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    July 19, 2021

    Faster Than Light | and the award for best medbay placement goes to...

    and the award for best medbay placement goes to...

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 03:01 PM PDT

    Engi B Death Run in 5.375 seconds

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 05:49 AM PDT

    Mathematic analysis on why regular mantis are better than free mantis (in my first comment) [multiverse mod]

    Posted: 19 Jul 2021 12:21 AM PDT

    Well uhh, frick

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 08:02 AM PDT

    I’ve always found cloaking to be overrated, am I doing something wrong?

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 12:19 PM PDT

    I've beaten the flagship about 5X on Normal mode, each time with defense drones, 50% evasion, and 3 shields. I've never been able to beat it with cloaking, but everyone says it's the best subsystem, which makes me think I'm using it wrong. I just don't understand how to get over the 20 second vulnerability period, and find defense drones to be much more reliable. Any suggestions?

    submitted by /u/fuzzeenavel
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    The best boarding ship in the Multiverse

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 08:40 AM PDT

    Got a 2nd scrap recovery arm. Which other augments are stackable?

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 06:10 PM PDT

    Woo, first win! (Cloaking and boarding is really good) [on a side note what even is the super weapon? it didn't fire during the fight it seems]

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 08:14 AM PDT

    Hacking doesn't feel necessary

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 08:13 PM PDT

    If you put the 80 scrap + reactor into weapons it's basically a more versatile hack. you really have to coordinate an L2 hack whereas weapons just knocks the shields down.

    No vulnerability to drones or zoltan shield.

    I've been playing a lot of Fed cruiser games and learned cloak/teleport is a killer anti-flagship build. With weapons you just knock out med bay and that's it. Hacking never feels like a must have in the same way cloak and especially teleport are.

    I know the sub loves hacking but if I'm high on scrap and weapons late game, I think I'm putting it into mind control from now on. The niche I may still buy hacking for, is it's early or mid game and my weapons are too weak to stand a chance

    submitted by /u/cosmosfan2
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    Unlock all ships hack for non-steam version of the game?

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 07:59 PM PDT

    Got FTL and want to unlock all ships instantly, but I bought the non-steam version so the dropbox file change doesn't work.

    submitted by /u/S_P_E_C_T_R_3_0
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    rock B woes

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 01:51 PM PDT

    I hear beating the game with every ship unlocks crystal cruiser, and given how complicated I assume that is (haven't actually looked it up, just know it starts with the stasis pod) I figured I'd just beat the game with every ship. Enter rock B achievements: Killing a ship with defense drones, easy enough; killing a crew member on fire while boarding? Seems about as difficult as the third achievement, getting to the secret sector, which basically unlocks the secret ship anyway. I've blown like 5 runs in a row trying to get this stupid achievement, which doesn't even play to the ships strengths other than having rockmen. I find it very annoying and am tempted to cheat. Rant over.

    submitted by /u/AzureBuzzSaw
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    How do you rank the ships with all variants?

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 07:01 AM PDT

    1. Lanius: Both A and B are strong
    2. Crystal: B has early game autoship weakness but otherwise is also strong
    3. Zoltan: C drags it down overall. A/B are easy wins. Extra reactor + beams + Z shield is killer
    4. Kestrel: Tends to make for a great gunship which is one of the most reliable builds
    5. Mantis: Strong boading options, which mean high loot
    6. Engi: Reliant on drones. B drags down the score due to lack of crew
    7. Federation: One less usable system slot. No good weapons on C though it has teleport and an okay boarding team
    8. Slug. Only C is good. B is very bad
    9. Rock. Two really bad ships and one mediocre one. A needs to find a good ammo free weapon fast. B has no venting
    10. Stealth. If no shield wasn't enough of a damper, C doesn't even have cloak. And B has the slowest weapon loading time in the game. A is quite good though.
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    Drone part management/conservation strats

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 10:41 AM PDT

    What are your thoughts re: drone part use/management/conservation? (In vanilla, AE enabled)

    Making an anology to fuel management, I've often seen 12 fuel as a good number to aim for to tide you over from store to store--if rewards/events give you more that's great, if not you can replenish up to ~12 at the next store.

    Not that I am advocating for buying drone parts from the store (I consider this a big waste/loss in most circumstances), but does anyone have a number of drone parts they try to hover around?

    To explain my question further:

    Most runs on hard I aim to have hacking which means having at least 5 or so drone parts for the flagship (in case you mess up the dodge in phase 2 or maybe hacking gets hacked in phase 1).

    I would say overall I tend to hold too many drone parts in reserve. I rarely use drone control unless the ship starts with it or I'm playing AE disabled or something, but I will often try not to hack enemy ships in mid-game and even into sectors 6 or 7 because I worry about running out... And then more often than not I end up with 20 something drone parts anyway 8| at the end of the game

    How can I manage my drone parts better? Would love to hear thoughts from other players :)

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    zoltan B is pretty good

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 07:25 AM PDT
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