Subset released FTL: Faster Than Light on iOS and today we are here to share to you some basic tips and tricks of playing this game. Though it is too early to write a walkthrough guide for this as we are expecting more updates later on, still we will share here only asking for some reconsideration for some changes in the future. What we will share here is what we believe useful for players as what we can play today. So let’s roll the dice:
1. Hybrid rules! In game you have a chance to use different variation of weapon and most players made a wrong decision in this part. From light weapon to heavy arms, from simple lasers to missiles everything has their own advantage and disadvantage and to cover up one another cons, we suggest to do it in hybrid form. Meaning to say you should use different kinds of weapons that will fit for all situations. This is a concept of weaponry, missiles require ammunition and doesn’t always reliable anytime when you need a gunfire while drones attack automatically. So a good combination from here is a set of burst lasers together with beam weapon like Glaive. Here’s the trick in this combo, just wait for the beam to recharge fully and then fire a laser burst to knock out enemy shields once they’re down you can now use the non-penetrative beam to eliminate those enemies. In every weapon you are carrying, you must formulate your combo to use to maximize the usage of it.
2. Use doors on your favor! This is obvious in FTL: Faster Than Light that you can use doors as bottleneck where you can throw out your best gunfire to eliminate enemies in small area or you can allow doors to lock enemies easily on a specific rooms. Though doors are vulnerable and also break eventually, you can use this as additional shield and let you buy more time for more attack. You can really use this as advantage dealing damage against your enemy before making them through.
There are also airlock doors in this game where you can use as trap. Through opening the airlocks to space, you can go with the connections between them and the room with the boarding enemy units and there you can suffocate enemies. This is very effective in dealing enemies such as Mantis that can inflict heavy damage against you using hand-to-hand combat. This is a perfect trick in dealing tough enemies without risking crew members.
3. Strategize your attack. To make your combat strategy effective, you need to do it with harmony. You are thinking that you need to damage the enemy’s shield systems to give you free shots at wherever you wish. But actually we are talking about it is better to hit their weapon first so you can disable them from fighting back. When you are using different kinds of weapon or when you receive the warning that your enemy is going to jump, just start on getting on their engines. Firing towards their engine will reduces their evasion and also destroying their opportunities to escape. You should not let your enemy escaped from you or you will feel sorry all the way with your resources as well as the possibly hastened the rebel fleet’s approach with regarding with your position.
4. Don’t rush in leaving. Most players wish to reach the exit point before the rebel fleet arrives these are the growing, red blob on your map. Actually if you get caught, you’ll be challenge to fight the rebel cruisers and the sad part you don’t have any compensation to claim. However, most players also missed much more rewards by just not leaving. What you need to do here is to spend extra turns before the fleet arrives and explore the spot near the exit and you will find more resources and equipment. In game there are only limited number of systems to explore before you came across the final fight, so explore it first before leaving as rewards waiting for you.
5. Explore and Explore! As we mentioned in the previous tips, you need to be adventurous to earn more rewards and not to leave instantly. Because the game has no fix map to venture as well as equipment and resources to claim, you need to explore everything. If you are in the situation of asking if you wish to explore foreboding or just an abandoned space station, just lend a time for it. Don’t feel sorry about losing members by extra exploration because this will give you more compensation like stealth device.
6. Conserve your scrap. This is the primary resources of the game, that will let you upgrade your ship, purchase equipment, fuel and even ammunition. Actually as a beginner, there are lots of chance to waste this resource as you believe that this will help you throughout the game. The trick here is to not do an improvement with your ship as long as you can pass levels because level come random in game, so you will never know if your current equipped is strong enough to use for the long run. You can also consider to wait before doing such upgrades until you reach the first store. Here you will have the idea if the item in your hand is worthy to upgrade.
7. Go with the game. There are lots of things to do in the game as we mentioned, it has a random system where you will experience different challenges from one another. This is also works the same with upgrading. Later you will think of upgrading yourself to improve your shield from the maximum idea but actually you really don’t need to focus on hardening your ship alone because there are lots of things to do and you have a very limited resources to do it all. So the best thing to do here is to just play the game and because you will encounter different challenge, just make an upgrade then if you discover what you really need for the current challenge. What you need to remember here is, that you must have always a resource to do an instant upgrade. The trick is to save your resources as you can.
8. Weapons work it all. If you feel that the game is boring with such orientation, well if you really want to play it with freedom, you should look it through your weapons. This is for those who love to hear offense is the best defense because what is happening in this game is that the enemy ships start boosting their defense that makes them hard to penetrate with damage. So here you can upgrade your weapon until you can damage and defeat your enemy.
9. Patience is the key. I believe video game players can’t show more patience as they are playing because they want to enjoy the game and not to challenge their patience. But actually if you really wish to play this game, you need to exert effort for it especially when dealing with boss. Yes the final boss actually difficult and maybe you will think to download FTL: Faster Than Light cheats to finish it but think about if you use such tool, you will only spoil everything from the beginning as there is no big deal anymore. Don’t worry because there are still ways and like the focus of this guide, is to take patience especially in upgrading. You should create a good combination from your ship parts and upgrades and your attacks.
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