Nice! Often that first win comes from some super good luck on getting free OP weapons. The more you play, the better you are at making the best out of bad luck, but sometimes, you just NEED some good RNG, hah! Grats!

instablaster...

How the hell you AND your brothers can’t beat a single run in 2 years? I just bought the game yesterday, and got a win on the 7th run.

@@rand118 The rebel flagship is a really tough enemy and he can be an impassable wall even if you had zero problems with the enemies in sector 7, and the funniest thing that RNG can play a horribly rough joke with you - the flagship hacks your weapons. You can't attack while he hacks, you can't attack while he's in stealth, the hacking recharges while he's in stealth, the stealth recharges while he's hacking. (It happened to me at least two times for all the playtime and it was such a frustrating experience)

Holy smokes

Now I got in the first fight a beam drone, laser and beam weapon. They hit my shields on the first hit. Restarted.

Or now a drone with mind controll, missile, heavy laser and a shield hack as event. I do not know, how to play against something like that.

Yeah, Grzegorz, one of the most punishing things about FTL hard mode is the enemy offensive systems. They are SO much more powerful than easy and normal. My least favorite is sector one enemy with missiles and Zoltan shield. Sector 1 Zoltan shield is SO OP, and if you have a ship with your own missiles, you have to waste so many missiles just to get through that shield. That's why I say "I hate this game" so much, even though I love this game, lol

Yesterday I managed to score my first Kestrel Hard victory.

Nice, grats Grzegorz! Hard mode win in FTL is definitely an achievement!

A wild Rand appears....and replies after 4 years!

@@rand118 holy bejesus

Yeah, I believe each enemy ship type has a particular layout. There's definitely some randomness, but if you play enough you'll see certain ships will usually have the same rooms in the same places.

Certainly a viable strategy, but if you don't disable weapons on enemy ships, FTL is likely to kill you with the offense enemies can spawn with!

@@rand118 also auto ships lol

I've found some ion weapons on engi ship and suffocated everyone except for lanius until the flagship suffocated me.

Entirely possible. Can't remember the name of the ship, but it starts with 2 ion blasters. As long as you have drone defence 1 and enough shields, ions can drown any crewed ship.

Those lines are a mod called "Extended Pursuit Indicator." If you google that and "FTL" you should be able to find it and use it yourself, if you like.

@@rand118 I'll check it out. Thanks!

Thanks, Devin!

Yup, "Extended Pursuit Indicator" is the mod, and I highly recommend it! Just google that name and you should be able to find it.

Google "Extended Pursuit Indicator" and you can download the mod to get those lines in your game, too.

Also what’s the general strategy you use for maximizing scrap gains during a run? Any specific beacon paths you like to take

If you google "Extended Pursuit Indicator" that should bring up the mod I use that allows you to count the jumps you have left. In general, the strategy I use for maximizing scrap gains is to fight as many ships as possible. This means that the BEST augment in the game is Long Range Scanners since it tells you if there is a ship at the next jump. That's probably the best I can do as a general tip, hah!

Thanks, el Edo Russo!

Lol, good to know (did I say something about hairy turks? maybe somebody in chat said that and I read it out loud like I do, heh)

it's true, some of the women shave.

Lol...thanks, I guess! I'm not sure how one "looks" like an a cappella singer, but I'll take that!

Yeah, this game can be SUPER punishing, and I still rage when playing even at the highest difficulty. It IS rewarding when you get wins, but you often have to fight through ridiculously challenging or unlucky situations if you keep playing. You are not alone in the love-hate relationship that is FTL!

Lol, he describes the exact reason modern country is so bad in my opinion, nice link, hah!

Same, it pisses me off

Dude it’s pretty good I usually put some banana on it as well.

its amazing man. try it

its butter, peanut butter, and honey. and its fucking amazing. dont hold back on the honey, either.

To me, playing FTL without advanced edition is like playing Starcraft without Broodwar...it's like playing with missing content. I'm glad some people enjoy it, but I'd rather just play the full game with all the content. Also, with thousands of hours in FTL, I get more variety playing mods and ships created by my viewers than I would ever get by playing FTL with less content.

@@rand118 Yes, but, the game is harder (in my opinion) without the Advanced Content.

@@LEMONMANIZATION If you want a harder version of FTL, I recommend Captain's Edition or Multiverse, although I dunno if you are interested in modded FTL at all.

@@rand118 I did it, I beat FTL on Hard Mode with Kestrel Type B with advanced content turned off.

@@LEMONMANIZATION Congrats!

Thankfully, this is a single player game where you can use whatever strategies you think are best. The FTL enemies do SO MANY unfair things, that there is very little I consider "cheating" or "exploiting" in FTL anymore. For example, have you ever fought a 5 shield ship in slug sector 7 before? They exist....5 shield ships when the player is maxed out on 4, how's that for an "exploit?"

You mean it misses? That has nothing to do with the weapon, it depends on how much evasion the enemy has. If you completely destroy piloting or engines, evasion drops to zero (destroying piloting is usually quicker because it has less points).

Oh God...the puns have even come to KZfaq, I can't escape! Although, well played with the LOTR pun, hah.