FTL Multiverse - Limit 4 Nexus Ending (Hard/Extreme, no Rift Waker)

Sylvan and Prime fights included. Originally I was going to upload the full run, but, it is extraordinarily long, and OBS shat itself in some sectors, so not even the full run is available, and most of it is tedious drone micro or AFK. Played Sylvan poorly, Prime was ok. 0:00 Sylvan 8:39 Prime This ship is generally not as weak as Limit 3, but it requires a ton of micro. Kernel lightens ammo costs and is fast and effective. Liberated Cognitive will pummel any boarders on the left, and most boarders on the right will suffocate before killing your Mender meatshield. Defence drone can somewhat defend against combat drones in Sector 1. Once you get shields you are decently safe, especially adding systems like Cloaking, or gear to help shutdown enemy weapons. But you still need to be extremely careful due to 8 maximum hull. IMO earlygame, save for Shields. Next, Repair Arm, Backup Battery cooldown internal upgrade (2x reactor is expensive to keep 1 shield up, 1x reactor is less impactful, so I prefer shortening downtime), and Drones-4 so a Small Bomb does not disable the Mender, in whatever order you think is best. Then save as much as you can for stores (Cloaking, etc is expensive). I used Magic Hat for a Harmony Coreworld (Murderbots Dispersal for much needed boarding defence against Sylvan, ARS Cognitive blue option for Atomizer Drone). If you greed for CURA and get Lightweight E-Grid you should consider a different Hat usage, or if you need ion or fire weapons for Sylvan, you could consider using Hat for them. Overall good drops before Sylvan. Bought a Crystal Scatter for cheap (45) in Sector 3, ran Scatter+Ion Bomb in S4-S6, until I replaced the Scatter with an Elite Kernel in S6. Found an Ion Intruder in S3, and then an Atomizer Drone in S4.5 (Ancient Recovery Site blue option with Cognitive). However the Sale Sector was S3 and while I did find Fire+Radiation modules, there was no modular missile, and so I had the two parts taking cargo space for 5 sectors until the Megamarket. Backup loadout for Sylvan would be Radiation Bomb + Stun Bomb if I didn't find the Modular Missile. However, a very annoying run for me. First, you can't heal the Peacekeeper or the Caretaker, so I had to micro them out of the way of projectiles in order to conserve their HP. You want to delay buying a medbay/clonebay because its expensive on Hard/Extreme standards. (In fact, skipping bay is viable with Reconstructive Teleporter). Second, also did a ton of micro on the Boarding drones, even worse since I don't have the system bars to power all of them at once. I need to try to make sure they don't get destroyed so I can recover the drone part, so much walking them in and out of rooms to preserve HP, and also sometimes microing them enough so I can break med/clonebays without wasting missiles either. Due to all the micro and planning and thinking, I spent over 10 hours for the run, like 4-6x slower than usual for me. And in fact all that micro ended up being necessary, as I nearly ran out of drones during the Sylvan fight. ___________________________ Pretty bad gameplay from me in the Sylvan fight: -Didn't Ion Bomb spam to chain ion. I wanted to save on missiles, but Extreme Sylvan has level 1 Oxygen meaning fires can burn out, and 14 bars of weapons means fires take too long to break them. Can't afford to wait with only 8 maximum hull, just spam the Ion Bomb. G-Van has Oxygen-2 and Weapons-8 so you don't need as much ammo + beating Sylvan will drop you 10 missiles. -Forgot that Fire+Radiation modular missile pierces supershield since 0 hull and 0 system damage, could have fired it before my first cloak if I realized earlier -Should have used crew drone after Sylvan hacked them. I was worried about running out of drone parts but Sylvan drops 10 drones and G-Van doesn't need as many drone parts. Suboptimal gameplay in the Prime fight: -I assumed Cloak+Overconserver combo was enough, but if the Drone Surge has bad timings in a row or you miscalculate your Cloak timing, Arbiter Artilleries can hit. I thought desyncing them could be bad, but: -3 fires take only 12.5 seconds to shut down an Arbiter Artillery, so as long as you Laser Beam it near the start of its charge, and keep repairs suppressed between teleporting crew and Mind Control, defunct laser, and G-Van + Bucket, it should be safe. Keeping two suppressed might be harder but keeping the one next to shields suppressed should be doable, and as a bonus, burning down / Ioning Shields as a side effect helps Sylvan Surges. Finding a Divine Armor augment and/or Hull Repair drone would make Prime much much easier. Magnetic Payload is a worse Tracking Flare but well its good enough, did not find better. Also I wanted to switch to Medbay for Prime but Nexus stores don't sell systems lol. Overall I learned a lot from doing this run, will help a lot for Limit 3. #ftlfasterthanlight #ftlmultiverse