Final boss - Hack is OP

[T0per_Harley]

What the hell the hack ! I played a perfect game on easy mode with zoltan ship. And like my previous game, the rebel flagship used hacked and fu**ed me up !

The previous game it hacked my weapons system. I had no drones or teleportation. So OK, i never saw the hack in action before. I was not prepared.

So tonight i bought the TP room. But this time it hacked my O2 system, and all my crew (8 members) died from suffocation.

I am quite bored with this game for now. I will wait few days before playing again :/

[Kuro]

Yes, getting the hacking drone on certain modules suck ( mainly shields and weapons ). Don't be afraid to warp out of the battle and warp in again.

[Qutsemnie]

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Can't quite adapt to a lack of O2, kills you no matter what lol

So... jump away. Hope it`ll latch onto something less vital next time.

I have never actually thought to jump away from the boss. Learn something everyday.

[Walledhouse]

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So... jump away. Hope it`ll latch onto something less vital next time.

I have never actually thought to jump away from the boss. Learn something everyday.

I've done it a few times, it CAN help if you jump to the boss and have the 'base' to return to as a fallback beacon. Jumping from a distaster to a four shield missile toting crew teleporting rebel underling is actually worse sometimes.

[WaterOre ⁧⁧ 🌺]

I usually just bypass this by hacking their hacking.
Defense drones are nice and all, but what if it slips through?

[wRong]

Hate this so much more than getting hit by missles

[morbosfist]

I've survived having the O2 and evasion hacked, but getting hit in the weapons killed me.

[-=Maure=-]

Hack is OP if you use it as well, tear down half their shields right before a barrage.

[redtieguy]

Solutions to hacking drone... Defense Drone 1 or 2. Any of the anti-drones. Hit the hacking section of the enemy ship! A well-placed ion bomb or breach bomb does the trick. Or put your hacking system onto theirs and it will blow it up! They have a limited number of drones.

It latched onto my shield once and I had to jump away. When I came back, it latched elsewhere. Yes, it sucks, about as much as having a boarding drone land in your O2 room.

[Walledhouse]

Also super shields block the hack drone. I'm keenm to get a zoltan shiled upgrade on the Stealth C, plus an extra shield drone for maximum super shield. Good bye missiles, boarders and mind control!

[FDru]

İlk olarak Walledhouse tarafından gönderildi:

Also super shields block the hack drone. I'm keenm to get a zoltan shiled upgrade on the Stealth C, plus an extra shield drone for maximum super shield. Good bye missiles, boarders and mind control!

Good luck getting the zoltan shield. More than likely, you'll only find an additional shield drone, and if you're really lucky a Drone Recovery Arm. But you still have to deal with the charge-up time of the shield drones, which will leave you vulnerable to hacking at the start of the fight (when all hacking drones are fired). If you have cloak you can use that to prevent the hack long enough to get a shield sharge, but you might still need a defense drone because your super shield will drop eventually, and if you have no other defenses the hack will definitely get through.

[Psykechan]

The best way to defend is to launch a Defense Drone (I use Mark I) at the very beginning of the battle. This will shoot down the incoming Hacking drones until they run out. When I saw this happen for the first time, I named it Ace. Sadly Ace did not survive the battle and was taken out by a missle, but Ace will always be remembered.

However the best way to deal with flagship hacking (outside of a defense drone) is to go into that phase's battle with certain systems unpowered. When the hacked system is "chosen", you'll lose access to it until you disable the flagship's hacking system but you won't suffer the ill effects.

Since you had your crew die of asphyxiation, I'm guessing that you either had upgraded and powered O2 or just suffered too many breaches. Having systems upgraded (and powered to that level) makes the bad effects of the room all the more worse.

Make absolutely sure that you unpower the O2 and Mind Control rooms. If you happen to store crew in the Medbay, make sure that it's unpowered too or you will hear the screams. If the Mind Control room is chosen, you'll just not have access to it but you won't lose power or suffer the effects of a rogue crew member going insane.

It is a good idea to also unpower the Clone Bay as if it's chosen it may as well be useless. Same thing for Hacking, but I consider this one a fair trade.

For most other systems it's your call; all you save is power.

Never unpower weapons or shields as those will simply drain instead of charge.

[Neat]

Are we seriously complaining that hacking is too random?

Have you been playing FTL or a different game? The whole game is randomly generated enemies and scenarios. The game is about adapting, adapt or die.

There are plenty of counters, for one, defense drones 1 will shoot them out of the sky. Just make sure to power it the very first second of the fight. That is, as soon as you get past the intro message, pause, put on the drone and it won't miss.

You could also breach bomb the hacking room, ion bomb it, missile it. Whatever. As long as it gets past the shields you can disable it for a bit till its fixed.

Or, you can hack the hack, counter with your own hacking system. Whenever it starts to hack you, hack it back and it will stop working.

Or simply live with it. As people have said you can use 2 powered oxygen and you'll never be in danger. Weapons only affects them for a brief period before they're back on again. To counter that you should make sure you have a mix of fast firing and slow firing weapons anyway.

Pilot, well, losing all that evasion is a ♥♥♥♥♥. Try using cloaking though? Still 60% evasion is better than nothing. Or defense drones 2, will shoot down missiles ions and beams.

Shields, should be countered with high evasion, put all your points into engines while the hack goes on. The beam will be a bastard for the time being, but if your shield is hacked and the beam is soon to fire, try ion bombing or breach bombing the weapon system to disable it briefly.

Or as someone else said, if you really can't handle the hack put on you, jump out ASAP and try again.

[T0per_Harley]

i had on my zoltan ship:

Hallberd beam
Chain burst laser
Fire bomb

no drones or missiles

TP room lvl 3
Mind control room lvl 3
O2 lvl 3

shield lvl 3

all crew was 2 stars.

i just managed to destroy the missile weapon.

The hacking blocked 1 bar of O2, then I took several shot on this room & lost the 2 bars remaining.

Then, i never managed to repair it because of shots from flagship and the hacking that slower repairs. My O2 level fell down to 0% and my crew died.

the more frustrating is that the flagship had 4 health points left when I died.

my hallberd became useless because i had to lower the flagship shield to 1. Maybe i should not have used the fire bomb and use instead a missile or another laser weapon.

[Neat]

Why were you taking shots to your o2 room anyway? What hit you?

[T0per_Harley]

the triple laser from flagship