The Stealth Ship B is missing a room!

[spacecadet13]

I finally figured out why this ship is so tough to play! It is missing a room.

A Chapel.

So your crew can join you in praying that the shots the other ship has fired at you as you cloak (or, after your cloak runs out, take your pick) misses, or if they do hit they don't hit your weapons room. 'Cuase if they do, grab hold of your ankles and kiss your a$$ goodbye!

And pray that the next ship doesn't have a drone. Maybe give thanks the the ship that's currently tearing you a new one doesn't have a drone? It just seems to me that prayer is what is required for this ship to make it. You need more luck than is required to unlock the crystal ships to get even 3 or 4 sectors with this sucker. I loathe it. Just about every other ship, I feel I've got a chance with if I get "average' luck during the game. This ship? I know from the start, unless I get exceptionally lucky, I'm not gonna get remotely near the boss (on normal, i have won on easy with it - the only ship that took me more goes to win with was the Slug B..) I think what I loathe about it is that I know IT COULD BE AWESOME - IF, IF - I can get enough scrap and the right weapons/augments/crew. But that just NEVER happens.

I've tried uping the engines and boosting evasion, got the cloaking up to three ASAP, made very little difference. hit to the weapons room or come up against a drone, you just end up taking punishment till you can jump out. Hell, one run I even lucked into a reloader and an Ion Blast. Sweet, here we go! - or so I thought.Got boarded by two mantis that took out piloting and doors real fast, and guess which room the first missle landed in? Thats the other thing, very hard to vent this ship - if the boarders are towards the front you have to vent just about every room to get to the room they are in.

Oh, and lining up the Glaive Beam to hit as many rooms as possible is fiddly too. And I don't like the colour. In fact I want someone to put a mod together that allows me to play as a Rebel Rigger (with a beam drone) and just be able to fight wave after wave of the Stealth B, just so I can see the freaking thing in flames and exploding over and over and over again!

Rant over. By golly, that feels better!

[THEBANDIT240]

Just buy shields asap

[Moosicorn]

Upgrade your cloak so you can rip ships apart in one swipe with glaive

[spacecadet13]

"Just buy shields asap" ? That's almost 200 scrap though! Or roughly 12 normal encounters you have to win, and survive, to accumulate that much AND not spend any on upgrading your cloak and engines or buying fuel or repairs.

Upgrading the cloak does let you one-shot weak ships, but as soon as you meet anything with a drone..... and then anything stronger with 2 shields and a layout that makes it impossible to hit the shields and weapons with one shot?