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I haven't played FTL in a week or so since I got tired of losing everytime. According to the stats, I have played over 50 sessions and only beat the game once, with about 3,800 score on normal.

I booted up the game today and played on easy with the rock ship A Bulwark. I managed to do pretty good and unlocked the mantis ship and RockShip B for getting some achievements. Then I beat the game with a score of 4,200.

So I tried out the Rock Ship B and ended up beating the game again, twice in a row on easy with a score of 4,800. I had bought everything, and upgraded every system and the reactor by the middle of the 7th sector.
Weapons:
Breach missile
Fire Bomb
Heavy Laser
Healing burst

Defense Drone
Hull Repair Drone

8 crew: 5 rockmen, 1 crystal, 1 engie, 1 zoltan. Had to turn down extra crew constantly. Its like the game wanted me to win. I never had this good of luck before the newest patch.

I keep finding that stasis pod, but never find a rock homeworld sector to finish that quest.

Nevermind, just played on normal and died horribly in sector 2.

Yeah, I really doubt that the devs are making gameplay changes right now -- their priority is just to fix the bugs that are keeping people from playing the game they paid for.

I've also heard that the Rockman ships are the easiest to win with. I'd believe it for the A ship anyway -- that thing is a beast. Particularly, the door layout is horribly punishing for anyone who dares board it. Get some extra crew and a teleporter and you're good to go. Hell, they even put the teleporter right next to the medbay!

I've found a glaive beam, a pegasus, and 2 automated reloaders in the first 3 sectors, massacred everything.
The game right before that, I hit 3 zoltan ships in a row first sector, died horribly.
The RNG is still very fickle.

The only significant gameplay change is the option to display links between nodes, which makes navigating the sectors a bit easier.

Derakon wrote:I've also heard that the Rockman ships are the easiest to win with. I'd believe it for the A ship anyway -- that thing is a beast. Particularly, the door layout is horribly punishing for anyone who dares board it. Get some extra crew and a teleporter and you're good to go. Hell, they even put the teleporter right next to the medbay!

Rock A is the only ship I've actually lost with on Easy. Finding no laser or beam weapons at all is bad times! Eventually just ran out of missiles and couldn't do anything..

zarakon wrote:

Derakon wrote:I've also heard that the Rockman ships are the easiest to win with. I'd believe it for the A ship anyway -- that thing is a beast. Particularly, the door layout is horribly punishing for anyone who dares board it. Get some extra crew and a teleporter and you're good to go. Hell, they even put the teleporter right next to the medbay!

Rock A is the only ship I've actually lost with on Easy. Finding no laser or beam weapons at all is bad times! Eventually just ran out of missiles and couldn't do anything..

I actually headed for the crew teleporter as my first purchase and upgraded it to level 3, then worked on shields and engines to keep me alive while I sent 2 waves of rock crew over to take out their crew. I only used missiles to shoot at medbays, otherwise, I saved the ammo. Finished the last boss with over 40 missiles left.