FTL: Faster Than Light - Megathread

[John Freeman]

FTL: Advanced Edition
FTL Wiki

FTL: Faster Than Light is a top down, real time strategy game created by indie developers Subset Games. In the game, the player controls the crew of a single spacecraft, holding critical information to be delivered to an allied fleet several sectors away, while being pursued by a large rebel fleet. The player must guide the spacecraft over a number of sectors, each with planetary systems and events procedurally generated in a roguelike fashion, while facing against rebel and other hostile forces, recruiting new crew, and outfitting and upgrading their ship. Combat takes place in pausable real time, and if the ship is destroyed or the crew lost, the game ends in permadeath, requiring the player to restart.

[Ad Bot]

[Niff]

That's a lot of customization

[Camera]

Crystal race too hard to unlock.

[John Freeman]

Crystal race too hard to unlock.

I never knew they existed before I checked the wiki.

[Pliny]

It's a pretty good game. Could be longer, could use more content.

[kiwibear]

New update coming sometime in early 2014 too btw
http://www.ftlgame.com/?p=598

[MegaScientifical]

The Crystal Cruiser requires a very specific list of events to occur, so it isn't just doing the right things but the game being set up so they are possible. Makes it difficult as HELL.

[Quote Story]

I think that the Type B Kestrel Cruiser, Mantis Cruisers, Rock Cruiser, and the Crystal ships, are generally the best ships

[ChexGuy331]

I name all of my ships after insults with dog Latin tacked on.

"The Moronus"
"The Nimrodus"
"The Idiot Iota"

I am a mature adult male.

[lordician]

New update coming sometime in early 2014 too btw
http://www.ftlgame.com/?p=598

He placed a link under the title. :)

The Crystal Cruiser requires a very specific list of events to occur, so it isn't just doing the right things but the game being set up so they are possible. Makes it difficult as HELL.

I almost had it once, but then the game threw an insane enemy just before one of the last requirements.
Needless to say i was quite mad.