Hacking or Cloaking Along With Teleporter?

[Thward]

I'm at a store and I can buy a cloak or a hacker. I already have a 2-man teleporter. Which do I choose? In my previous game my hacker was quite useful against regular ships, but everyone seems to advise having a cloak for the final boss.

[FDru]

Cloaking is more useful as a supplement to boarding.

[NK SemTex]

If you have a 3-weapon-slot ship, hacking is usually better because you don't always get high-power weapons in stores. But, if you have been able to get 3 high-power weapons cloaking is better for defensive purposes.

Then again hacking with 3 weapons isn't bad either, you just need to end the fights faster before you take too much damage.

[Teddy1505]

I would say that it depends if you have a way to take down the med bay. If you do then you borders should be able to do must of the work in beating the final boss. If you don't have a way to deal with the med bay take hacking and make sure you max you shields and engines.

[Thward]

Originally posted by mugh:

I would say that it depends if you have a way to take down the med bay. If you do then you borders should be able to do must of the work in beating the final boss. If you don't have a way to deal with the med bay take hacking and make sure you max you shields and engines.

Well, I could use the Hacker to take out the med bay, but then it's not available to use against other important rooms. So I basically need enough firepower to get shots to the med bay?

[Teddy1505]

Originally posted by Thward:

Originally posted by mugh:

I would say that it depends if you have a way to take down the med bay. If you do then you borders should be able to do must of the work in beating the final boss. If you don't have a way to deal with the med bay take hacking and make sure you max you shields and engines.

Well, I could use the Hacker to take out the med bay, but then it's not available to use against other important rooms. So I basically need enough firepower to get shots to the med bay?

Yup. Thats you only alternative if you wish to deal with the med bay.

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by mugh:

Yup. Thats you only alternative if you wish to deal with the med bay.

Or you can hack the medbay and kill the enemy crew with their own medbay.

[Teddy1505]

Originally posted by Skinny Pete:

Originally posted by mugh:

Yup. Thats you only alternative if you wish to deal with the med bay.

Or you can hack the medbay and kill the enemy crew with their own medbay.

Please start from my first post and note the word "alternative".

[gimmethegepgun]

Honestly you don't need to take out the medbay if you have hacker, or even use the hacker on the medbay. Use it on whatever room you like.
The reason is that the hacker just by being there locks the doors. The crew will ALWAYS go after your crew unless they're low health and there's no O2 or a fire in the room the boarders are in. They'll bust down the door to the room to go attack them, get in a fight, and then by the time they try to retreat to the medbay the door will be closed again and they'll be trapped and killed. When you need to you can pull the boarders out again, and if the hacked room was a high importance room (pilot, shields mostly) one will force their way in to man it and be trapped again by the time you teleport back in. Stage 1 boss I usually find hacking the cloaker to be the most valuable target, both for attacking the ship and for attacking the crew. If you're boarding, teleport into the cloaker or the doors room (you can move between both of them freely with the hacker anyway) and just exterminate the crew one by one. They have 2 doors they have to bust down to get from the doors room to the medbay, they're not going anywhere. Stage 2 and 3 obviously don't matter for that since if you're boarding you'll have killed the whole crew other than the laser gunner already. Another option is hacking shields. That leaves the pilot room with 2 doors to go through (and is the highest priority room so it'll always be occupied)

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by mugh:

Originally posted by Skinny Pete:

Or you can hack the medbay and kill the enemy crew with their own medbay.

Please start from my first post and note the word "alternative".

Except that isn't the only alternative. You can also Mind Control someone in the medbay and have them wreck it or, alternately, get killed by their own shipmate.