Also you have a ton of resources, this can't be part of a normal game can it!?

My guy thats brutal XD

@@KujiArgisia So's fighting the boss for the first time >_<

@@mattmorgan-moriarty4445 equally gruesome, but oh so accurate.

BRUH i DIED EVERY TIME THERE

Nope, that's a tactic. You can fire beams during their cloak if you already started placing them. Or if you have "vision" on their ship -- which means mind controlled crew or your own boarders -- you can fire any weapon regardless.

It's a tough game! Use this as a starting point, and you'll get better with time. Also you might want to join the Discord if you'd like more help.

It's definitely very strong in the right circumstances. I'll still admit that ion builds tend to be a little more "situational", especially the decision to buy the first ion.

Glad it was helpful! Maybe watch the part about engines again though, I'm saying almost exactly what you just said. The only real difference is that I probably see level engines-5 as a lower priority than you do. I like engines-5 but it's a bit of a luxury, and I'm comfortable on engines-4 for the Flagship. That's still 100% evasion in cloaking too.

@@mikehopley Yeah I was typing that about halfway through the video and I lost my comment, my bad. I know it is 100% but that's with external factors. I am just much more of a ship oriented player than a crew one, in terms of skills specifically

@@TheJemShuffle Without trained crew, you'd need level 7 engines for 100% evasion during cloak. Or with partial training, you can get that with level 6 or even level 5 engines. 100% cloaked evasion isn't essential either. 95% evasion is also very reliable, although guarantees do help with tactics.

Not to worry, there are so many nuances in this game, it's impossible to keep track of everything! Also the sensors and doors issue is a pretty minor optimisation. It's fairly unlikely to matter if your sensors/doors are down for (say)10 seconds instead of 5. Though I know how you play -- you're like me, or maybe even more meticulous! Along similar lines: I used to think a destroyed system would never be hacked, so on my shieldless runs (with level 1 shields), I would repair the shields system.

It's just a "template" mod I made for convenience when testing stuff or making some video content.

Good question. To start with you don't necessarily use the exact same setup the whole run. For example I might go with something like double Charge Ion + Heavy Laser first, then add the Ion Bomb, then later swap out one of the Charge Ions for the Pike. I think my progression in this run was something like that. Using a drone part every fight is not really an issue, I mostly plan around that anyway on most runs, because being able to use hacking all the time is so good. And you don't need a drone part every fight anyway, especially with the double Charge Ion setup for example. Missile usage is also just not a problem in practice. Ion Bomb hits hard for its missile use, and as I mentioned, I'm not necessarily using it the whole game long. If you're running an ion-stacking setup like double Charge Ion, you also don't just leave them on shields. Once you have a stack on shields, one of them is enough to maintain it, and the other can suppress weapons, so the enemy ship really can't do much at all. For a similar reason, you can run ion + damage setups before you even have "enough" upgrades. For example, double Charge Ion + Pike can run off weapons level 4, stack ion rapidly, and then swap one of them for the Pike. One important idea is that in regular fights, mostly I don't want to use the Ion Bomb on shields. I want to use it on weapons, which is devastating when it lands. It will switch off a lot of weapons, often all of them, for 20 seconds. With these setups there's a lot of flexibility to hack evasion or weapons, or even shields. For example, Charge Ion + Pike Beam + shield hack, hit weapons with the Pike and scatter crew to drop evasion, then land 3 ions into weapons. Now you switched off all their weapons for 15 seconds.

I ran into the Zoltan wise man the other day which also gave me an all-Mantis ship. The wiki page on "Mantis Ships" has the full list of exceptions (for any who come back to this video and are curious)

@@ralden2691 Good spot, I've edited my comment to reflect that

Missed this comment before, sorry. That's great to hear, glad I could help out and well done!

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he probably copied the file