I've heard great things about this game like how it's an amazing roguelike and people frequently say they always come back to it and have hundreds of hours but after a few playthroughs it just seems like a bad and boring roguelike to me. The progression system is abysmal and the RNG seems badly implemented because I always feel like the game thinks and expects me to have more resources than I do....

Recently I decided to follow a kind of "trend" from the Holo and started playing without hacking. It feels like the game has become much more interesting and varied, honestly. For example, drones have become much more useful, because now you don't need to save drone parts and the system slot, and you can regularly use a defense drone, a hull repair drone, or a setup of two combat 1 drones for gunships even without drone recovery arm. Moreover, there is more scrap in the first sectors for other improvements...

Wayyyy too hard and rng reliant to be worth playing anymore. Edit: Thanks for the awards guys and this is probably the biggest topic this games ever gotten, clearly the vast majority of people here agree with me. hoping ftl2 can fix this if there is one, this is a really great game and concept but phew! edit 2: this is clearly the biggest thread in this games history a lot of agreeing and stuff plus all the awards showing support. lads we really cooked on this one our voices are heard...

So I've been particularly lucky on this run, no way I can not win. Nevertheless, I'm curious what the optimum config is. I've got maxed out weapons, and I was running a halberd beam, two chain lasers, and an ion blast. Ion fires every 8 seconds, Halberd fires every 17 seconds, chains start at 16 seconds, then drops to 13, 10, and finally 7. Not a hell of a lot can resist until 7 seconds. Then I got a free BL2. Fires every 12 seconds. Best weapon in the game. But it's 4 seconds off from the first big voll...

Perfectly good Stealth A run ruined right at the end because the Flagship decided to repeatedly mind control the guy in piloting, preventing me from ever jumping away and nullifying my evasion. Went from basically full health with three shields to dead in seconds. I would have used Mind Control to cancel it out, if the Stealth A didn't have an entire two systems slots. Yes, I know it has three, but one of those is going to be shields. I had a Teleporter to take out the weapons rooms, and a Drone Control t...