FTL - new ace PC game - The Bear and Badger

Mod74

The way I had it set up worked OK. Two Ion's targeting a ships shield and guns and let the drone sit back and take its time. I kept looking for attack drones and a recovery arm but they never came. Plus I'd used most of my power on the 6 needed for the Ion's. I ploughed the rest into shield as I knew the last guy was going to try and give me a kicking. Would have been OK but for the boarders.

Oh, and the Mantis is in the engine bay, the guy in the shield bay is a 1 star engineer.

Bollockoff

Needs to be a side game where you catch Drones like Pokemon.

AJ

Trouble with doing it that way, Mod, is

Spoiler:

Was that the first time you came up against it?

Also, bomb teleporter paired wil full sensors is the nuts for eliminating crew.

Mod74

It was the first time I hadn't been eliminated in the first 15 seconds yeah.

Jimmy The Lips

This needs to be ported to my ipad.... Â Â made it to the boss for the first time just now in about 10 goes... Â got him down to his last block of life and my last chap who was flying got toasted by a fire.. Â dammit. Â back to it again.

AJ

Mod74 wrote:

It was the first time I hadn't been eliminated in the first 15 seconds yeah.

Okay, I'll forgive you, then.

EDIT: Damn it, not even posting from source mode gets rid of those damned smiley graphics.

Mod74

SON OF A FUCK!!!

AJ

He get you again?

Mod74

Not even close! Having a really good run and a bloody quest forced me to do something stupid and I karked it.

Mod74

Fuck it, I'm going to play some MW3 and kill Russians. It's either that or kick the dog up the arse.

Bollockoff

Karma mate.

J1m1

Kow wrote:

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?

For the O2:
Check that your room hasn't got a breach in it. Â They appear as a crack on the floor.
That's caught me out a few times.

AJ

I spent an entire game once with a room with a breach I couldn't be bothered to fix, the airlock at the back of the first ship, in fact. Â I felt it added to the character of my vessel.

Bollockoff

Certainly be a hilarious place to see an enemy boarding party teleporting in. With blast doors.

Anyone managed to kill an enemy crew without destroying the ship? Get anything extra?

Tempy

Hopefully i'll have enough left over on Friday after Blands2 to pick this up, it sounds like a more detailed version of Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, which focused on the externals. Why games like this aren't more frequent on the PC I have no idea.

AJ

Bollockoff wrote:

Anyone managed to kill an enemy crew without destroying the ship? Get anything extra?

Waiting to unlock a Rock ship for that one. Â Pretty sure I saw an achievement somewhere for it.

Bollockoff

Tempy wrote:

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

Loved loved loved that game. Engrossing and very creepy single player which had the right balance of linearity with ship customization and strategy.

Carbon_Altered

Bollockoff wrote:

Certainly be a hilarious place to see an enemy boarding party teleporting in. With blast doors. Anyone managed to kill an enemy crew without destroying the ship? Get anything extra?

You get a bit more loot from taking them in tact, also more chance of being able to knick a weapon.

Just got a firebeam - does no hull damage but sets stuff on fire. Had a great fight with a pirate where I set every internal space of their ship on fire, watching the little men scurry round in panic!

Bollockoff

Gotcha.

How many systems do you guys average in a sector? Do you try and explore as many as possible before the fleet catches up?

Carbon_Altered

Bollockoff wrote:

Do you try and explore as many as possible before the fleet catches up?

Yes, this is absolutely vital for the end game - exploration means fights / quests = scrap = upgrades.

djchump

Yeah, "fortune favours the brave" so I've started going to the most dangerous sectors and exploring and getting in as many fights as possible to try to gather as much scrap to upgrade the ship as I can.

Also, if you come across a stranded ship asking for fuel it seems I often get a pretty decent weapon if I give them the fuel - so it can be really worth it. Current Kestrel run saw me fluking a second burst laser II early on, so I've been ripping through everything and instant disabling shields and weapons with the first double-volley :-)

Little Franklin

"Die you rebel scum!"

Boss beaten on thirdÂ attemptÂ on easy, thanks to drones and ion bombs and the generally awesome Engi ship.

Second attempt was cut short when I got on the wrong side of a map from the exit, the layout of the stars meant I needed to circle right round the edge of the map through the enemy army to reach it. It happened again on the third attempt but this time I was able to fight my way through.

Not sure I want to move on to normal just yet.

Bollockoff

All i'm playing is normal. And getting a bloody nose each time for my trouble.

Carbon_Altered

Bollockoff wrote:

All i'm playing is normal. And getting a bloody nose each time for my trouble.

I doff my space hat to you - I'm sticking with easy till I've unlocked all the ships.

Lost engine and shields in a astroid belt last night - didn't end well

Mod74

Just had an insane go on this, it was like Easy actually was easy.

Of course I buggered it up by letting boss man get within range. IR IDIOT.

Bollockoff

That is alot of stuff. Envy.

Unlocked the Zoltan ship earlier. The starting beam weapon it gets is quite a combo with the missile launcher. Got up to the final boss on normal as well. But he pretty much stomped me. Lasted about a minute though.

Elmlea

Boss beaten in easy and normal, using the Osprey. Brilliant spaceship! All it needs are lots of lasers and a fully modded artillery beam.Â

Now I'm hunting for the other ships.....

Carbon_Altered

Mod74 wrote:

Of course I buggered it up by letting boss man get within range. IR IDIOT.

HA! Just did the exact same thing.

Nice ship set up there BTW

AJ

I don't think I'm going to touch normal until I'm sure I know what I'm doing on easy. Â Don't think that'll be too far away, though.

This is my favourite build so far:

The drone compartment should be vacuum, too, but I forgot after my gunner was killed and had to beÂ replacedÂ by the security guy who was living there. Looking at it now, ion blaster and heavy laser should have been the other way 'round, too.

Mod74

You deliberately leave compartments vented..... interesting.

Guessing that's part fire prevention, part anti-boarder. See the logic for fire but I've never really noticed venting make much difference to boarder health. One assumes it must though.

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