Limit III vs Sylvan Prime Proof of Concept (FTL Multiverse)

No, I am not going to spend tens or hundreds of painful Limit III runs waiting for all the RNG to line up. I consoled in the entire build, but note that everything that I used is normally obtainable should RNG shine upon you.
If I can defeat Sylvan and G-van whilst keeping Ariadne alive, then it would be sufficient to say that Limit III can beat the Nexus if it has a ton of good RNG.

[@tropical1675]

You just know how pissed Prime is going to be when he realizes that his team of Sylvans that he ordered to board ended up doing literally nothing except talk about Sluggy things in the empty room while there was a fight happening.

[@terryisop]

What 0.64 suffocation damage per second does to a group of Sylvans (they run and hide in an obsolete corner despite having 250 health on top of the 10% suffocation damage)

[@thenoobcraft74]

I was just thinking about the possibility of this happening, amazing proof of concept!

[@cerebralcloud92]

Now thinking about it, setting up Continue saves like this (Use this loadout to defeat this boss) would actually be pretty fun for a "Daily Challenge" type thing. Would definitely have to be community run though, no way to properly implement it in-game.

[@terryisop]

This gives me BTD6 Daily Challenge flashbacks, sounds cool. Wanna drop a suggestion in the server for that?

[@cekaceka876]

Now that was cool

[@web_trekker8298]

Cinquedea my beloved, shame they had to nerf it, but also totally understandable, that thing still trivializes many boss fights. Impressive work though, I haven't played with CEL B much but I hadn't thought of much use for G-Van's ability, until now of course.

[@terryisop]

G-van particularly has excellent synergy with fires since nothing will stop them from roaming freely.

[@DeGameBox_SRBT]

this game reminds me of our reality: with the help of cheats, I put together a set with 4 weapons, a full crew of sylvanas and 3 her(!), took missiles, ancient drones, hacking, invisibility, etc. on a ship with 999 reactors, but even with such a set, I did not inflict even 10 damage to prime, and this one a man with 2 guns, no cheats on a weakened ship defeated him practically in afk... what?.....

[@terryisop]

It’s all about the few critically important tools

[@DeGameBox_SRBT]

​@@terryisop hmmmm... cloaking, hacking, energy shield, shield piercing weapons, defense scrambler, beam attack drone... I had it all at the maximum level. what else is needed?

[@terryisop]

@@DeGameBox_SRBT Boss fights are mostly a game of threat elimination. If you bring tools that neuter any way for Prime to kill you, you win in the long run. If we take his weapons, for example, you can use hack-cloak cycle to never get hit. If you don't have level 2 cloak and level 3 hacking, you can use fires to burn it down. Since this is a limit ship I opted for the latter.

[@bonbon_mastodon7144]

impressive! now i need to see this in a real run!

[@terryisop]

Yeah... eventually...

[@liambryant4953]

Is that even possible?

[@DeGameBox_SRBT]

which do you think is harder: sylvan prime or royal dreadnought? It seems to me that sylvan prime works on an all-or-nothing scheme, while for dreadnought you can come up with different tactics, 90% of which will be unworkable

[@terryisop]

If we talk about royal dreadnaught in a vacuum, then royal dreadnaught would definitely be easier because you can spam payloads and augmented boarding for a free win. If we specifically consider using Limit III to beat either Nexus ending or True ending, then they're roughly equal in difficulty because they both rely on getting insanely good RNG (since you can't bring only payloads and augmented to Vance, so you need something else). Though at that point TE is probably a little easier than nexus ending.

[@TtronX]

Dose prime scale with the challenge modifier at the start of the run?

[@terryisop]

He doesn't

[@gavinmichaelis8060]

How did you teleport ariadne and notch around prime's ship?

[@terryisop]

There is a hat merchant in the Nexus that sells the fedora hat. It enables your crew to use short-ranged teleportation like Duskbringers i.e. they can teleport within the same ship.