FTL - Faster than Light

[Silfir]

Pilots, shield guys and engineers used to train skills in asteroid fields even when there was no enemy present - that was really bad.

[Saracen]

I had to try this game after reading this thread. I'm a big fan of Master of Orion 2 and this reminds me of that game. It took about 6-7 games on easy to beat it. Now i'm trying to win on normal, a lot more difficult task I'm using a lot of boarding crews now, lets see how it goes... Luck is a bit too big factor in this game. If you get good weapons its much easier.

[Stingray1]

6-7 tries is very impressive, it took me 43 tries to get my 1st and another 38 for the 2nd on normal.

Speaking about luck or lack thereof, I'm in sector 4 with the vortex and had not 1 opportunity to double my crew.

[Saracen]

I was slightly spoiled, I saw a video of a guy playing 3 sectors. What is the vortex?

[Stingray1]

The Vortex is the Engi Cruiser Type B. Starts with 1 crew member.

[persy]

It's the worst ship in-game. It's a ship that deserves to be named "Glory Device", if you know what I mean

[Stingray1]

The description of the 'Drone Reactor Booster' makes it sound like it affects only the speed of boarding drones, when in fact it affects the speed of all erm..erm.. inship(?) drones.

[Dogbreath]

It's the worst ship in-game. It's a ship that deserves to be named "Glory Device", if you know what I mean

Arrgh, now I'm all nostalgic for UQM. There really needs to be more games like it.

[KyoShinda]

I had to try this game after reading this thread. I'm a big fan of Master of Orion 2 and this reminds me of that game. It took about 6-7 games on easy to beat it. Now i'm trying to win on normal, a lot more difficult task I'm using a lot of boarding crews now, lets see how it goes... Luck is a bit too big factor in this game. If you get good weapons its much easier.

I LOVE master of orion 2, I played it for a good while. Ironically, my pastor was the one who introduced me to it because he's very into videogames.

The vortex isn't that bad, you start out with freakin' heavy guns. Everything but the mantis cruiser and the kestrel(+redtail) have huge drawbacks. I admit, I didn't play the vortex very long, but that was because I wanted to unlock more ships. The bulwark gets really annoying because you get missile trauma trying to keep your ammo afloat and saving up to find a weapon that doesn't waste even more ammo.

Recently I got the glaive beam for the first time(I do have the DA-SR12 but haven't used it yet) and I was in a rock sector so it'd be like RESIST RESIST 3 RESIST RESIST, OMG STOP DOING THAT!! lol

[GordonOverkill]

I am a big fan of Master of Orion 2, too. Been playing it since the original release and still enjoy it alot! Sooner or later I will definitely make a MOO2 Let's play on youtube (although I am not good enough to beat it on the hardest level, so "hard" is the most difficult one that I could play).