Was literally looking for the most recent world record for FTL thinking, "There's no way nobody's gotten WR in 7 years," and turns out you managed to top it TODAY. Like, literally an hour ago. That's some serendipitous shit, man. Congratulations on the run!
Thanks, haha. I swear I keep having weird coincidences like that too. Hopefully this motivates someone else to grind and we won't have to wait another 7 years.
Rebels: It takes years to put together a giant fleet and take over the galaxy. Five suicide bombers on a ship assembled on its knee, not even having shields, literally 12:00 minutes later: hello there!
"I don't have the best mechanics" Man singlehandedly manages to do immense amounts of complex decision making and calls it "not the best mechanics" Man, you just deserve this win because it was so smart!
I had never seen an ftl speedrun before and considered doing a run. I'm pretty familiar with the game so I clicked on your run to find out what it was about. As soon as I saw Stealth B my heart sank because I knew the rng I'd have to get would need to be immaculate. It really is incredible how much good luck was in this run and I certainly don't have the same patience to do it for 1000 attempts
You should definitely still try it out. You can use Zoltan A to reduce the need for good rng. The 4th fastest time uses that. and if you do end up speedrunning you should upload your runs to speedrun.com so that people know you're trying.
@@golddmane is there a community hub or something of the like? I would like to know if certain things such as having hyperspace installed is okay and the like since a modded version of FTL is a bit finicky to return back to vanilla just for speedruns.
Craziest thing of all is not restarting after that absolutely dastardly first ship encounter - either way, I may be a year late but I can still say this run clearly required incredible skill, knowledge, and reaction speed. Well done!
I don't even wanna know how many runs it took to get rng to line up, and then to play so tightly the whole way through when the perfect rng presented itself... really, really amazing work.
Phenomenal run, with the kind of luck you were getting I really do believe you reset 1000+ times. The only major mistake was that on the drone fight at 8:57, I don't know how I could have kept it together and made as many correct decisions as you did under such pressure when everything lines up. Overall, great job!
I didn't think I would learn something new about the game but I didn't know you could de-power hacking to dodge the laser of the defense drone. I assumed you would just spam the hacking until one goes through, which works if you have like 10 drone parts to spare.
Yep, just makes hacking that much better. And if you browse some other quick speedruns you'll see people who are much more proficient at it than me. They can depower without pausing and still evade the drone. These little unintentional details are what makes FTL so great.
That was a new trick to me, with over 400 hours in the game. I'll definitely be keeping that in my playbook for the future! Kudos on a really impressive run.
@godlyvex5543 It's been patched in Multiverse. Hacking drones will now self-destruct if depowered mid-flight. Luckily you can also just buy Defense Scrambler at any time now.
@@arandomperson12345 True, but I've been on pace to beat the record before but made blunders and let boarders kill my weapons against the flagship, so I still consider it pretty lucky that I didn't waste this godly seed by getting weapons hit.
Most absurd thing I have witnessed in this game. How are these things even possible? Edit: I am sure you were sweating just waiting to see if the flagship would hack your weapons. Also that final phase 3 superweapon firing had me on the edge of my seat. It was like the world was going down in flames around you yet somehow your weapons remained online.
it brings me so much joy that the world record is obtained on what is objectively the worst ship in the game. it makes me happy to see it have a use and unironically it's a fun ship to play regardless
Incredible, I appreciate the pure effort and will put into this. Tho 9:06 was painful to watch... could have shaved off 30 sec... you must have felt it more than I do.
At 4:20 you could've saved a few secs by depowering the Glaive beam and using the Halberd instead, since it would hit 3 rooms with one damage each, which would've been exactly enough to destroy the ship.
That was a fun watch. I never saw an FTL speedrun before but unlike so many games I feel like even as a casual player I could understand everything that's going on and why.
Yeah that's what's great about FTL, I feel like even if you were to know nothing about it, you can develop an understanding over the course of watching one run
Damn, so lucky to get first jump stores so often. You were very low on fuel there! The unmanned fighter fight in the second sector could have netted you a few seconds - switching to halberd would have killed it on a shorter cooldown.
I think if you would have aimed the two beams to hit four rooms the super shield would have been destroyed with one volley, thereby also saving a few seconds. Other than that, incredibly amazing and you have my utmost respect
I miss playing this game when i was younger, its just amazing. Good job man,i always hated stealth b (i think thats the ship) but you used it very well!
thanks man. i used to play when i was a lot younger too, but stopped for years. yeah stealth b is pretty annoying but its great for speedrunning bc of glaive beam. if you're still interested in ftl theres a crazy mod called multiverse that you can look up that adds so much to the game, you should check it out
it seems like the very start of the run was rather suboptimal, not necessarily with speed, but with the amount of damage taken and immediately getting hit in the cloaking. what made you keep going on this run instead of resetting early?
it's objectively a pretty bad ship layout (not *nearly* the worst as people like saying, that goes to either Zoltan C or Engi B), but it's prime speedrunning material thanks to starting with such a god-tier weapon and cloaking (in speedruns, shields are actually a dump stat)
I've only recently started playing the game (about 14~ hours and 0 wins) but how are you getting past the enemies' shields with the laser? I thought that if they hit any amount of shield they did zero damage
It depends on the beam weapon. The one that this ship comes with is the glaive beam which does 3 damage per room. It also has piercing, which means that it can go through shields but loses 1 damage for each level of shield it has to go through. So if they have 1 shield, it does 2 dmg per room, or for 2 shields it does 1 dmg per room. If there are 3 or more layers of shields it can't pierce. The other beam I got in this run is the halberd beam, which does 2 damage per room, so can only get through 1 shield. The glaive beam is extremely powerful so it costs 95 scrap. But the ship I use in this video, Stealth B, comes with it, but to balance this out it has no shields. The other beams in the game are the hull beam, mini beam, and pike beam. The hull beam does 2 dmg per systemless and 1 dmg for rooms with systems but it has no piercing, even when it targets a systemless room through just 1 layer of shield. The mini beam does 1 dmg and is very short, while the pike beam does 1 dmg but is very long. Neither of those can pierce. There is one more beam, the artillery beam, which is unlike the other because it's built into a ship, the Federation Cruiser. It's more like a system than a weapon, as it has its own room, doesn't take up a weapon slot, and fires automatically. It's unique in that it actually pierces every single layer of shield and does 1 dmg per room I think. I'm only mentioning this because the Fed Cruiser type A is my favorite ship in the game partially because of this. I hope you're having fun with the game. I honestly haven't played in a while but it's one of my favorite games ever.
8:49 Damn if you had your halberd powered on before that drone I think it could have been sub 12 minute run! Room for improvement is room for new records??
Definitely. This run could've been a lot faster. I've been on pace for sub 10 in the past after optimizing the overall strategy but I fucked up that run. I'm certain someone could do it in around 9 minutes, but no one really speedruns FTL so it might be a while sadly. I wish some of the better FTL players would spend some time speedrunning because they could crush this record if given the chance, it just takes a lot of patience because of the necessary rng.
It's true though lol. I messed up potentially much faster runs because of my mechanics, and there are people out there who could crush this record if they were dedicated to it.
I so wish the devs would update this game, (I know there’s mods), but I cant bileve this was released in 2012, im literally addicted to this game again recently.
Yeah it's a lot of fun, though I haven't played recently. Have you tried the mod FTL Multiverse? It adds so much content it's unbelievable, it might as well be a new game while keeping the core game's feel. If you're playing a lot you should definitely check it out.
the glaive beam does 3 damage per room hit, and beams have the innate ability to deal damage through shields, if at -1 damage per shield layer the stealth B is built around starting with this and to make it balanced make it have no shields to start with(which cost like 90 scrap to install... and also require a shop)
The Stealth Cruiser B is the "glass cannon" of the game. Starts with an absurdly powerful weapon that has a long cooldown, but very few means to actually keep you alive while it charges up. It might seem OP in this video, but it can be a nightmare to play with. You hit an asteroid field, you're screwed. You fight an enemy with drones, you're screwed. You fight someone else with beam weapons, you're screwed. Something hits your weapons ONCE, you're screwed. etc.
I don't think it's a bug. The devs specifically programmed a mechanism to determine when weapons, drones and asteroids collide and used that same mechanism to fire down the hacking drones. It's only natural that a hacking drone can dodge a defence drone by changing speed. It also explains why they designed anti-drone drones to fire faster than defence drones-- so that they are less likely to miss.
facing a beam drone and instantly failing the dodge on the first fight is a peak stealth B moment
Was literally looking for the most recent world record for FTL thinking, "There's no way nobody's gotten WR in 7 years," and turns out you managed to top it TODAY. Like, literally an hour ago.
That's some serendipitous shit, man. Congratulations on the run!
Golddmane don’t mess around😤💪
Thanks, haha. I swear I keep having weird coincidences like that too. Hopefully this motivates someone else to grind and we won't have to wait another 7 years.
@@golddmane All respect, it ain't gonna be me. I haven't the patience nor the skill haha. Good stuff. That flagship fight was TENSE.
The luck of getting that pre-ignighter that early, and not getting the weapons hit or hacked at the end, nice job!
it not luck it probabilty he grind the run until he had the 'luck'
@@JacoDeltaco yea he most likely played this game 1000 times to get to this
@@metalgearsolidsnake6978 Almost as if that's exactly what the description says.
@@varlunmulland3992 and it is not on hard
Rebels: It takes years to put together a giant fleet and take over the galaxy.
Five suicide bombers on a ship assembled on its knee, not even having shields, literally 12:00 minutes later: hello there!
"I don't have the best mechanics" Man singlehandedly manages to do immense amounts of complex decision making and calls it "not the best mechanics"
Man, you just deserve this win because it was so smart!
2:43 you should have gone out and bought a lottery ticket after getting the preigniter
This might be the most impressive thing I have ever seen
you're damn right
8:50 when he didn't power his Halberd Beam, I felt that...
It still hurts to this day
I had never seen an ftl speedrun before and considered doing a run. I'm pretty familiar with the game so I clicked on your run to find out what it was about. As soon as I saw Stealth B my heart sank because I knew the rng I'd have to get would need to be immaculate. It really is incredible how much good luck was in this run and I certainly don't have the same patience to do it for 1000 attempts
You should definitely still try it out. You can use Zoltan A to reduce the need for good rng. The 4th fastest time uses that. and if you do end up speedrunning you should upload your runs to speedrun.com so that people know you're trying.
@golddmane That's where I saw your time posted! I have done Mario 64 ones so maybe I should give it a shot :)
@@golddmane is there a community hub or something of the like? I would like to know if certain things such as having hyperspace installed is okay and the like since a modded version of FTL is a bit finicky to return back to vanilla just for speedruns.
Lmao, i cant even win this game how the fuck u doing it that fast???
Craziest thing of all is not restarting after that absolutely dastardly first ship encounter - either way, I may be a year late but I can still say this run clearly required incredible skill, knowledge, and reaction speed. Well done!
I don't even wanna know how many runs it took to get rng to line up, and then to play so tightly the whole way through when the perfect rng presented itself... really, really amazing work.
thank you, yeah it definitely took a while
My heart stopped when you were forced to take two Zoltan sectors, was lucky that you didn't encounter any actual Zoltan ships
yeah fuck those guys
Phenomenal run, with the kind of luck you were getting I really do believe you reset 1000+ times. The only major mistake was that on the drone fight at 8:57, I don't know how I could have kept it together and made as many correct decisions as you did under such pressure when everything lines up.
Overall, great job!
12:02 rip Jones. Your brother Jones will miss you
Well done! I never would have thought a run like this was possible without seeing it here.
thank you!
I didn't think I would learn something new about the game but I didn't know you could de-power hacking to dodge the laser of the defense drone. I assumed you would just spam the hacking until one goes through, which works if you have like 10 drone parts to spare.
Yep, just makes hacking that much better. And if you browse some other quick speedruns you'll see people who are much more proficient at it than me. They can depower without pausing and still evade the drone. These little unintentional details are what makes FTL so great.
That was a new trick to me, with over 400 hours in the game. I'll definitely be keeping that in my playbook for the future! Kudos on a really impressive run.
does anyone know if this trick works in multiverse?
@@godlyvex5543 I was just thinking that. Gonna try it soon though.
@godlyvex5543 It's been patched in Multiverse. Hacking drones will now self-destruct if depowered mid-flight. Luckily you can also just buy Defense Scrambler at any time now.
That last fight was damn lucky. If your weapons went down you would have been toast. Great run! I would say your mechanics are quite good.
After 1000 resets, I don't think calling it lucky is at all accurate. I imagine that's just one of the reset points.
@@arandomperson12345 True, but I've been on pace to beat the record before but made blunders and let boarders kill my weapons against the flagship, so I still consider it pretty lucky that I didn't waste this godly seed by getting weapons hit.
wow this is an amazing vid, thank you for posting and accomplishing this!
Most absurd thing I have witnessed in this game. How are these things even possible?
Edit: I am sure you were sweating just waiting to see if the flagship would hack your weapons. Also that final phase 3 superweapon firing had me on the edge of my seat. It was like the world was going down in flames around you yet somehow your weapons remained online.
it brings me so much joy that the world record is obtained on what is objectively the worst ship in the game. it makes me happy to see it have a use and unironically it's a fun ship to play regardless
Yeah I would never use it outside of speedrunning, too frustrating.
Incredible, I appreciate the pure effort and will put into this.
Tho 9:06 was painful to watch... could have shaved off 30 sec... you must have felt it more than I do.
At 4:20 you could've saved a few secs by depowering the Glaive beam and using the Halberd instead, since it would hit 3 rooms with one damage each, which would've been exactly enough to destroy the ship.
I though the same when i watched the video
That was a fun watch. I never saw an FTL speedrun before but unlike so many games I feel like even as a casual player I could understand everything that's going on and why.
Yeah that's what's great about FTL, I feel like even if you were to know nothing about it, you can develop an understanding over the course of watching one run
2:41 when I saw the Burst Laser MK 2 AND the Halberd Beam AND the Pre-Ignitor, I died.
At that moment my heart rate probably quadrupled.
I problary have around 300+ hours in FTL and I never knew you could de-power the hack like that and damage rooms with the laser in between. Nice run!
Good god the luck on this run. Between early pre igniter and the final laser barrages not hitting your hacking or weapons...sheeesh
Holy crap, someone sent offerings to the RNG gods. Well done!
I asked them for money, but instead they gave me this...
I just got the game last week and struggled through 20 runs only to get 1 win on my 3rd boss fight. ON EASY.
God. DAMN. That is an artform!
Don't worry, I can hardly even beat the game outside of a speedrun either.
Damn, so lucky to get first jump stores so often. You were very low on fuel there!
The unmanned fighter fight in the second sector could have netted you a few seconds - switching to halberd would have killed it on a shorter cooldown.
yeah definitely a crazy lucky seed whose time could have been even lower
Holy crap man, well done. Pretty solid
This gave me an idea! I submitted a proposal to the FTL speedrun forums you mentioned. I would love your input as the current WR holder!
Crazy that you got WR with a drone ship as your first fight. That'd be a reset for me, even without attempting a speedrun
I wondered how it was even possible to speedrun this game. Now I know
I think if you would have aimed the two beams to hit four rooms the super shield would have been destroyed with one volley, thereby also saving a few seconds.
Other than that, incredibly amazing and you have my utmost respect
Appreciate it. But yeah, I messed up a few times during this run, it could've been a lot faster.
Beams damage zoltan shield twice regardless of how many rooms you would have hit
What a truly blessed run
Fucking insane dude. Just wish more people PLAYED the game let alone speedran it.
yeah absolutely. the game should be way more popular than it is. if people knew about it and gave it a chance they wouldn't regret it
AAaaaah, the sub 12 opportunities. Don't get me wrong, you are a hero and hindsight is 20/20, but it was so close
nah you're right, it could've been a lot better.
@@golddmane still even then, a sight to behold mate
Damn. Two Burst lasers 2s in a row at the shop. Whoa.
I miss playing this game when i was younger, its just amazing. Good job man,i always hated stealth b (i think thats the ship) but you used it very well!
thanks man. i used to play when i was a lot younger too, but stopped for years. yeah stealth b is pretty annoying but its great for speedrunning bc of glaive beam. if you're still interested in ftl theres a crazy mod called multiverse that you can look up that adds so much to the game, you should check it out
it seems like the very start of the run was rather suboptimal, not necessarily with speed, but with the amount of damage taken and immediately getting hit in the cloaking. what made you keep going on this run instead of resetting early?
i have no idea
I don't know if you can get sick with faster than Light travel, but if it's the case those crews must have iron stomac
This is a game worth speed running.
This moment when you see that your 1,5h isn't that fast😅. Great record bro. Congrats!
Thanks, appreciate it. But if you consider that the universe is billions of years old, 1.5 hours is actually pretty quick.
Finally! Someone else who likes Stealth B!
it's objectively a pretty bad ship layout (not *nearly* the worst as people like saying, that goes to either Zoltan C or Engi B), but it's prime speedrunning material thanks to starting with such a god-tier weapon and cloaking (in speedruns, shields are actually a dump stat)
Damn impressive. Great job!
Nice little trick on the anti-drone drone
yeah it's definitely a useful mechanic
At 4:10 you could have saved a few seconds by switching to halberd beam. But thats already very detailed nit-picking
you're right. this run could've been much faster
Very very very impressive.
At 12:30, if you would have activated the 2nd beam before jumping would have saved some time
I've only recently started playing the game (about 14~ hours and 0 wins) but how are you getting past the enemies' shields with the laser? I thought that if they hit any amount of shield they did zero damage
It depends on the beam weapon. The one that this ship comes with is the glaive beam which does 3 damage per room. It also has piercing, which means that it can go through shields but loses 1 damage for each level of shield it has to go through. So if they have 1 shield, it does 2 dmg per room, or for 2 shields it does 1 dmg per room. If there are 3 or more layers of shields it can't pierce. The other beam I got in this run is the halberd beam, which does 2 damage per room, so can only get through 1 shield.
The glaive beam is extremely powerful so it costs 95 scrap. But the ship I use in this video, Stealth B, comes with it, but to balance this out it has no shields.
The other beams in the game are the hull beam, mini beam, and pike beam. The hull beam does 2 dmg per systemless and 1 dmg for rooms with systems but it has no piercing, even when it targets a systemless room through just 1 layer of shield. The mini beam does 1 dmg and is very short, while the pike beam does 1 dmg but is very long. Neither of those can pierce.
There is one more beam, the artillery beam, which is unlike the other because it's built into a ship, the Federation Cruiser. It's more like a system than a weapon, as it has its own room, doesn't take up a weapon slot, and fires automatically. It's unique in that it actually pierces every single layer of shield and does 1 dmg per room I think. I'm only mentioning this because the Fed Cruiser type A is my favorite ship in the game partially because of this. I hope you're having fun with the game. I honestly haven't played in a while but it's one of my favorite games ever.
@golddmane Oh! Thanks for all the info! I guess I never figured all that out with the beams because I could never afford them TwT
8:49 Damn if you had your halberd powered on before that drone I think it could have been sub 12 minute run! Room for improvement is room for new records??
Definitely. This run could've been a lot faster. I've been on pace for sub 10 in the past after optimizing the overall strategy but I fucked up that run. I'm certain someone could do it in around 9 minutes, but no one really speedruns FTL so it might be a while sadly. I wish some of the better FTL players would spend some time speedrunning because they could crush this record if given the chance, it just takes a lot of patience because of the necessary rng.
Oh my god it was on fire the entire time
Imagine being taken by the rebel fleet...
Impressive.
Stealth B is so much fun
it really is
I just got called bad for 12 minutes goddamn
"I dont have the best mechanics" has the WR for over a year
It's true though lol. I messed up potentially much faster runs because of my mechanics, and there are people out there who could crush this record if they were dedicated to it.
Lebsack Mountains
Amazing!
My ego's too big to say thank you.
I so wish the devs would update this game, (I know there’s mods), but I cant bileve this was released in 2012, im literally addicted to this game again recently.
Yeah it's a lot of fun, though I haven't played recently. Have you tried the mod FTL Multiverse? It adds so much content it's unbelievable, it might as well be a new game while keeping the core game's feel. If you're playing a lot you should definitely check it out.
@• I play through Steam on Mac M series, I dout mods work on Mac?
im not too familiar with ftl have played a few times but, how does your starting weapon do that much damage
the glaive beam does 3 damage per room hit, and beams have the innate ability to deal damage through shields, if at -1 damage per shield layer
the stealth B is built around starting with this and to make it balanced make it have no shields to start with(which cost like 90 scrap to install... and also require a shop)
The Stealth Cruiser B is the "glass cannon" of the game. Starts with an absurdly powerful weapon that has a long cooldown, but very few means to actually keep you alive while it charges up.
It might seem OP in this video, but it can be a nightmare to play with.
You hit an asteroid field, you're screwed.
You fight an enemy with drones, you're screwed.
You fight someone else with beam weapons, you're screwed.
Something hits your weapons ONCE, you're screwed.
etc.
2:43 Pre-igniter, 3 sector. Good good. It's a pity it's not written how many attempts, runs, were all spent)
I didn't keep track but probably near 1000
damn this i so impressive, I was wondering how the flagship's defence drone didn't shoot the hacking device or was it just good luck?
in that case it was just chance but you can avoid it either way
@@golddmaneohhh nice thanks
800 hours of playtime and I could never do this goddamn
you should try it a few times, i bet you'd do better than you think. there are just some strats you need to know that make everything possible
1:04 why did you not accept the trade for "free" reactor upgrade (i say free because it's only missles and drone parts)
and another one at 2:17 for better trade
Nice job!
Faster than Faster than Light.
thats how long it takesme to lose a game
I didn't know about the power toggling bug on the hacking. That's busted
I don't think it's a bug. The devs specifically programmed a mechanism to determine when weapons, drones and asteroids collide and used that same mechanism to fire down the hacking drones. It's only natural that a hacking drone can dodge a defence drone by changing speed. It also explains why they designed anti-drone drones to fire faster than defence drones-- so that they are less likely to miss.
The Flagship weakness was clearly Hacking.
TIL if u depower hacking then defence drones don't shoot it
God run
How to go through all the fun. Ridiculous.
Clutch.
Impressive
How much runs did he have to do to get that perfect one
Respect man 👌👌👍👏👏
nice one
I didn't know it was possible to avoid enemy defense drones by powering down your hacking and then powering it back up!!!???
yeah it's a nice trick
Double the beem equal double fun
Jose almost didnt make it
Daaaaaammn
crAZY stuff, but you have to be lucky sometimes
Walsh Curve
This is done on easy right?
yeah easy AE. otherwise itd take probably thirty minutes minimum
difficulty? just curious.
Easy. That way it's not hard
Ok won't lie, the trick of using the hacking tool. Never knew if you turned it off they anti/anti missile drone won't engage it.
Yeah it's a really useful trick
Scarlett Avenue
Sheridan Dam
What difficult is this
easy
@@golddmane 👍👍🙂🙂
Skiles Valleys
Patrick Burgs
sick. it takes me about 2.5h's
time is an illusion
Jaclyn Village
McKenzie Circles
the B stand for BIDEN BLAST
I'm a big Biden guy.
Anne Crossing
8233 Sylvester Street
oh my
he's lag switching
Makenna Keys
0433 Fisher Plaza