2. * Drone Recovery Arm - Throwing six or eight power of Combat Drones is funny with that laser spam. One frustrating thing is the small amount of room for using drones - with only 3 drone slots, I either have to severely gimp my attacking power for the sake of anti boarding. So, you have a 1 in 5 chance of the drone hitting a systemless room and you're stuck. I use my mind control to counter enemy mind control. It depends on your ship. 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. Can also occur at an exit beacon. Drones are created instantly, but drones that operate within the ship, system repair and anti-personnel drones, need a short time to start up. )Keep your starting weapons obviously, unless you find better missile weapons. It comes in three tiers, each one doings. FTL: Faster Than Light. Why not just buy a Defense II drone, which does almost the same stuff (blocks hacking, too!) but. They need the target's shields to be completely down, but will kill most races in 2 hits and have enough range to hit 2 or more enemies most of the time. at a distress beacon. You receive a message from their command tower, "Greetings. A defense drone can go miles in keeping you pest free. Cloak's better at defense, but drone control offers variety. 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. Mind Control is handy, but not essential. 2 drone seems to move faster, but usually further and has a delay when actually shooting. Before a FTL jump, Pause the game and switch power to a new weapon. Pirate attacking civilian distress. Starts with the Engi Medibot Dispersal Augment. Ancestry - Find the secret sector with the Rock Cruiser. 3. #4. Activate the system repair drone, then quickly unpause--pause. Sectors 3-5: Make sure ur shields are at least 2!Keep your distance and wait for the FTL to charge. Generally yes defense drone 2 is bad because of that. Defense drones are more common in certain sectors than in others. The best defense in FTL is a good offense. Drones. Its especially nice when fighting enemies with large energy shields or overchargers, drone control alongside a beam drone is something i almost always. If it. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. Engi A's got the right idea by starting with ion blast II that can theoretically shut down any amount of shields and a combat drone. obviously have level 4 shields. 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. If you rely on Hacking, Defense Drones just shut you down. Teleporting basics: Can send as much crew as teleport pads are available. FTL: Faster Than Light 2012 Browse game Gaming Browse all gaming Drone targeting bug:. Kinda like a one-two punch so to speak. 1 Moves slower, but a shorter distance and shoots immediately. Once aboard, you watch as their ship crashes against a massive rock. Venting. It initially starts with one power bar, and can be upgraded to a maximum of 3 bars . Use missiles to damage a powerful ship's Shields System. Nebula seen ships exchange fire. Anti-bio Beams are incredibly good at killing enemy crew, if you can find one. I do have drone recovery arm. Hacker Cruiser type A now starts with a mini defense drone and drone control. Ion mk2, anti-bio beam, fire beam, fire bomb. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. Small asteroid belt distress beacon (equivalent of Defense Drone) Systems [] Artillery Beam [] Crushed pirate (equivalent of Beam weapon or Beam Drone) Cloaking [] Auto-ship fight in plasma storm (equivalent of Engines 6-8). Not sure if it is the same though, hope someone can. Dunno, I almost never use drones that extensively. Wreckage drifts by your screens and tumbles into the depths. Defence Drone 2 can also be good as a way of mitigating damage earlier in the game. 6%. with mutually-assured destructive results. The drone will always try to get to a room with a system (sabotage borders usually prioritize doors, oxygen, sensors and piloting) and by opening a door and then. 2: Diplomatic Immunity - While using the Federation Cruiser, use your crew in four special blue events by sector 5. Mind Control might enable you to pick up an enemy member and sabotage the hacking. Use missiles to damage a powerful ship's Shields System. 72K subscribers in the ftlgame community. Sometimes my Defence drone will miss a missile. Keep in mind that some augments only exist as locked versions and thus you will be unable to remove them afterwards. So far, I much prefer Mk1 because you can't "trick it" with laser fire! But I suspect I'm looking at this wrong. " In order to unlock this achievement, no other weapon except for missiles can be used during the battle, regardless of whether or not they do damage. Can also occur at an exit beacon and as a filler event in any sector. I got all the way to the end but messed up the 3rd phase of the flagship. A gunship overwhelms the drone with flak and lasers. As an example, if you've ever seen a Hacking drone latch onto the helm of the Kestrel or the Weapons on a Federation Cruiser, and your Defense Drone didn't even pay it any attention whatsoever, that is a result of the glitch. Keep in mind that some augments only exist as locked versions and thus you will be unable to remove them afterwards. "Although it may look like a pile of junk loosely held together, this well designed ship relies on drones and ion weaponry" Default name: The Torus Starting Crew: 2 Engi, 1 Human Starting Reactor: 10 Starting Systems: Piloting (1) Doors (1) Sensors (1) Medbay (1) Oxygen (1) Shields (2) Engines (2) Weapons (3) Drones (3) Starting Weapon: Ion Blast II. I've found anti-combat drones to be moderately useful against the flagship, but their firing rate is much too slow to make a dent in the power. Reach Sector 8 with the Mantis Cruiser using Layout B. Drone recovery arm is amazing. and a second Aug of something drone related. O. FTL: Faster Than Light. 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. 드론 토글 [편집] MV의 몇종류 드론은 '전환'할 수 있는데, 이는 한 종류의 드론이 두가지 모드로. Rebel fight chance. Lasers can only be shot down by Mark II Defense Drones. They cost missile ammunition to fire, hence Explosive Replicator augmentation can be used to potentially save missile ammo. Defence II drones almost never miss, but they don't do well well the enemy has an Artemis missile and a fast firing laser. The Defense Drone blue option (and a Repair drone blue option) leads to rewards and a quest marker, but results in 4 hull damage. Strategies: If you use one power bar of cloak early enough in the power surge, you can often have it cooled down by the next power surge. Adds over 500 new enemies, over 100 new weapons and 100 new drones! Also expands heavily on the lore, with new factions, sectors, and races includ. It may work on smaller ships, though. havokizer is basically a mining beam sidegrade, removes one hull damage in exchange for much greater effect chances. This game is fucking bullshit. #A tier. If you have to wait until the boarding drone kills the autoscout by room damage, which takes a while, you might as well disable their weapons/drones instead of shield/engines. More chance to pop a Kool-Aid Man (boarding drone) or hacking drone before they arrive, some missile / asteroid / flak defense, and cloaking drone ships are effectively neutered. I'm a pretty mlg vanilla FTL player however multiverse is giving me trouble. Indeed, it's one of the clearer examples of a design flaw with FTL: that Drone access is disproportionately useful (In spite of how many Drones are pretty underwhelming), and the game really seems to intend for them to be basically. 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. October 17, 2023. FTL Ship Analysis: Engi Cruisers. 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. AI in Ftl has boarders stay in a room to kill all crew and disable the system. It. A useful strategy in any case. 90% of the time, the hacking drone or the boarding drone just floats right on by and attaches to my ship. 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. If you're running defense drones, you should always try to have one extra system upgrade beyond what you need as a. Well I just thought that every enemy should be fought for the scrap, especially in the early sectors. Drones are good at sustain damage. the Engi A I beat it with I got some AUG parts that recovered undestroyed drones at the end of the fight. Members Online. A defense drone will shoot down boarding drones, or you can try to destroy their drone system. I think they both have a chance to miss missiles though, even though they travel slower than lasers so I'm not sure. For reference, Defense 1 Drones have a 1 second cooldown and Defense 2 Drones have a 0. the A-12 supersonic stealth aircraft and its sister craft, the SR-71 blackbird. Defender Drones are the simplest type of defense drone available in FTL: Multiverse. A single drone will provide near-perfect. 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). The Defense Drone Mark II being able and willing to shoot down laser and Ion shots sounds nice in theory,. An expansive mod for the game FTL: Faster Than Light. 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. Double Combat 1 is much stronger than Combat 2 when you use drone micro. I never go into the Flagship fight counting on missiles, but the Artemis is not bad against the other stages, so sometimes I'll end up with 7 power in the. Faster Than Light by Subset Games. That's why you never get it in those situations). That can be pretty useful if you use drones a lot. Subsystems are the same as systems, except they do not use power. This event can occur multiple times per sector. I definitely won much much more runs (even on hard) without defense drones than with defense drones. This involves getting a drone system, which costs about 80-85 scrap on its own, and a hull repair drone. It’s biggest weakness is having a medbay for a raider build but it works for the first few sectors as you can really build up your crew’s fighting ability. It's a little more interesting to try to sneak the hacking drones past Engi ships, which can have e. One might aim at having a full burst laser barrage+cloaking and defense drones. I find DD2 mostly useless as I want it targeting only things that bypass shields like missiles and drones. #S tier. obliviondoll 8 years ago #3. Shield Overcharger. (Defense Drone) Use a Defense Drone to protect their ship. Before a FTL jump, Pause the game and switch power to a new weapon. Once all shields are down, lasers can hit rooms and deal system, hull, and crew damage. To supplement other answers: If you can get one, running a Defense drone-- even a simple Mark 1 will do -- will give you a significant edge: It will stop some incoming missiles. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. The FTL Drone Tier List is a comprehensive guide to the most. FTL: Faster Than Light. Ancestry – Find the secret sector with the. If you can take his drone control offline, you just need to work harder to keep it offline. Each system occupies one room. Slug A/C, Engi A/B/C, Rock A/B/C, and Lanius A/B all are safe from this bug. Those heal between 3 and 5 hull points every time. Weapons, Drones and Augments can be sold for 1/2 the purchasing price at stores. Zoltan Cruiser [] Shields Holding - Destroy a ship before it gets through the Zoltan Shield. It's great with any ship using drones but especially Engi A, and makes Stealth C suddenly a lot better when I can have shield drone/anti-drone/defense drone out every single battle without burning parts. This event can occur only once per sector. This random event occurs in: Engi Controlled Sector Engi Homeworlds Zoltan Controlled Sector Zoltan Homeworlds The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. Systems are equipment that provides your ship with capabilities; they need reactor power to function. I do have drone recovery arm. 2, most systems have some sort of special. Other drones are mostly useless, unless you get drone recovery arm. Rock Plating - With the Flagship fight being more of a DPS race now, having ~18% more effective HP can actually be pretty relevant. Explosive Replicator (Can make multiple-missile weapon builds viable) Stealth Weapons. Toggle drones serve two different functions and can be swapped out before battle, such as the Guardian drone which serves as both a standard anti-missile defense drone as well as the anti-drone! Amp drones too can be configured before battle, but are swapped between different power levels to scale their effects for early, mid, and late. They can be encountered as starting crew on the Crystal Cruisers, in Tektite (the 3rd layout of the rock ship), in the. FTL: Faster Than Light Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. g. it'll only put up a barrier every ten seconds, and the AI will always shoot more than one shot per ten seconds. However, where missiles fire a projectile that can be shot down but passes through Shields, bombs are teleported directly into the targeted room, and thus cannot be targeted by. Whilst the MK. The Lanius are a metallic scavenger race prone to aggression, whose biological composition somehow drains oxygen from the rooms they occupy, making them potentially deadly adversaries. ) The defense drone should shoot a missile and won’t be able to get the hacking drone. More specifically, on defense drones : Having 2 Defense drones up is kinda bad, unless you got the extra one for free, and even then. On the sector map, there are three groups of sectors: Civilian, Hostile, Nebula. Largely won due to amazing weapon set up with double burst crystals though. If the boarding drone on the second stage hits your helm/engine rom then that is an immediate -10% evasion, a hull breach, and an aggressor with lots of HP who can survive in a room without oxygen. The defense drone was is fairly simple, all you need to do is time your shots so 2 missile fire at the same time. When I play on normal I always go for drones or cloaking for missile defense, hacking or mind control for support and always a teleporter against the flagship. FTL Ship Analysis: Crystal Cruisers. Cloaking does well when you time it right. Defense Drones are strong but definitely not required. The phase 2 drone surge is potentially the highest-damage attack in the whole game, especially on higher difficulties. While all drones can potentially be useful, some of them require very specific circumstances to be worthwhile. Hull repair drones are quite rare in stores or in general, and buying one (probably the most. Global Achievements % of all players. Got the drone booster and bought a special self-healing boarding drone from sylvan. Their equivalent to this is instead beating the game with the A and B layouts of every other ship, aside the. You can just buy extra reactor power early and net crazy amounts of scrap per fight from free healing for the rest of the run. Add a comment. #6. carnage is a bit overrated imo, but still powerful. Types of Events. Lasers can only be shot down by Defense Drones (not Guardian Drones). If you have a drone recovery arm, drone control becomes much more attractive. 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. Crowrevell's ships guide distills each ship to a brief summary, presenting strategy in the context of the ship's weaknesses and strengths. ago. It seems that the MK. 2: 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. Send the crew to help immediately! YMMV tropes are no joke. The exterior doors (vents) can be used to vent oxygen from the ship's rooms into space. Not using that fire suppression. For a drone to function, the drone control system must have enough power available, and the ship must have enough drone parts. I define it as the developer define it. Most enemies won't have combat drones at all, and most of the time that they do, you can more or less ignore them. Despite the defense drones ability to shoot down missiles, firing missiles in quick succession will allow one or two missilesto get through. That's why you never get it in those situations). * Due to issues with how sectors are generated, about 0. When I…Engi A is considerably better than Engi B. They cannot repair hull breaches, and as a consequence can never repair a breached system. You receive an automated message, "We don't know who you are and we don't care, but this is the right place for some ship repair!"The soundtrack of the game was composed by Ben Prunty and was released on Bandcamp on September 14th, 2012. The intro text for this event varies, and could be any of the following:Like any projectile weapon, lasers can miss. It feels like driving manual vs automatic. 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. Ideally you want to have good defences and kill it fast. 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 at the moment of jumping, allowing for sustainable usage of drones. For a more detailed chart of. Captain's Edition imported some of its expanded weaponry into drone systems, greatly diversifying the pool of drones to choose from. Each of the player ships have gained and lost weapons, drones, and systems with the change to Captain's Edition. Stupidly good. Shield Piercing Missiles ignore shields. EDIT: Another related thing. Drone Mods. Jump and in the next beacon the new weapon will be charged and the old will keep its charge. In fact I actually rarely use them in my runs, since I usually find other systems than drones better on most ships. The civilian messages you, "Help! The metal monsters are coming to melt down our ship!" Strangely, no active weapon. This function can be 'toggled' before a fight or anytime by clicking a button on the top left of the screen () at any moment. You see a small station fitted with hundreds of Repair drones. While many of their base functions remain the same (combat, defense, personnel), their effectiveness in combat varies greatly. 140 votes, 23 comments. 2x Defense Drone I means cake walk. Mark II defense drone- hitting lasers is nice but often it will shoot a 1dmg laser and let a 3dmg. Very useful if your. 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. Crew Teleporter is a system that allows teleporting your crew to and from an enemy ship. ) Anti-Ship II drones are nearly identical with the exception that they fire roughly twice as fast and take twice the power, allowing you to field a anti-ship and defense drone, for example. just spammed a bunch of drones, Combat 1 Combat 2 and Beam 1 i think. Their fire suppression system is not responding. Skinny Pete Nov 8, 2014 @ 10:37am. Running two at opposite sides makes that less likely. Along with this, the first of its super-weapons comes online. The fire will slowly damage the system and give the enemy crew additional damage - and they can't put it out either. Defense Drones are the most widely useful, as they can shoot down missiles, Boarding and Ion Intruder Drones, and some asteroids. Or hacking. Click on the SELL tab at the top. 14 / power) Interestingly Combat 1 actually has slightly higher DPS; Beam 1 can hit multiple rooms, but is slower every shot and thus lower DPS when it doesn't hit multiple rooms. For the tables of all weapons, see Weapons (tables). Agreeing to improve the ship reactor in exchange for resources in the Improve reactor for supplies event while. (Teleporter) Offer to beam them aboard your ship. Just shut down enemy shields and let your combat/beam/fire drone go to town. Ideally Id like to have a mark I and a mark II defense drone. 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. It appears a small laboratory fire got out of control and is threatening to destroy the station. Thank you for your guides. It's by far the most effective drone at that task. Whilst the MK. Anything else is very setup-dependent (combat drones) or just bad in general (shipboard drones). I had a combat drone and a defense drone mark 1 with level 2 drone system. Defense drones are one of the very few missile deterrents and the hull repair is the only practical way to heal ur ship between boss fight phases (unless u count repair arm augment, which sucks). That way it's guaranteed to smash the drone and would have roughly the same effectiveness as a Defense Drone when it comes to Boarding Drones and Hacking. 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. FTL: Faster Than Light 2012 Browse game Gaming Browse all gaming Drone targeting bug: mode smart. Eirh • 9 yr. 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. 3. Prevents enemy defense drones from targeting anything. Sadly, while a launcher that literally fires two missiles for the price of one sounds great, in practice the Pegasus is frustratingly poor. • Decrease hacking drone movement speed to improve the Defence Drone’s chances to shoot it down. One gets mind controlled. Bombs or missiles to weaken the shield subsystem (bombs are better because they can't be blocked by a defense drone) before using the lasers The weapon pre-igniter augmentation gives you a free shot A fully experienced crewmember operating the weapon controls and the automated reloader augmentation speed up weapon reloading to give. Let's talk Mark II drones. I like using offense drones with ion spam. There are also two "special" sectors: the Hidden Crystal Worlds (never shown on the map) and The Last Stand (final sector with unique mechanics). cooperred • 5 yr. FTL Sectors Alignment Chart — Danger vs. 1. This event can occur only once per sector. Edit. I'm in the midst of a Mantis A run on Hard. #2. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. 50 scrap and will probably save you hundreds of scrap in saved damage over the course of the game. 1 drones seem much better than MK. Also impeccably timed weapon shots can hit the drone in the crossfire. This event can occur only once per sector. 8. For more information, see Beam weapons. Like any projectile weapon, lasers can miss. Instead, try buying a defense drone 2. The 'Zoltan' are allies of the 'Engi'. The best FTL drones are the Automated Reloader, Defense Scrambler, and Backup Battery. This event can occur only once per sector. It causes entities of all kinds to be rendered invisible to defensive drones as long as they are outside of their area of vision. Free drone schematic exploit. Each has its own style and areas of focus. Originally posted by Dr. To be able to recover hacking and boarding drones as well? That should bump the cost of the arm up to 100+. Lose 1 Drone Part, receive low Scrap and rewards. 1 drones going at once and its cheaper to do so. (It's also useful for no-shields challenge runs, but obviously that's well out of the realm of normal play. When one fires, shut off your drone for a split second (causing the shot to miss), then power it back on again. 50cal) bullets. They regenerate in the drone system room and may even be recreated when one is destroyed. Hull repair is then great, because you're no longer wasting drone parts for the Defense drone and can use them for hull recovery. The Trinity is 300. Captain's Edition imported some of its expanded weaponry into drone systems, greatly diversifying the pool of drones to choose from. This random event occurs in: Slug Controlled Nebula. and 3 flak I. This event can occur only once per sector. 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. That actually really helped with the end-game, especially the drones. The owners of the station are less than effusive when they thank you, and offer only a meager payment. I'd assume ion intruder as well, but I haven't seen that. At The Last Stand, the silhouette of the Rebel Flagship is visible hovering around a beacon, marking its location. Dewku. With Ion weapons and the Torus, the point is to drain shield/weapon systems in conjunction with using drones to damage the other ship. When activated, this will prevent (or interrupt) their hacking process. Missile Weapons [] Missile weapons shoot large, shield-piercing missiles at enemy ships, dealing system, hull, and crew damage to the targeted room. Augments. Literally just figured this out. FTL Sectors Alignment Chart — Danger vs. Weapons : Provides information on. The number of guaranteed stores is determined by the sector type. Frustrating, of course, when they decide to shoot at something stupid. See also the enemy ships website, which provides more detailed information for Hard difficulty specifically. Something cool I discovered the other day. 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. Defense Drones Mk I are probably the best case of the effect where people only remember bad luck strikes and pretty much skip good luck strikes in their RNG-induced rage. FTL: Faster Than Light. I think B has slightly more confortable start with two shields and defense drone. Just finished first phase of flagship. Every two jumps you make, it will jump closer to the Federation base, taking a total of 6, 8, or 10 turns to reach the base. With a Glaive Beam, an Anti-Ship Drone can turn a 4 damage beam into an 8-damage one, and an 8 damage beam into a 12 damage one! Depends, if you can reliably keep their shields down, I vote for beam every time. A ship without life forms within a nearby dense asteroid field is giving off the distress call. (It's also useful for no-shields challenge runs, but obviously that's well out of the realm of. (Defense Drone) Use a Defense Drone to protect their ship while they repair. Defense Drones are too slow for actually shooting down the enemy attacks, and greatly ineffective for the price of 4 power for Defense II. As always, the best defense is a good offense. There are a few ways to get past defense drones. It is only good when fighting with too many lasers vs. Yes. Sectors are zones in FTL: Faster Than Light, each containing between 19 and 24 beacons. Rock Cruiser layout C: Get to Sector 8 (The Last Stand) with Rock Cruiser layout. your shield which happens very rarely. That can be pretty useful if you use drones a lot. 13. Defense I drones can’t shoot down lasers or ions so you can’t use those to distract it. Industry. This event can occur only once per sector. 2. 1. About 3, defense scrambler is also great to have if you are doing true end because 10 shots in 1 second defense drones are a thing. Rock Cruiser layout C: Get to Sector 8 (The Last Stand) with Rock Cruiser layout B. Lily-Olivia • 9 yr. The shield overcharger seems to be bad by design. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. Also, drones are expensive in the long run. Then make sure you fire both your missiles at the same time. Hacking their hacking system will allow you to disrupt it. As Ukraine hunts for more anti-drone gear, at least one U. This way the hacking and cloaking stay synchronised. Go to CIVILIAN_ASTEROIDS_BEACON_LIST2 (Repair. The boss is focused on drones in this stage so disabling the drone control is crucial. #9. Category:Nebula Filler Events.