Thread 717189020

I FUCKING KNEEL

>>717189020 (OP)
>max out evasion
>target rocks first
ezpz

I'll just concentrate on wiping out the crew, it's a risky plan but I'm sure the game will reward my daring

>>717189519
won't the ship just fuck off with your crewmates inside?

>>717189639
Not him but it doesn't really happen if you know what you are doing. It's a pretty reliable way to weaken the boss.

>>717189639
the fagship doesn't jump until its hull is destroyed
the real problem with wiping out the crew is that it just activates the ship's AI and turns it into essentially a bigger version of the rebel drone ships.

>>717189020 (OP)
Just get 4x burst laser 2 like a normal person

I can't believe it's been what 10 years or whatever, and this game is still not available for Switch 1 or 2, yet it's for ipad. Fucking pathetic showcase from this developer

>>717191663
You only get rid of the crew + weapons in the four closed weapon rooms. Helps a lot later as they won't be fixed anymore as long as you leave the rest of the crew alive.

>>717192846
>four closed weapon rooms

My main problem with FTL is that once you understand the game, a lot of the runs bleed into each other. Ships with a variety of starting differences all end up with 4 lasers, oxygen 2, and max engines.

>>717189134
>this post requires +105IQ to comprehend
>nearly impossible

>>717189020 (OP)
>people actually struggle with the Rebel fleetship
Just destroy the weapons but keep the crew that aren't in the weapons room alive so the ai doesn't take over.

>>717192968
what if he plays on normal mode, did you even consider that

>>717193258
yes and if you do literally anything other than that you lose. It's stupid that you HAVE to exploit the way the enemy AI works to win when nothing before the flagship comes remotely close in terms of difficulty. It ruins the immersion.

>>717193341
>normal mode
YDBTG

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>flagship has an automatic repair function that's insanely powerful and useful

>but it won't turn it on unless you first kill all of the crew because ??????
most retarded "gotcha!" bullshit in the game
the fact that the flagship can still somehow magically activate warp drive when the engine and helm are both broken is also gay

they could have designed the final boss to make sense instead of just giving it a bunch of asspulls but they just didn't.

>>717193806
get an slug crewmate early on
they have a ton of blue options

>>717192596
Nah, just keeping disgusting tendies in their place

i wish this game would get a proper sequel. i can't believe it didn't happen after all this time

>>717194538
That's because the devs are actually incompetent hacks. Their other game is nowhere as good as this one was

>>717194195
>sl*g crew
I'd sooner french kiss a mantis.

>>717189020 (OP)
only complaint about this game is that there should have been a pool of 2 or 3 final bosses to randomly choose from

>>717189020 (OP)
>kill missile guy first and wreck the missile launcher
>using fire or boarding kill and destroy remaining enclosed weapon rooms EXCEPT blaster (middle left)
>patiently kill off the rest of the crew, leaving blaster guy as sole survivor
gg ez

>>717195491
>big tanky bastard that you have to beat in a battle of attrition
>quick fucker that jumps to and fro that you have to chase down
>Drone Specialist
>Boarder Specialist
>Secret Commandeered Crystal Ship Superboss under certain conditions (have it unlock a Crystal C for beating it)
As long as it's properly signposted by at least Sector 3 what's coming up, I think it'd work since that'd give you time to possibly tweak how you play the rest of your run if need be.
That's my thoughts on it, at least.

>>717195491
People have made alt final boss mods.

>>717194163
If you were fighting chuthulu and you were wearing a blindfold wouldn't it just use its jaws?

>>717189020 (OP)
>FTL is hard

>>717189020 (OP)
Play Multiverse now, its basically closest thing to a sequel, all the ships I have unlocked have been dare I say fun or had at least a cool gimmick, dropped 80 hours over a couple months on it

>>717200864
Multiverse is fantastic and, as long as you can stomach a bit of cringe writing here and there (and one entire ending that is the epitome of cringe), the game has probably a thousand hours of content to chew on (win once with every ship at least is my metric).

>>717200992
Yeah the writing has highs and lows due to multidev team, essy enough to ignore most part, hate playing the spider ships tho, bad gimmick

>>717200864
>>717200992
One thing I don't get in multiverse is how to crew kill in difficult battles in order to do some quests when so much of the game has absolute aids vs boarding crews so all you invest in them is useless vs shit like ghost ships, AI, lack of oxygen in general etc.

Particularly when you're going for the harder to achieve endings, I got burned out on the mod when I started hunting for the lanius story line.

I genuinely don't remember FTL being that difficult at all, but the way anons on /v/ talk about it makes me think that maybe I'm some genius god-gamer unaffected by the struggles of mere mortals.

why the fuck do people never upgrade their doors or sensors
sensors is just plain free money
nobody has ever regretted having stronger doors

>>717201493
sensors are only useful if you're doing boarding and you can't spare a crew member to sit on the camers
doors are underrated in general. level 2 doors can be enough though, if you get boarded you can send a crew member there to make it level 3 and stop the invaders most of the time

>>717201728
>sensors are only useful if you're doing boarding
Bitch, do you know how often blue options for upgraded sensors show up? It's a lot. Like, a lot a lot. You are doing yourself a huge disservice by passing up all that free shit.

been playing a bit recently and every run I die instantly when I reach sector 5. I can have three shields and 45% evasion but you get a bullshit environment hazard or enemy weapon combo and just die

My success is entirely reliant on getting free shit from blue or random events
>holy crap! a weapon is just floating in space!
>glaive beam
there. now I'm skilled. if not, I eventually lose because I can't keep up with enemy upgrades.
hard by the way, anything less is for children.

>>717189020 (OP)
>the rebels are actually the bad guys
How come nobody has still come close to this level of kino with just a simple change to the formula after all these years?

>>717189020 (OP)
>le kneel
Tardku lost thrice.

>>717201162
Spider was better when the Spider A was a 20-man Zerg ship back when you could have both instant teleports and instant clone bay.
You keep a Weaver or 2 on board and then just repeatedly send packs of 4 spiderlings + your matriarch over to swarm the ship to death and then respawn everyone.
Tedious, but incredibly satisfying.
Now, the only big Zerging ship is a reward for unlocking every Crewser. Which is just annoying.

>>717201384
Crew kill is one of those things some ships just can't do reliably. It is indeed kind of aids and a major balance flaw of the mod, especially Crew-killing weapons, which are either amazing or genuine shit.

>>717194163
It will never not be hilarious that the devs just say uhh no your win condition isn't heckin valid because I said so!!! What's that? Your entire build revolves around killing crew? too bad restart!
Except killing the crew is still the meta you just kill everyone but one guy and the ship is neutered and it won't activate the broken AI because there's technically one guy alive still. But that's a heckin valid win condition unlike killing the last guy.

Any multiverse enjoyers who know what is meant by "a certain artifact" when it comes to unlocking this page in the hangar? Not sure if it's related to an ending.
I only know about one other ending, regarding the oracle, but I've only read about the first step to progress, which was a good idea, since it's cryptic as fuck and I haven't managed to complete even that part yet.

>>717201493
people skip out on doors?

Post em
https://tiermaker.com/create/ftlae-weapons-322368

Void war won

>>717207819
I'm bad at remembering weapons, besides the obvious ones, so have this one instead.

>>717192596
why would anyone play a game on switch if it's already on PC

>>717193806
I finished all of the achievements within like a year of the game coming out.

>>717189134
>>max out evasion
I think you meant
>buys cloak

>>717206535
What ships/weapons can do it reliably? Without getting fucked in the ass by lack of oxygen.

>>717208562
>abandoned in S
Do you enjoy enemies having flak guns?
Also slug home sector deserves to be bottom tier with the rest of the nebula zones, the ship unlocks/extra possible reward events don't negate the rest of the zone sucking ass.

honest thoughts on multiverse? Will it ever get a new version?

>>717208890
I visit abandoned sector for the soundtrack.

>>717204337
>>717204696
if you have hacking or cloak you can just win

>the mobile version is iOS exclusive
>into the breach is netflix exclusive
How come such retarded devs make so good games?

>>717208562
>nebulas
>C and D
nebs let you grind the sector harder than normal, meaning more scrap and higher score
you just need to make sure to upgrade your oxygen and medbay before visiting a slugula

>>717209392
>>into the breach is netflix exclusive
Lmao fucking really

>>717207819
>ion weapons ranked that low
shit melts shields like butter, they just need to be combined with something

>>717209517
That's true, but I just don't like traversing them and also slugs are assholes.

>>717208854
It's been a while so my memory is a bit hazy, but..
>Ships
Any of them with a little luck on early shops for anti-crew weapons. They fall off as you get further, but they're all good early on. The Corbin is fantastic in Sectors 1 and 2.
Once you get into later Sectors, it's mostly Event Crew weapons, like the Zoltan Deleter.
As for more conventional killing via sending crew over, anyone works as long as you have a teleporter and a cloning bay. Medical bay is only useful for super defensive ships that have access to nano-machines and/or pheremones so you can sprint there as needed.
>Oxygen
Respirators Internal upgrade halves suffocation damage taken.

>>717204798
>bad guys
I'm sure a bunch of people on the fringes just randomly decided to chimp out and construct a massive fleet and complacent federal government allowing (((slugs))) scam people out of their savings and nigger insects murder people had nothing to do with it
>muh diversity makes us strong

>>717208854
I'm a radiation beam or laser enthusiast, but beam weapons in general are great against crew.
I remember this ship having one of the best starts in exchange for less maximum hull points, but it will just melt the early game thanks to the Rad Laser and the chain heavy scales great for late game.

>>717204798
It's pretty great. This mod was one of the reasons why I gave starsector a shot.

>>717207027
I mean I get why, crew vs crew combat isn't particularly interesting or difficult compared to ship vs ship combat. Clearly they wanted you to have to use your brain even a little bit to beat the flagship. But it would be cool if crew combat had more depth to it and if crew killing the flagship won the fight.

>>717210851
fucking sweet, those look like gradius core ships

>>717195491
Multiverse has some alt endings and optional bosses that fill this niche really well
>>717208905
Yes, their dev plan is public and they post devlogs on the d*scord

>>717192846
>You only get rid of the crew + weapons in the four closed weapon rooms
better to leave one weapon up, your shields should be able to handle the energy cannon.

>>717196721
>mods
i don't do the devs works for them.

Low-tier bait.

>>717198397
the flagship is unironically bad game design
He breaks multiple rules established throughout the entire game, he kills build diversity, and he's the only fight in the game that actually matters. You can clean house the rest of the run and then die to him because he's has a checklist you have to fill out just to stand a chance. If you didn't get enough boxes ticked during the run (which is partially RNG dependent if you even see the options you need) then you might as well not even waste the time fighting him

>>717208846
Cloak is good and all but if you don't have Mind Control and Crew Teleporters you've forfeited.

>>717194163
>>717207027
FTL was one of the first games in the whole genre. They didn't even really know what they were going for or what the best design choices would be, because there really weren't any notable prior games to take lessons from. Could they have fixed that in the enhanced edition? Yes. But then it'd be a full-on remake instead of a version created specifically to be ported to other platforms, with some enhancements because they were fucking around in there anyway.

>>717211775
>needing Crew TP
Lol.

>>717213308
Crew TP just makes everything so fast. I don't even need weapons.

>>717211775
You can beat the flagship without any of those.

>>717213495
Yeah but should you? It's a free win so I guess if you want a challenge you shouldn't do it.

>>717189020 (OP)
One of the greatest games ever made

>>717210851
brb downloading this mod

>>717211775
with cloak you don't need any of those considering you basically just never take damage

>>717217106
Cloak is entirely defensive. Teles and MC pierce shields, never miss and guarantee damage.

>>717216169
They are a pretty small faction but that makes them more likeable in my opinion.
Not sure if it's compatible with the latest game version.

Is this another ftl thread in which cloakfags act like the game is unbeatable without cloaking?

>>717218983
>Cloak is entirely defensive
and when the enemy ship is guaranteed to shoot off an attack that deals extreme damage the thing that guarantees complete safety is worth more than either of those two individually
If you had said hacking then you'd have a point but boarding for the flagship is purely just for disabling weapon systems

>>717221269
Nigger, disabling weapon systems is 1000% better than just avoiding them.

>>717221752
Nigger, the weapon systems can be disabled by shooting them, something you already have to do to win, and aren't anywhere near as threatening as the power surges

>>717201441
There's a lot of rng, I beat it on my first try but then didn't beat it again until about try 5+

>>717189020 (OP)
I played this game so much back in the day. Good memories.