@FTL Player
Boarding? It's not that hard really. When they start showing up, have blast doors and vent the room they teleport into. And if you can force a fight in the medbay you're guaranteed to win. Even if not, just keep taking your people to medbay as needed. Having some mantis crew helps too.

I love this game,it´s quite addictive. But the boarding is so annoying. Every time i get boarded it´s pretty much gg.

Fenrir, you're not alone... Same here...
Just a few hour ago I did blow the Flagship with a Kestrel...
And it still does not let me go... :(

This image made me buy the game.

I can't stop play it *-*

FTl is ridiculously awesome it totally deserves 10$ price.

As its said before point of the game is not winning it's having awesome stories about how did you lose last time.

This game looks so much fun! It's too bad I don't have 10$ to spare. :(

Will there be any more FTL comics from you?

It space combat slightly reminds me of "Psi5 Trading Company", a crisis simulation in space from 1987.

It is one of those ultrarare games which are even 25 years later incredibly impressive. Actually even it graphics is holding up.

And still most people bought it on Steam rather then the DRM free GoG. Sigh.. so sad... trust in humanity is slowly fading with each day.

@Bearded Reaver:
What do you mean? I win at Net Hack like 80% of the time. The only reason I never win at dwarf fortress is because it doesn't actually have a win condition.

I gotta laugh at all the people whining about how hard the game is. It's just like dwarf fortress or net hack, you don't go in expecting to win. The point is to lose, but to do so in as magnificent a way as possible. And if you win, kudos to you.

FLT is nice but it is too random and it is frustrating. It is all about luck. Anyways, i cheated and im still was unable to defeat the ending boss. Apparently, the easy way to defeat the final boss is to board it and it should be killed 3 times. Sheesh, even Lavos (Chrono Trigger) is easiest

FTL is awesome.
that is all.

The term of surrender are fanservice

I looked it up...A starship simulator? With crew and door control to put out space fires...

I bought itz...

I can't haz new comic?

We demand all your Zoltans and fuel!

moar ftl comics plz
for the great justice!

@An Onymous: Because it cost money to develop. Money that Justin and Matthew didn't have. So they went to kickstarter for funds. And releasing the game for free after people paying 10 bucks for it on kickstarter would be really rude.

Also they probably want to earn some money.

[url=#user_comment_180544]@Thexare[/url]: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, "YOU PEOPLE!?" (Dat's da joooke!)

Great, come here to escape politics, and they follow me.
P.S. Why this game not free!?

Joe, did you base your FTL captains on WH40k Commisar?

[url=#user_comment_180520]@DH[/url]: Jesus fucking shit, do you people have to bring politics into every goddamn thing? Fuck off with you.

Yay a cool looking simulator! Oh no, it costs moneys. *moths fly out of wallet* Shazbot, I guess I won't get to play this game.


THANKS OBAMANOMICS!

[url=#user_comment_180435]@enjoyhell[/url] Well, at least your username here is appropriate for the game.

And here I was, already thinking of Engi-tans.

Man, every time I think I'm sitting pretty, this game finds a new way to ruin me.

It's like playing poker before you know all the cards.

@D.D Mining Co.: LETS DO THIS!!!!

A great game, i failed in the last sector, damn you powerful rebel ships, why cant you just let me KILL YOU!?

Thankfully I still had funds in my steam wallet, thanks for the recommendation, Jo. [url=#user_comment_180357] @Hyperstar96[/url] the game is Faster Than Light (FTL) a game where you command your own space ship and attack other ships in a top-down command style. Good way to burn a hour or so.

@Megaman approves: Hence the name.

Rockman boarding parties with firebombs are pure carnage. SMASH AND BURN!

tl;dr they rock

A Zoltan Crusier with a... what is that?
Seriously, that's not a Slug, not a Mantis and CLEARLY not a Zoltan. That's more like a cockroach.

Either way, unfitting commander of ship, with a race not even in the game. :P
Shame on you, Jo. Shame. On. You.
At least use a race from the game.

I think you should consider making a "How much Fanservice?" poll.

I played this game so much recently. I know exactly what is being said here, usually surrender option pops up like a millisecond before they are going to explode.

Which means it's a bit pointless since you can usually get more stuff by destroying them.

I don't really get it... anyone care to explain?

This game is so delightfully evil.

I DO really loved the punchline in panel 2!...lmao

I think I speak for all of us here when I say, regardless of firebombings, I would undoubtedly work aboard the Starship Sentry under Captain Engie.

Yay, an FTL comic.
Forget TF2, forget DotA, do MOAR FTL comics!

Two Burst laser II's, two Breach IIs, with a pre-ignitor and you can kill anything. Anything.

Drop the breachs in the shield room, hold back the lasers until the bombs go off, then use the lasers to finish the shield room. The enemy is now yours to toy with.

Beams are great for murdering the heck out of shield-less ships by the way.

Finally, if you don't have EMPs or strong lasers firing multiple missiles at the same time or Rock/Mantis boarding parties work.

PS. why is my nickname RedMattis banned?

As for taking out shields, a EMP weapon will disable shield charging for a few seconds allowing you to hammer it down with lasers or more EMP. Against late-game fast (read: dodging) ships two EMP weapons could be used for reliability.

After the shields are down just murder the heck out of them

[url=#user_comment_180250]@Draken[/url] & Shadow Use a cloaking device. ...if you don't have one you'd better have damn fast engines and 3-4 sheilds (it miiiiight be sufficient to dodge most of the drone assault). Also, third turret from the left is the only one shooting missiles. Take it out ASP.

[url=#user_comment_180250]@Draken[/url]: Damn...now I'm even more worried. Best I've done is get it into a stalemate by destroying all it's guns from teleporting people in, but couldn't get all the damn shields down.

Fun game, but god damn that final boss is such a pain. Is it even possible to get past the drone swarm phase of that fight using the Federation ship?

When you have shown your titties,

then you have my permission to surrender.

However, the Federation is nothing if not open-minded to the ways of alien cultures. As such in the future I will be sure to only break off an engagement after lighting your ship on fire or voiding the majority of its oxygen.

When I have accepted your surrender, human etiquette generally considers it bad form to order your boarding party to continue murdering my men. For similar reasons, I would appreciate it greatly if you would disarm any breach missiles which might be en route.

I kickstarted this sucker, and I don't regret a moment of it. Even after playing for 10 hours nonstop on the first day it was released.

Damn you, now i realy want to play it XD

[url=#user_comment_180204]@Dook[/url]: FTL is Faster Than Light, the new game on steam.

SPIDERS! SPIDERS EVERYWHERE!

wtf is ftl

got this on the release date, it's so addicting >> though.. damn my luck some days :I that and intruders.. ugh

SPESS MARINES!

I haven't enjoyed a ship management combat sim this much since EV Nova by Ambrosia Software... man I want EV Nova for mobile. That or a more open/explore expansion to FTL. ¡All of your Scraps are belong to us!

Worse is when they ask for surrender while they have people boarding your ship.

And even worse is when you find out that accepting the surrender does not stop said boarders from attacking you -_-

[url=#user_comment_180137]@av5hadow[/url]: "Set me on fire" I read that on Glados voice. That game is awesome. It's moments like those that makes me want to play it and play it, even if I get beaten and beaten all over again.

This makes me all kinds of happy.

Stupid alien, you should have signed a treaty instead of firing loaded fire bombs. Now you die!

SPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPAAAACCCCCCEEEEEEEEE!

[url=#user_comment_180139]@Keradi01[/url]: There is a Space Core...?

I am disappoint that the Space Core isn't on that screen in the third panel.

Need. More. FTL comics.
Also, damn you, I had just briefly pulled myself away from it, now I must make one more attempt or four before going to sleep.

You want to surrender. Even though you set me on fire?
*Launches rocket at ship*

Late post jo.

Let's see, what this one about?

...space?