FTL - Faster Than Light

Yes; I believe you get a "blue" option.

Some of the stories are very convoluted and require choices made over two or more dialogues; sometime sthese need more than one upgrade. checkout the wiki fir info. the crystal story (with the life pod) is crazy.
 
This is a great game :-)

My pro tip - Never take on the giant spiders!! Unless you have a blue option.

Other than that, visit as many stars in the first two sectors as you can, leave it as late as possible to jump to the next sector.

Build your shields up to level 2 by the end of sector 1.

There are other tips, but i am on my phone and would take too long for me to write :-)
 
Sorry for the thread bump, but I wanted to share just how well my latest FTL run went. I used the second layout mantis ship so its all spoilered for those of you that haven't unlocked it yet and want the new ships to be a surprise

I took the second layout mantis ship. It might not start with any weapons but I managed to pick up a pretty impressive arsenal along the way without spending a penny.
I also lucked into a pretty good crew, letting me use 4 mantises for fighting (that 4 man teleporter is amazing), and a selection of others for running the ship.

By the time I reached the final stage of the boss everything was fully upgraded except for the oxygen, piloting, sensors and doors, which were all one off of the max level.

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I completely smashed my previous best score too
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The devs working on FTL have announced a few more details on the advanced edition update: http://www.ftlgame.com/?p=621

The major addition is the new race called the Lanius and its ship. Not only do the lanius not need oxygen, but they will drain the oxygen from the room they are in. I can imagine this will make a few laniuses a fearsome boarding party, but incredibly difficult to work with for other races. I just hope that these laniuses dont make the already overpowered method of teleporting aboard the enemy ship and killing them off even easier than it is now
 
I still play this now and then game is so good.

My brother has completed the game on hard with every ship.

I mean wtf!!!!!!!!!


I've done it on medium with all but about 3, and hardly completed it on hard at all
regardless of ship!
 
Still play this now and then.

Trying to complete the game with all the ships on normal difficulty, managed to do the Federation C cruiser yesterday, which has taken many attempts.

Some of the ships in the game are truly awful though. Trying the Stealth C cruiser, you start with no shields or cloak, just a shield drone.
 
Ok so trying to complete with as many as I can on HARD.

This game is brutal on hard. so far:

Kestrel A & B
Engi A
Federation A
Zoltan A & B
Mantis B
Slug C
Lanius A & B
Crystal A & B

The main thing about hard is unlike easy and medium, the flagships missile weapon isn't seperated from the rest of the ship. One of the ways to almost cheese the last guy is teleport two crew into the missile weapon right at the start, with 3+ shields and 4+ evasion, which you should really have at this stage, once his missile weapon is down the other weapons will not land too much on you. If you have cloaking you can dodge the drone swarn/multi heavy laser ability and you are almost untouchable. However on hard you cannot do this, maybe with the Crystal ship using the lockdown ability but basically you can't. Also on hard you get so little scrap per fight, first few sectors single digits and you start with nothing. The game also scales up the opponents fast, just brutal.
 
Just seeing this thread reminds me I have a ridiculous amount of hours (for me) logged in this game. Going to have to open it up again now
 
Started playing this again last few weeks, done a few more on hard, I'm down to I think 8 ships left to do on hard.

My game last night, got the last boss down to 3 hull points on the third stage, this is with the stealth ship that starts with no shields or cloaking.

I had a breach missile that does 4 damage, shoot, miss, super weapon kills me, sooooooooooooo close.

I swore out loud.

Im scraping the barrel with the ships left though, it's getting so tough.
 
FTL related, I've started seeing that other game Void War appearing on my Twitch recommended streams. I'm not actually sure how to feel about this game. At first I was like, wow a new FTL! But then sussed it was developed by someone else and is pretty much a direct clone of the game, and I'm now like hmm, not sure I would want to play someone else's vision of what an FTL2 would add. Apparently Void War is more like a gothic 40K setting, but the look of the game sure does look like FTL. I should probably watch a few of these streams Twitch is prodding me to.
 
All 3 Rock ships done on hard.

Last one Rock A just now, came right down to the wire, I actually had about 50% hull points left, but no door system and no oxygen and about 20% oxygen left, basically, I reckon I had about 20 seconds left and all my crew would have died and no way I was repairing the oxygen.

I have left to do on hard:

Engi B
Federation C
Zoltan C
Mantis A (keep getting awful luck with this)
Slug B
Stealth B+C (I came SOOO close with the C the other day)

So yes, 7 left.

The Stealth C is doable, the Mantis A, some people rate as mid tier but man, in struggle with it, I also get unlucky with it. The Stealth B is ridiculous at the start, if you get unlcuky you die and there is NOTHING you can do about it.

Not looking forward to Engi B or Zoltan C, the Fed C is pretty awful as well.

Scraping the barrel now though.
 
Klunt Bumskrint said:
Why the hell has this game not been released for mobiles. Would be great
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It feels like there’s too much going on for a small screen… I’m sure it was released on iPad though…

Corr haven’t played this in ages! I think I remember beating it a couple of times on normal, but I remember that being nigh on impossible :D
 
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