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God I can’t believe I never thought about teleporting boarders onto weapon system rooms, and the class B mantis ship is my favorite one !

The referenced video is 9n7Q2KvVNkQ at about 12:05

This helped me A LOT to get my first Mantis B win! TYSM!!

How do you cheat in that much scrap..? That's probably twice what I get with the maximum number of jumps on medium without scrap recovery arm...

How does this setup fair during the run though, not against the flagship? My immediate gut reaction is that it seems too resource hungry to be sustainable. In later sectors you are very dependent on the Ion bomb hitting, since if it misses you're punished with a ~20 second wait before being able to try to do damage again, so it seems like you'd end up hacking piloting every time. So now you're spending a missile and a drone part each fight, maybe even a couple of missiles. Meanwhile, my instinct is that you're going to struggle to back up the ion attack with physical damage, because you'll need to get up to 5 power to run any other weapons, so against late game enemies against whom you need to put like 4 damage into their weapon system to keep them neutralized, I feel like you'd really struggle.

Probably the best way to use this tactic over multiple volleys is starting O2 at 100% and just leaving it off. That gives you a timer for every volley. You can use the "arbitrary time" option at ftl-timing.mikehopley.org/ . The formula for volley N would be (8.1 * N) - 0.9, i.e. 7.2 seconds for the first volley, 15.3 for the second, etc. This will also work with different venting patterns as described in the app documentation. Without the shields buffer against this specific enemy, I now would NOT use the tactic, because blocking the Heavy Laser just opens you up to the Mini Beam hitting shields instead. If the Mini Beam is removed, I would use the tactic.

Mod available here: www.dropbox.com/s/fd91ymv42dr0eqi/Double%20TP.ftl?dl=0

I forgot -- Kazaaak is also an all-Mantis crew. Thanks Ray. Also I just remembered that "interfere and help the Zoltan ship" is all-Mantis too.

I missed a few things for this video, see the additions in part 2: ruclips.net/video/55k5WmtR3V4/видео.html

Turns out you don't need to keep the drone "warm", you just need to let it fully recharge before depowering (a second or more). If you do that, it will store its charge until you turn it on. This makes the micro very clean. Thanks to mekloz for that.

7:09 crazy coincidence today I was also playing an engi B with triple defense drone build, it was two defense II for me

Scrap recovery arm is overrated. It's proven that it's unefficient if it was bought in mid sectors and risky in early sectors. Also it does take 1 augment slot, so don't buy it.

i've spent weeks and 30 hours playing FTL with no succesful runs - i watched your video last night and my first attempt the next day i beat it for the first time thanks to your advice. great video man

You reloaded the save? how? what am i missing here?

Nice thanks :-)

watched this video while farming engine and pilot exp, thank you!

>easy mode

It's a perfect introduction video!

great videos man. quick question: would you ever analyze multiverse?

9:52 honestly kinda wish the sheild drone did this instead; where it would surround the enemy ship and on it's intervals duplicate up to 5 times to reduce the chances of an enemy shot going off. also for it's design just if the 8 + 2 second formula wasn't so bad and just be like 8 seconds consistently or maybe just start at 6 seconds before ramping so you don't need to be frame perect againt heavy lasers with the stealth c. the design is so bad makes long battles easier but requires stalling with both cloaking and hacking to get full use a tool only useful duing in fight repairs. might as well just be an augment Phase Shift when cloak ends you have 2 super shield layers

And only one bar in cloning. That must have been sooooo fun.

I think the shield thing needs an asterisk: Upgrade shields early IF you don't have zoltan shields. Zoltan always goes first, and engine with zoltan can make it so you don't need the shields at all.

thanks to a rabbit-hole of research (and significant help + brainpower from kajelad), I can (annoyingly, maybe) point out that 29:56 to 30:04 (deleting 2 crew by ending the phase when they are sitting in Cloaking and Doors, and then the clarification that this doesn't work on hard) needs a small qualifier: on hard mode, any crew in Cloaking (or in the empty room between Cloaking and Hacking) at the end of P1 will survive, and will be deposited into the empty room between shields and lasers (empty room between Cloaking and Hacking will go to the empty room between shields and missiles) at the beginning of P2 any crew in the doors room at the end of P1 (even on Hard) will be deleted (or will die, whatever) in P2, the Drone Control room and the empty room between drones and the rest of the ship are "safe" -> they will be transported to the extra rooms flanking shields. the vertical empty room next to drone control (the one that is the mirror of Doors from P1) is "unsafe" -> any crew here at the end of P2 will die

I was just curious what your tips would be, and I never knew you could auto-fire a specific weapon. I can think of countless weapons that would work well on

who would have thought that such a little game as FTL (it even feels like flash browser game sometimes) would have such in depth mechanics, tactics and variables. It blows my mind. I suck at this game so badly that I just scored only one victory on an Easy mode a couple of years ago and that`s it. I just can`t beat the damn thing (it`s not that i`m playing this game every evening. Just now and then when i`m in the mood for it) and now i`m starting to look for some guides and walkthroughs. This game also has an incredible community, everyone is super welcoming! Thanks, guys!

👏😊 excellent. well played

A few years ago I arrived with 4 Blast Lasers and full shields. It was before the update. It was fun going Captain Kirk on their ass. Blam blam blam BOOOOOOM!

Yeah thats just on easy difficulty..

I've played the game for 400 hours and am still learning new things, insane.

Any help with this. I disabled V sync in my settings and it still hard caps? Thanks. Does is matter that I'm running FTl through steam?

A federation level guide. I will see you boys on deck.🖖

Damn, this guide helped me revisiting this game years after trying it out on a friend's account and disliking it because of difficulty and lack of meta progression. The real progression is the one that your video helped me make ! 🎉

I started playing FTL a couple days ago on easy mode, with advanced mode off, and on my first run I got to sector 8 (literally first try somehow), but lost to the mothership on the first phase. After a bit of trying, I could not get back to sector 8 whatsoever, and it took me like 4 attempts to even get to sector 6. After watching your video though and following all the tips (especially the keep upgrading all the systems all the time one), I got to sector 8 again. Not only that, but I almost won the fight against the mothership. I got past phase 1 and 2 very easily, but ended up dying to phase 3 from bad luck where literally every shot that hit my ship caused a breach + not having the manpower to deal with the large amounts of invading crew that destroyed pretty much everything in my ship + the low oxygen in my ship from all breaches caused a pretty brutal death in the end. Either way, absolutely loved the guide you made, it's pretty amazing and it helped me quite a bit. I think if I hadn't had gotten so unlucky with the breaches, I probably would've held on for slightly longer, and maybe would've won the fight (but that's pretty outlandish tbh). Thanks for the guide (P.S. the guide was so helpful, that even with like probably 8 hours total of gameplay, I still almost won)!

Really awesome way to highlight the value of training crew! Guess it's time to afk the early game a lot more. At 10:50

Micro-ing drones to kill other drones is just the funniest thing to watch for me XD

Game: Kerbal Space Program? RUclips are you doing okay?

Advanced content is arguably easier, since you can just hack shields and easily destroy the rest. IMHO playing without advanced content is much harder (better).

This video is proof that good weapons are honestly a bit overrated in FTL, what wins battles far more often is good systems. Of course, you do need *enough* weaponry to break through shielding...but the margin for that is not as demanding as some people think, and actually on the reasonable side given the choices in most games.

Failed on first try because i didn't accumulate enough money and crew but was fairly easy on the second try, didn't even had to kidnap anyone because they boarded me with only one guy leaving behind only pilot.

You can avoid buying fuel if you think you can make it to sector 8 with your last few fuel because after that, you get all the fuel you will ever need. If enemy surrender you with 3 or more fuel, you may consider take it for the fuel. Keep in mind that you likely get a bit less scrap than just win the battle. If they surrender with an argument or a weapon, usually it’s a good idea to accept. Keep in mind that if you already have 3 arguments, the extra that is not be equipped will be left behind.

Now that I watched it a couple times, it's making more sense, but I can't tell you how puzzled and confused I was at first. 🤣

D'ont froget something , PLAY ON EASY AT FIRST . If you do so 90 % of the time you will wreck the flag ship to dust pretty easily. ( I did so without sending any crews in ) . What he explains here its for nromal / hard + diffculities ^^

Hey, I've been enjoying your vanilla FTL videos. They have been very helpful for advanced tactics. But I wonder about one thing; you don't have (almost) any modded FTL videos on your channel. Have you considered uploading some more of those? I would love to see your take on the Multiverse mod, for example. Especially now that the mod has gone through many balance changes and should suit your hardcore precision playstyle more.

Got the game 3 days ago, and so far the furthest I’ve gotten is getting the boss to 1 hp on easy with advanced. Thanks for the tips frfr

bro micro'd so hard he stunlocked the medbay

With regards to the engine thing, I sort of agree and disagree. Yes, you should prioritise shields, then weapons to pierce 3 shields yourself, but once you have that, you should definitely not neglect engines either, especially with how cheap engine upgrades are early on. 15 scrap for an extra 5% dodge, but also a faster FTL charge can help on the off chance you ever get caught by the rebel fleet. That higher dodge chance also means your pilot and engine man gain exp easier. I think around sector 2-4 is good time to get level 3 engines. You should definitely have at least level 4 engines by the end of sector 7 going into sector 8, but any more than level 5 is diminishing returns.

Vulcan + glave beam Is good for the fight against the flagship

by the way your crew is dying LUL

you can easily escape the loop by upgrading Oxygen and/or medbay

AFAIK blur isn't destructive so someone could "unblur" your information FYI.