NO.

Finally! On Easy. Had to wait until I unlocked the Red Tail, which is great. Got the stealth fighter too but it's bobbins.

Have this now too. Cool.

Ran into another Mantis Fighter orbiting a sun. In the future i'm just going to jump from those fights.

Venting so many doors to fight the fires and Mantis boarding, my ship was low on oxygen. Then with the enemy ship's swan song they took out my O2 unit and despite jumping to another system, my lone surviving crew member suffocated trying to repair it. Oh balls. I blame mod.

AJ_ wrote:

I'm doing rubbish at unlocking new ships.  Any hints?

They give you hints on the ship select screen (under list). That's all I can offer.

AJ_ wrote:

I had a quick look at those, but they seemed pretty obtuse to me.  I was sure I was doing a quest for one before and it turned out to be no such thing, for instance.  Guess I'll just have to keep an eye out for things that look promising.

There is a good guide on the FTL website forum. But if you think that is too close to cheating then, yes, look out for clues.

You don't get the opportunity to unlock new ships each game either, needs a bit of luck.

However, something you have more control over are the alternative ship layouts. You unlock these by completing 2 out of 3 achievements for each ship. The different layouts mean you have different weapons/perks.

Drones + Ion weapons seem the biz. Unless you're stuck in a plasma storm fuck that just leg it.

Think I'll see how things go before using an actual guide to get the ships, make everything a bit more exciting.

djchump wrote:

Damnit it doesn't use SteamCloud so hasn't synced over my save from home to my work PC

Noooo!  I've just had to reinstall my OS and installed FTL through Steam for that very reason.

No sure why sometimes my O2 just runs out by itself and regularly my weapons just stop working. Says there's no power. Where has the power gone?

Ok. It seemed in one game my ship just died for no reason. All the oxygen ran out and there was nothing I could do. Everyone just died

If a system gets damaged and loses power you have to click on it to power it up again.

Also, re the final boss

Bollockoff wrote:

You actually upgrade your medbay?

I think cos of the engi ship nano-med augment, upgrading the medbay upgrades the healing effect throughout that ship.

Some other opinions on Mod's ship
All just my opinion of course - the beauty of this game is the versitility!

Yup.  That's the kind of game it is, you don't keep the same game going, you have one game each time you sit down.

Carbon_Altered wrote:

Mod74 wrote:

Also, re the final boss

Spoiler:

FUCKING TWAT! Beat him TWICE and he still limped on. By which time I'd got no repair option, no drones, nothing. GRR. This was my final build and I still got rogered

Spoiler:

Way too defensive a ship IMO - only the anti ship drone actually does any hull damage? And if you're using drones to do the damage, make sure you have the drone recovery augment as a perk!

Yes, you need more guns/ offensive drones there there.  I had 1 ion cannon, 1 lv. 2 repeater, 1 bomb teleporter and an anti-ship drone when I beat it.  Two ion cannons are overkill unless you've got a pile of offensive drones to set on them.