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Ruwen's homecoming
Jul. 5th, 2024 09:46 pmSo in FTL, there's a hidden species called the Crystals, but the quest to unlock their ship is fiendishly difficult in the base game and requires a lot of RNG events to go your way. However, in the Advanced Edition, the version C Rock ship starts with a Crystal crewmember, which makes the unlock quest significantly easier (though still fluky). Anyway, back in the day when I was playing it a lot I unlocked the Crystal ship by going the Rock C route.
Today I was playing Engi A, who start with a combat drone, an Ion Blast, and the Engi Med-Bot dispersal as one of their three augmentation slots. I'm not exactly sure what the strategy for ion weapons is, some people understand this better than me, but I played around with "autofire" because if there's a shield to hit, the ion will default to bringing down the shields first, so you don't have to worry about "do I aim at the shields or what." And normally I'm pretty cautious with drone/missile based strategies, because they're limited in supply; however, this ship starts with no other way to inflict hull damage, so you pretty much have to use the combat drones early.
Early on, I got a pirate to surrender mid-fight and offer a Shields Recharge Booster augment. That's good, everybody needs shields and defense, so fine, I'll take that bribe. The med-bot augmentation serves its role well, my Engi (and human pilot) can cope with boarders even though they're not great in single combat.
( Spoilers and/or tl;dr )
Today I was playing Engi A, who start with a combat drone, an Ion Blast, and the Engi Med-Bot dispersal as one of their three augmentation slots. I'm not exactly sure what the strategy for ion weapons is, some people understand this better than me, but I played around with "autofire" because if there's a shield to hit, the ion will default to bringing down the shields first, so you don't have to worry about "do I aim at the shields or what." And normally I'm pretty cautious with drone/missile based strategies, because they're limited in supply; however, this ship starts with no other way to inflict hull damage, so you pretty much have to use the combat drones early.
Early on, I got a pirate to surrender mid-fight and offer a Shields Recharge Booster augment. That's good, everybody needs shields and defense, so fine, I'll take that bribe. The med-bot augmentation serves its role well, my Engi (and human pilot) can cope with boarders even though they're not great in single combat.
( Spoilers and/or tl;dr )
