"Tie me to a missile and fire me at the enemy ship. I am ready!" -- Yung$$$ the Mantis

yes, go for boarding when you have an artillery beam that fires automatically, i'm sure that won't end in disaster

Frog man, in case you didn’t know, when a room is running out of oxygen you can open the doors to connecting rooms to vent and share oxygen to that room so your workers don’t work in a depleted room, :)

Him saying he was a worse person and is now reborn convinces me this os Sseth

for the early fights you should take the weapons room out to minimize damage

Anyone here played Crying Suns? I'd like to see amphibian play that game

the most mental tactic is 4 flak cannons and mind control. mind control pilot as all flak shoot at once, they cant dodge resulting in 12 hits

Me: Oh sweet! AA playing FTL. I should play that some more. Also me, a few hours later: 🤬😭

On the teleporter - several fights, such as 1:42:57 feature WEAK enemy crew, you have 2 mantis which do 1.5 times damage against 2 humans on a 3 shielded ship. The fastest, safest, and most profitable way of winning in such scenarios is sending your mantis. Also, allow me to mention that ship rewards are greater when you kill off enemy crew (higher general rewards and chances of extra crew or weapons). With your type of gameplay, I would suggest obtaining ming control + firebomb. Also, given your tendency (not to criticize, just observing habits) not to target shields at all with missiles to create an opening, I would suggest hacking shields so you can fire away at any system you like. Firebombs on shields and mind controlling the guy instead of allowing a repair also does the job.

Every time he refuses to fire his Pegasus at the enemy shield when they have more shields than he has lazers, I die a little. Just delete their shield for the rest of the fight and guarantee that ALL your lazers hit for the rest of the fight. PLEASE.

A common trap unseasoned players fall into with FTL is playing each ship like it's a Kestrel while ignoring the crafts particular attributes, it's like using a speed boat to do the work of a fishing trawler and expecting the same results.

AA: *Has Rock crewmember who is immune to fire* Ship: *burning* AA: *Proceeds to send squishy engi and low repair mantis into the fire*

This is what we want right here

When he says “I can’t because I need to save my crew for the next fight? If you know what I mean.” On the final level of the boss fight *C O N F U S E D S C R E A M I N G*

The artillery beam is pretty op. Flagship is beatable with max beam + defense drones + cloaking

This ship is actually one of the best if you use it properly. Getting the shields early sealed your victory from thr get-go. Also go for the weapons first if they have missiles, for the love of god.

LOVE these ftl streams - I hope we get to see that pacafist run you mentioned soon 👀

"I love lasers." I once managed to get two Vulcans on the same ship. Together with a Defense Drone Mk1 and decent shields, I just... couldn't lose. Like, anything. Ever.

ROFLMAO, Oregon trail, going back to the games of my fore fathers...... jesus man, thanks for making me feel old

"My audience is a subset of Spiff's..." - more true then you think :P Keep up the good work! :)

Your vids inspired me to start playing again, thanks! I played it years ago, I bought it again on steam, so I could get the updates, this weekend and the game is good enough to buy twice I got my first win on easy with this ship. In the end I had 3x Burst II and a Pegasus. In the last battle everything was on fire, no shields in o2 running out, but the guns kept going and made it though.

Try it on hard mode man it's intoxicating. Once you go hard you can't go back. It forces you to adapt to pitiful levels of scrap against overpowered ships that can wreck you in a single jump if you aren't careful and you tread the razors edge between defeat and victory constantly.

This was one of the most painful playthroughs of ftl I've seen. So many bad choices and Confusion, luck was on ur side on this one 😅

I would really love to do a run of FTL with just infinite money to see how wild I can make my ship

I have an addiction and its AA.

This looks like a fun video to watch.

I've owned this game for five years, and finally after watching this I was able to beat the game on easy! That's gangster, thanks.

rule of thumb hit weapons first if you have a multishot weapon limiting their damage, shields are nice but you had a multishot weapon to start. i also love how he called one of the strongest armed starting ship is bad....

When you have boarders like the ones in the last boss fight, just open the doors to let all the oxygen out from that room. The upgraded blast doors can take a real beating. Sure you'd loose the cloak, but they will retreat back to their ship, or if you disable their teleporter in time, die from lack of oxygen.

It might not be a great game for streaming because it runs into the issue of 'optimize every turn', but if you haven't played the devs' other game Into the Breach, it's pretty good.

I think you sound like plankton from spongebob lol Love your stuff thanks for the content

Is no one going to comment on how cracked up AA was over CIEIO? That had me dying.

With Phillip at the end. They can only do enough damage during mind control at full combat ability for one bar of health, and I think that is with level two mind control. I just did a kestrel b run where I had a perfect ability farm ship that couldn't get rid of all of my shields and had mind control. I basically maxed out my whole crew on everything shuffling around everyone. Next time leave him be and make him repair what he broke. This late in the game it doesn't matter but it boosts his repair and combat ability

Artillery beam is a low-cost burst of damage, especially early vs low shielding. It puts in plenty of work, especially as it can operate with weapons damaged or jammed

The Federation Dickship. Good vid as always! First.

What I learned from the start of this video: everything is overpowered.

Ive always called it the Yomato cannon after starcrafts battle cruiser main guns

I just wanna throw this out there since my wife and I are big cat people and I would be remiss if I didn't say something; If your senior cat is starting to get picky about his water, it may behoove you to take him for some blood work. Specifically checking kidney function. It's been my experience with the many cats we've owned over the years that you might be able to catch early kidney issues and manage them successfully, gaining years of quality life for your furry fraaand. He also could be perfectly healthy and just getting spoiled and picky. Can't hurt to check though! :) I love your personality and appreciate your positivity!

I think he should try out Free Haven! Love your content man!

i swear this man sounds like swagger souls

rip yung$$$

When you have a room with no oxygen, if you open the doors to rooms WITH oxygen, it'll balance out. So instead of leaving everyone in combat in a room with no oxygen, close all doors then open some doors and your crew won't be suffocating while fighting! Or they won't be suffocating after they WIN the fight lol

FTL is kind of like a fitness routine. No one has ever really done it the same.

I just watched four of your previous FTL series and was wondering why all your ships are locked again? Also the federation cruiser probably has the easiest layout B unlock requirements.

OrE-eH-GoNe TrAiL

I'd love to see AA give Ai War 2 a go.

Umm...just so you know, repair speed us also fire extinguishing speed, and mantis are the literal worst at both, with humans second worst (humans have a hidden stat nerf against fire), whereas rocks have a fire extinguishing buff and engi repair power equates to fires make them both amazing.

I dunno if you are aware of this but any enemy ship that's automated (drones, the final boss if you kill all the crew) has I think 1.25% repair speed since its automated repairs.

Mr. Sam streamer is beautiful I would love to see y'all work together on something too.

"Nobody had the balls," god,,,

speaking of oregon trail, you should play organ trail at some point

Just Monica in your federation peepeeship, it's more likely than you think.

Have you ever played Star Traders? Crazy in depth tactical space rpg.

I would highly recommend you to check out the Captain's Edition mod. It adds SO MUCH depth and replayability to this already incredible game.

There looks to be a new oregon trails game by the way

By Spiff, did you mean The Spiffing Brit? Because I actually subscribed to him after he mentioned your channel, because I liked your content and figured maybe he's getting some of his ideas from you lol

Yung$$$? How did AA get a SoundCloud rapper on his warship?

Arty beam op

AA the game has changed a bit in the... last decades, might pull this out of a run or 2 aswell

Rip young $$

Should call one of your men. "Guy in red shirt" would have been a good name for young money

Hello Saturday morning.

It is a perfectly average-sized ship! 😥

don't have mantis crew try fix anything - they can't hold screwdrivers properly

CIEIO? As opposed to EIEIO? Someone explain that Old McDonald funny? Is it just that C stands for phallis?

When I play FTL.. it's the "Get my rear kicked and violently explode stimulator" I have tried beat the boss about a 100 time's.

1:10:20 going with no on Teleporter lol, can be hit or miss and requires a lot of managing

I'm about to give up.

2 things your crew and ship change outcomes of the choices in the text selection, and you have to use evasion before the weapon of the enemy ship finishes.

Wow AA is so hard to watch some times

Dude Fed Cruiser (ignoring the crystal cruiser) is the best such a good ship. Bro i only ever beat this bitch on easy such a hard game 14/10

OreGONE trail? what in the actual fuck that's painful to hear

Is that Spiffing Brit at 36:15?

me, an oregonian listening to someone say "ore-gone" repeatedly: oof lol it's a normal mispronunciation, no hate, just very odd to hear so much in a row

#NeverForgetYung$$$$

I saw a vacuum death in for all mankind it’s not fun

Haha ship is big peen

Watching this guy play for a while, I’m %75 sure he was stoned playing this time. Minor head injury is not out of the question as well.

1:46:26

store

A small frog hops into a drugstore hops up to the cashier leans in close and whispers "you got the luciferium?"

Oh, you're a ENGLISH major! Well that explains all the (pretentious) poetry and literary references.

You are having a terrible time, because you keep shooting at their shields instead of weapons - in the 1st and 2nd sector enemies often have 1 shield, you have 3 shots - 1 to down 1 shield, and 2 to damage weapons - rendering enemies useless, if they have 1-2 shields it doesn't matter.

Oh my God you're triggering me. Missile their shields so you can use your lasers. it doesnt make sense to fire at the pilot if he isn't charging the ftl. Their evade bonus is rarely very steep. You can tell if he is charging by a message, and above their ship window it says ftl charging. So many fights you just targeted engines and pilot for really no reason. Missile or even laser the shields first almost always. Have one continually keeping the shields down so you not only one maintain steady damage, you open up over double the damage output by now being able to hit with other lasers. Not to mention in asteroid fields you failed to bring down their shields for free damage twice. ONLY when you want to stop ftl or you have 3 weapons or their weapons and shields are down do you target evade systems willy nilly.

Goddamn this was painful to watch, so many bad strategies it hurts my brain. Teleport is fantastic against flagship - since his OP weapons are separate rooms! Just teleport 2 mantis into his missiles and instantly you will kill 1 crewman, and quickly disable his most OP triple missile weapon - next you teleport the mantis back - and you probably won't need to do it again until part 2 - when you again teleport your 2 mantis crewman to his missile weapon room - instantly his threat has been reduced by at least 1/3rd - without any risk to your crew. Cloak is also fantastic for flagship, but if you don't upgraded it - you loose so much of it's usefulness - upgraded cloak last longer and recharges faster - basically it's important when the flagship shoots missiles or charges super weapon - but cloak level 1 will only let you dodge one of those and likely once per round because you might not get the chance to do more . Your fixation on that ridiculous charge laser - it gives you 4 weak shots after 20 seconds, while your very good heavy laser gives you 2 strong shots every 13 seconds and you need to always manually manage your charge laser, while you could leave your burst and your heavy lasers on auto and enjoy 5 shots to weapon systems every 10 seconds.... and in the last store you had a burst laser III - that that thing in combination with your own burst laser II can take down the flagship with almost no issues.... I was screaming at the screen for the last 2 hours and now my head hurts, my stomach aches and I feel sick.... if you manage to lose to the flagship I'm afraid I'll throw something at my screen....

Pfft, everybody can do Easy mode. try NORMAL

sheeesh i'm the third comment again

I've played FTL in its beta stages way back when...back before when people where trying to figure out how to get Obama to step down from presidency and replace him with someone worse without looking like a racist.

The proper pronunciation of Oregon is (or)*(e)*(gehn)

2 slot boarding rooms are so incredibly bad. boarding always gets borderline useless with late game and enemy ships having huge crews, but why even bother to put in 2 slot rooms into the game? its nothing but a noob trap.

You just have an odd cadence with your voice. Its like if slam poetry wasn't pretentious, annoying, and just casual talking.

Y do people who play games like this all sound like ssethtzeentach