Faster Than Light | After 124 hours of playtime, I finally managed to win for the first time.

After 124 hours of playtime, I finally managed to win for the first time.
The universe is surely a friendly place
Every time this happens, I just wanna die
I lost a run to the tutorial.
I Hate Myself So Much for Crystal Quest
mutual destruction
Charger weapons fully charged after FTL jump with Weapon Pre-igniter !
Save file randomly getting corrupted
bomb/missile differences
Lost one crew in the battle, but it was worth it through and through. I have work to get done but have spent yesterday evening winning with the kestrel; today the natural progression led me to the atrocity that is the vortex. Now the game gets interesting.
Event text mods and better planets work with pre-AE?
My first time against the flagship... Do I stand a chance?
Sometimes the FTL God feels just like the Tetris one
Guide on how to play FTL with fast forward!
About to face the Flagship for the second time. Lack of experience aside, what are my chances?
Won with just a scratch
Weapon dilemma: should I sell my Flak II for a 3rd Chain Laser?
Three additional crew added during Sector 1 from events
My first win after 38 hours and did it with stealh cruiser
Had no faith in this run, ended up being my easiest (On Easy)

After 124 hours of playtime, I finally managed to win for the first time.

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 05:54 PM PST

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The universe is surely a friendly place

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:38 PM PST

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Every time this happens, I just wanna die

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 04:24 AM PST

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I lost a run to the tutorial.

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 04:59 PM PST

I was at Sector 8 in a no-pause easy run with Stealth A. Unrelated to the run, I wanted to test my max speed and deoxygen rate using cheat engine speed hacks.

It was 11 seconds.

I died in the tutorial.

Dying in the tutorial resets your active run.

Let this be a warning to all future time scientists.

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I Hate Myself So Much for Crystal Quest

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:33 PM PST

So I did a strategy of the crystal quest where I got long range scanners and just straight up avoided battle. I found the stasis pod on third sector which was rock controlled. I then went to fifth sector which was engi controlled and found a zoltan station there. With three-four red sectors to go, I went to the next sector. I got into a fight with a mantis and sent my crystal crew to take out the mantis boarder. Since it was first time having a crystal crew, I wanted to try the lockdown but forgot it locked everyone in. So the crystal dude died because he couldn't escape the mantis and got locked out. Plus I bought mind control earlier and forgot I had that. I really want to facepalm so hard.

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mutual destruction

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 05:19 PM PST

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Charger weapons fully charged after FTL jump with Weapon Pre-igniter !

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:04 PM PST

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Save file randomly getting corrupted

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:29 PM PST

I'm playing on Linux and for the 2nd time now my save file is corrupted. I know this because if my save is corrupted and I try to start the game the game will just hang right before the menu screen loads and top shows 100% cpu usage.

I also look at the save file in my file manager and it's 0 bytes, and I have to delete it to even start the game again. I have no clue what could be causing this. Does anyone have any ideas?

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bomb/missile differences

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:52 PM PST

As far as I know, the only difference is bombs can't be shot by defense drones. Is there any other difference?

I think they also tend not to do any hull damage unless I'm forgetting a certain bomb.

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Lost one crew in the battle, but it was worth it through and through. I have work to get done but have spent yesterday evening winning with the kestrel; today the natural progression led me to the atrocity that is the vortex. Now the game gets interesting.

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 09:29 PM PST

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Event text mods and better planets work with pre-AE?

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 12:55 AM PST

I see many mods that help like the fleet pursuit and event options text but they are all AE versions. I got AE but haven't enable it yet since i want to play as much vanilla till i get bored. Are those mods compatible with the latest vanilla without AE? Anyone has experience with installing them especially fleet pursuit indicator, better planets and Event Assistant from master mod list in the subset forum?

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My first time against the flagship... Do I stand a chance?

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 06:54 PM PST

So I'm about the fight the flagship for the first time... I don't know anything about it except that it is supposed to be very hard. I haven't seen a shop in the 2 last sectors (nor in sector 8), so I'm sitting on 300 scraps, with my ship only wielding burst laser 2, pegasus missile, fire beam, fire bomb, attack drone level 1, defense drone level 1, and cloaking (I also have an unequiped defense drone level 2).

I'm curious... do I even have a chance at winning?

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Sometimes the FTL God feels just like the Tetris one

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 12:40 AM PST

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Guide on how to play FTL with fast forward!

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:46 PM PST

Hello fellow captains, I have been playing FTL on and off for many years; consistently coming back to this wonderful roguelike space game.

I often found myself wishing the game had a fast forward button, as you spend a lot of time waiting for guns to charge, crew to heal, ship O2 back up to 100%, repairs to be made, etc.

I found a solution that works for me and has improved my personal FTL experience so I thought I would share it with you!

How it's done:

Cheat Engine! I simply use Cheat Engine's built in speedhack to crank up the game speed, and it seems to play really nice with FTL. It doesn't mess up game sound or music and I have yet to notice it disrupting any game mechanics; it just speeds everything up!

Here is an image of how to do it if you are unfamiliar with cheat engine, it's extremely easy! https://imgur.com/a/p85BCN6