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[Myroc]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The joke is, there's a lot of events in the game that beam aboard invaders (unrelated to actual ship battles). The Zoltan Shield prevents people from beaming aboard your ship before it's been depleted. However, if you run into any of these boarding events, they still manage to board your ship, with the added message "You don't know how they got past your Zoltan Shield!", which caused many players to call bullshit. Now we know!

[GlyphGryph]

Bah, THIS close to unlocking my first C-class ship!

[Nighthawk]

Never thought I'd get angry at an update, but FTL updated this morning and broke all my mods, damn it.

[Dutchling]

Mods, updates?

What is and why have I never heard of it?

[monk12]

Bah, THIS close to unlocking my first C-class ship!

How exactly do you do that, anyway?

[stabbymcstabstab]

I think you need to get all the achievements for the ships.

[GlyphGryph]

Beat the game with a Class-B ship. I almost made it with the Vortex.

At least I've resisted the urge to bump it up to hard, and am still playing at normal, heh.

[EnigmaticHat]

Ok, so my first run with the new update ran into an event where a rebel autoship in sector 7 disabled 3 shield system bars (as part of the event, not with gear), bringing me down to 1 shield layer.  Bear in mind that it was an autoship in sector 7, so it had 4 shield layers and a bunch of weapons.

WTF game?

Edit:  Trying out the new ship, going for the achievement where oxygen never goes above 14%.  Gain a second human crew member.

"Thanks for coming on board!  Stand in this one tiny room and NEVER LEAVE, or you'll literally die.  There's one other room you can stand in.  But we, ah, don't like to talk about that one.  Let's just say I'm a lot younger than I look and leave it at that."

[Jim Groovester]

I realized I had started my first game on Normal.

Now I'm correcting that and running on Hard. This should be interesting.

[Rolan7]

I finally got a chance to play, and noticed the mantis ship is unlocked!  I coulda sworn I lost the save where I had it.  I was going to check out the new race, but instead I'm swashbuckling my way across the stars.

... Sooo many robotic scout ships.  Level 2 teleporters help, but I'm just waiting for a missile to hit my boarders after they return...

[GlyphGryph]

Guess who has the Engi C?

This guy.

Also, holy hell the Boss is more brutal now. Hacker kit to the medbay as the first action of the battle, locking in and killing two of my crew, unpreventable? Hilarious. T_T

[EnigmaticHat]

Same game with the Krous (new ship), face a zolton pirate with ion blast, halberd beam, and anti-ship drone.  What follows is an absolutely brutal battle where half the ship's systems are damaged, the shields are both power drained and broken, and no one can repair them because everyone is either performing an essential function or needs to breath air.

We escape to the system jump beacon, crippled, at literally one health.

Ship in system: "We can offer emergency repairs to military vessels."

Me: What's your specialty?

"We can upgrade your oxygen systems."

Me:  "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh god"

[Arcvasti]

Oooooh, Advanced Edition is out. I didn't know that until I checked this thread. Well, there went the next few days.

[Jim Groovester]

Oh, fuck.

Spoiler: Is this a hard mode only thing when the fleet catches up to you? (click to show/hide)

The Rebel Cruisers finally do open fire.

[Arcvasti]

Oh, fuck.

Spoiler: Is this a hard mode only thing when the fleet catches up to you? (click to show/hide)

The Rebel Cruisers finally do open fire.

**Sniff** This is beautiful.