Drone Recovery Arm, Explosive Replicator, Zoltan Shield Bypass are interesting options on some ships. Scrap Recovery Arm Option Category page. What are you even talking about. What is this nonsense with Drone recovery arm, not recovering Hacking. I <3 Ion-drone loadouts. If you can get a Drone Recovery Arm, your offenses and defenses will get significantly better. So I outline that quandary in the Kestrel guide (as I noticed it was a recurring theme in my shopping list). The Drone Recovery Arm is more for use with Defense Drones than it is for anything else. Anti-Drone Drones do a heck of a job protecting from enemy drones, for only one power. Then the beam laser. Faster Than Light Wiki 415. In no particular order: 1. Add a Comment. I would grab cloak over mind control in almost any scenario. If. if you don’t stumble upon a drone recovery arm, so it can add up. I've always thought that 50% chance seemed a bit low. Would be things like the reconstructive teleport, backup DNA bank, zoltan shield bypass, drone recovery arm. Upgrade medbay to save your own crew and have higher chances of saving/getting new crew through events. Hello ! i am a ship captain and , i'm wondering , what is th best loadout for PURE BRUTE FORCE ? ( drone , weapons , systems . I'm using a VERY boarding-heavy loadout, I can either buy a drone recovery arm to save drone parts, or I can buy a backup DNA bank in case my clone bay goes offline. It's such a convenient system; hack shields for beam-heavy ships, or pilot/engines for lasers or flaks (or hack shields anyway). Keep in mind that even if you don't use a lot of drones while going through sectors 1-7, good ion plus a drone or two can get over vulcan-level DPS without the spinup time, plus take out a weapon. 7 Reverse Ion Field - 7. Two boarding drones against auto ships. It might have been the most powerful offensive ship I have ever flown! LONCHIVARLearned lesson & switched loadout: Ion bomb, heavy laser, heavy ion, defense drone. ago. I'm in a Torus with the standard ion blast 2 and combat drone 1. * Stealth Weapons - Ions and other fast-charge weapons love this. It only recovers ones flying in space. I actually sold off the defense drone because I use them all the time and I wanted to see how good two shield drones are with max level cloak. – Jack M. You can buy level 2 shields for 50 scrap. 2: hack their hacking room. You see a civilian space station with heavy damage. " Sell 3 drone parts for 12 scrap. The crew is ok, but lacks the edge of the last ship. Or is there another piece of equipment required to recover drones? (a'la FTL's 'drone recovery arm') Presumably the drones would also be used to salvage wrecks?"While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles. Create your own mod-implementable event for the game FTL: Faster Than Light. It will help you deploy hacking + recoverable drones. FTL: Faster Than Light. When activated, this will prevent (or interrupt) their hacking process. 3 [Economizing] Drone Reactor Booster - 8. A subreddit to discuss the Kickstarter-backed "roguelike-like" game FTL: Faster Than Light by Subset Games. I'd say defence drones are more useful earlier in the game, and only a minor benefit against the Flagship. Then the trick is to time the flagship's cloak. Priority to target: Weapons, stealth system,. laerteis • 9 yr. Only 50% chance to kill an attacking drone, and the reload is too long to protect against hacking or boarding drones. Fixed in 1. Get a Defense Drone Mk I, which is best at protecting the small Engi cruiser. It does not work with hull repair drones. So I think it's good for balance that the enemy Anti-drones can be ignored. Click here to jump to that post. I noticed it was a recurring theme in my shopping list). 3 Adv. You can use the dual lasers and drone or hacking through the first 2 sectors fairly reliably. High evasion (that means engine upgrades) and really fast weapons can also be effective. Often it's better to think of the starting kit as your early game build, rather than feeling you "ought" to stick to that for the whole game. i was wondering if it recovers the hacking drone from the hacking bay. Look for a Drone Recovery Arm. If you're doing a heavy drone build, get Drone Recovery Arm. Hacking to take down the flagship's shields. You have to get 500 scrap just to get the 50 back you paid for it. But when I just tried it the other day that didn't seem to be the case and the hull repair drone was consumed even when I had the recovery arm. If you're doing a heavy drone build, get Drone Recovery Arm. Against some Auto-Drone layout in particular it can allow you to hit all room at once while you should normally only be able to get 3-4. Boarding drone and ion intruder aren't great unless you're already playing a boarding ship, in which case you really don't need them. Specifically, I tested the bug with the following drones: Combat 1 (works) Hull repair drone (does not work) Boarding drone (does not work) I know this is not recoverable, but had one to test. The ions strip the shields, while the offense drones will make mincemeat of the enemy ship because they have the highest DPS in the game. 10. . Mr_Degroot • 9 yr. If you're using missiles/hacking, get Defense Scrambler, etc. Drone Arm [] "Combat and Defense drones will be retrieved on jump if not destroyed" Costs 50 and 3 ; Refunds the droneparts for combat/defense drones that are deployed. If I am using Hacking every battle, I will need to be worrying about my drone part supply all the time. The intent of using Hacking and the Beam Drone is also Drone Part-intensive, and you don't have a Drone Recovery Arm to halve the costs; in practice, you should tend to be reluctant to use your Hacking unless you successfully switch away from relying on the Beam Drone for damage. Interesting math. )The hacking drone will almost always get through even against two defense drones. If the ship comes with drone control, the defense drone is an alright temporary solution, but I'd still pick up cloak and then migrate to other drones, either combat if I can find a drone recovery arm, or system repair drone, anti-personnel if I get one for free. ?please answer soonBusiness, Economics, and Finance. FTL Navigation: 3 -> 1 Drone Recovery Arm: 2 -> 1 Explosive Replicator: 3 -> 1 FTL Recharge Booster: 2 -> 1 Hacking Stun: 3 -> 4 Lifeform Scanner: 3 -> 2 Drone power: Anti-Ship Fire Drone: 3 -> 2 Drone prices: Anti-Drone: 35 -> 30 Anti-Personnel: 35 -> 30 Anti-Ship Fire Drone: 50 -> 40A drone Recovery Arm is particularly useful early-on Later, this ship usually relies on its hacking and massive drone army to destroy the enemy ship. (Engi C) Although this this starts weak on the firepower with just dual lasers and a useless beam drone, it makes up for it by having hacking and most importantly the defense scrambler augment. First one sold both cloaking and hacking, so really no need to go to the second one (and nothing left to spend anyway. Anyway, I don't care anymore. The door control from hacking has way more value, as well as being able to suppress weapons or another threat. At least with the Engi ship you'll run across the Drone Recovery Arm every few sectors, and I don't think there's a more OP setup than hacking and 3 beam drones going simultaneously. Nebhead. Having a hack there is awesome. This is not entirely correct. ?FTL: Faster Than Light. You would be tempted to think the earlier in the game you get it the better. advertisement. please answer soonThe Drone Recovery arm is almost always one of my 3 ship augments. ago. It is incredibly effective against Flagship 2 without defense scrambler or some other means of hitting the FS drone system. Post by UltraMantis » Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:20 pm. I like it a lot more than most do, but even I'm not buying it that often. Drone Recovery Arm, Repair Arm, Scrap Recovery Arm. Done that on pc, ended up with zoltan shield, max everything, weapon preigniter, cloak, hack, flak 2, flak 1, pike beam and ion bomb, two combat ii drones, drone recovery arm, four zoltan sat in the shield room, and enough power for seven engines, six shields, all weapons online with level one cloak, level one oxygen and level two hacking. Hacking drones, boarding drones, and ion intruder drones are not recovered. Looks like hacking then as I have the recovery augment but no drone system. (Also saves about 20 scrap over a run. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. For me, all it does is just a nice chunk of scrap to be sold on drone ships. FTL hard mode: how to reach the flagship and kick its ass. This is an effective free 2 points of repair each jump (including empty beacons and stores)- possibly more if you want to risk spending a drone part. Long-charge weapons, not so. If you rely on Hacking, Defense Drones just shut you down. CryptoI will say that this one is particularly awful because not only is the weapons hack slowing down your attack, it's also doubling the repair time for weapons. Cost: 40; Rarity: 4; Advanced Plating [] "Electric scrambler plating that provides some protection against advanced hacking and mind control attempts. CryptoTrade: selling drone parts station. System Repair Drone; Hull Repair Drone; Defensive drones. The guy in the triple laser room gets left alone, for reasons I shall explain below. There is a way to (temporarily) disable hacking drones without destroying their ship or wrecking their hacking room. . GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. - 1 drone part (so you can deploy the Repair Drone) The repair drone is supposed to be destroyed once it's applied 3-5 repair actions. Business, Economics, and Finance. The Torus – Engi A – Great starting weapon + drone. Sold Small Bomb, repaired to 20HP, bought Mk1 Combat Drone. * Drone Recovery Arm - Throwing six or eight power of Combat Drones is funny with that laser spam. The one thing it can't do is destroy a ship like a weapon. i was wondering if it recovers the hacking drone from the hacking bay. Cloaking is good, and is particularly good against the boss, but is not a must-take. SSJ2-Gohan • 9 yr. Business, Economics, and Finance. Topped off to 20HP and refrained from scrap recovery arm & beam drone at end of sector. ) Sold the Shield+ drone now, won't be using drone parts on that again; anti-drone is worth keeping. The defense scrambler not only makes it impossible for your hacking drone to be shot down, but also missiles. i was wondering if it recovers the hacking drone from the hacking bay. Automated reloader. Its no secret that ftl runs take a really long time. . i was wondering if it recovers the hacking drone from the hacking bay. origamiscienceguy • 2 yr. using hacking+ 3 non-crew drones during a fight will quickly drain your drone part supply. This includes ion weapons and non-damaging beams and bombs. And of course, defence drones are great against asteroids throughout the game. If you don't go full drones and only buy a few, maxbe 2 points in the drone system you can easily swap the defense drone out for an anti peronnal or hull drone. Sector 4 is. Anti-drone drones can also be largely ignored with micro. See full list on ftl. Against some Auto-Drone layout in particular it can allow you to hit all room at once while you should normally only be able to get 3-4. Hull Damage: System Damage: System Lock: Clear. 5: Minor text fixes. please answer soonWow, that was bad luck with the drone surge. The Swallow – Kestrel C – A good ship, not much to say. ?FTL: Faster Than Light. 1: break the hacking room, just like weapons or shields. ?i was wondering if it recovers the hacking drone from the hacking bay. Its all fun and games till engi A gets 3 combat drones with a drone recovery arm. - changed the custom store: the last page will show vanilla and modded drones on the top and just modded drones on the bottom, while the augments section will never show stuff not useful such as Weapon Pre-Igniter and Drone Recovery Arm. However, I use the other augments I mentioned on a pretty regular basis. The DRA replenishes the drone part since the drone didn't actually expire. Next to go is the triple ion cannon. Drone Control does not necessarily burn through drone parts so fast, because my two favorite drones (Defense and Anti-Drone) are only necessary for about half of battles or so. "-Achievement. It doesn't cost that much. [deleted] • 10 yr. 3) Cloaking when the enemy fires missiles or lasers also guarantees pretty much an evasion. It works reliably even when shops are. Only drones I buy in non-modded FTL are the hull repair drone, the shield drone, or the defense drone mark 2. I placed a hacking drone into the medbay of a…please answer soonSector 4+: 1470 (77%). (Drone Recovery Arm does not recover Hacking. You get 20 seconds charge time when cloaking and hacking are synchronised. Currently my ship is outfitted with the following: halberd beam…FTL: Multiverse adds a wide range of new drone types into the game. Beam drones help you punch through Zoltan shields and kill ships quicker. Hacking uses 1 drone part every time and is not affected by drone recovery arm. Drone Recovery Arm augmentation description: Non-destroyed drones will be retrieved when jumping, allowing their parts to be reused. ago. (Though there are about half a dozen other minor bugs. . You would be tempted to think the earlier in the game you get it the better. The door control from hacking has way more value, as well as being able to suppress weapons or another threat. This is a quick guide to beating the flagship on hard mode in FTL. SSJ2-Gohan • 9 yr. I'll try to keep it brief since I don't like to read overly long guides myself. . All crew inside a room during a hacking pulse will be. If you send it out and let it repair 2 damage after each battle and then jump away, the drone will be re-added to your inventory. of course, you might get a drone recovery arm, but you can never count on it, and drone parts are very expensive, meaning that you will spend scrap on drone parts that could be used for upgrades. . Drone recovery won't give me the boarding drone or a hacking bot…i was wondering if it recovers the hacking drone from the hacking bay. Looks like an easy way to run out of drones. It is the Hacking Module or Drone Control Module that construct a new Drone each time. * Zoltan Shield Bypass - Oh, wow. hacking uses a drone , if you already use drones and dont have a drone recovery system then that can be a problem , or at least it was for me. " Cost: 30; Rarity: 2; Having a Drone Recovery Arm allows the player to generate a quest beacon that gives them 3 drone parts, effectively making it "free" to map sectors. Crypto I never buy scrap recovery. This means you can pretty much guarantee that. BGround:. "Attempts to scramble the enemy drone communication, disabling one to two drones. Making Missiles sellable would make using missile weapons even less fun. )Pre-AE, your basic ways to break shields are with a bunch of fast lasers or a bunch of ions. v 4. In short, my normal FTL strategy has worked pretty well against the Hard/Advanced flagship. It's too much downside for too little upside. This function can be 'toggled' before a fight or anytime by clicking a button on the top left of the screen ( ) at any moment. g. If the enemy crew somehow gets their air back online later, you'll have Hacking ready again. 12! Zoltan Shield. Another point for having a spare missile in a weapon slot: You can use the missile to keep enemy defense drones busy while you sneak your hacking drone through. The mkII seems to get easily confused/overwhelmed during intense combat. Hacking the Weapon Control is a very good defensive choice. Would much rather have hacking drones have a chance to miss like any other projectile. I also like drone recovery arm, scrap recovery arm, long distance scanners and weapon pre-igniter, but I almost never have enough scrap for the pre-igniter. )31 views, 0 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Premium Hacks: FTL Hack Download Here -Extra. 1) use defense drones to shoot them down mid-flight. What was my Drone Recovery Arm doing. As with all Federation ships, it comes packed with the Artillery Beam – albeit with more power at the start, only requiring 40 seconds to charge. ago. I would grab cloak over mind control in almost any scenario. But it's definitely a lot harder. FIXED BUGS. 0. Post by UltraMantis » Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:20 pm. 1 power combat augment. FTL hard mode: how to reach the flagship and kick its ass. Only 50% chance to kill an attacking drone, and the reload is too long to protect against hacking or boarding drones. In addition I've picked up: Ion charger Burst laser mark 2 Drone recovery arm…FTL: Faster Than Light. An important piece of advice that's missing in the answers is that FTL is a game that you have to be playing for the final boss. Stealth A is considered one of the best ships in the game. Se connecter Magasin Accueil Liste de découvertes Liste de souhaits Boutique des points Actualités StatistiquesWhat is this nonsense with Drone recovery arm, not recovering Hacking. Rew. @Happiness Officer while I agree with you that the Glaive Beam is unwieldy, you can get past defense drones with just a. Originally posted by Maine Cheldan: Hull repair drone requires a Drone system, two reactor bars, and as you said, a big stack of drone parts. repair arm. Situational tier (Depends on your equipment. With the Zoltan A ship, I got past the fist stage of the flagship relatively easy but got absolutely destroyed by the second phase. Drones are sold at better price and unless they are necessary for your survival it better to sell them. There are lots of great combos for the drone system. Additionally, hacking takes time, and enemy drones can destroy your hacking drone before it reaches the ship. I'll usually have cloaking, but on three ships I'll typically have hacking instead (because you can't have both). Defense Drone I; Defense Drone II; Anti-Combat Drone;. Other random events when traveling. Find a beam drone -> get recked. Defence Drone 2 can also be good as a way of mitigating damage earlier in the game. Given its relatively cheap cost, the benefits of a Drone Recovery Arm can sometimes outweigh other augmentations, including the Automated Reloader, Shield Charge Booster, either of those previous two when stacked, Stealth Weapons, and. ID: UPG_ARM_MAGNETIC; Drone Arm [] "Combat and Defense drones will be retrieved on jump if not destroyed" Costs 50 and 3 ; Refunds the droneparts for combat/defense drones that are deployed at the moment of jumping, allowing for sustainable usage of drones. If I get one free I keep it of. 5) Disable their weapon systems. . Yeah, Anti-Personell, Boarding and Repair Drones aren't recovered. Engi get both defence drones and the anti-drone, so to get four drones they would need level 7 or 8 in drones. On-Board Science Lab [] The biggest drawback is the reliance on drone parts. You're right. Any flavour of Defence Drone and Anti-Combat Drones will shoot down an incoming drone or a Zoltan Shield will block it. That might seem overpowered, but consider this: the Drone Recovery Arm recovers drone parts 100% of the time (except Boarding Drones I believe), which basically allows you to deploy them with absolute impunity and. If I get one free I keep it of. When you smash the ship or jump away the Boarding Drone is destroyed. ago Nope. and I have both shields and engine at lvl 6,hacking maxed, and drone control at level 4, with maxed weapons and maxed backup. . Yeah, Anti-Personell, Boarding and Repair Drones aren't recovered. 9: Why not. Also, hacking drones get shot down by pretty much everything. Some examples: Sometimes it can also include drones: These icons represent equipment. Hacking Edit This page describes content that only appears in Advanced Edition. Drone Advantages: + Power can be toggled, especially quickly powering up a Def I to shoot missiles and then re-routing power to engines. What is this nonsense with Drone recovery arm, not recovering Hacking. 0. Free repair : You need a Hull Repair Drone and a Drone Recovery Arm. If you really want to go suffocation build more routinely, you need a more specialized setup like massed ion output (enough to routinely lock down 3 systems). ( drone , weapons , systems . Drones perform tasks such as attacking enemy ships and crew, defending your ship and crew, and repairing your ship. Alternatively, cloaking raises the % of safe fights you encounter, as does defense drone (but that will really burn through drones w/o recovery arm). I generally think the offensive drones are near worthless, though. They either need to be cheaper (1 power) or recharge faster to have any real use. Careful management will do just fine and the DRA isn't entirely necessary, but if you're using drones primarily for dealing damage or you're using both drones and Hacking frequently, then it can be invaluable in letting you recklessly use your options without fear of running out. It doesn't cost much, and saves you scrap in drone parts and hull damage in the long run. There’s good reason hacking is widely regarded as the best additional system among high level players. I have had a few long fights I know I would have lost but firing at the essentials and keeping them disabled is far more important. Launches a hacking drone that attaches to the enemy ship. official ftl: multiverse development news - read comments r/ftlgame • [MOD] I made a graphical enhancement mod that swaps the map icon with a custom icon depending on which ship you are playing by using a hyperspace script!please answer soonplease answer soonnvr 16 voies poe 32 voies total 12mp 4 sata alarm i/o:16/4 - francofa eurodisDamage drone control. It costs 3 power, and since DC is cheap to upgrade to level 3, it can easily replace a shield bubble if you need the extra scrap for something else. Drone Recovery Arm - Very strong for specific builds, especially in Hard Mode where drone parts are going to flow less freely. Using a Hull repair drone will create a drone around your ship that patches up 3-5 hull damage and then disappears. Compared to Crystal B this ship can also defeat automated drones with it's starting setup. Hacking-1 can typically delay weapons by 8 seconds: 4 seconds of "reverse charge", followed by 4 seconds of getting back what charge was lost. So, what you can do is attach your Hacking Drone to the enemy weapons, and wait until the laser fires, then engage the Hacking. You can also find/purchase hull repair drones which will heal 3 to 5 points of hull, every time you deploy it. So OK, i never saw the hack in action before. This is not entirely correct. Drone: Augment:? Install: Upgrade: Reveal Map: Fleet Modifier: jumps. But no, the arm wont recover it. I wasnt that impressed with either of them , i think hacking is better if you can spare the drones. Source : wiki. 2) Increase power to the engines to boost your dodge rating - works with enemy lasers too. S. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. A combat drone maybe shoots 2 instead of 4 times, beam drone maybe 2 instead of 3. But 50 scrap is worth much more early in the game that later. 157. Keeping it for post-battle hull repair feel tedious, and a waste of drone parts if you lack the drone recovery arm. I just found an exploit that allows free repairs. Adv. A ship with a Crew Teleporter also has some wiggle room to reduce focus on Weapons, and same for Hacking, but only so far in both cases;. The simplest is to get the Defense Scrambler which disables all enemy defense drones. It's fine. I still think it's probably your best bet, but I wouldn't fancy my odds at all in this fight. But this time it. Hacking Stun. Anti-drone drones can also be largely ignored with micro. Defense Drones also shoot down Boarding Drones and Hacking Drones. Iniciar sesión Tienda Inicio Lista de descubrimientos Lista de deseados Tienda de puntos Noticias EstadísticasBusiness, Economics, and Finance. If the ship comes with drone control, the defense drone is an alright temporary solution, but I'd still pick up cloak and then migrate to other drones, either combat if I can find a drone recovery arm, or system repair drone, anti-personnel if I get one for free. Cloak is definitely much more powerful, I highly recommend getting it on most ships. Provides a blue option after destroying any Loot Transport event (gives medium amount of ) Been wondering about that. Teleporter is. Войти Магазин Главная Рекомендации Список желаемого Предметы за очки Новости СтатистикаConverting a civilian sector "oh look a hermes missile floating out my window!" for a hull laser 2 at a store out of a preference for lasers means you can't buy drone recovery arm, scanners, hacking, boarding, etc. 3) Cloaking when the enemy fires missiles or lasers also guarantees pretty much an evasion. But it was a little hard to tell because I had 4 mantises (and a bomb for the medbay) to beat the flagship crew into submission, which makes defeating the flagship easy when your mantises are destroying. 5) Disable their weapon systems. The objective is to deliver important information to the remains of the Federation fleet in a distant sector. 2) let it perform 2 repair actions 3) Jump away. Business, Economics, and Finance. As long as your drone is targeting a powered system, there are a few passive effects. To add to your second bullet point, the Hull Repair drone will repair between 3-5 HP a pop and disappear, with the specific amount being chosen randomly. Drone offense is a very circumstantial build; due to the high consumption of droneparts, a drone recovery arm is very much required, on top of having ions for ionchaining. Drones hit by an ion shot are stunned for 5 seconds for each ion damage. You can try to time the hacking drone by distracting the defense drone with targets, such as swarm missiles, flak, etc, even a boarding drone. I just won a game yesterday with the Engi A where I ended up with 2 combat drones and 2 flak 1 on auto shoot and annihilated the Flagship on Hard AE. Heal 4 hull damage per drone part, on demand, as many times as you want. 4. The ship's weapons are fully charged and ready to fire after an FTL jump. As are all in-game achievements, this is most expediently achieved on 'easy' difficulty, mostly on account of increased scrap rewards. 3: have a high enough level oxygen that you can refill faster than the hack can drain. 7 FTL Jammer - 4. Se connecter Magasin Accueil Liste de découvertes Liste de souhaits Boutique des points Actualités. Since technically hacking uses a 'drone part', but it's not referred to as a drone. If you defeat the ship through crew death, you get any and all drones back, including hacking, MrDNA86 • 9 yr. FTL: Faster Than Light Ship System FAQ . You can also find/purchase hull repair drones which will heal 3 to 5 points of hull, every time you deploy it. I kind of hate how hacking drones freeze in response to cloaking/depowering because it breaks physics. 10: Least favoured: Abandoned sectors. And offensive drones are also very helpful for ships with zoltan shields or the final boss. I usually fill out my 3 drone slots with a defence 1 and 2 beam/combat/fire 1 drones to give me more combat flexibility. It includes one. Either way, you certainly need a drone recovery arm as you will be using 2 drones for every enemy. I could of sworn that they recovered them if the ship isn't blown up. External and boarding drones are lost when jumping to a new system and have to be redeployed at each new location or encounter, though a Drone Recovery Arm lets you. The one exception to this rule may be if you are using bombs, to drop the FS’ evasion to 0 to get guaranteed hits, but even then the shield room is almost certainly the better choice due to its position in the ship, blocking access to several other rooms. Business, Economics, and Finance. But 50 scrap is worth much more early in the game that later. Flaks are a little less useful because Ions take out shields (but still go for a Flak I if you don't have better options). This guide assumes that you know how to play FTL and know the basics and can beat the game on easy or normal, but are struggling. The Drone Control system powers drones, which act automatically and cannot be controlled directly. For FTL: Faster Than Light on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "What combo of systems are your favorite?" - Page 3. It isn't very synergetic, but works well against missiles while shutting down the medbay for offense. 5 seconds instead of 12. The Defense Scrambler is much more expensive at arond 80 scrap, but allows for free Hacking and missile use, which, naturally, pairs really well if the ship that. Sector 5+: 1280 (67%). You can use a bomb or deal weapon damage to temporarily. Of course, the downside is using twice the drone parts and drone slots. Anti-drone is straight-up crap. Do not ignore burst laser 1 just because burst laser 2 is better. As long as you jump before it disappears. What's worse is that beams, drones, ions, or pretty much any hazard completely negate the shield drone. - 1 drone part (so you can deploy the Repair Drone) The repair drone is supposed to be destroyed once it's applied 3-5 repair actions. Hull repair + drone recovery arm = infinite free hull Parking a depowered drone in front of an enemy ion weapon permanently blocks all shots because depowered drones are immune to ion damage. The best way to avoid hull damage is to kill the source, enemy ships, quicker. It will help you deploy hacking + recoverable drones. Scrap recovery arm Drone recovery arm -> Drone control Defense/Hull repair drone Reverse ion field Least common purchases Any weapon. It is still quite reliable for missiles and much better for the flagship. This one is pretty obvious. FTL is as it stands pretty well balanced in my opinion (with a few exceptions). You cannot stop this. You can use it between battles or even during battle if you can spare a mere 2 power, and they work quickly. it's a pretty rare scenario. If you're using missiles/hacking, get Defense Scrambler, etc. Iniciar sesión Tienda Inicio Lista de descubrimientos Lista de deseados Tienda de puntos Noticias EstadísticasBusiness, Economics, and Finance. Actually already having something like a Hull Repair drone or a DD II in storage makes it a lot more likely I go for the system at a store. Against the Flagship, if you have enough beacons, you can always FTL. I honestly try to buy as little as possible. - Drone recovery arm: Essentially makes the use of defence and offensive drones free which means more scrap for other things - Zoltan shield bypass: Absolutely essential for boarding strategies, being able to board any ship off the bat is crucial to winning with a boarding strategy. Drone control is not popular among high-level players. After Batman was flying around the galaxy in his Engi Class A "Batbox" I now respect the power of 3 anti ship drones going at once. It only recovers ones flying in space. Most drones are disappointing as well. How do you beat the Rebel flagship in FTL? With hacking, cloaking, and a teleporter: hack and cloak missiles, while boarding the ion and beam weapons. Either one paired up with a shield drone. Tips: If you have drone recovery, pop the defense drone for every fight where the enemy has hacking or missiles and you'll save a lot of damage.