HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BEAT THIS FUCKING SHIP

HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BEAT THIS FUCKING SHIP

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git gud

Start by using a not-shit ship

Defense drone mark II

Git gud

boarders. fire, keep the missile launcher bay down

Shoot at it until it breaks.

You spent too much on engines and shields while not getting enough subsystems like cloak/hacking ect

Get Cloaking..Literally the only way I've beaten it

>no cloaking
that's the exact moment where you fucked up

The same way you do everything in that game, dumb luck

>still thinks the game is luck-based
>there are streamers that consistently win dozens of times in hard mode in a row
Why you gotta be such a bitch?

This was from a run I did with Sup Forums about a year ago. Some tips I can give you are upgrade your engines, shields won't do shit if your evasion is below 30%, flak cannons are gg, never risk your crew unless it's your last chance, and try to keep at least 40 scrap handy for stores.

>aims every weapon to enemy shields
>cockpit undamaged
>weapons undamaged
gee I dnno

>3 flaks and a Vulcan
>still don't win
Holy fuck dude how are you so shit at video games?

How about disable some other systems besides shields?

this is fine

You need subsystems for fun antics.
Mind Controlling the pilot of a ship kills it's evasion since there's no pilot at the helm anymore plus the internal crew end up in a wrestling match instead of fixing damaged components.

Boarding is always awesome, so board the triple fire missile room and kill it's manned guy and the system itself. If you really want to make boarding fun equip a medi-bomb if you run into one and keep healing your boarders.

I find killing all crew but the pilot the optimal way to fuck with the ship since 1 crewman can't pilot AND fix all the systems you keep attacking, but if all crew die the ship goes AI mode and it can recover damaged systems slowly with time on its own.

As was said drop a cloak, even at level1 cloak, and time it to dodge nasty attacks like triple missile or the super laser barrage attack at 3rd phase.

Hacking their medbay and watching them be killed slowly in a trapped room is a sickdark tactic.

Overall you need lots of laser power to bypass all that shielding to damage anything along side reducing the ships evasion to near 0. So don't just pour every last piece of scrap into upgrading just because you can, DO save 100 scrap or so as a savings for the chance you mind more Burst Lasers mark w/e's.

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>telling lies on the internet

>target missiles
>MISS MISS MISS
>target mind control
>MISS MISS MISS
getting 3 flak wasn't my choice and also flak alone sucks dick

is Captain's Edition any good? I played for a bit and it seems way more RNG heavy than the base game, but the added weapons and shit are really cool

Here you go fucker, this guy got a 14 win streak in Hard.
Without pausing.
youtube.com/watch?v=2gLO9pjO78g

This guy got 39 otherwise.
youtube.com/watch?v=5aaNiqQfEn4

I don't know what disturbs me more, that these guys were sad enough twats to play the game enough to be capable of this, or that you;'re a sad enough twat to have watched them multiple times (there's no way you pulled those up so fast without a bookmark).

GNOME dev here. Can't say I agree with "beats all other GUI efforts in all of computing" - I still think webOS beats us in usability, and if it weren't for how far it fell, I wouldn't mind doing a mobile version of the DE :-D I'm glad people like GNOME, though - it may seem organized on the outside, but internally it plays out more like a fan project or something.

More to the point, however, I feel there's a bit of truth to this post. There's no real reason to use Linux other than "you like it" - sure, there are good aspects to it, but when it comes to OSes, there's no reason to use one over the other. We promote FOSS development because we believe in the philosophies behind it; however, imo it shouldn't be a dealbreaker when talking about software. I got to meet RMS a few years back, and while I appreciate his enthusiasm, I don't agree with him on this point.

HOWEVER, if there is a reason to use Linux, it's the headerbar concept. If you're not familiar with this, its a combined titlebar and menubar that GNOME uses on most of its core apps. It saves space for the actual content of the app to use and forces devs to focus on the core important pieces of their application when designing an interface. It's been copied in so many other OSes, but I feel only Linux users get the true, primal headerbar experience.

There's a user on DeviantArt I follow who does nothing but headerbar concept art, and I can say with certainty it truly shows the power of this amazing technology and its impact on society as a whole. We can do a lot with headerbars, and if we use them correctly, they can do a lot for us. too.

Why, my disabled wife wouldn't be able to use the computer to post her fanart if it wasn't for the simplified design of the GNOME Web browser, Epiphany. She's always found Chrome and Firefox's interfaces to be too unyieldy to use as a onehanded woman.

I hope I've done some good here, and please try GNOME!

>this game is mostly luck based
>no it isn't
>l-lol get a life loser

fuck off faggot

>youtube playlist
That proves shit. There's a discontinuity between the end of part 1 and the beginning of part 2 for fuck's sake.

>(there's no way you pulled those up so fast without a bookmark).
I watched about five minutes of each of those last month, so I just typed "ftl youtube" in the address bar.
Whatever helps you feel better about being bad, you dope.

Guy streams self playing FTL
Guy records while he streams
He obviously didn't do those 19 segments in one sitting
If he had lost inbetween any of those two segments it would have been caught on stream
How is this hard to understand?

Seriously, fuck Mantis B.

I encounter 3x as many zoltans in the first sector whenever I use that ship.

I like how supposedly not being as good as some streamer that's put a huge number of hours into the game is considered "being bad" on Sup Forums.

Right, so we have no idea if he had failed runs inbetween the ones he posted videos of, or if he was doing anything in the backend before launching. Those playlists don't prove shit.

at least you lucked out it wasn't that other ship

the game's stats record every play in the "number of played"
there's no discrepancy in it so its real

>implying you can't easily edit that with ftl-save-editor

I didn't even call you bad dumbfuck, I called out the "i-it's just RNG!" logic.
If everything is RNG, then how come people can get long win streaks? Shouldn't they lose to RNG constantly?

>Right, so we have no idea if he had failed runs inbetween the ones he posted videos of
He was streaming himself live while playing you DIP

Yes, I can totally see those stats in the videos.

>Whatever helps you feel better about being bad
>I didn't even call you bad
Gee, you sure seem like an honest person. I'm just going to take your claim at face value, you've shown that you're not the sort of person that would tell lies on the internet.

what's wrong with the Rock A
>150 health crewmembers, fuck boarders
>start with not one, but TWO missile weapons which completely bypass shields
>rock plating protects you from hull damage
need I go on?

flak are kinda shit, the redbird 1 power 2 shot laser and vulcan are much better

you can easily run out of missiles

and rock plating is way to inconsistent to be anything more than extra scrap at the first shop

What lies?

looks like you got ROCKED

>"Flak cannons are kinda shit in FTL."
t. Sup Forums 2016

>Start by using a not-shit ship
Its funny enough that the game can only be beaten by specific ships and specific loadout stealth/boarding but holy fuck stop defending it. theres a reason the game got mod that removed the bullshit end boss

>post contains no content except "the ship you are using is shit"
>STOP DEFENDING IT
????????????

they miss way too often to even take down shields
they just look way better on paper

also fuck off with your shitty non arguements newfag

flak cannons have 1 primary purpose: take down shields with incredible efficiency

however lategame they need some other, more reliable weapon to back them up once you breach the shields given you can't rely on them to do reliable damage

>they miss way too often to even take down shields
taking down shields is their entire purpose
it's actually hitting anything besides a 4 tile room that they're shit at

Engi B
Hard Mode
Final Destination

Top tier:
-Pegasus Missile
-Burst Laser Mark II
-Chain Vulcan
-Ion Blast Mark II
-Halberd Beam
-Breach Bomb II
-Flak Gun I
-Adv Flak Gun

Good tier:
-Breach Missile
-Swarm Missiles
-Burst Laser Mark III
-Glaive Beam
-Breach Bomb I
-Ion Bomb
-Flak Gun II


Decent Tier:
-Hermes Missile
-Dual Lasers
-Laser Charger (L)
-Laser Charger (S) improved version
-Ion Charger
-Chain Ion
-Small Bomb
-Fire Bomb

Bad Tier:
-Artemis Missile
-Burst Laser Mark I
-Hull Smasher Laser
-Hull Smasher Laser Mark II
-Chain Burst Laser
-Ion Blast
-Pike Beam
-Healing Burst Bomb
-Crystal Lockdown Bomb
-Crystal Burst Mark I
-Crystal Burst Mark II

Shit Tier:
-Leto Missile
-Hull Missile
-Heavy Laser Mark II
-Laser Charger (S)
-Heavy Ion
-Ion Stunner
-Mini Beam
-Fire Beam
-Anti-Bio Beam
-Repair Burst Bomb
-Stun bomb

Beyond Shit Tier:
-Basic Laser
-Heavy Laser Mark I
-Heavy Crystal Mark I
-Heavy Crystal Mark II

>shields
I know, they're awesome on paper but they don't reliably take down shields like other weapons

do you actually play the game user

their spread literally does not apply to shields
only thing that makes them slightly worse at shieldbusting than BLII's is they can be shot down by defense drones

however this can also be a positive in that they can be used to debris-cloak your hacking devices bypassing the defense drone on stage 2 boss

>burst Mk. III good tier, not shit
>vulcan top tier, not shit
>heavy laser Mk. I shit tier, not good
>swarm missiles good tier, not bad

they're also incredibly inaccurate, much worse than missles, I've missed entire multiple flak cannon salvos, but my laser hit on point

nigga if a flak 1 can't take shields down for you then nothing else can
3 projectiles for 2 power. it doesn't get better than that. of course you need other shit, but the only thing better is a burst laser 2 which can miss shields just as easily.

>heavy lasers in shit ter
>chain vulcan anywhere near good
>burst mk3 above dual
This list has so many things wrong with it, I don't know where to start

stop playing this game -_-

Vulcans are a little too risky for my playstyle, they take fucking forever to get going and one lucky missile and your fully charged Vulcan goes from being a death machine to being a peashooter. It's much safer to use some kind of beam weapon along with other junk weapons used to bring down the shields. Of course everyone has their own play style and I can see why people like the vulcan, I just think there are better options.

stop being a faggot -_-

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3 projectiles that miss, again did you play the game because that won't take out 4 shields

also 2 of the redbird cannons gives you 4 ACCURATE projectiles for 2 power
superior at the cost of a slot
use voltans nigga, i have like 3 just for that

beam weapons get wrecked when your shieldbuster fails, like flak cannons missing

also vulcan w/ speed or preloader is godlike

See end
4 out of 7 pieces hit a target with 70% evasion

vulcan is incredibly useful against lategame enemies because it takes down shields permanently

Yeah provided you can keep your weapon system intact for 35 seconds required for a full spin-up

Without a pre-igniter, it's never worth getting

BL MK. III is one of the best possible weapons on 3 weapon slot ships
vulcan is fantastic lategame
heavy laser is 1 shield for 1 energy, which is just plain bad
swarm missiles bypass defense drones and have an almost retarded chance of fire, breach or stun

do you know how statistics work?
also
>anecdotal evidence
also that becomes your average, which is pitiful for 3 power when you could have ion chain, or 3 lasers for only 2 power

listen I love the idea of the flak, but theyve burned me so much that I can't ignore reality to use them

>anecdotal evidence
Literally you with your "I've missed entire multiple flak cannon salvos"
Enjoy your shitty luck chap

stealth cuts that by half

and you are putting your most important weapons first in the weapon order right?

FTL fights are won in speed, you disable their weapons asap then finish them off
if you're using a vulcan you're not doing that, you're letting the enemy shoot the shit out of your ship, and you'll lose the war of attrition

in the game's code the flak 1 has LITERALLY the exact same miss chance as BL2 when it comes to shields

>heavy laser is 1 shield for 1 energy, which is just plain bad
dumb ass, you use it as a cheap punctuation to your volley when you've got 6 power in other weapons that are already taking their shields down

Voltans are only good for the extra power they supply, if your system takes enough damage it doesn't matter if you have 4 Voltans in the room the vulcan will shut down. I've never had a run where I've gotten both a pre-igniter and a vulcan, but if the pre-igniter starts the vulcan off at full charge then there's no question it's a great option.

generally speaking if you're spending 6 energy on just getting their shields down you've already fucked up heavily

>3 projectiles that miss, again did you play the game because that won't take out 4 shields
>a Burst Laser Mk. II can't take down 4 shields, therefore it's the shittiest weapon in the game

zoltan's have one massive advantage: their power cannot be emp'd

thus if you put 2 of them in your shield room you're fully immune to emp

quit acting retarded, user

>No hacking
>No cloaking
>4 crew
How did you even get that far?

generally speaking you're aiming for 4 to 5 energy used on taking down shields
less if you're using additional modifiers such as hacking, drones or mind control

>"flak is shit because it's bad at taking down shields, have you even played the game" -Sup Forums, 2016
You people are beyond saving

by limping through every fight with 3 flak guns the game decided to give me but nothing else
much was spent on repairs, pretty sure I ran out of fuel at one point too. by the time I could afford hacking the shops weren't selling that shit
my last desperate move was putting 190 scrap into the weapon system to get the vulcan online, which I consider a bad move
literally never lost a crewman either, all I got was another fucking slow ass fucking Rockman early on and that was it

>Have 3 flaks
>Opt to use Vulcan and 2 flaks instead

No, user.

>gets THREE flak guns AND A VULCAN
>complains
Nigga

Emps aren't the problem, it's the Hermes missile that one rebel ship fired at your weapons system and your 40 evasion wasn't enough to dodge it. That's the problem with using weapons that require a lot of energy/system power, if you take enough damage for that weapon to go offline you're suddenly helpless until you repair the system, AND wait for it to recharge which especially in the vulcan's case makes you a sitting duck for close to a minute. With 4 weapons that only take 2 power units you still have some ways to defend yourself while your crew is hopefully repairing the weapons system.

flak alone can't do shit without getting shit on by the enemy weapons, especially without something to support you like hacking
a vulcan is just plain bad, especially on hard mode where enemies have like 40% evasion late game
I should've bought buffer points on the drones so they wouldn't have gone offline, or since I got an extra defense drone in sector 8 just have 2 defense drones at once

Did you try
You know
Shooting the cockpit
With your Vulcan
Or really, anything except shields

>Actually spending scrap on repairs
There's literally no reason you should be taking damage from anything that isn't a missile

>spent 40 seconds winding up the vulcan
>spend another minute disabling the shields after missing half my shots
>no wait, I'm fucking dead to the power surges and missiles
no thanks
this is what I had doing into phase 3, the vulcan can't help me there

>he's not even fucking using the vulcan
you have not one single person or event to blame besides yourself

>going for fourth shield layer and not maxing engines
there's an argument to put one more level so that a single damage hit doesn't disable the third layer but the last level to get a fourth layer is a waste imo

winding up the vulcan in phase 1 and 2 was a mistake
I consider 45 dodge good enough, max engines are more expensive than shields in cost and power

I need to see a video of this colossal fuck up.I keep going through scenarios in my head and the only way i can see you failing this is if you only had 5 hull at the get go.

>uses all three cloak bars
>shoots while cloaked

9 hull

That user times his attacks. His Flak's goal isn't to deal damage: it's to get rid of shields (which Flak is great at) so the Halberd cleaves the ship apart.

>implying FTL has strategy and isn't just RNG

(u)

How can anyone be THIS BAD at fucking Faster Than Light?

Some people can't even beat the game on Easy.
I don't know how.

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It's got strategy. It's just that RNG dictates your strategy, and it's far too easy to not have a viable one for the situation for one reason or another. Damage gating, lack of resources, lack of manpower, situational disadvantages, etc. The biggest problem with the boss is that it breaks even the regular game rules to be hard for hard's sake. See: Super Advanced AI means it's actually better to leave at least one person alive because otherwise it'll autorepair parts at ridiculous speeds, the boarding crew's damage dealing is pretty much level 3 when Level 2 is the best you can get, and shit you can't do regardless of how well equipped you get.

I hate FTL for that. Eventually it just hits a point where it stops pretending it gives a shit about fairness. The only question is if it happens at the end or earlier.

>the boarding crew's damage dealing is pretty much level 3 when Level 2 is the best you can get
What the fuck are you talking about?
Also, I have no idea why people complain about the autorepair AI, the only time it ever matters is if you have a boarding team and in that case, you can just park your dudes inside and they instantly undo any repairing