Padge Plays! YOLO Edition - FTL: Faster Than Light (2012 - Subset Games) Let's Play Gameplay Part 2

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Published on January 5, 2017 9:37:06 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjYOVme8Dhw

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FTL: Faster Than Light (2012)

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Let's Play

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Welcome to Padge Plays! YOLO Edition

In this series I will be playing some well known and less well known games all the way from yesteryear through to the present, sometimes from consoles and sometimes from the thousands of PC games available either through websites such as Steam, Good Old Games (GOG), as abandonware, (Home of the Underdogs) or through emulation software. (Such as WinVice C64)

In this episode we are playing FTL: Faster Than Light in my first ever YOLO episode! The premise is simple: I have one life to do as much as I can and when I die, that's it for the game on this channel! Hopefully this is a way I can bring you more games to watch on here without having to commit a large amount of time to doing a complete series BUT generally I get to show you more than I would within one episode... as long as I don't die early that is.

I loved FTL when it originally came out so much I actually did a Youtube series on this channel called Padge In Space, (all episodes have been deleted from here I'm afraid... I did it as a favour to YOU, dear reader... trust me.) so I generally know my way around the UI and every now and then I like to fire her up and see how far it gets me. Now I have noticed that in FTL Advanced Edition although there are more random things that can happen to you and who you meet along the way it does appear to be a more interesting ride so we'll be playing the full fat version here, and as you can see with me putting "Part 1" in the title, you'll get the conclusion of this soon!

Here's what Wikipedia say about FTL:

FTL: Faster Than Light is a top-down roguelike space ship simulator created by indie developer Subset Games, which was first released for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux in September 2012.[2] In the game, the player controls the crew of a single spacecraft, holding critical information to be delivered to an allied fleet eight sectors away, while being pursued by a large rebel fleet. The player must guide the spacecraft over eight sectors, each with planetary systems and events procedurally generated in a roguelike fashion, while facing rebel and other hostile forces, recruiting new crew, and outfitting and upgrading their ship. Combat takes place in pausable real time, and if the ship is destroyed or all of its crew lost, the game ends, forcing the player to restart with a new ship.

The concept for FTL was based on tabletop board games and other non-strategic space combat video games that required the player to manage an array of ship's functions. The initial development by the two-man Subset Games was self-funded, and guided towards developing entries for various indie game competitions. With positive responses from the players and judges at these events, Subset opted to engage in a crowd-sourced Kickstarter campaign to finish the title, and succeeded in obtaining twenty times more than they had sought; the extra funds were used towards more professional art, music and in-game writing.

The game, considered one of the major successes of the Kickstarter fundraisers for video games, was released in September 2012 to positive reviews. An updated version, FTL: Advanced Edition, added additional ships, events, and other gameplay elements, and was released in April 2014 as a free update for existing owners and was put up for purchase on iPad devices. The game received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the game's creativity.


Check out the official website here:
http://www.ftlgame.com/

You can pick it up from Steam here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/

Or alternatively you can grab it from Good Old Games, (GOG) here:
https://www.gog.com/game/faster_than_light

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