History VideOGame / FTLFasterThanLight

* BeehiveBarrier: Standard shields are a faint form of these.

* ResourcesManagementGameplay: Not only you'll need to watch out for your fuel, missile and drone-part supplies, but also for the power distribution of your ship. Careful management is critical in order to achieve victory. (or even survival)

* BoardingParty

* FrickinLaserBeams

* NintendoHard: Like basically all {{Roguelikes}}.

* RandomEvent

* SubsystemDamage: All subsystems can be individually disabled.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Faced with the issue of a boarding party on your ship? No problem - open the airlock and suffocate them all!

''FTL'' will be released on September 14th, 2012, but beta access has been granted to its Kickstarter backers. Speaking of Kickstarter, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-than-light it is one of the first completed games spawned from such a project.]]

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Used for boarding actions and bomb weapons.

''FTL'' will be released on September 14th, 2012.

* AttackDrone

* StealthInSpace

''FTL'''s gameplay involves the player's ship "jumping" between waypoints in a randomly generated galaxy, each of them containing a RandomEvent (usually involving combat). You then switch to a cross-section view of your ship, showing the crew along with its various rooms and contained subsystems, such as shields, oxygen, weapons, etc. During combat, you can then order your weapons to target certain enemy ship rooms or systems (the most useful ones being shields and weapons, in order to cripple them). Despite your ship being mostly automated, you can also order your crew to man certain stations to increase effectiveness, as well as repair sections of ship, fight fires or engage in combat with boarders. It's also necessary to manage power: you can divert power from one system to another, prompting choices such as to whether pursue evasive actions and divert all power to the engines or go aggressive and focus on weaponry. Along the way you'll collect scrap, the game's currency and use it to upgrade your ship's systems, get repairs, fuel and if you're lucky some fancier things like new weaponry or whole new systems such as cloaking devices, teleporters and more.

Not to be confused with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTL_Games the developer FTL]] which was best known for its own Roguelike, ''DungeonMaster'' and its sequels.

''FTL: Faster Than Light'' is a "{{Roguelike}}-like" spaceship simulation game released by Subset Games.

''FTL'''s gameplay involves the player's ship "jumping" between randomly mapped waypoints, each of them containing a RandomEvent (usually involving combat). You then switch to a cross-section view of your ship, showing the crew along with its various rooms and contained subsystems, such as shields, oxygen, weapons, etc. During combat, you can then order your weapons to target certain enemy ship rooms or systems (the most useful ones being shields and weapons, in order to cripple them). Despite your ship being mostly automated, you can also order your crew to man certain stations to increase effectiveness, as well as repair sections of ship, fight fires or engage in combat with boarders. It's also necessary to manage power: you can divert power from one system to another, prompting choices such as to whether pursue evasive actions and divert all power to the engines or go aggressive and focus on weaponry. Along the way you'll collect scrap, the game's currency and use it to upgrade your ship's systems, get repairs, fuel and if you're lucky some fancier things like new weaponry or whole new systems such as cloaking devices, teleporters and more.

* NintendoHard: Like basically all ''Roguelikes''.

* NintendoHard: Like basically all Roguelikes.

The player controls the crew of a small spaceship affiliated with TheFederation, which is currently on the losing end of a massive rebellion. The objective is to deliver an important message to a distant sector which might turn the tide of conflict. Unfortunately, as those familiar with Roguelikes will suspect, this is [[NintendoHard far, FAR from easy]]: the galaxy is an extremely dangerous place for a lone vessel, filled with dangers such as pirates, deadly environmental hazards, rebel scouts, hostile alien races, and others. Not to mention that the vast rebel fleet is in hot pursuit...

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The Rebel fleet, which gradually renders waypoints impassable and replaces those on its edge with encounters with powerful rebel ships that give no rewards for destroying.

''FTL'''s gameplay involves the player's ship "jumping" between randomly mapped waypoints, each of them containing a RandomEvent (usually involving combat). You then switch to a cross-section view of your ship, showing the crew along with its various rooms and contained subsystems, such as shields, oxygen, weapons, etc. During combat, you can then order your weapons to target certain enemy ship rooms or systems (the most useful ones being shields and weapons, in order to cripple them). Despite your ship being mostly automated, you can also order your crew to man certain stations to increase effectiveness, as well as repair sections of ship, fight fires or engage in combat with boarders. It's also necessary to manage power: you can divert power from one system to another, prompting choices such as to whether pursue evasive actions and divert all power to the engines or go aggressive and focus on weaponry. Along the way you'll collect the game's currency, scrap and use it to upgrade your ship's systems, get repairs, fuel and if you're lucky some fancier things like new weaponry or whole new systems such as cloaking devices, teleporters and more.

* XMeetsY: Described as "''{{Firefly}}'' by way of ''{{Spelunky}}''