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[GlyphGryph]

Woot, third win.  This time with the Kestral layout 2.  I learned that you can visit repair locations in sector 8 multiple times. 

I was so happy I finally got to the boss, and got to his second form. It was so intense.

And then you say this, and I realize there's no reason whatsoever I couldn't have beaten him. Durrr.

[Zangi]

I put my Zoltan in the healing room once I get more then 4 crew... >.>   They die so easy.... but the free energy is good.

[Jack_Bread]

Final boss spoilers here.

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Damn that flagship keeps killing me. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first fought it, but the second time, I thought I was going to do awesomely with my 2 anti-ship drones along with my ion cannon, anti-bio laser, and a small bomb. The first part was a breeze, but how the hell do you fight pass the drone swarm?

[LoSboccacc]

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you shoot down their drone control. using boarding parties or missiles. hit the driver too, so the ship can't evade your missiles. you'll probably need at least shield 3 or cloak for that part.

[Jack_Bread]

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you shoot down their drone control. using boarding parties or missiles. hit the driver too, so the ship can't evade your missiles. you'll probably need at least shield 3 or cloak for that part.

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I had all of those and was focusing on the drone control. Last time I disabled the control, the drones didn't seem to stop mauling me, so I assumed that wasn't going to work again. I guess I just got unlucky because I kept missing.

[LoSboccacc]

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missing is not a question of luck but of disabling their ship driving system/engine. the moth has two drone system: one is it's own and is bad by itself and controls the drone you can stop; the other comes with the 'system overload' message and is time based and you can't stop them, only try to survive

[GlyphGryph]

5burst lasers really only have one thing going for them.

They work with the preigniter, heheh.

That is all.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Final boss spoilers here.

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Damn that flagship keeps killing me. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first fought it, but the second time, I thought I was going to do awesomely with my 2 anti-ship drones along with my ion cannon, anti-bio laser, and a small bomb. The first part was a breeze, but how the hell do you fight pass the drone swarm?

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At least three shields and wicked evasion

I've got another win, as the Type B Fed Cruiser!

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ESS Canterprise is victorious!

Would've had a lot more HP if I A) Hadn't jumped to fight a random missile-spamming rebel between phases 1 and 2, and B) Paid more attention to when my defense drone was gone due to the incoming fire.

Yes, the Artillery beam sort of makes it easy. I shall now go and try to unlock the alternative Stealth ship.

[Sirus]

Got to the boss's second form again, got utterly raped.

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I had level 2 cloaking AND three shields, along with burst laser II , a hull beam, and a Pegasus missile. I figured that the tactic I used on the first form; cloak when drones/big attacks arrive, unleash missiles and lasers at shields, beamspam the rest to death - would go without much of a hitch.

Except this time the boss sent over some sort of boarding drone. It had 150 HP, instantly caused damage and a hull breach in the room it appeared in, managed to outfight two humans and a mantis simultaneously, and could return to the boss and teleport back almost instantly once it took enough damage. Level 3 blast doors did next to nothing to slow it down. And this was occurring while the boss was shooting me constantly and sending dronespam to whittle my ship down to nothing.

[EuchreJack]

Annoying fact #45: If you accept a surrender request from an enemy ship, it screws up the "help us" system requests.  So, no talking to civies and getting free stuff if you accept a surrender from the attacker.

[LoSboccacc]

Got to the boss's second form again, got utterly raped.

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I had level 2 cloaking AND three shields, along with burst laser II , a hull beam, and a Pegasus missile. I figured that the tactic I used on the first form; cloak when drones/big attacks arrive, unleash missiles and lasers at shields, beamspam the rest to death - would go without much of a hitch.

Except this time the boss sent over some sort of boarding drone. It had 150 HP, instantly caused damage and a hull breach in the room it appeared in, managed to outfight two humans and a mantis simultaneously, and could return to the boss and teleport back almost instantly once it took enough damage. Level 3 blast doors did next to nothing to slow it down. And this was occurring while the boss was shooting me constantly and sending dronespam to whittle my ship down to nothing.

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happened to me once too. it stopped when their drone control went down, but I had to rotate crew to pin it meanwhile. then I boarded the drone room and left people there for most of the engagement. nice because they had less crew for part three 

[Jim Groovester]

My runs with the Stealth Cruiser have so far followed the following pattern:

Look for Shields --> Don't find any --> Encounter enemy with beam drones --> Die

Is the cooldown for cloaking any faster with higher levels? Because if I encounter any enemies with anti ship or beam drones, I'm pretty screwed regardless of how long the cloaking is if they can still pick me apart and shut down all my systems when I'm not cloaked.

[MantisMan]

I'm pretty surprised at how this game has exploded since being released on the 14th. I'm on my second run that made it to the Rebel Flagship, and I just got to the Flagship's second form. I'm using the default ship with maxed shields and weapon systems. I'm using the default missile launcher, burst lasers 2 and 3, and a hull beam.

I'm worried about the robot boarders.

[Sean Mirrsen]

My runs with the Stealth Cruiser have so far followed the following pattern:

Look for Shields --> Don't find any --> Encounter enemy with beam drones --> Die

Is the cooldown for cloaking any faster with higher levels? Because if I encounter any enemies with anti ship or beam drones, I'm pretty screwed regardless of how long the cloaking is if they can still pick me apart and shut down all my systems when I'm not cloaked.

The idea is to disable their most threatening systems by the time you're vulnerable. And no, I don't think the cooldown gets any quicker. The stealth ship is a challenging setup.

Although personally I always found shields in shops. Like, every shop that offers systems has shields for sale. My problem was getting enough scrap to buy and power them before it was too late.

[EuchreJack]

Cooldown is quite faster with more levels.

WTF moment: Scientist ask for my help because a fire on their station is raging out of control.  I dock in order to pick up survivors: Rockman joins crew!

To expain the joke: Rockmen are impervious to flames.