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A ship in the second sector with two Burst Laser II's? How the hell am I possibly supposed to live long enough to escape, never mind engage, a ship that fires SIX SHOTS in the SECOND BLOODY SECTOR?!

FRUSTRATION!

Blame the low power consumption of the BL2. Most weapons with that kind of damage require 3 so the rng is less likely to roll them. It could have been worse, it could have been Artemis, Leto and a Mini-Beam or two... low powered monsters.

Yeah it's sort of funny, now that I'm a couple hours removed from it. The very thing I like so much about the Burst Laser 2 (the low power comp) is the very thing that foiled me.

Hoisted on my own petard, as it were :p

It's not a rogue game if it doesn't kill you before the second exit.

Of course if you can hit the weapons room and get the two out of sync, with 2 shield bubbles, even that isn't so bad (except for the first volley).

Every stock ship, except for Mantis and Crystal B, either can get a shield-penetrating volley out in under 12s or has a way to survive the initial attack (Zoltan, Stealth). After that, even if the enemy can repair it, you are dealing with out of sync weapons and 3 points of enemy lasers vs 2 points of shields + evasion isn't really that bad.

Dralax wrote:Every stock ship, except for Mantis and Crystal B, either can get a shield-penetrating volley out in under 12s or has a way to survive the initial attack (Zoltan, Stealth). After that, even if the enemy can repair it, you are dealing with out of sync weapons and 3 points of enemy lasers vs 2 points of shields + evasion isn't really that bad.

Except in his case, the 2x BL2 don't go out of sync. it's probably a reroll for me if I encounter it at the beginning of level 2.

They go out of sync after you hit the weapons room. Odds are good that after repaired the timing is staggered.

Dontmindme wrote:They go out of sync after you hit the weapons room. Odds are good that after repaired the timing is staggered.

Apologies. I missed the part of your post about hitting their weapons room. Me bad.