FTL AND OTHER SPACE GAMES

It will probably 404 since its about video games but we need a spacegames and specifically an faster than light thread. God damn this game is so good and frustrating. Why cant I unlock the god forsaken dong ship. Why is the engi ship such hell

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the engi ship is dicks, but you can get the federation ship by doing the unlock quest
Think you have to go to the rebel stronghold sector and beat the flagship construction

bumping with yet more ftl

the thing that ruins my soul about it is that I almost never see the rebel stronghold despite taking the routs most likely to bring me to one every single time. also I know people argue about the RNG and some people argue the RNG is find because people go on multi game winstreaks on hard which is fine and all. I'm just not convinced it's fair with ships like the Engi ship, I would love to see someone go on a win streak with that piece of shit.

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Burst laser mk 1's are your friend

crystal B>>>>>>>mantis B>slug A/kestrils/federations>>>>everything else>>>>>engi/stealth
biased and true list

I think I only managed to beat the flagship with the engi by turning it into a generic boarding ship with hacking to kill medbays

That's cute

my general strategy with the engi ship so far has been try to get defense drone 1 as early as possible, shields to 2 and then just fucking HOPING I find any form of firepower on the way. I've made it close a couple of times but any run I get defense 1 early at least promises to go far.

I haven't really thought about completely turning the ship in a different direction like that. Figured it would take too much scrap to be viable on that junker. I guess it's worth it if you happen to get some mantis crew on the way.
and there's just so little in terms of ftl comics/art.

I've always preferred the mk. 2s
managed to beat the flagship with stealth A on hard because I found 2 of them floating in space in the first sector

Its been a while since I've played but I believe I beat the flagship as the engi with an ion cannon and a burst laser and some drones. Honestly I think I just got lucky.

I have been very successful with it just getting more combat 1s and ions/missiles.

I get so far and then the final ship always blasts me full of holes.

the thing that gets me is I feel like the game just throws more and more missiles at you if you aren't equipped against it but it may just be my imagination. also I used the repair arm for the first time ever last night and I'm surprised to say it was actually useful

>could beat flagship reliably before Advanced Edition
>haven't beat it since
The WORST addition was the RNG hacking
If it hits a critical subsystem, you're fucked

That's some good luck there. I've always found the stealth shop fun but I haven't beaten the flagship with it yet.

dirtytabs on reddit makes tons of FTL comics. He did the one with martin the mantis sleeping with the zoltan.

I'd try to get the B variant with the glaive beam
can 1-shot any ship up to the 4th sector

>hits a critical subsystem
>jump away
alternatively I think you can defense drone all of them away but I'm not sure if the flagship has unlimited or not.

>makes
as in present tense? Either way I'm going to have to check this out.

Engi A is easy as fuck. Have the Ion Blast Mk2 autofire on the shields and use your drone to kill them. It's good enough stock to fight 2 shield ships.

Focus on saving scrap, upgrade shields to 2 quickly, then buy a better weapon to compliment your drones. Buy drone control if you have it. Engi A is a really easy ship.

Flagship has 10 drone parts in each phase
doesn't affect the power surge drones though

Just jump away.

Also AE makes the game easier because hacking is extremely OP if you use it decently, as are the Flak 1s (which have a common rarity so show up everywhere)

>buy a better weapon
I just have cursed luck then. for 4 sectors straight last night EVERY shop had nothing but crew and drones. not anything good for combat, just repeats of repair and such.

>Why is the engi ship such hell

Type A was what I beat the game with first, pretty good ship. Type B however

RNG is a part of it, but over the course of hundreds of hours I've not had many games where I was just completely fucking hosed from RNG. If no weapons, then I'll be finding systems, and then things like drone control or another combat drone let me do drone builds.

Hacking is very common and lets you hack shields which makes any ship an easy kill.

Also to add to this the Ion Blast 2 is ALREADY one of the best weapons in the game, just picking up very simple addon weapons is often enough to carry you to the end of the game, especially on easy.

I don't have much trouble with other ships, I just can't stop getting fucked on engi 1. that said I think I'm getting better overall at resource managing for it since I'm getting closer to winning now but even with ion2 being so good that doesn't make the whole ship a powerhouse.

Best battle music coming through

m.youtube.com/watch?v=uyg4Nsw5ksk

>no slug version of the engi A that comes with a fire drone

Hey bro it seems like you got the wrong link. Let me fix it for you.

youtube.com/watch?v=l1J-2nIovYw

No need to thank me.

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>tfw my pulse laser goes pew pew pew in time with the music

stellaris badly needs a midgame. I'm so fucking tired of micromanaging station upgrades and shit. Can't even expand anymore since outposts drain my influence

I just hope the DLCs will round it out
CK2 was pretty barebones at launch too but now it's full of content

Any more of these?

stellaris was my first game of its kind and I was really enjoying it until I hit the prethoryn swarms. that honestly ruined the game for me. Personally I was able to hold them off but the AI incompetence as well as the fact that the AI didn't react to it at all just let it continue spreading and getting worse while the AI continued throwing rediculous numbers at me. also the point defense against prethoryn is horse shit because your ships don't start defending themselves with it until they get in the enemies face so you lose a shit load of units before you get in to slaughter them.

there's a few things here and there

>mfw i got the crystal ship on accident before even finishing the game once on easy

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Man, RNG shit all over me when I was trying to get the crystal ship.
Ended up getting rock cruiser C with the crystal man, saving before a rock homeworld sector and reloading until I found the crystal beacon

>getting shit on left and right on runs with the engi ship all night
>decide to go do a boarding ship for fun
>2 jumps in a row find a weapon in space with no battle
this is some god damned horse shit you know ftl.

>a hookah
nice touch

>tfw I did a cheating run and managed to complete the entire crystal ship quest and have never been able to replicate it again
FUCK

bullycat should do more things

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I'm not asleep yet so bump

for space games go

I really enjoyed rebel galaxy

Me too, I want more like it.

engi type A is as easy as it gets, man.

even easier than kestral B or w/e the one that starts with 4 lasers is.

Uhhh, Freespace, Homeworld, etc.

Is Rebel Galaxy on a 2d plane though? I Always hate that.

ok now you are just full of shit. redtail is by far easier than engi A. it's fitted with 4 god damn lasers from the start that charge fast enough to ensure no missile should ever hit you and really nothing can get to you for a while. meanwhile engi a starts out just kind of waiting for its drone to hit the ship wherever the drone feels like until it gets a proper weapon.

>Why is the engi ship such hell
You just have to git gud. I won on easy first time playing Engi b. It's not that bad.

>easy
>telling others to git gud

I play on easy too ;_;

Why would you brag about beating easy?

So everyone does including OP, if he didn't specify otherwise

>easy
I have never once considered playing on easy even after all of these times the dong ship has eluded my grasp and I will going forward never consider that option.

show yours

autism is hell of disease

kills the point, and if you are removing all of the games obstacles just to get an achievement to ding on your screen then your suffering the same sickness.

I don't play games at work

found this one

>tfw finally beat the game on hard (advanced)

Rebels can suck my empire dick.

You have no fucking idea how the game even works because all you do is drag yourself to flagship to get exploded and talk about achievements.

What are the rebels fighting for when you are the federation? Are they monarchists?

>dies

nah bc she on earf and there is always oxyjen

She didn't open the airlock, though; the door is clearly closed

but the room is already red

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You people fucking suck.

Playing on easy teaches you to play badly, because it doesn't inform you by slaughtering you that you need to do better.

Thanks captain obvious

ihdgaf about your opinion, it took me 25 hours on easy to beat the game the first time.

>Bring Smith aboard
>He's the only Mantis crew member
>He interacts with Kazaaak as if it's nothing at all

Dude, what.

>you will never wake up to find a cute bug alien unfamiliar with human norms and taboos trying to cuddle with you

why live

>unfamiliar with human norms and taboos trying to cuddle with you
It's a bug that thinks it's a human

that makes it even cuter though

I always wonder who are you, I mean all of your crew is your subordinates and you are the captain who can just swap out anyone you want

Pretend you're the ship AI and it all works.

>no missile should ever hit you
Those lasers have 10sec charge while letos have 9sec.

>Laser charge syncs up with enemy missile's
>First laser intercepts first missile
>Proceeds to intercept ALL of them until the enemy runs out

There has to be a way to exploit this on purpose.

>get fucking destroyed by a drone in a asteroid field that had:
>a combat drone
>a beam drone WHILE THE FUCKING ASTEROIDS AND COMBAT DRONE BOTH KEPT MY SHIELDS DOWN
>an ion weapon TO COMPLETELY FUCK MY SHIELDS
>AND A FUCKING MISSILE TO TOP IT ALL OF
I'm mad

how embarrassing

The engi ship is playing the game on easy mode. What are you talking about?

This shit will never stop making me mad.