Each laser shot temporarily removes a shield layer. These are personal rankings based on what i know about each weapon and the way ftl works as a game.
Ardorjies Melee Hunting Blog Planet Arkadia Forum
Ftl tier list weapons. Starting weapons can only be found aboard the ship that has them i include crystal weapons because getting to the crystal sector to buy them is an extremely rare and difficult. Once all shields are down lasers can hit rooms and deal system hull and crew damage. The purpose of a tier list is not to discuss what could potentially happen but rather to evaluate relative strength in a vacuum. I know certain weapons are stronger against certain enemies im asking because people say certain weapons are bad and im tired of having to keep pausing the game quitting it and coming onto reddit to ask questions. Flaks are a weapon which fires debris in a circular area showed in red. All crew bonuses for the system are lost for the duration of the ion damage.
They can only be shot down by mark ii defense drones. Ion weapons temporarily disable systems without causing hull or system damage. Ftl weapon tier list. The one exception in amazing tier would be the pike beam and thats because its fairly easy to get something to break through shields and the trade off is immense. The weapons at the top of the list are consistently effective in almost any ship set up. Noether zoltan b 2 the noether had a slight increase in the tier list.
Can anyone give me a tier list of the weapons in ftla more general one. Faster than light on the pc a gamefaqs message board topic titled weapon tier list page 3. They are good at taking down shields but they can completely miss if fired in a small room regardless of evasion. While this ship still struggles with environmental beacons and ships that can get through the zoltan shields quickly such as ion weapons or anti ship drones its worth noting that the two ion weapons can keep 2 systems disabled. Every ship in ftl can become strong eventually with the right weapons and upgrades just as every civilization can become powerful in the civ games and every champion can dominate in league of legends with enough gold. Created out of general boredom.
Each flak debris takes down 1 shield and deals 1 damage to the hull. For each ion damage a weapon causes the cooldown increases by five seconds. Lasers are general purpose energy weapons. Yes i know im years late but i only really got into ftl a year ago and i finally feel ive played it enough to create my own weapon tiers. Since ftl is a game of rng you want to minimize any variance as much as possible. Now this list is split into two starting weapons and store weapons.
Systems hit with an ion weapon are shown in a light blue colour with a countdown until the impairment expires. Like any projectile lasers can miss. A efficient supplemental capable of taking down a weapon or two. Each category is ranked from top best to bottom worst.
Gallery of Ftl Tier List Weapons
