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I used to really enjoy watching people stream FTL, but my favorite FTL streamers have become so good at the game that in 80% of the fights, it's not actually a

I used to really enjoy watching people stream FTL, but my favorite FTL streamers have become so good at the game that in 80% of the fights, it's not actually a fight. The enemy ship is incapable of damaging them. It makes the game boring to watch when the main point of excitement is whether or not the enemies will be able to sneak in 1 or 2 points of hull damage this entire sector. There's just no chance of losing a lot of the time, no sense of danger, no struggle. I know this is a very minor late game complaint. The game is tough, and this only effects the very best, but it's something I've thought about many times and I was wondering if anyone else has thought the same?

justnotworthit 4y ago
random thoughts: i think some games more execution focus. "harder" is more finesse in execution. some are more knowledge; getting better is arcane knowledge about the smallest details. most are some mix. I look at what "being good" is, and what devs have to do to add a player-demanded "higher difficulty", and what players have to do beat it. What's fascinating is how the experience changes; Sometimes that means "breaking" the game (check-pointing and cheesing), sometimes not.
faeriechangling 4y ago
It took many many years to get to the point the game got played out to the point people could feasibly streak 100 games in a row with random ships without pausing. People just got too good at exploiting game mechanics. People broke Issac long before they broke FTL and I never thought Isaac was a bad game. I think that FTL has largely been abandoned because it has been played out but it did take quite a few years to get there. Designing a game that is consistently hard without just regularly throwing you seeds that are impossible to win is difficult to impossible and at some point I think you need to move onto a new game.
rasz 4y ago
Ah the good old DolphinChemist and his Completing the FTL Hard/No Pause/All Ships Challenge come to mind :) https://www.twitch.tv/dolphinchemist/video/28582788?filter=clips&range=30d https://www.twitch.tv/dolphinchemist/video/28582788?filter=c...

justnotworthit 4y ago

random thoughts: i think some games more execution focus. "harder" is more finesse in execution. some are more knowledge; getting better is arcane knowledge about the smallest details. most are some mix. I look at what "being good" is, and what devs have to do to add a player-demanded "higher difficulty", and what players have to do beat it. What's fascinating is how the experience changes; Sometimes that means "breaking" the game (check-pointing and cheesing), sometimes not.

faeriechangling 4y ago

It took many many years to get to the point the game got played out to the point people could feasibly streak 100 games in a row with random ships without pausing. People just got too good at exploiting game mechanics. People broke Issac long before they broke FTL and I never thought Isaac was a bad game. I think that FTL has largely been abandoned because it has been played out but it did take quite a few years to get there. Designing a game that is consistently hard without just regularly throwing you seeds that are impossible to win is difficult to impossible and at some point I think you need to move onto a new game.

rasz 4y ago

Ah the good old DolphinChemist and his Completing the FTL Hard/No Pause/All Ships Challenge come to mind :) https://www.twitch.tv/dolphinchemist/video/28582788?filter=clips&range=30d https://www.twitch.tv/dolphinchemist/video/28582788?filter=c...