Cloak timing | FTL tips

[@Xune2000]

I never knew about the missile evasion chance being calculated as it crossed the shield barrier, I thought it was calculated as soon as it appeared on your ships side of the battle. Thanks!

[@mikehopley]

Glad it helped! It's a pretty non-obvious behaviour.

[@connorjackson5037]

Wow! So happy I found this channel; these are strategies I've never even considered

[@mikehopley]

Awesome, thanks! I have a pretty long list of stuff to go through, hopefully some of that will be similarly novel. =)

[@kawikacortes347]

and when theres multiple things shooting at you like what happens for 90% of the game?

[@mikehopley]

Every fight is different. Typically you cloak the most dangerous / damaging thing. Sometimes you might need to cloak an earlier shot instead, so it doesn't take down your cloaking or weapons.

[@johncannistraro6912]

Great video. Random question: does partially damaging a weapon on the flagship affect it in any way?

[@mikehopley]

Yes it does. Flagship "weapons" are artillery systems, just like on the Fed cruisers. Damaging them slows down the charge. Especially relevant against missiles in phase 1 and 2 when you have cloaking: even one point of (reasonably early) damage puts them over 20 seconds charge time, so you can cloak the next volley.

[@HumanoidDerpling]

How do you have the 3D shielding? It looks so cool!

[@mikehopley]

Thank you! That's a mod I made called Pretty Shields. You can find all the mods I use here: mikehopley.github.io/Mikes-FTL-mods/

[@HumanoidDerpling]

@@mikehopley Thanks. Is it compatible with the Multiverse mod by chance?

[@mikehopley]

@@HumanoidDerpling I think it's not. They are welcome to use the shield images in their mod if they want, but I think you'd need an image for each cruiser (just resizing the original). If anyone wants my source files for this, I'm happy to make them available.

[@HumanoidDerpling]

@@mikehopley Hah, didn't even think about that. I was just wondering about the Aether, Ascended and Merchant Shields.

[@zuggo]

Do you have a button to speed up the game or are you recording this with a voiceover? Just asking because I hear a click every time the game speeds up.

[@mikehopley]

Yes, I use Cheatengine to speed up the game: www.reddit.com/r/ftlgame/comments/621w0b/training_speedhack_instructions_external_software/

[@Jack-sy6di]

Would this work the same with upgraded cloaking?

[@mikehopley]

Yes. Enemy weapons don't charge when you are cloaked, and the cooldown is the same.

[@ZappBranniglenn]

@@mikehopley How about the Flagship's energy pulse attacks? Do those also fail to charge when you're cloaked?

[@TheHirokaraka]

@@ZappBranniglenn power surge attacks ignore cloaking when powering up, so they will charge as if there was no cloacking at all.

[@sherlockdwight4475]

That's a pretty good video with a definitly effective tactic. This amount of pausing and unpausing is Aids though

[@mikehopley]

Pretty odd comparing gameplay to a retrovirus. If you think this is slow, you definitely would not enjoy my challenge runs!

[@anthonymudge9768]

You could spam the "C" keyboard button instead? Sorry for the late comment, thanks for the video!