I don't think that I ever played a Rougelike before this game, but I have to say FTL has really taken me in with the whole "every journey is different" aspect, so how about you share your most memorable personal FTL story? I have to say that mine would probably have to be when I managed to finally get the Slug cruiser. I don't know why that particular instance just stuck out for me. I was using the Zolatan ship see, which had a crappy missile launcher and a single beam weapon, and the enemy slug ship had some good shields. To make things worse my first few missiles kept missing and the slug cruiser was charging up its drive to make a run for it. I remember panicking a little bit before I finally managed to damage the engines, get the shields down and tear the ship apart to walk away with my shiny new cruiser. It was...satisfying. Ok, enough about me, what about you?
FTL: Faster Than Light stories
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How about that time I got the "super rare" stasis pod? And blew up three jumps later? That was a doozy.
Oh yeah that thing. Managed to get it open once and the thing inside told me to take it to the Rock homeworld...except the Rock Homeworld was already behind me...that really REALLY sucked.SomeLameStuff said:
I only just started playing FTL, so not too many fantastic stories. Though my last playthrough had quite the rouge ending. Around the 4th sector near the exit beacon I got in a fight with a Zoltan ship with 2 missiles equipped. It took out most of my hull and killed all but one of my crew. I made it past most of sector 5 before finally being taken down. Not a good playthrough but was at least dramatic.
Most of my memorable FTL moments are my failures. Perhaps the most dramatic was when I was pretty far into the game (Forgot what ship I was using) and I got into one very nasty encounter with a ship better equipped than I was.
I remember it had several missiles equipped, and a laser. It quickly knocked out my shields and weapons systems and began slicing my hull apart, I had no choice but to FTL jump out of that fight with some particularly nasty damage to my systems and my hull. So as soon as the jump charged, I got out of there to the next beacon.
Surprise! I'm right in front of a star!
SURPRISE! Mantis pirate ship!
SURPRISE! Mantis intruders on my ship!
The bastards quickly charged straight into my engine room and took out my engines. A solar flare came immediately after and knocked out my helm, then started fires everywhere. So there I was, no shields, no weapons, no engine, no navigation, fire everywhere, being torn apart from the inside and bombarded from the outside.
I watched helplessly as solar flare after solar flare burned my crew to death as the others where overpowered by the mantis. To add insult to injury, a solar flare was incoming when I was right about 1% hull left, then the mantis intruders beamed off my ship. The Solar Flare hit, and destroyed my ship in a hellish inferno with no losses at all to the Mantis. sighhh
I remember it had several missiles equipped, and a laser. It quickly knocked out my shields and weapons systems and began slicing my hull apart, I had no choice but to FTL jump out of that fight with some particularly nasty damage to my systems and my hull. So as soon as the jump charged, I got out of there to the next beacon.
Surprise! I'm right in front of a star!
SURPRISE! Mantis pirate ship!
SURPRISE! Mantis intruders on my ship!
The bastards quickly charged straight into my engine room and took out my engines. A solar flare came immediately after and knocked out my helm, then started fires everywhere. So there I was, no shields, no weapons, no engine, no navigation, fire everywhere, being torn apart from the inside and bombarded from the outside.
I watched helplessly as solar flare after solar flare burned my crew to death as the others where overpowered by the mantis. To add insult to injury, a solar flare was incoming when I was right about 1% hull left, then the mantis intruders beamed off my ship. The Solar Flare hit, and destroyed my ship in a hellish inferno with no losses at all to the Mantis. sighhh
Ah balls. Here's one for the record. I nearly beat the rebel flagship in it's second form for the first time, I crippled its shields and got to down to 25% health and took out its drone control...but I was in really bad shape from previous fights and it took me down. Damn it that sucked.
We were attacked my a Mantis ship in the 3rd sector and they immediately shot at our oxygen supply, breaking it completely. 2 Mantis teleported onto the back of our ship (Kestral layout 1) and killed the guy manning the engine. I knew I had to be quick and deal with the intruders then repair the oxygen supply. I fired at their ship's weapons to avoid anymore damage and sent my shields guy and my pilot to fight the intruders. I kept firing on their ships weapons with my Artemis Cannon and moving the 2 crew between the Infirmary and the engine room to battle off the Mantis. I destroyed their ship and killed the Mantis, but oxygen was already at around 40%. I sent the 2 crew to the Infirmary to regain health and then back to repair the oxygen supply. They managed to repair it in time, but they only made it halfway to the Infirmary before both dying of suffocation. This left no-one alive on board except the pilot.
I repaired the damage the intruders did to the engines and then jumped to a distress signal I was picking up nearby. It was a man who was stranded on a planet and appeared to have gone slightly mad from his time being alone. Still, I was in desperate need of new crew so I welcomed him aboard. On the ship, his insanity escalated in violence and he killed me.
Game Over.
I repaired the damage the intruders did to the engines and then jumped to a distress signal I was picking up nearby. It was a man who was stranded on a planet and appeared to have gone slightly mad from his time being alone. Still, I was in desperate need of new crew so I welcomed him aboard. On the ship, his insanity escalated in violence and he killed me.
Game Over.
Time to try again! What ship were you using, and what was your strategy? I really hate the whole attrition aspect to this fight. I died too many times just because I had sustained so much damage from previous encounters with no hull repairs in sight.erttheking said:
Well balls, that sucks. I've had this encounter a bunch of times and every time I've brought him onboard my ship, he regains his sanity. I never even thought this was a possibility.WalrusPowers said:
I'll have to be more careful next time.
So, funny story, I was once stuck on one HP with one crew member after a huge ass battle and invasion. 4 jumps in a row lead me from one bullshit battle after another until I finally blew up.
Then I realised I was kinda close to getting the Tough Little Ship acheivement for The Kestrel. Fuck.
Then I realised I was kinda close to getting the Tough Little Ship acheivement for The Kestrel. Fuck.
I recently had my best ever playthrough using the Kestrel. I had a United Colors of Benneton crew going on...two Mantises (best boarding team ever), a Rock guy, a Zoltan, two Humans, an Engi, and a Slug. I had maxed out cloaking, some solid drones, a nice barrage of laser weapons, good shields and evasion, a bunch of gold-quality crew members...everything was roses. We took down the mothership stage 1 without taking a hit.
However, the critical weakness was no bombs. I'd shed my missile launcher earlier and ended up NOT replacing it with a missile using weapon, instead settling for a battery of lasers (9 shots per volley). Realistically, this should've been enough to take down the drone control in Phase 2. In actuality, I was missing 50% of my shots on every volley, and never got it below orange. I was pecked to death by drones, and my delightful melting pot crew died in the cold vacuum of space.
FML.
However, the critical weakness was no bombs. I'd shed my missile launcher earlier and ended up NOT replacing it with a missile using weapon, instead settling for a battery of lasers (9 shots per volley). Realistically, this should've been enough to take down the drone control in Phase 2. In actuality, I was missing 50% of my shots on every volley, and never got it below orange. I was pecked to death by drones, and my delightful melting pot crew died in the cold vacuum of space.
FML.
Well on the maiden voyage of the Space Titanic once I had reached sector 3 my first jump led me to the stasis pod, I was thrilled, the rest of the journey went swimmingly, I had 6 man, all human crew and a bad ass laser. Once I reached sector 7 I encountered quite a difficult battle that led to half the ship being on fire (Oxygen station to cockpit), naturally I opened the air locks and moved the crew to put the fires out. The ship that had caused the fires was nearly dead but with its final shot it destroyed my door controls, leaving me no way to close the airlocks and repair the door room. I got every crew member to attempt to repair the doors... There were no survivors...
My second victory was fun. I started off with a full crew and was doing all well and good untilt the final form of the flagship. I basically only had 3 laser weapons to use against it and the occasional missile, and while I was wearing it down, the flagship had so many missiles my crewmates were dropping like flies.
Everything was set to target shields and I had basically given up all hope. I sat back and let it play out and grabbed a magazine or something from the bookcase behind me. When I looked back, I had the end credits starting me in the face with some like 2 or 3 of my remaining crew being congratulated for defeating the flagship.
Everything was set to target shields and I had basically given up all hope. I sat back and let it play out and grabbed a magazine or something from the bookcase behind me. When I looked back, I had the end credits starting me in the face with some like 2 or 3 of my remaining crew being congratulated for defeating the flagship.
I remember my first victory on the Kestrel B. Everything on my ship ended being disabled due to damage, so I had everybody that was left (3 crewmen) retreat to the O2 room to repair it, leaving my weapon room functional, but on fire. Just as O2 was repaired, one of my crewmen asphyxiation anyway, but I got one last shot off to blow up the boss ship, leaving me with a mostly airless, on-fire, Kestrel.
Okay, so there was this one time I was taking on one of those small rebel cruisers and I had weaponry that included a teleporting fire bomb and a fire beam, so I was mainly using those for shits and giggles (and partially to see if I could get that achievement for setting every square of a ship on fire at once; unfortunately it's practically impossible). Anyway, I had their entire crew down to one guy who was hiding in the cockpit. Other than that their entire ship was on fire with every system broken; this guy couldn't even leave the room without dying instantly in the fire.
However, just when it looked like he was doomed for certain, the fires started going out. The combination of rampaging fires and a broken oxygen system meant that the fires had run out of air in the rest of the ship, leaving him alone and alive in the cockpit... Surviving by the skin of his teeth.
And that's when I teleported a fire bomb into the room with him.
However, just when it looked like he was doomed for certain, the fires started going out. The combination of rampaging fires and a broken oxygen system meant that the fires had run out of air in the rest of the ship, leaving him alone and alive in the cockpit... Surviving by the skin of his teeth.
And that's when I teleported a fire bomb into the room with him.
Most memorable part of a trip for me was when I lost it as the Torus Beta, watching my faithful droids trying ceaselessly to repair my poor crippled ship as Captain Fred the Engi slowly burned to death trying to fix the medbay...
One of my quickest losses, but I swear that can be just as fun as winning this game.
One of my quickest losses, but I swear that can be just as fun as winning this game.
I got ambushed by a rock ship that could disable my shields 100% of the time with an ion cannon, then used an incredibly weak weapon that was just enough to keep my weapons offline, since most of my crew were mantis. I died.
I turned off my oxygen generator for a second so that I could have all my strongest weapons on at once, to quickly kill them before they killed me. I forgot to turn it back on after the fight, and was scrambling around trying to realise why my crew was getting damaged. I died.
There was a ship I was fighting that had enough weapons to knock out three systems at once, but usually couldn't manage to because of my fairly good shields. Sadly, there was a solar flare that managed to kill off my shield generator, then the enemy ship killed all my other systems so literally nothing was online, and I only had 3 crew. I died.
I'm completely incompetent at this game, and it's awesome
I turned off my oxygen generator for a second so that I could have all my strongest weapons on at once, to quickly kill them before they killed me. I forgot to turn it back on after the fight, and was scrambling around trying to realise why my crew was getting damaged. I died.
There was a ship I was fighting that had enough weapons to knock out three systems at once, but usually couldn't manage to because of my fairly good shields. Sadly, there was a solar flare that managed to kill off my shield generator, then the enemy ship killed all my other systems so literally nothing was online, and I only had 3 crew. I died.
I'm completely incompetent at this game, and it's awesome
I've had this game for over a week, and I'm ashamed to admit that even on easy mode I've only got as far as destroying the first form flagship. At the time I didn't even know there WERE more forms, I thought I had finally won until it warped out while falling to pieces. Had to limp with heavy damage to a repair station four or five jumps away and got killed by a scout ship en route. Words cannot describe the rage.
My favourite run involved getting stuck at a dead end beacon and having to do six jumps through the enemy fleet, carving a path to the sector beacon and escaping with minimal problems. Some rebel fleet commanders must have got quite a stern lecture that day.
My least favourite run was the last one I just finished, where I was heavily loaded with energy and ion weapons but my fully trained weapons officer somehow managed to miss almost every single shot. Worf, she was not. Got as far as the first flagship this time but it got a few lucky missiles in and broke pretty much every system and set fire to everything else in just one or two volleys.
Also, and I know this is a silly gripe, but why on Earth does the Federation fleet insist on sending a single light cruiser with patchwork repairs and a skeleton crew against the enemy flagship? I know the idea is that they're using every other ship to keep the rebel fleet at bay, but I encountered one non-combat beacon which the flavour text said had multiple DREADNOUGHTS just floating around waiting for something to happen. Send THOSE buggers after the damn flagship!
EDIT: Incidentally, apologies if I inadvertently necroed this thread, just noticed it's been a few days since the last reply. Blame the new site layout which put a link to this on my homepage.
My favourite run involved getting stuck at a dead end beacon and having to do six jumps through the enemy fleet, carving a path to the sector beacon and escaping with minimal problems. Some rebel fleet commanders must have got quite a stern lecture that day.
My least favourite run was the last one I just finished, where I was heavily loaded with energy and ion weapons but my fully trained weapons officer somehow managed to miss almost every single shot. Worf, she was not. Got as far as the first flagship this time but it got a few lucky missiles in and broke pretty much every system and set fire to everything else in just one or two volleys.
Also, and I know this is a silly gripe, but why on Earth does the Federation fleet insist on sending a single light cruiser with patchwork repairs and a skeleton crew against the enemy flagship? I know the idea is that they're using every other ship to keep the rebel fleet at bay, but I encountered one non-combat beacon which the flavour text said had multiple DREADNOUGHTS just floating around waiting for something to happen. Send THOSE buggers after the damn flagship!
EDIT: Incidentally, apologies if I inadvertently necroed this thread, just noticed it's been a few days since the last reply. Blame the new site layout which put a link to this on my homepage.
So there was one time I actually cheated my way to the best possible ship in frustration about losing to the rebel flagship in easy mode several times.
During the final battle, my neighbor rang at my door and asked me to help her out with fixing her window (being 6'4'' kind of makes you the go-to person for that9.
When I came back I noticed that I had forgotten to pause the game.
I tried cheating again, this time to forget that I had left a pan full of water on the stove. When I noticed, I was - you guessed it - fighting the rebel flagship. Again, forgetting to pause hurts.
Lesson: Don't cheat. FTL WILL bend reality to screw you over anyway.
During the final battle, my neighbor rang at my door and asked me to help her out with fixing her window (being 6'4'' kind of makes you the go-to person for that9.
When I came back I noticed that I had forgotten to pause the game.
I tried cheating again, this time to forget that I had left a pan full of water on the stove. When I noticed, I was - you guessed it - fighting the rebel flagship. Again, forgetting to pause hurts.
Lesson: Don't cheat. FTL WILL bend reality to screw you over anyway.
I actually beat the Rebel flagship the first time by surprise. Then again, I had gotten really lucky with the event leading up and it was on easy. Still, Engi Cruiser with 2 rocket launchers and drone spam worked surprisingly well (I had like 40-50 missiles in store because I didn't ever use them).
The second time was a lot more surprising; So I was in the stealth cruiser, just trying it out. After numerous close calls (including losing my helm guy who was at max skill D:< ) somehow made it to the final sector. The ship had no drones or shields, and was relying on an odd mix of glaive beam, ion blast 2, and I think some random dual laser. The first fight went well, with only minimal damage to myself. The second run, well, lets just say I wasn't particularly good versus drones. Dropped to around 25% hull before I finally took it down. Without any repair places in sight, I just followed the flagship.
About 10 minutes later, and numerous yells of "ohgodweareallgoingtodie" (I was playing with several friends who also owned the game nearby) and the rebel flagship goes down. At this point, the 2 people in the room who also played the game a lot got really annoyed (they still haven't beaten the game once) since my half hearted attempt (well initially, I started trying a ton once I realized I was on sector 7 and doing well) still managed to make it through.
Unfortunately, I still didn't manage to get more than one of the stealth cruiser achievements, so the alternative layout stills eludes me.
The second time was a lot more surprising; So I was in the stealth cruiser, just trying it out. After numerous close calls (including losing my helm guy who was at max skill D:< ) somehow made it to the final sector. The ship had no drones or shields, and was relying on an odd mix of glaive beam, ion blast 2, and I think some random dual laser. The first fight went well, with only minimal damage to myself. The second run, well, lets just say I wasn't particularly good versus drones. Dropped to around 25% hull before I finally took it down. Without any repair places in sight, I just followed the flagship.
About 10 minutes later, and numerous yells of "ohgodweareallgoingtodie" (I was playing with several friends who also owned the game nearby) and the rebel flagship goes down. At this point, the 2 people in the room who also played the game a lot got really annoyed (they still haven't beaten the game once) since my half hearted attempt (well initially, I started trying a ton once I realized I was on sector 7 and doing well) still managed to make it through.
Unfortunately, I still didn't manage to get more than one of the stealth cruiser achievements, so the alternative layout stills eludes me.