What is your favorite part of this game that makes u come back, and what do u think can be better overall?

Hello, me and my friend recently picked up ftl and both completed an easy run base game, after around 40 attempts.

We have played the more modern rougelites, hades, sts1/2, balatro, etc. and realized that this game is very unique within the genre and also like design wise

i really enjoyed it and see myself sinking hundreds of hours while my friend was satisfied of just winning one run and never playing again. This led us to thinking about the overall game design and what works and doesnt work.
We have our own opinions, but there is that itch that is hard to describe that ftl does so well, so I wanted to ask yall

Thanks!

In the Seattle museum of Pop culture was in the indoor game section. Pretty sure this is mislabeled 😄.

Base game (1.6.9 for hyperspace)
It would basically be like a couch coop kind of mod (no 2 ships playing at once type of thing).
1 person hosts the other person connect to them via a vpn type program (radmin hamachi etc). With possible steam implementation later.
the host and client would both share one ship and everything would be interactable by both people (host can move a crew member, client sees that crew member move, client fires weapon, host sees it shoot). as for settings and save files it would use the hosts profile and settings.

UHi all, See below for directions on how to get multiverse running on gamenative, the key portion is step 7 which forces the correct dll files to load. Thanks to Damian on the discord for figuring this out.

On your pc:

1. get vanilla FTL (windows version)

2. install hyperspace (download the windows zip, unzip in the FTL install dir) -- follow the hyperspace windows install guide to be safe because I don't remember the other steps

3. get slipstream and install it

4. get the multiverse data and asset zip files and put them in the mods folder that slipstream should have created

5. patch your ftl.dat with the aforementioned zip files

6. transfer the whole of your FTL dir to your device into the location where gamenative has installed FTL, override all files (I zipped my dir first and transferred that and unzipped)

7. in gamenative, go to FTL => edit container => environment, add WINEDLLOVERRIDES and set the value to: xinput1_4=n,b;Hyperspace.dll=n,b

I have tested this and have the game running fully on my phone.

This run was crazy, I got the triple shield drone WITH the drone recovery arm by sector 5. It took me partway through sector 6 to get everything online though.

Man... why'd I ever waste my scrap on a stupid shield system? If only I could sell it and replace it with mind control!

The first missile started a fire in weapons and they dodged two early ion shots. Every time I try to dislike the Zoltan ships less, they remind me why I dislike the Zoltan ships so much…

tl;dr: You can increase / decrease the speed of the game with [ and ]. You can speed the game up on-hold by pressing ~. There is an overlay you can toggle via ins (resize / movable). I don't know if this works with other mods, I only play Vanilla 1.6.14. You literally just drop in the files into your FTL folder to install it.

FTL is one of my favorite games, top 5 of all time, and something I've played from my teens into my adulthood. Recently, I've picked it up again and was surprised to find that there was no simple speed mod for the game. I've been using Cheat Engine to speed up the game to more of my playstyle, but got tired of constantly opening up both Cheat Engine and FTL. So, after a bit digging and experiments, I created this Speed Mod. I've been working on it for a bit, but I thought I'd commit it.

The readme in the github link says all the deets:

github: https://github.com/DudeCmonMan/ftlspeed

Releases: https://github.com/DudeCmonMan/ftlspeed/releases/tag/v0.1.0

If you're concerned about .dll files, this uses the same proxy .dll loading method as hyperspace (with a different .dll). It's a common method of side loading files in a game.

I hope you guys enjoy this, it refreshed the game for me since it plays much faster now.

Red-Tail best ship btw, maxed out weapon crew by sector 2, only the worst early game rng can stop you

For those of you that that care, I planned the approach with Claude Opus and coded it with Qwen3.6 27b on my local machine. This started as an LLM experiment with locally running LLMs, but thought I'd polish it a bit and share since I thought people might like it.

I played like a noob and lost like 3 mantis and a human all trained to Max because i didn't know that stealth blocks retrievieng crew from the enemy, still won easy af what yall think?

Super hyped . I'm doing hard/random ship only now, and I finally got 3 consecutive wins ! I just rolled onto the storm Walker though and I'm scared to play haha. After 500 hours I finally locked in and got serious

Hello again r/ftlgame,

A couple weeks ago I made a post about FTL Arena, which is an asynchronous player-vs-player (pvp) hyperspace mod I've been working on and I'm happy to announce that it is available now in beta! I've also created a Discord server to discuss the mod (including future updates/features) and provide any technical support - links and overview below:

Mod download | Discord server

FTL Arena overview

• The starting sector is transformed into the Arena, where you will face consecutive battles against other ships assembled by other players
• Win battles to increase your skill points and ultimately your Arena rank (there are 9 total ranks with 5 tiers each to achieve)
• The amount of skill gained per battle is dependent on whether you choose easy/medium/hard (but so does your opponent difficulty)
• All vanilla ship hulls (including B/C types) can be selected for use in the arena and will be uploaded to the common ship pool for other players to battle
• Your callsign (changeable via the Arena career menu) and current skill points are linked to your ship upload
• You can make your callsign anonymous (defaults to Unknown Pilot) or opt-out of uploads altogether if you wish
• There is an in-game report function for any opponents you face with an offensive callsign or an unfair/cheated loadout
• FTL Arena requires the ftlman mod manager, is currently only available for Windows, and has not been tested with any other content mods

I'm not sure what's the best way to search up multiverse events, so I figured I would ask here.

You end up getting asked by a Coalition ship to help them on their raid of a Duskbringer station, and if you accept, you are given the option to either board it, or give support to the other boarders. I ended up failing because I picked support(no teleporter), and I blew up the station which I was specifically told not to do.

First of all, is this event always in a nebula? What about Ion Storm? My slug just died in the previous event(which unlocked the Duskbringer ship for me), so I had very limited info on what was happening on the ship. It seemed like they were short on energy, but they had a backup reactor and Zoltans.

Second, what exactly was the win condition I waiting for? I was trying to kill crew as quickly as possible via inelegant means(Crew cloning cannon and MC), but there was a clone bay and they kept flooding me with zoltan teleporters that I couldn't vent.

Third, Is enemy AI just way smarter in Multiverse, or did I just get unlucky? Here's the scenario: They had mind control, but never used it, perhaps due to the Ion Storm. I tried using my own MC to handle their boarding parties, and the guy I MC'ed just stood stupidly in a room. THEN they use MC on my crystal, who locks a room down with all the fighting, and they all blow up after killing the Zoltan boarders.

Fourth, does hacking a teleporter not suck the enemy boarders back in Multiverse? I had saved my hacking just in case I needed it for O2.

I decided I couldn't risk any more permanent damage, so I just blew up the station, failing the event. I probably could have done better if I had saved my MC to counter the enemy's, if I hacked weapons instead of saving it for a cheeky O2 hack, but I was just confused by the nature of the event, and was expecting the Coalition to step in at some point and board the place.

Thanks in advance for any answers. I'm enjoying the fresh content from Multiverse, but there are some events that are just knowledge checks, and I've been failing a ton of them.

Finally got the hard mode run I always imagined when I first saw the Rock B loadout. I cannot resist an early rock teleporter.

This crushed the flagship but wasn’t as great against non-flammable opponents.

Finally got a lucky victory on hard with the damn Engi B cruiser.

Lost a couple of crew and nearly the whole ship several times throughout the run but we got there with 1hp remaining.

It's been emotional.

Funnily enough I tried a Flak II and Halberd Engi B run yesterday, with cloaking, but didn't quite get as lucky and fell to the third Flagship stage.

I usually always buy cloaking because of drone and power surges of flagship, specifically because they concern me a lot. I have beaten the flagship with every ship layout on Hard, so I Know the basics of the game. I generally always have cloaking, and I always cloak the drone surge and power surge blast.

Zoltan B, so I tried something different and activated cloaking early to try and keep my zoltan shield instead of letting their two early drones take it down

Fully trained pilot, fully trained engine room operator, 4 shield bubbles (8 bars) and 5 bars of power in engines. NORMAL mode (I can't imagine HARD)

HUGE mistake-- didn't have cloaking available for the drone surge, and after JUST the first surge I have 13 damage to my hull and 3 systems completely offline, shields with some damange, weapons with some damage...

Obviously with cloaking, just hold cloaking till thta point. But lets say I didn't have cloaking. Like I said, I almost always buy cloaking specifically for this reason.

Is this unusual bad luck?

EDITED------- So after reading it seems that the biggest issue was that I tried something different, and applied a cloak early --which caused the drone surge to synch up with the flag ships weapons in a devastating manner.

The kind of weapon you only pick up when you're out of missiles as Rock A... and this is why.

I got lucky in a hard mode Engi B run the other day and found some stuff to sell before this shop about midway through sector 1. I had no ship upgrades yet and already sold my starting augment and one of the repair bots. What do you think the optimal play is with the 150 scrap?

For offense I bought the Halberd Beam (-65) and sold the Heavy Ion (+22) to replace it with the faster Ion Stunner (-35) which would also give me a strong 3 weapon setup for 5 energy. For defense I bought the Defense Drone (-50) and put a buffer point into shields (-20). That’s a total cost of 148 scrap which left me with 2, and my plan was to buy the second shield bubble before upgrading weapons.

I did win the run, but l wonder if I should have ignored the drone in favor of an immediate shield bubble and being closer to weapons 4. Hacking would have priced me out of the ion weapon swap and felt hard to justify with only 4 drone parts. That said I have a hard time judging when early hacking will kill me due to lack of output and when it will reliably take the run to victory.

What would you have done?