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[TempAcc]

The 2nd engi layout is rather meh. The equipment is nice but you start with a lone engi for your crew. The drones don't come close to making up for the lack of other crewmen. I guess I'm going to use the federation cruiser.

[stoney834]

Its actually possible to kill all of the flagships crew on the first phase, and they stay dead for the rest of the fight.  Unfortunately as soon as you kill the last one the ship starts slowly repairing its systems like the unmanned ships do.

[Sirus]

So I guess the best solution is to kill all but one or two.
(he says, despite having not killed any enemy crew that weren't boarding his ship)

[Charmander]

The AI doesn't follow the same rules as us, I've noticed. They've accomplished a few things I couldn't. Like hitting multiple ship parts with the hits from a single burst laser.

That could go either way, though. Because losing two shield levels or a lot of weapons in one barrage would hurt a player almost too much.

[lemon10]

The AI doesn't follow the same rules as us, I've noticed. They've accomplished a few things I couldn't. Like hitting multiple ship parts with the hits from a single burst laser.

That could go either way, though. Because losing two shield levels or a lot of weapons in one barrage would hurt a player almost too much.

Yeah, its a bit of a nerf really, in theory it can help, but 95% of the time it just makes them weaker.
If the designers wanted they could put a super-hard mode in the game by only changing AI behavior  (eg. they only focus critical rooms (mainly sheilds/weapons/pilot), all beams hit the maximum number of rooms targetable, enemies jump only into critical rooms, all attacks are arranged in bursts if at all possible, beams aren't fired unless your shield is at a point that they can damage you), but they didn't do that because they decided to be kind of nice (although having a hard mode would be sort of cool).

[ukulele]

If enemies fighted like that it would be almost too hard i think it would be cool tough.

[Rebecca Black]

So beat the boss for the first time with Red-Tail, using the double mantis boarding to breeze through all but the last stage(due to 2 uncloaked 'power surges').

However, when killing the last stage, I forgot my Mantis were the ones dealing the killing blow. They died as heroes, even though I live on as an idiot.

[EuchreJack]

The helm will function if a crew member is in there and in combat or repairing, however it won't give the crew member's evade bonus.

Now thats bull. I had my Pilot under attack and the jump command disabled with a fully working helm...

The AI doesn't follow the same rules as us, I've noticed. They've accomplished a few things I couldn't. Like hitting multiple ship parts with the hits from a single burst laser.

It makes up for the fact that the AI doesn't aim.  Imagine if the AI actually shot regularily at non-empty rooms!  The horror!

[Tarran]

Hah, apparently you can kill ships after accepting their surrender if you set their ship on fire when they're at low health. I never knew that.

"We accept your surrender. Good luck with those fires." *Trollface*
"SON OF A-" *Boom*

[sluissa]

Yeah had that happen a couple of times... kind of an "Oops, sorry." moment.

[Tellemurius]

i teleported my crew to their deaths twice in a row >______>

[Moogie]

I'm having trouble getting anywhere with the Stealth and Rock ships. Their extremely limited weapon/system beginnings make the first couple of sectors a mad search for better armament.

Stealth ship: Sustain hull damage in practically every fight. Any ships you destroy only pay for the repair costs. Unless you find an epic weapon at random, you're SOL.
Rock ship: Missiles run out. See above, except scrap goes towards buying more missiles.

It ends up that I reach sector 3 and still have almost no upgrades, no shields, and the same shitty weapons. :/

[BigD145]

i teleported my crew to their deaths twice in a row >______>

Hopefully you teleported your entire crew.

I just unlocked the last ship in the list. Half of the ship B types are unlocked. Luckily got the last ship with the Rock ship to unlock that B type.

[Pnx]

I'm having trouble getting anywhere with the Stealth and Rock ships. Their extremely limited weapon/system beginnings make the first couple of sectors a mad search for better armament.

Stealth ship: Sustain hull damage in practically every fight. Any ships you destroy only pay for the repair costs. Unless you find an epic weapon at random, you're SOL.
Rock ship: Missiles run out. See above, except scrap goes towards buying more missiles.

It ends up that I reach sector 3 and still have almost no upgrades, no shields, and the same shitty weapons. :/

A tip with the stealth ship, if you wait until they've fired first you can use the stealth to all but guarantee you'll dodge the first shot, which can give you time to charge your weapons and shoot out their weapons system.

Assuming the RNG winds are favourable, you should hopefully be able to get shields by sector 3.

[Tellemurius]

i teleported my crew to their deaths twice in a row >______>

Hopefully you teleported your entire crew.

I just unlocked the last ship in the list. Half of the ship B types are unlocked. Luckily got the last ship with the Rock ship to unlock that B type.

first it was two rockman (that i received in the first sector >:I) and second was my gunner and engi (damnit they had one crewman left!)

i need to turn off autofiring