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Great, I have finally beaten the game on Easy and now there will be one more version to play? This game game is horribly difficult (DF is more complicated, but

by yoha 13y ago

Great, I have finally beaten the game on Easy and now there will be one more version to play? This game game is horribly difficult (DF is more complicated, but not that difficult) but this is what make it great. Losing your well-crafted carefully designed ship in the seventh sector because of a complete freeze of the game can be quite unnerving though (save file is removed when you resume your game). tl;dr: FTL is horrible, play it!

epaga 13y ago
Wow, just to add an anecdotal data point in the other direction: this is the first I heard of the game freezing up, it has never happened to me, and I have played many, many hours. It's been completely stable and runs quite well even on an old 2007 MacBook Pro.
- yoha 13y ago
  Well, to be fair, it happened only once, but just at the wrong time.
benbou09 13y ago
Normal difficulty is not much harder than easy. Also, using and abusing of crew teleporters is crucial, because against normal ships you get more scrap if you kill their crew than if you destroy the ship, and against the final boss, you can easily destroy its weapons.
- yoha 13y ago
  > you get more scrap if you kill their crew I figure that too, but preferred to use suffocation to achieve this (having a boarding drone is a great help). For the final boss, I think it's just impossible to beat it without previously killing all its crew (in first fight).
  - puzzlingcaptcha 13y ago
    The key is neutralizing the triple-rocket launcher and optionally the ion weapon as fast as possible (i.e. by teleporting). With that taken care of and sufficient damage output the boss is not much of a challenge. Actually, killing off all crew turns over the control over the ship to the AI which is capable of making repairs in any room which is undesirable.
  - breischl 13y ago
    You can also do it by using fire bombs to kill the crewmembers handling the weapons and then destroy the weapons. Of course you still need to have enough other weapons to get through the shields & destroy the ship, but that's much easier when you're not being shot at.
  - rcxdude 13y ago
    The key is to kill off all crew except for one of the central gunners (the blaster is best because it's the weakest of the two). The prevents repair of all the systems (except one weapon) but without activating the AI which makes the fight more difficult again.
  - lmm 13y ago
    Not at all impossible. With the right mix of weapons (e.g. lots of burst lasers) and a high evade percentage it goes down easily.
- mpartel 13y ago
  With some practice, it's possible to win with the default ship pretty consistently even without the teleporter.
- Kiro 13y ago
  I started playing on Normal. Any reason I should switch to Easy?
  - yoha 13y ago
    If you are a true warrior from the old times, keep playing on Normal. But don't feel shame on switching to Easy, this is already a true challenge.
  - mikeash 13y ago
    FTL's Easy would be a regular game's Hard. FTL's Normal is a regular game's Impossible. The fact that they've added a Hard to this new addition is a little bit scary. Personally, I enjoyed the game a lot more on Easy. It's still really tough, but much more doable. Your mileage may, of course, vary.

by yoha 13y ago

epaga 13y ago

Wow, just to add an anecdotal data point in the other direction: this is the first I heard of the game freezing up, it has never happened to me, and I have played many, many hours. It's been completely stable and runs quite well even on an old 2007 MacBook Pro.

yoha 13y ago
Well, to be fair, it happened only once, but just at the wrong time.

benbou09 13y ago

Normal difficulty is not much harder than easy. Also, using and abusing of crew teleporters is crucial, because against normal ships you get more scrap if you kill their crew than if you destroy the ship, and against the final boss, you can easily destroy its weapons.

yoha 13y ago
> you get more scrap if you kill their crew I figure that too, but preferred to use suffocation to achieve this (having a boarding drone is a great help). For the final boss, I think it's just impossible to beat it without previously killing all its crew (in first fight).
- puzzlingcaptcha 13y ago
  The key is neutralizing the triple-rocket launcher and optionally the ion weapon as fast as possible (i.e. by teleporting). With that taken care of and sufficient damage output the boss is not much of a challenge. Actually, killing off all crew turns over the control over the ship to the AI which is capable of making repairs in any room which is undesirable.
- breischl 13y ago
  You can also do it by using fire bombs to kill the crewmembers handling the weapons and then destroy the weapons. Of course you still need to have enough other weapons to get through the shields & destroy the ship, but that's much easier when you're not being shot at.
- rcxdude 13y ago
  The key is to kill off all crew except for one of the central gunners (the blaster is best because it's the weakest of the two). The prevents repair of all the systems (except one weapon) but without activating the AI which makes the fight more difficult again.
- lmm 13y ago
  Not at all impossible. With the right mix of weapons (e.g. lots of burst lasers) and a high evade percentage it goes down easily.
mpartel 13y ago
With some practice, it's possible to win with the default ship pretty consistently even without the teleporter.
Kiro 13y ago
I started playing on Normal. Any reason I should switch to Easy?
- yoha 13y ago
  If you are a true warrior from the old times, keep playing on Normal. But don't feel shame on switching to Easy, this is already a true challenge.
- mikeash 13y ago
  FTL's Easy would be a regular game's Hard. FTL's Normal is a regular game's Impossible. The fact that they've added a Hard to this new addition is a little bit scary. Personally, I enjoyed the game a lot more on Easy. It's still really tough, but much more doable. Your mileage may, of course, vary.