Your "Fuck you, FTL" Moments

[stylesrj]

Did I mention how much fire says "Fuck You" to logic and reasoning on how fire works?

I was after an enemy ship and it just happened to drop a regular bomb right into the weapon's room. It stunned my Slug working there and set 2 fires on the room. So I grabbed another Slug (instead of my Engi but damn I needed those engines in case of a missile strike) but did the fire go out like it should? Nope, it spread to a third tile while my guns were struggling to hit the target. I was 1 shot away from stopping the enemy ship when...

The fire, which had all been but taken out had spread to a 4th tile and disabled all my guns! Then my Slugs died, they dropped another bomb in the room and their ship got away... fuck you fires!

[Samario]

Cruising along in my glaive beam / heavy ion / weapon pre-igniter ship, business as usual, when the first ship the game throws at me in that sector was a Rock cruiser with 4 shield, ion resistance, and a heavy laser of some description (3 damage, fires twice) - even though I also had 4 shield levels I was torn apart instantly. Not nice game...

[SgtFrog]

Cruising along in my glaive beam / heavy ion / weapon pre-igniter ship, business as usual, when the first ship the game throws at me in that sector was a Rock cruiser with 4 shield, ion resistance, and a heavy laser of some description (3 damage, fires twice) - even though I also had 4 shield levels I was torn apart instantly. Not nice game...

Holy crap. That was some seriously bad luck, since that was probably the ONE ship variety that could give you that much trouble.

[Bokkelul]

I really love FTL and I've had some amazing runs and some runs where nothing seems to go right and I'm cool with that.
But just now I had such an annoying thing happen to me. Here is what happened:

I was about to blow this ship up, I had already ignored their pleas for mercy and then suddenly it goes "The ship suddenly disables their weapons. There's no explanation and they don't respond to hails. It seems during the battle they lost some some fuel cells from their storage. You quickly collect it and leave"
WHAT?! HOW ABOUT KEEP FUCKING SHOOTING IT AND GIMMI MY SCRAP YOU BASTARDS. srsly ffs what do I care if they power down their weapons?! they all DIE!. but no apparently I'm not allowed to anymore

srsly what the fuck is this shit! I got only 2 fuel out of it (they offered 3 fuel & some missiles & scrap for surrender)
but now it's just the game going "nope you can't scrap that ship; they surrendered, even tho you didnt accept the surrender" that's basically what happened.

This is the first time I got annoyed and a little disappointed at the game.
So FTL I love you but also: FUCK YOU.

[5thHorseman]

I was about to blow this ship up, I had already ignored their pleas for mercy and then suddenly it goes "The ship suddenly disables their weapons. There's no explanation and they don't respond to hails. It seems during the battle they lost some some fuel cells from their storage. You quickly collect it and leave"
WHAT?! HOW ABOUT KEEP FUCKING SHOOTING IT AND GIMMI MY SCRAP YOU BASTARDS. srsly ffs what do I care if they power down their weapons?! they all DIE!. but no apparently I'm not allowed to anymore

It could have been worse. I was in a fight during beta testing and was a few rounds from winning when suddenly the battle JUST ENDED. No fuel. No stuff. No nothing. I reported it as a bug.

The game has an internal timer for battles. It's long, but when you're trying to finesse a win you can hit it. It's there specifically so there is a way out of stalemates where the only way out normally would be for you to do something dumb.

I have only hit it that one time and this is only the 2nd time I've heard of it. They actually ADDED the "you get some fuel" part when I requested you should get SOMETHING for all that work.

[stylesrj]

The game has an internal timer for battles. It's long, but when you're trying to finesse a win you can hit it. It's there specifically so there is a way out of stalemates where the only way out normally would be for you to do something dumb.

Is that still in the actual game or was it just a beta thing? Because I've left the battle linger for some time to train up my crew.
Is the timer long like "make yourself a sandwich" length or more like "Go to make a sandwich, search the house for bread, realise you're out of bread, walk to the shops, grab a loaf, wait in line while someone complains to the cashier about their job, walk home, put on a cup of tea/coffee, make the sandwich" length?

Also, ships powering down their weapons and not getting anything from them? Were you fighting that Zoltan ship that fights you for some reason and if you wear it down enough, one of them joins your crew?

Or were you running Captain's Edition and a freak bug occurred in the scripting? Did you accidentally press 1 when going for your guns and an event popped up?

[5thHorseman]

Is that still in the actual game or was it just a beta thing? Because I've left the battle linger for some time to train up my crew.

I don't have access to the code but I do not think it's been removed. I've not bothered testing it.

[The Captain]

I was recently transporting back a couple Mantises, wounded but victorious, when the enemy's last shot got through and hit the teleporter, killing one of them.

[stylesrj]

Did I mention that with CE, there are guns that go through shields but only do crew damage? I had just healed my Mantis boarding team via airlock when one of those shots slams into the teleporter and causes a hull breach...

[Earth Scum]

Get to sector 8 - repair beacons are way on the other side of the map.