7 Great Tips to Improve at FTL Faster Than Light - Tips & Tricks Strategy Guide

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This game feels like playing a slot machine.

When I was younger I named my crewmembers after my family members and cried when they died

this game is impossible

There are slug cruisers with oxygen rooms that have no doors. If those ships can’t hurt you (which I often find can happen), then you can get easy crew kills on them by just taking out that room and letting them suffocate

I had no idea you had played FTL! (Or maybe I did, and you were the reason FTL was on my Steam Wishlist...and I just forgot! LOL)

Hey mdb, what? I just got this game for like $2 and was looking for a guide and I was like, "I know that pfp..."

Another reliable way to kill enemy crew is keeping their o2 system ionized
It's still possible if you can't keep it fully locked down as long as it is locked down more than half the time and they have only 1 level in o2

Screw your thumbnail, I'm genuinely upset

funny that after all this time of watching your pokemon videos I find this after being gifted a fun looking game on steam

Thanks for all the tips and people in the comments as well. I’m going to give normal mode another go.

Is into the breach any good?

every single one of these tips was great!

Got ftl about a year ago and played nonstop for about 3 weeks. Just got back into it so this is a great refresher

Clone bay with your teleporter will make permanently killing your guys impossible. Especially when you accidentally blow up the enemy ship.
Edit: although, you could also just get gud, and not let your crew die.

that moment when you spend 10 mins afk skill farming for your crew and then get killed in the next system

pov you thought this was arubiks cube vid

i feel like im a bit late to the party so to speak haha. But this video really helped me, thanks bro

1 more tip upgrade points in O² . If you need to go thought secteros with nebula and level 2 sensors is like 50 scrap and they are given tou blue options at those sectors.

I end up spending like 5 hours every time getting to the final boss then loosing becouse the boss is way to hard compared to other enemys (at least on easy) and I end up not beeing able to get trough the bosses shield long enough to both diable his shields and weapons I have to wait for all my weopons to charge to then only get maybe 1 shot worth of damage in. The boss is just waaaay to hard compared to early enemy resulting in even bad runs still getting to the final boss.

The infinite XP trick works really well if you upgrade your shields early. If you have a weak weapon, that wont accidently kill your enemy, you can even gather weapon xp

the issue i have is that i dont feel like theres any way i could possibly improve, aside from playing the game so much that i have every event memorized. every good run i have dies at the flagship's first stage without fail (i play in advanced edition). every time i think i have a chance it pulls out some new bullshit and absolutely destroys me. how was i supposed to know that once you kill all the crew it switches to an ai controlled system and repairs all the guns?? it just feels a bit unfair to me. its not like i even really had a good chance of beating it completely anyways, i was expecting to probably die at the second stage. i just wanted to SEE the second stage at least.

With the Torus (Engi A) you have the ion II blaster. If you run into a ship that can't damage you, leave this weapon on autofire and target shields. Its 4 second charge time makes it insanely efficient at crew training, so I like to cycle through my crew when I can to have spare maxed crewmembers if one guy dies.

Only tips that matter to me is a good RNG, I have such bad RNG that skill does not matter.

Dude the last tip was amazing

Also, if you’re incapable of piercing their shields with your current armament in the early game but also can’t be hurt, cycle the crew in between rooms. Weapons to Engines, to shields, to piloting, to weapons.

The crew can be completely trained while you cook some food or take a shower. It‘s a massive advantage.

You can also skill up your weapons crew member by having them shoot weapons on auto pilot that won't kill the enemy ship.

Another tip: having 2 or 4 Zoltan’s in shield prevents the enemy from a fully ion shield and it even helps early game

these are some pretty good tips, but... spoilers man. i only have the 2nd ship!




see what i did there? no spoilers. *mic drop*

Very helpful.

I would love knocking out their 02 and let them suffocate

I got 3 engi and 1 ant on my crew by level 3. It was awesome. Invasions didnt even matter. I lost on the 7th level. When they got 4 shields and robots, its all a matter of time.

Just started playing this game and kept Ed getting destroyed by enemy’s boarding my ship. Not because they would punch me to death but because my first instinct was to open all the doors and say welp we all gonna now and then they run to my oxygen and break it so for sure we are gonna die

Bit of a bonus for that last one. Leave a low damage weapon on auto fire or an ion weapon. Max them out as well. Also if you have strong enough shields you can afk in an asteroid field after killing the enemy to increase that way to.

Getting back into FTL, this was insanely helpful, thanks!

best game ever, the end.

At the final boss if you use raiding parties, leave one guy alive in the less dangerous middle weapon room, this way, the ship cant repair itself, and that one crew member cant repair it either, since theyre isolated from the rest of the ship, to make it easier to kill all the other crewmembers, if you have mind control and teleport, you can mind control a crewmember, then you can "kidnap" them by teleporting them on the ship, you can kill the ship's crew one by one like this.

Then theres me who cheats in max scrap and still cant even make it to the flagship.

tysm

tried to do that skill grind with only one shield, 3 minutes in my ship is almost dead and started the downward spiral that let to that run's end.

You don't play FTL. FTL plays with you and cheats you.

That last tip was so clutch

I just started playing (shocking, I know) so far I found out that getting lv 2 shields is really good as many early ships can't get through them.

Also - and I know this is beginners only: Don'T leave all the doors in your ship closed at default as if the doors break all your guys are locked in the room whereever they are.

This missed the most important rule, spend your first 50 scrap on ur second shield. I only break this rule on ships if i find a fantastic weapon in the shop or my ship has some sort massive weakness i need to fix. GL

Teleport onto the enemys ship and open their doors

I'd like to add to consider cost/reward carefully, as opposed to just stockpiling missiles, or killing ships as quickly as possible.
As a rule of thumb, a missile costs 6 scrap, a point of hull damage costs 2 scrap. So, if a missile can prevent 3 damage, it's a neutral investment.
If you have a surplus of missiles, you may want to lower the exchange rate.
If you are low on health, you may want to increase the exchange rate.
The same reasoning applies to drones.
I also gave the game's inherent costs as an example. Your loadout and personal play-style may be a bit different, so don't be afraid to change your values slightly (I wouldn't stray too far from 3-1 as a general rule of thumb though.)
Also, don't buy hull repair until there's a real threat of a game over. You can always buy as much as you want at any store, and keeping the opportunity around to buy permanent upgrades until then is potentially more useful. Also, generally don't repair to full health. If you do, and then run into an event that freely repairs you, that opportunity goes to waste.

USE THE DOORS

I Think that you can use enemy ship to Max out the skills for your gunner too, with simply damaging it's shields

my dude, thanks for the guide and for not stretching this out to 10 min unnecessary

There is only tips for boarding and boss...