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Phew! the AE expansion sure is kicking my ass. I logged in almost 500 hours, 200+ victories, but man, it was like being a noob again learning all the ins and outs of this game. Loving the free expansion, but I do sneak in the old Normal/Disabled/Kestral run for good ol' times

Anyway, there's a few things that are bothering me, which I think could be helped by some tweaks. They're not bugs perse, but they do appear to be inconsistencies/frustrations.

1. The Boarding drone achievement still alludes me. I've tried it several times, in different permutations (drone first, crew second, etc), but thing simply doesn't pop up. I can't explain it, honestly. I suspect it is because the low O2 from the breach is killing the enemy crew, but I can't be certain. Anyway, can this be looked into?

1a. Also, it would be nice if I can designate the room that boarding/iron drones can invade the enemy ship, just has you can target with a hacking drone. Manual control of the drone itself would be nice too.

2. Control enemies that are mind controlled. It's strange that when I mind control that enemy, I can't make him do things. He just does things automatically (even has access through my doors, which is a bit disconterting). Usually when 2 mantis boards, I will mind control one... but he goes off and repairs my shields, for example. When the MC wears off I have a friggin mantis engaging my repair guys. If I had it my way I would flush the SOB out the airlock.

So yea, just a few recommended tweaks. What are your thoughts?

Don't read ahead if you want to figure out the boarding drone achievement mystery yourself.

In case the bug is still the same in AE as it was in FTL Classic, then the way to get the achievement is to either not teleport your crew on the enemy ship at all (but, for example, soften the enemy up with targetted laser shots), or to teleport your crew back to your ship and wait until the teleporter has fully recycled before you fire off your boarding drone. Apparently, there's a check if the teleporter has been engaged for the achievement, and then you don't get it.

athorist wrote:I think that it's best to mind control people on the enemy ship, not boarders on your ship. In one of the flagship fights I mind-controlled a boarder, and they ended up nearly killing one of my mind-controlled crew.

In phase 3 I only use Mind Control to un-mind-control my own guys. Unless I happen to take out their Mind Control, of course.