#FASTER THAN LIGHT GAME UPDATE#

Fires that start will spread from room to room. Holes get punctured in your hull from breaching weapons that you need to fix. If your oxygen room gets taken out everyone on your ship will die. If your engines get taken out you can’t move. You have a limited crew and your ship has areas that get damaged, so you send the crew to repair those areas. This ensures that you never feel overpowered, but it doesn’t hinder your exploration. You can slow the progress of the wave by visiting locations in nebula and other things that can slow the wave. The only way to reset the wave is to exit the sector and visit a new sector. You can survive the first ship or two, but the ships will always be at your next location if you let their wave of progress overtake you. You’re always being perused and the enemy fleet will progress like a wave to catch you. When you explore too leisurely visiting every location the fleet might catch up. How long can your crew survive without oxygen, because you need more power to your shields, engines or weapons? Its up to you and it feels so good to have the choice and the variety. Sometimes you’ll fly into a nebula that will drain your reactor power, so you’ll have to chose what you want active. The game forces you to mix up your strategies.

A clone bay that revives crew when they’ve died. Hacking that breaks a room on an enemy ship over and over again while locking the doors of the room to ensure no one can get in or out. A mind control room that you can mind control the enemy crew.

#FASTER THAN LIGHT GAME UPDATE#

A free update for the game “advanced edition,” added so many new rooms with new tactics and strategies. Systems that all require power from the reactor. There are other rooms like oxygen, medbays to heal, cloaking to ensure enemies can’t shoot you, teleporters to take a ship from the inside, oxygen, sensors, droid room and even a door mechanism room. Most ships have bridges, engines, shields and weapons. They’re stuck on the ship until the teleporter is ready again.Įach ship is different, even if it looks the same on the outside, the rooms and weapons are different. You can teleport over a party, but if the ship gets destroyed or escapes, your crew will be lost! The teleporter has a cool down after its used. There are ion weapons that temporarily disable rooms or shields. Lasers will damage the shield, but unless the shield room itself gets damaged, the shields merely regenerate. Beam weapons won’t affect the shield at all. Torpedoes can go through the shield but cost you a torpedo. To get to the hull, you need to get through the shields. Even if a crew constantly repairs everything you damage, they can’t repair the hull.

The combat feels relaxing, fun and engaging with some tense moments, like having to fight next to a sun, hoping the flames don’t burn your ship from the inside out, but its never stressful. Its all point and click with a few hot keys.

Weapons will power over time and you can fire them one by one, or save up all your weapons to use them all at once. This is where the real thrill comes in for me. For the most part you’ll be fighting other ships, one on one. There are ship upgrades that will let you see various things on the map like where hostile ships are or if its a dangerous location.Īt its core, FTL is a real time strategy game with a pause. Each one of the locations is a gamble, will they have an enemy ship? Maybe a friendly ship? Perhaps a quest that will ask you to visit a different location on the map. From there you need to plot a course in your mind to the exit of the sector. When you enter a sector, you see all the locations as dots on your star map. Each sector is like a game map with several locations. You are tasked with traveling through the galaxy, visiting sectors along the way. This is one of the only games that I sank time into and it was fun doing it. There are some real difficulty spikes that lead me to believe that its a dead end and impossible to beat that specific random challenge. Its fun, challenging, diverse and random. Faster than Light is an awesome top down, real time strategy, star ship simulator.

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