What was your biggest epic fail in FTL?
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:35 pm
My biggest fail was when I got incredibly lucky playing with the Red-Tail. I managed to pick up three engis, two mantises, a Burst Laser II, a Glaive Beam, an Ion Bomb, and a Heavy Laser I. I had max shields, nearly max engines, plus a teleporter, cloak, and drone control with a defense drone I.
After reaching the third stage of the flagship for the first time ever, I was ecstatic, absolutely certain that I would beat the rebels for the first time. I destroyed the zoltan shield, used the ion bomb on the shield room, teleported into the missile room, and managed to use my burst laser to get rid of the two remaining shield layers and destroy the shield system. I was doing brilliantly.
However, in stage two, I had made a fatal error: the only crew member I had left alive was the one manning the beam weapon, and, this being my first time to beat stage two, I hadn't realised there was a third stage and that the starboard (right) wing broke off.... The AI had taken over by stage three - I planned to keep my two mantises (mantii?) in the main segment of the flagship to undo any repairs the AI made. However, just before the mantises destroyed the missile launcher, the boss sent three missiles and it's triple heavy laser at me. They destroyed my cloak, shields, and plenty of other systems (can't remember which.) Just after that, it regenerated it's zoltan shield, preventing me from bringing back my boarders from the missile room. I sent an engi to repair the shields. It managed, but after it had done so, the power surge happened. Innumerable heavy lasers came my way, it felt like they were travelling across the screen in slow motion. With my cloak destroyed, my shields down after another triple heavy laser attack, countless other systems in need of repair, and my mantises trapped, all I could do was scream "Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!" as the Red-tail exploded into smithereens, firing one more heavy laser volley at me even after I had begun to explode just to hammer the point home. Was there anything I could have done?
What was your biggest fail in FTL?
After reaching the third stage of the flagship for the first time ever, I was ecstatic, absolutely certain that I would beat the rebels for the first time. I destroyed the zoltan shield, used the ion bomb on the shield room, teleported into the missile room, and managed to use my burst laser to get rid of the two remaining shield layers and destroy the shield system. I was doing brilliantly.
However, in stage two, I had made a fatal error: the only crew member I had left alive was the one manning the beam weapon, and, this being my first time to beat stage two, I hadn't realised there was a third stage and that the starboard (right) wing broke off.... The AI had taken over by stage three - I planned to keep my two mantises (mantii?) in the main segment of the flagship to undo any repairs the AI made. However, just before the mantises destroyed the missile launcher, the boss sent three missiles and it's triple heavy laser at me. They destroyed my cloak, shields, and plenty of other systems (can't remember which.) Just after that, it regenerated it's zoltan shield, preventing me from bringing back my boarders from the missile room. I sent an engi to repair the shields. It managed, but after it had done so, the power surge happened. Innumerable heavy lasers came my way, it felt like they were travelling across the screen in slow motion. With my cloak destroyed, my shields down after another triple heavy laser attack, countless other systems in need of repair, and my mantises trapped, all I could do was scream "Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!" as the Red-tail exploded into smithereens, firing one more heavy laser volley at me even after I had begun to explode just to hammer the point home. Was there anything I could have done?
What was your biggest fail in FTL?
