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Fri Jan 04, 2013 8:48 pm
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Anybody else playing this game?
FTL is awesome!
I got it on Steam!
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Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:30 pm
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Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:19 am
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Sat Jan 05, 2013 4:22 pm
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What exactly is FTL?
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FTL is a space roguelike. The story is simple enough, you are carrying vital inteligence about the enemy to your allies. You fly through several sectors of space and fight other vessels, all the while staying ahead of the advancing enemy fleet.
Within each sector are locations from asteroid fields to nebulas where you can encounter people in need, people who want to kill you or just empty space.
The fighting for FTL is based on a management system where you can allocate power to certain systems of your ship, command your crew to man different parts of your ship, fend of invading crews and even invade ships yourself. The ships are broken up into rooms with different systems and the weapons can be directly targeted to those rooms. There's not a lot of fancy flying around and manouvering, but when you're juggling half a dozen crew to A. fight invading crew, B. repair damaged systems, and C. retreat to a secure part of the ship so you can open the airlocks and vent the atmosphere in order to put out a raging fire.... all at once, you kinda don't want to worry about directing how your ship flies. Besides, there's the "dodge chance" to take care of that.
Everything from what you meet at your next jump to the weapons (if any) sold at the next store is randomised. The game is 93% luck and 10% skill, literally. No matter how good you might be, some runs the game will give you the crappiest generation you could think of... and that's just starting off. I've had fantastic runs ruined by a single turn of horrid luck. I've had crewmembers aged backwards until they blink out of existence and I've had my power supplies cut in half from ion storms while I'm being attacked by an unmanned drone with highly powerful lasers and missiles.
The game can seem brutal, and in many respects is, but it's a hell of a lot of fun to play and quite humourus at times.
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Sat Jan 05, 2013 4:25 pm
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Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:26 pm
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| The game looks to be a bit of a combination between Star Trek and Terraria. |
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Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:55 pm
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| Rune174 wrote: |
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The game looks to be a bit of a combination between Star Trek and Terraria.
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Star Trek Online.... perhaps a little bit. Terraria? I... don't see it. |
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:58 am
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| Would they happen to have a demo lying around? |
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:10 am
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| Rune174 wrote: |
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Would they happen to have a demo lying around?
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No. There's several videos of gameplay on youtube, though. |
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:42 am
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| I just looked at it. It looks like alot of fun and not system intensive |
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:48 am
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| Rune174 wrote: |
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I just looked at it. It looks like alot of fun and not system intensive
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I don't believe so.
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:25 am
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| Well, once I get some money to play around with, which won't be anytime soon, I'll pick it up as something to try. |
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 12:27 pm
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Steam had a 50% holiday sale for $5. Not sure if its still going on.
Definitely alot of fun.
I pause the game alot to make my decisions.
I unlocked all the ships so far except slug. working on that now. |
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:04 pm
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| Ronald wrote: |
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I unlocked all the ships so far except slug. working on that now.
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I'm missing the Rock, the Stealth and the "mystery" ship... I think that's it.
And yeah, being able to pause to give commands it a MASSIVE help. |
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Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:38 pm
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| I wonder if it is similar, if not less advanced than a game I once knew called Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. |
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