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My long term goal is to get a hard victory with each ship.

So far I've done

Kestrel A+B+C
Zoltan A+B
Rock B
Crystal B

so 7/28. 25%.

Even though I don't play the Kestrels a ton, I won with all those pretty easily. B + C in one try, I think. Luck maybe, or they are just strong on hard.

I've struggled more than I thought I would with Engi A, and Stealth A, although I have reached the flagship with them at least.

My list right now is Kestral A & B, Cruiser A, Slug C. I'm actually still doing my initial play-through with the C ships first, trying them on Hard mode first, then coming down to normal after 5 loses. I won on hard with Slug C in one try, but I think a lot of that was due to finding the Engi with the insect-like horses really early, then finding a training ship.

Most of them, so it's easier to list the ones I haven't won with yet: Engi A, Fed A, Zoltan A, Mantis A, Rock A, Crystal A.

slug a and zoltan a, both with weapon luck (slug a got flaks mk1 burst mk2 dual lasers, zoltan a found a ion stunner+ion blast1 and auto reloader, so decent scrap to upgrade systems and subsystems)

failed my mantis b run today (not a fun run) and another engi b run (which was quite fun), lucky in the beginning and struggling from sector 6 on

final boss setup was flak mk1 breach mk2 and burst mk1, beam drone def1 and sys repair (this one saved my ass alot) with only 3 crew members.. got trashed on phase 2 but i entereed the sector almost dead so didnt expect to win.
also had a flak mk2 option but i dislike those slow charging weapons, maybe would have been better to implement it (but no scrap for 7 weapon power, so i favored the bomb)

2/11 - hard AE teaching me some respect - i like the balancing so far. im now on zoltan b and found some crew members+burst mk2 - sector 3. hf guys

@ itg how many total runs? pretty good

btw is it normal i get logged out so fast on this board? <5 minutes more like 3

edit: i now understand why all like the hacking system so much - enemies seem to have pretty high engines on hard mode from S4 on. never seen so much dodging

I have no idea. The only one I'm sure of is the Red Tail because it was my first win in Hard and I took a screenshot.

I won with several others (I vaguely recall doing it with the Stormwalker and maybe a stealth ship. Nisos?) as well, but that was in Beta testing and since then have wiped my profile to start new when the game officially came out.

Since then I've had a couple wins but I have multiple profiles so its hard to consolidate all of them into a single list. Plus, I don't want to spoil any upcoming videos

5thHorseman wrote:Plus, I don't want to spoil any upcoming videos

Yay videos!