Lol, well that is barely the fault of your weapon systems then
Sometimes the random events can simply screw you over, no doubt.
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Lol, well that is barely the fault of your weapon systems then
Sometimes the random events can simply screw you over, no doubt.
Haunted
Member
Congrats! There's a lot of viable weapon configurations, you just need to get over a certain threshold of punishment you can dish out (and withstand). Whether that's with missiles, breach/bombs or ion cannons or even attacking drones, they all work.
It's even possible to beat the flagship (at least the first and second form) just by being aggressive with boarding and taking out their weapon systems that way.
YES! Finally! Beat this thing on Normal. Feel like king of the world.
Last battle was desperate too - despite been fully shielded up, with a def drone mk 2 and hull repair drone, I was pushed thoroughly into the red, with fires blazing, O2 destroyed, everyone low on health, long time crew members dying.
The one saving grace is that of everything that was been blown up left and right, the weapons room was been left untouched, allowing me to keep up a steady stream of damage on the flagship.
God... this is really my GoTY - which is pretty amazing given how many games I've managed to enjoy this year.
Last battle was desperate too - despite been fully shielded up, with a def drone mk 2 and hull repair drone, I was pushed thoroughly into the red, with fires blazing, O2 destroyed, everyone low on health, long time crew members dying.
The one saving grace is that of everything that was been blown up left and right, the weapons room was been left untouched, allowing me to keep up a steady stream of damage on the flagship.
God... this is really my GoTY - which is pretty amazing given how many games I've managed to enjoy this year.
Yep.
YianGaruga
Banned
I still only have 3 ships.. I never get the encounters that you need to unlock the other ships. :/
Cool, thanks.
Best run I had ever had, 3 burst lasers crushing everything, repair drones, full shields, almost full engines, all my crew had the double stars, fought off invading Mantis parties FOUR times throughout the journey. Beat boss stage one easily. Boss stage two? Fuuuck that was a lot of drones and the boarding and then huge fire and one mistake in micro'ing my guys around.... toast.
*sigh*
the next three games after I died in sector 2 or 3 If the Engi cruiser had a better weapon than that damn ion ray I would use it more. Starting or getting drones really early helps a lot, especially repair ones. I find I stick with the Kestral since it's the easiest one to vent out all the fires that happen in this game OR to vent off the O2 to kill intruders.
Unlocking ships is really fucking hard since so many of them are pure luck.
*sigh*
the next three games after I died in sector 2 or 3
If the Engi cruiser had a better weapon than that damn ion ray I would use it more. Starting or getting drones really early helps a lot, especially repair ones. I find I stick with the Kestral since it's the easiest one to vent out all the fires that happen in this game OR to vent off the O2 to kill intruders.Unlocking ships is really fucking hard since so many of them are pure luck.
Both crystal layouts are great for venting, I think that's on purpose since crystals are vacuum-resistant.
I like the Ion II the most out of all the starting weapons, keep it autofiring on the shields and your drone gets to blast everything to bits. Yes, you should try to get more weapons but the Ion II remains useful even in the final battle.
I like the Ion II the most out of all the starting weapons, keep it autofiring on the shields and your drone gets to blast everything to bits. Yes, you should try to get more weapons but the Ion II remains useful even in the final battle.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
I made it to sector 8 and i was surprised at how the boss battle was handled, i went straight to the boss and defeated him....
I freaked out and started to retreat when i should have probably just waited on the same spot, i got killed by random ship on my way back. Fuck you FTL! I had an extremely good run too, god dammit.
only to be told i had to defeat him one more time
All I wanted to do was play Borderlands 2 and Torchlight II over the weekend, yet FTL has happily sucked most of my gaming hours away. Just unlocked the stealth ship after a multi part Engi sidequest, so awesome. Still feels like the unlock system is a bit too brutal, but the challenge is appreciated so long as carrots like that keep dropping every so often. Great game.
I really hope they end up putting out a mode where you can just explore endlessly without the pursuit or end game. Just keep notching up the difficulty. I've gotten to Sector 8 a bunch of times but always die at the boss.
That and make the ships a bit easier to get Or allow a mode to customize your ship at the start.
That and make the ships a bit easier to get
Or allow a mode to customize your ship at the start.I really hope they end up putting out a mode where you can just explore endlessly without the pursuit or end game. Just keep notching up the difficulty. I've gotten to Sector 8 a bunch of times but always die at the boss.
That and make the ships a bit easier to get
There is a mod that deactivates the pursuit, effectively making the game much, much easier, since you can earn more scrap by visiting all beacons.
This game is so much fun, but I'll be damned it's hard. I have the great ability to make it to the last sector, but the dreadnaught wipes me out every time. I was also one step away from unlocking the
but was thwarted when I couldn't enter the rock people sector. Gah!
Crystal ship
lol, playing this game is like "Fate itself has decreed that you need to suffer."
Haha, was laughing a few times. Watch it, guys.
His videos are great - I hate and love this game.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Shame that he made the game have the pursuit and an end... it would have been so much better as just an endless space sim, without being linear.
Great game, but it really hurts the overall replay-ability long-term with it honestly being so short.
You kind of get attached to your crew, and then it's over.. and yeah.. that sucks.
Great game, but it really hurts the overall replay-ability long-term with it honestly being so short.
You kind of get attached to your crew, and then it's over.. and yeah.. that sucks.
Different strokes. I'd find the game way too easy if I could collect all the scrap from every sector
Slug Ship Achievements.
Who has the no-sensors full view?
The nebula achievement is pretty self-explanatory. The beam one might take a bit of wrangling, but I can manage eventually. How do you get the sensors one? Do I have to teleport my squishy slugs to an enemy ship?
I am just missing Slug B and of course Unknown.
I've beat the game at least 4 times with an Unknown Crewman.
Slug Ship Achievements.
Who has the no-sensors full view?
The nebula achievement is pretty self-explanatory. The beam one might take a bit of wrangling, but I can manage eventually. How do you get the sensors one? Do I have to teleport my squishy slugs to an enemy ship?
I am just missing Slug B and of course Unknown.
I've beat the game at least 4 times with an Unknown Crewman.
What you say is the complete opposite of the truth.
The game works as well as it does because it finishes one way or another in less than four hours.
You gain a sense of progress, but you're not so invested in each game that losing it will kill the game.
So as a result, each game is played more for the journey than the end. Of course everyone wants to win. It's what people love to do. But as evidenced by Jintor and Pyrion's Flax guide... you don't have to win this game to love the shit out of it.
For me, even after beating this game multiple times, I just like to play through again anyway! And yes, each time, each new ship has a new story of its own.
Sometimes, I'll play through, and shit will just fall into my lap, and I'll be, yes motherfucker, take that. Then BAM, take this 3 missile ship with drones motherfucker. Oh you can't? You die. Other times, I'll be limping along the whole way, but just make it through to the end anyway; constantly putting one fire out after another, never quite going the way you'd like the upgrades to go.
What would be nice is if there was a captain's log journal system recording your play throughs.
toddhunter
Member
Excuse the probable faq but new to the game.
In each of my first three runs I was invited to investigate a space station with signs of life. Each time there was a disease that wiped everybody out and I lose a crew member.
Is the outcome from events like that random and I have been unlucky or if I see that text should I always drive on by?
In each of my first three runs I was invited to investigate a space station with signs of life. Each time there was a disease that wiped everybody out and I lose a crew member.
Is the outcome from events like that random and I have been unlucky or if I see that text should I always drive on by?
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Different strokes. I'd find the game way too easy if I could collect all the scrap from every sector
They'd have to balance it differently, yes.
The game is an hour long, no where near 4hrs for a play-through.
It's a fun game, but again.. just give me an endless mode when it's done... or shit at least a different couple scenarios... the end is just.. well.. anti-climatic and seems forced.
I mean yeah, right now you want to keep playing.. but next week? What's left to draw you back?
4 hours or less.
But the point is - the meta structure of the game works in favour of its content - there's not actually a whole lot of unique content there...
But because the game doesn't give you the ability to max everything out all the time (or even most of the time), you're always left wanting - it's stretching out the value of its content.. but in a good way.
In a traditional see all, do all game, there's always the problem of a content tread mill - what do you do once you become uber powerful, and you're trolling all the content? You move on.
Yeah no. This game is not even close to being only 1 hour long. I can see 2 hours, but even that is stretching it. 2-3 hours on average maybe for a full playthrough (including getting enough stuff to beat the boss). Especially with a general statement about the length of the game. I'd bet that most players have not managed to beat this game in 60 minutes, if its possible at all.
And whats left are the achievements and the highscore (as any other Roguelike). And if we are super lucky maybe even added content at some point in the near future.
electricpirate
Member
Bah, I've gone through the engi homeworlds 3 times now and I can't get the damn quest to pop.
Just went through slug and rock homeworlds this game had the proper crew on board, couldn't get them to pop either.
I've had the crystal dude three times, seen the rock homeworld once, couldn't get the thing to pop.
I can't unlock ships for the life of me. Still rolling, Engi (A+B), Zoltan, Kestral (A+B), Federation cruiser (A+B)
I really want the stealth ship and the mantis ship.
Also, didn' know you could get the Engi Medibot dispersal on other ships. That's been a big help on my boarding focussed Federation cruiser.
Just went through slug and rock homeworlds this game had the proper crew on board, couldn't get them to pop either.
I've had the crystal dude three times, seen the rock homeworld once, couldn't get the thing to pop.
I can't unlock ships for the life of me. Still rolling, Engi (A+B), Zoltan, Kestral (A+B), Federation cruiser (A+B)
I really want the stealth ship and the mantis ship
.Also, didn' know you could get the Engi Medibot dispersal on other ships. That's been a big help on my boarding focussed Federation cruiser.
whalleywhat
Member
I tend to avoid the distress signals where you have to send your crew somewhere, because they seem to have a higher rate of going wrong than others and the price is much worse than just losing some hull or something. But I have gotten different outcomes for some of them.
Great bit and pretty much sum up my thoughts.
Dark Octave
Banned
As soon as I'm done building my PC, I'm picking this up.
the former. gotta earn that scrap (and other loot)
Bah, I've gone through the engi homeworlds 3 times now and I can't get the damn quest to pop.
Just went through slug and rock homeworlds this game had the proper crew on board, couldn't get them to pop either.
I've had the crystal dude three times, seen the rock homeworld once, couldn't get the thing to pop.
I can't unlock ships for the life of me. Still rolling, Engi (A+B), Zoltan, Kestral (A+B), Federation cruiser (A+B)
I really want the stealth ship and the mantis ship
Also, didn' know you could get the Engi Medibot dispersal on other ships. That's been a big help on my boarding focussed Federation cruiser.
I've been working on unlocking ships for days and I still need 3 of them. Knowing how to get them is like 10% of the battle. The other 90% is all sheer luck.
As for the stealth ship, if I could give you mine, believe me I would. I can't tell if it hates me more than I hate it.
I recently unlocked and have been trying to roll around in the rock cruiser and boy I really don't like it one bit. I hatehatehate reliance on missiles in any capacity and go out of my way to try and never use them even when present aside from getting to enemy shields. Also the rock people are the most annoying just to try and move around the ship. And why is the medbay so far away!! ARGH. I have a feeling I'll really like the B-type a lot more but the achievements to get it have totally eluded me.
Speaking of achievements, can anybody tell me how to get the first achievement in the stealth ship? I dunno if I'm just reading the wording wrong but I can't seem to figure it out. Does it mean that you need to have full health, cloak and then destroy an enemy ship while cloaked in one salvo?
This game ate my whole weekend. I can see this being stuffed into my games of forever.
My last game last night I survived three sectors with one crew member and died from a fire outbreak that I couldn't vent out quickly enough. I just kept trying to get another crew member, but no shops had them. I encountered a crazy man who had crash landed and brought him up to the ship where he made a subsystem explode.
My last game last night I survived three sectors with one crew member and died from a fire outbreak that I couldn't vent out quickly enough. I just kept trying to get another crew member, but no shops had them. I encountered a crazy man who had crash landed and brought him up to the ship where he made a subsystem explode.
electricpirate
Member
Yup, I even try to hit up nebula's because it slows the fleet down and I can grab more loot.
The WTF is on the front page captures it perfectly. "I went in to try it out for a bit, and I accidently 5 hours." That's pretty much FTL in a nutshell.
I think it benefits from the focus. I'm happy that they went with this design and really stuck to it, rather than trying to open it up too much. If the game were as you described, I'd likely get bored.
Pfft. Just click "Restart" and your starting crew is restored!
Yes. It's cloak, fire everything, dead enemy.
I really like the cloak ship. It's tough and totally dependent on not running into drones before you are ready. I've beaten easy with it and gotten to the boss on normal.
Managed to unlock Slug B. The only thing missing is the unknown ship.
Haunted
Member
I love boarding ships. Man, I want that Mantis cruiser so bad.
Also, I just realised that you can send out a distress signal yourself if you're out of fuel. Awesome little touch.
If you rush through the sectors on the shortest route every time, I don't see how you could defeat the flagship.
Also, I just realised that you can send out a distress signal yourself if you're out of fuel. Awesome little touch.
As many as the fuel allows without getting caught. The risk is definitely worth it and if a fight is too tough, you can usually escape for taking too much damage.
If you rush through the sectors on the shortest route every time, I don't see how you could defeat the flagship.
electricpirate
Member
I'd have this shit wrapped up if I hadn't forgetton to turn off my offsprey laser on the final boss, losing my two uber boarders, so when stage 3 of the boss rolled around I was short staffed and got ruined.
I love this fucking game.
I love this fucking game.
That's what I've been doing, shortest route possible! Made it to the flagship for the first time last night and won the first round, lost in the second.
Looks like I'm due for a change in strategy.
Crazymoogle
Member
It's luck based, but I'd say with that specific event the result you got is very common. The "good outcome" seems fairly rare.