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so a day before I wiped my save, I've been playing the FED ships, it's beam cannon now more powerful with the cloak. I was able to wreck ships witj my LV.4 Artillery, a defence drone, and cloaking, and while blowing stuff up, I got an Idea...

Why can the fed cruiser get the powerful weapon system? Why not all ships?

So I got to thinking, and I got out the 'ordinance' system idea.

The FED ships's artillery are now ordinance systems. Ordinance come in different types, like a laser barrage, FLAK II, ect.
You can buy them at the shop for 150(ish?) scrap.
The weapon might differ per shops, or by ship. What I mean is that either The ordinance weapon differs depending on the starting ships, or you choose from a randomized small list of possible installations.

Such as...

Anti-ship battery(for kestrels if native):
for charge time of 50/40/30/20, the shot will pierce shields and deal 3 damage with breaching.

Stealth missile volley(for stealth cruisers if native)
for charge time of 45/40/35/30, 2/3/4/5 cloaking leto missile that ignores defence drones.

Etc. And so on.
And also, there should be a button for the weapons, like the cloak and hacking, you know. And pressing the button will bring up the targeting cursur, like ordinary weapons!

FTL isn't getting any new features, sorry.

There's actually a mod that does pretty much what you're saying called 'Open Artillery'. I don't know if it's being updated though.

Maybe more utility abilities?

Rock: Ramming maneuver- Deals 8 hull damage to enemy ship, but you suffer 4 damage in return.

Mantis: Super teleporter- instantly teleports your entire crew into the enemy ship with full health.

Engi: Repair protocol- instantly recharges drones, brings them to full health, and slowly repairs all damaged systems (say 2 bars of damage over ten seconds).

Zoltan: Turbo shield- Instantly gives you 1 additional bar of zoltan shield and instantly restores any charging shields.

Stealth: Counter stealth: when activated, allows you to continue to charge weapons vs stealthed enemies and hit them in random locations.

Lanius: Metal Storm- Instantly destroys all enemy physical projectiles in flight and enemy drones.

Crystal: Unstable growth- Restores 10 hull points but then does 1 hull point of damage every 3 seconds for the rest of the encounter.

Jerjare wrote:Maybe more utility abilities?

Rock: Ramming maneuver- Deals 8 hull damage to enemy ship, but you suffer 4 damage in return.

Mantis: Super teleporter- instantly teleports your entire crew into the enemy ship with full health.

Engi: Repair protocol- instantly recharges drones, brings them to full health, and slowly repairs all damaged systems (say 2 bars of damage over ten seconds).

Zoltan: Turbo shield- Instantly gives you 1 additional bar of zoltan shield and instantly restores any charging shields.

Stealth: Counter stealth: when activated, allows you to continue to charge weapons vs stealthed enemies and hit them in random locations.

Lanius: Metal Storm- Instantly destroys all enemy physical projectiles in flight and enemy drones.

Crystal: Unstable growth- Restores 10 hull points but then does 1 hull point of damage every 3 seconds for the rest of the encounter.

Nope.

Not a single one is possible.