FTL: Faster than Light

[Gammagooey]

played it a bunch on normal but only unlocked one type C ship so far (kestrel) which IS pretty fun to be fair (plus the lanius ship which is also fine)

i wanna try out all the new layouts though and having to survive til the last sector with a type b ship i've either played a lot already or am awful at using (mantis or engi for example) is kind of irritating

the new music+models+events+everything else is amazing though so I should probably just play a bit on easy instead of getting myself blown up on normal runs over and over again

[Gammagooey]

haven't beaten it with advanced edition yet but how i beat it a few times was

-have cloaking for the stage 2 flagship because otherwise the drone surge will fuck you hard enough that you usually can't recover
-have either a fuckton of lasers to get past the shields+ ideally at least one combat drone for even more lasers OR some bombs to hit the shield room with and still a decent amount of lasers
-probably have at least 3 shields
-having a transporter to kill their weapons+ the dudes that repair them in stages 1 and 3 is also nice but not necessary

super mega bonus: use the zoltan A ship, kill everything forever and have so much extra scrap from not taking damage that you have all those things by like sector 5.

[Gammagooey]

man i really hate how bad every subsystem is except cloaking on stage 2 of the flagship

got there with like 8 lasers i could fire at once+ a combat drone and hacking and mind control with the lanius ship (didnt get cloaking or a transporter so i could get the first lanius ship achievement earlier) and then the combat drone and hacking are both useless because of the defense drone and mind control can't actually kill a weapon system if it's only at level 2 so i take down the shields with a million lasers then LOLDRONES then i die

maaaaaan

[Gammagooey]

flagship doesn't even actually have that much evasion, i hacked it to do basically the same thing on stage 1 and it was either 15 or 25 (im guessing 25 when piloted and 15 when not?)

it's just that i didn't have a way to not die from the drone swarm and couldn't kill anything fast enough to actually make a difference despite most of my ship upgrades being awesome

[Gammagooey]

just got a zoltan shield on the Lanius ship

it feels reaaal good