Why crews continue to sign up to my ill-fated squadron I’ll never know.
Each starship crew valiantly stared down death, and all subsequently were jettisoned into the cold dark void of space. Even with such simple graphics, I loved it and Im giving it 9.Under my watch countless brave men, women, bug-people, rockoids and robots have been sent to their doom in defence of the Federation. or the powerful Federation Cruiser! Final thoughts Hex?Ī multiplayer option would have been nice, and I wish there was more to explore beyond the end boss who is seriously hard, but the amazing depth of combat and customization had me hooked. Especially as you unlock more ships like the engi Drone ship, or the stealth ship. I love the variety of strategies you can employ Hex! Even after 20 hours of play, and each round still feels different. Do I want to focus on hammering their shield and hull with heavy weapons or teleport in a boarding crew and do it the sneaky way? Open the airlocks! And there are so many ways to do battle. If a fires broken out on board you dont have to send a crew member to put it out - you can open up the airlock and use the vacuum of space to put it out. And the amount of options you have is brilliant. Id recommend spawnlings play on easy first, until you get the hang of it. Or youll realise that upgrading your shields earlier could have stopped you being cut to pieces by an enemys lasers. Being exterminated by a group of pirates who boarded your ship can be avoided if you buy blast shields for your doors to delay their progress. Yes its a brutal game, and death is permanent but this makes the battles all the more tense and rewarding when you do well.Īnd when you do fail its often easy to see where you went wrong. But there were lots of other times where we werent as lucky though. By temporarily redirecting the power to weapons we can destroy the enemy ship before our oxygen levels drop to dangerous levels. We should divert power from the med bay and life support to the weapons so we can get more lasers online.Įrr Darren. Why are you telling us youre the one who has the do it? Darren - charge weapons! Battlestations people! Heres a typical battle encounter.Įnemy ship off the starboard bough. You fight in real-time, but you can also pause at any point to rearrange your power and crew. These battles are very strategic but theyre also really tense. Those were my favourite.Īs you explore space in FTL the one thing youll spend almost all your time doing is fighting other ships and fleeing from the rebel fleet which keeps you moving forwards in the game. and anti-personal drones for dealing with those pesky intruders. Only one person controls the ships crew, but its nice to be able to customize your crew especially as the more they do a particular job, the better they get at it.Īnd there are so many robots too! Theres attack bots, repair bots, boarding bots that you shoot over to your enemies ship. We should point out this isnt a multiplayer game. Oh there were so many lasers Bajo! Burst lasers, fire lasers, giant beam lasers! Ho ho! Ho ho! Hex handled our shields and obviously Darren was on weapons. Naturally my excellent space skills meant I was the pilot. The first thing you need to do is create your crew. then panic because they all want to blow you up! Its a dream game for a sci-fi fan.Ībsolutely this game is overloaded with fan service. You explore the galaxy to seek out new life. Hex, if theres one thing I love more than pirates, its space pirates! And Faster Than light is packed with them.