#FTL DEFENSE SCRAMBLER FREE#

Defensive drones can target enemy drones, pick off boarding & hacking units, knock those missiles out, and even boost your shields. With the increased number of drone types, a drone system is even more useful now. With the price increase from AE and the luck involved in getting a good boarding party together, it can be somewhat of a crapshoot. With the right crew (or a cloning bay for suicide jumpers), the teleporter is still boss against most anything but AI ships and Lanius. (Think of all that scrap you're not spending on hull repair) It may be expensive, but the trouble it saves you pays for itself in the long run. Cloaking buys you time in a lot of situations, letting weapons charge, dodging shots, or just giving you a chance to recover from that one bad hit. Time it right and most ships are sitting ducks thereafter. They then proceed to fight their own crew, distract them from repairing damage, and wreck the Piloting system in the process. While it has the disadvantage of being useless against AI ships and Slugs, Controlling the pilot of the ship right as you fire will wreck their evasion. Mind control can be meh to really valuable, depending again on your crew. Overall Drones are about filling in the gaps for your ship, diversifying between drones + weapons can lead to lower overall scrap cost.

However w/o cloaking, you really want defense drones. But I find cloaking more effective overall for defense. So sometimes it's worth picking up just near the end.ĭrones I really only use for defense usually, defense 1. It also works great with shields, giving them a breather when they have been overloaded.īoarding isn't good if you don't have the crew for it, although it takes minimal crew for it to be able to take out flagship weapons. With proper timing you auto-dodge a 'lot' of shots (assuming you have 40% dodge), and after that benefit, you are basically hacking every offensive system (drones, weapons) on the enemy ship for 5-15 seconds. Of course, it is mostly situational beyond hacking (which I think is cheap and effective enough for almost all ship layouts)Ĭloaking is the most pricey, so if you can't afford it earlier you might end up with a ship that doesn't need it. Especially interesting are its uses on the Door system (locks the door for the enemy crew but allows you own guys to go through) and the Boarding system (expels anyone boarding you). It seems very flexible, with the ability to basically disable any system through shield. Usually I go for the drone system so I avoid hacking as both use the same resources. Hacking is the one I have the least experience with. It can also help with crowd control while boarding/being boarded, and can be used defensively to counter the enemy's mind control. I really hate seeing the enemy repair their shield and mind control is my favorite way to stop them from doing so. The main issue is the recharge time, during which you are quite weak. It's great if you can cripple the enemy ship soon after coming out of the cloak.

#FTL DEFENSE SCRAMBLER FREE#

Since there are so few ways to reliably avoid missile damage, I usually go for Drones if I see one drone module coming with a free defense drone.Ĭloak I think is good, but overrated. The big problems are Zoltan Shield, enemy access to Medbay/Cloning, and your crew risking their life.ĭrones I believe are extremely helpful - the Hull Repair drone is amazing, and the Defense drone I is fantastic against missiles. I'm really a fan of Boarding - killing crew gives good reward, being in the enemy ship helps interrupt their repairs, and it doesn't cost much scrap to be effective. But still, some system may be stronger or more useful overall.

Obviously, the desirability of each system dependent strongly on the state of your ship and crew. Which one of the additional systems (Mind Control, Boarding, Hacking, Cloak, and Drones) do you usually get? Which one do you believe is the strongest?

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