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by Arbit 10/03/2012, 11:27am PDT |
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fabio wrote:
Burst lasers all the way. Slightly less damaging once the shields are down in exchange for infinity times better at getting the shields down in the first place. First time I beat it was with two burst laser IIs and a Hull laser.
That doesn't make any sense. Your third burst weapon isn't helping take down the shields - the burst fire from the first two takes down the shields, then your hull laser is doing the damage. You could swap out the hull laser for a halberd and inflict way more damage.
Fire the hull laser at an empty room and you're doing damage on par with a halberd beam.
Beams are better. You can miss with a hull laser and the best you can hope for is 6 damage with no damage to systems and maybe a hull breach, but a hull breach in an empty room doesn't do much. Against an unshielded ship, you're guaranteed at least 6 damage as it's trivial to hit three rooms. If you're looking to maximize damage I bet you could hit four rooms for 8 damage and you pretty much can't help but hit a system or two. Hitting, say, engines shields and weapons for two damage apiece - very possible against some ship layouts - is much better since those systems need to be repaired before they get the bonus for being manned.
Are you not pausing the game or something? If you use the space bar and time your shots it should be pretty easy to sneak in a halberd shot while their shields are down.
The RNG with the encounters isn't bothering me so much more, but the shop items are driving me crazy. Why yes, two shops in a row offering to sell more crewmen to my fully crewed ship, with 5 out of 6 of the crew for sale are worthless slugs. Sure I'm flying an Engie ship, so why on earth would I ever want to buy drones? Keep offering me bottom of the barrel missile launchers!
If you don't get at least one good shop offering by the time enemy ships start getting 2 shields, you might as well start over.
I find you have to get pretty creative and use whatever gets offered, because holding out for a burst laser II that never comes is a recipe for failure. Right now I've got an engie A ship with the default ion gun, fire bomb, and pike beam (found the pike) and a defense I, attack I, and boarding drone. I can't do shit for direct damage but the flaming robot invasion force is hilarious and surprisingly effective so far. |
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FTL by fabio 09/15/2012, 2:01pm PDT 
The big problem with this game though by fabio 09/15/2012, 2:48pm PDT
Re: The big problem with this game though by Cannibal Dave 09/16/2012, 10:08pm PDT
The Engi ship? by fabio 09/17/2012, 9:18am PDT
Re: The Engi ship? by Cannibal Dave 09/17/2012, 11:25am PDT
decent Stone Soup players have a 40% win ratio by Mysterio 09/15/2012, 4:24pm PDT
There's just too much randomness by fabio 09/16/2012, 4:40pm PDT
LK apparently has this. Will wait for him to spill the secret. by fabio 09/16/2012, 9:12pm PDT
Re: LK apparently has this. Will wait for him to spill the secret. by Lizard_King 10/23/2012, 8:51pm PDT
Roguelikes are akin to counting cards in Blackjack by Mischief Maker 09/17/2012, 8:03am PDT
Here's what I hate about FTL by Mischief Maker 09/17/2012, 2:57pm PDT
I could've sworn sometimes the stopped charging when you were cloaked by fabio 09/17/2012, 3:19pm PDT
The better I get at this, the more this is the game I wanted Weird Worlds to be. by Mischief Maker 09/18/2012, 9:34am PDT
Re: The better I get at this, the more this is the game I wanted Weird by fabio 09/18/2012, 11:28am PDT
Re: The better I get at this, the more this is the game I wanted Weird by Mischief Maker 09/18/2012, 1:18pm PDT
Re: The better I get at this, the more this is the game I wanted Weird by fabio 09/18/2012, 2:19pm PDT
I figured out what ion weapons are good for... by Mischief Maker 09/23/2012, 7:09pm PDT
This game is pretty good by Arbit 09/21/2012, 11:21am PDT
Yeah the max system power is always the bottleneck, never total power available NT by fabio 09/22/2012, 5:01pm PDT
Nerd Interlude by Mischief Maker 09/25/2012, 6:25am PDT
The Next Generation movies dont count by fabio 09/25/2012, 12:48pm PDT
Re: The Next Generation movies dont count by Mischief Maker 09/25/2012, 2:18pm PDT
Look by Arbit 09/25/2012, 2:56pm PDT
Here's a beginner's guide I wrote for gog by Mischief Maker 09/24/2012, 12:29pm PDT
Never found beam weapons terribly useful by fabio 09/24/2012, 1:40pm PDT
I found the halberd beam useful by Arbit 09/24/2012, 7:45pm PDT
Unlocked some ships, beat it once by fabio 09/29/2012, 3:34pm PDT
I dunno how people take out the flagship without beams by Mischief Maker 09/30/2012, 9:27am PDT
I dunno how people get anywhere with beams by fabio 09/30/2012, 11:32am PDT
Ion the bridge, man. by Macho Maker 09/30/2012, 1:02pm PDT
Re: Ion the bridge, man. by fabio 09/30/2012, 1:29pm PDT
and holy shit how does anyone beat this on normal NT by fabio 09/30/2012, 1:49pm PDT
Oh yeah, also: by Macho Maker 09/30/2012, 2:35pm PDT
Re: I dunno how people get anywhere with beams by Arbit 10/03/2012, 11:27am PDT
Just won with flaming invasions by fabio 10/03/2012, 12:29pm PDT
Speaking of useless components... by Magic Underwear Maker 10/03/2012, 3:14pm PDT
Re: Speaking of useless components... by motherfuckerfoodeater 10/03/2012, 3:26pm PDT
Re: Speaking of useless components... by Arbit 10/03/2012, 5:05pm PDT
Slow firing ion guns, one shot lasers, mini beams by fabio 10/03/2012, 8:24pm PDT
The hidden flaw of indie games by WITTGENSTEIN 12/30/2012, 9:55pm PST
Is any game still fun after the gamefaqqots get done with it? by Mischief Maker 12/30/2012, 10:40pm PST
ACTUAL PUNCHLINE: Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. by E.B. White 12/30/2012, 11:01pm PST
This is a great point by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/05/2013, 2:16pm PST
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