2/12/2023 0 Comments Ftl better planets and backgrounds![]() What you find at your destination could be just about anything from a friendly store to a space station that’s on fire to a pirate attack. You can travel to any jump beacon in range, and each jump you make uses up one fuel. ![]() That’s pretty roguelike-y, even if the mechanics of ship-to-ship combat in FTL are drastically different from hitting a goblin with a club.Įach sector is made up of a collection of jump beacons placed next to points of interest. You start the game with a ship, some guns and a few crewmen, and your task is to make your way across a collection of randomly generated sectors towards the one where the big boss lives so that you can defeat him in single combat. This is probably doing it something of a disservice since it does an awful lot of things that I have either never seen before period, or else last saw in obscure Acorn/Atari/Amiga games twenty-odd years ago, but it’s the closest I can get to summing the game up in one sentence. The best way to describe FTL is as a sort of limited space-based roguelike. ![]() ![]() FTL: Faster Than Light (was the subtitle really necessary?) is the first tangible return on my numerous Kickstarter investments, and it’s a very promising trailblazer for the concept of crowdsourced games in general. ![]()
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