A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

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A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby wolfboyft » Sat Dec 26, 2015 2:07 pm

Hi! I'm wolfboyft, and I'm going to act as though I'm anew member here, because hopefully none of you remember me.
Just decided to pick this game back up today and see how enjoyable it really is once again.

Now, look at the painful Steam screenshot below:

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Rebel flagship on one hull. Why did I have to die, though? Simply because I didn't think about how damned important it actually is to fully break their super missile systems. *Sighs.*
A very painful experience in the ordinary Kestrel Cruiser, on easy difficulty too! With Advanced Edition features enabled. Ugh.
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Re: A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby wolfboyft » Sat Dec 26, 2015 7:22 pm

Oh wait.

There are stages.
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Re: A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby stylesrj » Sat Dec 26, 2015 10:10 pm

Be sure to kill all the Flagship's crew except for the guy operating the triple lasers. You don't want the ship to be devoid of crew. It's dangerous.
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Re: A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby wolfboyft » Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:28 am

stylesrj wrote:Be sure to kill all the Flagship's crew except for the guy operating the triple lasers. You don't want the ship to be devoid of crew. It's dangerous.


Yeah I remember it all now, except for how many stages the flagship has.

How many?
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Re: A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby stylesrj » Sun Dec 27, 2015 11:46 am

There are three stages. One for each wing you destroy.
Yes somehow by shooting at the ship's centre, you only blow up a wing.
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Re: A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby dyno101 » Mon Dec 28, 2015 7:05 am

stylesrj wrote:There are three stages. One for each wing you destroy.
Yes somehow by shooting at the ship's centre, you only blow up a wing.


That is interesting.
No matter what complicated structure you build, shooting at a part or hitting it with a blast wave will decrease that part's integrity, and the flagship is obviously not designed to channel a blast wave to the wing structures.
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Re: A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby Braxbro » Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:43 pm

dyno101 wrote:
stylesrj wrote:There are three stages. One for each wing you destroy.
Yes somehow by shooting at the ship's centre, you only blow up a wing.


That is interesting.
No matter what complicated structure you build, shooting at a part or hitting it with a blast wave will decrease that part's integrity, and the flagship is obviously not designed to channel a blast wave to the wing structures.

I call the Flagship a witch and I try to burn it alive when I see it. Either that or breach it a lot...

Or just kill it in twenty four seconds with a whole lot of pewpew...
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Re: A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby stylesrj » Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:59 pm

I don't think the Flagship is a witch. Because witches are made of wood. And wood floats. You know what else floats? A duck!

Now if someone could make a ship that resembles a duck...
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Re: A very painful new game experience-- on easy, too!

Postby Braxbro » Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:37 pm

stylesrj wrote:I don't think the Flagship is a witch. Because witches are made of wood. And wood floats. You know what else floats? A duck!

Now if someone could make a ship that resembles a duck...


... Maybe the Flagship is a ship built by super advanced witch ducks disguised as humans! It would explain those Rebel Riggers with twin BLII's, a Pre-Igniter, and twin Attack II drones... :P

Many fake killers. MFK. Seems legit...
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