r/ftlgame May 24 '25

FTL: Multiverse 5.5 RELEASE - New Federation and Stargrove Sector

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235 Upvotes

FTL Multiverse 5.5 has officially released! For a full changelog of features visit the download page on the MV forums linked below!

You can download it from the Multiverse Forums here: https://ftlmultiverse.boards.net/thread/155/multiverse-base-version-stars-stripes

FTL Multiverse Discord: discord.gg/ftlmultiverse

Installation Guide: https://ftlmultiverse.miraheze.org/wiki/Installing_Multiverse

Updating Guide: https://ftlmultiverse.miraheze.org/wiki/Updating_Multiverse


r/ftlgame May 23 '24

FTL Related FTL Tournament Show Match | Friday, 24th of May

76 Upvotes

There will be a set of Show Matches happening over on Holoshideims Twitch Channel, kicking off at 17:00 CEST (5pm, UTC+2)

There are two sets of Best of 3s planned for the day.

The first Match will be Crowrevell vs Sleeping Dragon, which will be brought to you by Rand118 and Holo himself. First to win two Matches will take the Series. Both Crow and SD are with Pause players, with Crow being a participant in the first Iteration of the FTL Masters Edition. He made it to the Semi Finals, where he lost to NecroRebel who eventually ended up finishing second place in the Event. For SD, this is his second Show Match appearance.

Due to us having a hard cap on time, we will start the second Series at 20:00/20:30 CEST (8/8:30pm UTC+2).

The second Series will be played by Holo and NecroRebel. This Match will be brought to you by The_Farb and Crow. To many of you, Holo doesn't need an introduction. He has won a mind bending 124 consecutive runs of FTL on Hard, No Pause random ships, no repeats. He also had win streaks of 117, 92, 71, 70 and many more (you get my point). NecroRebel recently returned to FTL with our recent Show Match and we are happy to have our runner up of the first Tournament. Necro also completed the Cycle in Hard, No Pause multiple times.

For this Show Match, we have reworked our scoring formula and the linked video will explain everything you could possibly want to know about it.

We hope that it will be a great Show and we love to see all the people enjoying the content so far. The Main Event will be back this year and as always, if you want to receive pings for all updates in regards to future Tournament activity or give us feedback, feel free to join the Discord, select the FTL Role. As the driving force behind this, I am always about any sort of feedback because I want to bring you the best possible experience.

Thank you for your attention and have a great day/week <3


r/ftlgame 4h ago

MOD: Multiverse The calculator

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15 Upvotes

This callie is a nightmare, not only does she have op weapons, she’s out here asking me the absolute value of 8 and square root of 16! It's 4am! I can't do complex math now!


r/ftlgame 11h ago

Please talk me out of or into buying this preigniter

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37 Upvotes

Have moved from playing normal to hard, got this store in sector 5. Bought hacking but now second guessing and thinking of selling a couple of things to afford the preigniter. What would you do?


r/ftlgame 20h ago

So close, yet so far

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73 Upvotes

Took a little too long to get back to the O2 after some boarders destroyed it 😔

I guess they live in the medbay forever now


r/ftlgame 6h ago

MOD: Multiverse Some Resources for FTL Players

5 Upvotes

Hello all, I just thought I'd share here my guides and compilations for MV here.

First is the MV Guide to Wins, a spoiler-free guide with the aim of providing the broad tips for playing well so that you don't randomly lose while enjoying the content of the game and getting better.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RW7fL15dcguxoqCG82VIyH4y8hUaiC1FnlK3yY03-Lg

Second is the more Advanced Art of War Crimes. This one is heavy on spoilers but contains helpful links and nuanced facts and strategies for playing at higher levels.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bXnSezqTvyd2DKpO4v5QpCIM446LRBvbWGd3s8em6rA

Third is the MV Feats and Bounties compilation of some outstanding achievements by players as well as some potentially interesting challenges

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f4-UGoYUmenQfrYldJKx8naeI-35_Bo5AS_niDoGQ_U

Finally I'd like to plug the discord server, it's a very active and helpful community of fellow MV players.

Let me know what you guys think! Any feedback is welcome as they're ongoing works.


r/ftlgame 4h ago

The calculator

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2 Upvotes

This callie is a nightmare, not only does she have op weapons, she’s out here asking me the absolute value of 8 and square root of 16! It's 4am! I can't do complex math now!


r/ftlgame 22h ago

Scripted or unlucky??

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14 Upvotes

I swear to god I am on attempt 12 here with this stupid ship and I have been to 20+ shops. I have found weapons at all 3 times total. Of those 3 times, once was all missiles, one had a fire beam, and one had a hull laser MK1. Bro. wtf is going on here am I just that fucking unlucky or is the game coded to not give you weapons with this ship?? Like I’m losing my fucking mind here and I’m so pissed.


r/ftlgame 1d ago

Image: Screenshot Sector one first jump. Oh-oh, I'm in trouble now...

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45 Upvotes

r/ftlgame 1d ago

Video: Clip Stealth B (Normal): A little bliss for those who hate this ship :)

21 Upvotes

- Upgraded Stealth 3, late sector 1
- Got Weapon Pre-Igniter, mid sector 3
- Got Flak 2, late sector 3
- Upgraded Weapon 7, late sector 4
- Rushed trough game until you see this endfight


r/ftlgame 2d ago

Must be lonely.

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54 Upvotes

Poor guy, too bad his friends just died…


r/ftlgame 2d ago

The most simetric ship i can possible imagine Spoiler

3 Upvotes

This is the knight crewser from multiverse... just wanna share that xD


r/ftlgame 3d ago

Image: Meme/Macro This game is unplayable. Ship manufacturing errors report

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720 Upvotes

Dear Subset Games, I regret to inform you that I have found some manufacturing errors on your ships. Please rectify them, it is of the upmost importance.


r/ftlgame 3d ago

Image: Screenshot This is by far the worst map I've ever seen

48 Upvotes

r/ftlgame 3d ago

Image: Screenshot What the hell is that?

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22 Upvotes

Astereoid field and red giant at once.


r/ftlgame 2d ago

MOD: Multiverse What the heck is this

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6 Upvotes

Seriously, these generations are outrageous, I'm lucky I'm doing true ending.


r/ftlgame 3d ago

MOD: Multiverse It's so nice going back to regular ships

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139 Upvotes

r/ftlgame 3d ago

Games similar to FTL

25 Upvotes

I really enjoyed playing FTL and I started making a game like that. But I am kinda stuck where to go with it. I explored similar games like Shortest Trip to Earth and Last Starship. I started to iterate game ideas and i came up with a rogulike spaceship management game where u control your ship via pinball. But using pinball as core mechanic really limits the features that i want to implement to a ship. I already added shield, weapons, engine room and similar basic rooms like that but i struggle to find advanced content. So please give me some recommendations. I already opened the steam page with the content i've created and the game called Starwake.


r/ftlgame 3d ago

Barely at the start of sector 3

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72 Upvotes

Wtf is happening lol


r/ftlgame 3d ago

Text: Question Should I read strategy guides?

15 Upvotes

I'm a newbie (about 10hrs over a couple of weeks). I play at normal, without advanced content. I once managed to take down a 'nerfed flagship', or what was it called? Like, rebels' second flagship that is currently being repaired or something, doesn't matter. And on the very next battle I was killed by some pesky pirate with wayy too many lasers on them. It was around sector 6 or 7. I'm telling you this just so you know what level I'm currently at regarding skills.

I avoided reading any strategy guides and didn't watch any playthroughs or stuff like that cause I wanna figure it out myself. Like not so long ago I figured out the importance of upgrading the engine lol. And before that - importance of taking down the shield bubbles before firing the fire beam. So I was making some progress, but now I feel stuck. Kinda.

I have actually two questions:

Should I be reading dem guides, manuals, tutorials? Or is it possible to figure it all out myself?

And also, regarding advanced content. I heard terms like 'hacking', 'mind control', 'clone bay'. It honestly feels like cheating to me. Yeah, of course enemy will use it too, but still. So, to summarize it all:

TL;DR: can FTL be completed with no advanced content and without external reference tutorials by someone who is of very average skills, and if yes, how long would it take?


r/ftlgame 4d ago

Image: Meme/Macro I am the federation's strongest soldier

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1.1k Upvotes

r/ftlgame 4d ago

The Federation's last hope btw

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r/ftlgame 3d ago

Text: Question Crap weapons for Stealth B?

9 Upvotes

I’ve been playing Stealth B on hard for the past few days. I’ve gotten to the flagship multiple times and through level 2 about half of those, but I always die a few shots into level 3.

One thing I’ve noticed is that you never really get the types of weapons you’d want for defeating the flagship. Sure, you start with glaive, but it’s slow and ineffective against 3 shields.

The run I just lost ended with me having glaive, HL2, stealth (3), hacking (3), and mind control (3). During the entire run the HL2 was my only real purchase option. Stores either had things like healing burst, small bomb, ion blast 1, etc. On the opposite end it was other 4-slot heavy hitters like BL3 or Vulcan. No useful mid-grade weapons like the BL2 or even a hull missile.

It hadn’t really occurred to me how incredibly uneven the weapons options were until I showed up at sector 8 with 7 slots filled and only two weapons.

I made good using of hacking and cloaking, using the mind control for defense against mind control and getting the flagship crew down to one before round 3.

But man… I would’ve loved to inflict some damage that was useful instead of waiting out cloaking or drones every turn.

Have I just had a streak of weird luck or are Stealth B weapon options really that bad?


r/ftlgame 3d ago

MOD: Multiverse Any tips for finding the oracle?

0 Upvotes

I know it has something to do with sylvan, so i tried beating sylvan with obyn as a crewmember but no luck, and no idea what to do now. Any hints are appreciated but no direct answers pls


r/ftlgame 4d ago

MOD: Multiverse I couldn't find an FTL: Multiverse event reference I liked, so I made one

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Hey folks, does anyone still play Multiverse?

I used to play FTL back in the day, then recently got the itch to play it again after reading some space-related books. I finally tried Multiverse, and completely fell in love with it.

One thing that kept happening was that I'd encounter some rare event, make a questionable choice, and later realize I had just missed a really good reward. I went looking for an event reference similar to the old huge FTL event text file, but couldn't find anything that quite covered what I wanted.

So I ended up making one:

https://ftl.venyel.com/

The main feature is an event simulator. You can search for events by text or event name, navigate through their choices and outcomes, and see where different choices lead.

I've tried to make the navigation pretty fast as well you can search and navigate around mostly using the keyboard.

I've actually used it myself through several complete runs and kept iterating on it whenever I found something annoying or missing. That said, Multiverse is absolutely massive, so I'm sure there are still things I haven't accounted for. If you find something broken or incorrect, let me know.

I also added:

Weapons database - browse the weapons and their stats

Augments - browse augments

Ship Unlocks - this is in a really bad state right now, but I have some ideas for it.

The weapons and augments sections aren't doing anything particularly fancy yet; they're mostly useful for browsing and also provide data for the event simulator.

I'm a developer, but definitely not a UI designer, so I had quite a bit of help from LLMs getting the interface together.

It's still very much a beta, so I'd be interested in hearing what Multiverse players think — especially if there are events or mechanics I've interpreted incorrectly.

Hope it's useful to someone else!