Oxygen is not flammable. You can't burn oxygen. Hell, burning is a process of oxidation, you can't oxidise oxygen.

OMG!!! FTL got so many ups!!! Lol!

Spot on, Jo.

You pretty much listed every fault I found with the game, even though it's still very, very addictive.

The best part of this is that putting a Lanian in the O2 room cuts off oxygen to the whole ship.

Engie should have joined Skullgirls. I'll buy that DLC. Anyways after that game, will she comeback in NerfNow

wait til you play Warframe, apparently infested monsters can cut off life support when you're on the wilderness of earth.

@Nerf NOW!!: Wow. Thank you so much, Jo ^^

I love this comic more every time I read it.

Oxygen is NOT flammable!!
The only thing oxygen does is react exothermal with stuff, which results in heat, flame and oxidized stuff.

The beauty of FTL is that there's so many valid strategies; all these comments about how you "need" this or that? That only applies if you're going with a particular playstyle. The only thing neccessary is sufficent skill to deal with the luck you've been given, good or bad. P.S. Moar FTL comics! :)

[url=#user_comment_345640]@NEHZ[/url] Glaive cuts through 2. I effing love Glaive!

Nothing's required to beat the Flagship - heck, you don't technically even need a Shields System to win.

The best thing about FTL is that good enough play will overcome virtually any amount of bad luck. (Sadly it doesn't *feel* this way at first, and falsely feels like luck is just screwing you.)

oxygen isn't flammable

Man, once I was playing FTL using the computer of one of my relatives, and I unlocked the Crystal Cruiser.


...It didn't sync to the Steam Cloud.

And I love the touch with the room continually losing oxygen as he stands in it.

Beams work fine when combined with Ion, hacking module for bonus.
The disadvantage of beams is that you need the shield gone, however they never miss and deal MASSIVE damage. The best beams still deal some damage even with 1 shield left.
I've won 1 game with a beam and without teleporter/drones.

Well... We breathe a corrosive gas that also happens to be rocket fuel, their concern is without a doubt understandable.
But we've grown used to the accidental fires so we are prepared, Xenos.

also getting the crystal rock ship is STILL being evasive after all this time

i used beams and missiles myself. they're very effective but the build needs to be VERY particular. I used two very powerful (different) beams with emp spam. it wrecked that ship to shit.

I'm pretty sure defense drone II shoots down more than 1 missile from the 3, but i haven't used it in a long time, so i'm not certain...

@Dmitry Solovyov: Need lvl 2 teleport for it (or Rocks) but yes, it can be done.

I loved to send my crew on enemy ship and take it down from inside ) Just dont foregt to stop firing at it or you can lose you crewmate if not beam them fast enough. And you CAN kill even autonomic drones if you beam you crew - destroy part - beam them out before they die from lack of oxygen.

oh Jo-senpai, you still got a lot to learn

Personally I just hope FTL2 will be less random. There's nothing like having EVERY one of your shots miss what should be an easy opponent. So you either die there or end up spending all your scrap on repairs. That or two jumps into a new game you get someone that hacks your ship and you die. Blah.

@Afafbbh Gibbon: Defense Drone blocks one missile of the three. Given how much a drone system costs I'm not impressed.

Level 2 Defense Drone lets you ignore missiles.
That said, teleporter is pretty much the only required subsystem, because you get more stuff from killing every crew member. It's only competition is from anti-personnel beams (fire + bio) but they are harder to get through shields.

Annnnd, the obligatory no-oxygen run!
http://youtu.be/GNHfxwbETaM

[url=#user_comment_345623]@Meowth[/url]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15508817/avatar_lanius.png here.

God, give me a version of the Lanius on the last pannel without the speech bubble. Best avatar ever.

If you want a bigger challenge, you should download FTL: Captain Edition. It's a combination of mods which change the entire game. A lot of new weapons, the old weapons are completely changed, a new enemy type (Stations), areas have events going on...and there is an Endless Mode.

Reminds me of a science fiction sub-genre where aliens consider human being scary for living in what they called "extreme conditions." Also those aliens compare us with eldritch abominations.

If I could give you reddit gold for this comics and comment, I would. FTL is pretty awesome, but having only one boss seems like a huge flaw.

@Dyzzi-Chan: :D

Love your FTL Comic Jo, they show some truth about the game haha.

I'll only agree on cloak. Often you have a full ship of zoltans and engies that you don't really want to send out offensively.

But yeah, i would totally love to see more different end-bosses.

[url=#user_comment_345607]@LSN[/url]: I've beaten with it with 3 shields. I'm saying Teleporters and Cloak are far better than any other options to a point Ibuy it every time if I can. Drones are in no way necessary.

The only "pretty much must have" thing is indeed cloaking.

Jo, i strongly disagree with the requirement of full shields and them "not letting you max drones system". I've beaten boss with 3 shields and no drone system at all. And no crew teleport too. There is a very high variaty of things you could do to counter a lot of boss's things.

@Nerf NOW!!:
Teleporter is nice, but not the most important thing for the boss.

Spoiler: Hard is different and the teleport to the missile room strategy no longer works nearly so well.

Cloaking is most important, then breech bombs. Anything after that is of similar effectiveness.

[url=#user_comment_345598]@tapif[/url]: Having teleport is more important than Cloaking. I can survive power surges with 4 layers of shields, but I need to destroy the missile launcher as soon as possible.

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

Wp Jo,
i am still trying to finish it on normal, but i keep doing a lot of mistakes. You can play without cloacking if your defense is strong enough, but sure,it is a sweet way to avoid power surges.