing myself to build for the mother ship fight gets old. Speaking of Advanced, check out this baby on my Engineer C ship. Let's see, lock enemies in a room and then drop a fire bomb on them. Also my Zoltan shield will make me god, and the fact I have the Defense Scrambler makes enemy defense drones a non-issue. Also now I'm immune to 5 hits (or a couple of ion hits). 
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Apr 8, 2014 02:52
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Named my Rock B "Fire On High". Ended up with two fire drones, fire bombs, and max hacking.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:04
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Alkydere posted:Mind Control: [...] My favorite Mind Control counter is to send an Engi to brawl with the victim, whether it's for the entire duration of control or only a few seconds. This prevents the control victim from harming the ship, and the Engi won't rough up the shipmate too badly. Both crew will have to take a trip to the medbay afterwards, so it's still admittedly a poor man's solution.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:06
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Just The Facts posted:Anyone else have to resist the urge to narrate, out loud, whats going on when you play? 
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Apr 8, 2014 03:11
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I noticed a different colored rockman but I don't know what that means nor anything about it in the patch notes for the advanced edition. Its a dark maroon colored rockman. What does it mean... 
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Apr 8, 2014 03:23
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Hey I got an event at an exit beacon for a pirate merchant who's offering to sell stuff and wants me to "come aboard", and there's an option to do that or decide it's too dangerous. I've never seen this before, and I don't know if everything will go fine or if the game will permanently take one of my dudes - while ignoring that I have a teleporter and would just be able to port him back. So since I'm a huge baby, what can happen here?
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Apr 8, 2014 03:23
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Dreggon posted:Hey I got an event at an exit beacon for a pirate merchant who's offering to sell stuff and wants me to "come aboard", and there's an option to do that or decide it's too dangerous. I've never seen this before, and I don't know if everything will go fine or if the game will permanently take one of my dudes - while ignoring that I have a teleporter and would just be able to port him back. You could back up your save and just test it out for curiosity's sake.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:25
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BAILOUT MCQUACK! posted:I noticed a different colored rockman but I don't know what that means nor anything about it in the patch notes for the advanced edition. Its a dark maroon colored rockman. What does it mean... Nothing, it's just cosmetic. All the races have multiple colours now.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:26
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BAILOUT MCQUACK! posted:You could Rolling the dice on new events I haven't seen before is one of the best parts!
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Apr 8, 2014 03:29
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Mazerunner posted:Nothing, it's just cosmetic. All the races have multiple colours now.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:30
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Dreggon posted:Hey I got an event at an exit beacon for a pirate merchant who's offering to sell stuff and wants me to "come aboard", and there's an option to do that or decide it's too dangerous. I've never seen this before, and I don't know if everything will go fine or if the game will permanently take one of my dudes - while ignoring that I have a teleporter and would just be able to port him back. You can buy things from him, but if you view his wares and then back out he'll do hull damage and initiate a fight with you.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:31
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Tracula posted:I know it's luck but about 10 games into the new update I got the crystal ship pretty easily. Did they improve the chance of ship events too? I feel like I've been coming across them more frequently. Well Rock C starts with a Crystal crewman so you can probably skip the first two parts of the quest with it and just get to the homeworld and find the device.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:32
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IAmTheRad posted:There WAS a mod called Infinite Space, it just continued endlessly. However, it only worked on the previous edition. Hopefully it gets updated for Advanced. It was already. http://ftlwiki.com/wiki/Mods
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Apr 8, 2014 03:34
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I don't really understand shield hacking. The shields turn purple and the bar starts draining, and then...nothing? The actual shield pips don't seem to go away. I'm sure I'm missing something, although I've still found it useful if only to isolate the shield room so that they need to bust down the door to repair it.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:34
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Dreggon posted:Hey I got an event at an exit beacon for a pirate merchant who's offering to sell stuff and wants me to "come aboard", and there's an option to do that or decide it's too dangerous. I've never seen this before, and I don't know if everything will go fine or if the game will permanently take one of my dudes - while ignoring that I have a teleporter and would just be able to port him back. I think I had that event, but I got a blue option because of my mind control device. If you decide to mind control him, he explains that he doesn't have wares for sale, and it was just a trap. Then you fight the ship.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:37
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Vargs posted:I don't really understand shield hacking. The shields turn purple and the bar starts draining, and then...nothing? The actual shield pips don't seem to go away. I'm sure I'm missing something, although I've still found it useful if only to isolate the shield room so that they need to bust down the door to repair it. Pretty sure it just stops the shield from recharging.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:37
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Generic Octopus posted:Pretty sure it just stops the shield from recharging. Huh. That doesn't seem especially useful. You blow your laser load on the enemy ship to take out their shields, then I guess you could hack it to keep them down, but why bother? It's unlikely that your weapons will be ready to go again before the hack runs out.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:43
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Vargs posted:Huh. That doesn't seem especially useful. You blow your laser load on the enemy ship to take out their shields, then I guess you could hack it to keep them down, but why bother? It's unlikely that your weapons will be ready to go again before the hack runs out. If you got a beam drone, it's VERY useful. Blow your load on taking the shields down, since they won't recharge for a bit. Drones do the heavy lifting of beaming everything in sight.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:45
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Vargs posted:I don't really understand shield hacking. The shields turn purple and the bar starts draining, and then...nothing? The actual shield pips don't seem to go away. I'm sure I'm missing something, although I've still found it useful if only to isolate the shield room so that they need to bust down the door to repair it. I'm pretty sure it will remove pips if you have your hacking system upgraded enough but I think I used it on the flagship with a level 3 hacking drone and only took off two pips, which is pretty poo poo when you consider that as soon as that second pip is taken off, it starts recharging again, the pips don't come off right away, so you need to wait for the hack to run its course before opening fire, but shields recharge pretty fast so the timing is really hard. I'd hack literally any other system than shields personally, unless you just want to use the hack drone to lock people out of the room to prevent repairs.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:45
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Generic Octopus posted:Pretty sure it just stops the shield from recharging. I... don't think that's right? I've absolutely used it to drain enemy shields. Level 2 or 3 hacking even brought down 3 or 4 shields. I don't know what's going on with Vargs. counterfeitsaint posted:I think I had that event, but I got a blue option because of my mind control device. If you decide to mind control him, he explains that he doesn't have wares for sale, and it was just a trap. Then you fight the ship. Pretty sure I also had a hacking blue option to depower his weapons. He gets all pissy and won't sell you anything but gave me some scrap as part of the 'standard federation fee' or something like that.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:47
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Goddamn, I can't believe I just lost. I had a flak 2 and a Glaive Beam on phase 3 of the Flagship, but the first missile barrage knocked the weapons and the medbay offline. Then the borders and mind control started happening, and I could never reestablish control. I really hate Rock A. The only reason this run was this successful was pure RNG luck. Found a random Pegasus missile system, then an Explosive Replicator to actually make all those missile weapons worth using. Ended up buying the Flak 2 and Glaive Beam right before the mothership, but the missile spam served me well.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:47
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counterfeitsaint posted:I think I had that event, but I got a blue option because of my mind control device. If you decide to mind control him, he explains that he doesn't have wares for sale, and it was just a trap. Then you fight the ship. You also get a blue option with a Slug crewmember: He tells you whether it's a trap or not, and warns you he'll attack if you don't buy anything. Vargs posted:Huh. That doesn't seem especially useful. You blow your laser load on the enemy ship to take out their shields, then I guess you could hack it to keep them down, but why bother? It's unlikely that your weapons will be ready to go again before the hack runs out. The Hack drone does drain shields over time while it's active. After it hits the enemy ship, are you clicking it again to activate it? (I took me a while to figure out you had to do that.)
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Apr 8, 2014 03:49
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Vargs posted:I don't really understand shield hacking. The shields turn purple and the bar starts draining, and then...nothing? The actual shield pips don't seem to go away. I'm sure I'm missing something, although I've still found it useful if only to isolate the shield room so that they need to bust down the door to repair it. You're not doing system damage to the shields, just draining the currently active pips, which will only actually lower their shields if it goes on long enough. A level-1 hack to shields is pretty crap, a level 3 hack is very effective. Assuming they don't dodge every incoming shot to the shield system ANYWAY.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:52
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IAmTheRad posted:Well, you can unlock the crystal ship by beating the game with EVERY other ship (besides the Lanius) layout A and B. Enjoy the slug cruiser B and the stealth cruiser B games. You have a better chance at getting the unlock by the quest. Heh. I was wondering why I got the Crystal unlock the first time I loaded the game after the new edition was out. Played for 130 hours and beat the game with every ship type, but never managed to even get close in the Crystal unlock quest. 
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Apr 8, 2014 03:55
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sheild hacking is pretty piss poor... Unless you're rocking beam weapons, than you an dice pretty hard.
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Apr 8, 2014 03:56
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What really crumps is pilot or engine hacking. Hack that poo poo, fire flak "DODGE THIS"
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Apr 8, 2014 03:57
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Motherfucker posted:What really crumps is pilot or engine hacking. This brings up an interesting question. Right now I'm rocking an Engi B with 2 chain lasers and a charge laser, with only defensive drones, and level 3 hacking. Against the flagship, should I be hacking shields for the possible 7 hits (penalized by their dodge) or hacking piloting for the guaranteed 3? I feel like piloting is the better hack just because I don't have anything to punish the squad of 4 dudes all repairing shield simultaneously, and there's no way to keep out the repair crew forever.
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Apr 8, 2014 04:13
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Mazerunner posted:I... don't think that's right? Iunno, the couple times I've watched the hack go on, that little pink bar has drained all the way and then...the shield pips are still there. Maybe I just didn't give it long enough or that little bar needs to drain a bunch of times before pips drop off.
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Apr 8, 2014 04:14
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Generic Octopus posted:Iunno, the couple times I've watched the hack go on, that little pink bar has drained all the way and then...the shield pips are still there. Maybe I just didn't give it long enough or that little bar needs to drain a bunch of times before pips drop off. Each full bar drain should deactivate one shield pip. It won't disappear, but it will turn "hollow" like recharging shields always do.
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Apr 8, 2014 04:16
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Level 1 hacking is particularly strong no matter what it's doing, but I know it can drain at least one full shield pip.
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Apr 8, 2014 04:43
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Okay, I just unlocked the Fed Cruiser C, and what is the deal with this ship? How are you supposed to get it off the ground?
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Apr 8, 2014 04:47
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Survive until your awesome flak artillery destroys the enemy and hope you get a weapon drop before you are worn down.
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Apr 8, 2014 04:56
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Inadequately posted:Okay, I just unlocked the Fed Cruiser C, and what is the deal with this ship? How are you supposed to get it off the ground? Upgrade the artillery and throw power in it until you actually get a gun.
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One big change in tactics I've done lately is always taking bribes.There's just too much risk of getting hard countered by a pirate. There's not a lot of guaranteed ways to get scrap.
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