Replay pic related after a year or so

>replay pic related after a year or so
>"I'm pretty fucking good, I'll start on hard right away."
>nearly die on the first fight right off the bat when a solar flare kills my oxygen and doors
who /ftl/ here

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Good game, good game.

Simply not willing to go through the whole game just to get raped by the Rebel Flagship every time, which is what has happened every time I've made it that far (never even beat its first phase). That thing is far too strong.

OP here, I died because the three shops I entered had no fuckin' weapons
this game sucks DICK

noo, it has weaknesses dude. you only need to withstand one or two barrages before you have its most dangerous systems disabled.
get your evade up

This. Teleport a couple of guys to the missile bay, wreck it and you're relatively safe if you've maxed out shields.

Favorite ship? Mine's pic related.

My three favorites are Crystal B for obvious broken bs, Rock B for gimmicky fire boarding, and Stealth C for a rough ride.

Engi A because I'm a damn casual and I love drones. Also kinda partial to the Engi B for that reason.

That and Zoltan A.

I know this makes me sound like a big ol' faggot who hates change, no matter how minute it is, but the small UI changes they've made really bother me.

The O2 and dodge thing is awful, I agree. Must be from the phone version.

This will be your sector layout for tonight.

All greens can be pretty fucking ass, too. You can easily get scrap deprived.

Aw fuck dude, I thought something was up with that. Just like ITB, they're mixing both anti-aliased and non anti-aliased fonts together.
Almost makes me want to downgrade the game since I've still got an old installer from gog.

Nevermind I'm retarded, the new font doesn't look anti-aliased. Still, it looks like a completely foreign font to the rest of the game.

Are chances of encountering a hostile ship higher in red sectors?

Once I had a purple version of that.

I wonder if someone modded it already.

Yeah, harsher events too.

What's this new appeal on playing FTL on Sup Forums ? Was there a new update ?

They got it from buying ITB, presumably.

Haven't played in ages. What did they change?

Great game, well made, well designed.
I wish I was as good as them at making games. I've got ideas I wanna turn into games that I think really have legs, but they really require AAA size studios to do properly.

federation A was my first normal victory
Finish Slug C on my first normal mode attempt

Soon.

ftl is so much better than into the breach. it's not even close

They're not really the same game, though.

>oxygen and engines increased in size
>shields reduced in size, changed to icon
>ship text changed to icon
>new gear button added to click open the escape menu
Not actually a BIG DEAL, like I said. But it feels weird playing with it, that wrench button keeps fucking me up.
There could be more, this is just what I noticed, just on the ship screen.

So, is Captain's Edition still absolutely mandatory?

Where's the prototype, Sup Forums?

i know, just in terms of replayability/possibility for different events. FTL is much much more fleshed out

Into the Breach should have been an Advance Wars/Nectaris clone instead of meme positioning puzzle game.

ITB felt way too simple. It's like playing a mobile game. A good mobile game, yeah, but a mobile game.

It's one of those two that are about to be swallowed by the fleet.

Nah, I've checked them.

yep i agree 100%. if it had actually been more similar to advanced wars it might have been goat. as is it's fucking boring and shallow

What do you know, it was the very next neutral beacon.

Does anyone else love the Stealth ships?

I've finished the game with every ship on normal now, but man, the game just feels less fun to me when I'm not playing stealth ships. Stealth B, aim for a flak cannon, and you're basically good for the whole run if you can get out of the rocky start.

And with 3 shields, very nice.

Which is the worst ship and why is it the Zoltan C?

At least the other bad ships have useful things about them after overcoming their weaknesses. Zoltan C has dick.

Gottem.

I like 'em too, C > A > B imo

It's true, the ui changes were really unnecessary

Absolutely.

CE + Custom ship + Other mods = Legit fun time

Heck FTL is just one of those games that are really good to play when you just wanna take your time and chill.

fed c
>meme boarding crew
>artillery cannon sucks compared to fed A and B, at full power it is actually worse than an already shitty Flak Mk. II, plus it takes up a system slot
>no weapons besides the cannon

It never was mandatory you baka

I dont play single player games often but FTL was fucking great.

Still want a online multiplayer mode

Ok yeah those changes are dumb. Not a big deal but they are poor decisions.

>have to remove rebel fleet with mods to finish a playthrough on easier difficulty

slug nebulas can eat my tiny little anus

>get fucked up by the dreadnought in my first encounter against it
>Next run outfit my ship with repeating blasters, teleporter, mind control, firebombs and hacking drone
>this nigga going to dread something now
>hack their shields and teleport my crew into their weapon system rooms one by one as i mind control the crew so they start killing each other
>set their medical bay on fire amidst the confusion
>crew dead and all weapons disabled, fire is about to finish the job
>"the dreadnought's autopilot engages and teleports out of the battle"
>all my crew but the pilot is gone

Haha, semen, haha.

What is the most overpowered weapon system and why is it 2x Flak I and a beam?
>cheap
>pretty much guaranteed to get in a run
>shits on shields
Add a teleporter and stealth for the flagship and the game almost becomes ez mode.

i hate rock a and slug c
chain laser is actually like one of the worst weapons in the game, and putting the player on a "find a new weapon or instalose lmao missiles only" timer is fucking cancer
also the engie one that forces you to fight with drones is fucking terrible too, a single anti-drone and the enemy autowins and you just have to run, you get 2 or 3 of those in a early sector and you might as well just restart because nothing is going to bring you back from that rng rape and youre gonna be scrap anemic for the rest of the run unless you just get handed absolute gold for free like ion+fire beam or something

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fire bombs + ion stunner is always fun
>bomb shield room
>autofire ion
>win

mantis controlled is easy peasy
>they trade firepower for boarding power
>ai can't into boarding so gg you never lose a man to them
only downside is it has more events that are just 'you find some mantis who teleport on your ship." It's not very hard, but you don't get a reward at all.

Well, that went ugly quick. Still got it anyway.

You mean 2x Flak and 1x Heavy Laser.

>cheap
>incredibly quick
>maximum synergy
>obscene accuracy
>breaches everywhere

Except when you run into a rock ship with high evade and you get raped.

Why would you want Heavy Laser over a beam? You don't use the laser for breaking shields. It's less accurate and does less damage than a beam.

Flak was a mistake.
Makes the game too easy.

Keeping enemy weapons down. A Halberd still takes its sweet time even with level 3 crew.

Why do you shitpost about the heavy laser in every thread? It's old, dude.

hacking too

Flak is the only thing keeping you from automatically losing some runs. Weapons need a severe overhaul, half of them are worthless and have no synergy with anything. Or at the very least shops should always offer weapons, twice as many even.

I agree.
Honestly I rarely win on hard if I don't get at least two of Burst Laser II or Flak.

the thing is that it only costs 3 energy so you can run basically anything alongside it
halberd, burst ii, flaks, you name it
its as energy efficient as a single fire drone yet completely bypasses shields and guarantees crew death + shield disable
its a gud meme

I love barely beating the first two sectors with the starter weapons because nobody sells anything worth buying, then bump into a store thats got weapons and systems i can afford now with all the scrap im carrying just to get stomped by a 3 shielded ship with missile launchers up the ass in the beacon next to the store.

Sounds like you need to learn when to run away user.
>tfw you manage to turn a poor run around to your favour.

man, I've never beated it in enhanced mode

hacking just fucks me up everytime

>run away
>lose scrap
>become scrap anemic
>power level isn't high enough to handle enemy ship upgrades

Redpill me on hull repair drones.

I am the FTL_MASTER_FLEX

let me let you in on a little tipperino.
pick engineer ship. GG4LIFEBB

who here /stealth b/

Failure is part of the fun. And sometimes its better to try to recover a bad run than gamble on a new run entirely.
This game is, after all, about making the most out of limited resources and opportunities.

Running away on hard is a death sentence.

>soak damage because your engines are weak at early game
>lose scrap
>potentially get into another combat with systems to be repaired/on cooldown

A meme. Only good if you land a free one while already having a drone system and then exploit jumping away before it's finished so you don't consume a drone. Come to think of it, they might have fixed that exploit with the latest patches. Speaking of which, I pity the poor souls who still need to get to the crystal sector and can't rename their crystal crew.

they repair 3-4 (or so) hull damage then self destruct
have drone recovery arm? FTL jump when the drone repairs 2 damage. boom, you just repaired 2 hull for free. but only if you got that drone recovery arm.
as a hard mode player I never buy it, but I've gotten the forbidden combo once on my 'complete every ship on hard' playthrough

True true. But even on Hard the game can literally give you two free weapons and a chunk of scrap for nothing in a row. So I feel its always worth a go anyway. Costs nothing to start a new run right?
It's extremely rare, but luck is in the nature of the game. And in scifi, the Federation usually isnt the type to give up and die.

I used most of the scrap in weapons, systems and shielding thinking i had enough defense and firepower to deal with anyone so i didnt put anything on engine power, on top of having a slow FTL recharge i has missiles destroying all my modules and setting fires. Running away was impossible the moment i entered that store.

And that's the rookie mistake. Leaving yourself with no scrap to heal or investing in a bit of dodge first.

honestly wish I had your attitude.
my mind is mired in miserable anger.

Yeah its like when I'm playing ITB, and Im in a situation where I got 1 defence left and three enemies attacking points and I cant stop them.
If my grid def is like 30% I take a gamble if its like 15% then, yeah I'll start a new run immediately. As long as theres a chance. I'll gamble on it.

There are people here who play above the lowest difficulty??
this shit is far too RNG for me to be willing to cut my scrap rewards in half
I have 100 hours in the easiest mode
And probably a hundred more through my work computer

Normals not that bad. With a decent route you can get to the final battle quite simply enough.
The trouble comes is with the final boss. If you barely got anything better than the starting gear its very likely that you will lose no matter how good your shields and dodge are, because you can barely land a dent in the final boss' armour. I actually managed to beat the first form with the basic flagship and gear once but stood zero chance against the second form. Literally took everything to beat the first form and a lot of lucky dodges and hits.

Hard is hell though. I'll give you that much.

what can I say, man. it just feels wrong to play anything less, now.

Like i said there was no way for me to escape that fight, it was like buying an assault rifle to deal with gunmen just to find yourself face to face with an MBT around the corner and you skipped leg day.

>food analogy

Superb taste.
>mfw finding a weapon pre-igniter with stealth b

Engi B for me

nothing personnel

Into the Breach is a better designed game in a genre I massively prefer but FTL is still more moreish

This game is soo good to play in the background while you work/study/do other shit on PC.
I want FTL 2 so badly...

prototype flagship can only be on a beacon that doesn't have a ship or hazard on it

>had FTL since launch
>only played 3 hours and have 2 ships
:(

>alright run
>murdered by intruders event
kool

Lead them into your health bay by draining all O2.