Ftl Slug Cruiser Strategy

Ftl Slug Cruiser Strategy - Slug Cruiser Layout A. After all the shield guarantees a blocked shot this is just a chance.

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Ftl slug cruiser strategy. The flagship has 4 layers of shields this is true for all three battles. Around level 6-7 get the repair droid. To Unlock The Slug Cruiser.

After arriving at the quest beacon you will notice an impressive cruiser on a mobile construction platform slowly disappearing into. Spend your first 20 scrap on shields-3. If you can get 2 Ion Cannons with a Blast Gun using a 1 power and have 2 droids 1 for blasting incoming missles and 1 for attacking.

Strategy Ship Strengths. Mike Hopleys ships guide covers ship-specific strategies and early-game tactics including an introduction that discusses overall early strategy. Use the dual laser to keep down their shields or take down their weapons or medbay then just biobeam them down.

The beam can pierce 1 layer of shields. The pleasures of capitalisms AND genocide brought straight to your door. Ship strategies are broken down into general guides for gunships and boarding ships as well as specific guides for each ship.

The Slug B Cruiser was the last ship with which I tried to achieve a victory on Hard difficulty. The ion laser and missile weapons all fire in bursts of 3. You start out with a heavy laser mk I and an ion cannon mk I which is less than average the best in my opinion is the type B starting cruiser that has 4 single shot lasers in beginning.

Crew killing strategy results in extra scrap and bonuses without risking losing crew during boarding. This setup has the dual disadvantages of being one of the weakest ships in the game and also one of my least favorite designs to play. Avoid Mantis and Rock sectors at all costs at least until you get proper boarding crew.

FTL is a realtime strategy game with a space setting in which your crew must survive a highly lethal trek to search out and destroy the rebel flagship. Later on if you can deal some damage with normal weapons or boarders you can reduce Rockman Crystal and Zoltan hits by 1 fairly easily. Promote change within Hektar industries to unlock this ship.

Go there and a Slug Cruiser will be attacking a construction platform. Starts with only 2 crew members. Many a Slug ship will surrender when damaged enough and will offer what they have in their cargo.

Shields-3 provides a damage buffer so your shield will not go down from say a Leto. Starts with the Bio beam. Its easy to underestimate these.

Swap between anti-bio and hull damaging properties with your weapons to fit your chosen strategy. Livestream Link Part One Livestream Link Part Two. Reject their beam offer and demand information and you will get a quest marker.

The slug cruiser is actually a fairly easy ship to win with if you get over the initial hump. Starts with Level 2 Door Controls. Spend your next 30 scrap on shields-4.

Use your dual lasers and if pressed the breach bomb to disable the enemys weapons a one-two shot with dual lasers will knock the shields down on early enemies and do damage to their weapons system then immediately fire the anti-bio beam at the enemy crew red dots revealed by your Slug crewmembers telepathy. This game is highly randomized for each playthrough and death is permanent for both crew and ship alike. Theres significant detail here organized into short bullet points.

All its systems and sub-systems are improved that means Lv3 blast doors and a stronger medbay to FTL captains that favor boarding parties. Faster Than Light will help you obtain each variant of this ship and use them efficiently. 2 Hektar Employee 1 Tree Lizard thing.

Invest your scrap in shields and drone controldef drone 1 to become invulnerable. Then save for a weapon or other offence. Starts with no sensors.

The only thing i dont get is the type B layout of the engi cruiser. Dont bother with shields 4 3 is enough make sure to focus on getting guns first people second and subsystems last. For most ships and most runs.

Accepting their surrender there is a random chance that they will offer you an experimental weapon. Make sure if you dont have a slug crewmember on your ship to upgrade your sensors to at least level 2. You will either need a Slug crew member or Sensors level 2 and go to the Slug Homeworlds PUrple Sector.

If you do they become one of the best sectors to visit as even Slugs can easily defeat Zoltans in hand-to-hand combat. The increased loot gives this ship a headstart from the first fight onward. To progress from here players must either have Level 2 sensors or a Slug crew member.

The following guide to the Slug Cruiser ship class in FTL. Uses Slug Repair Gel augment. I love everything in the game including the strategic value of each and every ship and weapon.

This guide is the most technical with tips ranging from basic to extremely advanced. You begin with the Anti-Bio Beam which usually takes 2 hits to kill an enemy crew member 3 if the enemy crew member is a Rockman or Crystal since the weapon does 60 Crew damage. You should favour Nebulas and Slug-controlled sectors because of this.

However in the 3rd phase of the flagship youll have at least 8 shots coming at you simultaneously 4 shields wont be enough. They will detect. Zoltan sectors also need to be avoided unless you get an early weapon that can drop the Zoltan shield easily.

Youll want your engines strong and pushing at least 35 evasion if not 40-50.