Questions tagged [ftl-faster-than-light]
A rogue-like adventure game set in space. It features a randomized galaxy in which a heroic crew must travel, fighting and trading along the way, to deliver the crucial data to save their galactic Federation.
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Sector priorities in FTL
What are the sector priorities when planning a route? How would you rank each sector from most important to visit to least important to visit? For example should I prefer to visit "Engi homeworlds" ...
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Is upgrading the piloting subsystem worth it if I always keep it manned?
I always have a crew member at my piloting station. Is it worth it to upgrade the subsystem to increase my evasion?
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Do enemy ships have limited missiles/drones?
Is it possible to wait for an enemy ship to run out off missiles and/or drones so that I can focus killing their crew with less pressure? If so, are the quantities fixed or random within some range?
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Am I stuck in an endless battle?
As you can see, I cannot escape because my fuel is empty.
The enemy can't penetrate my shield but I can't damage him either.
What could I do other than killing my crew by opening my airlocks?
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How do I know if someone's crazy?
One of my friends told me that some crew members you pick up randomly on your journey can be a mentally unstable and may go on a murderous rampage and attack other crew members. Is there any way to ...
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Shield Upgrade needs a System Upgrade
When I first upgrade my shielding to 3 bars, I tried powering it up. However it says "Requires System Upgrade". What system upgrade do I need to power this up? I have enough reactor energy so I'm not ...
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How can I counter enemy away teams?
I've reached sector 8 a few times, though I have yet to destroy the final boss. Without a doubt the one factor that most affects my success right now is whether I get an enemy with a teleporter.
I ...
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What difference will the more skillful (1 star or 2 star) crew members make compared to a non-skilled one in FTL?
I checked out all tooltips in the game and their official website. Since FTL did not come with a manual I have no clue here. I know that they have something to do with recharge rates and percentages ...
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How does sector 8 work?
I finally made it through an FTL game to sector 8 (on easy mode, of course), whereupon I found that everything changed.
Now I start at the right side, and there's a flagship on the left, and nodes ...
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How Do Doors Keep Fire from Spreading?
In FTL, higher levels of the door subsystem provides three purposes (in addition to interacting with an event or two):
Higher levels of the door subsystem give more durability to the subsystem, ...
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How many ions a day keep the rebels away?
Some say you cannot teach new tricks to an old dog. I found that decapitation is the best way to ensure the error of mistaking a mantis for a dog never happens again.
Anyway, I went to kick some ...
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Why did my oxygen run out in FTL?
I was attacked in an ion storm (sensor and 50% power) and my O2 was damaged. I repaired it and killed the intruders but my O2 kept running down and everyone died. There were no fires.
Why would that ...
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What are effective strategies for countering Mind Control?
Don't get me wrong, I like the new advanced content, but I am at a loss as to how to counter mind control.
When I am boarding, and get mind controlled, it usually is the end for at least one of them.....
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How can I maximise the amount of scrap I collect?
In FTL, the key to reaching and defeating the final boss is to have a well-equipped ship, both in terms of purchased modules and upgrades to your systems. This all depends on having plenty of scrap ...
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Is it possible to escape a fight without fuel?
I am stuck in a never-ending fight in FTL. Is it possible to escape the fight?
I have no fuel, and no missiles left. My shield and my engine are top notch. The enemy shield has 3 slots. My best beam ...
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Is there a point in accepting a surrender in FTL? [duplicate]
In FTL if I damage an enemy ship there is sometimes an option to accept their surrender. Is there any point in this? I always get more scrap if I either kill their crew or destroy their ship.
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What happens to my FTL progress when I quit during combat?
In FTL, the "Save & Quit" options is disabled during combat. If I am in the middle of a battle and have to quit, will I lose all my progress, or can I still continue from some recent point, like ...
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What are all the effects of hacking a system?
I've noticed that the hacking drone sometimes provide additional benefits while hacking a system in addition to removing it from play for a while.
For example, hacking an medbay will cause the room ...
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Does jumping to a nebula still slow the rebel fleet if they're not yet visible in the sector?
It's not unusual to find a few nebula beacons in non-nebula sectors. These apparently delay the rebel fleet's advance when you visit them. It seems like they always end up clustered right around where ...
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What is the difference between an Anti-Ship Drone and an Anti-Ship Beam Drone?
They both cost 50, require 2 power. Their flavor text is nigh identical:
Powerful Drone that continually attacks the enemy ship.
Combat Drone that repeatedly attacks with a small beam weapon.
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Does FTL make enemies stronger once you get better weapons?
In the last game, I've got the Ion Beam Weapon (which can disable shields) in the first sector. In this game all enemies in the 2nd sector happened to have 2 levels of shield, thus I lost on 4th due ...
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At What Sector is it Reasonable to Acquire Scrap Recovery Arm?
The scrap recovery arm costs 50 scrap and Gives you +10% scrap on acquisition other than selling items (rounded down.) Given that you have to spend scrap to earn scrap, at what sector does it make ...
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What determines what races a slaver can provide?
When encountering a slaver ship, you have a couple of options to acquire a new crew member. You can buy slaves, fight to receive a slave as a bribe, or kill the slaver crew to gain your choice of ...
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Why can't I power up my drone system?
I just started my first game with the Torus and I don't understand why I can't power up my drone system (which seems to be the only way to deal damage).
I would expect that I could simply click on ...
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How can I prevent enemies from going through doors aboard my ship?
Is there any way to stop boarded enemies from being able to open my ship's doors? I currently have not found any means of 'trapping' them.
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Are there any shops in hostile zones?
In FTL: Faster Than Light, each sector is labeled as either Civilian, [Species] Controlled, or Nebula. Each of these sectors has a corresponding color that determines whether or not they are Friendly, ...
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Is it possible to re-name crew-members in-game?
I know it's possible to re-name your starting crew at the hangar, but I can't seem to find any way to do this once I'm in-game. I prefer to give my crew custom names since it's easier for me to ...
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Shooting vs. melee when fighting boarding parties
I noticed that, when two people are fighting against a single intruder in one room, one fighter usually moves closer and fights with the intruder hand-to-hand, while the other stands back and shoots ...
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What's the effect of having more than one scrap recovery arm?
How much scrap do I get with two Scrap Recovery Arm augments installed? 110%, 120%, 121%, or some number that doesn't make any sense?
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How do you open doors on FTL for iPad?
On the desktop version you just click the doors to open them, however on my iPad nothing happens when I tap them.
Is there another way of opening ship doors on the iPad version of the game?
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What happens if I kill the crew of the first form of the end boss?
Will I still have to face the later forms? If I do have to face the later forms, will I lose my boarding party when it escapes?
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Is there a way to stop enemies from boarding?
While traveling through space I often find myself batteling enemy ships with teleporters in them. Now right at the start of battle they will usually send a boarding party. Is there a way to stop the ...
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Is there any benefit to running two Defense 1 drones simultaneously?
Defense 1 drones shoot down incoming missiles (and boarding drones) and have a moderate cooldown on their shot. If I have two Defense 1 drones active at the same time and a missile is fired at my ship,...
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Does including extended material in FTL make it more difficult to complete the game?
I ask because I previously completed it on PC before the new material came out, but I've since been playing it on iPad with the new material (i.e. new races, systems, etc) and I am unable to get past ...
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Do Defense Drones shoot down Flak projectiles?
The new Advanced FTL Edition offers many new things to the game, including Flak Weaponry. Do Defense Drones shoot down flak projectiles?
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How does a System Repair Drone choose the order of repairs?
When there is only 1 system damaged, it makes its way there (at a leisurely pace) to effect repairs. But when the fertilizer hits the fan, they seem to spend more time running to the opposite end of ...
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How do I capture a ship?
I teleported to an enemy ship, killed all the crew I found, and then returned to my own ship, but the game didn't reward me with anything. I thought perhaps my scrap would increase after I jumped ...
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How to beat Faster Than Light with the Slug Cruiser?
I just unlocked the slug cruiser and it seems extremely weak to me. Having only two crew members and no sensors makes fires and enemy boarders extra deadly. The shielding is only average, and the ...
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How can I rescue my boarding drone from the final boss?
The image probably speaks for itself.
Is there any way I can entice my boarding drone to come back? If I deactivate/reactive it with power allocation it just goes to sleep and wakes up. It can't go ...
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Piracy is okay: ship or augment?
Playing FTL Captain's Edition, with the Mantis Cruiser, I get involved in a lot of piracy.
I noticed that the Mantis Pheromones augment's description has been altered to include text about it being ...
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How do I properly use the Adjudicator?
I'm currently playing with the Adjudicator, trying to get the unlocks. The Adjudicator seems to play very differently to the other ships, and I can't get my head around the "correct" way to play.
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How can I defend effectively against missile weapons?
Upgrading my shields seems to work pretty well against beam and laser weapons as well as against drones, but it doesn't do anything against enemy missiles. Those missiles can hit a critical system if ...
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How to destroy AI ships without weapons?
I'm using the Basilisk, which has a teleporter and boarding drone, but no weapons. How can I manage AI (crew-less) ships? So far I've been teleporting my crew there and back, slowly chipping away ...
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Are spiders always bad?
I've seen people being attacked by spiders a few times, and it seems like every time I go and save them, someone gets left behind. Can there ever be a happy ending when you meddle with spiders?
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Manning priorities in FTL
What are the manning priorities? How would you rank each station from most important to man to least important to man? For example should I man shields instead of weapons or the other way around? What ...
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Can I 'win' with all my crew on board the destroyed final ship?
In the third Rebel Flagship fight, if all my crew are on board the enemy ship when it gets destroyed, does the game count that as a win (Rebel ship is destroyed) or a loss (all your crew are dead)? ...
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Is there a way to manually open doors if your Doors Subsystem is broken?
If my door subsystem is broken, and in the middle of a large fire, is there any other way to open the doors to flush the fire or am I DOOMED?
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What strategies are there for upgrading ship systems?
It seems like every time I die I find it could have been avoided had I upgraded a certain system. Are there some systems you should upgrade early in the game? Are there systems you should ignore until ...
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What does breach chance mean?
On FTL, some weapons have a breach chance. What does breach do? How important is it?
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Why are my crew starstruck?
Sometimes my crew stop working, and a star shows next to them. What does that mean?
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