# FTL: I could use some tips **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 11, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ftl-i-could-use-some-tips/685874 "2014-04-11T14:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ftl-i-could-use-some-tips/685874/81 "2014-04-25T01:07:09Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Won the game again last night. Fact is the best loadout remains a lot of Level II pulse lasers. 9-12 shots at a time and any ship is going down. I have never, in my many, many playthroughs of the game(I unlocked the crystal ship through regular play), gotten more than one Mark II laser on a run. The only time I’ve had two on a ship is with the Kestrel A. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ftl-i-could-use-some-tips/685874/82 "2014-04-25T01:44:59Z")
> [@bldysabba](#): > > I have never, in my many, many playthroughs of the game(I unlocked the crystal ship through regular play), gotten more than one Mark II laser on a run. The only time I’ve had two on a ship is with the Kestrel A. I have gotten up to three. It essentially means certain victory. Last night I had two plus two flak guns. It was, well, awesome. I tore the flagship apart like a paper airplane. I’ve also had one or two and found a Mark III, but I dislike the Mark III. It may be just me but it seems to miss a lot, thereby making its slightly better shots-to-slots efficiency actually a lot worse. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ftl-i-could-use-some-tips/685874/83 "2014-04-25T13:16:54Z")
I got 4 with the human A ship a couple of times. As I explained to bldy in the other thread, I prefer mowing down my hapless victims with a sneer and minimal effort to dying all the time, but that was just too easy. I don’t know that there’s a difference in accuracy with the Mark III but 19 seconds or whatever the charge time is is just too long (unless you have the weapon pre-igniter.) I didn’t realize this but it seems they [reduced the effectiveness of the automatic reloader](http://ftl.wikia.com/wiki/Augmentations) in AE. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ftl-i-could-use-some-tips/685874/84 "2014-04-28T15:32:08Z")
did you know there’s a cuckoo in the game? you can hear it everytime you jump to a beacon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ftl-i-could-use-some-tips/685874.md?page=4)