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[lemon10]

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.

80% of my ships by the last zone have defense drones, so missiles aren't a bother at all.
Its a combo of things, the 4/3 strength sheilds+good dodge+good weapons are pretty daunting for most ships.

But you can't really fight it like you fight the other zones unless you are really strong (either very significant laser burst damage or very heavy missiles/bombs, or very good boarders), what you usually want to do is just make a beeline for the boss, and don't fight the ships (by warping out as soon as you can if they start a fight and you can't handle it) unless you really need the scrap.

[GlyphGryph]

Honestly, I think of it the other way around - for me, difficult peaks around section five, and then falls steadily from there on in. Mostly because that's the point where you start getting huge amounts of scrap from enemies and either developing versatility or really hammering down on your specialization.

Once I've made it to section 7 I usually feel like I've "made it", and everything from there on out is pretty much a formality.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

80% of my ships by the last zone have defense drones, so missiles aren't a bother at all.
Its a combo of things, the 4/3 strength sheilds+good dodge+good weapons are pretty daunting for most ships.

But you can't really fight it like you fight the other zones unless you are really strong (either very significant laser burst damage or very heavy missiles/bombs, or very good boarders), what you usually want to do is just make a beeline for the boss, and don't fight the ships (by warping out as soon as you can if they start a fight and you can't handle it) unless you really need the scrap.

It's usually what I do but sometimes you get a stray missile in the engine or a boarding drone in there are you're forced into combat. I suppose the other disadvantage would be having the path still locked down by rebels if you're trying to flee from the boss mid-fight for a repair station. 

I guess it's like traditional Rogue-like design where the end game is trying to avoid as much conflict as possible and just completing your mission. Although I tend to prefer fighting rather than fleeing. If I spent all this time making a big ship I want to be able to shoot some stuff.

[Neyvn]

Going to do a little challenge.
Holding back the Rebels.
I will be playing with this Ship

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On Normal.
The goal is to reach Sector 7 and then when the Rebels control ALL of the Sector, I will try and survive as long as I can within their controlled space. The problems with this challenge are.

1: Limited ways to repair ship.
2: Limited to no ways to regain Missiles or Drone Parts.

Fuel will not be a problem considering that you always get 1 Fuel from a Rebel encounter.

Wish me luck...

[Sirus]

You're gonna need plenty of luck for this

[Neyvn]

Yeah nearly died in the first sector. Rebels caught up to me and it was a 2 shield 3hp dmg Missile...

[Karlito]

Beat the Boss with the Torus, and unlocked Engi B. I suppose I should start playing on Normal difficulty.

[Neyvn]

FUCK!!!! The enemy Ship must have been on fire... I just lost my Mantis and Weapon Guy as they tried to kill off the Crew... T_T

[RedWarrior0]

Yup, that happens.

I'm a bit late to the party, but both Heavy Lasers (not just pierce) have some of the best DPS in the game; I recall it being somewhere in the .4 region, compared to .25 and .263 for Burst Lasers 2 and 3.

[lemon10]

Yeah, if you have the slots and burst damage to get their shields down, it is a super excellent weapon, both dealing good damage and having a good chance of breaching/starting a fire.

[Nadaka]

what the hell? does the crystal ship quest marker in the rock homeworlds just not spawn sometimes?

I got the pod. I got the crystal man. I got to the rock homeworlds. No marker. No blue option. Nothing.

If I am strong enough to ravage the rebel fleet, can I find the crystal ship by visiting every system in the rock homeworlds?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Pretty sure the rebel ships "override" any of the quests, encounters or stores in the area.

[Sirus]

They do. I lost my chance at the stealth ship once thanks to the rebel fleet right behind me

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Sometimes I think it would be easier to take on the whole rebel fleet instead of that damn flag ship.

[Wiles]

So I picked up this game earlier in the week. I love it. And maybe sometimes hate it a little, but it's mostly love.

I thought I was on my first successful run to a victory on normal. My Federation Cruiser was kitted out and armed to the teeth. I did have a mishap earlier with my all star mantis strike team. Unfortunately my pegasus missiles and artillery beam hit the ship my mantids were on at the same time, doing massive damage and destroying the ship before I could beam them back. Oops.

I found a boarding drone in the next system. It wasn't as awesome as my strike team, but it was doing well enough.

So I end up in a system with the jump paths going at the top and bottom of the system. The exit is in the middle at the back. I jump my way down and head towards the exit only to find out I could not jump to the exit from that path at all. I had to jump back through the rebel fleet almost back to the beginning of the system. Unfortunately after several well shielded and well armed rebel ships my own vessel was destroyed.

On another note, I have a question about missiles - can they be shot down by lasers if they cross their path? I could have sworn I saw an enemy missile blow up when I didn't have a defence drone.