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79: Was there anything mentioned about teleporter availability? Because you only get teleports in early sectors and once you've got yourself a Mantis or Lanius deathsquad and have decided maybe a teleporter is a good way to use them properly, you'll never see the system in stores. Ever.
80: When going through a nebula, the beacon on the outermost, thinnest part of the cloud will contain a plasma storm and combat.

MikieRpg wrote:69: Sex jokes get you 999 scrap

what???

how the hell does that happen?

81: I've noticed that people dont use zoltan boarders. use them. They are op. just send them in, and they'll kill any human crew from fighting or dying (on death they will do 15 extra damage)
82: defence drone 2s always go for lasers.
83: enemy burst weapons are useless. they fire in three different spots, and do minimal damage.
84: the first bomb always misses. they target an airlock. if you have a system there then you're f*****.

Stormbringer wrote:81: I've noticed that people dont use zoltan boarders. use them. They are op. just send them in, and they'll kill any human crew from fighting or dying (on death they will do 15 extra damage)
82: defence drone 2s always go for lasers.
83: enemy burst weapons are useless. they fire in three different spots, and do minimal damage.
84: the first bomb always misses. they target an airlock. if you have a system there then you're f*****.

82 is "Your Defence Drone 2's always go for lasers"
83 actually is "When your shields are down, enemy burst weapons will always hit important parts of your ship and set at least two fires."
84 would be "The first bomb always hit something important. And starts at least two fires"

stylesrj wrote:

Stormbringer wrote:81: I've noticed that people dont use zoltan boarders. use them. They are op. just send them in, and they'll kill any human crew from fighting or dying (on death they will do 15 extra damage)
82: defence drone 2s always go for lasers.
83: enemy burst weapons are useless. they fire in three different spots, and do minimal damage.
84: the first bomb always misses. they target an airlock. if you have a system there then you're f*****.

82 is "Your Defence Drone 2's always go for lasers"
83 actually is "When your shields are down, enemy burst weapons will always hit important parts of your ship and set at least two fires."
84 would be "The first bomb always hit something important. And starts at least two fires"

acttually i tried it on an enemy ship once and the laser-missile trick worked. also: I went into a fight with the kestrel a. the first small bomb hit an airlock. second, third fourth and fifth also hit airlocks. hows that?

85. Whenever you sell an augment or weapon, the very next beacon is when it will be most useful.

Just thought of a new one.

86. With regards to level 1 hacking on the shields system: When you do a 1-power hack on enemy shields, it'll only take away 1 shield bubble. When enemies do a 1-power hack on your shields system, it'll take away 2 shield bubbles.

I'm pretty sure this isn't actually true (it's inconsistent, possibly based on number of frames it takes to recharge a shield?) but it sure feels like it sometimes.

Well if your shield gets hit at the same time its being hacked, that layer isn't coming back. You might hold your fire and wait for the right shots to be made, but the AI doesn't give a crap and will fire at you whenever.

87. If you're flying a shieldless ship with only a single, slow-charging beam weapon, the AI will destroy one bar and then proceed to destroy everything else on your ship and set it on fire. They'll never fire at weapons again.

88. If you get a good setup, RNGesus is compelled to make all your distress beacons giant alien spiders.
89. If you're looking for a Vulcan, you find a fire beam. If you're looking for the latter, you get the former.
90. If you have O2 lvl 1, they'll hack it.
91. Phase 3 of the flagship will always reactivate the super shield and fire all its remaining weapons and the power surge at the same time. When it has. 6. Hull. (True story)
92. If you play Rock cruiser type A, you will only find more missiles and beams.
93. Pirate encounters are always Zoltan or Slugs called "the dread pirate Tuco".

I just recently had a 3 flak 1 and a bl2 run
And no cloak
Almost died

TheDreadedPirateTuco wrote:I just recently had a 3 flak 1 and a bl2 run
And no cloak
Almost died

Then you were either very unlucky or did some things seriously wrong. I for one would not even bother about a cloak if I had such a weapons setup. There are better ways to spend your resources, like mind control or hacking. Or even leaving the last system slot blank and spending the scrap on maxed shields and engines instead.

Although. "almost died" means that you still won, doesn't it? Why the complaints? You don't get extra points for beating the boss at full health.