It takes 3 power to generate 1 zotlan shield after 8 seconds and potentially more shield taking 3 more seconds each layer (accoring to wiki). As far as the first one, a fire beam or other weapon with high fire chance is your friend. mixtures of Defense Drone I, II or Anti-Drone, and you have to both look out for the different projectile speeds, firing times and making sure the drones fire at oblique rather than straight-on angles so the projectiles can actually miss. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. A useful strategy in any case. This event is the 2nd step in the process of unlocking the Crystal Cruiser and the Ancestry achievement while using the Rock. Ignoring that pun in the subtitle, the second phase of the rebel flagship enjoys its drones. The player controls the crew of a lone spaceship affiliated with The Federation, which is currently on the losing end of a massive rebellion. The Air Force’s Task Force 99 “nests very well” within the Pentagon’s new Replicator drone program, AFCENT commander Lt. Also, if you've fought the flagship with the AE and tried to gun down its own hacking module with a defense drone, you should know already that 1) sometimes the defense drone just plain miss, it can also happens with missiles (just, you don't have a bazillion of drone parts to spare unlike the boss), and 2) it's. Wake up babe, new FTL cruiser just dropped. Federation Cruiser) the defense drone has a very long path around the ship and can end up getting stuck on one side while a missile comes in on the other. Aim the Hull Missile at a system-less room for 4 points of damage. I've started 2 (TWO!) MV games however the rebels wreck me by around sector 5, even with 3 shields they bombard me with missiles and ♥♥♥♥. Very useful if your. There are also two "special" sectors: the Hidden Crystal Worlds (never shown on the map) and The Last Stand (final sector with unique mechanics). Send the crew to help immediately! YMMV tropes are no joke. The Trinity is 300. If Israeli defense forces launch a ground offensive into Gaza, they could use a mix of drone-enabled hacking tactics to find Hamas targets, coordinating cyber operations and. " In order to unlock this. The Federation now knows that you hold the power to destroy the Flagship, and they will battle the Rebels on all fronts to buy you time to go and tangle with the behemoth. Reward!FTL: Faster Than Light. I think B has slightly more confortable start with two shields and defense drone. This event can occur only once per sector. ago. The FTL Drone Tier List is a comprehensive guide to the most. Let's talk Mark II drones. With good timing, this can be done multiple times for each defense drone. The Captain's Edition loadouts show off some of the new features in the mod, as well as create a tougher challenge; these loadouts can be reverted back to their originals with an additional (optional) mod, CE Vanilla Player Ship Loadouts. Global Achievements % of all players. After the first and second phases you can dismiss a drone and summon a Hull. All laser shots deplete a single shield layer, but some (Heavy. Ancestry - Find the secret sector with the Rock Cruiser. A subreddit to discuss the Kickstarter-backed "roguelike-like" game FTL: Faster…Take it with the understanding that all things in FTL are situational and there are times you will have to go for something you never usually do. - Defense drone MK1. They do exist in sector one. As Ukraine hunts for more anti-drone gear, at least one U. Last night I had a Stealth C run going, with two shield drones (1 Shield+ and 1 normal) plus a defense drone. I define it as the developer define it. Drones. Abusing flaws in the code. Category:Nebula Filler Events. There are only three ways to defend against missiles: Dodge the Missile. And overall I think beam drones are only reliable vs unshielded auto scouts. IMO MK. 4%. [ 1] You launch the drone and it crashes through their hull, leaving a huge breach. Consider, if you beat the enemy ship quickly, you still have the drone and a breach to deal with, and you can't fix the breach until the drone is broke. Sysrepair is good for keeping your ship working, combat and beam drones are excellent for the stage 3 supershield (which can make or break runs), and hull repair can be game-winning. Is that trick where you deactivate hacking drone to bypass defense drones is a bug abuse or intended game mechanic? Belépés Áruház Főoldal Felfedezési várólista Kívánságlista Pontbolt Hírek StatisztikákThis random event occurs in: Engi Controlled Sector Engi Homeworlds at a distress beacon. Also, drones are expensive in the long run. Mighty useful to "fill in" any single-bar "gaps" whenever you. Nice purchase if you have just the right things) * Defense Scrambler - Awesome with Hacking. The mkII seems to get easily confused/overwhelmed during intense combat scenarios. Just fix the Sensors Subsystem. Even 4 weakened enemies ganging up on your drone might finish it. 2. • Decrease hacking drone movement speed to improve the Defence Drone’s chances to shoot it down. Leto Missile (Zoltan A, Federation B) 2 seconds faster than Artemis, 1 less damage, not worth it. (defense drone, high evasion, and also cloaking help though. 1 Moves slower, but a shorter distance and shoots immediately. The fact that you can send a hacking drone and depower it after the defense drone shoots at it to force it to miss and then re-enable it to get through defensive drones is an exploit that is ridiculously overpowered and botheringly unbalanced. Obviously you do realize that you should fire both weapons at the same time at their Drone Control and keep Drone control damaged enough so that the defense drone is offline. Round ships -- like the engie ships -- have nearly perfect defense drones. 28 ships, 28 victories, and 0 defeats later, I can officially say I am good at FTL. But if you send the drone into a 2 square room and then power it off while you fight, it'll end up in a vacuum filled room that the enemy won't enter. For more information, see Missile weapons. The distress signal originates at a small Engi ship under attack by a rebel fighter - but when they see Federation markings they turn to attack! Fight the Rebel Ship. Heavy Crystal Mk 1 (Crystal A, Rock C) It’s a crappy missile. 13. it'll only put up a barrier every ten seconds, and the AI will always shoot more than one shot per ten seconds. All these things are almost always better defensively than a shield overcharger drone. the Normandy SR-2 from the video game series Mass Effect, which is an advanced stealth frigate built as a collaborative effort between races and featuring a high-powered beam weapon as its main gun. P. An expansive mod for the game FTL: Faster Than Light. #1. It may work on smaller ships, though. Conclusion: one power more, makes all the difference. A Defense Drone 1 only helps you in a fight where there's some physical projectile incoming (flak, missile, asteroid, boarding/hacking drone). Hello! I'm pretty terrible at FTL (despite thinking its one of the best games of recent years), and I'm having trouble dealing with defensive drones in general, particularly phase 2 of. Boarding: general principles [] Combat []. The ultimate goal of any game of Faster Than Light, sector 8 will always be this daunting place. FTL: Multiverse makes changes to most systems both in terms of balance and gameplay. 1: Never be dependent on missiles to win; as you said; the enemy requires only a defense drone to stop your missiles. This random event occurs in: Abandoned Sector The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect ship presence. I have expiremented with having two defense 1 drones vs one defense 2 drone. So, you have a 1 in 5 chance of the drone hitting a systemless room and you're stuck. When the drone reaches the enemy ship, it latches onto the hull and becomes invulnerable. Defense Drone This drone flies around your own vessel, destroying incoming enemy missiles, as well as asteroids should you be in an asteroid field. #A tier. 57 (0. Defense drones can miss if they're on the wrong side of the ship at the time. Damage: 1 laser, 2 damage, pierces 1 level of shieldsBombs work but don't base your decisions on defense drones. The simplest is to get the Defense Scrambler which disables all enemy defense drones. Captain's Edition imported some of its expanded weaponry into drone systems, greatly diversifying the pool of drones to choose from. Drones can't stop lasers (unless it is Defense Drone mark II; if you fire in a volley it can only stop one laser shot), and beam weapons never miss once you got the shields down. Drones. again and again and again, practically every time i get to the flagship and i have the defense drone, the hacking module gets past in the first or second try. onslaught deletes hull and spawns tons of breaches. 1 drones going at once and its cheaper to do so. For boarding mechanics, see Boarding. Ancestry – Find the secret sector with the. It appears a small laboratory fire got out of control and is threatening to destroy the station. This is a great first sector decimator. i know that the other ships had trouble shooting the missiles down when the. 3. A gunship overwhelms the drone with flak and lasers. Once aboard, you watch as their ship crashes against a massive rock. It's fortuitous that the Engi Cruiser A is relatively easy to unlock, as it's a surprisingly solid ship right out the gate; the less time new players are liable to be trapped with the Kestrel Cruiser A, the better. The good news is that due to the drone system, at least the enemy weapons tend to have less power, so you'll take less hull damage than usual. Ancient ancestors of the Rockmen. I do everything right. - NPC ship escape time is irrespective of engine level / damage status, and either too fast or too slow (bug in vanilla FTL). (the ship can also be unlocked by winning the game with the Mantis Cruiser) This event is impossible to distinguish from Slug fight in nebula event, as it has. Stores sell: Unlimited hull repairs Limited quantities of all resources (fuel,. Even with a tiny ship layout like an engi ship, defense drone II will miss stuff all of the time- haven't tried defense drone I lately. Sectors 3-5: Make sure ur shields are at least 2!Keep your distance and wait for the FTL to charge. On an Engi ship the Zoltan shield might be "inwards" enough so that the defense drone shoots things down before it hits the shield. There's some very dangerous fights, particularly ones with heavy lasers and/or combat or beam drones, that Defense Drone 1 won't help out at all with. That said, without being able to internally change things like Darth's suggestion, I'd look towards rebalancing them a bit by. A subreddit to discuss the Kickstarter-backed "roguelike-like" game FTL: Faster Than…Bombs teleport themselves directly into rooms, bypassing shields and defense drones. 1. The number of guaranteed stores is determined by the sector type. Defense Drone II; Anti-Combat Drone; Shield Overcharger; Augmentations; Events and Sectors. A Defense Drone 1 only helps you in a fight where there's some physical projectile incoming (flak, missile, asteroid, boarding/hacking drone). While all drones can potentially be useful, some of them require very specific circumstances to be worthwhile. A ship without life forms within a nearby dense asteroid field is giving off the distress call. Go to CIVILIAN_ASTEROIDS_BEACON_LIST2 (Repair. Pirate fight in nebula. Fire with the new and power back the old for an extra shot. Enemy ships become more powerful with each new sector, but each type of ship is limited in the systems, weapons, drones, and crew it can have. Missile-launcher weapons are slow, don't complement other weapons, completely unusable in the occasion of defense drones (And the flagship ALWAYS has one, in its second phase!), and are almost always single-shot, so a "miss" is devastating. Lily-Olivia • 9 yr. Defense Drones Don't Do D'anything! While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles. Hacking is a system introduced in the FTL: Advanced Edition update . The defense drone mk II also takes 3 power, but shoots down projectiles every second or so. S. Generally yes defense drone 2 is bad because of that. -1 . No that's fine, FTL is a difficult game. Top. It's a little more interesting to try to sneak the hacking drones past Engi ships, which can have e. Their satellite defense system has gone haywire. Tip nr. Before a FTL jump, Pause the game and switch power to a new weapon. This random event occurs in: Slug Controlled Nebula. It flies towards the enemy ship, rips a breaching hole into the randomly selected room, then begins attacking any system or enemy crew in the room. Apr 6, 2014 @ 8:26pm a good tip vs boss. The fact that you can send a hacking drone and depower it after the defense drone shoots at it to force it to miss and then re-enable it to get through defensive drones is an exploit that is ridiculously overpowered and botheringly unbalanced. The exterior doors (vents) can be used to vent oxygen from the ship's rooms into space. Get hacked right after the enemy cloaking ends, and you. Despite having no crew, automated ships get manning bonuses for all their systems. Oxygen 2 also outputs near equal oxygen to breeches, leaving it so you can fight the drone in the room it entered into. Augments. (Actually, I prefer Defense I over II because the latter can be "distracted" by laser fire and let the missiles through!). My favourite aspect of FTL is the drones - the idea of sitting back and monitoring your ship while your drones clean up the enemy ships really appeals to me. If you can take his drone control offline, you just need to work harder to keep it offline. 5. Once all shields are down, lasers can hit rooms and deal system, hull, and crew damage. This event can occur only once per sector. It can be found on some AI ships during the game, and is a starting system on the Lanius Cruiser, as well as several of the other ships' unlockable C-type layouts. Beam Drone 2 hits Zoltan Shields twice for 2 damage total. On Zoltan B, the only thing that worries me is starting without a shield and dying in some horrible asteroid fight with drones / Heavy Lasers / whatever. Mind controlled enemy crew and my crew then team up and kill my mind controlled crew. the DSR 1 sniper rifle, which fires 12,7mm (0. new hazard: blue/white star that occasionally causes "ion pulse", probably similar to solar flare except it does ion damage instead of fire (thanks u/IrishBandit) new subsystem: battery which appears to temporarily increase total reactor power (thanks u/Histidine) PDS hazard shows "PDS TARGET LOCKED" before the fireball appears and so far only. Score is determined with the following formula (rounded down to nearest integer): Score = (s+10*b+20*d)*D s = scrap collected. Maybe Tier 3) Drone Recovery (Makes Drone+Hacking builds viable) Reconstructive Teleport (amazing with lvl 3 teleporter) Tier 3 (Very good in situations. Defense Drones on the Engi Cruiser shot down 99. #4. Hacking the Weapon Control is a very good defensive choice. Before a FTL jump, Pause the game and switch power to a new weapon. The rest is up to your equipment - obviously things like Zoltan shield, defense drone, anti-drone will repel/delay the boarding drone, but medbay level 2 will heal your crew faster and make it easier to rotate crew or recover them in time for the next drone, and any kind of buffer point in your core systems (shields, weapons, piloting, etc. Also, while hacking counts as a non-missile attack if the drone reaches the enemy ship, boarding parties don't. With Ion weapons and the Torus, the point is to drain shield/weapon systems in conjunction with using drones to damage the other ship. The 'Zoltan' are allies of the 'Engi'. So far, I much prefer Mk1 because you can't "trick it" with laser fire! But I suspect I'm looking at this wrong. FTL: Faster Than Light. Beams and ASB shots do not collide with anything. Drone recovery arm. Fucking bullshit. Beacons; Events. Not only that but its possible to have three MK. Use missiles to damage a powerful ship's Shields System. If the drone doesn't fire till its right on your hacking drone, you probably won't have time to evade the blast. Compare it to Mantis C. 8. Just finished first phase of flagship. I think B has slightly more confortable start with two shields and defense drone. 2 shots with 1-shield pierce, but long cooldown and can be stopped by defense drones. Drone control is huge. Their innate energy can power ship systems. Drones can't stop lasers (unless it is Defense Drone mark II; if you fire in a volley it can only stop one laser shot), and beam weapons never miss once you got the shields down. Click on the SELL tab at the top. #15 < > Showing 1-15 of 18 commentsEven still, drone control can be versatile even without defense drones. Defence II drones almost never miss, but they don't do well well the enemy has an Artemis missile and a fast firing laser. There are a few ways to get past defense drones. Their satellite defense system has gone haywire and their repair crew can't approach without being fired. Move the fight where you can breathe. The advantage of weapons is - you can control what to target. FTL Sectors Alignment Chart — Danger vs. This random event occurs in: Slug Home Nebula in a nebula. They. Defense mark I drone helps with phase 2 a lot because it can shoot down the boarding drones. The last piece of information to note is that the boarding drone always causes a breach in the room it hits. The OmniDrone is 700, but it has been fairly useful for me. Just play the way you should play most ftl games: trying to get as much scrap as possible. Ideally you want to have good defences and kill it fast. November 16, 2023 04:43 PM ET. 1 Moves slower, but a shorter distance and shoots immediately. This way the hacking and cloaking stay synchronised. 4 damage per second but already at under 10% of oxygen in a room. Pause the game, and order enough crew into the oxygen room to fill it. I had a combat drone and a defense drone mark 1 with level 2 drone system. S. I'm in sector 2 with level 3 shields, a drone system, and I just found two Defense Drone Mark IIs for free in 2 consecutive jumps. OmniDrone isnt best used as a defense drone but as an anti-drone replacement. If you can get a Defense Scrambler, that will help. Receive high Scrap and rewards. It is only good when fighting with too many lasers vs. They arrived to the FTL universe with the release of FTL: Advanced Edition. A defense drone shoots down the incoming drones. Drone Recovery Arm - Very strong for specific builds, especially in Hard Mode where drone parts are going to flow less freely. By switching drones from offence to defense when needed and using cloak to avoid heavy attacks, you can avoid the majority of the Rebel Flagship’s salvos. They are particularly common in Engi sectors, which I personally tend to avoid. But the bigger problem is that drone control becomes a waste of system slot in late game. The Overcharger Drone just seems to be a bit of a waste of time. Keep in mind that some augments only exist as locked versions and thus you will be unable to remove them afterwards. Defense Drones Don't Do D'anything! "While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles . Augments. You get 20 seconds charge time when cloaking and hacking are synchronised which. Originally posted by shareofhonor: The intention of the game is for the hack drone to be shot down by the defense drones otherwise they would not make it a. You can't fire any other weapons during the fight. 2 drone seems to move faster, but usually further and has a delay when actually shooting. * Due to issues with how sectors are generated, about 0. The defense drone was is fairly simple, all you need to do is time your shots so 2 missile fire at the same time. Defense 1 or Defense 2 drones are almost always worth it if you have a drone system but not the Omnidrone. Edit Non-AE drones added by the mod Captain's Edition imported some of its expanded weaponry into drone systems, greatly diversifying the pool of drones to choose from. FTL: Faster Than Light > Dyskusje ogólne > Szczegóły wątku. Opening Main Menu or 'Save+Quit'ing the game replaces any drone of the Drone Control system offered at the Store with the Defense Drone Mark I. Activate the system repair drone, then quickly unpause--pause. Get a drone control system and a Defense drone Mk 1 (They often come standard with a drone control system). Just finished first phase of flagship. Drones are created instantly, but drones that operate within the ship, system repair and anti-personnel drones, need a short time to start up. To me, a Defense Mk1 is a must have, but other drones are optional. You follow the distress beacon to a tiny asteroid belt. Firebomb the weapons room, then board it with Rockmen. If you're running defense drones, you should always try to have one extra system upgrade beyond what you need as a. 1 Cargo ship docked to a Rebel station. Cloaking does well when you time it right. Fire Drone. The two Defense I drones are more preferable in my opinion but you'll have to use more drone parts. It's generally most useful in conjunction with beams and offensive drones, though also works well enough with other damage options such as Heavy Lasers. Pro-move for fire weapons during phase 1 and 2: you can kill off huge chunks of the crew by lighting fires in the wings of the ship to attract the crew and then. 50cal) bullets. Sadly, while a launcher that literally fires two missiles for the price of one sounds great, in practice the Pegasus is frustratingly poor. 1 Moves slower, but a shorter distance and shoots immediately. Stealth A is the ship of the day, and I'll say a few words on that before getting into the shieldless run itself. They can be encountered as starting crew on the Crystal Cruisers, in Tektite (the 3rd layout of the rock ship), in the. Givin' her all she's got, Captain!Lasers are general-purpose energy weapons. A single drone will provide near-perfect defense against non-synchronized missiles. Click on the SELL tab at the top. Drones are good at sustain damage. If you have a hull repair drone, you can get 2 points of free repair every fight by jumping away in the middle of the hull repair animation (the recovery arm saves it if you jump before the hull repair. Power toggle on drones to get them past defense drones Pre-igniter glitch / Sven manuver. Given these points, you must include them in your priority list to perform like a pro player. [ 1] 2x : Your combat drone attacks the automated ship and then retreats, luring it away. I let the hacking drone through first time before deploying defense drones. Since you're still in an early sector ( as defined by my first sentence ), repairs cost 2. This makes it rather useful for keeping enemy shields down or causing random damage (Sadly you can't 'direct' a drone to target a specific area of the ship. Other drones have niches, but are usually better being sold for scrap to upgrade better things. I'm a pretty mlg vanilla FTL player however multiverse is giving me trouble. payload removes systems with good breach chance, very good and fun. Advanced Edition Content. But then, because of the healing drones. Moreover, after every 7 seconds it can charge. Initial scrap (30 on easy, 10 on normal, 0 on hard) and scrap gained by selling at stores or from Scrap Recovery Arms. Allows you to send your crew-members to board enemy vessels. your shield which happens very rarely. Defense Drone II is actually worse then Defense Drone I so I wouldn't invest in that. hachkc • 9 mo. Keep in mind that most battles in FTL are decided in well under a minute. Defense Drones Don't Do D'anything! - While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles. You send your crew into the station. The first thing to understand is that your main shield never helps against missiles or bombs. Drones. October 17, 2023. McWeazel, PhD: The defense scrambler also stops anti-combat drones from targeting your own combat drones/boarding drones. Feb 26, 2014 @ 8:24pm If your target is the shields, What would the point be in attacking the drone controller? When there's only one missile, 1 ion, and 1 breech, you do the exact same amount of damage to the 4x shields after. 1 Overview 2 Choosing your hacking target 3 Defences against hacking 4 System upgrades Overview Launches a hacking drone that attaches to the enemy ship. - Defense drone MK2. Defense Drones Don't Do D'anything Destroy a ship that has a Defense Drone without using any form of offense aside missiles. . Industry. (Anti-Personnel Drone) Send your battle drone in to help. ago. Boarding 2 Drones, on. Originally posted by Dr. For a drone to function, the drone control system must have enough power available, and the ship must have enough drone parts. Weapons, Drones and Augments can be sold for 1/2 the purchasing price at stores. The anti ship drone almost feels like it fires too fast, It does so well compared to the beam drone against shields and no shields. They can only be found or. (Repair Drone) Send a Repair Drone to fix their Shields. 2 Trivia. The shield overcharger seems to be bad by design. This thing is awesome, in that it deletes all those missiles and pesky flak projectiles before they hit my ship. As boss ships, these enemies have set weapon, system and crew loadouts, and drop unique weapons. The drones in the "bad" tier are more situational than they are outright bad, but several of them are pretty expensive both in terms of money and in terms of power for what they do. AI in Ftl has boarders stay in a room to kill all crew and disable the system. Even a single Defense Drone I shaves off a significant amount of incoming damage from the Flagship. Each of the player ships have gained and lost weapons, drones, and systems with the change to Captain's Edition. This is, horrifyingly, actually less unreasonable than the prior achievement. For those wondering, the Defense 3 Drone has a 150 Millisecond cooldown between each shot, resulting in being able to outpace a standard burst of lasers, and almost handle full salvos on its own. The Rebel Flagship is by far the most powerful vessel in the Rebel Fleet, and serves as the game's final boss, located in The Last Stand sector. Boarding drones, don't fight in the room they burst into, if it can be helped. FTL: Faster Than Light. Along with this, the first of its super-weapons comes online. This guide is approachable and concise, with ship strategy center-stage. 1 drones going at once and its cheaper to do so. Members Online. Even better if the drone is in a 2 square room, because another trick is making sure the drone is in a 2 square room. This knowledge can guide you to what you have to do, in order. 34 votes, 13 comments. Business, Economics, and Finance. Rebel fight chance. 2 mark II's would just fire at the same targets and sometimes miss the opportunity to shoot down the missiles"You wait in apprehension, but the tunnel only continues to get bigger. Defense drones can miss if they're on the wrong side of the ship at the time. Faster Than Light Walkthrough - Faster Than-Light 438. Most of the time, even though it shoots at the projectile, the projectile still manages to pass through, because the drone itself is slow. Make it the same cooldown as launching a new defence/attack drone. Venting. Drones can be risky to use, as they simply shut down should your Drone Control. Ancestry - Find the secret sector with the Rock Cruiser. #10. 28 ships, 28 victories, and 0 defeats later, I can officially say I am good at FTL. A defensive turtle can blast until the drones are all destroyed. Drone Control is not a standard system and many ships launch from the Hangar without it. Weapons : Provides information on. Sure, you pay 4 Scrap by Sector 7 for repairs at a store, but encounters generally give roughly 40 ~ 70 Scrap, 15. The System Repair Drone can repair the ship while the crew is occupied (or safely hiding on the enemy ship), and all three have decent blue text events. As hidden Augment: AUG HIDDEN id --- adds the augment as hidden, it will still retain its effect but it will not take up a slot, you may only add 2 hidden augments this way. They also begin firing faster than most weapons so they can sometimes cause damage at the start of the fight (particularly on unshielded ships), especially if they're mark 2. Other drones are mostly useless, unless you get drone recovery arm. Wreckage drifts by your screens and tumbles into the depths. Not sure why. Defense drones can be dodged by de-powering the hacking drone as they shoot, which freezes the hacking drone in place and causes all shots to target ahead and miss. Turning off dynamic backgrounds is the only. Drone Arm [] "Combat and Defense drones will be retrieved on jump if not destroyed" Costs 50 and 3 ; Refunds the droneparts for combat/defense drones that are deployed. You find the source of the distress call, a small research station. Sectors are zones in FTL: Faster Than Light, each containing between 19 and 24 beacons. Agreeing to improve the ship reactor in exchange. If you have a hull repair drone, you can get 2 points of free repair every fight by jumping away in the middle of the hull repair animation (the recovery arm saves it if you jump before the hull repair. The distress signal is coming from a small space station orbiting an uninhabited planet. Buy it! A defense drone is good enough that getting even one half of the formula is a worthwhile expenditure in scrap. You will basically never lose shields except phase 2 of the final boss once your dodge is 40% and you have a fully trained shield guy. Defense Drones are too slow for actually shooting down the enemy attacks, and greatly ineffective for the price of 4 power for Defense II. Instead of countering, it mind controls the enemy crew. Exploit the hacking drone trick on phase 2: launch the drone, wait for the defense drone to fire its shot at it and immediately pause and depower the hacking drone, wait a second in real time and then repower, this should dodge the defense drone’s shot. Rock Plating - With the Flagship fight being more of a DPS race now, having ~18% more effective HP can actually be pretty relevant. Here's a video covering the details of how Ion works. The hacked system will shut its doors to the crew of the affected ship , but will grant access to any crew from the same ship as the hacking drone. Tip nr. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. Really. At The Last Stand, the silhouette of the Rebel Flagship is visible hovering around a beacon, marking its location. Having a second layer of shields and a defense drone will help against lasers and missiles, respectively. Then by all means go ahead. Russia. If you decide to fight the drone and it has landed in an empty room, then there is another thing you can do: Simply let it exit the room that it breached.