I love this game, a great little arcade/rogue thingamajig.

It is much less difficult and messy than the way it appears in videos I watched.

Open the airlocks, vent the whole crew! It's the only way to make sure. If they can't do it on their own you have to show them who's boss.

Damn I hate when those mantises board me. Especially when they spawn in/get into the oxygen room. That is game over (I can't suffocate them then, because I always fail to repair the the oxygen room with zero oxygen there). My poor Zoltan dudes just can't take a mantis in a fight ;(

But I love the game. Even though it just screws me over every single time

Good game! Get it! Lose some red shirts while your at it. 

Well, just finished a game where I made it to Sector 5.  There are so many ways to die in this game!

I had one exciting episode near a star that constantly set my ship on fire.  With only two crewmen, it took me ten minutes (real time) to juggle repairing the engine, restoring oxygen, keeping my guys alive, and getting a pilot back up front to make the hyperjump.  Just loving it!

Now, if a Star Trek mod could be made...

It already has heavy startrek references...

And you should be jumped away from those stars with a hazard ASAP, then you can finish repairs quietly in the next area

It has happened to me a few times already that they ported into the oxygen room  or a room adjacent to it. I currently play the Zoltan cruiser (loving that Zoltan shield and Halberd Beam) where you have to vent pretty much the entire ship to vent the oxygen room. And they seem to be quite focused (and rightly so!) on the oxygen generator. If they start attacking that, I have to stop venting, because I know I won't be able to repair it.

I didn't meet those yet. I guess I'm in for a surprise.

Why is that? Most of the higher level weapons I have seen are rather focused on some specific strength of the lower level ones, but they seem to be really good at it. I like to have all 4 weapon slots filled, so I can really use their strengths correctly, preferably something like the Halberd Beam (for massive damage to lower level ships/ships with downed shields), some Ion weapon (to keep their key stuff disabled), Breach Missile (to get rid of their shield without giving a single damn) and some lower level faster charging missile (so I have something to use when my weapons array is damaged). The only problem of this combination is that it is completely useless against ships which have 3 bars of shields AND defense drone Mk2 (it will shot down the missiles and the beam is not powerful enough to get through the shields, even if the Ion weapon helps).

Most of the achievements feel luck base. Oh wait, the entire game is entirely luck based

Every single weapon upgrade in the game has worse DPS per energy then the lower end version. (Ion 2 has double rate of fire but 3x the energy cost for identical damage... most have longer recharge rate).

Max energy for weapons (at least on the default cruiser) is 8. You simply cannot go higher then that regardless of how much energy your reactor provides. So with 8 max energy and 4 slots you are rather limited... The idea situation is 4 weapons of 2 energy each.

The fact that higher end weapons are significantly more inefficient means that if you were to use 3 or 4 different weapons that take 3 or 4 energy each and only use 2 best suited to the situation (or even swap them out based on current status) you get worse results then 4 weapons of 2 energy each.

It is also a problem that if you have 3/4 energy then rather then operating at reduced capacity, the 4 energy weapon is shut down totally. While 2x2 weapons would mean 1 continues to fire and 4x1 weapons means 3 continue to fire.

Well at least it gave you that achievement...

Wow, 7 ships? I think I have 3, maybe. Had no luck unlocking other stuff.

I did come maddeningly close to beating the game, but I ran out of time before the very last fight. Should have been more liberal with spamming my repair drones instead of trying to find a repair station.

For weapons, I've found that I have good success with burst lasers, particuarly when I found a burst laser III. Pair that up with the II that the Kestral starts with and you can fire so many shots that nothing can stand up against it. Once the enemy weapons are offline I just try to suffocate them.

Pretty nice to be able to come here and talk about how much I love a game for a change.

Yeah!!

I won a new square ship with aliens driving it and a fizzle beam.  This game is tops.

The boss weapon rooms are also vulnerable to missiles for the same reason - although just damaging the weapon parts has no effect (you have to destroy it) it kills the guys repairing them. I usually start with the missile room.