I got it at my first attempt on easy. Never got the same luck at higher difficulties
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Kudos if that first attempt was with Advanced Edition content turned on. If not, maybe try tackling the AE content on "easy."
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I have never played with the Advanced edition disabled :x
but I did like 15 attempts on normal, and then I decided to play it easy... so idk if it counts :P
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I can't remember how many tries it took, but it was a lot. In fact the first time I won had a fairly poetic ending as a final shot from the flagship, just as it was destroyed, managed to also destroy me. Still counted as a win.
I find the game to be too luck based to keep playing it any more though. One too many negative events and there's nothing you can do. The final battle is such a jump in difficulty as well. I've often had runs where everything was trivial right up to the flagship, at which point I find it counters me perfectly.
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Yeah, the luck aspect can be annoying but I have more beef with how exponentially more difficult the boss is compared to any prior encounter. It's like finishing kindergarten and getting sent to college..
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Actually quite often the normal enemies in the last sectors with 4 bars of shields are way stronger than the boss.
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Possible but at least you have the option to flee which I usually do since defeating them is not important in preparation for the boss.
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It took me like 5 tries until i did it, but i must confess that ive only done it once, and since that time ive tried several times and nothing...
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I guess it's good that I'm expecting this to happen to me too. That way I can't be let down :/
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I'm still trying on easy. :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXq-14lV79s
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It's for whatever difficulty you first beat the game with.
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Well then it's around 10-19 on normal, I guess you need luck in this game.
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I realized my response was ambiguous. I was expecting people to count every attempt across all difficulties.
And yes, luck is very much central to this game.
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About 5-6 attempts. Of whom i failed 2 at boss stage.
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You... you mean it's possible? Thank you, aforce273, you have provided me with the hope I needed to be able to finally beat that sonuvagame!
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Difficult and unlikely, yes, but still possible. Best of luck!
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Thanks, I'll be needing that! (Sidebar: I've only ever played with the Advanced Edition content enabled, (more content=more fun?) would you recommend doing a playthrough without it, seeing as that's how you decided to do it.)
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I'm not the best person to ask about this because I've never played the Advanced Edition. I started playing the game before that update and since I couldn't win then, I didn't see any reason to turn on what looked like more difficult content until after beating the boss..
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AE content adds a bunch of stuff, but other than the Flak Cannon II, most of it is shit.
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Playing the DRM free edition, I have played like 200 hours and I havent killed that bastard. Beating the ship is not the problem, the problem is the second time you have to beat it.
Not sure if I am making a mistake by always playing with the Advanced content tho
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The game is certainly hard enough without the AE content. Some say the Advanced Edition is easier, some say it's harder.
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AE content weapons are mostly junk. Having AE enabled just reduces your chances of finding good weapons (burst laser II = win)
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There are also the new systems though. Allowing the enemy in this game to use mind control is daunting.
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I think I did it on Easy once. BUT THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I need to do it on Normal before I actually count it.
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^I found the masochist guys :P
I have long ago equated FTL's "easy" difficulty to any other game's normal or even hard setting. Beating it on easy is quite an achievement in itself.
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Ehhh ... maybe.
I have been finding that games are just too easy and I usually have to turn the difficulty up to max or the 2nd highest option. Even then, some games are too easy. For example, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on max difficulty was nothing, I never once had to worry about dying.
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Now that you have beat it legit once, get the no pursuit mod for FTL... makes the game significantly more enjoyable. Basically just removes the fleet pursuit so you can spend more time exploring etc.
EDIT: The game is difficult as hell on easy... Normal and Hard are strictly for the masochists out there.
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I think I'll give AE a try on "easy" and then once I beat that I'll do normal. I've looked into a few mods. The one you mentioned sounds cool especially since I love exploring every nook and cranny in games. I've also looked into the infinite mod which replaces the boss with endless sectors of increasingly difficult enemies. That sounded like more fun to me since I think the boss is outrageously more difficult than anything else in the game.
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I've got 8 hours in FTL and I haven't taken it down yet! I've been meaning to start playing it again... guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow.
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8 hours? So you've only launched it to customize your settings :P
But as you can tell from the comments, expect to put lots of time into the game before beating the boss.
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Somewhere between 6 and 9, I'm sure. I had a lot of early luck. What I do remember is that my 5th or 6th attempt I had a very good fire arsenal... so that's about when I discovered that the Flagship had a backup AI.
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Setting fire to enemy ships is perhaps the most satisfying things to do in FTL.
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Aye--and it bears mentioning that I always have the expansion active, so the Flagship has its hacking and such. That fire-and-failure run was because my strategy all game had been to target the O2 system and suffocate my enemies. When the AI took over I basically had useless fire-bombs against a ship with no oxygen and enough lasers to take the shield down for an instant.
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Getting into stalemates is the worse. That happened to me with the Mantis Cruiser. I put to much emphasis on boarding and then I lost all three of my Mantis fighters. I was in sector 6 and my weapons just weren't good enough but my engines and shields were doing a good enough job.
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It's a long time since I last played FTL, may play again during the weekend. It was with the "normal" ship, in it's second stage, 4 shields, and drones. Than made the trick for me
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It's been a while since I've played with a drone heavy loadout. I was having lots of success on the regular enemies with one combat drone and one defense drone.
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I remember that once i managed to destroy it then it continued to attack me with a wing lost :D that was my best score still couldn't defeat it.
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You have much to learn about the flagship. Potential spoiler: There are three stages to the flagship. After each stage, it loses certain systems but jumps away and completely repairs its hull.
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Well, i am aware that it has stages but i couldn't pass 2. phase :(
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In about the third try. I come back once in a while to complete the achievements. Wish that they could implement those on Steam too.
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There are three features that I'd love to see implemented for FTL and Steam achievements is one of them. The other, more important ones IMO, are multiple save slots and Steam Workshop support.
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I think I did it on my 3rd try on easy. This was before the Advanced Edition came out. I tried and made it a few times on normal, but didn't beat it. The first time I played with the Advanced Edition I made it to the boss on easy, but it totally owned me. It put a jammer thing on my shields and I didn't have any upgrade in engines. I then realized in the AE that engine upgrades are more important than shields. I eventually just barely beat the boss in AE.
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No engine upgrades at all!? That sounds like a tragic idea even without the Advanced Edition content.
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I got some kind of powerful beam type weapon early on that required a lot of power, so I spent all my upgrades on reactor power and shields. It took a while to charge, but it would one-shot kill anything if you got its shields down. I needed the shields to absorb shots while it charged, then I would missile their shield room to bring down the shields, time the laser right and I could. I had a teleporter and a couple of Mantis crew that I also used to kill off easier ships. I pretty much cruised through to the boss without much resistance, but I didn't even survive the first round with it. It put the jammer on my shields and just had its way with me.
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How did you manage against ships with defense drones? I've had a lot of luck with the teleporting bomb. Renders defense drones useless.
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I don't remember details, it's been almost a year since I last played. I just remember it being the easiest time I had getting to the boss ship, but the quickest death against the boss.
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I haven't died right after defeating the flagship yet, but it's nice that they implemented it that way.
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It took me so long... I do remember that of the 2 times I have beaten it, they were both with Fed cruiser A and B. Maybe I've beaten it with another ship, but I don't remember.
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I haven't unlocked that ship yet. I thought it unlocked by defeating the flagship with any ship but apparently it has to be the engi cruiser. I just learned there's also a quest for it.
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It took me quite a while but I don't remember exactly :p
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Goddamnit, where the hell is FTL 2.
I need it like a junkie needs a fix.
Also, I believe I have every possible ship, although not every possible type. Most achievements too
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Sounds like Convoy is a pretty good fix while you wait
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Hello, doc! I have sent you a friend request on Steam regarding why you blacklisted me. I'm sorry to address you here but I think you blocked me. I'm curious if I offended you or if I broke one of your rules. Nevertheless you are still on my whitelist and are free to enter my giveaways. Have a not so hot day/evening/night! (ββΏΰΈΊβ)
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From the sounds of it, they are very different games despite their similarities.
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If it ever happens, what would you like to see in FTL 2?
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- More complex crew stat interface!
- More alien types!
- More weapons!
- More random encounters!
- Graphics rehaul!
- Multi-ship battles!
...and more!
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Just the other day I was thinking multi-ship encounters would be awesome. It'd also open the door to co-op gameplay. I know multiplayer would be difficult to implement with the pause feature, but co-op might be doable.
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The first time I beat it probably is my favorite/most epic personal gaming moment. It was after 25-30 hours of losing, using the Kestrel, B I think, and at one point, 6 or so sectors in, I had 1 hull point and almost just ditched the run and started over. Luckily I decided to go for the achievement for going from 1 hull to full.
I almost lost the final flagship too because I was trying to hard to use my bio-beam to kill the crew rather than the hull and barely changed my weapons in time to finish him off.
The thing that makes it so memorable though is that I had had an awful day at work (a friday so I had the whole weekend to be dread going back on monday) and was just trying to distract myself so I wouldn't think about it. Finally winning completely changed my mood and saved me a lot of stressing out that weekend.
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Winning certainly brightened up my night. And killing off all but one of the flagship crew is one of the suggested tactics. It makes one of the later stages - where it uses the teleporter - much easier since there's no one to board you.
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My tactic usually is to alternate between suppressing whatever stage I'm currently on, cloak, drone, etc, and keeping the missile barrage disabled.
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Yeah, taking out that triple leto missile launcher is top priority. I don't even worry about anything else until I have that weapon and its crew member completely neutralized.
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I tried on easy : died
I tried with infinite money : died
I tried with infinite hull + money : died, my crew died.
I tried with infinite hull + money + crew : died. It destroyed EVERYTHING on my ship, like 50% was on fire, 50% without oxygen, and nothing worked.
Easy is a lie...
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"Easy" is used in the most misleading sense in FTL. Sounds like you need 20 repair drones too >_<
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While I'm pretty sure I didn't reach the Flagship on my first try I reached and beat it on the second one. I recall the friend who I told that going something along the lines of "WTF?!". :P
Good luck beating it on Hard Mode. :3
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After about 9 attempts, I finally beat the flagship on "easy" but it feels like it took longer. The Zoltan Cruiser was my victorious ship. For those still trying, I found this wikia article invaluable. Now onto "normal" difficulty or Advanced Edition content. The poll options go to 50+ for the real unfortunate/determined/masochistic players.
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