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[Mephansteras]

A Ship with Four Heavy lasers and a teleporter would actually be pretty damn scary. I'd also love to have 4 HL on a Federation Cruiser. Brutal firepower without needing much power to go along with a nicely upgraded Artillery beam.

[Sirus]

I'd also love to have 4 HL on a Federation Cruiser. Brutal firepower without needing much power to go along with a nicely upgraded Artillery beam.

That would be terrifying.

[GlyphGryph]

But... you've got no way to get through the shields of most ships. Especially since at least one is likely to miss most of the time. And each one only takes down a point of shield...

I don't know, I'm not seeing the advantage here. I'd much rather have 4 ion blasts than 4 heavy lasers, especially with a boarding party.

[Sirus]

How much power does each Heavy Laser II take? If you could have four of those...

[GlyphGryph]

3 each. So it would be 12 total.

Now you know what might be decent?

4xHeavy Piercing Laser.

[Mephansteras]

But... you've got no way to get through the shields of most ships. Especially since at least one is likely to miss most of the time. And each one only takes down a point of shield...

I don't know, I'm not seeing the advantage here. I'd much rather have 4 ion blasts than 4 heavy lasers, especially with a boarding party.

4 HL should power up fast enough to rip through shields fairly quickly, and once the blasts start hitting systems they'll take them out in short order.

I'm not saying it's the best combination of weapons in the game, just that the Heavy Laser shouldn't be brushed off so lightly.

[The Scout]

And the Arti Beam ignores shields anyways.

[GlyphGryph]

That's not how shields work - knocking down another shield does not actually effect when the first lost shield renews.

[werty892]

So, I got 10 bucks, and I'm think of buying this, OR SPAZ(space pirates and zombies) Which should I buy, because SPAZ looks like alot more in depth and has more content, but I want a second opinion from somebody who has played both.(They both cost the same so price is not a factor)

[lemon10]

They are *VERY* different games, and a true comparison is kind of impossible because of that.
Personally I prefer FTL , especially getting to the mid/end of SPAZ where grinding becomes bigger and kind of a necessity.

Spoiler: Now I know why it says missiles/bombs pierce 5 sheild (click to show/hide)

Notice that they have 5 shield strength, something that even 50% of my winners might not be able to break through

This came with 7 mantisis initially (killed three of them before this picture was taken though)

[Sirus]

SPAZ strikes me as a long-term game. While I haven't played more than the demo myself, I doubt that you can beat the whole thing in one sitting. It also seems much harder to lose, especially since you can keep save files and reload after you die. It struck me as more arcade-y than strategic.

FTL, on the other hand, can be beaten relatively quickly, but you die a lot and lose your save file on death. It's also more strategic, with lots of pausing to plan your moves in advance.

@ lemon10:

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Well SPAZ was in the last Humble Bundle so you've dicked up your chance to get it at Pay-what-you-want. There might be some people with some keys floating around so you could still trade/buy it cheap.
They both have their strengths and flaws but I would personally lean towards FTL simply because it's a much different experience from other games. SPAZ is like a open-world top-down space shooter which get can rather grindy at times.

Going back to the main topic what do people think of the massive jump in difficulty between the last zone and the rest of the game? Modern gaming has conditioned me to be eased more slowly into the tougher fights while in FTL I find myself wrecking all the zones until the final one promptly hands me my own arse. I tend I find it hard to gauge whether my build is good enough for the last sector.

[Sirus]

I find it the same way. I still die more often than I'd like in earlier sectors, but the vast majority of my losses are in the Last Stand, often against the second form of the boss.

I've discovered that quite a few battles in the Last Stand are skippable. You might want to take those chances unless you need scrap for one last upgrade or two.

[Rolan7]

I haven't really noticed that myself, is it due to enemies with strength four shields?  I tend to go for bombs and boarders so shields are less important.  If enemy missiles are the issue (they sure are mine) you just have to upgrade your engines and try to take out their weapon control (bombs!).

Of course, I play on easy so I have mad money scratch scrap by that point.

[christonian]

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