Your "Fuck you, FTL" Moments

[SgtFrog]

I was doing my 1st run on the Bulwark (rock ship) and I was doing fantastic. 5/8 crew (3 rocks 2 engi) and I had found a burst laser 3 while clearing out a ship. I was close to powering it when the game threw 6 mantis invaders on my ship. Seriously? They destroyed everything and I died. I was very sad.

I'd like to re-use the "kick me in the balls then spit in my mouth when I scream" here. It seems like it would be fairly close to the frustration and rage you're feeling right now. Or at least the rage I'd be feeling. Seriously, six invaders?!

[UltraMantis]

PumpkinHead how good was your MedBay? Unless they were max skill Mantis a lvl2 MedBay should have recovered your health enough to still save 3 Rockmen, possibly more if you could pause and move people quickly enough.

Fighting in the MedBay while venting the rest of the ship is the time honored tactic of fending off boarders. You can heal more than 3 crew by running the rest through the room. It requires plenty of pausing and the enemy ship will have an advantage.

[The Captain]

Except you can't vent the Rock B.

See what happened when I got boarded by a horde of Mantises.

[SgtFrog]

FTL has found a new way to screw me over. I enter a science vessel that has a distress call, so I look inside. Suddenly, "one of my crewmates violently spasms", and I lose him. Even worse, there are now four boarders on my ship...and he's one of them. Argh.

[UltraMantis]

One does not simply open a treasure chest in FTL. Not without counting the limbs he could lose if it explodes.

[SgtFrog]

One does not simply open a treasure chest in FTL. Not without counting the limbs he could lose if it explodes.

True, but then that means I leave behind awesome things like free Scrap, new weapons or crew members. So, now I'm at the Last Stand and I don't even make it to the final battle because I didn't get that crewmate or that weapon or enough scrap for upgrades.

[zeek]

I was in a zoltan sector and just cracked open my damaged stasis pod. A few jumps later I got some info about a zoltan hailing me and blah blah so I pull the ship in closer expecting a fight. Nope one of my crew starts to age backwards and eventually disappears or something. Sure enough my crystal crewman is gone. Freaking RNG.

[5thHorseman]

I was in a zoltan sector and just cracked open my damaged stasis pod. A few jumps later I got some info about a zoltan hailing me and blah blah so I pull the ship in closer expecting a fight. Nope one of my crew starts to age backwards and eventually disappears or something. Sure enough my crystal crewman is gone. Freaking RNG.

There are things you never ever do once you get a Crystal Crewmember. Pulling in the Zoltan guy and fighting Spiders are among those things.

[SgtFrog]

Sector 6: Rock Homeworlds. I'm at the Exit beacon and feeling like crap because I didn't find that one ship that taunts me (and starts the quest to unlocking the Rock Cruiser). I decide that the Rebels are a fair distance behind me and decide to jump to a nearby beacon, just for the heck of it. And, lo and behold, the exact ship I was looking for! Yes! I proudly state that I will beat the Rebels and die trying, and they give me a quest marker. No problem. Next Sector, Sector 7. My crew runs around frantically putting out the fires of the solar flares, and the ship jumps away, leaving me another quest beacon....or he would if the next Sector wasn't Sector 8.

FFFFFFFFFUUU---!

EDIT: Oh, and Sector 7 was the Slug Home Nebula. And guess what? I found a Slug who was going to unlock the Slug ship...but couldn't, because, you know, Sector 7. Fuck. Me.

[SgtFrog]

Those times when you're up against a ship with three shields and you have nothing to penetrate them with. No missiles, not enough lasers or beams. And since you have 40% dodge and two shields, the most either of you can do is just stare at each other until your FTL drive charges up again.