Tried both the archaeo ship and the biotech. The former was basically impossible; the lowest tier gun does okay damage on the slowest fire rate, but has no range and the ship's armour is suicidally thin. The second weapon does no damage, and theres basically no ammo for the third. 'Recharge weapons'...

Played along till I got a repeatable crash (actually, the first repeatable one was much earlier, then I copied the wrong save before trying to experiment a bit and accidentally overwrote it with some stuff already identified.) All I have to do to cause a crash is start analyzing ammo boxes. Crashes ...

Tried using this, and it's handy, but it also has a tendency to cause a crash if I use more than 2 things in a row. Crashes tend to be repeatable too (as in, I load the game back up, respawned from the last checkpoint or whatever, use the same items again and they crash at the same point.) Was also ...