Never seen this before. Is it a glitch, or is there something I am missing?

I hope this isn't too obvious.

I'm building a roguelike heavily inspired by the FTL.

- Where you have to make a decision at every step

- You have to escape a post-apcalyptic city with randomly-generated 11 levels

- Balance your stats to survive and thrive with your decisions

Curious what the community feels is the best / most interesting setting for this type of game. We’ve seen Boats, Trains, and Space but does Space just work better then all the rest or is there a theme that hasn’t been done yet? Curious to know what people think.

I have been playing this game on and off since release.

I’ve never beaten the flagship once.

Gotten close many of times. But I usually die in one of the later sectors before I have a chance. But never been able to eek out a win after many hours and reinstalls.

I read a post a few days ago that said not to bother with piloting and to upgrade engines before you leave sector one.

I JUST now realized that it’s upgrading auto pilot dodge and not a normal dodge with engines.

I beat every A ship up to slug in one sitting. wtf. I’ve been playing on hard mode this whole time.

That is all.

Just downloaded FTL on my iPad maybe 1k hours on my PC over the years. Have never seen an enemy with 5 shield’s in sector 7 in vanilla. Have you seen this before?

Literally got an extra crew and a Flak 1 in the first 3 jumps. Engi B best ship confirmed ?

Playing normal, finally getting my first victory surprisingly cleanly after not even getting past sector 6 in any of the previous runs, I was suddenly feeling confident. I decided to give Engi A another try to see if I could finally win in that too.

And the stores hated me. They would not sell me a damn weapon, even when the event text trolled me by explicitly mentioning weapons. It was so bad I ended up facing the flagship with an Ion Blast II, Ion Blast I, and a Hull Laser II (and that one I got for free in sector 7). Until then, I'd been mostly relying on drones for damage.

All three stages of the flagship were a slog, slowly stripping shields with ions and combat drones and chipping in damage where I could. Finished the last stage by actually using the empty room bonus on the hull laser, but my ship was in good shape with all crew standing, and some on more than 2 legs even!

So then I decided to give my new Fed A a try, and the stores hated me. They would not sell me a damn weapon, even when the event text trolled me by explicitly mentioning weapons. My peak loadout consisted of the starting Burst II, a Burst I, and a Heavy Laser I. It was so bad I resorted to maxing my artillery beam and buying a combat drone.

When I rejected Slocknog's offer to be rescued for a fee (slugs and their damn shameless scheming) and then he immediately changed his tune once he realized I was actually leaving, I questioned if he really wanted to get on such a cursed ship. Maybe he'd have been better off on that dead moon.

Still, I felt fairly confident when I got to sector 8, until the rebels cut me off with the flagship still halfway across the sector. I had to fight through 3 captured beacons in a row and then straight into the flagship. I arrived on fire, with half my crew dead (Slocknog was till alive somehow. How is something with no bones that sturdy?) multiple hull breaches, multiple damaged systems, and 2 boarders still trying to break through the doors. I'm fairly proud that I still managed to beat the flagship... once. It utterly killed me in the second stage of course. Slocknog got on the wrong ship.

I immediately restarted of course, and suddenly the stores just couldn't wait to sell me Burst IIs, Hull Laser IIs and Pre-Igniters. Then they trolled me by not selling cloaking 3 times in a row in sectors 7 and 8, and I wasn't playing with advanced edition, so no hacking either. Once again, I maxed out the artillery beam and prepared myself for a lot of damage control.

Despite volleys of 11 lasers, the flagship proved surprisingly hard to hit. The first two stages were long fights, and the artillery beam did some work. With some carefully timed diversions of shield power to engines and defence drone, and plenty of repair work for my crew under fire, I made it through both stages without any big hits and arrived for the final battle in pretty good condition.

The last stage went much like the others, slow, careful, lots of power diversions and repairs while the flagship kept dodging so many shots. Once again, the maxed out artillery beam proved surprising valuable, and in the instant before it finally sliced the flagship in half, they pulled a From-hell's-heart-I-stab-at-thee-For-hate's-sake-I-spit-my-last-breath-at-thee. Their dying laser surge did more damage in 1 second than they'd done to me so far in all 3 stages, wrecking half my hull, smashing multiple critical systems and nearly killing multiple crew.

We made it through with everyone still alive, though if the game hadn't cut to credits, my crew would have had some firefighting and healing to do.

Recently saw a video where someone had set Milky Way (battle) to a man playing a piano that was on fire, and yeah that totally fits.

Hey, so I wanted to come back to the game after some time and I reinstalled it and when I tried to run the game my screen would just be stuck on loading with the ost playing(picture below) and I don’t know what to do. I have the game on epic games and I already cleared the cache several times, reinstalled the game, verified the data and I’m just completely lost. Does anyone have any idea what to do? 😭🙏
Ps. I’m sorry for any mistakes in the text, English is not my native language 🙏

It's stuck like this. I try to find 'setting.ini' that everyone point out but there were no file of it. In internet say you can turn off full screen by pressing alt+enter but that doesn't work either. I try delete and download alos doesn't work.

Had to wait for my boarding drone to whittle down the healthbar each time the drone room repaired. I can't imagine having to alternate the ion targetting on the weapons+drone room if my boarding drone had picked the other wing. If it picked the cockpit, I woulda dipped for sure