FTL : The Bravais

Time for the elusive Bravais to get a look for. Here the deal: 1) This ship is rather OP for the first few sectors. Both of it's starting weapons pierce 1 layer of shield and don't require missiles. So any early encounters shouldn't give a problem. 2) The ship starts out with 2 crystals. If you haven't figured it out yet, these will become your boarding party once you get a crew teleporter. Boarding with crystals is very fun. You teleport them fast into the enemy (empty) weapon systems, lock it down and destroy it. Again, for a detailed guide about boarding, check the vid about the basilisk. 3) When fighting with crystals there is one thing that can really help you out. They take less damage from suffocating. You can use this whilst fighting enemies on your ship, or on the enemy's ship if you created a breach. Also you don't need a lvl 2 teleporter to board AI ships when using crystals (or rockmen for that matter). 4) The crystal vengance augment is a nice touch but can be sold for 40 or so scrap. Seeing that 1 damage won't make all the difference it might be worth considering to sell it. That's it's. The hardest thing about this ship is unlocking it. Found a good strategy to unlock it on the wiki, it's not a guarantee but it will increase your odds. Start with the stealth cruiser- (The Long Range Scanners really help to find the right spaces to check!) and hit all the distress signals you can find in Engi and Zoltan sectors. As you hop around the map, prioritize your path to get adjacent to as many beacons as possible to find said distress signals. If you have Rock Plating, it will have a blue option to guarantee success at the asteroid field. Then prioritize engi/zoltan sectors. You'll need to find an "empty" space that doesn't have a ship/distress signal in it (the Long Range Scanner augment helps here). Once that is found, cross your fingers and hope that one Hostile sector is the Rock Homeworlds. Once in the homeworld stay away from distress signals and beacons with ships and pray! You might want to consider restarting if you don't find the stasis pod within the first 2 sectors or when there are no red sectors near the end. Copyright information: We, Subset Games, hereby declare that all YouTube users have our permission to run advertisements for the purpose of monetization on their videos of our game, FTL: Faster Than Light. - Justin Ma & Matthew Davis (founders) http://www.ftlgame.com/?p=388