For rock people just open all the airlocks and shove all your crew into the engine, nav and shield rooms... That way they die of asphyxiation and the important fires and modules can be fought/repaired.
Send everyone into the med-bay instead, you get healing while you fight in there that way If you have more than three crewyou obviously have to leave some other rooms with air but normally they never bother with the pilot's cabin. Only difficulty with this strat is if the o2 generator gets hit, which is why it can be worth upgrading it to level 2 later in the game.
I was more thinking for the Sun sector scenario, although they go for engine/shields/weapons anyway, which you'll need to take on the other ship anyway. Not me, gave up on that badboy.
FTL Rant of the Week TM. So im trying to get the second type of the kestral ship, the starter ship - and I either have to get 6/7 of the crew as different specias or repair from 1 bar. After winning it MANY times and only getting 5/7 species, I decide to go for the other - I find myself in a good situation, by a sun, fire spreading - the sun at this point does no direct damage from its solar flares, only starts fires. I manage to ge it down to 1 bar, get rid of all the fire - but I just need to repair my engines and I can goto the shop next door. OH WHEN DOES THE SUN DECIDE TO DO ****ING HULL DAMAGE, oh thats right, WHEN I ONLY HAVE ONE ****ING PIECE OF HULL DAMAGE TO LIVE. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Really loving this game, reminds me of gaming on the Amiga when I was a kid. Got stuck on it for I don't know how many hours today and I'm only getting off because it's 4am It can be quite frustrating when you've got the ship sorted then get dicked over for some stupid reason, it's like reliving the frustration of old school gaming again, which I like in a weird way (after getting over the rage).
Thought I had it then, dunno how the boss got away AFTER it completely blew up . Second round with it was too much.
Its side just comes off the first time The drones I find the hardest to deal with in terms of damage - the key I find is to either bombard the enemy ships drone bay which knocks some of the drones off, and then you can mitigate the rest, just have max shields (which works well because its only the shooty ones that hurt shields, so you entirely mitigate the lazer drones with shields), or get a cloak (10s). I did do it once with tonnes of evasion, but the problem with that is if your engines get taken out you have serious issues. Third round, well- I will leave you to find out that one for yourself
I can beat the boss more often than not, if I can get there. It's a flip of the coin of Normal mode - there are some freaking hard ships to deal with way before you get to the last stand. I encountered one with five shields (clearly some kind of power-up), and I took way too much damage wearing them down; even with two ion bombs . Anyone else noticed the weapon pre-charger is damn hard to come by on that mode?
I was a bit confused when it completely blew up in the animation then told me it got away in the nick of time. Cheers, i'll try that next time.
