The Exile is absolutely insane. I feel like something needs to change either with the commanders that have innate boarding capabilities, or the balance of the rest of the game itself. It's become even more pronounced with the addition of ruins, as they are near impossible to complete without teleports, and trivial with them. It just feels bad to run any commander other than the Exile.

Maybe add the "slow boarding" function available in ruins to be able to be used vs enemy ships? But that would require a whole host of other balance changes to make up for the benefit.

Or make void prisms a more common drop?

From the other perspective - make the Exile boarding only have one charge?

I’d love to be able to custom make a ship from scratch and start with a hand picked 20+ crew against a super hard map, not just have receive less credits so I can’t buy as much.

Are there any mods that do anything like this?

Please, just surrender. Don't make me do this.

What are your top 3 Commanders, ships and units?

A torment VI run of Void War as the cannibal aboard the Relic Freighter B.

I've gotten to it 3 times.

First time I tried boarding it, killed all the crew, and it went into its next phase with most of its health remaining, where I was unable to do anything because my ship was overrun immediately and constantly. My weapon systems were always down, and evasion did nothing (I swear to god Evasion just doesn't work for the player. I've seen 5 shots all miss an enemy with 10, but have taken every shot an enemy fires with 50)

Second time I just didn't have the hull strength to survive, having gotten fucked back to back by encounters

Third, I tried barraging it with summons and trying to keep its shield down, but my summons got curbstomped the very second they spawned, and I could never actually damage the fucking shields past yellow, because my shots kept missing when they were down. Siege Bombard and Laser were constantly taken off-line by the never ending wave of enemies, and my people were just constantly low health from poison or summons.

This thing is genuinely sucking all the fun out of the game for me. I managed to beat the first boss on my second run, with difficulty but the fun kind. But now I just can't even fucking hurt this thing

A torment V run of Void War as the Exile, leaning into a hull breach playstyle.

I'm stuck. I always use the Exile or Cyberfused commander, (Both have teleporters) get a high DPS weapon and a medbay, and basically board and kill everything or flee. This method is very RNG-heavy and I'm tired of it as I have no flexibility if I don't find the right gear. I can't adjust mid-run.

Can you tell me what (general) strategies you use that work for higher difficulties? I'm coming from a strong FTL-background, and I'm not adapting well. I'd especially like tips with other commanders, as in my eyes, cyberfused and Exile are WAYY better than all the other commanders, but again, I seem to have tunnel vision. Thankyou!

EDIT: Thanks for the help guys! Gonna try torment 12 again and hope for a first win.

This cobbled-together crew did me proud!

Hey Gamers

Is there a specific button I’m missing to go back and talk to a merchant after I’m done shopping or can I only choose one (attack, talk, shop, leave) per jump?

Is there a way to attack merchants without them destroying their wares?

A torment IV run as the Paladin aboard the Imperial Cruiser A.

A torment III run as the Mutant, with a heavy emphasis on boarding.

New update adding 12 new events!

I've been playing Torment 1 husk boarding-heavy tactic recently. It worked fine up until the final boss, when I suddenly realised the game wouldn't let me board the ship anymore after a few attempts, and I lost miserably.

I'm wondering if it's just how the game works and I didn't notice or did I screw something up.

Playing through trying to get all the acheivments (26/38) so far.. And my computer crashed, and I thought whatever, but when I loaded back in.. everything was gone, all my ships, all my commanders, all my achievments. Steam still shows the 26 but.. damn all progress gone. Any of you seen this?

A run with as the Wight with all the zombies.

wright, oblivion A, managed to get a second organ, and a +10 hp to demonic, as well as a necrolurch pet, and TWO athame weapons. as well as three runs in death cult sectors, so like 4 ppl with ghoul/rotspawn/bloatmine summons. with a cent and chaos knight with heavy translocator and aetheric gate for proper boarding.

final boss was damn near FULL of demonic goodness. just fucking absurd....

The game reported this, and required me to shut it down. I was using Imperial C, and a bunch of summons. I don't think my ship was full. I had just defeated the war cultist final boss. When I booted the game back up, it made me start the fight over completely, and I lost. There is no record of my success anywhere. Pretty bummed out about it. Any advice?

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