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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Any way to make your crew stop attacking a system?
So I have a game paused right now. Here's the dire situation:
Enemy: Auto-scout, all rooms seperated from each other, ONE hull
point left.
Me: Teleporter on cooldown, two fully leveled rockmen ...
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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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How do I properly use the Bulwark?
I'm currently trying to master the Bulwark, and am finding it a lot harder to make progress with than the Kestrel or Engi ships. Specifically, I find I'm running out of missiles a lot easier, and that ...
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Do anti-ship drones sometimes intercept enemy energy shot weapons?
Sometimes I swear, on all that is holy, I see my anti-ship drone shoot an enemy laser out of the air as it leaves its gun. This is similar to how a Defense Drone Mark 2 will shoot lasers out of the ...
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How quickly do crew suffocate without oxygen?
I'm in a situation where I'd like to teleport my men onto a drone, bust up their shields, then teleport back. As you may know, however, drones have no oxygen. I'm worried about how much damage my crew ...
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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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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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Do breach and/or fire chances roll per damage or per hit?
It seems to me that weapons that do more damage in a single hit, tend to proc their breach or fire chance more often. Is this observation false or true?
How are Breach or Fire procs calculated?
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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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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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How do I get a system upgrade for advanced lasers?
How do I get a system upgrade? I have an advanced laser and adding power doesn't let me use it. It says system upgrade needed. Is a weapons upgrade what I need?
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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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Farming rebel controlled sectors?
Does it ever make sense to not run from the chasing rebels?
I often end up in the situation where my last couple jumps out of a sector are through rebel controlled locations. The fights are tough, ...
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Does it make a difference which sector you visit?
When traveling to the next sector in FTL, does your choice make much of a difference? It seems that you fight slightly different ships, but the difficulty and equipment you find doesn't seem to very. ...
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Does ion weapon damage stack with cloaking and teleporter cooldowns?
The teleporter and cloaking device use a similar "cooldown" period to the ion weapons lockdown. Do those two abilities stack?
In particular, if a ship cloaks, can I ion the cloaking device during ...
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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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What are the benefits of manning a subsystem?
In FTL, you can place crew members in various subsystems to gain bonuses. However, I don't know how to actually quantify those bonuses. The two that are least clear to me are:
Manning shields ...
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How close does the final boss have to be to lose?
I have made it to the flag ship 5-6 times and each time I have beaten phase 1.
However after phase 1 my hull is less than 50%.
Some times I went and attacked phase 2 anyways and other times I ran ...
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Do engines require their extra power bars to be powered to influence FTL recharge rate?
When you upgrade your Engine Systems, it increases the rate your FTL drive charges during hostile situations. To reap this benefit, do your upgraded engine's need to be MORE powered than otherwise or ...
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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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How do shields affect beam weapons which don't deal damage?
The description for beam weapons states that their damage is reduced by one for each shield they pass through, but at least 2 beams, the anti-bio beam and the fire beam, deal no damage and instead ...
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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 much faster does an Anti Ship Drone Mark II fire than a Mark I?
The Anti Ship Drone Mark I fires a small laser.
The Anti Ship Drone Mark II fires a small laser faster.
How much faster? Is the firing rate of two Mark I drone's greater than the firing rate of a ...
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What determines the weapon sold by the black market weapon trader?
I encountered a Black Market Weapon trader in my journey across the cosmos, and it was offering an unknown weapon for 65 scrap. I'm leery of putting down 65 scrap on a weapon with no idea what it is.
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Why are the shields not upgraded?
I really don't understand the way shields are supposed to work.
I know that you need to upgrade them, and I have done so for every game that I've played. But why is there only ever one blue marker ...
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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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Are there any benefits to the Rockman other than their extra health?
In Faster Than Light (FTL) the Rockman has extra health and walks slowly but is that all he's good for. A really slow tank doesn't seem that great to me.
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What are the effects of playing on Easy?
I've been playing FTL on Normal for several games, and, having had my ass handed to me from sectors 1 to 7, have decided to switch to Easy for a while.
What are the differences between playing on ...
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What is FTL engine speed good for?
In "Faster Than Light" each upgrade of the ship's engine increases dodge factor, but also it increases you FTL speed, which starts at 1 and goes up to 2.75.
What is FTL engine speed good for?
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How do I complete 'The United Federation'? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you collect all the crew types?
One of the Kestrel achievements 'The United Federation' mentions having a member of 6 different species on your ship at the same ...
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Can crew members start with experience?
I noticed in that shops, potential crew members' experience bars are shown, but I have only seen them empty. Can crew members in shops start with some amount of experience? What about crew you get ...
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Is Engi Med-Bot Dispersal affected by MedBay upgrades?
The title pretty much says it all. Do med-bay upgrades make healing in rooms besides the med-bay faster when you have med-bot dispersal?
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Is the Burst Laser I superior to the Dual Lasers?
In my haste a bought a Burst Laser I before fully examining the stats, only to realize afterwards that it was inferior to the Dual Lasers I already own. The part I find unusual is that the Burst Laser ...
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Can the Stealth Cruiser purchase shields?
Can the Stealth Cruiser ever purchase or otherwise obtain shields?
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Can I have multiple Saves?
If I save and quit a game, can I start a new game to show my friend the game from the beginning without erasing my current game?
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Is it possible to get the Zoltan Shield/Engi Med bot dispersal etc through random encounters?
Each ship you unlock has certain features which distinguish it from the others. The Zoltan ship has the Zoltan Shield Augment, Engi ship has the Med Bot dispersal Augment etc.
Is it possible to come ...
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How do you collect all the crew types?
I'm trying for the achievement that unlocks the Kestrel's second layout. Is there a good way to collect all the unique aliens for the crew?
I've gotten close, but it's been entirely random. ...
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Does the stealth cruiser have innate stealth weapons capability?
Does the stealth cruiser have innate stealth weapons capability or must you seek out the augmentation during your voyage?
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Can you get the same achievement twice on Easy and Normal difficulty?
When you get an achievement in FTL, the description notes which difficulty you unlocked it on, Easy or Normal.
What happens if you have an achievement on Easy, then manage the same feat again on ...
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Is the engi surrender event a penalty for honesty?
I've run into this event a few times. There's an engi ship that automatically surrenders without a fight, saying something like "transfer of goods acceptable?" There are two choices, 1) to accept the ...
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Does waiting change what the event will be at a “Distress” beacon?
If I see that a location has a distress icon, but I visit other places first, does that change what the distress event will be, or will it ever go away?
I ask because I know there is an escort quest ...
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How do I hire new crew members?
I know how to buy new equipment in stores, but how do I hire new crew members?
http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11447 reads like the crew members show up in shops, but the buy ...
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Teleporting back to the ship
I don't understand why I can't get to do this, but how do I send my units back to my ship? I tried three times now and I can't seem to be able to get my units back (RIP 2 mantis on my last run).
Do I ...
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Is there a way to change the window size?
It's a simple question, and I hope to get a simple answer.
Is it possible to resize the game's window? If so, how?
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How do I view the achievements for a particular ship while in game?
Sometimes I forget what the exact achievements are to unlock different ship layouts while playing, but I can't seem to figure out how to view them again without quitting the current game.
How can I ...
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Do multiple statis pods result in multiple Crystals?
I recently had a game where I found two Damaged Stasis Pods. They take up a valuable augmentation slot so I'm not sure if there is any benefit to taking a second one. I never found the Zoltan ...
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What is the point of putting a Rock on the comm with the Mantis?
A couple times now, I've encountered a Mantis ship decorated with Rock body parts. If I have a Rock crew member, I am given a blue option to put him on the comm with the mantis ship. Every time I do ...
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Anti-drone tactics?
My preferred strategy at this point is to use a combination of burst laser and ion to keep enemies' weapons offline, however I seem to run into a lot of problems especially with higher level ships if ...
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How do drones choose their targets?
How do anti-ship and beam-drones choose their targets? Is it always random or is there some pattern or some other method?
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What is the signifigance of Drones being recognized as life forms?
Why is it that my Slug crewmembers count drones as lifeforms when showing the position of enemies using their telepathic abilities? Whenever I have no sensors or only one rank of sensors (or they are ...
