I have had plenty of success and fun. But not without losses. My stats are 40 games played. 5 Victories. Far more loses is by design. Kestrel B is very good. Engi I found hard. I found Federation Cruiser A/B very good. 2 victories with B. Zoltan B I found good. It's shield gives some lasting power. Build up and your inner shield. Look back at some of my posts for ship specs. I get 2 shields asap. This helps prevents hemorrhaging scraps due to hull damage. Then focus on weapons, lots of lasers. Preferably 5-6 blasts and a missile/bomb of some sort that gets behind shields.
I just won in standard mode, yay!!! so satisfying! And I didn't have any hull fix. I used two defense drones II, which avoided most of the shots from landing on my ship. Did it with the Kestrel layout B. This game is sooooo frustrating and satisfying at the same time.
Love the reviews of this game on app store. One extreme to another. 5 stars or 1 star seems to be the variant. Surely the one star reviewers can gauge what type of game this is BEFORE purchasing it? Ever heard of You Tube? Review websites? I heard Touch Arcade is mean to be good for stuff like that.
As always... People tend to rate great games with 1 star because they made a mistake buying a great game which doesn't suit them. In the Spanish app store there are many 4-star reviews which say "the 5th star when it's translated to Spanish". No comments...
Holy cow... I just beat the game for the first time (on easy)... What a total rush, best part is I was so busy dealing with three boarders and fires on my Engi ship, I didn't even realize it was over. Wow... what a fantastic game and I still have no idea how I beat that final ship since it took out my drone bay which stopped the Mk2 defense drone and Mk1 attack drone. Now to try with other ships and start looking at the events and alternative layouts. Kudos to everyone involved in the making of this game.
When you win, it's one of the best feelings a game can give. On the ipad, it's a very, very hard to replicate experience. That's what makes FTL so utterly special. Glad you hung in there
So I just started up another easy campaign using the Federation Cruiser and it seems more difficult. Is there a difficulty bump after you beat it once or use this ship? On the second sector I had several 3 and 4 boarding party attacks. Just curious if using this ship makes it harder
There is no order of difficulty, but you need sometimes to adapt to the ship. I give you a very good combo in the spoiler below Spoiler The artillery is very powerful if maxed out, if you equip it with stealth and the augment to shoot while stealthed, you can be almost invincible most of the time after putting points in stealth
Total newbie... I'm confused on what to do when I have a fire into ship. I know I can open doors... I'm confused about what I should do and what do the color means with pink when the fire is out etc... Please advise!
You can either evacuate all the oxygen in the room to starve the fire (pink room means no oxygen) OR you can send in crew to put the fire out. 1 crew member can sometimes handle one fire, but once it starts spreading it can quickly get out of control so it depends on how many crew members you have available to fight the fire, and how close the fire is to an airlock etc.
Just started playing this and got immediately sucked in. Just a random observation - does anyone else feel like the space backgrounds should be scrolling? Would be way more immersive, and less static.. #
