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[beorn080]

I have never yet to get boarding to work, but I just had a pair of overpowered wins on easy. First, Osprey on easy. Three Flak 1's and a bio beam, plus cloak. Second, Zoltan A, Vulcan, preignitor, mind control, cloak, Halberd beam. Plus boarding and Anti`personnel drones. The third form wouldn't have gotten through the initial Zoltan Shield if I hadn't mistimed a cloak.

Sadly, I don't seem to be able to win unless I get a vastly overpowered run.

[EnigmaticHat]

Tried out a boarding build on hard mode, went Rock B because fire boarding fuck yeah.  Also cause its not as crazy specialized as Mantis or Crystal B.

This was one of the most satisfying runs I've ever lost.  I ran a ridiculously tight ship; I reached last stand with 0 fuel, 5 missiles, and 6 drones.  That's WITH a drone recovery arm I purchased halfway through the game because I needed to split my drones between a combat drone, a defense drone, and a hack.  Seven sectors in I had only my 2 starting weapons.  Also, I counted partway through the game and I was running at ONE QUARTER of my max power.  And that's with no wasted upgrades, minus some early engine upgrades I bought to survive the rebel fleet at low health and the one extra O2 I started with.  The game was sort of defined by an early pre-ignitor purchase, sadly I couldn't get a build that took advantage of it so I had to settle for instantaneous fireboarding and some heavy pierce sniping.

At the end I found myself about to fight the 3rd form of the flagship with 4 health left and 6 power total between my weapon and drone systems.  I decided to face death with honor instead of hoping for the negligible chance of a repair event in Last Stand.  Main lesson learned: if you are going to board the flagship on hard, you NEED a cloak.  Its mandatory.  A defense drone isn't enough.

On a happier note, I learned two new tactics: if you disable a system before a pulsar burst, it only gets drained by 1 (I think), also if you're fast you can intentionally de-activate your defense drone to let a hack through and thus choose which system the flagship hacks.  Sadly I didn't learn the pulsar trick in time to save myself from being devastated; fucking hard mode pulsars.  I did waste the flagship's hack on my sensors.

[Mageziya]

Today I learned that hacking stun causes everything to be stunned when you hack.

So what seemed like a brilliant idea for a boarding ship instead causes everyone to stand around doing nothing. Nothing happens except for your one Lanius-Boader's passive air-drain ability.

Yay for cloning!

[sambojin]

Just to make us cry. A sub 13min FTL AE run. World record possibly. 12:41. Wow.

Yes, he's very lucky with the pre-ignitor and halberd early on. But still, damn that's fast.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kOwQUnq-aIE

[RedWarrior0]

Just to make us cry. A sub 13min FTL AE run. World record possibly. 12:41. Wow.

Yes, he's very luck with the pre-ignitor and halberd early on. But still, damn that's fast.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kOwQUnq-aIE

Yeah, the first-sector pre-ig is absurd in Stealth B.

[EnigmaticHat]

Wasn't going to bother resurrecting this thread to share, but: next time you're in a pulsar system, turn off every single system right before the pulse.  IRRC, unpowered systems can only receive 1 ion damage from the pulse.

Just booted this up again, played a hard kestral game in hopes I would see a pulsar and verify.  Four hours and a lot of red health bars later, still no pulsar, but...

Spoiler: I still got it (click to show/hide)

[Zazmio]

Both oxygen and medbay are out, with breaches in the hull... most of your crew are wounded... on top of that, fires are spreading throughout the ship... at least they'll die happy, suffocating and burning alive, knowing they completed their mission.

[monk12]

He has door control, and Mullet and Maloney have enough HP between them to repair that breach and get the O2 back online (though one of them may die in the attempt...) if nothing else, the remnants of the Federal Fleet may be close enough to effect a rescue.

Nice win with that layout though, I'm impressed you pulled it off (I imagine Mind Control and Hacking were quite pivotal in that battle.)

[Rolan7]

I love close wins like that!  But yeah, I think you could repair from that without losing anyone.  Maybe.

I don't think that's possible in this round:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=352541336

They're *safe*, but they're not going anywhere without assistance

[EnigmaticHat]

He has door control, and Mullet and Maloney have enough HP between them to repair that breach and get the O2 back online (though one of them may die in the attempt...) if nothing else, the remnants of the Federal Fleet may be close enough to effect a rescue.

Nice win with that layout though, I'm impressed you pulled it off (I imagine Mind Control and Hacking were quite pivotal in that battle.)

Pretty vital, yeah.  I really wanted some kind of good burst laser but shops did not agree with me, so I made due with what I had.  If the flak hits first that's 8 hits every ~12 seconds, enough for most fights except the flagship.  The hack was a last minute addition, I almost didn't have enough scrap to get it up to level 2.  Sabotage shields and evade right before the first volley hits, second volley destroys shields and then the fight is pretty much over.  Last fight is the hardest because it can't be bursted down and the supershield blocks all my tricks.

My philosophy in the final fight is that keeping the core combat systems up is more important than anything, including repelling borders.  Combine that with the Kestral being pretty weak for hard mode and yeah, it was a desperate fight.  Find out if our heroes survived in the sequel (except the Engi, it died onscreen to show that everyone else was in danger).

[sambojin]

Just chucked this back on my new PC. After one tester game to remember how to play, I managed a win in the Kestral A on easy. Not bad for my second go in a year or so. Had an awesome 2xburst II, pike and hull beam setup (with pre-ignitor). Pew pew- ZAP!

Easiest run ever.

Now onto the Engi A. Oh how I hate that thing......

[Neonivek]

Wow Rolan7 I didn't even know it was possible to win without cloak... You showed me.

[EnigmaticHat]

I've never understood how people get weapon pre-igniters.  I literally get one every 50 hours I play.

[Rolan7]

Wow I almost forgot about that run, dang it was fun.  I named a character after me but one of my named "friends" killed me in the second sector under mind control.

And yeah cloak is super useful for the boss of course...  I actually usually don't go for it though.  It's mostly for the dang triple-missiles, which a defense drone and high evasion can mostly negate.  It's also always my #1 priority to take out.  I prioritize a teleporter over cloaking, partially just for that (also extra scrap income from captures).
(The danmaku laser attack in stage 3 is rough too, but high evasion and shields can mitigate most of that)

I only play on normal though, on hard I'd probably want a cloak.

[sambojin]

I tend to prioritize pre-ignitors if I can get one early. I was saving for an extra shield, saw that, hocked everything but 1 burst II (on the assumption that EVERYTHING is good with a pre-ignitor), and coasted through the rest of the run. I could potentially get one every 6-10 runs or so if I really wanted one (on easy though, so it probably doesn't count).

Got an Ion II, Ion I, Hull Burst I, combat I and defense II, mind control on my Engi A run so far (Defense unpowered as yet). Still feels weak as, had a very bad run at the start and just managed to put a workable ship together now. It's actually doing pretty well.  Hoping I can tweak it into something awesome in the next 2 sectors or so (only on sector 4 so far). My kingdom for a drone recovery arm