Pyrian on 7/8/2014 at 18:41
I kind of figured you must not be using Pause. I can respect that, though. I mean, the game is clearly designed for tactical pausing; you're allowed the full scope of order-giving, for example. Not pausing makes combining weapons and boarding actions (offense and/or defense) very difficult.
Further, the Easy flagship is, as far as I can tell, exactly the same as the Normal flagship. You should get a bit more scrap before you reach it, of course, but it's no cake walk once you're there.
Which brings us back to the Torus. One nice thing about the Torus is that it's kind of a autofire-and-forget ship. Autofire your Ion Blast II at their shields and throw up your combat drone (unless they have an anti-combat drone), and you can just concentrate on defense until they die. Even the flagship will eventually croak under the Torus' starting weapons! Add another ion weapon, a beam weapon, and a beam drone, and the flagship disintegrates so fast you can't afford to try any boarding actions.
PigLick on 8/8/2014 at 00:23
I'll try that, havent really used the Torus much tbh.
bob_doe_nz on 10/8/2014 at 13:47
Quote Posted by PigLick
After over a hundred hours and numerous close calls I still havent bloody well beaten this game yet :(
Hey I only just beat it last month. I know your pain!
Kuuso on 10/8/2014 at 13:57
It's a roguelike (in a smaller scope perhaps) so it's easy to see why might not make it through. The game itself is quite harsh starting from the fact that you must start again, if you die.
SubJeff on 11/1/2019 at 22:15
Oh man, I've been playing some FTL Advanced Edition and this is some bulllllllllsshiiii
It seems the game scales to your power. That's some nasty nonsense. I struggle to get some good weaponry and when I do early on (by not spending anything on anything else and getting to a Store) I start facing OP ships. How disappointing. Yes, you could say it's trying to keep it fun, but it isn't if I just get tanked on world 2 because I'm seeing ships I never even saw in the pre-final world. Like 4 shields, hacking and 2 drones. Ack!
