FTL Captain's Edition 1.308/Inf 1.301b/EL 1.308

[stylesrj]

Unfortunately that isn't possible, because crew-killing the ship also has to result in gaining the intel. Being able to attack the ship again could therefor potentially lead to getting the quest two times, if the ships is crew-culled afterwards. Removing the later isn't really possible either, cause that would prevent all crew-killer builds from completing the quest at all.

Ah, I never thought about that.
But then again chances are you were either going to kill the crew anyway and thus wouldn't trigger the surrender (hopefully!) or you were going to atomise the ship for spare parts.

Of course people would exploit that but those are the same sort who return to that Zoltan facility that gives them the free augment (like I do!)

I'm pretty sure no one ever does get that wrong, but I might still add that.

It happened once... before AE. From then on in, every time I see the event text say "You arrive at the distress beacon" and nothing else I think to myself "I wonder how many moons it will be this time?"

But I need to make it my mission to find all those events where intruders beam onboard without warning and no way of using my Disruptor to stop them
It's not like that Slug offering a drink and stealing your stuff while you're asleep. Clearly no teleporter was used there.

In other news... I once ran out of fuel and I actually had spent 95 Scrap on getting 10 units with that Slug trader. What was at a nearby beacon? A store!
Good thing it was CE Infinite where losing 95 Scrap isn't too bad. I mean it's bad but you have time to get it back.

[RAD-82]

I watched one of Twinge's playthroughs on that streak (with the Stealth B) and right near the beginning of the video he exploits a bug that doesn't exist on my version: while the pilot is mind controlled, he has a crewmember enter the pilot's room and gain full bonus as if he were in the seat even though he's merely stepping into the room, and then he activates cloak before the crewmember gets to the pilot position and enters combat, which causes the ship to maintain full pilot-bonused evasion during cloak. When I try that, the crewmember does apply unbonused piloting evasion to the room upon entering but must reach the seat before applying the full bonus, if the crewmember enters combat the bonus will disappear, and activating cloak before he reaches the spot will not prevent the evasion from going down. So he had 75% evasion I think it was, when he should have had 60%.

You need to re-evaluate your statement here. There is no exploit there.

75% = 60% cloak + 10% Lvl 2 engines + 5% Engine manning bonus

I see no piloting bonus in that.

[Biohazard063]

CE is designed for Normal difficulty by the way, that's made pretty clear on the front page. The existence of Hard mode does not feature into the mod.

You can tell... some of the stuff being thrown at you on hard is just ridiculous.
It's not so much the fact that you gain less scrap. Besides, there's ways to counteract that in CE (slug gel, cargo TP,...).
But some of those ships you encounter.

[R4V3-0N]

should rename CE's Hard mode "Nightmare" instead. Just because of the insanity you meet.

[Sleeper Service]

I'll look into that...

[Estel]

I think that we should call it "Rockman('s) mode"

[stylesrj]

Or Kaizo's I Wanna Be The Dark Souls Cat difficulty

[thatonesungod]

I have a crash issue, i have played 2 runs of CE one as noether, one as stealth cruiser b, both times i have reached the final beacon an attempted to jump, at which point the game promptly froze, i reloaded the noether game 3 times and tried to jump to 2 diffrent beacons and the new sector, at on of the beacons the freeze did not occur until i finished the dialogue, i gave up and restarted as the steath cruiser, made it to exit beacon, tried to jump to another beacon, crash, tried to jump out of sector, crash. PLS HELP MEH I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME

[Lightwavers]

I am discovering a number of beacons which crash you...

The first one is in a nebula, and whenever I try to jump to the beacon the game freezes up before the ship jumps, and then crashes and goes back to before the jump.

The second beacon is in an A.I. sector, and I can actually jump there, and read a long text about having jumped to a huge A.I. hanger. However, when I push continue, the game crashes like I described above, and dumps me back on the beacon I was at before the jump when I load the save. Also, there is a hazard that looks like hangar doors.

I do not currently know how to take a screenshot, F12 doesn't seem to work, and if it does I cannot find it.

Using CE, CE Infinite, all the music and endless loot addons and better backgrounds in the correct load order.

[Sleeper Service]

I have a crash issue, i have played 2 runs of CE one as noether, one as stealth cruiser b, both times i have reached the final beacon an attempted to jump, at which point the game promptly froze, i reloaded the noether game 3 times and tried to jump to 2 diffrent beacons and the new sector, at on of the beacons the freeze did not occur until i finished the dialogue, i gave up and restarted as the steath cruiser, made it to exit beacon, tried to jump to another beacon, crash, tried to jump out of sector, crash. PLS HELP MEH I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME

Odd, that hints at some problems with sector loading, which has been stable in CE for some time as far as I can tell... Can you post your mod order? That might help finding the cause of this...

I am discovering a number of beacons which crash you...

Thanks for reporting in. These might be fixed now.

CE Update 1.278
- On-board Science Lab, On-Board Assembly Line and Cargo Teleporter are cheaper now
- Basic Laser Mark II fire chance increased
- Hull Laser Mark I breach chance increased
- Basic Laser Mark II and Hull laser Mark I price decreased
- Traveling through nano bot clouds now halts the Rebels fleet advance entirely instead of just delaying it
- Teleporter disruption field now allows to apprehend or hire the marooned Slug thief
- Added a missing pre-fight fall-back continue to one of the confined space event in auto sectors (potentially increasing game stability?)
- Added missing pre-fight fall-back continue to a couple nebula events (potentially finally fixing that persisting nebula crash?)
- Pulled recent github grammar fixes and spell-checking