FTL: Advanced Edition
FTL: Advanced Edition features: - New systems, playable ships, alien race, weapons, drones, and more! - A new sector with new events, written by Tom Jubert and special guest writer Chris Avellone! - New music…
FTL: Advanced Edition is a strategy developed by Subset Games, released 3 April 2014 on iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What FTL: Advanced Edition is
FTL: Advanced Edition is a strategy game developed by Subset Games and released in 2014. It is available on iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
FTL: Faster Than Light is a roguelike game created by indie developer Subset Games, which was released for Windows, MacOS, and Linux in September 2012. In the game, the player controls the crew of a single spacecraft, holding critical information to be delivered to an allied fleet, while being pursued by a large rebel fleet. The player must guide the spacecraft through 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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 51 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
FTL: Advanced Edition holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 55 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 1280x720 minimum resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support, and recommended dedicated graphics card with 128 MB of RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
FTL: Advanced Edition launched on 3 April 2014, within three weeks of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, Infamous: Second Son, Monument Valley and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, Infamous: Second Son, Monument Valley, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for FTL: Advanced Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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