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Do not buy anything under Mark IV protection and only buy kinetic until the end. Always equip bombers with kinetic because the BFB is kinetic, A couple of MKIII kinetic plating is fine.
Make sure to go Revenant not Endurus, Binar has 3 15% criticals to buy.
This is the way I got to the end.
Tuska vs. Antaria doesn't matter I ran both routes.
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Train classroom first, always, then for energy attack ships critical then juicing until you can get two shots before resting after that train energy then plasma plating
For bombers train classroom, then kinetic plating then jury rig, then energy then plasma. You absolutely need energy for the last legs of the game
For the phantom train classroom, jury rig, energy plating, plasma plating, repair crews. Only train nano repair
For the APS hulk from Britannia, Draconi is your friend, do not waste battles unless you get the APS hulk from Britannia in Draconi, that is where you train up your last new ship. Only train FOF torpedo, that hurts enemies and heals friends. I went with classroom, tactical, juicing (only until 2 shots before first rest), jury rig, energy plating, then plasma plating.
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Only train one weapon on any ship you acquire.
Go to Plindus and get the APS Wasp, train rail barrage.
Get APS Phantom from Twig's Star, buy nothing except the most advanced critical from shops, 5% or more at best, save, save, save
Always use the maximum number of ships, You'll hit 50th level regardless by the end.
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This game is awesome. You can't win it on the first or third or even fifth try. The only complaint I have is that APS ships are to far in between, the last you can really train is the valour hulk from Britannia. And the extras at the end are way overpriced though they aren't necessary to win. I've played 10 combos and this is what worked for me.
Dump the hulk you get initially and buy a bomber, The wasp won't be very useful in the end but it helps mid game with rail barrage.
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Hi, found another bug. I'm not looking for them, really I'm not I just keep noticing them. Anyway, flux ammo is supposed to drain 4 energy from the ship that you are attacking. But instead it drains the energy from your ship. It does display a -4 energy icon on the ship you are attacking, but the energy is drained from your ship.
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Not sure if this is a bug or by design - I beat the game and still have some sectors that I cannot get to. No more stations to kill either
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Found a display bug. Minor, but annoying. On the fourth weapon slot for the hulk cruiser. Depending on the level you are given the choice of either battle stations or plasma smash. I went with battle stations. Now the bug: Every place that the weapon is now displayed, (battle screen, ship upgrade screen, etc. ) the damage type icon flashes rapidly back and forth between the icon for plasma and the icon for energy. This does not affect game play at all but having this rapid blinking going on in the corner of my eye is driving me huts.
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Whilst it takes a fair amount of grinding and careful management of your ships to level them up in later levels IT IS BY NO MEANS IMPOSSIBLE. I suspect many gamers who are used to flash games being less challenging than this one are posting comments here asking for the game to be changed into something closer to what they're used to, and that possibly they are making an assumption that because they aren't winning there is something wrong with the game. Personally I think the difficulty curve (although admittedly challenging) is fine and you have a great game here. Keep up the good work.
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I think it's too hard to bring new ships up to par with the battles they are trying to face. You can't buy an advanced ship until the 4th Gate, by then all of the enemies they have to face can wipe them out in one or two shots. You should be able to repeat battles in easier levels so you can level up your new ships.
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Found a bug with the Phantom class ship. It's paint target ability can be activated an infinite number of times on the same turn thus giving you the ability to destroy every enemy ship within it's range. On an unrelated note; I vote for new ships starting at a level appropriate to the system you find them in. In later system leveling up new ships is near impossible. 4/5
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I don't consider this a bug but a "feature" to help when I get stuck. I have a ship with the "Paint Target Skill." I can do it infinite amount of times in one turn killing everything in range. It does screw him up the rest map as the next turn he will have -400 or so energy but its well worth it to kill 3 or 4 targets.
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After getting into the game a little I realised that my ships sometimes even lose some of their their perks! When I looked at my lvevel 13 Wasp I could only see the Energy-Pros Perk maxed out and no sign of the recently aquired Combat-Drills. Together with all those other bugs the game is unenjoyable for me at the moment. I hope this changes soon as I love the game concept and I'm a fool for any in-depth strategy space game.
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This game needs a strategy guide really badly. The difficulty curve is cool and appealing, but the mechanics are just too timeconsuming to find out. I didnt equip my A.P.S. Phantom with target pointers because I deemed them unneccessary... Now at level 10 I got the option to equip it with intelligent Nano torpedos instead... is it random chance based or did it just need certain prerequisites to get upgraded first?
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I think I found a bug. I noticed that my Hulk ship didn't get any armor upgrades on some levels. It was level 7 but had only 7/5/6.
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It's a pretty fun space game, though as it has been mentioned before the balance is way off. I suppose one way of looking at it is that this game is sort of like life. You can't go back, you can't reset. so just think 3 moves ahead, and hope to out-smart everyone else. The chalenge is what makes it fun. Oh, and JMCrooks, everyone else can make it outta the first star system. So what does that say about you?
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Attempting to see what happens if I go through this with only two ships. The only reason I'm making these fights is because of my passive regen, repairing nearly 20 hp a round.
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Great game. To win, u must be smart and patient. If u made mistake u must live with it! like Diablo 2 - save and exit option.
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- For each ship you must focus primarily on 1 attack only or you're screwed (except for command ship get atk&def+)
- Pick plasma for 1st hulk, wasp is useless fast, replace it soon
- Most battle description hints toward whether it leads to warpgate key, save optional ones to level new ships
- EMP Torp on bomber a MUST, same with energy syphon on a PS Hulk
- End game is pure plasma/energy damage
- 1 repair ship, 1 energy drainer ship and 1 high damage ship can take you through the entire game w/o components
- Save creds for end game components
- Save old ships as cannon fodder in final battle (up to 10)
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Ridiculous, impossible advancement. Terribly balanced game. Did you even play it ONCE before you released it? You can't even advance past the first star system.
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you made a spelling mistake in the fleet overview tutorial(i cant remember how till spell it lol)you spelt this as thsi
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Ok, seems I did some optimization error during the first missions. Now I'm stuck in the first sector with a fleet of 3 ships which cannot win any of the remaining battles. This means: Delete your game and start again. Oh, wait. It means: Play something else less frustrating. So far this is the first undefined game I rate below 3.
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I was really high on this game and then I got to the point where I can't advance because of the low level of my ship and it just gets obliterated. Invisible curve made this game horrid.
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So with the last few games from undefined, it kind of feels as if they haven't been really play-tested much. Some are boring, most are slow or laggy, and invisible/impossible difficulty curves. Don't get me wrong: I love the different things you've tried, the various types of games coming out. Keep putting out new games, just ... maybe shuffle up your play-testers to get some new feedback. Because certain things that get brought up every game don't seem to be addressed. Sorry for rambling. I love this type of game. I really wanted it to work, and I may come back and give it another 4 hours in a few days or so. But the inability to train your team, etc (all these points have been brought up by others, no need to rehash them here) make this one not so enjoyable to play after the third hour or so.
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for all those thinking that the ships look like somthing off of star wars your probaily right but i think george lucas is way to rich to be worrieing about a small flash game ,, who cares
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As much as I'd love to play this game, and I really, really do. It is EXTREMELY hard to do so.
As others have said, repeatable missions would be nice.
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If replayable levels aren't possible it would at least be nice to be able to restart the game with any ships you want after beating it. A new game + feature or something. That way the game play itself wouldn't change but you could still try out new builds without having to raise a level 1 ship while the rest of your ships are level 30.
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The gameplay is awesome, but the balance and usability need a lot of work. Balance is touched on earlier, but by usability I mean interface improvements like seeing the ships stats when picking feats and mouseover descriptions on all the stats. Still, a lot of fun.
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The combo multi hit attack + command ship is overpowered...
The a.p.s phantom, with the special machine gun can make more than 50 hit with a single attack.
With a +50 attack bonus from a command ship, it basically kill ANYTHING.
And i'm not even talking about wasp's rail barrage...
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I found Wasps surprisingly effective in the late game, not for their Rail Barrage but for their Tracer shot. It may look dinky in the beginning, but once it levels it deals massive direct damage at extreme range, and crits -more- than 100% of the time (I'm pretty sure I've been seeing it double-crit in the later levels... scary). I would also guess that using a Command's offense buff on a Rail Barrage Wasp would be rape in a can on turn 1.
I made the mistake of trying to spec the first-area Bomber for Torpedo only to later discover that it damages far better with BFB (with massive Kinetic armor to negate the self-damage). There's a Bomber that becomes available later that offers a two-hit Torpedo that ramps up in damage far faster.
I also tuned my Hulk for durability and make heavy use of Energy Syphon [sic], two of these can completely disable and then kill clusters of heavy enemy units, while the armor buff from a Command helps them get there intact.
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Why is it that my level 4 phantom managed to insta kill two level 40 pirate bruisers by hitting them with target paint?
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quick guide- max xp perk first, pick Xenon not Kunri II, choose only one weapon to upgrade per ship, if you use a lot of wasp rail barrage, get one command ship and upgrade issue orders. you dont need a ton of ships so ignore most new ships. 6 ships is enough but more or less will also work. Have fun :). There are a lot of very cool strategies you can use to win this game.
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This game is less than average. The skills are poorly detailed when you learn them; the layout is silly; the game scales WAY too abruptly. Did you guys not test the game before you released it?
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what good does it due to get a lvl1 aps ship way later in the game. with no real way to level it it makes this game a giant buzzkill. You must make a second engage with a way to gain more xp for lower guys!!!