According to the internets, some people think easy mode is ridiculously easy. It is not. The number of times that I have died in this game is...incredible. Apparently it is by design, because they styled it after Nethack, i.e. it is super difficult and you only win by playing hundreds of times. Nethack was a little too much at once, and I never had the patience for walking around endlessly trying to find my way around yet another dead end. FTL is fun though!
So, if you are wondering whether its possible to beat the game, it is, and I finally did it. It seems that you only have a hope of winning if you die enough and read enough tips to start exploiting nuances of the game. For example, apparently you can cloak after the enemy ship fires and that will make their shots miss. Logically, this makes no sense to me because its not like the cloak moves your ship out of the way, but, whatever, I'll take every little bit of help I can get.
I used the B type of the Stealth Cruiser, and this is what my ship had by the end. I think the key, here, is that I got Ion Blast II super early in the game...those Ion weapons probably won it for me.
Weapons
- Glaive Beam
- Ion Blast II
- Ion Blast
- Defense I
- Hull Repair*
Augmentations
- Long Range Sensors
- Automated Reloader
- Adv. FTL Navigation
Systems
- Sheids 7
- Engines 5
- Oxygen 2
- Weapons MAX
- Drones 4
- Med 2
- Teleport MAX
- Cloak MAX
- Pilot 2
- Sensors MAX
- Doors 2
- Power MAX
Other
- Luck
- More Luck
- Play it 100 times
- Do not fight spiders
- You must save up to buy shields as early as possible.
- Get extra scrap by boarding other ships
*however you should switch to Beam 1 before the last (3rd) battle with the rebel cruiser because it gets zoltan shields
Now, whats next? Shall we try normal difficulty? Fuck no. I'm going to play it on easy again.
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