Stealth C works ok as long as you spam drones. I want to find a second shield drone and a recovery arm.
That's the dream. It's tough getting past the ass beatings in sector 1 or 2 to find those, though. Plus the second shield drone costs a bit more power, but whatever.
I find that Defense II is useful as an all-around threat stopper. If I'm low on shields I will sometimes break it out instead of the Defense I. It's really nice in that it shoots those annoying ion blasts from Engi ships.
Crystal unlocked with the quest. Only took 91 hours. :P
man I've got 137 hours sunk into this game and I haven't even come close.
That said, the advanced edition has been good to me. Played a handful of games in the past week and got my first three wins and have unlocked a handful of C ships. This game has got its hooks in me hard, again.
...on easy, Advanced mode turned off. I think I might unlock a few more ships on Basic before I go back to Advanced, as I'm never able to focus enough on one strategy when there are so many options available.
Just won a round using the Kestral on easy. WOOOT! At the end I was down to two dudes and every room was on fire. The flagship blew up and then I went BOOM. The game counted it as a win. It's a cheap win but I'll take it.
I saw a werewolf drinkin' a pina colada at Trader Vic's.
And his hair was perfect.
Just won a round using the Kestral on easy. WOOOT! At the end I was down to two dudes and every room was on fire. The flagship blew up and then I went BOOM. The game counted it as a win. It's a cheap win but I'll take it.
Your job isn't to stay alive, it is to destroy the flagship and save the federation.
Job well done.
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ApogeeLancks In Every Game EverRegistered Userregular
I beat the flagship with a Zoltan cruiser with a Fire Beam and two Ion Stunners, plus a boarding crew as my only offensive weapons. Shields at level 3, but the godsend was TWO shield drones. It was really close whenever the super weapon fired or the drones mobbed me, but I kept pulling through, just barely. I had to hold on while my crew kept going on suicide runs to break systems, clone back to life, then do it again. Poor bastards probably went through a dozen lives in each battle.
The last fight had me on 3-4 HP for the whole battle. Nail-biting and FTL at its best.
I had to hold on while my crew kept going on suicide runs to break systems, clone back to life, then do it again. Poor bastards probably went through a dozen lives in each battle.
"I regret that I have only one life to give for the Federation!"
"Really? Well we got something in to replace the medbay, so you're going to regret the opposite of that."
Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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I had to hold on while my crew kept going on suicide runs to break systems, clone back to life, then do it again. Poor bastards probably went through a dozen lives in each battle.
"I regret that I have only one life to give for the Federation!"
"Really? Well we got something in to replace the medbay, so you're going to regret the opposite of that."
Just won with the Lanius Cruiser with no cloak. I could afford it, but didn't realize I'd hit the system limit (Seriously? Look at all those empty rooms! Hell, one of them is even a 4-square space!). Lanius are absolutely wonderful as a boarding party. I bought reconstructive teleport with the funds I'd been saving for cloak, too. So good. I also unlocked the Rock Cruiser via their quest. Good run for me!
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
Had a real good run with a couple of Lanius boarders until I forgot that I had the artillery beam powered up while my boarding party was away.
Managed to squeak out a win in the starting Kestrel on normal without too much boarding, mostly because I never got enough of a crew together and spent most of the game running four guys. On the other hand I ended up compensating by packing the hull with two burst lasers mark 2, a hull laser mark 2 and the starting artemis missile, all being powered at the same time. Rounded it out with a pre-igniter and looking back at some of the fights it was seriously one-sided even though it didn't feel like it at the time.
First Lanius victory! Even though I was totally overkitted, I barely made it. Also unlocked Lanius B by doing the no-oxygen achievement (which really is how the lanius ship should be played).
And for the 2nd or 3rd time, I found the stasis pod, revived the crystal dude, and never found the rock homeworlds. I'm never going to get that ship.
There was a steam sig here. It's gone now.
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NEO|PhyteThey follow the stars, bound together.Strands in a braid till the end.Registered Userregular
And for the 2nd or 3rd time, I found the stasis pod, revived the crystal dude, and never found the rock homeworlds. I'm never going to get that ship.
Rock C, man. You start with a crystal crewmember, so all you have to do is find the rock homeworlds, and then the portal. You don't get the quest marker unless you crack a stasis pod, but if you find the homeworlds, the portal is guaranteed to exist, you just have to find the right beacon.
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
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First Lanius victory! Even though I was totally overkitted, I barely made it. Also unlocked Lanius B by doing the no-oxygen achievement (which really is how the lanius ship should be played).
And for the 2nd or 3rd time, I found the stasis pod, revived the crystal dude, and never found the rock homeworlds. I'm never going to get that ship.
You can unlock the Crystal ship in AE by beating the game with ever Type A & Type B layout.
And for the 2nd or 3rd time, I found the stasis pod, revived the crystal dude, and never found the rock homeworlds. I'm never going to get that ship.
Rock C, man. You start with a crystal crewmember, so all you have to do is find the rock homeworlds, and then the portal. You don't get the quest marker unless you crack a stasis pod, but if you find the homeworlds, the portal is guaranteed to exist, you just have to find the right beacon.
hm. Never even played with Rock A. Guess I should try that, since if I win I'll also unlock the stealth ship.
The Rock Cruiser achievements to unlock Rock B look annoying as hell though.
Looks like a pretty typica; node set-up; I head south instead of north, counting 1 extra node downstairs.
Get to the node next to the exit... and there's no connection. I check all of the nodes behind me, and none of them connect to nodes that will get me to the exit. In order to get there, I had to go north at the start of the game and follow an almost linear path across the top of the map.
I'm destined to never ever win with the Kestrel. Phase 3 of the flagship fight and we go down in flames. 2 Burst Laser IIs, a Halberd Beam, Level 2 cloak, and Level 3 mind control just weren't enough.
So, yeah. I was in the Lanius B, and managed to hit an abandoned sector in sector two and picked up a third Lanius crewmember. Sorry Human Man. The O2? Coming off. So he's choking to death as I'm mind controlling and teleporting dudes over to my ship, so they can experience the cleanliness, the freedom that us anaerobic lifeforms can offer. My human crew guy dies as I'm off doing other things, and *ding!* he pops back out, to a world that no longer welcomes him. I can't be bothered to shut the cloning bay down and give him the sweet release he so desperately craves, so he's just chilling, or as close as I can imagine him being in his condition, as the three amigos are off doing their own, airless, thing.
....Well, a few sectors later, I'm up to Cloning Bay 3, an Engi crewmate, and four mantises. I still haven't let the human die, so now I've got five air-breathers in this constant cycle of dying and almost immediately popping back out the bay, a little confused and immediately asphyxiating again. They consider it a wonderous blessing when we encounter an enemy vessel, as the mantises joyfully teleport over for a few minutes of that oxygen they seem to like inhaling. And they get to slaughter people while they do it. So what if they're at half health when they teleport over and it takes them a couple tries to take the enemies out? By this point their brains are so addled from the constant cloning that it's not like they know the difference. Of course their reward for a job well done is they get to hang out with the human and share the experience of dying repeatedly.
We made it to the flagship too. Sure I lost two of them when they were still onboard when we took out stage 1, and the others died when the cloning bay got taken out by the drone swarm, and then the ship was destroyed not long after, but I'm convinced the Lanius make an excellent contribution to the glorious Galactic Federation!
We made it to the flagship too. Sure I lost two of them when they were still onboard when we took out stage 1, and the others died when the cloning bay got taken out by the drone swarm, and then the ship was destroyed not long after, but I'm convinced the Lanius make an excellent contribution to the glorious Galactic Federation!
I'm telling you, the Lanius have a perfect way of life. It's not their fault that other life forms can't get over their addiction to oxygen. I mean, it's unfortunate that the withdrawal symptoms are so severe, but a good sponsor does not let their friend go back on "the gas."
I went for the no oxygen achievement right off the bat, so the entire game was every non-lanius crew member suffocating to death over and over in the clone bay for the entire ride to sector 8.
I went for the no oxygen achievement right off the bat, so the entire game was every non-lanius crew member suffocating to death over and over in the clone bay for the entire ride to sector 8.
Ah yes, the Let Me Die run. I just turn off the clone bay and end it there. Your way seems needlessly cruel.
I went for the no oxygen achievement right off the bat, so the entire game was every non-lanius crew member suffocating to death over and over in the clone bay for the entire ride to sector 8.
Ah yes, the Let Me Die run. I just turn off the clone bay and end it there. Your way seems needlessly cruel.
Beep beep, beep beep, uuugh. Over and over, from sector 1, jump 1. Muwahahaha.
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tuxkamenreally took this picture.Registered Userregular
Just finished with Lanius B (but C didn't pop, so I guess I need to finish with A). Adv. Flak, Flak II, Charge Laser, Ion Stunner, shield bypass. Embarrassing.
I went for the no oxygen achievement right off the bat, so the entire game was every non-lanius crew member suffocating to death over and over in the clone bay for the entire ride to sector 8.
Ah yes, the Let Me Die run. I just turn off the clone bay and end it there. Your way seems needlessly cruel.
You guys realize there's a dismiss crew button, right?
I went for the no oxygen achievement right off the bat, so the entire game was every non-lanius crew member suffocating to death over and over in the clone bay for the entire ride to sector 8.
Ah yes, the Let Me Die run. I just turn off the clone bay and end it there. Your way seems needlessly cruel.
You guys realize there's a dismiss crew button, right?
Well, I don't want to circumvent the drama, now do I? The theatre? The savage irony of being teleported off of a dying space station, only to suffocate to death because incomprehensible aliens fundamentally don't understand carbon-based life? The chance to (reverentially) absorb any metal teeth fillings or fancy prosthetics they might have had?
Dracomicron on
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Yeah.. My Lanius B run consisted of turning off the cloning bay to kill the resurrecting human. Later pickups were just allowed the eternal cycle of undeath.
The SECOND I got the achievement, however, the Oxygen came back on and we wrecked face.
On the person going for Rock C above -- Rock A is an unbelievable bitch to get the achievements with. But once I had a ship equipped to do one, the other fell in line pretty quickly. Rock B was an easy blur...
Rock C, I've just had no luck. I haven't even seen the rock homeworlds in so long, and more often than not the ship gets eviscerated.
Ah well. Last night I unlocked Slug B.. Time to figure this beast out.
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That's the dream. It's tough getting past the ass beatings in sector 1 or 2 to find those, though. Plus the second shield drone costs a bit more power, but whatever.
I swear, maybe 80%~ of my death in AE have been due to ASB.
(Well, until I fired up the double flak + glaive beam. Then it was more maniacal laughter.)
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man I've got 137 hours sunk into this game and I haven't even come close.
That said, the advanced edition has been good to me. Played a handful of games in the past week and got my first three wins and have unlocked a handful of C ships. This game has got its hooks in me hard, again.
...on easy, Advanced mode turned off. I think I might unlock a few more ships on Basic before I go back to Advanced, as I'm never able to focus enough on one strategy when there are so many options available.
And his hair was perfect.
Your job isn't to stay alive, it is to destroy the flagship and save the federation.
Job well done.
The last fight had me on 3-4 HP for the whole battle. Nail-biting and FTL at its best.
"I regret that I have only one life to give for the Federation!"
"Really? Well we got something in to replace the medbay, so you're going to regret the opposite of that."
I prefer
"Really? Well, I have some great news."
Why I fear the ocean.
Nothing quite like FTL to punish stupidity.
And for the 2nd or 3rd time, I found the stasis pod, revived the crystal dude, and never found the rock homeworlds. I'm never going to get that ship.
Rock C, man. You start with a crystal crewmember, so all you have to do is find the rock homeworlds, and then the portal. You don't get the quest marker unless you crack a stasis pod, but if you find the homeworlds, the portal is guaranteed to exist, you just have to find the right beacon.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
You can unlock the Crystal ship in AE by beating the game with ever Type A & Type B layout.
hm. Never even played with Rock A. Guess I should try that, since if I win I'll also unlock the stealth ship.
The Rock Cruiser achievements to unlock Rock B look annoying as hell though.
Looks like a pretty typica; node set-up; I head south instead of north, counting 1 extra node downstairs.
Get to the node next to the exit... and there's no connection. I check all of the nodes behind me, and none of them connect to nodes that will get me to the exit. In order to get there, I had to go north at the start of the game and follow an almost linear path across the top of the map.
I have never been trolled so hard by FTL before.
....Well, a few sectors later, I'm up to Cloning Bay 3, an Engi crewmate, and four mantises. I still haven't let the human die, so now I've got five air-breathers in this constant cycle of dying and almost immediately popping back out the bay, a little confused and immediately asphyxiating again. They consider it a wonderous blessing when we encounter an enemy vessel, as the mantises joyfully teleport over for a few minutes of that oxygen they seem to like inhaling. And they get to slaughter people while they do it. So what if they're at half health when they teleport over and it takes them a couple tries to take the enemies out? By this point their brains are so addled from the constant cloning that it's not like they know the difference. Of course their reward for a job well done is they get to hang out with the human and share the experience of dying repeatedly.
We made it to the flagship too. Sure I lost two of them when they were still onboard when we took out stage 1, and the others died when the cloning bay got taken out by the drone swarm, and then the ship was destroyed not long after, but I'm convinced the Lanius make an excellent contribution to the glorious Galactic Federation!
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I'm telling you, the Lanius have a perfect way of life. It's not their fault that other life forms can't get over their addiction to oxygen. I mean, it's unfortunate that the withdrawal symptoms are so severe, but a good sponsor does not let their friend go back on "the gas."
Ah yes, the Let Me Die run. I just turn off the clone bay and end it there. Your way seems needlessly cruel.
Beep beep, beep beep, uuugh. Over and over, from sector 1, jump 1. Muwahahaha.
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Now I just gotta survive till Sector 8 and this run will be a success!
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Well, I don't want to circumvent the drama, now do I? The theatre? The savage irony of being teleported off of a dying space station, only to suffocate to death because incomprehensible aliens fundamentally don't understand carbon-based life? The chance to (reverentially) absorb any metal teeth fillings or fancy prosthetics they might have had?
The SECOND I got the achievement, however, the Oxygen came back on and we wrecked face.
On the person going for Rock C above -- Rock A is an unbelievable bitch to get the achievements with. But once I had a ship equipped to do one, the other fell in line pretty quickly. Rock B was an easy blur...
Rock C, I've just had no luck. I haven't even seen the rock homeworlds in so long, and more often than not the ship gets eviscerated.
Ah well. Last night I unlocked Slug B.. Time to figure this beast out.
Predictably, the Slugs only give their worst ships to the Federation war effort.
Is it telling that I got the "We're in position" achievement with Slug A before I got the 30 nebula one?
Goddamn finding creative ways to get the bio beam past the enemy is hard. Also, I've only ever seen 1 Vulcan, which is disappointing.
Slug A is amazing and I won't hear otherwise