FTL: Faster than Light, Rock Cruiser WIN (The Bulwark)

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FTL: Faster than Light, Rock Cruiser WIN (The Bulwark) (Streamed 9/11/2023)
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[@smallymcsmall7065]

AA, please learn, sir. Enemy ships do *NOT* randomly jump away. It will either tell you in the opening encounter text, or in a text pop-up during the fight. It *ALSO* shows a text warning on the enemy section of the screen that their FTL is charging/charged. Too often you're targeting pilot or engines out of fear of them fleeing and end up taking unnecessary hits because you're not targeting weapons.

[@kalkkar]

All these years...

[@Abubble1234]

A is allergic to words, how dare you insist he read. 😂

[@notanm6616]

Targeting (and hitting) piloting system lowers and (if damaged) negates dodging chance, so it actually does make sense to shoot there first, and then shoot shields / weapons, so that those hits don't miss.

[@P1mpKrow]

This is the perfect game for long uploads. There's always something interesting happening, whether it's planning routes, making encounter choices or blowing up an enemy ship. I'd be super comfy with more FTL playthroughs.

[@mbanana23456]

"We'll reward you as long as you don't kill them all" Ambiguous Amphibian: Kill them all you say?

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

The Rockmen zones have by far the best soundtrack in this game. it's a very serious bop.

[@WeakestHater]

True

[@Dragongaga]

I once won a run even though we got destroyed because the vulcan was autofiring at the flagship and the last two shots hit and destroyed the flagship, while we exploded. The lv3 cloak is actually bad because it takes too long to recharge. The best use is a 5s cloak during the flagship power surge to dodge all the missiles. "I'm gonna play this fight very slow" he says, and then panics for no reason and misses half of what's happening on screen

[@ATBatmanMALS31]

FTL: the world's most convoluted dice roll

[@Moosyfate]

It's making me go absolutely nuts watching these streams when you don't target their weapons system. Still a lot of fun to watch, looking forward to more!

[@Kaizu-E]

THEY'RE MINERALS, MARIE! Woop new vod, time to binge it ahaha

[@calvingall9685]

There’s a really cool mod for this game. It’s called multiverse, it adds about 300% of content to the game and way more ships weapons and races etc. highly recommend if you like this game.

[@windrunner7625]

One thing I wish he'd note is that if you have a broken O2 system with a hole in the room, you can open the door to that room and allow the neighboring room's air to 'bleed' over and keep air the room you're working on for longer

[@askthepizzaguy]

Ooh, I like this content. Something to fall asleep to... and that's a compliment. I put on like, Star Trek TNG episodes that I know and love, and only have the highest respect for. Stuff I fall asleep to is really good stuff, honestly. It's stuff that keeps my mind off of the world and on the entertainment itself even with my eyes closed. So when someone says something like this, it doesn't always mean boring. Sometimes it means QUALITY.

[@gavinpowell4607]

If you're explaining you're losing.

[@pwnzindaface]

I do the same lol

[@askthepizzaguy]

​@@gavinpowell4607 Did you just try to explain something to me? You just played yourself, according to you.

[@CalvinCoyne]

Always a good day when AA posts

[@benusputt6878]

facts

[@JaneXemylixa]

"We're getting so much scrap!" says a guy with a double scrap recovery arm

[@TylerKidder326]

Thank you for the "Blood for the Blood God" reference. Made my night

[@ieuandeakin6497]

"Theyre minerals not rocks" Boy, lemme tell you something

[@arc7155]

You should get the FTL multiverse mod eventually, it’s basically FTL 2 and is a must play if you like FTL

[@underdogAI]

there's barely any good gameplay out there too

[@Sworddeath727]

The Minecraft and Rimworld being the most well designed games statement made me think "But what about their root inspiration of dwarf fortress?" but after thinking about it Dwarf fortress should be honored for its great innovation, but that innovation comes at the drawback is that it's high aspirations make it difficult to "design". This is why the game unfortunately has a high learning curve and often lopsided difficulty for average players. But remember Losing is Fun!

[@nathanaelwright9196]

God I've been grinding this game like mad trying specifically to get that stupid fuckin unidentified cruiser for the past few months. Dozens of runs and still no dice. I've been playing since like 2013 as well, never got it unlocked. Still love this game though

[@christianfaux736]

I would LOVE if you played Sunless Sea!

[@3DiversionsDeep]

48:23 : I'd rather burn one missle than take damage, and the missle actually tanks one of the burst lasers shots. You can't make this up

[@casepilloo8497]

MULTIVERSE! MULTIVERSE! MULTIVERSE! MULTIVERSE! MULTIVERSE! MULTIVERSE!

[@hazel7296]

I highly recommend the Lanius B, it is my favorite

[@fanciestbanana4653]

There's a mod for the game that shows you how far the chasing army will reach in N turns, so you don't have to guess if you have time anymore.

[@matthewwhiteside4619]

Thanks for the good videos, Amphibious Ambiguan.

[@fubuma534]

I’m glad AA’s so good at remembering

[@deassinator]

What great timing, I’ve been binging your old runs over the last week and I lamented that there were no recent uploads

[@claraclear5665]

Yay! I'm excited to see FTL runs! 😄

[@atmosdwagon4656]

0:25 "Hopefully we'll not have god awful RNG like we usually do". I have some bad news, captain. You are commanding the Bulwark; a ship that embodies "bad RNG" moreso than any other ship in FTL....and I hate it so much because of that. Why? Well, way back when FTL was still fairly new (late 2012), the Rock Cruiser was by far, the best option for unlocking the Crystal Cruiser for reasons I won't spoil. Doing the required quest is one of the most infamously RNG intensive challenges in all of classic vanilla FTL (before Advanced edition added a bunch of improvements; one of which being behind the scenes rigging of events so the Crystal Cruiser Quest was far more consistent and easier to do) There were no less than three major steps where the quest could fail for no other reason than bad luck. Oh but that's not all: The Bulkward ITSELF is another RNG nightmare, because it packs two missiles as its starting weapons. Missiles are by far the worst weapons in vanilla FTL, due to their low accuracy and painfully slow reload times. This makes every single fight in the early game heavily RNG dependent...in a game notorious for handing the player's ass to them for messing up. For that reason alone, you're praying for a better weapon early and often when playing the Bulwark (and miraculously, you get the very best option super early into your run here. That literally could not have gone any better.) Just to put all my kvetching into perspective: I played FTL for THREE STRAIGHT WEEKS (it took my entire Winter Break back in 2012) to unlock the Crystal Cruiser; doing literally nothing else in the game, playing several hours every single night. And every moment of each attempt itself was stressful solely due to the comically inaccurate weaponry compounding an already difficult game.

[@Mabosaha]

I love watching your FTL playthroughs! Perfeclty long

[@KOPT999]

I usually don’t watch these types of videos. To be honest, the games seem to bore me. Or perhaps I’ve never really taken the time to take interest in them. However, as I am writing this, it is 3 in the morning. The Lord has woken me up, and every time I try to go back to sleep, it is very restless. So, I’m not going to fight it. Perhaps he is saving me from something, or warning me. I have no idea. I’ve prayed, and continue to, but I also have the need to listen to someone’s voice. Someone who’s voice is somewhat soothing. Sort of charming, I guess. That brings me here. AA (I’m sure you all know who I am referring to, this awesome KZbinr), you, for some reason, out of all the KZbinrs I follow are the only one that has really managed to calm me, and for that, I thank you. And I do want to state that your videos do interest me, well, a select few, those specifically being your Project Zomboid VODS and such. So thank you for those. Perhaps God just woke and was like, yeah, let’s watch some AA, haha. Who knows. But thank you for your calming voice that seems to soothe me over when my heart is racing. Thank you.

[@charlieb4554]

Was not aware the amphibian was doing ftl uploads

[@clusterfox6143]

Can you smell what the rock is cooking?

[@willjoyce5013]

Me throughout the 9:00 buy: SAVE THE MONEY OR UPGRADE THE SHIP LOL

[@willjoyce5013]

I like the pronunciation of nebulae but give the ending more of an "i" sound as it's more that form of -ae over the "ay. Think multiply

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

1:35 “I like BL2s” me: “ok bro look, bl2 is one of the strongest standard weapons in the ga-“ *sees shop has bl2 and heavy mk1

[@slurker3788]

sweet vulcan bro

[@landonpittaway3820]

Always love to see FTL on the channel.

[@dontpokethekenny]

i love hull smasher lasers, once you break shields you quickly kill ships

[@adam.............]

I remember supporting rimworld I think on kick starter so they used to send me old copies and I love it they were amazing even in the early stages

[@JFJD]

It’s fascinating to watch your thought processes when you need to multitask so much like this. Have you ever tried playing a bullet hell shooter or other shmup? I think you would do pretty well, once you got the controls down.

[@jerrytc2978]

play sunless seas, absolutely, definitely play it it may not be the best game to stream but i absolutely want you to play it

[@Ug-lordetheunmovable]

Ive been having this gaming deja vu were ill start playing a game and then next day i see is atleast one KZbinr im following make a video of that exact game, yesterday i played ftl with the multiverse mod and my god its grwat

[@leunathanful]

Someone tell me he has discovered multiverse.

[@CSNomad]

Stealth cruiser is feast or famine. Especially the type c layout.

[@twisteddman]

Love your content , must though point out how infuriating it is the amount of times you do not target the enemy weapons first when you should to avoid damage. so many opertunities you have had to avoifd getting hit and you go all in on completely destroying the sheilds first before targeting weapons. you have missiles. also when sheilds are down and recharging you can target weapons freely

[@JohnDoe-oz9vz]

Rock hard rOCKS

[@AileTheAlien]

Hull lasers are better than burst lasers, since they can breach the enemy ship. Suffocating the enemy gives you more scrap than just blowing up their ship. 🧠

[@CB-mp8ym]

How high is this guy while playing? I almost had a stroke watching some of the decisions he made

[@NAJALU]

It is harder than you think to talk constantly and play in a focused optimized manner

[@taulant4921]

this autoplayed from steven seagull absolutely wrong

[@wbcherry42]

Cocaine is a helluva drug

[@TheKerbalgames]

Ayyy love ftl

[@lastraven3017]

Vulcans are quite similar to Gatling Guns, in 1946, the Army issued General Electric a contract for "Project Vulcan", which resulted in the M61 Vulcan. Which is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires 20 mm × 102 mm (0.787 in × 4.016 in) rounds at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute). This is was then miniaturized into the M134, which is what lead to the name Minigun, due to being a mini Vulcan that fires rifle caliber rounds.

[@biska131]

You should try multiverse mod. Basacly new game.

[@jamesjamison3463]

Can you please do rimworld SOS2

[@notanm6616]

Is scrap recovery arm the only augment that stacks? Usually when you obtain the same augment as the one you already have installed, the game gives you a pop-up that it will convert it into scrap instead.

[@gavinpowell4607]

Is this your main channel now

[@NAJALU]

Dont put the outcome in the title! 😊

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

😔😞🙁 ‘Look, some of our friends are making a terrible mistake by taking up piracy. We will pay you if could perhaps scare them into giving up and returning home to us? Remember, Don’t kill them.” 🦎 ‘Kill them all you say? Absolutely!” 😟😵‍💫😲 ‘No! Wait!..” 🦎 ‘so then I started Blastin!” 🤕😓🥵 ‘Woah! We surrender! We clearly aren’t cut out for this.” 🦎 ‘And Now You DIE!” *Blows them up* 🦎 ‘Mission accomplished. Gib me scrap.” … 😰🫣😨

[@Damien420Cross]

just turn off artemis and use flak 2.....

[@Madhattersinjeans]

There used to be a mod that lets you just play endlessly and the boss can be disabled if you want it to be. when I tried that it really made the game way more fun and less of a slog vs the OP boss fights. Again, spoiler in the title. Takes the fun out of watching the episode. I really don't see why I have to explain this to you, when there's several comments in the last FTL run you did explaining exactly this point. I'm not mad, just disappointed.

[@dzikdziki2983]

You panic way too much...

[@esteban20969564]

dude you have so fcking luck in the last battle... you spend 150 scrap in a cloak system you didn't even know how to use properly...

[@MOSTWANTEDIDIOTS]

Let's probe Uranus.

[@Nitro_Blitzen]

God I'd fucking LOVE for you to try out ftl's multiverse mod, there's so much fuckin content it feels like an entire sequels worth of content and features and qol.

[@zoblad3557]

Hey there Froggy Boy. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the videos you create. I find them very entertaining. I like the balance of gaming and philosophy; I like to think while I'm not thinking. Your efforts are much appreciated. Thanks Amphibian, I wish you a swarm of sumptuous flies.

[@ThunderCatsAreGo01]

i'm so arse at FTL, but i love it with all of my heart

[@PirateDragonMonkey]

"I'm going to kill them, because they tricked us!" no, no they didn't trick you you just didn't read the request. Homie pls this game would be so much easier for you if you actually read through the prompts.

[@Ed-1749]

Ooh, and I just got back into ftl too. What's your favorite ship? I've been loving federation type C, the Brigatidae.

[@MaJiCiDE]

Firstly yes! Need more of this! But not looking at the card descriptions hurt me in ways. How can I calculate the efficiencies of cacao when I don't even know what it does 😂

[@lordofasshes657]

Damn, you whine so much in this game, it's not even funny: nothing critical happened EVER in this run in spite of the fact that many micromanagement mistakes took their places. And all these mistakes were made with permanent pause-buttoning... First your video, where I felt tilted at the end, cos for 1 second of real gameplay I heard 10-15 seconds of whining.

[@kendog3419]

Then don't watch it

[@lordofasshes657]

@@kendog3419, I thought, that content-creators need views not just for ego-boosting, but more so in order to get munies and pay bills. Therefore any view can be meaningful in the larger scale. If I just go through silently with my own conclusions (aka your advised "not watcjing"), it's nothing, really. But I can bet, that I'm not unique enough, so this story can be one-timer - other people can think in the same vein. And they can either just find another content and content-creator even OR they can spell their frustration out loud, so initial creator can at least know this point of view for such cases, when video just dies in the first day of release or some other serious issue. Instead, ask yourself about "why I chose to stop on this negative commend and wanted to answer in the first place?" Can be productive lil' thought.