I didn't think you sounded like House until you did the meme. Then I couldn't tell the difference.

yes please on the colony guide! I usually dont bother with it cus it never seem to work out and make actual profit.

"The official site looks like a scam." - No, you are just flagging your age. The rest of us just remember that most of the internet looked that way.

Exactly what i needed to listen to

KoL Dev here: You probably could have beaten Ninaya, but got unlucky as Ninaya teleported next to you right before it died from your fire, nuking your Odyssey with its stage 1 death explosion. For stage 2 it spawn 2 normal hyperions, like you saw! For this boss chain, I would recommend heavy anti phase ships. Beams, fighters, heavy burst, 360 shields, quantum distuptor, ect Dev thoughts: Ninaya is an odd case in balancing. For the Tri Tachyon questline of Ninaya, and the mission chain that spawn from it, the ships were meant to be an exercise of experimenting with how good the Hyperion or phase ships would be with "human level" AI. Because of this, it uses its phase teleporter to go behind enemies, run away, and generally be a pretty big nuisance. As a result, this line of missions is mostly about how to counter specific ships instead of a general "fleet strength" check. Is this fun experience? I'm not sure. To cut down on the annoyance, the map is much smaller than normal and the ninaya is coded to get more suicidal over time (teleporting into your fleet more, and staying engaged at higher and higher hardflux levels) but its probably not enough. I've now mostly concluded that the hyperion and phase ships just don't make good boss battles when they have good AI. PS: what version of KoL are you on? it seems that you might be on v1.2.x still. v1.3.x has many improvements, but I understand if this is an old save file.

And that's just the first KoL boss. The others are bigger and more weaboo than this.

@1:26:14 Kobal shopping, there was a second Kobal in the open market but didn't buy it also?

Knights of Ludd bossfights are annoying. Options to make them less annoying: - fleet with 360 shields and a lot of beams - lots of fighters Silkie makes nice sprites, but is terrible at game design. (Both Iron Shell and Knights of Ludd suffer from this) RAT has a balanced bossfight. Havent fought HMI bosses yet.

Oh I recommend the nights of Ludd capital ship the one with the orion drive as a another ramming ship. It even has ablative Armour.

As the person who gave the hint about it, I'd like to formally apologize for leading you directly into that Knights of Ludd boss over at Alpha Site. On the bright side, now you know what to expect next time you try it! Assuming you do try it again, I do not blame you one bit if you just decide to shelve it for later revisiting.

I just noticed that the thumbnail does not have the #10 showing which episode it is.

I think you're kinda sleeping on the gorgon pod. For early game a vigilance or two rocking them can just delete every enemy frigate, and then it still has the ammo count to provide good support against heavier ships. It wins you the frigate fight, and then tips the scale for destroyers and cruisers. The AI is also really good about actually firing them, and they work wonderfully when linked with harpoons, since the similar speed means the beam always hits just before the harpoons. It's got great consistency compared to using sabots and harpoons and needing to hope that the AI staggers them well.

Knights of Ludd bosses are not to be trifled with, you just met the most annoying (not the most dangerous) one.

My Executor runs with a Locust and a Hydra - has worked pretty nice for me :)

i would watch the viewer ship loadout review!!!!

I think giving Kanta fusion lamp is the best option and literal nobrainer. After this you always have a place there you can sell volatiles at insane price. Pure profit

To bribe Kanta you can just give him the ISS Hamatsu. (derelic ship in the alpha site)

Most of the modded boss fights are really poorly balanced.

I biggest thing I learned from this video is that there are MORE omega weapons to find. Goody.

watchu think about 1 ion beam and 3 graviton instead of 4 graviton? pegasus is already doing hard flux so the beam would probably get lots of value. not sure if worth though.

This brought a tier to my eye...

lol that bugged gate hauler

Dragon fire has its niche on the pegasus, where you go four dragonfires, link them up, and dump two or three volley into the enemy cruiser or capital. Basically, there is no nuance, whatever you are shooting at will die a horrible death, and there is nothing they can do about it. Its like a side grade to the hurricane, where you trade ammo and effectiveness against smaller ships for extreme burst damage.

I've been trying to get back into Starsector and these vids have been a huge help. However, I think there's a huge lack of content that really explains the mindset new/returning players should have when building a fleet or player ship. A fleet building guide would be awesome!

All I'm going to say is I f*cking LOVE Dragonfire Missiles. If you have cheaper ships (I have the Imperium Mod that has Missile Frigates that can mount mediums and only missiles besides that really) that can mount it, you just put a massive armor shredding missile that in my experience gets shot down less than 5% of the time, it is great. Employed in mass, it melts ships, and forces them to decide between taking a massive amount of flux and potentially overloading, or getting shredded. In big fights, the Dragonfire shreds. All I will say is that the Ordnance cost is pretty damn expensive, so it's not always easy to mount it. But when you can afford to, it's awesome

Have you swapped the java in the game folder to JAVA 8? It has a better garbage collector which negates memory leaks that cause overtime framerate loss

I used to play with an XIV Legion with Storm Needlers (in fact, a LOT of needlers...) mounted along with a pair of Hammer Barrages. Needlers force shields down, and let the hammer torpedos connect consistently :)

I like this approach, where instead of grading on a curve just within missile weapons, you compare it to other types of weapons. For example the HVD is an obvious S tier weapon, but no missiles can quite rise to that level. And I'll join with everyone else in saying the gameplay clips make this absolutely top notch. If there is better Starsector content on KZbin, I've yet to find it, and I have spent a lot of time looking!

the adition of the video examples was amazing.

What happened to midline only run and joining Persean League?

hello mister big brain i want to ask if you could do something like saving disarter campaign from legend of total war but with starsector. Since i'm trying to beat the persian blockade and i can't figure how i would like to send you the savefile and see what would you do in my position

Happy holidays cousin. Love you vids always learning while I’m entertained

Pretty cool breakdown of a midline-focused fleet; however, you s-modded Integrated Targetinf Unit instead of Dedicated Targeting Core, so I am forced to dislike it.

Thank you kind sir, you are the best. I love all of your videos 😎👍

so nice of Mr. Big Brain Energy to collab with indie actors like Kevin Hart for this FTL stream, truly inspirational.

Have a good 2025! (with ability to look out the window without fear)

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Love your tier lists because you also incorporate so much info on game mechanics and AI behaviour. Are you planning on doing a new playthrough though? I liked those even better!

sbingus for sure

Thanks!

you should play AI war 2

Is this guy the captain from futurama?

I've found on vanilla runs, I usually will try to get myself an afflict or as my first ship and keep it for the rest of the game. But I'll personally upgrade to a hyperion and/or doom, and finally the ziggy by the very end. When late game I'll swap between those four frequently. If I could only use a single one, the hyperion would probably be my choice even though a well built ziggy is the best end game ship. But regardless of a fleet I build unless entirely one theme of tech, I'll always bring along two afflictors for AI to use. Their ability is just so powerful and the AI tends to fly them well enough.

There is no way to make a perfect fortress world. What you forgot to account in the plan is that Mining needs Drugs, which means you need Light Industry, which means your need Organics. And Organics dont exist on planets without atmosphere. It would also burst past the 5 industries slots due to Light Industries. Further more I think that they also need normal personnel, which means they need the population center, which needs food. So unless you have a size 8 colony, with Hypershunt, that has no atmosphere, all 4 resources and farmland and extreme heat, you cant have a perfect fortress world. You also need the Grand Colony mod, since Vanilla limits you to 9 structures per colony and a size 8 fortresss would have 7 industries, spaceport, population center, starfortress, ground defence, planetary shield. So a total of 12 structures

I usually run a full 30 ship fleet almost as soon as I can, switching between more expensive capitals and carriers and a wolfpack/exploration fleet, piloting two Hyperion frigates so I can fight back to back engagements. How do you pare back your fleet composition so much?

Came for the thumbnail, stayed for the obscure game mechanic interactions

Thank god you added some vidéo démonstration, it's a really nice touch 👌