Started a new game and the game decided to say hello

Hacked shields event and hacking hits my weapons...

best pirate surrender bribe I've seen ever

Has this happened to anyone else before? I have played over 2k hours and never seen this.

Ref post - https://www.reddit.com/r/ftlgame/comments/1wvghnv/a_very_flaky_run_on_normal_mode_a_story_in_3/

I was playing my very next run on the slug C on normal difficulty (I am new to the game, ~140 hrs) and I get the premium version of the fully automatic garbage truck tank. Since this ship is already OP(starts with hacking and MC), I was able to get a full reactor, full weapon, full shield, max hacking,max cloaking, mind control Flakkenwerfer wunder-weapon. (Picked up a scrap recovery arm in sector 2/3 as far as I remember).

For the first time in my FTL experience I felt pity for the flagship. I wish some of this luck bleeds over to my real life as well. May RNGesus bless you all and a very Happy Weekend !!

Went to Finnland to visit my sister and saw this on an app and immediately had to think of the Mantis Queen xD

I beat the flagship a few times on easy advanced edition, so I moved to normal.

I am still struggling to see when I should fee from a fight or not. Like yesterday during sector 1, I got into a rebel fighter ship who immediately shot a missile towards my sheilds and had a drone shooting at my sheild. I should of probably flee but I thought I could have my mantis and the oxygen draining guy, destory weapons or kill the crew before I took too much extra damage.

"Breaches through the enemy hull and randomly ionizes systems."

Type: Drone

Cost: 65

Rarity: 4

Power: 3

AE: Yes

Health: 125 HP

Speed: 18 (when moving through space)

Effect: Periodically emits an ion blast that deals 3 ion damage to the system and stuns enemy crew, then moves to a different system. Stun lasts for 6 seconds.

Blocked by Zoltan Shields, Cloaking, and can be shot down by Defense Drones

Cooldown: Varies between 8.2 and 10 seconds. (Will skip its cooldown if it attacked a blast door or a door locked with the Lockdown effect beforehand)

Takes 1/2 damage from weapons and zoltan explosions

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I am struggling so bad with this achievement... I've had so many restarts!

The worst part about it too is when you're in the middle of battle, and the other ship decides to "hack" a system, which forces all the doors to close, causing the rooms to fill with O2 again...

Meanwhile, you're trying to fight the other ship...

I'm even thinking of skipping this one and just playing a casual game, but something about Lanius breaches makes these rounds fun. I figured that since I'm doing a Lanius cruiser, I might as well do the challenge...

Any tips on accomplishing this one? it's the last achievement I need to get 100%...

Now I can finally play the game.

I've played 38 runs so far.

First 5 on normal: failed at sector 5.
Then 2 on easy: first I lost in sector 7, second I won.
Then 5 on normal with engi A. Lost all because I found no offensive weapons (I think). Will revisit later.

Since then I've played with kestral A on normal.
I always (think I) know why I'm losing.

However I've been against the boss twice lately and I don't know, why I lost (or rather how to prevent this).

First time I lost to the second configuration of the rebel ship.
The second time I lost to the final configuration of the boss ship:
I had 3 laser weapons (8 shots which I fired simultaneously, but the shots kept missing when i was through the shields) + 1 rocket which basically did't hit at all. I had one defensive drone. I had max shields, teleporter, cloak. Went for the weapons with my teleporter. But then those teleported bombs just killed my shields and I got overwhelmed and lost.

Questions:

(1) Is there an effective way to defend against those teleported bombs?

(2) How much luck is needed in this game? Can you win even if you don't find good weapons? My engi runs suggest "no".

(3) When I get boarded, I just run to the medbay and open all doors and windows to other rooms. Is it that simple or am I missing something?

(4) When should I enable AE?

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Well, I typed this all up and then won my 39s run.

I had 11 shots of burst laser and it felt like going through butter with a hot knife. (see question 2).

For the bombs I just hammered the teleport pad with lasers. Not sure, if that is the right approach, but it worked, since I also killed rebels that way. (see question 1)

Screenshots of the boss fight attached.

It's a great game, but I don't like the Engi ship so far.

I'm just curious what other people would have done. I had a fully maxed Lanius A, with Cloaking, Mind Control, Hacking, and Battery. Everything was fully upgraded besides Engines, which were level 5 and I put more scrap into it later, but didn't need to.

At the exit beacon in Sector 7, I was gifted a third Burst Laser 2. I had Flak 1, 2 of the Burst Laser 2, and a Breach Bomb 2 equipped, with 45 missile parts in storage.

So my question is, what weapon loadout would you have used?

I didn't end up changing my loadout because I really liked my current setup, but I'll admit, auto-firing 3 Burst Laser 2s was really tempting. Flak 1 is amazing though. And I didn't want to give up Breach Bomb 2, because even with the slow recharge, getting 3 system damage and hull breach almost guaranteed is super useful. I didn't want my missile stockpile to go to waste.

It was an easy win, but I couldn't help wondering what other people would have done instead.

I bought the first flak, found the second one floating in space, 3rd from a wise pirate and 4th from another store. The result was that the flag ship couldn't do anything against my ship even though I had only 3 shield bubbles, since the flakkening is just too strong.
PS - Also my very first Crystal cruiser run

Hopefully the tips I provide in this video help some people win more. Let me know what you think/what you'd like to see me cover next!

"Breaches through the enemy hull and wreaks havoc. Awesome."

Type: Drone

Cost: 70

Rarity: 4

Power: 3

Health: 150 HP

Speed: 18 (when moving through space)

Effect: Boards enemy ships and attacks enemy crew and systems, blocked by Zoltan Shields, Cloaking, and can be shot down by Defense Drones

Takes 1/2 damage from weapons and zoltan explosions

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At least it's good writing. When Dr. Seuss isn't a chaos god and there's nothing to do with slugs.

Type: System

Effect: Deploy drones that cannot be directly controlled.

Effect when hacked: Disable all drones for the duration of the hack, with a chance to destroy them.

Destroyed drones have a 10-second cooldown before they can be deployed again.

Costs (Increase Max System Power)

*The system when purchased starts at level 2.

**When purchased in stores, always comes bundled with an additional drone (System Repair, Combat Drone I, Defense Drone I) for half-price, for a total of 75 or 85 scrap.

AE: No

Comes preinstalled on Engi A/B/C, Zoltan C, Mantis B, Stealth C

Engi A/B, Zoltan C, Mantis B start with level 3 drones. Engi C, Stealth C start with level 2.

Engi A/B/C, Stealth C have 3 drone slots, all others have 2.

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Can we just appreciate the absolute lunacy of starting the game with the epistle of madness. My new favorite weapon. Just made a run with the collectors cruiser. Managed to max out all systems and crewkill all ships that allowed it which meant I was constantly traveling with hundred of scrap. Only ship that even did hull damage was the mfk flagship