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[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeah, there are a couple of inefficient guns like that. Burst Laser Mk I vs Dual Laser, for instance. The Dual Laser is just flat out better (although I don't think I've ever seen it for sale).

The Basic Laser, Dual Laser, Leto, and Mini Beam are never found ingame. I think there are others too.

[Leafsnail]

Yeah, there are a couple of inefficient guns like that. Burst Laser Mk I vs Dual Laser, for instance. The Dual Laser is just flat out better (although I don't think I've ever seen it for sale).

Dual laser is basically a starting bonus to certain ships, same for Advanced Flak and the special one-power Artemis.  You also have the opposite in Basic Laser (strictly worse than Heavy Laser I).  But this is the only example I can think of where one buyable weapon is strictly worse than another buyable one.

[Draignean]

Yeah, there are a couple of inefficient guns like that. Burst Laser Mk I vs Dual Laser, for instance. The Dual Laser is just flat out better (although I don't think I've ever seen it for sale).

The Basic Laser, Dual Laser, Leto, and Mini Beam are never found ingame. I think there are others too.

You sure about the minibeam? I seem to remember seeing those every great while...

Killed the flagship with Adjudicator. First playthrough on the zolten cruiser since getting the game back, and that ship scored every sinle Zoltan achievement on one run. Dual flack and halberd beam, plus the 30 energy to run a crazy ass number of systems.

[Jim Groovester]

The minibeam is only a starter weapon. It's not available any other way.

[Leafsnail]

The Minibeam actually seems sortof balanced with regards to the rest of the beams, it's odd that you can't buy it.

It might be that they're reluctant to put damage dealers at 1 power though, considering that the only other buyable one is Heavy Laser I.

[Solymr]

I just did the most overpowering run with Fed B.

Max shields, max art beam, max cloak, flak gun II, pegasus missiles, teleporter with 2 mantis, weapon preigniter and stealth weapons. Also full crew which I didn't lose a member.

Did the first 2 stages of flagships with no damage taken, and the last was just me all out trolling it.

[Darkmere]

Well I finally got one of them there Vulcan cannons all the cool kids are talking about these days.

Floating in space. Alone. In sector 2.

On the Lanius B.

I ended the game with a Vulcan, advanced flak, two Lanius boarders, two mantis boarders, a cloaking device, and a weapons auto-loader. I didn't even have time to take out the missile turret in phase 3 before I had to abandon the exploding flagship. I also carried a Pegasus launcher through about half the game, never fired it once. It was silly.

[Mageziya]

Does anyone know how on earth you're supposed to play slug a?

Okay, I know how, down shields with breach bomb or dual laser and proceed to kill crew with Anti-Bio Beam.

It just takes too long. By the time I finally get around to killing the crew the damage on the ship is pretty bad. It's also gg if shields are hit and engines practically don't do anything in the early game.

[GlyphGryph]

I actually, for the first several sectors, aim almost exclusively at *weapons* with the breach bomb, and then use my dual laser (also aimed at weapons, or medbay if there is one) to down the shields for the beam to get through whenever it's time to.

I also try to get a teleporter ASAP, combined with the anti-bio-beam boarding becomes super fun. (and you can take on very large enemy crews with just two boarders)

[Solymr]

Just won with Engi A. Flak II and any beam is awesome.
Also fk mind control. Stage three controlled one of my boarders vs the other. Fortunately the non controlled one won and took down trilauncher.

[Solymr]

Can't get hacking with cloaking and teleporter on the engi A, it turned out good anyways.
RIP mindcontrolled mantis you will be forgotten.

[Mageziya]

Well I just came across a very interesting message. This is the only instance in FTL I've seen where Earth is mentioned.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Earth was invaded by Mantis?

[stabbymcstabstab]

-snip-

That does sound like something that would happen.

[EnigmaticHat]

Well I just came across a very interesting message. This is the only instance in FTL I've seen where Earth is mentioned.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Earth was invaded by Mantis?

There's a creepy event where a Mantis tells you that "all humans in this sector have been punished for the Federation's infractions" or something very close to that wording.  So presumably the Federation won.  Not only that, there's this weird political web in FTL you get if you see enough events.

The Federation and Engi are allies in fact but not technically.  The Engi cannot afford a war with the rebels, while the federation presumably can't or won't fight the Mantis who are overwhelming the Engi.  The Engi also built an experimental warship for the Federation, while the Federation has Engi citizens, including some soldiers.  The Rebels also can't afford a war with the Engi, but they are still at odds and the rebellion tries to destroy the experimental warship by pretending to be Mantis.  The Mantis may or may not have helped the rebels with that, but probably not because the Mantis seem to fight everyone at the same time.  The Zoltan, Rockmen and Slugs are all neutral and separate from the conflict, for varying reasons.

I personally think that FTL is filled with "hero of another story" moments.  Some of the refugees and pirates you meet probably have stories just as interesting as yours, you just never see them.

[Rolan7]

Yeah, there's a lot of backstory which isn't focused on but is present nonetheless.  Like how mantis ships almost always have engi crewmembers, and the engi sectors have a lot of mantis raiders.  One could even speculate as to why these engi seem loyal to their mantis captors (or dismiss it as gameplay or survival).  Reminds me of babysnatched dwarves coming back in goblin raids.