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[Man of Paper]

sbtreelobster

Just got it, gonna start it now. My god, does it look like everything I've wanted and more. Looks close enough like the beautiful lovechild of FTL and Enter the Gungeon to immediately have caught my attention, and after watching a couple Let's Plays and reading the posts here I was thoroughly sold.

Though checking now apparently I haven't played Enter the Gungeon as much as I seem to think I have. FTL was across a couple accounts though, so that one can be explained at least. Oh well, time for this one to eat all my free time.

Has anyone done a fists-only game? Is it even possible?

[Egan_BW]

EEEEE I just did an assassination mission with the "harm no-one else" clause by ramming my Foundry Brick directly into the room the target was in. That was amazing.

[Gabeux]

Man of Paper, welcome to some great hours of fun!

Egan, I'm not sure if I should go for the Brick or Armour-Piercing weapons. As AP is being so hard to come by, I'm going for that for now.
Also, thanks Immaterial for the Lady Delphinus's Sleepy Time Tea, a Legendary Concussive Rapid-fire Quiet Armour-Piercing Shotgun. That thing is so Useful 

[Egan_BW]

I'm on my second galaxy now, having never gotten the Brick in the first. This totally changes how I can think about missions. Just completed my personal mission by ramming the pilot, then ramming the wing where my objective was.

[IWishIWereSarah]

Do you guys never aboard a "secondary" (a non mission) ship, just so you can use its cannons on your mission ship (or simply ram it), when it's a audacious mission with a really big ship ?

Doing it that way, I don't need the Brick, though I have to avoid missions with a time limit.


PS: when controlling a ship, right click to fire missiles. This means tyou don't have the magic "break" button, though, and ships are hard to maneuver.... :p

[Dohon]

Just rescued Dohon's character Razan Castner! They were apparently my "Idiot Friend", which probably explains why they got captured.
Also, I'm about to take that character, Jigme Clawless, to liberate the foundry stronghold, which is the last one left. Gonna liberate this galaxy!

Haha! Thanks for the save. That was my first character and lost him to a stupid mistake. Turns out shields block melee attacks and if you drop in a room with 4 of those ... Well, it was indeed an idiotic  move! Funny thing though, I got another character that had the mission to save Razan. Was his mother, I believe. Lost her to a mission in a warzone because I didn't know that ships actually get blown up piece by piece during a mission. I just thought I had to dodge missiles on the way in ...

This game sure has some great story-telling moments.

[ThtblovesDF]

I hope they add more scaling content, as while very fun, it would be great to just have "more"  of everything. Afterall you can always boil it down to "1+X Rooms with 1+x Guards with a key" for each section, with some terminals.

Chair-developer ideas:

You can loot a "hack currency" off guards (steal or of the dead body) that you can use to mess with the systems of the ship - laser walls, moveable rooms, "shot this room with your own missle", repair-nano swarm, overload this tool/console, directly hack/break this door, release the gas, release prisoners, etc.

More room variations, more alien spaceships, plus I wanna throw some office chairs and tables around, see ashtrays sucked into vacum, the guards taking a piss, astroidfields...

I feel like adding a "barracks" room that just has some dudes napping and resting, that file out once a alarm goes off would be the first step.

If anyone ever played invisible inc, it certainly has some intresting abilities, enemys and room challanges, from audio-sensors (hackable) to human-mechanical enemys (hackable to remove shield, then slayable)

Argumentations would have been nice, to use your cash for when you've already "got" everything worth buying and to use some passive slots, since the active slots are oh-so-limited.


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Regardless, for the moment this is just grand and great fun.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Thtb/ for artifacts and all that.

[Man of Paper]

Self-Charging Crashbeam was probably the best item I've found so far, and that was really early on. This game is worse than crack, in that it is addicting, and will wind up killing me. Also, finding out the shields don't work like the ones in Dune sure was fun.

[Damiac]

Picked up this game this weekend, wow this is a blast.  I've been taking the hardest missions available, unless they just seem outright impossible with my current kit... in which case i have about a 75% chance to take them anyway...

I end up failing a lot of missions, but it does lead to some crazy escapades!

Some random tips from what I've seen:

1. As mentioned elsewhere, disabling the pilot stops any timers. Super useful.

2.Most ships have more than one dock, although usually only one is unlocked.  But if you have a key cloner or subverter, you can sometimes skip whole chunks of a ship.

3. The Visitor teleporter by itself is super useful, letting you temporarily move way up in a ship or into a loot room or whatever, to grab keys, etc.  But did you know if you use a second visitor charge while still under the effects of the first one, you'll first get pulled back to your original spot, but then get pulled back to your second spot.  I imagine you can chain this even further!

4. Armored guards will be staggered if you hit them, even though it doesn't hurt them.  However, while your shotgun might not hurt them, the explosive decompression behind that window might...  Even if you can't use it to push them out a window, you can at least make them delay taking a shot at you.

[Egan_BW]

I think the concussion hammer has more kickback than the wrench, so that can be surprisingly effective for keeping armored guys tied up while you take out everyone else / escape / prepare to try something clever.

[Puzzlemaker]

This game is shockingly fun.  I have had several pretty amazing moments where you really felt like a badass.

[Mephisto]

I've been playing this obsessively for the past several days. Thought I'd share a few of my favorite things.

Spoiler: Space and Shotguns (click to show/hide)

I basically had to recreate the Nerdcubed mission on one of my "steal the macguffin" missions. Shenanigans happened through no fault of mine, causing half of the explosives on the ship to blow. Two of them just happened to be on the path to the chest containing my target.

I see hard vacuum, the ship I'm in is just booking it, and I'm holding a shotgun. What do? Fling myself out of the ship and fire wildly until I reach the other open section, of course. Once I grab the macguffin, I repeat the process and have my pod pick me up.

Spoiler: Nonlethality (click to show/hide)

My favorite strategy for enigma clauses or assassinations are to wrench or hammer or quickfire silenced high capacity concussion shotgun people into unconsciousness (because a hammer to the skull never killed anybody) and then throw the people who need to die into a room with an explosive device. Most impressive is when it's the room that my pod is connected to.

Fire a pistol into the explosive and watch them all disappear. If that was the room connected to your pod, you're now flying free action movie style and can head back home.

Spoiler: Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions (click to show/hide)

I was on a mission to liberate the right-most stronghold. It was a huge-ass ship and I didn't ensure we were a good distance away before setting course. Cue a seven-second countdown and a mad dash to find an exit. I think I had to end up blowing out a window and leaping to safety. I could have swore the countdown read zero at one point and I feared I had died until I saw the stronghold explode and my guy flying away at high speed. One emergency pod pickup later and I'm back home. I'm pretty sure I've fucked up enough that he can only survive for six seconds after being tossed out of an airlock at this point.

Of course, I've also done some bone-headed things. Like forgetting who my capture target is and accidentally blowing him away with a non-concussion shotgun. Or not noticing that there's a big-ass window, missing the guy I was aiming at, and sucking my target out of said window. Or going on a mission and only noticing that everyone is equipped with shields and I've forgotten all of my goodies once I arrived.

I love games like this. It's how I used to play Space Engineers as well - shoot off toward a military ship in a little pod, grind my way in, and set about finding the pilot's chair before heading back home with my loot. At the risk of hijacking this thread, do any other likeminded players know of more games like this?

[Man of Paper]

Send help. I've already sunk nine hours into this. In space no one can hear you sleep.

[Persus13]

I recently had a rescue mission that was going great, until I discovered that while you are not affected by glitch traps, the people you are carrying are, and spaced my target.

[Sirus]

I once had a mission to steal something valuable from one of the bigger ships. At one point during the infiltration, the ship flew too close to an enemy station or something, because a few rooms near the front got blown away by missiles. I didn't worry about it until I neared the room containing my goal... only to discover it sealed by a level 6 lock. With the level 6 key card nowhere to be found. As far as I can tell, the guard or terminal had been located in one of the destroyed rooms.

This was before I knew that subverters could open doors. I didn't have the Brick at the time, nor did I have visitors unlocked for sale at my home base. So, I did the only logical thing: I slowed the ship down to as close to a standstill that I could manage...and then I took my pod and went hunting. Eventually, aboard a Glitch vessel, I found a single-use Visitor device. I brought it back to my objective ship, jumped in, and grabbed what I needed. Personal mission complete.