Mantis 2x Boarder Run WIN | FTL - Faster Than Light

Federation Cruiser win run in FTL : Streamed 3/5/21
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[@asadpepe4282]

Imagine being a veteran warrior that has saved your ship in almost every single combat, and then in the final battle your captain sends you in to the enemy ship precisely 5 seconds before he blows up the enemy ship.

[@wabingus]

1:12:36 screaming at my monitor for him to just flush the ship instead of risking 4 crew members on one fire

[@b2modby]

Hacking a medbay is extremely good with boarding playstyle. Not only it locks the doors so enemies can't easily reach it, activating the hack makes the room *damage* them instead.

[@Intestine_Ballin-ism]

Iirc it heals your units too. Or not, correct me if I'm wrong lol

[@sethdrake7551]

​@@Intestine_Ballin-ismI 😊and 😊

[@sethdrake7551]

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[@sethdrake7551]

it's 😊been 😊

[@Soniccoolers15]

Uh ho

[@BibbiCodex]

"This will probably end in failure." What an intro.

[@clamwok]

it's one of the easiest runs you cn do in this game, he just didnt know that.

[@leexgx]

52:48 the delay of witch button should a press yes/no to leave crew behind

[@dfhuscarl]

The Mantis ships are my favourite; the first 30 scrap HAVE to go into upgrading the teleporter before you go anywhere. Drone ships especially used to be my bane, but I've also had runs gutted by not being able to recall my boarders during a bad fight. This VOD was absolutely anxiety inducing as it brought back all the bad mistakes I made when learning the Mantis ships.

[@jackw9385]

I've had this game for years and legitimately have never beaten a single run.

[@zantanzuken]

an easy OP build: as much shields as you can get, plus any ion weapons you can find. keep at least 1 heavy damage weapon or missile on you (i suggest the hull beams that do 1-2 damage per room, line up 4 rooms, oof damage.) for drones or people who cant be killed by suffocation, shoot out the oxygen/weapons of any ship you come across to starve them of oxygen... wait til they're dead. gets you more scrap (similar to the run amby did here in this video) and yes this even works on the endgame flagship, as they're all humans... unfortunately you still have to damage the flagship so it warps away, which means it'll come back with more crew.

[@christophergeissler9414]

@@zantanzuken It actually doesn't come back with more crew, if you kill everyone in the ship it becomes an AI ship and vents all oxygen. You can kill everyone but the person in the laser gun because he will stay on till the end of the ship. If he's alive the ship needs oxygen. Then you can destroy the shields and do the damage

[@jim1512221]

@@zantanzuken hib

[@MrDanielSonSon]

I was inspired to try again after all these years from his video. I can now finally say that I've beaten FTL after 121 attempts.

[@theunloadedrpg1376]

same, closest i made was to the second stage of the final boss

[@Gersh_Binglander]

Love the Sun Tzu quotes. I created a Psy Ops department in a role playing game I played called the Sun Tzu Psychology Centre, mostly so I could make the acronym STPC out of 4 's' sounds.

[@woolybear]

Your impression of Jeff Goldblum is SPOT on. I mostly don't have time for Twitch and I really appreciate these longer VODs. Thanks!

[@kinninthebinn377]

Mfw nebula slows the fleet haha. Could have just squeezed some jumps in especially at the escort quest haha. Anyway love to see FTL

[@TheSinfulGamer]

I am so delighted to see you playing FTL

[@ivymike2691]

Hacking mind control in the last fight is nice for a boarder run like this.

[@M240D]

I had no idea what was going on here for quite a while. Love it!

[@Jrny32]

I'm very happy about this video, went back and watched the old ftl content after the Zoltan run. Didn't expect more so soon!

[@thebigree6155]

Didn't expect to see Robbaz on this stream of all places used to love that guy

[@eddyz6502]

Hey! I just did a run with this ship (albeit on easy, idk if this transfers to hard...) and noticed two interesting mechanics: - fully upgrading teleport gives 10s cooldown and allows to send two boarding parties one after another - not going for hard-kill a) provides more scrap; b) there is a higher chance to get new cre-wmembers for free - oh, and hacking isolates the room, thus it might be good to wait for hack, then board

[@milkdromeda7.041]

My phone keeps putting your videos on while I listen to youtube to sleep. Thanks, Ambiguous Amphibian!

[@stevehalliday9061]

Keep up the good work, love your vids.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

hell yeah. I haven't played ftl in probably years but the ost is activating every serotonin receptor in my brain. All I really remember about my best runs was that they involved mind control and shutting down enemy systems. Have them punch each other while starved for oxygen and/or on fire. Think it's the slug people who do mind control?

[@Cookie-qu1gs]

Slugs are immune to mind control I believe, but it's a ship system that does mind control, not the slugs. The C layout of the Slug cruiser does start with mind control though. Having a slug crew also allows you to see where enemies are even without upgraded sensors.

[@dannytimis3065]

One of my favourite youtubers playing one of my favourite games, let's goooooo

[@JayAshborne]

He's a streamer. He doesnt do youtube anymore. Just posts his streams from twitch to youtube. He used to make videos for just youtube but stopped.

[@thehumblegamer3860]

@@JayAshborne Idk if this is satire or not, but the dude uploaded like two days ago

[@twisted_fate]

LoL, my god what a nightmare of a run, so many close calls man :P

[@zachcroteau9594]

Watching you play video games is like watching Bob Ross do a painting

[@williamsinclair3166]

Good luck, and godspeed

[@scyfrix]

Lord, someone's gotta tell him that ships don't just escape without the game telling you. So many wasted missiles.

[@im9550]

I actually really like the mantis ship. It’s pretty powerful against the flag ship since the weapons systems are unreachable meaning you can destroy each weapons system with your boarding party and they are permanently broken.

[@hardware72]

Boarding is my personal favorite playstyle. High risk high reward and with level 3 teleporter you can pull your boarders in and out fast. With 4 mantis and full room teleporter you mostly wipe everything in no time. With level 3 teleporter you can teleport into auto ships and back out before anyone dies.

[@BlameCo]

2 FTL videos back to back? I will sleep heavenly this week.

[@kingwartanhandfield-page7624]

keep up the amazing content

[@Mabosaha]

The cut at 14:55 seemed very impressive to me :D

[@sauvereaper6981]

i think taking out piloting will lower evasion to 0. it's really helps when enemy ships have a jacked FTL, and/or shield system.

[@jrmcbabyface]

I hope you play more of these

[@aeroiswell]

FTL! Finally!

[@Caution2TheWind1]

Love FTL

[@thehumblegamer3860]

Hello! I really love your main and sub-channel videos, but I was wondering if there would be any way that you could upload some of your VODS without "win" or something in the title. I really love the commentary, but I feel that it takes away from the suspense if you would succeed or not. Just ignore this if you disagree lol Thanks again for the content! ❤

[@JayAshborne]

100% Seeing the out come in the title ruins the run for me.

[@redsable6119]

Tachyon: The Fringe. 8.5 on IMDB (lol) is a space shooter similar to Wing Commander, Privateer and Freelancer. Bruce Campell voice acted the lead.

[@willjoyce5013]

Medbots Dispersal is good for fighting fires and breach repairs

[@CorvoMaroto]

AA has the coolest voice

[@sentience8466]

Hey AA have you played the last spell? Would be really cool to see you lr commentary on that game

[@whoknows8264]

Damn I should play this some more

[@DogsaladSalad]

Chain laser is so damn good

[@rileytrain9254]

Give us a drone run! I need more ambiguous ftl

[@willjoyce5013]

Trading supplies for reactor power is usually good, even if in excess for the current setup as you can expand easier later

[@willjoyce5013]

And then arrives the Pegasus missile launcher lol

[@Skotzenn]

There's kind of a sequel to this you should try, It's a huge mod called FTL: Multiverse. It adds new ships, races, classes, an dit takes place 100 years after the story of the original

[@admral_grant]

if he plays that he will learn that giant alien spiders are rilly good borders if you teleport 3 of them on an enemy ship that has 2 humans they will win in like 5 seconds

[@Renegadebane]

I've restarted so many mantis runs half way through cuz I lost my boarders, I just want to kill that damn capital ship once for the unlock.

[@willjoyce5013]

Don't take surrender offers from shieldless guys in asteroid fields lol

[@bobmob1440]

Never watched his videos, but for the past year or so, when I wake up, I am always 1/2 way through one and now this just happens every night. This happen to anyone else?

[@WorldGoods]

Mantanauts

[@saraphinn]

This is just the Internet talking.

[@joshuaturner4659]

I can’t even beat one run :(

[@viktable5955]

that idea to invest in BTC is pretty sweet

[@hugoalvord2779]

I really like your FTL runs so if you want to do more I will …. Help my roommate appreciate them

[@penky32]

I wonder if upgrading the medbay / teleporter is a good idea, especially after getting the engi med bay that effects the whole ship just send your guys over, fight to near death, port back, get healed up extremely quickly and then send them back over microing your boarders back and forth seems like a high apm fun take on the usual run

[@unbasedcontrarian]

What if you mind control an enemy and walk them into a system that you are about to hit so they a hurt them and guarantee the system gets destroyed?

[@Cookie-qu1gs]

Mind Control doesn't actually give you control over the enemy, it just makes them friendly for the effect's duration. They still use their own AI, but they'll help you instead of the enemy.

[@gaminguniverse9333]

Hey you should check out keeper RL I think it would be your style

[@willjoyce5013]

1:05:20 weapon + reactor so you can get laser + Pegasus up

[@willjoyce5013]

Not Clone Bay lol, power and improve the ship

[@y337]

54:55 What? ….. Whaaaaaaaaaat???

[@FuriousPIG837]

Good Lord man. Just pause and asses more. You have the ability to pause and look at all your options..

[@willjoyce5013]

This ship's fine against fire, just decompress sections that take hits or most of the time

[@vonriel1822]

....Nnnnope. I thought I could manage it. I can't. I can't watch him play, I just can't.

[@JayAshborne]

Can you please not list the outcome of the run in the title. Kind of makes the full video meh.

[@NM-zs3os]

Lmao I love your videos but have to be honest with you; you are very bad at this game hahahaga

[@clamwok]

This is honestly one of the easiest runs you can do.

[@Renegadebane]

I've restarted so many mantis runs half way through cuz I lost my boarders, I just want to kill that damn capital ship once for the unlock.