Who has actually beaten this on normal?

[samseng813]

I only use my first 3 times to play easy till final boss for more understanding.
Then strictly NORMAL all the game.

Currently
- 170 games (include many Sector 1 restart), 11 Victories (After minus 1 easy for first time Kestrel).
- Remain Crystal Ship and Mantis Ship yet to unlock, every ship layout got it.
- All ships able reach final boss on NORMAL
- Ship that beat final boss on NORMAL. Kestrel, Red-Tail, Osprey, Torus, Bulwark(2 times), Shivan(4 times), Nesasio, Noether.

Edit : add tips

1) Defense Drone 1 to intercept enemy missile. This will result in your save more scraps to repair more than the Drone Control cost.
2) Sometimes, instead of blow up enemy ship. Just kill their crew to get better reward. You can burn, or create hull breach, bomb, anti bio beam, take their O2, boarding....
3) Know when to take down enemy weapon system
4) Keep a variety of weapon or drone equipped even though you never want use them. They're useful to guarantee you good result option (blue) in many events without taking any risk.
5) Do not immediate upgrade your ship when you got the scrap.
6) In order to become good, make Nebula your good friend.
7) Yes I am a Kickstarter backer of this game.

[Sacarathe]

110 hours of the game, first 35, which i regret were on normal, only reached the boss 3 times.

Since then, on easy ive beat it with 7 ships, some ships on my first attempt, easy really is too easy.

At 102 hours i beat with red tail on normal(attempt 2)

Dont know if i cba to unlock cystal on easy, easy is just boring now. But chances of getting it on normal are like nill, as i dont always survive.

[samseng813]

Just beat it again with Shivan.
Ion Bomb, Heavy Laser 2, Burst Laser 2, Pike Beam
Has drone system and teleporter.

The reason I keep beating it with Shivan is......
I want to unlock the secret ship, and now everyday 1 round of Shivan. End up beat the final boss on normal without any more special feeling with Shivan ship

[TJJ]

All games on normal; 38 played, 4 victories. (Kestrel, Osprey, Torus & Nesasio in that order.)

So far I've unlocked Kestrel + Red-Tail, Nesasio + DA-SR 12, Torus + Vortex, Osprey + Nisos, and Adjudicator.

I don't tend to rage quit any games; would rather see the misfortune unravel.

[gingerbill]

I wish I'd kickstarted this ... but I wasn't around on kickstarter (yet).

73 normal runs, 68 victories.
15 easy runs, 14 victories.

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i dont believe you got 68 victories from 73 runs on normal. Maybe if you jsut repeated the same boarding tactic over and over.

[swixel]

I wish I'd kickstarted this ... but I wasn't around on kickstarter (yet).

73 normal runs, 68 victories.
15 easy runs, 14 victories.

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i dont believe you got 68 victories from 73 runs on normal. Maybe if you jsut repeated the same boarding tactic over and over.

That'd require the same gear. And my stats took a dive after posting that ... mostly the same first three sectors tanking, and half a dozen really bad sector gens (literally no exit links, and I mean I tried them all before giving up, even fighting the rebels).

I think a lot of people miss the opportunity to explore the first two sectors ... and lack the judgement (due to inexperience) to pick which nodes/beacons link.

Anyway, my lowest finishing score is 2700, which should give you an idea of the vast amount of jumping involved in ensuring I have enough weapons (read: missiles, drone parts, and some equipment) in stock to finish it. All of that said, with some ships (cf. crystal ship) you can survive the thing with only stock weapons and boarding...

You play the game as the game presents itself; nethack (and various other games thereafter) taught me that. Adapt or die. It's why I'm so surprised people find this all that difficult.

[marksteele]

people find it difficult because it has a fairly steep learning curve. I mean they just kinda throw you in there after a mini-tutorial. Plus a lot of them don't bother to read guides/wiki's.

[nfiea]

people find it difficult because it has a fairly steep learning curve. I mean they just kinda throw you in there after a mini-tutorial. Plus a lot of them don't bother to read guides/wiki's.

people find it hard becasue random events frequntly end good runs

I don't believe the guy that is saying he only lost 5 times; maybe he is only counting times he made it to the boss lol

[Moosicorn]

I beat it once for first time yesterday I survived the drones with 4 shields and 50% dodge

[Paladynian]

Just beat normal yesterday. Used the Engi ship, had the starting Ion, Fire Beam, Max Teleporter + 2xMantis party, Max Cloak, 3 shields, starting anti-ship drone + defence drone.

First off you send your boarding party to take out the #3 weapon, the multi-missile launcher. When that is torn apart, then the #2 multi-Ion. Until that happens, cloak to avoid the missiles, then the ion. Once all the weapons are done just keep their shield down with the ion and burn and drone the ship to pieces.

Second phase, save the cloak for the drone power surge. Again ion the shields, drone and fire the ship to death.

Third phase save the cloak for the beam spam power surge, ion the shields, drone and fire the ship.