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Meanwhile in FTL
You know it's a long hiatus when I pick up FTL again. But hey, I actually unlocked some new ships! :O
The Crystal Cruiser is notoriously hard to unlock, and I got it the "easy" way; with Rock Cruiser type C, you have a Crystal crew member to start the game. The "hard" way is first get the mysterious stasis pod, then find a Zoltan science ship that can unlock it for you, to get the Crystal person. Then (both paths) you have to travel to the Rock home sector, and then you have to stumble upon a ship that the Crystal recognizes, and it ports you to an alternate sector that's off the map.
Crystal A starts with two powerful weapons that can pierce shields. There's no type C, but there is the 2/3 achievements to get A->B. One of them is "use a special character power to lock down a room containing four enemy characters." This is doable (wait for one of those Mantis boarding events), but kind of futile--like, you trapped yourself in a room with four Mantis who are better at fighting then you, what did you realistically think is going to happen.
Another one is "use your retaliation power to destroy an enemy ship." The retaliation power is, when your ship takes damage, there's a 1/10 chance that it will blast a "shard" at the enemy. Unfortunately there's not a good way to indicate when this happens, it's just "hey wait a minute their oxygen room broke, we weren't even aiming there, what's the deal?"
So, early on, I stumble across the shady "purchase a weapon for 45 scrap" guy with exactly 45 scrap on hand. Feels like an omen. Buy some missiles (3 power). Later, happen on an ion weapon (2 power). Need to upgrade my weapons all the way to use all four slots at once, but hey, I can do that. Missiles are actually pretty effective for targeting the flagship (first phase), that combined with the Crystal base weapons combined with the ionizer puts me in the fight. I get the first-phase ship down to low health. Lower, lower...its shields come back online...I'm losing hull integrity too...it has one HP left.
We explode.
And then we take it out with us!!
So yeah, that was how I unlocked type B. Type B is another "no weapons and it's expensive to buy them," but it comes with cloaking and shields and a teleporter. I guess the idea is you teleport on, kill all the crew, teleport back? I'm not exactly sure how to use the lockdown power to my advantage. Like, if it's an early enemy and the ship doesn't have a medbay/clonebay, the enemy crew can just run from room to room but I can chase them. Teleporting is still a fragile strategy, though, because what happens when you get an AI ship? (Actually I think they take half damage from suffocation, they're like a weird Lanius/Rock hybrid, maybe for exactly this reason??)
Haven't gotten very far on that, but ready to try some more. :D
The Crystal Cruiser is notoriously hard to unlock, and I got it the "easy" way; with Rock Cruiser type C, you have a Crystal crew member to start the game. The "hard" way is first get the mysterious stasis pod, then find a Zoltan science ship that can unlock it for you, to get the Crystal person. Then (both paths) you have to travel to the Rock home sector, and then you have to stumble upon a ship that the Crystal recognizes, and it ports you to an alternate sector that's off the map.
Crystal A starts with two powerful weapons that can pierce shields. There's no type C, but there is the 2/3 achievements to get A->B. One of them is "use a special character power to lock down a room containing four enemy characters." This is doable (wait for one of those Mantis boarding events), but kind of futile--like, you trapped yourself in a room with four Mantis who are better at fighting then you, what did you realistically think is going to happen.
Another one is "use your retaliation power to destroy an enemy ship." The retaliation power is, when your ship takes damage, there's a 1/10 chance that it will blast a "shard" at the enemy. Unfortunately there's not a good way to indicate when this happens, it's just "hey wait a minute their oxygen room broke, we weren't even aiming there, what's the deal?"
So, early on, I stumble across the shady "purchase a weapon for 45 scrap" guy with exactly 45 scrap on hand. Feels like an omen. Buy some missiles (3 power). Later, happen on an ion weapon (2 power). Need to upgrade my weapons all the way to use all four slots at once, but hey, I can do that. Missiles are actually pretty effective for targeting the flagship (first phase), that combined with the Crystal base weapons combined with the ionizer puts me in the fight. I get the first-phase ship down to low health. Lower, lower...its shields come back online...I'm losing hull integrity too...it has one HP left.
We explode.
And then we take it out with us!!
So yeah, that was how I unlocked type B. Type B is another "no weapons and it's expensive to buy them," but it comes with cloaking and shields and a teleporter. I guess the idea is you teleport on, kill all the crew, teleport back? I'm not exactly sure how to use the lockdown power to my advantage. Like, if it's an early enemy and the ship doesn't have a medbay/clonebay, the enemy crew can just run from room to room but I can chase them. Teleporting is still a fragile strategy, though, because what happens when you get an AI ship? (Actually I think they take half damage from suffocation, they're like a weird Lanius/Rock hybrid, maybe for exactly this reason??)
Haven't gotten very far on that, but ready to try some more. :D