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FTL Thread Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 03:42:48 5d1a2a No.14556330

FTL Thread? FTL thread.

Recently been grinding through this RNG fest again, seems like i'm getting a frightening amount of nebulae. Hope i can get the Slug Cruiser soon. So what's your favorite…

>weapon

>race

>ship

>stratagem

Starting to fall in love with the Firebomb, finding it's better even than the Firebeam or Firedrone, if you have the missiles for it anyway. It's making killing crew real easy, might upgrade my doors and use it on enemy boarding parties. Seems like it'd be a great way to get rid of boarders rather than sending my own guys after them or opening doors into space and suffocating them. Though i'd still have to deal with my own ship being on fire.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 13:56:37 1f6bfa No.14558090

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Fun game anon

>I like spreading diversity to other ships via the tele

>The crystal niggers and the walking batteries are pretty neato

>Any ship except the rock ship

>Whatever works best for that run

I've started your thread off, you're welcome

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 14:15:50 93e892 No.14558153

I'm pretty shit at the game. Done around 10 runs so far and only two had actually reached the flagship, and one of those was an insanely embarassing run where I ended up getting my ass handed to me by a drone, then accidentally jumped into the flag ship where I immediately got my ass handed to me.

I don't really have an idea where my efforts should be going. Most of the time I die because either I have a really hard time dealing with 3+ shields or I get really unlucky with a missile fucking up something crucial and I don't have cloaking and can't repair shit in time. And starting some AE runs hacking gives me some serious trouble if it hits my weapons.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 14:48:19 1f6bfa No.14558220

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>>14558153

Tbh anon, it really is RNG all the way, personally, I'm a huge faggot and like to explore/not be rushed, so I changed a file to permanently delay the advancing fleet so I have time to gear up and look around. Even then, it's a lot of playing through about 3-4 sectors in and still getting your shit packed in because of an unfavorable run.

If you plan on playing it vanilla, it's all trial and error, all you can do is try to mitigate that a bit.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 15:47:36 acdad1 No.14558375

Why do you faggots feel the need to self congratulatorily anounce what fucking thread it is like someone else is agreeing with you.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 16:20:24 1f6bfa No.14558458

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>>14558375

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 16:23:41 9b7334 No.14558466

>>14558153

>I don't really have an idea where my efforts should be going.

Don't get hit. The entire game is about how much damage you can avoid while upgrading your ship to defeat the flagship. If you take damage, then you fucked up.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 16:26:47 acdad1 No.14558470

>>14558458

No, you shhh. You don't belong here.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 16:39:16 000000 No.14558523

I played a bunch more FTL leading up to the release of Breach. Still love FTL. The flipside of the unfair amount of RNG is how good it feels when your luck is ridiculously good. In a recent game I had ended up with 3 mark-2 lasers and I bought the scrap recovery arm in the first sector. Melted the mothership and everything before it with ease.

>>14558375

>>14558470

Shut the fuck up.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 16:43:23 cf8929 No.14558548

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>Unlock Mantis Cruiser

>"HA HA TIME TO RAPE AND PILLAGE"

>Always, once per run, fuck something up and left with one or no crew members alive

>Or if I get the clone bay I still end up killing myself somehow

Please, I just want to git gud

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 16:44:50 e7b649 No.14558554

I kept losing in the original version all the time due to the RNG options where you can lose members and get hull damage. Only winning move is not to play, skip all of them unless there's a blue option. Once you get a diverse crew and weaponry/rooms, you'll run into blue options every second jump and gain so much shit you won't know what to do with it.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 18:14:08 1f6bfa No.14558935

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>>14558523

>The flipside of the unfair amount of RNG is how good it feels when your luck is ridiculously good

That's exactly it my man, it's like chasing the dragon. How is their other game? Seemed meh to me

>>14558548

You'll make it anon, I believe in you

>>14558554

That's pretty much the secret, just keep trying until you get a good run going, once you start to snowball, it's usually gonna take you the distance, and most of those choices you have to make in game are a toss up of risk vs reward, half the time I don't even read the text scenario, just the choices and keep it moving.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 18:17:55 26a4bd No.14558950

>>14558220

>it really is RNG all the way,

Sort of. It's very manageable RNG if you know what you're doing.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 18:19:19 26a4bd No.14558961

>>14558935

>How is their other game?

Not as good if I'm to believe what /v/ has to say. A lot of the complaints are (again) on the RNG though so I'm going to give it a play soon.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 18:19:38 c44d9d No.14558964

>>14558548

The game is 90% RNG so it's less about getting good and more about getting lucky.

Anonymous 03/28/18 (Wed) 18:26:15 26a4bd No.14559010