FTL: Faster Than Light

[Irespawnoften]

They died so you could live on, remember that.

[editline]asds[/editline]

Better than my three guys that are forced to relive their lives over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

[Kindlinho]

Mantis Bomber. We fought the fucking bugs again and barely escaped them. They managed to take out the oxygen system. We couldn't breathe. We had to evade the bugs and try to fix the O2 generator. And we did it.... almost. Lt. Control didn't make it, but I wouldn't have had repaired the generator without his help. Those assfaced mofos probably thought we were dead and decided to leave the ship. I'm the only one left, I'm all alone in here.. I just want it to end..

No fuel. I'm turning on the distress beacon. I don't even care who'll find me first..
[I]
- Carly Rae, the Last Survivor of "the Good Time s2"
*from " [B]The Good Time s2 Logbook[/B][/I] "
[I][B]Crew:[/B]
[SUP]Carly Rae
Direct Control [KIA]
Vincent Vega [KIA]
Ohm [KIA]

[/SUP][/I][HR][/HR]A merchant answered my distress beacon. As I had enough scrap I could get some fuel. Found a store after 2 jumps, bought some more. Plus - an antipersonnel drone. Let the motherfuckers feel some pain if everything else goes to hell. I'm in Sector 8.
[I]
- Carly Rae, the Last Survivor of "the Good Time s2"
*from " [B]The Good Time s2 Logbook[/B][/I] "
[I][B]Crew:[/B]
[SUP]Carly Rae
Direct Control [KIA]
Vincent Vega [KIA]
Ohm [KIA][/SUP][/I]

[I]
[U][B]Update3:[/B][/U]
R.I.P. [B]The Good Time s2 crew:[/B][/I][I]
[SUP]Carly Rae [KIA]
Direct Control [KIA]
Vincent Vega [KIA]
Ohm [KIA][/SUP][/I]

[HeavyGuy]

Oh man using fire to defeat enemies is slow but oddly satisfying :v:

[Kwigg]

I hope this game gets a resolution changing patch or something (I'm too poor to upgrade my 1024x768 monitor)

[WhatAmI]

[QUOTE=Kindlinho;37771353]Mantis Bomber. We fought the fucking bugs again and barely escaped them. They managed to take out the oxygen system. We couldn't breathe. We had to evade the bugs and try to fix the O2 generator. And we did it.... almost. Lt. Control didn't make it, but I wouldn't have had repaired the generator without his help. Those assfaced mofos probably thought we were dead and decided to leave the ship. I'm the only one left, I'm all alone in here.. I just want it to end..

No fuel. I'm turning on the distress beacon. I don't even care who'll find me first..
[I]
- Carly Rae, the Last Survivor of "the Good Time s2"
*from " [B]The Good Time s2 Logbook[/B][/I] "
[I][B]Crew:[/B]
[SUP]Carly Rae
Direct Control [KIA]
Vincent Vega [KIA]
Ohm [KIA]

[/SUP][/I][HR][/HR]A merchant answered my distress beacon. As I had enough scrap I could get some fuel. Found a store after 2 jumps, bought some more. Plus - an antipersonnel drone. Let the motherfuckers feel some pain if everything else goes to hell. I'm in Sector 8.
[I]
- Carly Rae, the Last Survivor of "the Good Time s2"
*from " [B]The Good Time s2 Logbook[/B][/I] "
[I][B]Crew:[/B]
[SUP]Carly Rae
Direct Control [KIA]
Vincent Vega [KIA]
Ohm [KIA][/SUP][/I]

[I]
[U][B]Update3:[/B][/U]
R.I.P. [B]The Good Time s2 crew:[/B][/I][I]
[SUP]Carly Rae [KIA]
Direct Control [KIA]
Vincent Vega [KIA]
Ohm [KIA][/SUP][/I][/QUOTE]

okay you can stop that now

[The Jack]

Has anyone actualy unlocked the crystal cruisers yet? (without mods)

[Irespawnoften]

[IMG]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/559827797246030750/7F86C711E1923B08E000611EC556DABBC24A447C/[/IMG]
See? Throw enough missiles at the problem and it goes away.
Even got the zoltan ship as well :dance:

[ApertureFan]

Damn... and I was doing so well. That Flagship is a damned [i]monster.[/i]

Made it all the way to Section 8 with no losses. Sadly, I didn't find a 6th alien crew member to net me that achievement, but still. I was blasting everything, I could even survive in areas that the Rebels had already taken over. My tactic was to use the Artemis missile to damage the engine, the Burst Laser II to take out the shields, and before the shields could regenerate, use the Halberd Beam to damage as much as possible. It worked very well... until the Flagship. I got it down to about half health, but it just destroyed me. I had no teleporter, and only 1 or 2 crew were even half capable of fighting, so no go on that tactic. I only had 3 shields and would have given anything for a 4th, but I had some damage that I needed repaired quite a few times, so that depleted my scrap.

Got to the Flagship though, furthest I've ever been.

[Within]

If this had multiplayer...

[HeavyGuy]

Fucking FTL I knew it was screwing me.

It gave me a near perfect run, I was literally the best ship in the universe.

Then I get to the flagship, get it down to 4 hull, and then it suddenly just happens to destroy [I]every vital system I need[/I] and destroys my ship.

[The Jack]

I don't think they should scale it like they do. I feel grossly inadequate when i have no way of getting past someone's shields... and finding Decent weapons is Very luck based. For instance Automated scouts go from Shitty -no shields in an astroid belt- to 3 shields and MK II weapons. instead they should-maybe have you fight multiple (weak) scout ships at the same time. But on the scaling i also think that maybe there should be a few very tough enemies that you must flee from/ Pay the toll near the begining of the game and Weak enemies near the end.

[Kilgore]

Woop, beat the game with the Zoltan energy cruiser, pretty good ship. It's certainly handy having that shield augmentation.

I was close to getting the achievement for 29 power but sadly the extra glowy crew dude I picked up was savagely killed by a raiding party :(

His sacrificed was noted and abled us to go on and quite easily beat the Capital ship.

[Irespawnoften]

Oh, I thought I'd try out boarding in my last run, so I got a teleporter and two rockmen. Figured this was gunna go great, so I threw them on the first ship we ran into. My guys get on board, and the ship FTL's immediately. Never used the teleporter again.

[Icemoo]

[QUOTE=The Jack;37772588]Has anyone actualy unlocked the crystal cruisers yet? (without mods)[/QUOTE]
I have gotton both forms without mods. the type b is easy as fuck since one of the achievments you will get if you run into a ship with missles at all.

[Jaguar]

Man, I had an awesome game with the Engi Cruiser

[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3877425/temp/ftl3.png[/img]

I was just using my ion cannons to disable enemy shields almost immediately, then disable their shields from regenerating and their weapons from firing so my drone would just wittle their health away. At one point, I ran out of fuel with one HP left. Every time I encountered a hostile ship, I would quickly disable their guns so they couldn't shoot me, and then my drone would finish them off.

I got lucky when I got some fuel from destroying an attacker and jumped to a nearby store and repaired fully, costing me my weapons pre-igniter and all my scrap to repair.

Was a really fun loadout, but utterly failed on the final boss. At least I unlocked Engi Cruiser Type B.

[Unknown]

I'm trying to create a navigable menu system for giving the player stuff, however the game crashes when I create a posable loop with the event system, is there any way to prevent this?

For example, having the following event as part of an chain causes the game to freeze before windows says it has stopped responding.

<event name="GAME_CHEATS_Resources">
	<text>Pick a Resource.</text>
	<choice>
		<text>Generate some Scrap</text>
		<event>
			<text>Scrap Generated</text>
			<item_modify>
				<item type="scrap" min="50" max="50"/>
			</item_modify>
			<choice>
				<text>Back</text>
				<event load="GAME_CHEATS_Resources"/>
			</choice>
			<choice>
				<text>Exit</text>
				<event/>
			</choice>
		</event>	
	</choice>
</event>

From what I can tell, the crash is caused because the game goes through every possible combination to generate random chances (as to display the randomly generated rewards if hidden=false); of course, this causes an infinite loop whenever an event can loop back on itself. So, is there any way to either disable this behavior or somehow call an event from player input?

[Kefirman]

What is the best strategy for Federation Cruiser? I just unlocked it and it looks weak even compared to Kestrel.

[Mesothere]

Gonna attempt to make a full Firefly mod out of this game. Anyone wishing to offer help or that has any cool ideas please suggest away!

Here is an awesome piece of spriteart by my friend Flyingdog:

[thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5165536/Stuff%20I%20want%20to%20show%20to%20friends/Surprises_Finished_Lineart%20copy.png[/thumb]

I'm gonna hopefully have a fully working single ship done in no time. My only problem is figuring out what to do with the various alien races

[The Jack]

[QUOTE=Kefirman;37774697]What is the best strategy for Federation Cruiser? I just unlocked it and it looks weak even compared to Kestrel.[/QUOTE]

I believe my fourth and fifth highest score belongs to that. >:( .

(although to be honest... Score is luck based. )

There's no particular strategy. But you're stronger late game.

Id put ships like this (out of what i have tested enough)

Great: Rock B , Kestrel B , Engi A and B (A is better though) Zoltan B
Federation A and B
decent: Kestrel A , Rock A, Zoltan A ,

Shit: Stealth cruiser A, Slug A.

[Dacheet]

I just bought a slug named Dre. I'm putting him in my Medbay so I can say that I have Dr. Dre on board :v:

[EcksDee]

[QUOTE=Dacheet;37775596]I just bought a slug named Dre. I'm putting him in my Medbay so I can say that I have Dr. Dre on board :v:[/QUOTE]

Teleport him on enemy ships every once in a while so he can hand out Beats by Dr. Dre.

[69105]

[QUOTE=EcksDee;37775634]Teleport him on enemy ships every once in a while so he can hand out Beats by Dr. Dre.[/QUOTE]

make sure it's only him so he can do Solo Beats

[Mbbird]

First sector, first place I visit. Drone "disables" my shields in a random event by gimping it by 1 power level. Except this drone is more heavily kitted out than any drone I've ever seen in even the 3rd sector.

[t]http://puu.sh/17ZRv[/t]

FTL, pls go.

[lintz]

[I]That's[/I] heavily kitted? You have never seen a 4 shield drone then.

[Mbbird]

[QUOTE=lintz;37777889][I]That's[/I] heavily kitted? You have never seen a 4 shield drone then.[/QUOTE]

I've seen a 4 shield, 4 ultra weapon drone with stealth weapons ontop of cloak before. Don't worry. But that drone had 3 weapons, of which one was a burst laser and the other was a beam weapon, during an event in which I had no shields, with the addition of a laser drone capable of single or double tapping every 3 seconds worth 1 damage.

And we're talking literally the first battle I get of an entire playthrough. That [B]is[/B] heavily kitted.

[thomasfn]

Made a thread about FTL: Overdrive on the forums: [url]http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2866[/url]

Haven't made much visible progress since my last post here but I've been working on the Lua modding API.

[larikang]

The ship is [B]fine[/B].
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/ops1.png[/t]
(Jumped to a shop while being shot with a beam at 1 hull and did a full repair)

I was even able to do another jump away from the shop, but at the next screen the game over came up right away :\

[Icemoo]

so uh can you die or move your crew

[69105]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/9VYhg.jpg[/img]

[ApertureFan]

[QUOTE=Larikang;37779189]The ship is [B]fine[/B].
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/ops1.png[/t]
(Jumped to a shop while being shot with a beam at 1 hull and did a full repair)

I was even able to do another jump away from the shop, but at the next screen the game over came up right away :\[/QUOTE]

Avatar would be painfully fitting if you were flying a Slug ship.