I find this kind of thing a real turn-off about the game, the fact that you can come across a certain enemy ship configuration that will just outright kill you, end your perfectly fine run so far, and there's nothing you could do differently to prevent it. Let me set the scene... Your ship is in good health (in the green). You have Breach II, Fire bomb, and a strength 2 beam weapon, and 5 missiles (because you simply haven't come across a laser weapon yet, so have been relying on missiles to take down t...

I noticed that in the 3 different years I played FTL a lot in November and December steam tries to sell me a lot of (bad) deck building games but when I don't play it, I get more normal recommendations when browsing. Now if they were bad space games, I could see steam thinking "oh, these games are all about spaceships" that would make sense, but some of them aren't. This doesn't bug me at all. I usually buy a game for any reason other than browsing through the store at random, so the fact that playing this...

Here is the thing. Every battle for me goes the same scenario: I aim my main weapons (usually missiles involved) on enemy's weapon cell to disable their guns, and once that's done, I try to disable their shields. Then the battle simply proceeds automatically until enemy annihilation, the only task being to periodically hit the enemy's weapons system to keep it disabled. Is there any reason to plan the battle any differently? I mean, the real reason. I know you can play through boarding, but I haven't done...

I mean just look ( https://imgur.com/a/TAgoWyC ) these are my attempts with stealth A, it's just simply not possible, everyone saying "oh it's ez, oh ur just bad" yeah? tell me how you get your godlike luck with 3 beams and level 3 hacking while i search all shops, never find shields and never find any beam weapons...

Other than Void War is there any other game that plays like this? A top down, semi turn based, ship to ship combat, crew management, rogue-like game? I went looking for a bit and I was surprised that after a decade, only one other game has been made in this genre....