Your "Fuck you, FTL" Moments

[project_mercy]

Going 4 sectors in Mantis A (on hard) with only running across a SINGLE boardable ship, that which had a mind control and a zoltan shield. I called it out of boredom and restarted.

Second game with Mantis A this was not there, but I didn't find a single weapon. Only one shop had a weapon, an anti-bio beam and a small bomb (of which, you already have). There were no damaging drones either. I had a defense I drone, and fortunately found an explosive replicator for the small bomb about sector 5. Finally, the 2nd to last node in SECTOR 7, was a quest node. I hit it and it was a shop, that had a BL2 and BL3 in it. Since I was up to 400 scrap saved waiting for a gun, it was all mine. I went on to win. Not really FUFTL, but pretty close.

At the very least, there were no regular ships with any useful guns in it in the whole game. I also had a delay beacon I got in sector 2, so I pretty well hit all the shops.

[Random Commander]

I was doing a Randomizer run with the Stealth A. I got to the last stand and checked my ship: Hull laser II, Pegasus missile, Heavy laser and Chain Ion. Lvl 3 cloak, lvl 2 Mind control, 3 shields (might not be good) and tons of engine power (about 6 bars mayhap?). I thought I could take it.

I didn't survive the first phase. Hacked my cloak, missiles took out a shield layer, ion took out the rest of the shields and all hell broke loose. My weapons were destroyed and I was unable to cloak, and I WAS AT FULL HULL. More bullshit ensued as my clonebay gets destroyed and half my crew are in stasis (I had the Backup DNA augment), then O2 goes out and the rest of my crew suffocate except for a lanius. So basically I had a lanius against a still full health flagship, and just about everything on my ship was broken.

Then the biggest F-U happened. The Boss laser cuts straight through the ship, destroying the last bar of the last system, killing my last crew, AND taking out my last hull. I WAS F@*%$KING CURB-STOMPED.


Re-posted from "What was your most unusual/ridiculous FTL fights?" in the story thread.

[Captain_obvious]

Anyone who plays Slug B will appreciate how difficult it can be to get that ship going, so you can imagine I was feeling pretty good when I had built it up to having six crew, better weapons, a medbay and more shields. Plus I picked up reconstructive teleport so I was sitting pretty.

Then, sector 4, jumped into a beacon with an ion pulse and a Rebel Rigger with missiles, heavy laser and a fire drone. I immediately started a boarding action and sent a small bomb headed for the drone bay so I wouldn't get crippled by the inevitable shield drop. First ion wave hits and I lose my shields and teleporter. The small bomb misses the drone bay, and then to cap it off my healing bomb also misses, leaving me with no way to get my crew back. I start frantically microing them across the enemy ship, eventually getting the teleport to fire again, but the next pulse takes my shields and pilot down, so every missile and heavy laser starts hitting the ship, causing fires and breaches everywhere. I desperately cling to life, jump out of the sector, rush guys to repair doors and oxygen so I can vent and stay alive, and head off hoping for a repair station to fix my ship.

The next sector contains a Zoltan with a flak. Two volleys and I'm dead before even taking the Zoltan shield down. Screw you game.

[Herr Terror]

The 6th time "Oh no these guys must have some kind of Zoltan shield bypass!" within 3 sectors. I don't know why everyone boarding me magically has a Zoltan bypass, but at least since AE there's a reason given for it instead of the old space magic explanation.

[Captain_obvious]

Here's a new one for you: an ion drone lands in the clone bay the minute my boarding party dies.

[The Captain]

I had my two-Mantis security team die while fighting boarders. No problem, I've got a Clone Bay. Boom! Not anymore! My Engi could not get if fixed in time.

A few jumps into sector 1: Me, Lanius A, one shield bubble, one engine; them, two heavy lasers. Thud! There goes Hacking. Thud! There go weapons. Thud! There go shields. Thud! There goes O2, and it's on fire. Thud! There go doors. Thud! An empty room set on fire, just because. Oh, you've got weapons partially repaired? Thud! Not anymore. Thud! And forget about fixing shields. Thud! And forget about jumping with your one puny engine level. Booooom!

[Levgre]

Zoltan A, hard difficulty. Have 400 scrap saved up last 3 sectors, but no cloak among 5 shops. Goal is to just kill flagship very quickly, easily done with Flak 1, halberd, pike, leto, and level 3 hack and level 3 mind control.

Enemy flagship hacks my weapons(launches hacking drone after I start my hacking), causing me to miss my first hacking/weapons cycle. This isn't good, the battle will go too long, so I jump away. Go against rebel ship with ASB. ASB hits hull empty room, doing fine, but with 2 bars left to jump (level 5 engines), 4 damage missile hits my weapons room and starts 3 fires. I want to repair it a bit to 3-4, so I am not delayed too long fighting flagship. ASB hits my oxygen room, still fine, I can repair it when I get to flagship. Nope, hacking cuts off my intended repairers for oxygen by hitting medical room. Pilot dies as oxygen rooms and med bay are inaccessible. Rock man can't repair hull breach and oxygen in time, after getting hit by another missile.

So here are all the things that had to go quite wrong to lose this game.

No cloaking in last 5 shops.
Hacking really hitting ANYTHING but weapons room.
4 dmg missile hitting anything but weapons room, seriously, shields or engines wouldve been better (wouldve had 1 point in engines left and jumped away immediately.
2nd ASB hitting oxygen, would've lived without that... and I guess pilot room would've put me in a really bad spot.
2nd flagship hack hitting med room and cutting off repairers and preventing any healing.

Probably about .1% odds, in all, 99.9% of scenarios I would've lived and probably won (this is also taking into account no stealth in 5 shops).

[Herr Terror]

I like how the Rock Homeworlds become an extremely rare occurrence when using the Rock C. Yeah, I get it, players could unlock the Crystal ship more easily. How about that's part of the reward for unlocking the Rock C in the first place. There's no way this wasn't done deliberately. That's not difficulty, that's cheap.

EDIT: 19 games, no Rock Homeworlds. Can't spend any more time on it. Time to cheat and put the game away.

[Dirka]

Sector 3 (Normal) in an Ion Storm I encounter a Rebel Auto Assault that is able to power all of the following:

- Beam Drone
- Combat Drone II
- Leto
- Ion I
- 2 shield Bubbles

And it still had enough juice left to dodge my shots like nobody's business.

Dafuq?

[The Captain]

Fuck you, FTL.
I call this the Starfish Sector. There are six arms, two of one beacon only connected to the starting beacon. The first nebula beacon (furthest west) only connects to one of the beacons in the middle.


Fuck you, FTL?
I had 1 HP left, thought my Shields were OK, but I guess they weren't. I got blown up, but when I paused the game, I have one shield bubble showing. So it came up just before the laser hit?