FTL: Faster Than Light - Amazing 9 Dollar Roguelike

Post by **Troy** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:20 pm

This is like some bizarre cross between a classic Roguelike, Oregon Trail, and Freelancer.

You get a ship, a basic starting crew, and direction to fly in (away from the enemy invasion). You jump from planet to planet, sector to sector, and pick up new crew, lose crew in hilarious fashion, weapons, armor, ship augmentations, cash monies, fuel, the list goes on.

The game was like 10 dollars, and I've sunk a ridiculous amount of time into it already. Buy it direct or on Steam.

Link for the lazy: Here

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WSGrundy · Post by **WSGrundy** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:57 pm

I keep wanting to get this and then I keep looking at the games that I haven't played yet and decide to wait.

Have you played a full game? Is it a long play through or are they smaller/shorter games because it is randomized?

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Post by **Troy** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:51 pm

WSGrundy wrote:I keep wanting to get this and then I keep looking at the games that I haven't played yet and decide to wait.

Have you played a full game? Is it a long play through or are they smaller/shorter games because it is randomized?

It's an easy pick-up put-down game. There are 10+ different base ship types to unlock as well (or just download a save with them already done).

Games can be super short if you die early, but won't last longer than an hour or two. I haven't beaten it yet, and have been playing on the hardest difficulty.

Edit: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you will adore this game.

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Post by **Leisher** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:42 am

I'll grab it during a Steam sale.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:44 am

Kinda want.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:58 am

Troy wrote:Edit: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you will adore this game.

It sounds like something I would love, but the videos always look like it would be boring and/or annoying. But with this note I'm sold.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:32 am

TPRJones wrote:
Troy wrote:Edit: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you will adore this game.
It sounds like something I would love, but the videos always look like it would be boring and/or annoying. But with this note I'm sold.

You were sold before that note.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:36 am

Sneaky.

Thanks. Now if I could only stop playing Guild Wars 2 for more than ten minutes at a stretch... :p

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:48 am

I was going to buy it for myself, but then I realized I would never play it.

WSGrundy · Post by **WSGrundy** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:06 pm

Still $5 on steam and it is really hard and really awesome.

Post by **TPRJones** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:32 am

Yeah, I spent a week doing nothing but playing this game.

It was a good week.

Post by **Leisher** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:46 am

I might give this a play during lunch today.

Post by **Troy** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:38 pm

Hardest start that I have found is the alternate Engi ship.

One crew, fuck loads of useless drones, no sensors. If you can somehow luck into a few extra crew events, it becomes powerful as hell... otherwise... deathtrap.

WSGrundy · Post by **WSGrundy** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:17 pm

What are you strategies. I am dying quite a bit. I know that is part of the game design but I think my biggest flaw is I try to hit too many sites and I inevitably end up running into a ship boarding or too close to a star with low hull integrity.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:33 pm

Well, just played this the first time.

Made it through the first few sectors, died in #4. On easy.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:50 pm

Well, my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th games were considerably shorter.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:33 pm

Did not know what the phrase roguelike meant before playing this game.

I now know it means "game that makes me want to beat the shit out of my keyboard"

Post by **Troy** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:08 pm

I hope that comes after switching to normal...

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:34 pm

TheCatt wrote:Did not know what the phrase roguelike meant before playing this game.

I now know it means "game that makes me want to beat the shit out of my keyboard"

None of you remember the punch to the dick that was (I guess technically still is) NetHack, do you?

NetHack's grandpappy, the legend.

Rogue was ported by Michael Toy and Jon Lane to the IBM PC in 1984 ... According to Lane, Dennis Ritchie was quoted as saying that Rogue "wasted more CPU time than anything in history."

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Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:46 pm

Troy wrote:I hope that comes after switching to normal...

Uh... no.