I finally beat it on Normal with a score of 4085. The Type B Zoltan Cruiser is a frigging beast.
For some reason whenever I go far with Zoltan, I can never seem to find stores. I ended up with a nearly fully upgraded engine/shield/weapons set but I only had a blaster 3, blaster 1, and starting ion cannon. I manage to snap a drone control with a hull repair drone on the way. The hull repair drone proved to be much more useful than I thought (handily beats the the repair arm) but never got a cloak or anything like that.
It seems like you can win with high dodge, tons of shields and having just enough blaster shots to penetrate the shield. Cloaking is not really required. The key seems to be taking out the missile weapons control ASAP.
I'm curious what is the lowest score you can beat it with.
For some reason whenever I go far with Zoltan, I can never seem to find stores. I ended up with a nearly fully upgraded engine/shield/weapons set but I only had a blaster 3, blaster 1, and starting ion cannon. I manage to snap a drone control with a hull repair drone on the way. The hull repair drone proved to be much more useful than I thought (handily beats the the repair arm) but never got a cloak or anything like that.
It seems like you can win with high dodge, tons of shields and having just enough blaster shots to penetrate the shield. Cloaking is not really required. The key seems to be taking out the missile weapons control ASAP.
I'm curious what is the lowest score you can beat it with.
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"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”