Hard mode - 20 ships victory screenshots

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Vruchtgebruik
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Hard mode - 20 ships victory screenshots

Postby Vruchtgebruik » Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:56 am

I finally finished all ships in hard mode,

Here are the screenshots of the 20 last victory (didnt thought of making it before...)
If you guys want to see some ships setups.
It took me A LOT of time to get there :geek:

gallery : http://postimg.org/gallery/6fvgsu06/89c716a6/

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shadowcrust
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Re: Hard mode - 20 ships victory screenshots

Postby shadowcrust » Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:36 am

Well done and welcome to the forum - do you perhaps know your win/lose ratio in hard mode, or have you built upon your pre-AE profile?
Vruchtgebruik
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Re: Hard mode - 20 ships victory screenshots

Postby Vruchtgebruik » Tue Jun 24, 2014 5:45 pm

Hi, thanks,

well I did finish it already before the AE, and was pretty amazed by this challenging hard mode.
I can't estimate properly the win/lose ratio, would say its 1 boss for around 5 games.
And boss fights are maybe 1 success out of 2, that would make 1/10 win ratio.
There are usually two scenarios : you barely get to the boss just to get smoked,
or you win it quite easily.

my tips would be : avoid stores as long as you don't absolutely need something, I usually need to buy at least one offensive weapon.
My favorite augmentation is the weapon pre-igniter :)
shadowcrust
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Re: Hard mode - 20 ships victory screenshots

Postby shadowcrust » Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:33 pm

Thanks for sharing! There was a friendly exchange of arguments some weeks earlier whether the designers' goal that about 10% of all games should be winnable was met or not. Your statistics support the notion that the designers did well; too bad that I was on the side that said they failed :P We still need more statistical support from other players, though :-)