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Single game of FTL takes from one to two hours, at least for me.

I actually never heard of this comparison until now.

I just had my first run with Torus.

I'm still amazed by how powerful was my heavy ion, 2x heavy laser and anti-ship drone. Shields down and then either system lolfails or just going for oxygen reserves. Got to Sector 6 easily but then a missile-spamming Mantis ship + solar flares in backgrounds got me :v

Kael: what is the science of getting 4 burst lasers? Please tell!

Luck. Both in drops and stores.

Last time I checked, it was, uh... in Latvia, I think

Same time as always, right (6pm US/midnight EU time)?

I just defeated the Flagship. On first try. On Normal, with default Kestrel, without using drones or losing a crew member.

And I was going to die in Sector 5! Then I quickly found additional pair of Burst Mk2 lasers, which made cutting through any shields a trivial thing. Subsequent fires and laser shots quickly pulverized the crews that flocked to shieldsroom to try and extinguish the flames.

Rebel flagship was nowhere easy, though. Missile/drone/laser spams were scary and I thank [deity] that I maxed out evasion and engines so I had 50+ evade chance. Then it was like above - lasers into shield sroom, fires in shields room, crew starts dying there, hull knocked down, BOOM no more flagship!

The hardest part, imho, was drone spam. Had to plug several breaches and damaged systems before I got through.

And look, all this netted me 5 achievements Or six, if you count the 10k Scrap achievement which I got somewhere around Sector 1 or 2 of that run.