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Slug Battle!

After spending a very long time and managed to down 3 guys, I give up... ... No matter how hard I try, I just can't kill the remaining 2 dudes on the ship with the zapper beam; at least 1 of them must be Engi since they repair the medbay so quickly...




And gosh... This would be one hell of a battle if I didn't have the Def MK2 drone!

*Playing boss battle*
WOOHOO IM DOING IT! IM WINNING!
*Starts to break*
YESYES I WON!
*There is a stage 2!*
NOOOO!
Welll, atleast I damaged it, Ill finish him.
*1 billion drones approaching*
Crap.
*Dies*
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--------------

Every time I try (try being the very key word there) to kill the boss. I think the only way to beat it at this point is to go in and edit its shields and weapons down to nothing at this point. lol

Really though, that boss can go to hell and rot there. It ruins the whole game.

RAAAAAAAGGGE

I've been trying to get the Crystal Cruiser for the last few rounds. The first time, I manage to get the stasis pod, unlock the crystal crewmember, but never find the rock homeworlds (the last red sector I can go to is 'Rock controlled words', for an additional 'fuck you' from the RNG). Round two, I find the pod very early on, but all I've got before me are red and nebula sectors, so no chance to open the stasis pod. Round three (this morning), I find not one, but two stasis pods, get them both open. I even make it to the rock homeworlds, where the gate to the crystal system is nowhere to be found before the rebels control all of the systems. I had one last jump to check before the entire sector was overrun. It turned out to be a store. Fuck you, FTL. FUCK YOU IN YOUR FUCKING FACE.

Tarlok wrote:Every time I try (try being the very key word there) to kill the boss. I think the only way to beat it at this point is to go in and edit its shields and weapons down to nothing at this point. lol

Really though, that boss can go to hell and rot there. It ruins the whole game.

The reason it's hard to defeat is that it follows a specific pattern of attacks that have to be learned and countered. That takes several attempts, and given how hard it is to reach the end, i can understand your frustration. Cloaking to evade power surges is a huge bonus to your chances.

Also on killing the boss, a way to destroy specific systems (namely that three-barreled missile launcher of doom) is pretty important. Boarders are pretty good at that, as are bombs (missiles tend to get shot down before they reach their target).

I was in the Zoltan B, after a pretty good start, in sector 3. I had upgraded my defenses a lot, and bought a new laser waiting for a weapons system upgrade. Just before my weapons system was able to deal with better enemy shields, don't remember if 2 or 3, surprise! A rebel ship with such shields comes. But that's not the fun part. It had a 3-shot laser, a missile launcher, a laser drone, and a beam drone. In f****ng sector 3. They tore through my zoltan shield in less than 5 seconds, through my energy shield in less than 5 seconds, lasered the hell out of my piloting and shields systems, and set about 5 different fires over my ship. All that happened before 30 seconds had passed, my FTL drive was far from ready to jump. I couldn't flee at any moment. I couldn't touch his ship. He even had a f'kin medbay, so not even my imporvised boarding party would have been able to help. Oh, and to add insult to injury, it was in an engi sector, not even in a rebel controlled one.

That's the only defect of this awesome game. Sometimes, no matter how well you are doing, and how experienced you are, and how well you prepared, the game says "fuck you". You say "but...", and the game says "no, stfu, you're dead". And it's under no circumstance fun to fail when you had no means of preventing it.

If you spent 100 scraps and buy the shield, none of this would happen, and you certainly have 100 scraps by sector 3...

The game is frustrating at time, yes. But don't let your rage clouded your intellect; learn from your mistake.

Finally unlocked Crystal B. I start a game in Normal. Feeling ballsy!

First jump: a Zoltan cruiser with attack ship drone, hull laser and missile. Nice...
I cloak to dodge the first laser/missile volley, cockpit, shield and engines are manned. I am staring at the FTL loading...

Cloak ends. Drone takes out the shields, missile and laser hit, respectively, door system and shields, while starting fires in door system... I cannot vent, so I have to send a crew to the door system to take out the fire+fix it.
I somehow manage to FTL jump with 3 hull, all my systems dead but cockpit/engines, fires everywhere, and low oxygen, to a beacon... with Mantis pirate. Game over.

edit: score = 37.

I almost always get tons and tons of missile ships in the first and second sectors.