#FTL REDDIT UPGRADE#

This way, if you happen across a store with three Zoltan, a weapon pre-igniter, or scrap recovery arms, you can get them!

#FTL REDDIT UPGRADE#

Always try to keep a 'hedge fund' of about 100-150 scrap, and only use any surplus to upgrade your ship. Once you get to this level, and are 'coasting' through the early game, try not to spend your scrap immediately. Later, I'll fully upgrade my engines, then my shields. I usually get doors, then these, then focus on offense and crew. Also, the upgrades for these do not get expensive until after this level. Together, these give you a solid defense that will last until the later sectors. Aim to get your engine and shields upgraded to level four as soon as possible. The first upgrade is only twenty scrap, so get our quick! The ability to stall attackers while you regroup your defenders is invaluable. Don't put off upgrading your doors! This is usually the first upgrade for many players. In fact I play almost exclusively 'Rogue-Lites', and I rarely beat them.Experience will teach you a lot, but here are some helpful tips. I have many games I've never beaten for that reason, but I also still get replay from them (BoI, DoE, etc.). I think to me its about having fun with what you have, and don't derive fun so much from flexing my skill and winning something. Granted, sometimes the game slaps me down so hard and thoroughly that I need to take a break, sure, but I have a hard time marking a game down for being too random and not rewarding my 'skill' enough. That failure is the backstory to my next run where I take a bunch of greenhorns through with no torches to try to get enough resources together to mount another assault on the Boss (or whatever). I don't mind the idea that I could get wiped out despite what I feel in the moment is 'optimal' play. For me DD was a great reminder that the fun of a game is in playing it, not winning it. I think people over value the idea of 'skill' in gameplay, vs RNG, in a game. That way if you decide to charge an enemy with 1 health, you can be relatively certain you'll get a kill, whereas you might think twice before rushing an enemy with 100 health when your max damage is 100 and a grazing shot would leave you in a vulnerable position. Using X-Com as an example, if you're in range, completely missing shouldn't be an option, but maybe a 'grazing shot' could be. At least I could strategize around that instead of just flailing around in a death spiral, before finally getting to a store and finding out it doesn't have what I need. FTL and Issac both do this to a degree, but it is relatively hard to unlock even your first new character/ship - which makes it unfriendly to new players who might do better with a slightly different setup.Īnother option is to have a reliable map or other 'constants.' I wouldn't mind a tough fight in FTL if I knew where the next store was, and that they'd have at least X amount of health & fuel at minimum. Hell, Oregon Trail did this four decades ago. One way to do this is to allow player to customize their starting loadout. I definitely believe that random games need to balance their randomness somewhat. I just felt like I was playing a slot machine rather than a interactive game. Dungeon layout only visible once you enter. Add to that how quirks gained after finishing the dungeon are completely random. There is also the element of surprising enemies, if you have your torchlight at max you're suppose to be more likely to surprise the enemy except the benefit is so negligible people do torchless runs. For example if you have a character with 6 speed and a character with 10 speed you will not always have the character with 10 go before the one with 6. The dealbreaker was how the character stats like speed and dodge are simply additive to a separate roll. I love games like x-com and the Binding of Issac where you have to roll the dice and deal with the hand you got but I just couldn't deal with the amount of random elements DD throws at you. I've tried to play Darkest Dungeon recently and I was disappointed with the lack of control I had over the game.

Ftl reddit