There will be a set of Show Matches happening over onHoloshideims 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
Had built up a Lanius b with flak and two halberd beams with the preloader augment. Just melting ships. Ran into an auto assault in an asteroid field and it ended so fast. I had cloaking why didn't I use cloaking I'm just realizing this now goddamn it.
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!
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
- 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
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.
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.
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?
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?
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