Your "Fuck you, FTL" Moments

[Tweevle]

So I was doing a run with the Lanius cruiser. I was going for the oxygen achievement, so I vented most of the ship and left my human in the piloting. Relatively early on I got a crew teleporter (Lanius are brutal boarders), Reconstructive Teleport (they always go in at full health), DNA bank (virtually no possibility of them dying), Mind Control system (icing on the cake) and finally a Zoltan Shield Bypass (no super shield protection for you). Then an Abandoned Sector came up and I got two more Lanius, and replaced my pilot with a couple of Engis. All there was to do now was to upgrade my shields and engines, and I was set.




Then came this one Auto-Assault. All was going fine, I sent my Lanius crew over to break the systems so I could avoid any damage and more easily get my laser through the shields. I was still using starter weapons - with a set up like this, who needs more? Then I realised I'd forgotten to turn the oxygen on since the last fight, and my engi pilots died before I could fill the room again. No problem, I thought, I'll just clone them again later, but for now I need the power - I had the DNA bank after all.

Then I noticed the ship had auto-repaired itself while my Lanius were in the drone room and the weapons were back on, and a single missile managed to get off before I could break the system again. It hit the clone bay, which I thought was pretty funny, but not a problem - I'll just repair it afterwards. While this was happening my weapons were on auto-fire, since I thought I wasn't too concerned about them dying what with my clone bay and all. Then my laser hit the ship one last time, and it blew up, with all my Lanius in it.

So, I'm left with an empty, undamaged ship, except for one broken clone bay, with six people ready to be revived as soon as it's repaired. Only there's no one there to repair it. I hate myself.

[The Captain]

So I'm playing the Kruos, Lanius A, trying to unlock the B. In the first run I bought the necessary systems and had them all active to get the first achievement, but was nowhere near amassing the amount of scrap needed for the second.

So in my second run I tried for the third achievement, venting all but the bow rooms of the ship. Later I vented the port bow room to refill doors and man it with a crew member I picked up. I suppose I could have vented all but the helm to fill up shields, but that would reduce options if my human pilot needed to flee the room. I didn't rescue any slaves after that, because I didn't get any Laniuses - had to hire one more of those.

It sucks when your weapons get hacked. But having a hacking system means you can hack theirs. And sometimes that makes the hacking drone explode. Then the enemy can rehack you, but this time it was doors. "Oh, no problem," I though, "that's not important." So I continued the battle and blew up the enemy. Then it's time for any post-battle repairs. Wait - why are all my doors closed? The hacking drone did that?! What's my life support? AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! With my O2 being on, I was a few % points too high. I had gotten to the middle of the game, thinking maybe I could make it, then this

Fuck you, FTL!

Oh, I investigated a station, thinking the Clone Bay would back me up. Except a crew member died of disease, and the dialog box says you stop the cloning, because the disease would still be present. Except I have a Backup DNA Bank, which means I should have a disease-free backup to use!! Fuck you, FTL!

I wonder if this is even going to post. Fuck you, FTL server.

[Pyroar]

So I wanted do achievment for Zoltan Ship not to upgrade reactor, but something terrible happened:



After all i didn't do this achievment. It was too tempting to play with this ship

[hermanJnr.]

My new Kestrel, The Noble Hawk, was doing pretty much perfectly. I kept finding random guns floating in space in the first few sectors and had two Burst Laser MK IIs, so I smugly started shredding up every other ship I was against for a while.

Until, that is, I ran into quite possibly the cheesiest Rebel Rigger in the final sector that I've ever seen

It had four shields, so that was tough even for my dual bursts to get through. However, I had Level 3 shields, maxed Cloaking, Hacking, a Defence Drone Mk II, reinforced doors and some other cool little upgrades like Repair Arm too, so I wasn't too worried.

First thing it does: fire four shots at me, which I use my cloak to evade. I fire back, miss 4 times, fail to get through shields.

Next it fires a big hull breach missile (I didn't see the missile mounted on the ship, it was cunningly camouflaged by the graphics of the wing) that instantly ignores my 45% evade chance and maims my weapons room, also opening a hole in the floor. CRAP.

"INTRUDERS DETECTED": An Ion Intruder and Anti-Personnel Drone beam onto my ship. And this, folks, has to be the most overpowered combo in the game...completely ridiculous! Both opened up huge breaches in the rooms they appeared in, so I quickly moved my crew (2 Humans and a Mantis) in to fight them. Ion Intruder sends out electrical sparks, stuns all my crew instantly (yet doesn't stun the robot ally next to it!) and the personnel bot continues killing them.

Of course, oxygen is gone in that room too now thanks to the breach, and I can't move my crew due to the stun. After standing there like idiots for about ten minutes, they all die.

The stupid thing about the "stun wave" is that it even knocks out the subsystem of the room too. It's essentially 2 free hull breaches, a free repeatable hacking effect on one subsystem AND it disables anyone in the room with it. No idea how they figured that's fair

Meanwhile I was firing 6 shots as often as possible, cloaking, tried to hack (they had a defence drone, killed my hacker every time)...to no avail. The best I could do was "orange" the bot subsystem. Very frustrating loss though, it felt like a really lame thing to die to.

[Bloody_Lemon]

2Tweevie:

If you had upgraded your cloning bay, it would have gained 1 repaired point meaning you would have been able to use it again. Or am I wrong and the game displayed you a gameover message?

[Pyroar]

2Tweevie:

If you had upgraded your cloning bay, it would have gained 1 repaired point meaning you would have been able to use it again. Or am I wrong and the game displayed you a gameover message?

It give you another point. If system is completly busted, it will stay busted after upgrading.

[Tweevle]

2Tweevie:

If you had upgraded your cloning bay, it would have gained 1 repaired point meaning you would have been able to use it again. Or am I wrong and the game displayed you a gameover message?

It give you another point. If system is completly busted, it will stay busted after upgrading.

Yeah, I tried it and that's what happened.

There was actually no game over message at all - I could have stayed there forever with my people waiting patiently in the clone bay, unable to jump because I didn't have a pilot. I assume the devs never considered this possibility, probably because it required a huge amount of stupidity on my part.

[Tweevle]

No you're amazing and the game over message for that situation should be something along the line of "Ended at the "Tweeelevth" hour" its more sad than the crew dying off, and your ship just drifting.

Well thanks.

It would be nice if they added some kind of special game over message for that, because yeah, it is more sad somehow. I mean, they did one for dying in the tutorial, and even had a special event for when all your crew are aboard an enemy ship when your teleporter is broken.

[Nukeknockout]

On the day of the Advanced Edition coming out, I got a victory! Rock Type B with 5300 points. One of my strongest runs ever, concluding in a focus on firebomb boarding.

First run with advanced edition with the Slug A it gave me? Encountered a Rebel Rigger. Rigger took down my shields with an Ion weapon then pummeled the generator with a laser and released an odd-looking drone. What did the drone turn out to be? A fire beam drone, duh! ...I'll actually admit I let the drone burn me alive just to watch that glory in action. Although it would have been incredibly difficult to recover from that, if it is even possible.

Every run I've tried with the Lanius cruiser, however, has been cursed! I play on Normal, and every single ship in the first four sectors of my last run spawned with a Hermes, Breach, or Pegasus missile mounted in tandem with a Flak I or Flak II. Only two of those runs got past the second sector. It got to the point where an Auto-Scout armed with two Breach Bombs and a BL2 was a relief.

"Oh look, two Breach Bombs and a BL2! I only need to dodge all those weapons long enough to spin up my laser and keep it targeted on the enemy weapons no matter what and hit every shot! This is so much better than dodging Breach Missiles!" And so it was better. The next ship, with two Breach Missiles, ended that Lanius A run.

[FeMaiden]

most of these "fuck you moments" people mention could be avoided by playing properly...like, i always power down my artillery beam when i board their ship, too many times i forgot to turn it all and screwed myself over.

the only real fuck you moments i have had is when i'm on top of the world, i have tons of weapons and shields and engine upgrades then i run into a massive overpowered enemy, armed to the teeth with missiles and bombs and watch in horror as it goes for the engine with my zoltan with a 4 damage missile and it waltzes right past my 4 shields and 55% evasion and kills the guy in there in 1 hit, then they teleport guys into my cockpit and drop a bomb on my weapons cutting off the charge of my halberd beam leaving me with only the 2 burst laser mark 2s and i fire and it goes 1,2,3,4,5,6 : miss,miss,miss,miss,miss,miss. then they just keep spamming missile after missile at me and its : hit,hit,hit,hit,hit theres fires and hull breaches everywhere, and the missiles are stunning my guys unable to move them and shoot again and again i'm like miss,miss,miss,miss,miss : game over


new ones are , getting my pilot seat hacked, then the computer shoots lasers to take out my shields and it hits me with 2 beam weapons perfectly in sync while the shields are down : game over

i run into an enemy with 2 beam drones, in a sector with a pulsar, the first pulse takes out my shields, the beams drones go to town : game over

i completely pwn the first and second phase of the end boss taking minimal damage. i start the second phase, i have weapon preigniter, a burst 2 a burst 1 and a pike beam, i shoot everything at it, miss,miss,miss,miss,miss pike beam takes 2 off the super shield, i deploy my defense drone and a combat drone, the drone flies circles around it shooting and missing every time, miss,miss,miss,miss. the boss shoots the triple missiles, my defense drone just sits there and the turret moves toward the missiles and it doesnt shoot at any of them, 1 hits weapons, 1 hits the drones, 1 hits shields they put breaches and fires, it teleports 2 guys in, which i kill easily, but i'm still trying to take out the super shield, and i'm missing, and missing with my shots, it shoots the missiles again hits oxygen, engines, it mind conrtols my pilot, dropping evasion to zero, the power surge comes, 9 shots all hit at once : game over...