Faster than Friday - Episode 3 - Firey Balls

what is up guys and gals my name is flattered Canton welcome to another episode of faster than Friday's this is probably gonna be the shortest episode ever because I am absolutely terrible with the tourists but we're gonna give it a go I've done about 20 runs and I've never made it past like sector 3 with this ship so you can pretty much predict exactly how this is gonna play out I'm not a big fan of the Taurus a lot of people really like it it starts with the ion blast - which is a really good weapon but it knocks out shields we have no way of dealing direct damage though aside from this drone which happens to pick targets very very terribly most of the time which means that the Taurus earlier on in the game is much more subject subject to a lot of rng early on because essentially if they hit your weapons even once you're done you're out of the fight good luck to you and good night and if your anti-ship drone doesn't hit the things you need it to hit then you're constantly moving the ion blast around and just praying that you don't miss a shot so let's get started because I don't want to waste any more time and this is a god-awful sector map I think I'm gonna try and cut up and around this way but I can't promise we're actually gonna make it let's go ahead and try this out get a pirate as our first pull anti-ship Drona's up and then we're going to start by targeting only their weapons hopefully we can get a second ion nope nevermind well apparently our drone Bay has already taken damage which is funsies and hitting the weapons has unfortunately shut down the wrong weapons and so now we are in trouble let's move people actually no there got to stay here now the nice bonus that you're gonna find with the tourists is that the tourist comes equipped with a thing that allows us to regenerate in any crew cabin so we could be anywhere in the ship and we'll still regenerate points let's go ahead and put a bunch of our guys off into the different areas that they want to be you'll see that I've also got these missiles you've gotta be kidding me we allocate that and see if we can't get the shields back up and running I'm gonna swap them actually as soon as the shields are back up because I prefer to have n G's in the different compartments that is the weakest reward that we have ever gotten from rescue missed seven scrap are you serious it's not even worth my time should have let them burn let them burn in space because they suck and they don't pay very well but let's repair everything up I'm gonna try and keep n G's in these two quarters because if these aren't functioning we're pretty much toast we're gonna have to really I mean the one thing that I've noticed that really spells with you have success or failure or not in the ng ship is whether you can get a weapon early on the drops if you don't get a weapon early on good luck and see if we can make a sprint for the top of the screen got another small rebel ship who is teleported onboard unfortunately I'm actually gonna flood all of the oxygen out of these quarters force him to run around a tad and the general plan is actually gonna be to open up all the doors except for these ones and so there it is hopefully he doesn't knock out the o2 before he gets forced out of the area let's go ahead and start firing off some weapons here we've missed with our first round unfortunately but we got the second one so that beam is now down which is the one thing that I was really really worried about let's turn off the engines for a second because he can't hit us with anything substantial at all and as soon as they finish this fight off we'll shut down all of the breech heads or the bulkheads and get back to our areas and we should be able to conclude the fight he's now teleported back to his ship it's rare that I see teleporters in Sector 1 that's not what I want that's the wrong button that's like the worst button you could ever press couldn't put ptb back on actually who was shooting weapons was it Raymond I don't know somebody was shooting weapons here and I can't remember who now we've knocked out the shields one more time good he's hit the weapons that makes me super pleased we're gonna focus on shields for just a second to make sure they stay down like two rounds should be good and then we'll go back to focusing on the weapons which are no doubt being repaired right now no we will not accept your surrender sir put those hands back down and fight now try and keep their FTL I mean their engine I'm sorry their pilots taken out so I don't think that's actually gonna be an issue we'll just wait for him to die and explode into a fiery ball of flames although I don't think there's anything a fiery ball of flames by its nature you would figure would always be fiery it might not always be a ball but it's always gonna be fiery there's gonna be a slaver ship here that's trying to vent to man one of our crew members and we're gonna say hell no to that proposition and we're gonna do the same thing honestly you're gonna see the same strategy more or less throughout the breadth of the entire first couple sectors oh good we hit the weapons twice even I am so stoked right now this is a good day for us see if we can't keep the damage on this thing I'd like for that gun to be down this one can't do anything to us that one right there can actually do some pretty nasty things it could give us a bit more than a few bumps and bruises that's for sure if he manages to land all three of those shots that is a potential issue now we have the option to take a slave I'm going to accept one and they gave us another ng that wasn't what I was hoping for I was really hoping that would send over a mantis to kind of it would get us earlier for a bullet it would get us ready early for a boarding game if I can say that sentence in a non Yoda SH manner Yoda SH is the word I use to describe things that are of the Yoda this guy's got a cloaking device so we're gonna have to wait for him to pop out he'll do it when he brushes us and it's probably gonna hurt it may sting a tad we don't have a whole lot of missile defense right now so unfortunately we're just gonna have kind of live with the issues that arise from that symptom luckily he missed with a second shot so I will definitely absolutely applaud that we get 17 scrapping some drone parts we're doing alright we've got 70 scrap and we're not even halfway across the sector yet we should be at a good starting place for a good run I think GM foe I don't even know what kind of name that is I didn't name that though GM it's like he's a fake GM so maybe he's like somebody that sits around on forums pretending to be a giant like impersonating a blizzard representative and he's not let's see there's a ship floating among the debris yeah we'll give them fuel and they give us 20 scrap fantastic absolutely great I'm gonna try and make a run over to here and if we have to jump a couple of these sectors on the right we will there's two ships one chasing the other and the pursue as a pirate we're gonna jump in and help because I'm in here oh we move right now I am in a benevolent mood let's fire on the weapons because it's a three weapon ship we have nasty Mo's problems right now yeah and we're gonna get lasered we might even potentially God I really wish she would hit the right thing I think these are firing on alternating yeah they're firing on alternating rotations so we should be alright come on drone you can do it wookie this is Boogie 3.0 4.0 5 I don't even remember what iteration he was on he was getting up there though 13 and let's see here it's a good thing you came when you did oh we get a freebie ion bomb I will take it now the question remains it costs us a missile to use that I'll probably actually ion bombs pretty good for disabling systems when you can't get through their shields I might consider I don't know I just don't know what I want to do with that bomb if I if we end up at a station and there's actually like a repeater laser or anything I'll probably take that over that because we already have an ion weapon on a very very short cooldown let's go into our ship menu and get our shields to that unit seems to be like the universal decision for most players is to get shields to as early as they can and then after that there's a little bit of a disagreement in the community about what you should do next I don't participate because I play this game at a little bit higher of a level than a chimp would it's like we've got another slave ship and this one has mantises so let's fire on there Shh no I'm sorry not their shields I want to follow on a fire on their weapons there we go and first hit very good so their team has now been rendered ineffective it is completely and totally ineffectual it's impotent it gets made fun of in TV commercials about Bob this is Bob his energy cannon doesn't work properly I don't even remember the name we can get another slave right now we got burned on the last one though and we've already got a full crew so I think I'm gonna say surrender is not an option we're gonna sink this thing I'm gonna said we're gonna sink this pony but that didn't make sense how often do ponies get torpedoed 21 a drone part yeah I'm glad we did that we could really use some of that double-digit scrap an empty sector I'm gonna demand the surrender so basically we actually have a problem all right so in this case yeah I'm gonna try and knock out the engines first but I mean there's no guaranteeing what I'm going to hit or what I'm not going to hit since their cockpit is destroyed they can't actually jump out anyways let's focus on the weapons for a moment and at least get rid of that missile right there is there a leak in our cockpit oh there is let's give a little bit of extra oxygen to help out there if you open up these bulkheads to the different areas it will share the oxygen between the two you find yourself in desperate straits that is a way to get quick oxygen to a location 20 scrap good we're actually I'm happy with this opening and as I say that I'm sure there's like a dozen teleporting mantas ships waiting for us we do not exactly have a very defensible ship for boarding occupation that is one thing I can say for certain let's go down to here and I think that's gonna be the last one we're gonna have time to hit before we jump on out our hole is not looking so good I usually do bad luck hits again if I can jump from there to maybe there I don't know if it's gonna let me though so I'm not gonna take the chance I know you guys told me there's like a button I can hold down somewhere that puts little connectors between those two but I don't remember I'm gonna repair five damage for ten scrap at this little shop because I can and then we're gonna go to the next sector we can go to the uncharted nebula or we can go to the Mantis sector both are bad decisions given our recent build if we catch an ion storm and the uncharted nebula were pretty much dead in the water but if we get boarded we're dead in the water as well I'm gonna go with the mantis controlled sector because I don't have their ship yet and apparently I can unlock mantises or Manti from here which is one of the ships that I'm missing let's keep on a truck and we're getting low on fuel which is a little strange for sector two I'm gonna hit these two and then go to the store maybe actually let's hit one and go to the store I don't know how much time we have before the fleet jumps into the sector really two empty sectors so far what we'll have a look I have an ion bomb that I can potentially sell off anyways an automated reloader can be really really really nice for the pill that we're running right now I don't know if I want to take it though I also don't know I wish that it would help with the anti-ship shots but I don't know that's gonna work either how much we're gonna get for the ion bomb 32 I know there's probably somebody screaming right now in the crowd don't do it so I'm not gonna I'm gonna hold onto it until we go to this store over here so there that's more along the lines of what I was hoping for a burst laser to would be really really nice and it would help out this ion blast tremendously we don't have the power to run it yet and we can't afford it anyways them's the ropes I don't like it in fact I hate it I hate the fact that that's sitting there and I can't afford it no matter what I do without doing something drastic like say selling my ng Med bought dispersal which would be unfortunate so I guess we'll keep moving and we'll hope for a lucky break elsewhere so we're gonna have mantises on board any second now let's go and flood everything and get everybody back into here to fight with them even so with three energies we're in such a rough spot with regards to being able to defend ourselves that this is one of those fights that's going to end very poorly for me I can almost promise you all it takes is like one missile to right here and we're gonna be straight and nasty voted out first missiles struck down our drone Bay since everybody's where I want them to be anyways God and that's not even turned on in the first place it's fantastic you actually powered that down because they only have one weapon that can get through anyways let's go ahead and swap people out for a minute let them regenerate it to add we are gonna have to deploy another drone as well unfortunately he's about to die so we've gotta wait a second until that's ready to go let's get these guys back in now our engines have been hit they teleported off board let's hit the Tyrone Bay repair and send PDB back to weapons Raymond can go over there get everybody back to their positions and in an unfortunate event and so they were just hounding that right there there's nothing I can do about that it's one of those damn situations where it's like what do you even do right now the missile launcher can't be targeted specifically which puts us at a very very bad disadvantage he's hitting us like every single time because the engines are now down put yet another anti-ship it's costing us one every single time we do that we're missing almost every single shot it's just RNG just biting us in the ass right now over and over and over again which is just awful because we were having such a good run I don't see any recovery from this this is pretty much a failed run at this point we're gonna have to spend an insane amount of scrap just to get that repaired which leaves us with less for upgrades the more you spend on repairs unfortunately with the way that this series works we're just gonna have to run it out but very very disappointed so far and that's one of the reasons I don't really like the ng ship all it takes is one wrong thing to hit either one of these three things and you're pretty much toast instantly so compared to like the Kestrel for example if you get hit in the weapons you're toast but here you get hit in the weapons your toes to get hit in the drone Bay you're toast it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse let's keep jumping there's no point crying over it now because there's nothing I could do about it I mean the RNG nature of this game causes me to want to quit a lot of the time and just not even bother especially given the fact that I think missiles are fairly overpowered for earlier builds in the earlier sectors when you have no way to counteract missiles they can be very very overpowered as we saw in that last fight especially since they hit like every single time let's just send people over he can't get through our shields anyways we've got him locked down let's just go repair this damage and once that's all nice have done and taken care of hopefully well I mean we got to make adjustments here because things are just not going according to plan our targeting has just been so ridiculously miserable in this run okay and so from there we should be a little bit better of a situation and so now we've got a whole missile so we've got a couple of things that we can actually fire at the enemy to deal direct damage now we do have a lot of missiles so I may consider just swapping over to hip how to home almost at Hill missiles I wish they were missiles that raised a bit more hell let's continue jumping and yet another mantis ship with teleporters open everything up here and do they have anything okay so we've already got everything rerouted they can't get through single shields so that's not gonna matter let's put everybody back in here in this area we're gonna have to make a stand we just absolutely have to so from there let's start targeting and hope that they destroy the missiles early on oK we've taken our first missile all of their weapons are now down and the skirmishing has begun in our medical quarters which is going to go very very badly against the mantises no matter how good they are at melee you're still gonna be pretty much wrapped up focus on the shields for just a minute try and keep those down for a second or two and actually I prefer I may have messed up I may have made it though I didn't yeah I didn't make a mistake but not for lack of trying let's close off the ship and as soon as everything's refilled with the oxygens I don't know if ng is redo em geez breathe it's one of those little factoids they don't really tell you they see they're made out of little nanobots but maybe they like metabolize the oxygen somehow I don't even know if that's within the realm of possible we can try and down he goes that was actually not so terrible compared to the last one 21 scrap I've got a hundred there let's put two I'm not so willing to give up that much scrap right now we'll leave it at 61 because we do have to do repairs and we do need some more fuel and that should allow us to dodge a tiny bit better so we're at 25% dodge now I'm gonna go for that distress signal and it's a distress call there's a ship that has an unknown disease we can send our ng over so that's what we're gonna do and without a fear of catching the disease they help organize everyone and fix the problem and so you get some scraps some missiles and some fuel so the fuel is what we really really need it so I'm happy about that I guess I'll jump up to this one last I was hoping you know it's a it's a wing and a prayer but I was hoping there would be a third store let's see here you detect and retrieve an escape pod floating nearby you consider returning into space when you learn it's mantis we can pry it open or we can jettison it I'm gonna pry it open he claws his way into a corner oh cool so we got ourselves a new guy to replace the one we lost earlier to the missile attacks his name is Marcus nice well let's get on out of here hopefully he's a Marcus of the kind that you would find and say Gears of War somebody that's actually like useful to have on board they want to sell us a slave it's like they got a beam weapon and a beam weapon and a I don't know if that's gonna be a big burst or a little burst either way we'll attack them it's a big burst so let's reactivate shields turn that off we'll deploy our anti-ship drone the nice thing about this is that in general you have a pretty good advantage against super shields as an ion character in fact we're gonna go through these really really fast by comparison to every other ship and there it is right there it's already done and over with start firing on weapons oh and they got a straight off the bat unfortunately we do still have some shields available so that should protect us from the wrath of that beam he's level of a shooting he did he's at green level nice that's how we color code things when you're part of the Federation everything's done by colors it makes life easier blue is calming red means that you're probably a prisoner it helps us keep things organized and that's what we prefer surrender is not an option we don't need any more people on board we've already got four so let's continue on our merry way annihilating this guy good night twenty-eight scraps some drone parts alright we're in a good spot right now I'm gonna put another one into there so now we're now up to thirty percent which I think will be helpful I'm gonna go to the ng home roads because right now an ion storm would X it would decimate us it would pretty much be game over so really in the interest of avoiding that I'm gonna try and avoid the nebula if I was in the Kestrel I'd probably give it a go because the worst that we would lose is like two shields but haste or let's go back here and repair we also have some stuff we can sell nobody here that I really want but what I will do we've already got an ion weapons so let's get rid of that we'll keep the whole missile for now unfortunately repair twofold do our best to recover here we have a lot of missiles so I may start building to get some more weapons just so I can use the whole missiles to knock out things that I don't like let's go to the distress call and there's a station and we boarded it check it out and the place is dead there's nothing around just burnt ng parts I don't know if that means burnt ng parts of their ships or actually like energies that are burnt and broken up there's a station selling fuel luckily there's a nice cluster of nodes over here on the right that we can get down with there's an asteroid field nearby let's explore it I knew I was gonna regret that so we lost some health I've never seen that event turn out positively ever I don't know why even risk it anymore I should probably never do that one I get the feeling it's got like a 2% chance to do anything good for you and we're gonna dismantle it's got a choice where we can attack it trying get its data stores or we can dismantle it and get scrapped I'm just gonna take the freebie scrap and we're gonna keep on moving intruder on deck I think I'm gonna keep the Mantis well I don't think we actually need any more career but we could use a boarding party that's the thing we're gonna fight them oh it's a trap the Mantis sabotages your ship oh my god all right so missiles are definitely not an option against this ship on the plus side they've got like terrible weapons so we should just be able to whittle him down it's gonna be kind of one of those wait and watch fights or if you really wanted to be clever about it be like a Weight Watchers but like the weight would be spelled homonyms ho that's something we have plenty of here at the nerd castle and that's all it takes right there we're backsliding because we missed a couple shots I think I'm gonna swap this out actually it's just focus on the shields since they can't get through mine there's no point really focusing on their weapons although if we're not gonna land our shots it's gonna be pointless anyways oh my god this could turn into one of those fights that just takes forever it just takes absolutely just insane amounts of time cuz we're not getting anything done we keep missing I mean I don't know what the miss ratio is in this game but apparently it's like 5 million there we go we're finally managing to semi break through all Don my drone decided to take a cigarette break right there decided to enjoy itself a Dury while I was trying to get it to do other things and now it's decided it hates the other drones whether or not defense drones and offense drones don't get along it's kind of like and it's it's weird it's kind of like a political thing in the trone world the defense drones and the offense drones they can't stand each other they say potato the other say potato some of them say like potahto but that's just because they're bad at spelling so down he goes and that's look entirely too long and look how god how if we lost so much hole already sometimes I hate my life in this game I legitimately hate my own existence I'm gonna try and do those 4 we got like that little box over there looks like the dipper II part of the Big Dipper there's a mantis ship hunting in the distance we got two lasers what could go wrong oh he's got three I couldn't see that one well damn you surprised why I'm gonna try and hit him with a whole missile right there there's really no point deploying that drones at the moment I'm just gonna play around with missiles though hopefully we get lucky a whole missile has an impressive charge time there it is and so now and I think the whole missile that was kind of pointless on my part because the whole missile actually does more damage to these empty rooms but I decided to use it that way so oh I should have shot at the shield Tom that was terrible I don't know what I was thinking well strategy learned we'll note that one away we'll put it in the back pocket put it in the old rolodex although nobody uses our rolodex anymore and if they do I would have sincere questions for them like really you know we have cellphones now right now hopefully we can keep the shield's locked down for a substantial amount of time and I also hope that their guns never fire in unison because if their guns fire in unison no that is gonna blow for us ant ascend I can totally handle they should stay in anticipate that and a breach bomb mark - from what I understand they breach bomb is like the absolute king boobies of weaponry so let's maybe think about three damage two systems and makes a hull breach yeah that seems kind of nice I won't dance around that point that seems pretty awesome let's see if we can get this thing up and running we definitely need some more weapons energy before it's gonna work ourselves a tiny little bit of extra energy and the cool thing now is we can run hole missiles an ion blast at the same time which is kind of fun ZZZ have to play around with that as a potential strategy in the future I'm gonna go here then to the distress call looks like we have a ng that are asking for help now if my ng crew member offers our help and it looks like they have secret technologies that have been stolen and they've taken them to a rebel base in the next sector so they've added a quest marker so hopefully in the next sector I think that's how you unlock the ng ship though so this may not actually be there may be no like point to this nope they want fuel we don't have any so they can't have any unfortunately you've been going through way too much fuel a Pegasus missile weird is getting all kinds of goodies now let's go to the ng controlled sector I don't want to do any more mantas right now mantas have terrified me there's too much boarding there's too many missiles and explosives it's depressing God well on the downside I really don't think we're gonna find fuel in time we'll go to the quest just in case that unlocks anything interesting we're gonna attack the mantis fighter he can't get at us with that beam weapon but he is gonna tell it for it so let's open everything up one more time put everybody in here to fight they can fight get extra energy so we'll allocate that there and I'm gonna go straight whole missile right now and if I can knock out the shields oh no we have the breach bomb let's do that breach bomb so they're on board they're trying to destroy our oxygen just have to really really hope that we drain out all the air quickly enough and that we don't eat that giant missile straight to the face which we did we managed to succeed at eating the missile straight to the face boom and there it is that should keep us a little bit safer now what I prefer to do is swap over to this and we're gonna put everything we have on shields for now because really the only thing we can hope for at this point so they've hit our oxygen that remains a major issue so let's close everything down we'll send the two NGS over to fix the oxygen and we've really just got to hope that our drone does its business this time it's not on the carpet okay so we're successful there let's prepare the engines and that final missiles gonna screw us they're gonna give us that one last middle finger on the way out send people over and I just ended my repairs on my engine I knew I know what I did it's alright though be calm let us be still like Grandma after turkey date let's see here turn those back on okay so we're good now let's maybe put ptb back over there to fire some guns you didn't get any fuel off that kill which is really really bad let's go turning this core test and hope for a mirror oh no yeah this is about to backfire horrifically let's turn on the breach missiles here what do they have just a bunch of like terrible energy weapons that's fine they're not gonna fire in unison anyways so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to breach bomb right there the ion blast we're gonna focus solely on the shield and then the anti-ship is gonna help oh no they have a breaching drone I didn't see that one so that leads us to an interesting problem we have nothing that can fight this drone and if they've got one they've probably got like 50 more let's turn the medical supply back on because we might as well okay so that's now done the next breach bomb I'd like is gonna go straight for the shields send him out of the room and leave them to fight for a moment there we go magnificent and so now that the shields are down I'm actually gonna cycle and so yeah there's the second one right there that's what I was a little concerned about you see if I can rotate the fight there for a minute rotate that back to shields micromanagement this fight now that he's a little bit better I'm gonna move him back over to fight with the drone from here we should be majestic I think we should have this one in the bag hopefully we get some fuel stop I don't want to die here here's what you're after too bad you followed the wrong ship the Envoy that passed through here was a fake to trick the idiots like you now let us go go to hell pal he called me an idiot and sorry you could have been nicer you could have used better manners when you you could have been like well I'm sorry to say this to you but you grabbed the wrong ship but instead you didn't even apologize you're just like hey go to hell or if I could suffocate them out at this point who cares let's blow them up and get some fuel maybe two fuel so the adventure continues briefly I don't even know which direction to go right now I suppose over here all right I think we're toast either way on this one just cuz a lack of fuel that we have we have a distress call so we'll move into help because we need fuel we don't really have a choice I probably should have repaired things to week I didn't even think about that well let's get people going breach missile actually I think that might help us because what we want to do now is we're actually gonna drain everything out to get the fight in here we're gonna do that anyway so whatever and then the breach missile once it the anti ship going and with the breach missile I don't even know what I've got so many missiles and only one laser I'm not sure what I should do right now to get my engines back up I guess I'll do that since they've only got the one laser anyways you might as well handle our business between those two the first breach bomb I suppose can go let's fire it at the weapons just because I don't want these missile launchers up now bear in mind yeah if that happens we're toast I mean we're not absolutely hosed but we're pretty close to hosts pulls everything back off and given our regeneration we should be able to continue to work and fix the weapons slightly before anything else terrible happens their unfortunate problem so let's send them over there to handle that well that's that and as you can see splat okay I made it feel like sector four that's like probably the best I've ever done with the ng ship to be honest but there it is faster than Friday for you guys I hope you enjoyed this episode I will continue to maintain that I am terrible at this game so do not trust me for any type of advice or strategy but in any case I hope it was still entertaining I'll see you guys next Friday and take care out there everybody

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Length: 37min 52sec (2272 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 22 2013