Thanks Jon. After hundreds of hours playing FTL I never really got into the clone bays. And now in one video you've convinced me of their immense power when using a boarding strategy, which again is something I never fully mastered. I will be playing this style when I've got the time and no MATN videos to watch.
First and foremost: I am thrilled to see more FTL! One of the best games ever. Secondly...It hurt... it hurt to see you not buy that pre-igniter. It hurt, but I will respect your estimation of your position. Thirdly: please put someone on engines. It boosts your evade and is much more important than either sensors or shields. You have a habit of neglecting evasion, and this would be just about the easiest thing. Finally: Oh my god FTL is back! This is the best!!!!!
Damn you Jon ! Your timing is on point, recently starting FTL while watching your videos about it. I must say as a French, your british accent is very pleasent and easy to understand with my limited english ! Keep up your good work :)
When you send both a Mantis and a Lanius at the same time, that's better than two Lanius. Wanna know why? You have a clone bay. Your Mantis is there to protect you Lanius while he sucks the oxygen from the room. If the Mantis dies, it won't matter. Just make another one. What I'm saying is, basically, use the Mantis as a disposable body guard.
I was talking about FTL earlier today. I looked up a video explaining how to play it, I never actually won them myself. Surprised to see you put up a video on this, I'll look forward to watching this when I can.
Pro tip for this ship: the A.I. crew don't go into a room that doesn't have oxygen in it if their health is too low, so if you teleport into the oxygen bay with the Lanius crew and destroy it, you're free to deplete the oxygen in any room you want and they'll be unable to repair it. You can then wait for the crew to suffocate to death.
You are the reason I am able to get through college and working two jobs as your videos are funny and you always have something new to watch ... may also be one of the reasons I procrastinate too😂😂🤟🏽
Im so glad i found this channel, for some strange reason your Fallout NV Kill Everything run came up on the recommended (i think youtube is trying to tell me something) and I’ve been binge watching it since yesterday. Btw your current voice surprised me a lot i guess 5 years were enough time to reach puberty.
I am always shocked at how little Jon actually knows about this game....didn't know about the clone bay queue, and warning about blowing up an enemy ship with his crew on it...you've got a bloody clone bay, Jon!! It's fine....as long as they don't run with your still alive crew on their ship you're fine....really handy to blow up an enemy ship with your crew on it....just a free heal.
My Lanius B strategy is to teleport the Lanius straight into the enemy's life support room and use mind control on the first guy to confront them whilst suppressing their weapons with the adv. flak. Once life support is destroyed, wait until the oxygen in the room is completely drained and start advancing into the other rooms to drain them, retreating back to life support if necessary. Eventually the enemy crew won't be able to move anywhere to stop you without suffocating, so you're free to wreak havoc or just wait for the remaining oxygen to drain, killing the crew without destroying the ship.
I would highly recommend giving the Multiverse mod a go, It's so high quality and adds a bunch of replay value. It IS a little easier than regular FTL on average, but Hard is still very difficult. I would also recommend the Kestrel Adventures animated youtube series to anyone who likes FTL. It has a bit of a rocky start for the first 5 episodes, but it's really good overall.
Jon... The Lanius are not Robots... Your crew loses experience anytime they die, so medical bays tend to be universally better. If you get scanners you can mind control an enemy and use "Return" on your Teleporter then lynch them once mind control wears off.. So you can clear the enemy ship with minimal conflict. Invest in shields and dodge, and vwala. Also some energy weapons to shred super-shields too.
Recently completed hard mode with Lanius B. You can teleport people out of an enemy ship if they're mind controlled and starve them to death in your almost oxygen-less ship, so you can avoid boarding and just kind of select whichever bloke or two you want to die.
Drones can actually double fire every now and then so they can damage you, 14:15, it happens every now and then. So if you have one shield bubble vs 1 attack drone MK1, you can't leave the game running to train crew without paying attention. With 2 shield bubbles you're probably safe.
What I love the most about Lanius B is that it has no scanners. Means absolutely no penalties for going through nebulas, actually makes nebulas objectively the best place to be, more rewards, no downside since you have no scanners for it to mess with.
I just spilled a whole glass of Jack Daniels with Cola on my Keyboard while writing another comment about how awesome you and this game are and i still dont regret it!
FTL is how I found your channel. But you mentioned Skies of Arcadia in your list of favorite games. It might be weird to have a JRPG on your channel, but I’d love to see a SoA LP.
Little late to the party but... I like to use guaranteed victories (ie a single almost dead engi running around trying to repair stuff) as a chance to farm xp for my boarding party. Just let your crew practise smashing buildings while the enemy runs around fixing them. Just be sure to shoot the shields as the enemy really hates you attacking their shields. May also be not super exciting viewing...
First buy in ftl is always a shield upgrade, gets sensors which are useless bc u have lanius and mind control and are gonna board always anyway. Gets enough scrap for shields and waits then debates if he should or not. Always put new crew on engines for dodge. Puts them on useless sensors. Gets another crew. Doesn’t put them on engines. Then gets another, still no engines lol Upgrading to level 3 engines is usually the next buy after tier 2 shields cuz it’s so cheap and adds alotta dodge. Doesn’t upgrade engines at all Next buy with lanius b is to upgrade defense with a defense drone to protect from missiles since ur boarding and have adv flak you don’t need more weapons early. Passes up two drone controls and buys a small bomb Never wanna repair your ship past 20-22 on hard mode in case u get an event that heals you. Scrap is so rare so u don’t wanna waste any on needless repairs. Repairs to full This is not a criticism, this is why I love Jon so much. I love his wreckless play style and he still manages to win. So entertaining
Agreed will, itches my brain when he was taking system damage and not moving his engi over to deal with it earlier on. He is providing great commentating as well which probably distracts from optimal play a bit.
With lanius boarders and mind control with a clone bay ur gonna either put the boarders in weapons or a large room for a quick crew kill. Mind control turns it into 3 boarders, by the Time mind control runs out the oxygen is depleted. U lose a boarder it’s no big deal bc of a clone bay. Sensors are useless on this ship until very late game when u have more scrap than u know what to do with. This is my fav ship on hard mode. I win almost every time with it. Always beef up the defense first with it. With a defense drone and upgraded shields nothing can hit you before you kill the crew. I’ve had runs with this ship where I’ve never had to repair at a store because I never took enough damage to need it
Challenge runs, you say? Hold my beer! I just did a 'Missile only' run and succeeded. :3 for the second time, might I add, but at least this run is recent (less than a week old by the date of this post). I also posted it on youtube so.. mm a search.. will find it.
Jon get the heal burst weapon so that you can exchange missiles for health. That way your crewmembers don't need to die amd respawn to be at full health. Not to memtion how it could completely heal a damaged boarding party while the room is empty
it's michio kaku style force field only deflecting energy based munitions while your hull armor absorbs solid projectiles with some sort of nano mesh. Interesting,
Crew members actually lose some of thier skill level when they get cloned
keo chhun better then just dying
@@rthanejehxbejws And why dying ?
@@MAXRAY-bw9kv better to lose some skill than all the skill
So glad that Jon is replaying this again even if just for one video, FTL is a forgotten gem on TH-cam nowadays that definetly deserves more attention!
Lanius C is going to come with teleporting missiles and fire lasers, but not have any doors.
Moving Parts Gaming that seems fun
-Dad, when i grow up, will i work on the engine room like you?
-Yes, son, just like my father and his father before him.
Moving Parts Gaming use the doors Luke
Difficult K9 Found a doormonster sub here lol
Crystal C?
Please?
Your first video about this game made me play this game. Since then I consider this to be one of the best games ever made!
Same! :D
Same for me... easily top 10 PC games for me.
I don’t think FTL is my cup of tea, but I just enjoy hearing Jon strategizing, it’s just so.... mesmerizing
Member when Jon played FTL? I member.
i member
Pepperidge farm remembers.
Pepperidge farm Remembers!
Thanks Jon. After hundreds of hours playing FTL I never really got into the clone bays. And now in one video you've convinced me of their immense power when using a boarding strategy, which again is something I never fully mastered. I will be playing this style when I've got the time and no MATN videos to watch.
First and foremost: I am thrilled to see more FTL! One of the best games ever. Secondly...It hurt... it hurt to see you not buy that pre-igniter. It hurt, but I will respect your estimation of your position. Thirdly: please put someone on engines. It boosts your evade and is much more important than either sensors or shields. You have a habit of neglecting evasion, and this would be just about the easiest thing. Finally: Oh my god FTL is back! This is the best!!!!!
Damn you Jon ! Your timing is on point, recently starting FTL while watching your videos about it. I must say as a French, your british accent is very pleasent and easy to understand with my limited english ! Keep up your good work :)
I've got a fever and the only prescription is more PONY LASER!
Moving Parts Gaming I would instead prescribe the more effective *DOUBLE PIKE BEAM!*
Jesus, everybody should have played FTL by now! Its one of the best games in the world!
Jackdaw okay consider it done
I believe cloning removes some experience from the crewmember.
A Random Guy Yes it does, it even says so in the system description.
But you know something something perception - 10
i love all the days you put out new ftl and fallout stuff! this video deserve every like ever
When you send both a Mantis and a Lanius at the same time, that's better than two Lanius. Wanna know why?
You have a clone bay. Your Mantis is there to protect you Lanius while he sucks the oxygen from the room. If the Mantis dies, it won't matter. Just make another one.
What I'm saying is, basically, use the Mantis as a disposable body guard.
Unless the protagonist targets the Lanius, and 2 Lanius suck oxygen out twice as fast.
So this game is like FTL but...?
Sir Caramel of Canadia like FTL but faster than light.
It's like FTL but it's FTL
Like FTL, but Hard.
“It’s the dark souls of FTL”
It's like FTL but you put a question mark at the end of your sentence
Has Lanius ship. Fills it with oxygen and mouth breathers. WTF.
Michael Daisley
I don’t get why he just opened most doors to choke out invaders
I was talking about FTL earlier today. I looked up a video explaining how to play it, I never actually won them myself. Surprised to see you put up a video on this, I'll look forward to watching this when I can.
OMG! FTL is back! Best streamer in the world BTW. I love you man!
Pro tip for this ship: the A.I. crew don't go into a room that doesn't have oxygen in it if their health is too low, so if you teleport into the oxygen bay with the Lanius crew and destroy it, you're free to deplete the oxygen in any room you want and they'll be unable to repair it. You can then wait for the crew to suffocate to death.
FTL is love FTL is life, and Many A True Nerd is Jon, these things together create greatness
YES Jon!! FTL has been an addiction for me since getting it years ago. Great to see you playing it again!
You are the reason I am able to get through college and working two jobs as your videos are funny and you always have something new to watch ... may also be one of the reasons I procrastinate too😂😂🤟🏽
So glad FTL is back! Jon's favorite games always make for the best videos
Ah yes the annual FTL game
Jon is this video just a reason for you to play ftl again
Check Twitter- he’s had this video in stock for a while!
PlayaR 100 What did he say on Twitter?
jon f up his bathroom or kitchen really bad and now he has it fix so there alot noise in his house that why he cant make new video
Like anyone needs a reason.
Jon, your absolute ignorance of dodge is putting my blood pressure through the roof.
jon always goes for shields early and then dodge after he gets his 3rd shield blob.
It means he eats all rockets and bombs shot at him unfortunately.
You do want to gamble, because 50% evasion roughly doubles your shields.
Easily one of the best indie games, excited to see this again.
Im so glad i found this channel, for some strange reason your Fallout NV Kill Everything run came up on the recommended (i think youtube is trying to tell me something) and I’ve been binge watching it since yesterday.
Btw your current voice surprised me a lot i guess 5 years were enough time to reach puberty.
Btw i love you man.
No homo
Hell yeah I'm so happy your playing this again! Honestly so happy!
Skies of Arcadia and FTL among all-time favourites, top-notch taste in games confirmed!
The FTL series on this channel has always been my favourite.
I find it amazing that Jon is such a fan of FTL yet i can't think of a harder game to play with -1 perception.
I am always shocked at how little Jon actually knows about this game....didn't know about the clone bay queue, and warning about blowing up an enemy ship with his crew on it...you've got a bloody clone bay, Jon!! It's fine....as long as they don't run with your still alive crew on their ship you're fine....really handy to blow up an enemy ship with your crew on it....just a free heal.
-Sees flak 2 and a small bomb
*BUYS SMALL BOMB*
My Lanius B strategy is to teleport the Lanius straight into the enemy's life support room and use mind control on the first guy to confront them whilst suppressing their weapons with the adv. flak. Once life support is destroyed, wait until the oxygen in the room is completely drained and start advancing into the other rooms to drain them, retreating back to life support if necessary. Eventually the enemy crew won't be able to move anywhere to stop you without suffocating, so you're free to wreak havoc or just wait for the remaining oxygen to drain, killing the crew without destroying the ship.
I would highly recommend giving the Multiverse mod a go, It's so high quality and adds a bunch of replay value. It IS a little easier than regular FTL on average, but Hard is still very difficult.
I would also recommend the Kestrel Adventures animated youtube series to anyone who likes FTL. It has a bit of a rocky start for the first 5 episodes, but it's really good overall.
I missed these FTL videos, please make some more.
Jon. MORE FTL CHALLENGE RUNS. We demand it!
I did enjoy venting almost all of the rooms on Lanius ship. Removing the possibility of fires rocks.
What a great tactics and performance!
Jon... The Lanius are not Robots...
Your crew loses experience anytime they die, so medical bays tend to be universally better.
If you get scanners you can mind control an enemy and use "Return" on your Teleporter then lynch them once mind control wears off.. So you can clear the enemy ship with minimal conflict. Invest in shields and dodge, and vwala. Also some energy weapons to shred super-shields too.
Recently completed hard mode with Lanius B. You can teleport people out of an enemy ship if they're mind controlled and starve them to death in your almost oxygen-less ship, so you can avoid boarding and just kind of select whichever bloke or two you want to die.
For the final boss I used a glaive beam, ion blast and flak 2 to destroy shields and weapons ez
Drones can actually double fire every now and then so they can damage you, 14:15, it happens every now and then.
So if you have one shield bubble vs 1 attack drone MK1, you can't leave the game running to train crew without paying attention. With 2 shield bubbles you're probably safe.
BUT IS THERE DOUBLE PIKE BEAM?!?
*DOUBLE PIKE BEAM!*
DOUBLE PIKE BEAM!
DOUBLE PIKE BEAM
THE BEST WEAPON
Ahem... DOUBLE PIKE BEAM! Now to slink back into the endless abyss that is the internet
@@pineapotato nah glave beam is better
Your Hard Mode run was the first video(s) I watched on your channel. TL;DR, FUCK YEAH
What I love the most about Lanius B is that it has no scanners. Means absolutely no penalties for going through nebulas, actually makes nebulas objectively the best place to be, more rewards, no downside since you have no scanners for it to mess with.
This is actually a really good run so far. I'm impressed by the RNG favor from the first couple of sectors.
One of the best soundtracks of all time and one of the best indie games of all time
Totally agree, this game's an absolute gem
Don't forget about crew management.
You could put the human piloting and the engi on sensors.
I just spilled a whole glass of Jack Daniels with Cola on my Keyboard while writing another comment about how awesome you and this game are and i still dont regret it!
And nothing of value was lost.
Love the enthusiasm!
FTL is definitely in my top 10 (at least) favourite games ever
FTL is how I found your channel. But you mentioned Skies of Arcadia in your list of favorite games. It might be weird to have a JRPG on your channel, but I’d love to see a SoA LP.
Little late to the party but... I like to use guaranteed victories (ie a single almost dead engi running around trying to repair stuff) as a chance to farm xp for my boarding party. Just let your crew practise smashing buildings while the enemy runs around fixing them. Just be sure to shoot the shields as the enemy really hates you attacking their shields. May also be not super exciting viewing...
This is so good.
I've missed FTL so much.
Yes! I love your FTL videos.
I'll be honest, the emergency mode sucks for Jon, but I love to see these videos.
This video made me fall in love with the Zoltan B Cruiser.
I like getting the Lanius is take out their O2 as quick as is sensible. it doubles down on suffocating a whole ship.
Really would like a full Series
Please, loads more FTL on this channel!
Loved the old FTL videos
I saw this and freaked out! More FTL!!
Why don't you keep the doors open to drain out the oxygen? Wouldn't have that dealt with the guy that invaded you?
This was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Full Lanius crews are just the best. They're complete tanks in combat, and they don't need oxygen. No power to the oxygen system needed!
When you said Skies of Arcadia was one of your favorite games, my respect for your opinion went way, way up.
Björn is swedish for bear. So... The bear is still around!
I scared the dog when I laughed at Jon's choice of ship name.
Thank you Jon, Howie will now hate FTL.
Dodge chance > shields or sensors. You should always have someone Manning the engines
shields are better early game because most enemy ships can't fire fast enough to get through 2 shields.
don't base your strategy on RNG or you'll get fucked by it
rather have guarenteed shielding than a low chance to dodge
Finally more FTL Faster Than Light!
Yes, more FTL from Jon!!!
"Just in the mood dammit" code for eating into back lock please ignore the productions issues.
oh yea
also
just bought this.
OMG, yah, really good, really going to love playing with all the systems!
It’s about time it’s back
I never unlocked the Lanius B! It's basically a challenge run itself. Very cool.
There should always be FTL on this channel!!
Yesyesyesyesyes. So happy to see ftl back
First buy in ftl is always a shield upgrade, gets sensors which are useless bc u have lanius and mind control and are gonna board always anyway. Gets enough scrap for shields and waits then debates if he should or not.
Always put new crew on engines for dodge. Puts them on useless sensors. Gets another crew. Doesn’t put them on engines. Then gets another, still no engines lol
Upgrading to level 3 engines is usually the next buy after tier 2 shields cuz it’s so cheap and adds alotta dodge. Doesn’t upgrade engines at all
Next buy with lanius b is to upgrade defense with a defense drone to protect from missiles since ur boarding and have adv flak you don’t need more weapons early. Passes up two drone controls and buys a small bomb
Never wanna repair your ship past 20-22 on hard mode in case u get an event that heals you. Scrap is so rare so u don’t wanna waste any on needless repairs. Repairs to full
This is not a criticism, this is why I love Jon so much. I love his wreckless play style and he still manages to win. So entertaining
Will The Magnificent Jon is famous for Perception 1 Luck 10. Its one of my favorite about him as well
Agreed will, itches my brain when he was taking system damage and not moving his engi over to deal with it earlier on. He is providing great commentating as well which probably distracts from optimal play a bit.
I think Sensors was a good buy, now he can place his boarders more effectively. Not getting Engines though, that was annoying.
Where he placed borders it's very irrelevant though. Shields are top priority
With lanius boarders and mind control with a clone bay ur gonna either put the boarders in weapons or a large room for a quick crew kill. Mind control turns it into 3 boarders, by the Time mind control runs out the oxygen is depleted. U lose a boarder it’s no big deal bc of a clone bay. Sensors are useless on this ship until very late game when u have more scrap than u know what to do with. This is my fav ship on hard mode. I win almost every time with it. Always beef up the defense first with it. With a defense drone and upgraded shields nothing can hit you before you kill the crew. I’ve had runs with this ship where I’ve never had to repair at a store because I never took enough damage to need it
you have me addicted to this game...
I’m looking forward to the next ftl video!
Sorry Jon, I was about to watch this video, but then you put the in the mood to play some FTL. So I'm going to do that now.
Challenge runs, you say?
Hold my beer!
I just did a 'Missile only' run and succeeded. :3 for the second time, might I add, but at least this run is recent (less than a week old by the date of this post).
I also posted it on youtube so.. mm a search.. will find it.
I would say that FTL is a nice breath of fresh air for this channel, but...
"Let's get out of the Nebula so we can see what's going on..."
even though Lanius B has no scanners...
This game has the best soundtrack in the world!
what about doom or neir automata?
Jon, please play the FTL Infinite Space mod, and maybe even do a series on it.
Simply one of the most perfectly developed games ever!
Jon, I have decided - you should play The Ur-Quan Masters (previously known as Star Control 2). If you play Ur-Quan Masters, I'll play FTL.
47 views 45 likes and well deserved you are a really good and entertaining TH-camr
More FTL?
*YES*
Jon in his nightmare deathship continues his reign of terror
Like FTL, but it's FTL.
"Rock guys get 50% bonus health, so we know who we want on our team."
Well...I mean...I thought I did.
today was a crappy day - then there was FTL, and things were goodd !
I have only heard of this game, looks pretty cool for a old school game.
Jon get the heal burst weapon so that you can exchange missiles for health. That way your crewmembers don't need to die amd respawn to be at full health. Not to memtion how it could completely heal a damaged boarding party while the room is empty
Yea! FTL is back :D
it's michio kaku style force field only deflecting energy based munitions while your hull armor absorbs solid projectiles with some sort of nano mesh. Interesting,