Best hacking target on flagship?

[Sandshark]

Anything in particular?

[BlueTemplar]

The problem is that you can't starve a boarding drone like the flagship uses out of oxygen.

[Froman]

I always hack the shields. Always. Mainly because I've never had a ship that could crack four levels of shields before. I always take down the shields with the hack and then rain hell on the ship with my weapons. When the hack is recharging... well, then things can get messy since I'm usually unable to cause any damage.

[Sandshark]

Първоначално публикувано от bluetemplar85:

The problem is that you can't starve a boarding drone like the flagship uses out of oxygen.

Like you fellas thought, I starved the boarders out of oxygen, and simply hacked drones to disable their boarding drones/attackdrones during stage 2.

[Biohazard063]

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Първоначално публикувано от {-NAG-}Bombsquad:

Speaking of hacking, do you get any benefit from hacking the sensors? Haven't tried it yet but if it does I'd say improve your own?

I think the flagship hacked my sensors once and It just disables them.

Yes, but I was wondering if you get benefits from hacking theirs.

[FDru]

Enemy ships don't get sensors.

[Biohazard063]

Първоначално публикувано от FDru:

Enemy ships don't get sensors.

Flagship does

[Drain]

On Phase 1, Hack their Hacking and use it to cancel theirs for less power. This is very effective unless they hack something stupid.(like doors) Alternately, you could force the Cloaking to stop.
On Phase 2, Hack the Drone Room. When they power up the super and fill the screen, turn on Hacking and the regular drones will turn off. This makes the super a lot less painful. It'll also turn off combat drones if any managed to board your ship.
On Phase 3, Hack the Mind Control. It'll return your crew and actually reverse control, meaning they Mind Control one of their own crew for YOU. This means you got the benefit of Hacking with the benefit of Mind Control for free.

You could always Hack a gun room, but it makes more sense just to board and wreck it, or shoot it. Hacking won't keep the room down forever, so you'll still take shoots off of it, you may as well just destroy it then leave them unable to fix it. Hacking the shield might also work, but unless your guns can't break it on their own, you're probably better off without doing that.

[FDru]

Първоначално публикувано от {-NAG-}Bombsquad:

Flagship does

In AE it doesn't.

[Drain]

Първоначално публикувано от FromanSK:

I always hack the shields. Always. Mainly because I've never had a ship that could crack four levels of shields before. I always take down the shields with the hack and then rain hell on the ship with my weapons. When the hack is recharging... well, then things can get messy since I'm usually unable to cause any damage.

I went right through the ship in almost every run. It's quite easy to do with 4 gun slots. If you really want it to be easy, there's bombs you can auto fire right in the room. Fire Boom is the flaming stickk of doom for the Flagship. If it's spammed in the Shield Room, that system is screwed. This is especially true on Phase 3 where they stupidly send off all their crew, only keeping behind 1 tard to try to fix the ship all on his lonesome.

[FDru]

Първоначално публикувано от Drain:

Hacking the shield might also work, but unless your guns can't break it on their own, you're probably better off without doing that.

On Hard mode the shields are one of the best hack targets even if you can take them down with weapons. It creates an isolated section on the missile + laser rooms so you can take them out and makes them harder to repair, and since crew pile up in the shield room to repair it you can usually take out a bunch of them just by focus firing on it after letting them in (by depowering your hacking).

[Biohazard063]

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Flagship does

In AE it doesn't.

huh... Never noticed that before, always wondered why they give it that system in the first place.

[David]

Probably Shields, it's a very popular room on the flagship for repairs and on Hard it aggravates people trying to repair the front weapons, as well as blocking off the cockpit on non-hard. There probably isn't a best single system for all ships to hack because some ships might benefit more from a Cloaking or Piloting/Engines hack than others. If you're totally reliant on boarding, hacking the Medbay might make more sense, etc.

[Cathulhu]

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- You upgraded piloting and sensors instead of hacking - why?

I noticed whenever I got wrecked by the flagship it's because they one-hit my cockpit or sent in a boarding drone there, forcing my pilot to stop piloting. I find upgrading piloting at least once helps a lot in fighting sudden 0 evasion.

[David]

^ Yep. Never upgrade sensors for the flagship fight though- your ship is capped to L2 sensors for that fight.

[Batmagoo]

Hacking shields means guaranteed damage if you have beam weapons.

Just sayin'. You need LV3 hacking tho. You should always upgrade your hacking to LV3 if you can. Does wonders

• Hack shields, beams do wreckage
  
  
• Hack Weapons, Cloak lvl 3, be invincible
  
  
• Hack medbay, guaranteed 120 damage to enemy crew