Sector 1 death encounter

[shareofhonor]

So I ran into the sector 1 encounter where you get boarded by 3 mantis and an engi and get bombed by the planet. I called it the death encounter because most probably don't even fight this out and I almost did not myself.

But I not only did not die but I did not lose a crewmember!! So I think it pertinent to say what happened and exactly what I did to survive.

First of all I was using Engi A which was crucial for 2 important reasons. I had 2 engi to repair damage and I had the engi medibot which kept me healed enough so I did not die.

I got boarded by all 4 in the engine room Which was bad because they took my engines down immediately and stopped my jump from charging. I vented the whole ship except the door room and the medbay and bridge. I put the 2 engi in the door room and the human in the medbay.
After they finished the engines all 4 went to the shield room. I sent the 2 engis to the engine room and got the engines back up. Two of the mantis followed me and I had to vacate and run back to the medbay. They took the engines down for the second time. The engi did not fight much but the mantis were gassed because the ship is vented. They died after desroying the engines again. The other 2 went for the medbay and I bared stopped them from taking the medbay offline with my engis showing back up. The 3 of them finished off the last of the boarders I got lucky and the ground attack hit the bridge and blew it up and vented it. If the human would have been there he would lkely have died or at least been too wounded to do what I did next which was send him in there to get the bridge back up. Because of the medibot he survived long enough to succeed. I sent one engi to the engines to get them back up and the other to the doors so I could unvent the ship. About the time the human got the bridge back up. JUMP lit up.

I lived but I lost half my hull so I decided not to continue playing. Also shows you can still have fun even when things go badly;.

[Bwixie]

you could just vent the entire ship and fight in the medbay ez pz :P

[shareofhonor]

Originally posted by BaronBrixius:

you could just vent the entire ship and fight in the medbay ez pz :P

They gotta come to the medbay before they destroy your O2 otherwise you are dead. It is also possible to lose engis against mantis even if you are in the medbay. They will all shoot the same guy and even you win, you will lose crewmembers. Or they force you out of the medbay and you die in your own vented ship. In this encounter you are racing against time because the planet is blasting your ship to pieces every few seconds.

[mkzzz12]

This isn't normally hard to deal with, as BaronBrixius said, evacuating to the medbay works. It's important not to let them break the engines, though (admittedly the worst place to spawn for 4 boarders on that ship and especially in that situation) by venting from all airlocks with disabled O2 very quickly, and even providing some distraction by keeping one engi moving in and out of the room for a moment (but not too long so they don't lose much health).
Two more things, keep one pilot engi in the helm, and reoxygenate the ship quickly as soon as you have them in the medbay.

With that, you can always jump away before the ASB (to the previously visited safe beacon if you're worried), and finish them off there. Your crew won't die in a 3v3 medbay fight once you're there, or you could vent them out while you run to drones or somewhere.

If executed well, there should be no chance of crew death or damage.

[shareofhonor]

It was 4 on 3 and this is worse if you have to send a crew to get your O2 back up. 3 mantis will kill you even in a medbay fight. You will lose a crewmember in seconds.

[mkzzz12]

Originally posted by shareofhonor:

It was 4 on 3 and this is worse if you have to send a crew to get your O2 back up. 3 mantis will kill you even in a medbay fight. You will lose a crewmember in seconds.

Engi A medbay won't fit 4 people (of each you and enemy), you just need to keep them running somewhere, one crew will have a very hard time breaking anything. You will absolutely not lose crew in the medbay (not vented, powered up obviously) fight 3v3 and even 3v2 for quite a while, enough to charge up your engines and get out of there. As long as you don't enter that medbay with heavily injured crew, of course.

Your O2 shouldn't be out if handled properly, once you let them break engines and started getting hit you were screwed. Don't let that happen.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

The Engi Med-Bot dispersal is basically vendor scrap for me because its heal rate is so friggin' slow....

[DarkTwinge]

Reminder that shareofhonor has been a consistent troll on these forums (literally banned 4+ times) and that engaging them is a complete waste of your time.

[VIGILO CONFIDO]

Originally posted by Twinge:

Reminder that shareofhonor has been a consistent troll on these forums (literally banned 4+ times) and that engaging them is a complete waste of your time.

I am astonished you can even manage to get banned 4+ times on such an old forum.

[Wasted]

Originally posted by BaronBrixius:

you could just vent the entire ship and fight in the medbay ez pz :P

this

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Originally posted by Twinge:

Reminder that shareofhonor has been a consistent troll on these forums (literally banned 4+ times) and that engaging them is a complete waste of your time.

He's acting slighty more sane than usual and actually holding a decent discussion.

Other topics on the other hand...

[Meneluma]

The auto ship deploys shield virus event totally kills any ship (at least on sector one) if it comes equipped with a beam weapon and beam drone. And it can appear as your first enemy you get to fight.