FTL: Humans, Rebels, and the Starting Ships 

Great their list, and great introduction to the game. One thing I’d change about the tier lists though is putting the kestrel A in tier ‘A’, I find that it is just too well rounded, it has no weaknesses and has both a burst laser two, one of the best things ever, and an Artemis, a great low operational cost good damage missile.

I assume that you play on hard also. I've found that I almost always do go 4 shields. I know 8 power and 300 scrap is a hard ask. But even with cloaking, it's just too hard to duck everything in the final battle without them, and if something gets through and hits an important system, damage spirals. Unless I have a very overpowered weapons, which happened twice I think, I have never won with only 3 shields. I have to skimp on the other systems to get it, but I would say they are extremely necessary at least for that fight. You can't win the game without that fight, so what can you do. I would rank things as weapons first, shields second, dodge 4 or so that I do try to hit by the third jump, and then try to make do with only 1 and 2 power for the other systems. I would also say that the Redtail has a really big midgame advantage, too. Often when you are trying to upgrade weapons, it's hard because the ship starts with one or two powerful ones, and you need to either sell it and then get something even better and keep all of it powered, which means saving for a long time and throwing a bunch of scrap down all at once. Because the Redtail starts with four basic lasers, it's really easy to upgrade weapons once and replace a laser with something just a bit better. Repeat four times and you have a ship ready to go to the end. There's no hump to clear where you are retrofitting everything. A tier is probably right. But I could almost see a case for S. No, there are some superpowered ships coming later. Yeah. You got it right. A tier. For the basic kestrel, maybe I'd give it B tier. The burst II is a really good weapon that's hard to find in stores, and it does have the best missile launcher in the game, which is great until the missiles run out. It doesn't really have any other strengths, and I don't like all humans, but those weapons are probably on the high side of average. I don't have anything to say about the Swallowtail. Cool paint job. Weaker ship, but not truly crippled. D tier.

Sad part is that the game forces you to always try to opt for a boarding set up. Because boarding is considerably more lucrative than destruction of an enemy ship.

0:28 Ah, an HFY fan. How interesting.

I had literal no idea what this game is but it was fun to watch you narrate stuff about it 🙏 thanks for the vid, man

Kestrel A is one hell of a great ship, easily A tier. EXCELLENT weaponry and very well rounded starting set up. Also understanding how Kestrel A works is super easy for beginners as it is a gunship which everyone seems to understand intuitively, you go pew pew enemy goes kaboom. It is not the flashiest ship that's all.

Regarding the Swallow, I always thought that it started with hacking. Regardless, I think that it's more C tier than D. Dual Lasers are basically the best weapon in the game (1 power for 2 shots) and combined with the Ion Stunner can lock crew in the Shields room while they try to repair it. I think that it and the Kestrel should be a tier higher; After all, they're better than the likes of Engi B and Rock A.

@8:26 this is my ships, even with sensors XD

Should go back to playing this.

Dont know why i watched this video; i don't play this game. Great vid regardless 😂

Good video