Yeah, I probably should've visited one of those. D:
Ah well, lesson learned. Maybe next time.
FTL: a game about managing a spaceship in an infinite galaxy
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Yeah, I probably should've visited one of those. D:
Ah well, lesson learned. Maybe next time.
old manatee
Banned
I lost 2 crew members in the first fight and made it to sector 4 with just one guy running around the ship.
Not sure what to make of this just yet. Audio and visuals are wonderful (soundtrack is worth the £10 total) but like Binding of Isaac I think the permadeath might prevent me enjoying this fully. Doing really well with the engi craft then having two groups of mantis board isn't my idea of fun at all. Having the ion gun stun-lock the shields then weapons of enemy craft alternately was working nicely too.
Doesn't the engi craft make the Kestrel utterly obsolete? I just can't play without disabling enemy weapons.
Doesn't the engi craft make the Kestrel utterly obsolete? I just can't play without disabling enemy weapons.
I love layout B of the Kestrel. Easily my favourite so far and the one I can play with the best. Its great how people can like different playstyles in this game. Very well designed. I actually preferred not running with Ion weapons (but many cheap normal weapons), and tons of great drones.
You can get ion weapons on the Kestrel, but it's luck-based. Someone already mentioned one option is to restart until the first store has an ion weapon.
Cool, cool. I'm guessing ion is a damage type, so there may be other weapons and means of delivering that damage. It's also purely anecdotal and likely down to the RNG, but I think I get more surrenders by locking down systems rather than nuking.
Yep, there are ion bombs and ion blasters (I think I saw single and dual shot versions). Some seem to do various amounts of ion damage and I'm not positive how that works. If you hit a shield with 4 ion damage, how many shields does it take out? Is it possible for an ion shot to randomly go through shields or does it always hit the shield first?
OneEightZero
aka ThreeOneFour
What's the quickest route to unlock layout B?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
whalleywhat
Member
Two. Think of one damage as one energy bar, so it takes two hits to knock out one level of shield. Ion Bomb got me the furthest I'd gotten on normal, until some stupid slaver ship decided to dodge almost every shot I launched at it, draining all of my missiles. Then I just had to watch my beautiful ship slowly get it's hull chipped away.
While this game is great I would enjoy it even more if the galaxies (gameplay) were more infinite than limited.
Is there any future plans for a more open ended gameplay mode for this game? ie not being constantly chased and then fighting a boss ship at the end but more like Elite, freeroaming in random galaxies
Is there any future plans for a more open ended gameplay mode for this game? ie not being constantly chased and then fighting a boss ship at the end but more like Elite, freeroaming in random galaxies
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It says it needs a restart to enable, if you haven't done that yet.
I don't think there were any future plans revealed yet, but given what looks to be a hell of a successful launch, I assume things will change and we'll hear something eventually.
That would be nice, and maybe having more persistent stuff to unlock like weapons or ships could be nice. Or just more options period, or some slight extra edge to avoid some of the random deaths. Even in Nethack there are things you can do to be relatively safe in some situations, and there are some here but maybe a couple more could be good.
One potentially good thing in regard to infinite galaxies was Notch just now saying "Well then, I guess you can officially add FTL to the list of games that inspired 0x10c. GO PLAY FTL RIGHT NOW, it is amazing!!" If he ends up getting 0x10c put together in a way that feels fun to him, it could be pretty neat -- imagine doing FTL sort of things but in first person, and with the aid of custom computer programs to do things like manage ship systems.
chickdigger802
Banned
thats just kairosoft stuff and nothing like this.
it's pretty much simcity with some rpg elements.
So true. This game is taking the place that Desktop Dungeons had in my gaming time as the fast game to just burn a few minutes between real life responsabilities. I'm hooked. I've reached sector 5 but only because I always avoided conflict if possible and the Engi were extra helpful.
OneEightZero
aka ThreeOneFour
It's changing from "I need to beat this." to "How high a score can I get?".
How does boarding ships work? Granted I only tried it once on some AI drone...but is it possible to steal them then sell?
If not how does it work for actual manned ones? Just hope I kill the crew while I keep their guns locked down from ion shots?
Farthest I got was the second last area before the boss...in easy. Had horrible luck when I lost 3 crew to o2 levels and people hijacking my ship in sector 3 or something.
If not how does it work for actual manned ones? Just hope I kill the crew while I keep their guns locked down from ion shots?
Farthest I got was the second last area before the boss...in easy. Had horrible luck when I lost 3 crew to o2 levels and people hijacking my ship in sector 3 or something.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Can you take over AI ships? I figured that your crew would die because there's no Oxygen.
When you take over manned ships, the idea is to just kill the crew as fast as possible. When that happens, it just treats it like any other victory. I assume you get more salvage than if you had just destroyed the ship normally (or even accept a surrender), but I can't be sure.
That's what I need to do really. The last few losses made me annoyed at the game when I shouldn't be.
I believe the developers were talking about an infinite mode during the beta, but I don't know what happened to that.
Excellent. I just started playing and it seems just what I wanted. 
My first ship, The Phil Kestrel, is going OK but I managed to kill one of my 3 crew members in my very first engagement (didn't realize he was dying in that airless room, oops) and then immediately had to leave my pilot on a colony when he got spaceplague. Now I'm down to one crew member, and when I hit a store that had crew members for hire I had JUST used all my scrap to upgrade my lonely ship. Ah well.
My first ship, The Phil Kestrel, is going OK but I managed to kill one of my 3 crew members in my very first engagement (didn't realize he was dying in that airless room, oops) and then immediately had to leave my pilot on a colony when he got spaceplague. Now I'm down to one crew member, and when I hit a store that had crew members for hire I had JUST used all my scrap to upgrade my lonely ship. Ah well.
Excellent. I just started playing and it seems just what I wanted.
My first ship, The Phil Kestrel, is going OK but I managed to kill one of my 3 crew members in my very first engagement (didn't realize he was dying in that airless room, oops) and then immediately had to leave my pilot on a colony when he got spaceplague. Now I'm down to one crew member, and when I hit a store that had crew members for hire I had JUST used all my scrap to upgrade my lonely ship. Ah well.
LOL, nicely done.
One of my runs has an absurdly high score. I can't remember what I did. Maybe the game gave me 1000 extra points just for naming that ship, Normandy.
I had time to try one more run to get 6 races, but no luck. I did get, 'No Red Shirts.' Absolutely crushed the big baddie (I took two points of hull damage), but my ship wasn't prepared to deal with drones.
New Kickstarter dream. This exact game ported to the old Homeworld engine with more ship variety and whatnot. While we're at it I want more Elites and Privateers.
Given that they received 2000% more than they asked for, I'm going to go ahead and say that they'll add that in eventually.
The Big Rig
Member
This game is pretty sweet. I think I would have overlooked it had Idle Thumbs not been so gung-ho about it.
I think that Kickstarter backers were given a Steam key.
Still awesome to see it in the Top 10.
FlutterPuffs
Member
You're probably the only person I know who finished a run (on normal no less!) Any tips for someone who's getting slammed badly?
Awesome. Tweeted about maybe having the game let you specify where the save game should be so it could be in a DropBox folder. And one of the devs picked up on it and added it to their request tracker
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Fuck boarding parties.
They wreck me but I can't get them to work the other way. I sent two mantis once and another time two rockmen and they got slaughtered. Fuck this game and fuck mantis scum!
My only wish is for more events and more 'good' events. More of everything. Well....except mantis scum
Only thing that works is sucking oxygen out while they board and pray they die.
They wreck me but I can't get them to work the other way. I sent two mantis once and another time two rockmen and they got slaughtered. Fuck this game and fuck mantis scum!
My only wish is for more events and more 'good' events. More of everything. Well....except mantis scum
Only thing that works is sucking oxygen out while they board and pray they die.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Long Range Scanners mean you can avoid enemies if you want to.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Means shit if you're surrounded.
FlutterPuffs
Member
Problem with Long Range Scanners mean that some of those points without enemies are empty.
So you waste your fuel and lose your chance of getting scraps.
whalleywhat
Member
This. Just expand out the number and variety of random events.
chickdigger802
Banned
hmmm... can't you lock intruders down with proper door upgrades?
You can slow them down...if you spend the scrap on maxing doors.
You can fight them by venting areas of the ship...if you have scanners working or a slug on your ship and they're not moving around.
Or you can fight them hand to hand...if you have mantis and rockmen, or if you fight in the medbay, or if you aren't being fire on at the same time where your crew need to stay at their stations.
Or you can fight them with an anti-personnel drone...if you have one, and a drone control system.
There are various ways to counter various things, but the problem is that seems very down to luck that you will have enough scrap to afford a full variety of countermeasures, combined with stores that sell exactly what you need.
If you upgrade your doors you might run into slugs who kill your entire crew by disabling the O2 system, for instance, because you didn't upgrade THAT to level 3 instead.Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
No. Just takes them longer. God forbid if they get access to your door control room and take it out...
I'vehad the upgraded blast doors only work twice for me where I drained the air out of those bugs.
Side note: I had a chance to buy a slug...I now wish I did....
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Aim cannon at shield. Deploy drone. Profit.
Don't you start talking shit about Phil!
yeah, that's what I did. Just didn't like it, takes too much micro with the fast firing ion cannon and it made repairing the ship/keeping crew alive a pain. I was glad it died relatively soon.
YianGaruga
Banned
Man, I even get attached to the randomly generated crews. Rescuing an unknown alien race that you've never seen before on your ship is just way too cool.
You can press the autofire button in the bottom center if you just want your weapons to keep firing at the same targets.