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[Aavak]

Well... that didn't pan out as I had hoped.

The first episode I record using the newly unlocked Federation Cruiser fails to get past the first sector lol. One of my friends mentioned that they've had a similar issue early on with the Federation Cruiser, but it gets much more powerful as you level it up and get a bit of scrap to invest in weapons, etc.

Anyone else had a similar experience? (If so, got any tips? )

[GlyphGryph]

Levi, have you unlocked Stealth Ship B?

It's freaking amazing. Glaive Beam + Built-in-stealth-weapons + Starter Cloak is basically MURDER. You will probably need a level or two of shields eventually, to stop beams and drones, but that's really the extent of it. Everything else can go to PURE POWAH and it's easy as.

[Levi]

Levi, have you unlocked Stealth Ship B?

It's freaking amazing. Glaive Beam + Built-in-stealth-weapons + Starter Cloak is basically MURDER. You will probably need a level or two of shields eventually, to stop beams and drones, but that's really the extent of it. Everything else can go to PURE POWAH and it's easy as.

No, not yet.  The achievements looked a little hard.  Damn.  Maybe I should try focusing on those instead of winning.

[Cthulhu]

The achievements are very hard, it would seem.  Auto-ships apparently don't count for the easiest one, although it looks like it might be possible to take out a Mantis scout in one cloak with the upgraded cloaker (Play easy mode for enough scrap right off the bat).

[Leafsnail]

- Rock Layout A:  AKA "Spend all your money on missiles and then die horribly as soon as you run out" ship

I actually had a great run with these today (my easiest win so far).  Unless you're really unlucky you should get some kind of alternative option to missiles before you run out of them.  Boarding for example is a pretty viable tactic considering all your crew are rockmen and you can use the occasional missile to smash open the ship before slaughtering the crew.

...Actually all my victories so far have been heavily boarding based, even the one with the Federation ship.  And I'm doing a run with the Gila Monster now so that's not likely to change soon.

[Jim Groovester]

Anyone else had a similar experience? (If so, got any tips? )

I'm having the same problems, especially with the Layout B. The Fed Cruiser doesn't seem to have enough oomph to make it through fights in the early game without taking an uncomfortable level of damage.

I don't have any tips. I'm struggling to figure out a strategy to deal with it myself.

[Cthulhu]

Okay seriously, anybody who's done the first Stealth Cruiser achievement, how did you do it?  I think I might have a bugged version where it's impossible or something, because I just did it on a regular ship (Not an autoship), and it still didn't fucking work.

[GlyphGryph]

... Isn't the first one the "get through all sectors without hitting danger zone" one?

Anyway - the key to remember is that you have to be cloaked before the first point of damage lands, and REMAIN cloaked until AFTER the victory popup appears. Buying stealth weapons (compounding with ship ability, means zero loss from firing), and judicious use of beams+an ion bomb is how I pulled it off. I think it went:

Deploy attack drone => Ion bomb => explodes/cloak => beam with pike beam to do 7 damage, beam with small beam to do 4 damage, hit shields with both disabling them, and then beam with small beam again before cloak expires for big boom.

[Jim Groovester]

Okay seriously, anybody who's done the first Stealth Cruiser achievement, how did you do it?  I think I might have a bugged version where it's impossible or something, because I just did it on a regular ship (Not an autoship), and it still didn't fucking work.

Well, you see, I unlocked the Stealth Cruiser Layout B, started the game, came across an enemy, waited until the Glaive Beam was fully charged, cloaked, then immediately fired, and that was that.

Obviously useless if you don't have the B Layout, of course.

I only unlocked it once, so my memory of the event is pretty fuzzy, but I think you have to still be cloaked while the enemy is breaking apart. That is, you have to be cloaked when you get the popup with your rewards for beating the ship.

[Tarran]

Just a heads up for everyone using the Humble bundle (not GoG or Steam) version: 102.5 is finally out.

For Steam and GoG, your versions have been out for a while.

Changelog:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Changelog 1.02.5

    Restored functionality to those that don't support certain OpenGL features
    Fixed Zoltan shield display
    Added some additional logging/overrides to help in support

Changelog 1.02

Compatibility Changes:

    Older laptops experiencing "overly pixelated" or distorted images should now function
    MacBooks with ATI X1600 video cards will potentially function both in fullscreen and windowed. I do not have access to a MacBook with that video card, so if you're experiencing that problem please update me!
    Mac OS X version now implements Left-Ctrl+Left-Click to be equivalent to Right-Click


Fullscreen Changes:

    Fullscreen stretch now works differently and should be more effective at properly "stretching" to fill your screen
    Monitors that support 2560x1440 should be properly scaling and look much better (I'm jealous)
    Monitors with resolutions less than 1280x720 may now function in Fullscreen Stretched depending on your OpenGL support
    A more elaborate manual mode is available for tweaking your desired resolution effect within settings.ini


Additional Video Settings:

    V-Sync can be activated within options mode. Depending on your system, you still might need to force it on or off from your video card control panel as well.
    Frame limiting is also available from the options. Between the two (V-Sync vs. Frame Limiting), pick the one that works best for you to balance performance and cpu use.


Additional Game Settings:

    Within options you can enable paths to be drawn when hovering over a beacon.
    Dialog keys will now have a brief delay before they are active, this can be disabled within the options.


Other Bugs:

    Start Crash Fix: Sometimes unidentified USB devices could cause FTL to fail to start
    Removed bugged weapon from the secret sector
    Moving crewmembers will still teleport assuming they are in the room of their final destination
    Killing the crew of an enemy ship will count as defeating it for stats
    Selling the Zoltan Energy shield will no longer be bugged
    Federation Ship will properly unlock on victory (and will unlock retroactively for those that experienced this bug)
    Secret Cruiser Type B stealth imagery has been fixed
    Fixed situation where a defense drone could become permanently powered
    Energy Shield can no longer be damaged while jumping, preventing it from properly recharging
    Fixed: Ion Storm and Nebula effects would disappear at beacons where you leave behind an enemy
    Saving in sector maps can no longer sometimes cause you to skip a sector
    Excess error message repeats removed
    Repeated "victory" in Sector 1 after restart fixed
    Possible fix for disappearing quests after Save & Quit
    Possible fix for enemies jumping away despite destroyed piloting
    Fixed freezing enemy AI when low on health and medbay is on fire
    Save & Quit in a store will no longer reduce repair costs
    Typos corrected in tooltips/weapons/events

[GlyphGryph]

Within options you can enable paths to be drawn when hovering over a beacon.
    Dialog keys will now have a brief delay before they are active, this can be disabled within the options.

Yesssss

[Levi]

BLARG!  Had such a lucky game going with the stealth ship go to ruin. 

1) Got a glaive beam in sector 1 from a bribe.
2) By sector 2 my stealth was maxed.  By sector 3, I could power my glaive beam.
3) Everything is going great, until I realized I needed to backtrack across the rebel line to avoid an astroid belt(because I wanted the achievement).
4) Turns out I had to survive three rebel attacks in a row because of this, and for some reason the last one wouldn't let me jump(or even charge my FTL engine). 
5) DEATH BLARGLGLG.

[alway]

Really handy thing for any insta-kill related ones:
There is an augment out there (120 scrap cost) which puts all your weapons at 100% charge immediately upon jumping in. Fire off a salvo of everything, and if said everything is powerful enough, instakill.

[Tarran]

It's called Weapon Pre-igniter. Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

[Euld]

Yay got the stealth ship!

Boo got blown up 3 systems in on its first run :/