I made it to the end boss!
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Leon
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
Playing on Normal mode and using The Krestel, I can get to sector three without having any difficulties, sector four is where it kind of gets hard, and once I reach sector five, I just get wrecked on the first battle I have there
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kswill
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
*Spoiler*Spoiler*Spoiler*
So after I get to the boss battle on easy (which is sooo much easier than normal) I didnt have much trouble taking him down. I had 3rd level of shields upgraded, an ion missile, a 3 power missile and a 3 power laser, which wasnt very effective. I used the level 1 anti ship drone and had 2 power into my stealth. Problem is, to power all of that I had to steal all the power from my engines. So after I defeated the mother ship for the 1st time, it just warped away and gave me the game over screen. Did I screw up by not having power to my engines at the end of the fight? Would I have needed two power to the engines or just one? And how the hell would I have known that? Seemed like kind of a swift kick to the nuts after being very excited at how much success I was having in that round. Anyone confirm about the engine power at end of boss battle?
So far enjoying beta very much, but kind of frustrated with the ending to that round!
So after I get to the boss battle on easy (which is sooo much easier than normal) I didnt have much trouble taking him down. I had 3rd level of shields upgraded, an ion missile, a 3 power missile and a 3 power laser, which wasnt very effective. I used the level 1 anti ship drone and had 2 power into my stealth. Problem is, to power all of that I had to steal all the power from my engines. So after I defeated the mother ship for the 1st time, it just warped away and gave me the game over screen. Did I screw up by not having power to my engines at the end of the fight? Would I have needed two power to the engines or just one? And how the hell would I have known that? Seemed like kind of a swift kick to the nuts after being very excited at how much success I was having in that round. Anyone confirm about the engine power at end of boss battle?
So far enjoying beta very much, but kind of frustrated with the ending to that round!
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Justin
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
kswill wrote:*Spoiler*Spoiler*Spoiler*
So after I get to the boss battle on easy (which is sooo much easier than normal) I didnt have much trouble taking him down. I had 3rd level of shields upgraded, an ion missile, a 3 power missile and a 3 power laser, which wasnt very effective. I used the level 1 anti ship drone and had 2 power into my stealth. Problem is, to power all of that I had to steal all the power from my engines. So after I defeated the mother ship for the 1st time, it just warped away and gave me the game over screen. Did I screw up by not having power to my engines at the end of the fight? Would I have needed two power to the engines or just one? And how the hell would I have known that? Seemed like kind of a swift kick to the nuts after being very excited at how much success I was having in that round. Anyone confirm about the engine power at end of boss battle?
So far enjoying beta very much, but kind of frustrated with the ending to that round!
There should be a game over if it reaches the federation base but there shouldn't be one if it simply jumps away. Let us know if that keeps happening.
If you're having hull problems, I feel bad for you son. I've got 99 problems but a breach ain't one.
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Colorfulfeces
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
I'm enjoying this immensely. I've been playing while my friend watches me through a video on MSN. There are some crazy close deaths and some of it is down right ridiculous but I've loved every second. I just wish that there were more sectors to go through, would make the difficulty curve a lot less stressful.
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AJTilley
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
Ive only played on normal so far, admittdely after sector 5 on normal it gets very hard, but as long as you work hard in early sectors to build your primary weapon and your shields you should be able to carry on oh and make sure you get blast doors for those pesky intruders.
Anyway on normal the boss is very hard, as i can get to him on normal it seems silly to go to easy to try and get to it jut to complete the game, id rather keep the challenge high and explore more.
So far i have only unlocked the engi's ship.
Anyway on normal the boss is very hard, as i can get to him on normal it seems silly to go to easy to try and get to it jut to complete the game, id rather keep the challenge high and explore more.
So far i have only unlocked the engi's ship.
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the_draconian
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
I just beat the first stage of the boss quite easily using 2 burst lasers mark III. Unfortunately, the second stage was a classic oh sh... moment
I found upgrading the engines and having a good pilot and engineer for high evasion helped because the boss hits so hard your shields get torn in seconds.
I found upgrading the engines and having a good pilot and engineer for high evasion helped because the boss hits so hard your shields get torn in seconds.
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TenLetters
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
The boss is far more daunting when you don't know what's going on.
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He only has one missile weapon. The rest are all lasers. The missile weapon is the 3rd from the left (the "middle right" weapon). Since each weapon area is self contained and has one person operating them, you can easily disable the missile by either teleporting 2 people on board or just focusing it. Once that part is dead the fight is pretty much sealed every time.
If you have a 3 or 4 shields (and someone manning them), you should be able to tank everything with just the shields. In phases 2 and 3 of the boss, using a Stealth completely negates his special ability each time. If you have 2 power in stealth it'll be up by the time he uses it again.
Then it's just a march to victory. Although a slow march if your weapons suck (first time I beat him I was using 3 ion weapons on the Engineer ship, and 2 Anti-Ship drones. Not. Fast. At. All.)
Really, I think as long as you have 3-4 Shields and Stealth you should be good pretty much no matter else you have.
SPOILERS
He only has one missile weapon. The rest are all lasers. The missile weapon is the 3rd from the left (the "middle right" weapon). Since each weapon area is self contained and has one person operating them, you can easily disable the missile by either teleporting 2 people on board or just focusing it. Once that part is dead the fight is pretty much sealed every time.
If you have a 3 or 4 shields (and someone manning them), you should be able to tank everything with just the shields. In phases 2 and 3 of the boss, using a Stealth completely negates his special ability each time. If you have 2 power in stealth it'll be up by the time he uses it again.
Then it's just a march to victory. Although a slow march if your weapons suck (first time I beat him I was using 3 ion weapons on the Engineer ship, and 2 Anti-Ship drones. Not. Fast. At. All.)
Really, I think as long as you have 3-4 Shields and Stealth you should be good pretty much no matter else you have.
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kshh
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
I reached the boss on normal in about my 10th game with the Kestrel and
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defeated the first stage without many problems. At that point I was running a 3 Laser(2 Burst MK II and 1 of the decent 1 energy ones, dont remember the name) and 1 missile (artemis) setup with a defense Mk II shooting down incoming fire.
With three shield and 35% dodge this resulted in very little hull damage.
On the second stage i got my arse handed to me tho. All those drones made my defense drone almost useless. The problem were the beam drones. If your shields are disabled even for a moment, they'll tear up your ship like nobody's business. Within seconds my crew was putting out fires all over the place and half my systems were disabled.
/SPOILER /SPOILER
All in good fun tho, I very much enjoyed losing to the boss. I would have been disappointed if I'd beaten the game that quickly.
SPOILER * SPOILER *
defeated the first stage without many problems. At that point I was running a 3 Laser(2 Burst MK II and 1 of the decent 1 energy ones, dont remember the name) and 1 missile (artemis) setup with a defense Mk II shooting down incoming fire.
With three shield and 35% dodge this resulted in very little hull damage.
On the second stage i got my arse handed to me tho. All those drones made my defense drone almost useless. The problem were the beam drones. If your shields are disabled even for a moment, they'll tear up your ship like nobody's business. Within seconds my crew was putting out fires all over the place and half my systems were disabled.
/SPOILER /SPOILER
All in good fun tho, I very much enjoyed losing to the boss. I would have been disappointed if I'd beaten the game that quickly.
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cyrilthefish
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
I nearly got the end boss!
Engi ship with 4bars of shield, the initial 2x ion weapons and a 3-power breach missile (the ONLY weapon i found in the entire playthrough, nothing for sale anywhere o.O)
a lvl2 defense drone and 2x lvl1 attack drones.
was a case of sticking the ion weapons on the shield and drone parts of the mothership, then hammering the shields with the breach missiles until the attack drones could get through.
Unfortunately i made the mistake of jumping away to repair after the second phase, not realizing it was game over if it reached the home base! Not sure if i could have made it with the hull at red level, but it was possible i think... grr
Engi ship with 4bars of shield, the initial 2x ion weapons and a 3-power breach missile (the ONLY weapon i found in the entire playthrough, nothing for sale anywhere o.O)
a lvl2 defense drone and 2x lvl1 attack drones.
was a case of sticking the ion weapons on the shield and drone parts of the mothership, then hammering the shields with the breach missiles until the attack drones could get through.
Unfortunately i made the mistake of jumping away to repair after the second phase, not realizing it was game over if it reached the home base! Not sure if i could have made it with the hull at red level, but it was possible i think... grr
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Doubler
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Re: I made it to the end boss!
Finally beat it on easy. I got a lucky run and ended up with two Burst Laser II's, a Hull Laser II and a Pegasus Missile launcher. That, as well as maxed out shields, nearly maxed out engines, plenty of crew, a Defense Drone I and two Reinforced Hull augmentations (no idea whether they stack) and a Reloader augmentation made it very easy.
I could use both burst lasers and one of the other two. Used the missiles to take out important sub-systems, then switched to the hull laser for damage. I only took two damage total during all three fights (though I resisted a couple of hits too).
Now to try on normal
I could use both burst lasers and one of the other two. Used the missiles to take out important sub-systems, then switched to the hull laser for damage. I only took two damage total during all three fights (though I resisted a couple of hits too).
Now to try on normal