It's just normal space crew life. Sleep in shifts, eat in shifts, BREATHE in shifts . . . Seriously though, it's a good tactic. It requires micromanaging to cycle it on and off, and it's an additional value you have to keep track of, but the bar of power is worth it. Granted, it's not available all the time, but any time not spent running the O2 can be spent in Engine for extra evasion.
@@joelsmith3473 Me too. I've been burned before by not being fully up and operational upon entering combat, so now I ALWAYS make sure all systems are fully repaired, O2 is at 100%, the right crew are at the right stations and all are fully healed BEFORE I hit the jump button.
@@golemgolden4670 Engines is like a shield that decreasing damage by percentage instead of number of hits. It's good against rockets, and when there is bullet hell on the screen. But you can use stealth module instead which do the same, but more controllable.
My last run was kind of like this with the Fed C; I ended up getting two Flak I and one Flak II, along with fully upgraded Flak Artillery (and a Zoltan Shield!!). Yeah, the Flagship was extremely dead.
@@snaxa163 yeah getting the weapons could definitely happen im just talking about looking at the weapons, 8 crew members, on top of all the fuel/missiles its pretty obvious
Balance in this games goes to absolutely nothing when you obtain minimum two laser guns mk2. but when it goes to 4 it means that fact that enemy takes 16 hits and there is no chance to miss all of them. Same with flak , just 12-20 small stones that impossible to avoid.
Ya I somehow managed to get 4 in one run once w/ a preigniter. It was one of my first runs. Everything died almost instantly. I ended up beating the first and second stages without getting a single hit, and I beat the 3rd with like 2 or 3 from the lazer attack. Easily the most op I've ever been in any FTL run. The only other time I was close is when I got 2 vulcans w/ preigniter once but that was much worse since it took a while before it got op.
Masterfully done, I don't know what it is about FTL but I just love it. I've played it for years and years but only beat it once before, once in 160+ hours. I know that's not a lot compared to what I have in other games but I feel so much of these adventures every time. It was always nice to sit down and try a new run, knowing I probably won't make it to sector 5 with my current run, much less actually meet the flagship. I didn't lookup guides or strats or anything, I did all I did just exploring it myself. Thank you for posting this video 6 years ago so I could find it now popping up in my recommended feed and I can gush over this game, and just remember how much joy it brought me to hear that title music for the first time, every time I opened the game, and most satisfyingly, after beating it my one golden time.
I see so many people go into the flagship fight without maxed oxygen, and it's such a massive risk. If they hack your air and you've only got 1 level of it, you have 3-4 hack cycles tops before your non-lanius are all dying, and if you have 2 air then you'll get an extra 3 or so cycles...
@@nick11crafter then you turn o2 off at that point and vent the rooms?? you don't need to slowly starve your ship of oxygen without recovering in between fights; you have infinite time, what if during one of the fights o2 gets hit?
@@addisonbaker8211 because a fire will spread rooms before it dies if O2 is too high. But from what I read in other comments this practice is also used to prevernt O2 being hacked by the flagship which would pull the oxygen out of your ship way faster than it just decays
I ran a Federation Cruiser once with Twin Gatling lasers and a regular Halberd laser and a Fire laser. I had cloak; engi shield; cloning bay and a couple extra crew. I forget what else I had but I distinctly remember smashing the rebel ship so hard they had only 1 guy trying to man the whole ship by the second fight. By the third fight it wasn't even a contest because I set the whole thing on fire and by the time they had the flames under control it was game over. Most fun I ever had killing a ship since Battlefleet Gothic? Yes. Most fun getting to it? No on so many levels. FTL is stupid unfair
Not sure why this randomly got recommended 6 years later, but that does look like a fun build. However, the mismanagement of... almost everything was just painful to watch. This is an older video, likely with (hopefully) a new player so I'm not going to get into it, but despite an overwhelming advantage those fights were far closer than they should have been.
I had this setup on my last run but I had the C version of the Zoltan ship so I had a beam drone and defense drone Mk1 for the incoming missiles... I only took 3 damage. If anyone sees this and wonders why a Mk 1 Defense drone rather than a Mk 2... it's because the Mk1 focuses only on missiles and incoming boarding drones, and doesn't get distracted by harmless lasers that my shields would take care of.
Ok algorithm, fine I'll watch this 6 year old video you keep recommending....happy? (FTL is a pretty great game, and this was an interesting watch.....cheers)
Anyone beated the flagship with the federation Cruiser C? When fires its Artillery Flak its so satisfying listen the impact of the projectiles.Like this,nice job dude.
Holy crap I had no idea how powerful flak cannons can be when used effectively. They were always just a shield killer to me. Also a little tip when repressurizing the whole ship, for some reason it happens faster when all internal doors are opened (obviously only do this when there is no risk of hull breach).
"Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all ships will line up and fly directly into the alien death cannons, clogging them with wreckage."
my favorite setup was 2x halberd beams with a quick Ion gun on a Zoltan ship.. I wouldn't care if the rebels caught up to me I would just cut their ship in a X pattern and they at least got a quick death..
This reminds me of the ASDFMovie where the one guy went *_"Throw THE CHEEEEEEEEEEEESE"_* and the sound of the cheese hitting the UFO sounds exactly like how it's hitting the Flagship. Then by the end, you hear a very faint *_"yeah"_*
Generally when I fight the flagship I try to go for the missile silo weapon first since it's pretty dangerous, and killing the guy operating it means it can't be repaired since none of the other flagship crew can move to the artillery spots. THEN I focus more on taking down shields to improve my DPS.
When your ship *is* the asteroid field hazard
Who would win?
The most advanced ship in the galaxy, capable of bringing a federation down to its knees from its power
OR
4 guns that shoot trash
4 trashy bois on a rock
George West **SEEMS LEGIT**
Wheathley ;3 When you put it that way it sounds pretty funny
All of genial is simple. 😅
when you put it that way...
I like that the sound of Flak fire hitting a ship sounds like you're throwing a bunch of rocks at a car.
Which realistically is what’s going on
How would you know
@@ldbonq they are wild and crazy
And that's how the Foley artist made the sound :D
@@vynashe4442 no.... seriously?
The defense drone at phase 2:
"WHAT THE FUCK?!"
“Defense Drones Don’t Do D’anything!”
Should of had 4 mark 2s
Lmao
@@vanishl.2693 I don't think an energy overcharge full of mark 2s would work loll
@@timtamthemememan5094 someone hasn't played that long it seems.
4:32 That's why you put a redundancy point in piloting for 20 scrap
Or even 2.
improved piloting actually gives a blue option in some nebula events, which is prettty cool for its low price
But it didn't matter ultimately as navigation was destroyed. If he had reinforced doors the invaders would likely never have been a threat.
@@2wMaliman door upgrades often get higher priority than anything else. I hate clone bay mantis ships with engi slaves.
VALUE POINT
I guess you could say the Flagship got...
*TRASHED*
Badum tiss !
@@tomf3150 * Crowd Laughter *
got'em
Anyone else getting anxiety from this guy not giving power to oxygen?
It's just normal space crew life. Sleep in shifts, eat in shifts, BREATHE in shifts . . .
Seriously though, it's a good tactic. It requires micromanaging to cycle it on and off, and it's an additional value you have to keep track of, but the bar of power is worth it. Granted, it's not available all the time, but any time not spent running the O2 can be spent in Engine for extra evasion.
@@StarlightSocialist just pausespam as you're probably used to do already.
@@StarlightSocialist I've done this before, but them jumping at 60% O2 had my warning bells going.
@@joelsmith3473 Me too. I've been burned before by not being fully up and operational upon entering combat, so now I ALWAYS make sure all systems are fully repaired, O2 is at 100%, the right crew are at the right stations and all are fully healed BEFORE I hit the jump button.
I main Lanius and this boy jumping at less than max oxygen was freaking me out
flakship vs flagship
Nice
Nice
People with 2 Chain Vulcans: "I have the strongest ship in the game!"
People with 4 Flak Guns: *Manic laughter*
People with double glaive igniter and hacking AND OF COURSE A SLUG MAD MAN PILOT : YOU SHALL FEAR THE ONE SHOT'S LIMITLESSSSSSSSSSS POTENTIAAALLLLLLLL
2 chain vulcans are just overkill
@@ArmageddonChess laughs in defense drones
@@lucaswillemsens1289 you can easily get past them if you deactivate and activatr back again the hacking drone ;)
Funny thing. If i had the hull repair drone i could have actually won when i had 2 vulcans. Buuuuut i was an idiot and didnt get it
0:48 all three missles hit at 55 evasion, love to see it
.45 (Chance to hit) x .45 x .45 = ~9.1% chance to get hit by 3 missiles
Engine upgrades are trash change my mind
@@golemgolden4670 Engines is like a shield that decreasing damage by percentage instead of number of hits. It's good against rockets, and when there is bullet hell on the screen. But you can use stealth module instead which do the same, but more controllable.
@@rubickevich Dont cite the deep text to me m8 i have over 200 hours in the game.
@@golemgolden4670 You literally asked to try change your mind man, what's the problem?
My favorite part is in the 2nd battle when the enemy defense drone shoots down 1 piece of flak...like oh this will help
Rebels: “Seriously, you’re going to fight us with trash launchers?!”
Fed. Captain: “No…
I’m going to teach you what a shotgun is.”
"No... I'm just dumping this stuff with the rest of the trash"
He came in with no strategy, a freaking level 2 backup battery, and of course, 4 flaks.
And he freaking won.
My guy uses engi for security goofy ahh tactics
@@noobplaye1218and fire fighting when he has a rockman doing absolutely nothing necessary
Backup battery is the GOAT don't you EVER shit on my boy backup battery again
0:47 gotta love that all three missiles hit even with the extra power into the engines
And most of your flak misses
I got the "astronomically low odds" achievement in the *first* fight I had max engines.
I hadn't even beat the game yet, lol.
Ahh, rng...
@@haph2087 it's really hard but not impossible, once i got into a game just to show my gf how it works, ended up with a sleeping gf and a win :D
now THAT is a space shotgun!
congratulations you literally killed the flagship by shooting garbage at them :D
that ship was reduced to trash
Using trash to turn things into trash
Trashception??
Recycling will save the galaxy.
So satisfying to hear the flak crunching the hull
"I'm gonna put some dirt in your eyes." -Flak Guns, probably
My last run was kind of like this with the Fed C; I ended up getting two Flak I and one Flak II, along with fully upgraded Flak Artillery (and a Zoltan Shield!!). Yeah, the Flagship was extremely dead.
Oof... F for Flagship
I had a stealth A with two flak 1s and a Hermes missile
The fed ships with fully upgraded artillery can STEAMROLL the flagship. It's not even funny how well flak vibes with artillery, it's just impressive.
in 400 hours played, i don't think I have ever found 4 flak 1's in the same run. . .
don't feel bad this is obviously modded/cheat engine to hell
@@whatsupwithlongnames eh I mean ive gotten one run like this ONCE.
But i have gotten many runs with flak 2 flak 2 flak 1 or flak 2 flak 2 adv flak
@@snaxa163 yeah getting the weapons could definitely happen im just talking about looking at the weapons, 8 crew members, on top of all the fuel/missiles its pretty obvious
@@whatsupwithlongnames its possible on easy, but the number of fuel is still pretty high imo
@@viktorlabansky5946 The fuel is definetly possible on easy, especially if you get lucky in sector 8 and manage to get two repair stations.
Balance in this games goes to absolutely nothing when you obtain minimum two laser guns mk2.
but when it goes to 4 it means that fact that enemy takes 16 hits and there is no chance to miss all of them.
Same with flak , just 12-20 small stones that impossible to avoid.
Ya I somehow managed to get 4 in one run once w/ a preigniter. It was one of my first runs. Everything died almost instantly. I ended up beating the first and second stages without getting a single hit, and I beat the 3rd with like 2 or 3 from the lazer attack. Easily the most op I've ever been in any FTL run.
The only other time I was close is when I got 2 vulcans w/ preigniter once but that was much worse since it took a while before it got op.
"Noooo you can't just launch trash! Lasers and homing missiles should be much stronger than that!"
"haha monke throw rock"
Flacking genius
Masterfully done, I don't know what it is about FTL but I just love it. I've played it for years and years but only beat it once before, once in 160+ hours. I know that's not a lot compared to what I have in other games but I feel so much of these adventures every time. It was always nice to sit down and try a new run, knowing I probably won't make it to sector 5 with my current run, much less actually meet the flagship. I didn't lookup guides or strats or anything, I did all I did just exploring it myself. Thank you for posting this video 6 years ago so I could find it now popping up in my recommended feed and I can gush over this game, and just remember how much joy it brought me to hear that title music for the first time, every time I opened the game, and most satisfyingly, after beating it my one golden time.
Jesus. And here I thought playing Peglin for 11 straight hours without a win was depressing...
Let’s not forget that you also have 8 crew lmao
Still, what an ungodly weapon setup, beautiful
Imagine this mixed with pre loader. Show up immediately dump an entire asteroid belt on someone and call it a day
@@sirtykai3821 it looks like there is a pre-loader, as the weapons are fully charged after the jumps
I see so many people go into the flagship fight without maxed oxygen, and it's such a massive risk. If they hack your air and you've only got 1 level of it, you have 3-4 hack cycles tops before your non-lanius are all dying, and if you have 2 air then you'll get an extra 3 or so cycles...
Defense drone can mitigate the risk substantially.
firedrake110 If anything gets hacked that is important, you can always just jump away and try again
HerbyFox dude, I've never thought of that before
The first time I came up on the big boi, I had my ship vacumed out thanks to hacked O2 and some very unlucky breaches and fires.
If the hack does get on an important system, I usually destroy their hacking system first if I am not planning a boarding strat.
I'm not even wearing headphones and yet those guns firing are still loud as Hell.
What, are you allergic to oxygen or something? At least fill it up before each phase of the fight, for goodness' sake!
Y?
I don't understand why he turned o2 off when fixing the hull breach during phase2
Its a counter to fires, if a fire starts it should run out of oxygen and die vefore it can spread
@@nick11crafter then you turn o2 off at that point and vent the rooms?? you don't need to slowly starve your ship of oxygen without recovering in between fights; you have infinite time, what if during one of the fights o2 gets hit?
@@addisonbaker8211 because a fire will spread rooms before it dies if O2 is too high. But from what I read in other comments this practice is also used to prevernt O2 being hacked by the flagship which would pull the oxygen out of your ship way faster than it just decays
i love how you say vs
you made it sound like it was a battle
I love the fact that these great ships are being demolished by a rock ship attached with an actual Junk Jet shotgun
I ran a Federation Cruiser once with Twin Gatling lasers and a regular Halberd laser and a Fire laser. I had cloak; engi shield; cloning bay and a couple extra crew. I forget what else I had but I distinctly remember smashing the rebel ship so hard they had only 1 guy trying to man the whole ship by the second fight. By the third fight it wasn't even a contest because I set the whole thing on fire and by the time they had the flames under control it was game over.
Most fun I ever had killing a ship since Battlefleet Gothic? Yes.
Most fun getting to it? No on so many levels. FTL is stupid unfair
I had a simmilar Setup on the Lanius B once: Advanced Flak, 3x Flak Mk 1, pre-igniter and 2 Automatic reloaders. Was some big fun.
Thats just unfair for everyone in the general direction you are heading
@@MadCDeeJay not MY problem, they cross my system >:D
Found this build a couple years ago. Easiest flagship kill I ever had.
8 years later, and it's still watched. Amazing.
that is vile
ah yes, the cruiser sized shotgun.
The most reasonable build the game offer.
Years later and the good old flak mk1 is still my favourite weapon.
Flagship is a paid actor: weapons was never damaged
Flaks have always been one of my favorites against the Flagship. So reliable!
Soundtrack still gets me.
Don't know why I got this vid recommended, but damn that soundtrack is awesome
Not sure why this randomly got recommended 6 years later, but that does look like a fun build.
However, the mismanagement of... almost everything was just painful to watch. This is an older video, likely with (hopefully) a new player so I'm not going to get into it, but despite an overwhelming advantage those fights were far closer than they should have been.
That settup is CRAZY! you didn't even have doors! Ggs man. Earned a sub fs
Rebel officers in the Flagship: "Help, there's a maniac with a shotgun on the loose!"
BREAKING NEWS:
Local garbage truck accidentally wins revolutionary war
Wow, that’s pretty good. I thought the game made weapons rarer the more of one kind you had, making something like this super rare.
This whole build of the B type Rock ship and spamming flak is actually how I won the game my first time.
0:45 those missiles that synced with the music, pure dopamine
Nothing beats 2 flak 2s, 2 glaive and preingniter. Jump in, fire flak, and as soon as the shields vanish, twin glaives. I.e. The sven maneuver
m.czcams.com/video/79_SivNcVeA/video.html
Those are Halberds, not Glaives...
EDIT: I suppose it could be applied to Glaives as well, though.
@@NoxietyPrime close enough
I had this setup on my last run but I had the C version of the Zoltan ship so I had a beam drone and defense drone Mk1 for the incoming missiles... I only took 3 damage.
If anyone sees this and wonders why a Mk 1 Defense drone rather than a Mk 2... it's because the Mk1 focuses only on missiles and incoming boarding drones, and doesn't get distracted by harmless lasers that my shields would take care of.
Ok algorithm, fine I'll watch this 6 year old video you keep recommending....happy?
(FTL is a pretty great game, and this was an interesting watch.....cheers)
Watching this in 2021, Still impresses me how awsome flaks are
4:40 depowering the medbay to add power to the engines despite having no piloting system and 0% dodge chance is really something
Force of habit is a powerful thing.
Anyone beated the flagship with the federation Cruiser C? When fires its Artillery Flak its so satisfying listen the impact of the projectiles.Like this,nice job dude.
0:46 that was big oof... 45% to hit and gets all three
Isnt that normal though? I can have the highest evasion possible without cloak and still get hit 75% of the time.
RNG! Best mechanic in every game
@@some_meme6707
Meanwhile the enemy ship evades 3 missiles in a row despite it having only 15% evasion
Real men see this and think “Hell yeah”
I love the THOOM sound effect it makes
was literally thinking of doing a FTL run after like 3 years, then this is at the top of recommendations?
Holy crap I had no idea how powerful flak cannons can be when used effectively. They were always just a shield killer to me. Also a little tip when repressurizing the whole ship, for some reason it happens faster when all internal doors are opened (obviously only do this when there is no risk of hull breach).
This is true but the ship in this clip doesn't have a door system.
@@nutbastard oh damn I actually didn't notice!
Man, that WRECKED the flagship!
"Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all ships will line up and fly directly into the alien death cannons, clogging them with wreckage."
0:46 Okay yes, all 3 missiles hit the ship even with increased evasion, but let's not ignore the fact it SHOT IN RHYTHM.
6 years later and i still wish to have 4 flak cannons and watching this :D
my favorite setup was 2x halberd beams with a quick Ion gun on a Zoltan ship..
I wouldn't care if the rebels caught up to me I would just cut their ship in a X pattern and they at least got a quick death..
This reminds me of the ASDFMovie where the one guy went *_"Throw THE CHEEEEEEEEEEEESE"_* and the sound of the cheese hitting the UFO sounds exactly like how it's hitting the Flagship.
Then by the end, you hear a very faint *_"yeah"_*
4 rock crewmembers
sends engis to put out the fire
Zoltan : what is my purpose
Me: you are a battery
Zoltan: oh my god....
Lots of flak guns on a Rock ship feels appropriate.
My blood pressure at critical watching this
that must have felt so good. Flak is so strong
When the title and thumbnail give absolutely no context of what you’re about to watch
Suddenly you'd become a Delver from the skyward series.
Isn't it better to aim 1 at engines or piloting after shields are down to make all the rest hit?
Would 3 flack service (or 2 with a Vulcan?)
Flagship: "Why do I hear boss music?"
i Really love this soundtrack haha
You never go wrong with the dakka dakka
Flak gun my beloved.
As Lanius B I’ve had the adv flak, flak 1 and 2. That was fun
that was straight up bullying, nicely done
Flak is and always will be OP and I love it
Its kind of funny that the "flagship" is only slightly larger than what would be considered a "light cruiser".
Why not aim for engines?
To reduce the enemy dodge chance, do you can hit with more shots.
The power of The Flakening!
That's a LOTTA DAH-MAGE
Nice. And man you are so kitted out. I play mostly hard and I rarely can have a build like this, even when I win. Was this Easy/difficulty?
Good flak bro 👍
A black and red ship named the Shivan, I'm a fan!
Generally when I fight the flagship I try to go for the missile silo weapon first since it's pretty dangerous, and killing the guy operating it means it can't be repaired since none of the other flagship crew can move to the artillery spots. THEN I focus more on taking down shields to improve my DPS.
It's almost a beautiful as a quad hull beam.
You'd have to hack their shields right?
@@billowen3285 yep
Why target shields tho instead of engines?
The rebels just got flagshit on
does the rock ship not have any airlocks?
Flak is love, flak is life.
Now imagine if he had hacking
i must try this combo sometime
I'm still getting crushed by this game in easy mode. Thanks for the tips.
Oh man. The crew in that shield room stood no fucking chance.
I like how he forgot o2 for a bit, nice seeing human error even in a great run
this showed up in 2021. surprised, but happy