said by ekster:Aha, finally beat it!
And without breaking a sweat, this time. Got lucky enough with the stores and managed to pick up the perfect upgrades. The final ship was barely able to get past my shields as I kept bombarding all his weapon systems.
So what weapon loadout worked for you?
I got to the rebel flagship last night, finally. Had great luck with scrap throughout the game and was rich with a 4-shield ship and high evasion, plus seven crew members and other upgrades. Only problem was I hardly found any weapons the entire game. Was flying the Kestrel and all I had was the Artemis missile launcher, the 3-shot beam weapon you start with, a high refire-rate ion beam that I got as a free random drop, and a Pike Beam.
Didn't have enough power to run all 4 weapons at once and the flagship had 4 shields that I needed to cut through. Started hitting their shield generator with ion blasts then dropping missiles on it, and simultaneously hitting their drone system with laser bursts. Broke the flagship apart but took a beating, down to about 25% hull. Then they jumped away! You mean it's not over? Oh no, not by a long shot.
By then all repair stations were overrun and I couldn't fix the ship in time. I jumped after the flagship and was dismayed to find myself surrounded by attack drones. Was blown to smithereens in about 30 seconds.
So close.