FTL: Advanced Edition

- There are different luck variables which does not mean your play depends totally on lucks. They appear to make the game unpredictable and more interesting like an adventure. - If you want a quick win play, then you will not enjoy this game, or even hate it. This game is hardcore, don't start the game with normal difficulty. Easy is already challenging. - To enjoy this game, you should play your ship as you're experiencing an adventure. Also it's a turn-based like, so "PAUSE" is essential in battle. You pause, you plan, you fight, then pause, then plan and fight, repeat. You can enter battle without pause but it's, of course, much more challenging. So if you're real time action player, you should know this rule or you may lose your patience.

This little gem of a game is something I and many like me would've dreamt about while reading sci-fi books or watching Star Trek. This is a game that allows you to actually manage a little toy spaceship, set up your weapons, crew etc, and develop your own tactics to win through numerous encounters and space adventures. I fell in love with this game once I've realized you can vent the air out of specific rooms to fight fires or enemy boarders. Wow.

I've heard that this is a fun game. It's not. The reward/upgrade/enemy strength balance is tilted far beyond the enemy's favor on normal difficulty. You will NOT be able to survive the third sector you travel through due to always having a ship that spams boarders on you while having superior shields and weaponry. 'Screw you' in game form.

Great game - simple mechanics, yet realy hard gameplay. Random events, that can kill your crew in five minutes, or let it go throught whole gallaxy, just to smash you by one extra hard battle near end - or let you live and win, actualy! Different ships, different races, all the ship's systems, all this make for great addictive game with what seems like unlimited possibilities. I would appreciate a save game feature, but that would be against nature of this game. Real gem.

I love FTL. I play it all the time. Although it can be hard and frustrating at times the game usually gives you some leeway and it will forgive you some mistakes. AE on the other hand is totally unbalanced. There are so many counters and counter-counters and counter-counter-counters...you just need every system. You cant survive without defense drone or hacking. In vanilla FTL sometimes there are ships you can't beat. For example you specialise in missiles and the enemy has two defense drones or you want to board but he has a big crew and a medbay. This happens maybew 2-3 times per playtrough. In AE I had this happen all the time. With the effect, that I did not get enough scrap for the essentials upgrades. FTL is a balance between frustration and fun but AE is just frustration. Its good that I still have the old installer on my drive. 5 stars for FTL and 1 star for AE = 3 stars