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2013-01-01 12:13 22226947 Based Gents FTL: Faster Than Light (Im_so_sorry_Butters.jpg 965x676 146kB)
FTL GENERAL: BOARDING PARTIES OP EDITION http://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/

2 min later 22227120 Anonymous
New content where? And has anyone made a open-end mod yet?

36 min later 22229451 Based Gents
>>22227120 You're right, new content nowhere. DELETING

1 hours later 22232505 Anonymous
Is there a specific way to get more crew members or is it utterly luck based?

2 hours later 22236002 Anonymous
This fucking game... Addictive, such a good base idea and engine, but suffers from poor execution. Way too much RNG, and the focus is too narrow. What if you want to do more than take down the rebel flagship? I'm eagerly awaiting some kind of patch.

2 hours later 22236268 Anonymous
>>22227120 >>22236002 There is an open ended mod called infinite space on the FTL forums

3 hours later 22241817 Anonymous (Jones.jpg 1276x735 123kB)
Fucking jones.

9 hours later 22260990 Anonymous
Can't believe so few people are interested in this game.

16 hours later 22275770 Anonymous
God dammit, that run was going so nicely. Red-Tail with Teleporter and 4 mantis with boarding experience, was boarding EVERYTHING. Had the Crystal crewman, got to Mantis, was like "Hey, Mantis AND Crystal cruiser going to be unlocked". Then the game went "No, fuck you". Never found that Mantis captain, nor the Rock Homeworld. Lost my two best boarders when that auto-drone sniped the teleporter. Then lost half the crew in a fucking gigantic fire. Manage to get to the Flagship's second phase with my Crystal pilot and two Mantis that did everything from repairing to boarding and manning system, before getting torn apart by drones. Fuck everything, that run was nice.

16 hours later 22276751 Anonymous (1269990846102.gif 432x412 89kB)
>Warning! Intruders detected! >This beacon has been placed too close to a star/there is a plasma storm. PIRATE SHIP DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK

16 hours later 22276814 Anonymous (1335463201023.jpg 406x364 50kB)
>>22276751 >the enemies are powering up their FTL drive!

17 hours later 22276960 Anonymous
>>22276751 Pirate ship? Pirate ship actually suffer from all those flames. Try auto-drones. Or better >The slugs used a strange device to shut down you oxygen production, and are now powering flame weapons. You are going to suffocate !

17 hours later 22277082 Anonymous
>>22276814 Fucking this >My boarding party of two mantis begin raping the pirate ship >They were already powering their FTL drive but they only had two pirates left to kill >PHWOOSH They fucking jump away and I lose my two mantis in like sector 2

17 hours later 22277172 Anonymous
>>22277082 If that can cheer you up, those two mantis probably have a new ship and are fighting the rebels' rearguard now.

17 hours later 22277446 Anonymous
>>22276960 That sucks too. Or "THEY HACKED YOUR SHIELDS!!!" Whatever dude. Time for missile spam.

17 hours later 22278946 Anonymous
>>22277446 I never really used missles, only have engi shipped unlocked so it's ion blast shields and let a drone do the rest

17 hours later 22279076 Anonymous
got all the way to the last stand...didn't really know what I was doing. took down the flagship, than ran around shooting at cruisers until one finally took me down.

18 hours later 22280569 Anonymous
>>22279076 You have to battle the flagship three times. Each one being bitchier than the one before.

18 hours later 22281131 Anonymous
>>22280569 can't i prevent it to flee by always targeting the engines or pilot?

18 hours later 22281614 Anonymous
>>22281131 Nope. Enjoy your super-weapons

19 hours later 22283376 Anonymous
>>22280569 What? the last form of the flag ship is a joke if you have a cloaker... you do buy the cloaking don't you pleb? the drone form is harder than the last form. BOarding drones SUCK BALLS.. also ION WEAPONS RAPE THE LAST BOSS TO HELL.

19 hours later 22283741 Anonymous
>>22283376 >cloaker Max shields and engine here. Rolling over the boss like I'm not even trying, in any form. The cloak is nice, but recharge slower than the Flagship power surges, which sucks.

19 hours later 22284186 Anonymous
>>22283741 not if you use rank 1 cloak. rank 1 cloak recharges just as fast as the bosses over charge weapon in final form. slightly less faster than the drone storm in phase 2.

19 hours later 22284617 Anonymous
Currently unlocked : >Kestrel >Red-Tail >Torus >Vortex >Osprey >Nisos >Adjudicator Prefferred one being the Red-Tail. Much easier to transform into a Boarding ship and then abuse the higher rewards. I'm sooooo waiting for the Basilisk. On the other hand, both version of the Engi drone-rigger feels stupidly weak. Too many things to upgrade, too weak to too many ships. The Osprey is still retardedly good though.

20 hours later 22286034 Anonymous (1286245479360.jpg 444x322 22kB)
>>22281614 >Nope. Stay classy FTL

22 hours later 22295106 Anonymous
>>22284617 >>22286034 yea i've found the thing that pretty much trumps everything is to get as many single/multi laser weapons you can get your hands on. The best being burst laser 2 since it only requires 2 energy and fires 3 shots. burst laser 1 and dual lasers are also acceptable but stay away from burst laser 3...for some reason it seems like it has the highest miss rate of any weapon and also takes a fucking year to charge. If you somehow manage to get 4 burst laser II's the game because a fucking cakewalke. Especially with weapon pre-igniter.

22 hours later 22295156 Anonymous
>>22295106 becomes*

22 hours later 22295951 Anonymous
>>22295106 Burst Laser II is easily the best weapon indeed, as long as you have enough of them (even two wrecks shit). Four of them overkills a lot of things. I also like the Breach Missile (4 damage, high breach, respectable fire, no shield problem? yes please), the Glaive (stupid damages and never miss) and the Ion Bomb (make target system offline, no question asked). But I would consider boarding to be the best (when possible). The increased scrap reward is awesome and it solves the fuel problem entirely. Plus, it feels more interesting IMHO than just hammering away with a tempest of laser shots.

22 hours later 22296512 Anonymous
>>22295106 yeah, first time I got my hands on BL3 it felt good, but then it always missed at least 3 shots out of 5. also 4 energy required (I never upgrade the weapons sys) >>22295951 >increased scrap reward I didn't know about that AT ALL. I guess it's pretty dangerous. without upgraded sensors though.

23 hours later 22300181 Anonymous
>>22296512 Yeah, typical reward for killing the crew instead of blowing up the ship is about 3-4 fuel and 40 scrap, in Normal. Very few missiles/drone parts though. That said, for a good boarding you need : >Sensor 2 >An efficient medbay >Something (ideally bombs, but missiles can do) to take out the eventual ennemy medbay >A competent boarding crew (so experienced rocks, mantis, crystals or boarding drones) And you better upgrade your teleporter too, because fire, airless zones, blast doors and the ennemy ship exploding or FTLing away all can and will kill your boarders if you can't teleport them out quick enough.

23 hours later 22300805 Anonymous
>>22300181 And by the way, boarding is super awesome against the flagship. This stupid ship has isolated rooms for each weapon (like, the triple missile launcher), so you can take it out without the rest of the crew interfering. Sadly doesn't work against the drone controller, which is linked to the rest of the ship. Try and you will face by an experienced crew supported by maxed blast doors and a maxed medbay, making it a pointless one-way trip.

24 hours later 22301680 Anonymous
OH WOW. Got killed by the very first ship I encountered. Fucking missile sniping.

24 hours later 22305102 Anonymous
>>22301680 Yea the rng is pretty fucked up. The thing that pisses me off is there is no system or augment or ANYTHING that increases accuracy. Everything has the ability to get 30-55% evasion and even more with stealth(not that it matters much). The misses in this game piss me off to no end and theres nothing you can do about them except get more and more chances to attack rendering the hard hitting slow to charge weapons the absolute worst choices in the game and makes the beam weapons incredibly good if you have enough other weapons to hit enough to bring down shields.

26 hours later 22313580 Anonymous
>>22305102 >The thing that pisses me off is there is no system or augment or ANYTHING that increases accuracy Or, you know, you could just destroy the cockpit or engine. There's no accuracy, only evade chance (which drop to zero if the engine or cockpit are down or if there's no pilot). Boarders are fucking nice by the way. Just did a perfect run on the flagship second phase (as in, it didn't even hit me). First phase hit me for 1 damage max before I got the missile launcher down.

36 hours later 22346524 Anonymous
Upgrading the steering is only good if you don't want a guy piloting isn't it?

36 hours later 22346921 Anonymous (1321059136262.jpg 500x383 50kB)
>mfw I get a Fire Beam

37 hours later 22348451 Anonymous
>>22346524 The only thing it's good for is so your cockpit doesn't get completely disabled with 1 damage.

42 hours later 22364876 Anonymous
>>22300805 It isn't. You can kill retreating enemy crew by positioning a marine in any room they pass through on their way to medbay. The rest of the crew tends to defend the system that's being attacked so usually don't interfere. It does require either impeccable timing or a 4-square teleporter, though.

43 hours later 22369040 Anonymous (WE_DID_IT.png 1280x720 901kB)
...holy fucking hell, this feels good. Nobody died ever, I survived the fight with the flagship at around 5 health. All thanks to fucking Engie ship. At some point I noticed I had over 30 rockets stashed and nothing to shoot them, so I bought fire bomb and spammed that shit into the flagship weapon systems. BUT PUT ME IN A DRESS AND CALL ME SALLY, IT FEELS GOOD TO BEAT IT FOR THE FIRST TIME

47 hours later 22384246 Anonymous (1236873767015.jpg 244x320 18kB)
>>22369040 one day.

49 hours later 22395480 Anonymous (suck my dick im out.gif 400x300 2235kB)
I hate the zoltan ship can't get out of the first sector with their no health having asses

51 hours later 22403269 Anonymous
Just started playing.. got the Torus, but how the hell am I supposed to buy all this gear? I haven't made above 70 scrap at any given point, and the first thing I did with it was to upgrade my shields/keep up repairs. Expensive as fuck, and I'm nearly at the end of the "mission". Either the game is huge, or I am doing something horribly wrong.

51 hours later 22404154 Anonymous
>>22403269 you're supposed to visit as many beacons as possible, not to take the shortest route to the next exit beacon. that way you will make a lot more scrap. also the more beacons you visit, the more random events you get... and the almost all the unlockable ships are unlocked with random events. the torus is even more luck based than the rest of the game btw... that ship is practically naked. you're either lucky and get weapons/more drones AND system upgrades in sector 2 tops, or you're fucked. you can't even board because of the feeble engies. finally, easy mode yields better scrap rewards... there's no shame dude

51 hours later 22404937 Anonymous
>>22404154 I haven't played easy mode, but I may just skip it entirely. It's not often a game is actually difficult. Yeah, I've been shortcutting alot. I thought the rebel fleet was a doom timer or something. Three playthroughs so far and my high score is 1,600ish... I just haven't been making enough scrap to upgrade shit. I always end up at half hull with no money..

51 hours later 22406816 Anonymous
>>22404937 if the rebel fleet catches up the game continues, but travelling gets a lot harder, their pursuers may not be quite easy to take down.

52 hours later 22410715 Anonymous
>>22404937 Same guy, 4th run. Kestrel, Cloaking Lv3, Hull Missiles + starter guns, Lv3 Shields Crew: 3 humans, 1 mantis, 1 rock, 1 engi, 1 zoltan, 1 slug I just found. I feel like I'm rockin it this time. I just need to get a hold of an ion weapon... How useful are upgraded sensors, given that I have no fire weapons or teleporters?

54 hours later 22416953 Anonymous
>>22410715 Fuck. Died to the drone flagship. I didn't have Lv3 Shields, and ran out of missiles. Why are they so stupidly hard to get in the last sector?

63 hours later 22443013 Anonymous
>>22416953 You are not supposed to spam them beforehand. I make sure I have atleast 20-40 missiles when entering the Last Stand. 20 will do just fine if I have only one bomb weapon. Yeah, that's right, a bomb weapon. I tend to avoid using missiles. Shitloads of burst lasers and a bomb weapon is the way to go for me. Just got my crystal ship yesterday. The starting weaponry is quite nice, I'd say.

65 hours later 22448641 Anonymous
I always agree when someone says that burst laser 2 is pretty much the best weapon, but fuck, that gets a whole new meaning when you get TWO of them.

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