Comments on: Some FTL tips

By: Hiland

Hiland — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:02:43 +0000

Two fire bombs should be enough to kill the crew and burn out the isolated weapons on the flagship. You really only need to worry about the lasers and the projectiles, and leave the beam and ion. It’s a good idea to spend the first encounter picking off as much of their crew as possible, so they won’t start teleporting over in the 3rd encounter.

By: Kestrelguy

Kestrelguy — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 21:29:15 +0000

I enjoy using teleportation and hacking together as you can stop enemies from attacking your guys while they are destroying a vital part of the ship, i will take some of these tips into account as i am only able to get to the 6th sector before getting destroyed by flak and fires :(

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:26:11 +0000

I don’t think they do that — however, there’s an option (I don’t have the game handy so I can’t say exactly where it is) in the options menu that draws lines between every star that can be traveled to/from when you mouse over the star. So there’s no need to ever get stuck like that again!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:17:54 +0000

Do upgraded engines allow your ship to jump greater distances? If not, I think this would have been a good feature to build into the game. I often make the mistake of painting myself into a corner, and having to backtrack to hit the next waypoint.

By: Vile

Vile — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:48:04 +0000

Same goes for enemies who cannot breach your shields, have no bombs/missiles, and you can attack it without breaching their shields. A way to level up the whole crew in first 2 sectors. Just need to power down the engine when pilot/engine pilots became gold so the shield guy won’t have a disadvantage.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:59:04 +0000

One trick I found and use constantly is in an asteroid field – even after combat, your shield guy keeps getting shield xp under the barrage of asteroids, at a rate of 1 shield xp per asteroid impact. Make sure you have lv2 or above shields to absorb the blows without the possibility of damaging your hull. It’s basically free shield xp for everyone on board provided you have the time to wait for those 50+ impacts per crewmember.

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:33:20 +0000

The thing is, you can learn to get good at the game, and you can do pretty well with any combination of stuff the game throws at you. That’s the brilliance of its design.

By: 69infil

69infil — Thu, 09 May 2013 08:48:53 +0000

This is useful, but the main prblem is simple: you dont always get what you nees right off the bat, it was pretty lucky of you to be able to get the stuff, me? 25th run on easy, still havent beat, its not so much of skill as it is luck

By: connery0

connery0 — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:18:53 +0000

since you didn’t use a teleporter, it’s normal that you forgot a other very important tip, if you kill the enemy crew and don’t destroy the ship you always get more scrap and other stuff, and as greg said, doing this with a slaver will let you choose one of 3 races, wich can be great if you need a mantis for boarding or a extra engi

By: BoB

BoB — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:28:10 +0000

Really? I was trying to destroy their oxygen ….