Reward!From my perspective, there is precisely one good drone and it is Defense Drone Mk 1. A Defense Drone 1 only helps you in a fight where there's some physical projectile incoming (flak, missile, asteroid, boarding/hacking drone). Drone control is huge. 새로운 메카닉 [편집] 토글 버튼의 위치입니다. 34 votes, 13 comments. I define it as the developer define it. Defense Drones Don't Do D'anything! - While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles. -1 . Hacking DDD (Defense Drone Dodging) : It is possible to stop in mid-air your Hacking Drone by removing power from the. I've tried hacking their hacking system, all that does is shut down the enemy hacking drone for a while rather than destroy it. 5. This event is the 1st step in the process of unlocking the Crystal Cruiser and the Ancestry achievement while using the Rock Cruiser . Reward!FTL: Faster Than Light. Using Ion Burst 2 and drones is much easier and convenient than the initial Kestrel loadout, but FTL is not a game about easiness. They are particularly common in Engi sectors, which I personally tend to avoid. It's a little more interesting to try to sneak the hacking drones past Engi ships, which can have e. (Bio-Beam) Use the beam to pick off the spiders. Reward!Mantis B is S tier in my opinion: boarding drone for drone engagements, a defense drone for missiles, a four man teleporter and TWO shields. See also the much more comprehensive list compiled by Reddit user chewbacca77, which includes many bugs related to the save-reload system. 2, most systems have some sort of special. If you have a hull repair drone, you can get 2 points of free repair every fight by jumping away in the middle of the hull repair animation (the recovery arm saves it if you jump before the hull repair. At the least, the Defense Drones achievement is simple—just find a Rebel Rigger with a Defense Drone and then use missile Alpha Strikes to prevent the Defense Drone from being able to shoot both missiles. Beams and ASB shots do not collide with anything. Certain drones are 'toggleable,' meaning they can act as one of two different drones. Rock Cruiser layout C: Get to Sector 8 (The Last Stand) with Rock Cruiser layout. The simplest is to get the Defense Scrambler which disables all enemy defense drones. Faster Than Light by Subset Games. Toggle drones serve two different functions and can be swapped out before battle, such as the Guardian drone which serves as both a standard anti-missile defense drone as well as the anti-drone! Amp drones too can be configured before battle, but are swapped between different power levels to scale their effects for early, mid, and late. After the first and second phases you can dismiss a drone and summon a Hull. #A tier. It takes 3 power to generate 1 zotlan shield after 8 seconds and potentially more shield taking 3 more seconds each layer (accoring to wiki). As an example, if you've ever seen a Hacking drone latch onto the helm of the Kestrel or the Weapons on a Federation Cruiser, and your Defense Drone didn't even pay it any attention whatsoever, that is a result of the glitch. This event can occur only once per sector. My weapons power was fairly light to compensate (Starting Stealth C Weapons with an Ion MK II, but I also picked up the Stealth Weapons augment and upgraded cloaking to lvl 3. This random event occurs in: Abandoned Sector The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect ship presence. Sometimes my Defence drone will miss a missile. For more information, see Flak weapons. Wake up babe, new FTL cruiser just dropped. at a distress beacon. (the ship can also be unlocked by winning the game with the Mantis Cruiser) This event is impossible to distinguish from Slug fight in nebula event, as it has. You have strong enough/resilient enough weapons that you don't have any. If the ship is very long (i. FTL Sectors Alignment Chart — Danger vs. This is a guy who wants to live. Mantis B is pretty good early option for boarding, 4 man teleporter is great and the early game is arguably the strongest Lvl 2 shield, defense drone for missiles and boarding drone for auto-scouts, all that plus Mantis for boarding means you take very little/no damage saving on scrap and also gain more scrap via killing enemy crew. Round ships -- like the engie ships -- have nearly perfect defense drones. You can actually bypass defensive drones with your hacking drone, and avoid it being shot down. Go to CIVILIAN_ASTEROIDS_BEACON_LIST2 (Repair. Mark II beam drone- it is slow as mollasses and doesn't even seem to do much more damage than the regular beam drone. Fire with the new and power back the old for an extra shot. Most tracks come in two parts, one for exploration and one for battle, the game crossfading between the two depending on the situation. No need for Crew Teleporter. Cloaking, Defense Drones, and Missiles. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. :p. Opening Main Menu or 'Save+Quit'ing the game replaces any drone of the Drone Control system offered at the Store with the Defense Drone Mark I. I've noticed something. Last edited by Ray Robertson ; Mar 15, 2018 @ 12:41am. Defense drones can miss if they're on the wrong side of the ship at the time. OmniDrone isnt best used as a defense drone but as an anti-drone replacement. Haywire Defense System The shield overcharger seems to be bad by design. Ancestry – Find the secret sector with the. This event can occur multiple times per sector. Their satellite defense system has gone haywire. Moreover, after every 7 seconds it can charge. Just Getting Started. -1 . Damage: 1 laser, 2 damage, pierces 1 level of shieldsBombs work but don't base your decisions on defense drones. obliviondoll 8 years ago #3. I'm in sector 2 with level 3 shields, a drone system, and I just found two Defense Drone Mark IIs for free in 2 consecutive jumps. [ 1] 2x : Your combat drone attacks the automated ship and then retreats, luring it away. Once all shields are down, lasers can hit rooms and deal system, hull, and crew damage. During a previous run of mine, I was saving a bit of scrap to buy Drone Control, and I try to always buy it when it comes with a free Defense I schematic. This thing is awesome, in that it deletes all those missiles and pesky flak projectiles before they hit my ship. 1: Never be dependent on missiles to win; as you said; the enemy requires only a defense drone to stop your missiles. Boarding 2 Drones, on. Two combat drones is great, as is a defense drone + combat drone. In fact I actually rarely use them in my runs, since I usually find other systems than drones better on most ships. again and again and again, practically every time i get to the flagship and i have the defense drone, the hacking module gets past in the first or second try. • Remove Defence Drone exploit. Since you're still in an early sector ( as defined by my first sentence ), repairs cost 2. Defense drone to shoot down the hacking drone, when it's attached, hack the hack, or wait for the CD then missile their hack room #4. Shield Piercing Missiles ignore shields. Those heal between 3 and 5 hull points every time. Whilst the MK. I make it to a store and it does have DC, but it comes with. The hacked system will shut its doors to the crew of the affected ship , but will grant access to any crew from the same ship as the hacking drone. Cloak's better at defense, but drone control offers variety. On an Engi ship the Zoltan shield might be "inwards" enough so that the defense drone shoots things down before it hits the shield. System Repair Drone. That said, without being able to internally change things like Darth's suggestion, I'd look towards rebalancing them a bit by. It can't. My ideal build is pretty simple: Two defense drones mk I, a combination of shield piercing weapons which will disable shields in one volley,Lv 3 Shields, and as much engine power as you can generate. Agreeing to improve the ship reactor in exchange. The drone cannot go to the oxygen room, because your crew have already "reserved" the tiles. IMO MK. FTL: Faster Than Light. The defense drone was is fairly simple, all you need to do is time your shots so 2 missile fire at the same time. Use a drone to protect their ship. It depends on your ship. If you have to wait until the boarding drone kills the autoscout by room damage, which takes a while, you might as well disable their weapons/drones instead of shield/engines. They have no oxygen, and they automatically repair systems over time (at 1/3 the speed of a human). This is a solid weapon especially early in the game, but does get worse the further into the game you go. Arguably the fastest, safest and cheapest way to kill enemy crew. it'll only put up a barrier every ten seconds, and the AI will always shoot more than one shot per ten seconds. Maybe Tier 3) Drone Recovery (Makes Drone+Hacking builds viable) Reconstructive Teleport (amazing with lvl 3 teleporter) Tier 3 (Very good in situations. The Overcharger Drone just seems to be a bit of a waste of time. Starts with the Engi Medibot Dispersal Augment. Why not just buy a Defense II drone, which does. 2. I got all the way to the end but messed up the 3rd phase of the flagship. Unless you have a drone recovery system of course, but that thing is expensive and not always available. It's great against the flagship, especially in combination with Defense Drone 1. Slows down the FTL drives on enemy ships, making it harder for them to escape from a battle. Drones. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. The FTL Drone Tier List is a comprehensive guide to the most. So whoever said that MK I drones are superior to MK II drones was giving you terrible advice. I prefer mark 2. They cost missile ammunition to fire, hence Explosive Replicator augmentation can be used to potentially save missile ammo. The best defense in FTL is a good offense. Ion weapons are blocked by shields, and the ion damage is applied directly to the shield system instead of the targeted room. Ion weapons do not damage hull, systems, or crew. Members Online. Move the fight where you can breathe. * Drone Recovery Arm - Throwing six or eight power of Combat Drones is funny with that laser spam. i know that the other ships had trouble shooting the missiles down when the. #9. Along with this, the first of its super-weapons comes online. Shield Overcharger. FTL: Multiverse makes changes to most systems both in terms of balance and gameplay. It mainly bugs me a little that the enemy AI ships defense drones are better than yours. Sectors 3-5: Make sure ur shields are at least 2!Keep your distance and wait for the FTL to charge. This fight, first time I had to use the anti-drone. Sysrepair is good for keeping your ship working, combat and beam drones are excellent for the stage 3 supershield (which can make or break runs), and hull repair can be game-winning. Skinny Pete Nov 8, 2014 @ 10:37am. Drones can be risky to use, as they simply shut down should your Drone Control. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. Offensive drones are nice too though, you can pick up a few ion weapons and let drones do all the damage. This guide is approachable and concise, with ship strategy center-stage. I use my mind control to counter enemy mind control. Shooting missiles at all while a defense drone is active is a complete waste. You can try to time the hacking drone by distracting the defense drone with targets, such as swarm missiles, flak, etc, even a boarding drone. I had the luck to even have a Defense II drone. Prevents enemy defense drones from targeting anything. [ 1] You launch the drone and it crashes through their hull, leaving a huge breach. Here's a video covering the details of how Ion works. Defence Drone 2 can also be good as a way of mitigating damage earlier in the game. 1 / 3. After about half an hour the defense drone explodes. The additional tracks added in the Advanced Edition were also released on Bandcamp on. Remember to not send in crew because you still want to keep that person alive so the flagship AI doesn't activate. The owners of the station are less than effusive when they thank you, and offer only a meager payment. Nothing happens. This event can occur only once per sector. Most of the time, even though it shoots at the projectile, the projectile still manages to pass through, because the drone itself is slow at firing. For a more detailed chart of. (It's also useful for no-shields challenge runs, but obviously that's well out of the realm of normal play. 1 Overview 2 Choosing your hacking target 3 Defences against hacking 4 System upgrades Overview Launches a hacking drone that attaches to the enemy ship. Mind controlled enemy crew and my crew then team up and kill my mind controlled crew. Slug Home Nebula. Wreckage drifts by your screens and tumbles into the depths. With Ion weapons and the Torus, the point is to drain shield/weapon systems in conjunction with using drones to damage the other ship. Having something which can constantly break shield allows you to focus your guns on systems you want to target. Only one ship starts without doors (Rock B), and only one starts without a medical system (Slug B). Very useful if your. About 3, defense scrambler is also great to have if you are doing true end because 10 shots in 1 second defense drones are a thing. This event can occur multiple times per sector. The Fed. Augments. To supplement other answers: If you can get one, running a Defense drone-- even a simple Mark 1 will do -- will give you a significant edge: It will stop some incoming missiles. )Keep your starting weapons obviously, unless you find better missile weapons. Required Aspects: Purchase FTL: Faster Than Light Suggested Aspects: Don't pirate it :p Achievement Walkthrough:. Not only that but its possible to have three MK. Nebula seen ships exchange fire. Then the vulcan does its magic. It says: "You find the source of the distress call, a small research station. But then, because of the healing drones. OR Your combat drone repeatedly fires at the automated ship. The best FTL drones are the Automated Reloader, Defense Scrambler, and Backup Battery. The distress signal is coming from a small space station orbiting an uninhabited planet. d) Augmentations guide God tierRarely can u survive further with starter wpns without occuring huge cost. Sensors: I don't think I have ever bought them if I didn't start with them. However, defense drones and hull repair drones are amazing. Can also occur at an exit beacon. I like using offense drones with ion spam. This event is the 2nd step in the process of unlocking the Crystal Cruiser and the Ancestry achievement while using the Rock. Not sure why. The Long-Ranged Scanners will detect no ship presence. Unlike their Vanilla FTL counterparts, these drones can shoot down any type of. . I'd assume ion intruder as well, but I haven't seen that. FTL: Faster Than Light. 2. 1 drones going at once and its cheaper to do so. Defense Drones are the most widely useful, as they can shoot down missiles, Boarding and Ion Intruder Drones, and some asteroids. Just last night I completed the game using the Engi cruiser, type B, using that tactic. A page for describing YMMV: FTL: Faster Than Light. (Teleporter) Offer to beam them aboard your ship. ago. Ion weapons deal ion damage, which disables systems by forcing power out of them. Additional systems. Drone recovery arm is amazing. They cannot repair hull breaches, and as a consequence can never repair a breached system. Defense drones can really help keep those pesky missiles, boarding drones, and hacking drones out. Feb 26, 2014 @ 8:24pm If your target is the shields, What would the point be in attacking the drone controller? When there's only one missile, 1 ion, and 1 breech, you do the exact same amount of damage to the 4x shields after. The Rebel Flagship is by far the most powerful vessel in the Rebel Fleet, and serves as the game's final boss, located in The Last Stand sector. Initial scrap (30 on easy, 10 on normal, 0 on hard) and scrap gained by selling at stores or from Scrap Recovery Arms. [ 1] Use a drone to protect their ship. I got to the fifth sector before I decided the Engi ship is just too boring and quit. This event can occur only once per sector. Drones can be risky to use, as they simply shut down should your Drone Control. - Defense drone MK2. A defensive turtle can blast until the drones are all destroyed. 2 drone seems to move faster, but usually further and has a delay when actually shooting. On the sector map, there are three groups of sectors: Civilian, Hostile, Nebula. Sectors are determined randomly, but. (Defense Drone) Use a Defense Drone to protect their ship while they. 72K subscribers in the ftlgame community. Members Online. Also, if you've fought the flagship with the AE and tried to gun down its own hacking module with a defense drone, you should know already that 1) sometimes the defense drone just plain miss, it can also happens with missiles (just, you don't have a bazillion of drone parts to spare unlike the boss), and 2) it's. If the ship comes with drone control, the defense drone is an alright temporary solution, but I'd still pick up cloak and then migrate to other drones, either combat if I can find a drone recovery arm, or system repair drone, anti-personnel if I get one for free. " In order to unlock this achievement, no other weapon except for missiles can be used during the battle, regardless of whether or not they do damage. As Ukraine hunts for more anti-drone gear, at least one U. Originally posted by Psykechan: Neither is better. Opening Main Menu or 'Save+Quit'ing the game replaces any drone of the Drone Control system offered at the Store with the Defense Drone Mark I. The player controls a spacecraft with crew that intercepts an important data packet from the Rebel Fleet. Generally you can try to game the Defense Drone II's timing to some extent by waiting for the lasers to hit your shields, and only then deploying it/turning it on and hoping it shoots the missile instead of the lasers, but it's still a bit tricky. Thank you for your guides. Then by all means go ahead. So far, I much prefer Mk1 because you can't "trick it" with laser fire! But I suspect I'm looking at this wrong. Upon activation, it uses one Drone Part. 6%. I was wondering what had more worth, the Defense 1 Drone or Repair Burst. This event can occur only once per sector. The effectiveness of the defense drones depends greatly on the length of your ship (the x-axis) since all ships are 'approximately' the same width (y-axis). It causes entities of all kinds to be rendered invisible to defensive drones as long as they are outside of their area of vision. First of course because of the ability to launch those defense drones that will destroy missiles. Missile Weapons [] Missile weapons shoot large, shield-piercing missiles at enemy ships, dealing system, hull, and crew damage to the targeted room. If you already have a defense drone you don't need that and should go for hacking. Systems are equipment that provides your ship with capabilities; they need reactor power to function. While many of their base functions remain the same (combat, defense, personnel), their effectiveness in combat varies greatly. Alex Grynkewich said Wednesday. It stops Hacking and Mind Control, but not for very long - and the hacking will have already landed on your ship anyway. Cloak is generally better for the final boss, but I think defense drone prevents far more damage over the course of the game and better reduces the risk of runaway events (missile hits weapons, causes breach, extends fight, more damage over time, etc). 5. That can be pretty useful if you use drones a lot. (Boarding Drone) Launch a boarding drone into the station. Interesting hacking drone trick. Score is determined with the following formula (rounded down to nearest integer): Score = (s+10*b+20*d)*D s = scrap collected. One will get through. The defense drone mk II also takes 3 power, but shoots down projectiles every second or so. I do have drone recovery arm. For the system, see Weapon Control. 2. For reference, Defense 1 Drones have a 1 second cooldown and Defense 2 Drones have a 0. It's by far the most effective drone at that task. Why not just buy a Defense II drone, which does. Obviously a big balancing con of hacking is that defense drones can actually do something about it. Really. themojorising. Defense Drones Mk I are probably the best case of the effect where people only remember bad luck strikes and pretty much skip good luck strikes in their RNG-induced rage. This nebula looks like it's recently seen two ships exchange fire. Wish I got a pic of it (was trying to speed run,) but I got the fire on small research station random event. Types of Events. The Defense Drone Mk 1 is most cost efficient scrap saving purchase in the game. Allows you to send your crew-members to board enemy vessels. You send your crew into the station. Drone Arm [] "Combat and Defense drones will be retrieved on jump if not destroyed" Costs 50 and 3 ; Refunds the droneparts for combat/defense drones that are deployed. You start wit no weapons but the ship is equipped with a 4-pad Teleporter and two drones. Eirh • 9 yr. This involves getting a drone system, which costs about 80-85 scrap on its own, and a hull repair drone. Well I just thought that every enemy should be fought for the scrap, especially in the early sectors. The civilian messages you, "Help! The metal monsters are coming to melt down our ship!" Strangely, no active weapon. Also, you don't have to do it while only HAVING missile weapons on your ship, you just can't USE those weapons in the fight. Their lasers are not quite good enough to get through the defense drone and the shields, but they can. It's also much more likely to hit 2 rooms than Beam Drone 1. S. "Although it may look like a pile of junk loosely held together, this well designed ship relies on drones and ion weaponry" Default name: The Torus Starting Crew: 2 Engi, 1 Human Starting Reactor: 10 Starting Systems: Piloting (1) Doors (1) Sensors (1) Medbay (1) Oxygen (1) Shields (2) Engines (2) Weapons (3) Drones (3) Starting Weapon: Ion Blast II. Consider, if you beat the enemy ship quickly, you still have the drone and a breach to deal with, and you can't fix the breach until the drone is broke. Once all shields are down, flak can hit rooms and deal damage to system, hull, crew. The distress signal is coming from a small space station orbiting an uninhabited planet. If you have a drone recovery arm, drone control becomes much more attractive. The Captain's Edition loadouts show off some of the new features in the mod, as well as create a tougher challenge; these loadouts can be reverted back to their originals with an additional (optional) mod, CE Vanilla Player Ship Loadouts. (Boarding Drone) Launch a Boarding drone into the station. Apr 6, 2014 @ 8:26pm a good tip vs boss. Bombs or missiles to weaken the shield subsystem (bombs are better because they can't be blocked by a defense drone) before using the lasers The weapon pre-igniter augmentation gives you a free shot A fully experienced crewmember operating the weapon controls and the automated reloader augmentation speed up weapon reloading to give. Hello! I'm pretty terrible at FTL (despite thinking its one of the best games of recent years), and I'm having trouble dealing with defensive drones in general, particularly phase 2 of. I kind of need all the defense I can get with my current setup so I booted up a defense drone and defense drone 2 at the same time. See moreDefense Drones Don't Do D'anything! "While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles . McWeazel, PhD: The defense scrambler also stops anti-combat drones from targeting your own combat drones/boarding drones. Sadly, while a launcher that literally fires two missiles for the price of one sounds great, in practice the Pegasus is frustratingly poor. I've beaten the end boss without ever having a defense drone, but it was rather painful. the DSR 1 sniper rifle, which fires 12,7mm (0. • Decrease hacking drone movement speed to improve the Defence Drone’s chances to shoot it down. It has a shockingly long charge time, is too Power-intensive to readily fit into a loadout, and the only capacity in which it's uniquely impressive is that it can singlehandedly and ammo-efficiently get missiles past. Jump and in the next beacon the new weapon will be charged and the old will keep its charge. Learn to time it, don't just pump three power bars in unnecessarily. Crew Teleporter is a system that allows teleporting your crew to and from an enemy ship. 2: Diplomatic Immunity - While using the Federation Cruiser, use your crew in four special blue events by sector 5. Even with a tiny ship layout like an engi ship, defense drone II will miss stuff all of the time- haven't tried defense drone I lately. This random event occurs in: Slug Home Nebula in a nebula. 2. Based on this table, we can see that the shield overcharger isn't very good at blocking shots. All player ships start with piloting, engines, oxygen, and weapons control. The rest is up to your equipment - obviously things like Zoltan shield, defense drone, anti-drone will repel/delay the boarding drone, but medbay level 2 will heal your crew faster and make it easier to rotate crew or recover them in time for the next drone, and any kind of buffer point in your core systems (shields, weapons, piloting, etc. Keep in mind that if you toggle a drone that was already deployed (marked with a small icon on the drone bar), it. - NPC ship escape time is irrespective of engine level / damage status, and either too fast or too slow (bug in vanilla FTL). 1 Moves slower, but a shorter distance and shoots immediately. The advantage of weapons is - you can control what to target. Drones. Defense Drones Don’t Do D’anything! – While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles. That actually really helped with the end-game, especially the drones. A defense drone shoots down the incoming drones. payload removes systems with good breach chance, very good and fun. Drone lists should properly work for blue options in events; Defense Drones will be able to target all flak weaponry; Fixed: Charge Weapons could find themselves in a state where they were unable to fire; Fixed: Combat Drones would not be able to fire if the drone system was hacked (even with the pulse inactive). This is a great first sector decimator. Have a defense drone to take down enemy missiles (a volley fully blocked by defense drones and/or shields doesn't count either). If the drone doesn't fire till its right on your hacking drone, you probably won't have time to evade the blast. Defense Drone I and II will shoot it down before it latches (most of the time). Stupidly good. They. Subsystems are the same as systems, except they do not use power. This event can occur only once per sector. While many of their base functions remain the same (combat, defense, personnel), their effectiveness in combat varies greatly. It is still quite reliable for missiles and much better for the flagship. The Air Force’s Task Force 99 “nests very well” within the Pentagon’s new Replicator drone program, AFCENT commander Lt. Notably, this also prevents missile hits, therefore defense drones are NOT ever really needed, this allowing to focus even more on offensive drones instead! Reason #5: Engi C starting weapon - Dual Lasers. Defense Drone 2 is extremely weak and should only be used if desperate. 90% of the time, the hacking drone or the boarding drone just floats right on by and attaches to my ship. More specifically, on defense drones : Having 2 Defense drones up is kinda bad, unless you got the extra one for free, and even then. I've started 2 (TWO!) MV games however the rebels wreck me by around sector 5, even with 3 shields they bombard me with missiles and ♥♥♥♥. Since Anti-drones have a 7 second cooldown, that means you can expect them to suppress at least one drone quite effectively. Again, that doesn't mean "always buy shields first", it just means that shields are pretty important. To elaborate a little on what I said earlier, I think Hull Repair Drone shines best when you fulfill 3 factors all at once: You have good shields. They can only be shot down by Mark II Defense Drones. Pirate attacking civilian distress. Send your crew in a shuttle to help put out the fire. Captain's Edition imported some of its expanded weaponry into drone systems, greatly diversifying the pool of drones to choose from. First of all, to answer your P. Defense Drones Don't Do D'anything! "While using the Rock Cruiser, destroy an enemy ship which has a defense drone deployed using only missiles . If the boarding drone on the second stage hits your helm/engine rom then that is an immediate -10% evasion, a hull breach, and an aggressor with lots of HP who can survive in a room without oxygen. FTL: Faster Than Light. FTL: Faster Than Light 의 유저 제작 모드인 멀티버스 모드 에서 추가되거나 변경된 드론에 대해 서술하는 문서. Drones are created instantly, but drones that operate within the ship, system repair and anti-personnel drones, need a short time to start up. • Decrease hacking drone movement speed to improve the Defence Drone’s chances to shoot it down. 3 Cargo ship floating near the beacon. To be able to recover hacking and boarding drones as well? That should bump the cost of the arm up to 100+. Before a FTL jump, Pause the game and switch power to a new weapon. You come across a space station under construction. Before a FTL jump, Pause the game and switch power to a new weapon. x5-452.