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Reroute power to the awesomenator!

FTL: Faster Than Light, the "spaceship simulation real-time roguelike-like" that puts you in the command bridge of an intergalactic spacecraft, is now available for 10% off on GOG.com. That's only $8.99 until Friday, September 21 at 10:59 AM GMT.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/faster_than_light/][/url]Are you a Trekker? Or a Firefly fan? Or maybe you love the intensity of Battlestar Galactica? Cultural diversity of Babylon 5? Goofy badassness of Farscape? Underrated charm of Andromeda? Comedic brilliance of Red Dwarf? If the answer is "yes", we bet that there's a part of you--maybe even quite a large part--that want's nothing more but to sit in the comfortable captain's armchair in a starship's command bridge and tell your crew to "make it so". If space-adventure is your kind of adventure and micro-managing is your kind of managing--FTL is your kind of game.

In every playthrough, FTL: Faster Than Light creates a unique procedurally-generated game world for you to explore. Every location you visit by the means of your FTL drive offers a random text-based event you'll need to react to, and the consequences of your choice will affect the further gameplay. Apart from exploration this game focuses on starship management. You'll need to keep all the systems operational and upgrade them with new technologies. Your crew develops as well, gaining experience as your mission continues. While in combat, you'll need to issue orders, track the enemies, monitor your systems' status, and generally focus on many things at once--just like any true spaceship commander would do. But unlike Kirk, Picard, Adama, Reynolds, and other iconic officers, you'll have the unsurpassed combat advantage of an active pause.

Get ready to boldly go where no PC gamer has gone in quite a while in [url=]FTL: Faster Than Light[/url], for the reduced launch-week price of only $8.99!
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Bavarian: I'd say it's nearly impossible that Kickstarter codes are not included in the ranking. How could this game possibly be sold more often than Gothic or Unreal within a few days? Don't want to sound like an envious dickhead, it's just unrealistic.
Grimrock did that.
How can you see the sales ranking on this site?
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the_bard: How can you see the sales ranking on this site?
You just browse all the games in the catalogue, they appear in order of best sold.
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the_bard: How can you see the sales ranking on this site?
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Licurg: You just browse all the games in the catalogue, they appear in order of best sold.
Yup, see it now. Thanks!

Had a dumbass moment. LOL
Bought. From GOG, as I wasn't really interested in Steam keys or Linux/Mac versions. If there had been an extra Android version, then I could have possibly bought it elsewhere.

I wonder when I will play it.
Post edited September 16, 2012 by timppu
This game somehow reminds me of traveller, but its a pity it uses opengl 2.0 (I know my ati hd3650 will have the usual atioglxx error)
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RafaelLopez: Whenever I enter the Humble Bundle site I'm excited towards spending and get put off at the last minute when I find that I'm buying a Steam key.
What? The Humble Bundle guys never give JUST a Steam key, it's an optional bonus alongside the Always DRM Free download. Humble Bundle is just as committed to DRM free as GOG, with the bonus that they also push devs to support Mac & Linux.

I am disappointed that GOG doesn't pass along the Mac builds that already exist for some of these new Indie titles. GOG was my first stop to discover FTL, but I had to go on to buy from the Humble Store (no main site, just a widget put at the dev's). I seriously hope GOG gets this inconceivably easy problem solved when they do the big Witcher 2 Mac release.

Finally, big thumbs up for FTL. Their game does everything right for turning space combat on its head. Instead of lumbering behemoths throwing glowing crayons across the inky brown&bloom of space, this is Firefly intimate. Like with Firefly, simply keeping still financially is a constant burden. This is an oldschool RPG in that sometimes you can only control how epic a corpse you leave behind. Don't dwell on the fact that you lost, revel in how valiantly you suffocated 2 invading mantises, put out an engine fire, and got one last shot off before only surrendering in hull, never in spirit!
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RafaelLopez: Whenever I enter the Humble Bundle site I'm excited towards spending and get put off at the last minute when I find that I'm buying a Steam key.
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pen_sq: What? The Humble Bundle guys never give JUST a Steam key, it's an optional bonus alongside the Always DRM Free download. Humble Bundle is just as committed to DRM free as GOG...
I assumed both were the same thing: that the "always drm free download" came from the Steam site, and you had to install their stupid client program to play. Isn't that the case?

If not, how do you download the games from Humble Store? Just like GOG, they stay saved forever in the Humble site and you can download and redownload whenever you want?
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RafaelLopez: Seriously, I'm not against top-down at all, or against 2D, on the contrary, I favor 2D games at all times. It's just the little guys that are a little ugly. They remind me of Megatraveller, which is another great ugly game.
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Magnitus: Well, I played for an hour and a half.

Didn't see the time fly.

Addictive little bugger.
All the talk in this thread is leaving me really interested in this game, no matter how ugly it looks. I am a big fan of "losing is fun" games after all.
Post edited September 17, 2012 by RafaelLopez
This game is terribly addicting. I don't recommend starting a game late at night, you may end up playing 'til sunrise!
Post edited September 17, 2012 by FoxZero
If not, how do you download the games from Humble Store? Just like GOG, they stay saved forever in the Humble site and you can download and redownload whenever you want?

(Not putting it as a Reply, that is a nightmare of quote_123 tags here)

You get an e-mail link that "permanently" provides the download. If you like, you can make a Humble Bundle login that absorbs that link into your Humble Library instead. Downloads are your choice of plain HTTP, or torrent. Redownloading hasn't been a problem, I personally guarantee that their support is more permanent than Direct2Drive ;) . The download page provides an MD5sum of the current version for you to check how up-to-date you are. Sadly, the Humble Bundle/Store does not consistently give version numbers or release dates, nor an email when a new version is released.
Post edited September 17, 2012 by pen_sq
My God, the last Boss is fricking ridiculous. I thought I had a good chance of beating it (went in with 4X shields, maxed out weapons slots w/faster weapon recharge, a defense drone and an anti-ship drone), and I easily beat the Boss in Sector 8, only to find that it's a multi-staged Boss fight...the next time around, it spammed drones like it was nobody's business. Ugh.
Thanks GOG, for fulfilling my game request! Even without doing much campaigning for it.
Already bought it and I'll play it later.