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[EnigmaticHat]

That first Krous run?  I was about to get two achievements and unlock variant B.  I was ONE JUMP away from the jump beacon to system 8, out of fuel, facing a slug cruiser with 2 fucking missile launchers.

I feel the closeness... then my ship exploded.  I put up a good fight at least.

[Rilder]

I managed to get a Vulcan Chain gun in a run with the Lanius ship (Which starts with the Chain laser). Oh my the sheer amount of firepower going into an enemy when those clock up.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Note to self, dont go single ion damage and Burst II plus a Pike beam against the boss. It took away 80% of my health, but I managed to limp to a store, repair fully, and come back swinging with one turn until destruction left.

Happy dance time!

[Myroc]

Spoiler: Fffffffffffffffffffffffffffff- (click to show/hide)

[Rolan7]

Note to self: Don't go bio beam, breacher missile, and small bomb against the boss.  I *knew* my mantis boarding partyboat would have trouble with stage three, I *knew* the super shield would screw me over.  I was hoping that hacking would work, but no joy... couldn't get the triple missile down, and it took turns with the danmaku blaster to overwhelm my cloak and 8 bars of engine.

Fakedit:  Ooooow.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Is there a way of getting more of that new race? I'd prefer to have an entire ship of them, rather than have a mixture.

Yeah. Look for Abandoned Sectors (classed as hostile). The Lanius are everywhere in them, and you might get lucky. I got one from a Federation outpost that was under attack there.

[GlyphGryph]

For those wondering, the engi class C is a sombined engi/new race ship. Basically has all of the new comonents.

[Neonivek]

Honestly I actually like how I didn't play this much. Now I get all the new content and the old content and both feel fresh.

Also each C-class has its own unlock method. (Two methods)

[miauw62]

Pfff. One guy has gotten to the boss with an amusing tactic: he vented all of his rooms except for the engine and the pilot's room. Boarding parties just suffocate.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[GlyphGryph]

So he used the standard Vortex approach, then? Hah.

How do you unlock C-class ships?

Get to sector 8 with the type-B of that ship. Doesn't even require beating the boss.

[Haspen]

I think that triple Burst Laser mk2 were of great help as well in that endeavour

[GlyphGryph]

I'm happy to have made it on normal with the Vortex, I think I can safely move up to "hard" for all the other ships and still have an easier time of it, heh.

[Neonivek]

UGH! I stink now!

I used to at least be able to consistently get to the 8th quad unless I had particular bad luck (Fighting the next tier of ship... in the first sector... OUCH!)

[EnigmaticHat]

I... think the game got harder even on normal?  I may have just gotten rusty though.  Or gotten unlucky, I've only played a few runs.

Also, I can confirm that the rebel cruisers now fire even on normal, and its nearly impossible to charge up your engines before they get a lock.  I found this out because I went far out of my way to gather scrap for a store I knew had a pre-igniter.

The sad thing was I was using a quad charge laser and it only pre-ignited to the first level D:

Flak cannons are AMAZING.

Two MK IIs and one MK I managed to destroy the flagship. They ripped through the super shield (and regular, for that matter), and turned all but one of the enemy crew into a fine paste splattered across the walls.

The best thing is flak cannon + hacked helm or engines.  The worst thing is flak cannons when you desperately need to disable a tiny room,

[HFS]

Rebel Cruisers fire on Easy too, I think.