ftl but 40k - /vst/

Anonymous06/03/25, 22:16No.2058215

>FTL but 40k Kino, sign me up

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Anon06/03/25, 23:46No.2058302

Playing this has reminded me that I hate FTL's event system. The outcome are random chance so you have no idea if you picked the right option when you fail. It feels fucking terrible to try and learn it blindly.

Anon06/04/25, 24:59No.2058376

>>FTL but 40k When I read that I thought it would be a game inspired by FTL and 40k. Then I checked it on steam and it is a blatant ripoff which copied the artstyle of FTL and outright traced art from 40k.

Anon06/04/25, 05:29No.2058517

It is NOT a 40k game.

Anon06/04/25, 07:35No.2058555

No thanks, I've already played FTL

Anon06/04/25, 09:05No.2058601

is the deal for the 40k license so hard that these niggers gotta pull this shit? Shitty mobile cashgrabs could get the license but they can't?

Anon06/04/25, 10:53No.2058683

I completed one run of Void War so far and although it's a shameless 1:1 FTL ripoff (just not!40k)...it's good? The biggest downside of the game is that it seems to be running with the FTL basic framework, not with the advanced edition stuff. And even though it's atmospheric, I can't shake the feeling that artwork/portraits, dialogues, microlore dumps and even music, are all AI generated. It basically feels like an AI demake of FTL. With all that said, it's fun to play because the original formula is still addictive enough. Take from that what you will.

Anon06/04/25, 11:24No.2058715

Ion weapons are still unmitigated bullshit I see. Also, either the AI "cheats" or various opponents have access to utterly broken abilities that allow them to either ignore systems being knocked out by your ion weapons, or just recover/repair them significantly faster. Medbay also got a serious nerf, or is just weaker than I remember/needs more upgrades to actually do what it's supposed to.

Anon06/04/25, 12:28No.2058746

>new space marine 2 patch this month >new darktide class >new vermintide maps >new rogue trader dlc >new FTL game warhammer fans eatin good, I cant hold all of this fun

Anon06/04/25, 13:49No.2058797

Even if this is traced or AI slop, it ain't half bad

Anon06/04/25, 17:09No.2058983

Just cleared difficulty 5 with the relic ship that starts with three poison gas guns. I was really racking my head trying to figure out a way to win with such shitty guns but it turns out selling them and going all in on boarding and psychic powers was the way. Saved up all my dosh to buy that commander who's immune to suffocation, no demon will be safe from me now.

Anon06/04/25, 18:13No.2059032

Anon06/04/25, 21:35No.2059232

My few, quick takes so far >Art looks like touched up AIslop, but it does it's job at creating edgy atmosphere >Music is utterly forgettable and boring >There are a lot of cool QOLs like recalling all your crew from enemy ship, being able to see enemy weapons, being able to select a room where to install a system and other stuff like this. It feels like FTL with fixed random things that annoyed devs of this game while playing FTL >Crew no longer levels up, is cheaper and more replaceable >There are shitton of summons too >There are tons of unit types within few factions as opposed to FTL where you just had a handful of species >You can control a lot more units in general than in FTL where you only had 8 >All of this means that you are encouraged to send people/creatures to enemy ship and often fight to death, fittingly for a grimdark atmosphere >But there is actually a ship Captain, he is your main character and if he dies you lose the game. There are few classes and you select them separately from ship >Healing is harder than FTL, since medbay and various powers or tools like medpacks have charges you have to spend during particular fight and they won't recover within this fight. I really like this >Boarding is different from teleporting in FTL since you can only send your pod to the sides of an enemy ship and have to fight your way through. Imo it's better like this too >Missiles have a separate slot from ship weapons and work different with you loading a template >Units have equipment now like armor, weapons and tools >There are psionic powers too >I don't like how there is no fuel, and how traveling within the region is just moving forward, but at least you aren't chased anymore >I have not found any Xenos yet, it's only various Imperial and Chaos factions >Events are boring and too simplistic I think >On other hand writing is properly edgy and I like descriptions of various units, but story somehow is worse than in FTL and your goal feels random.

Anon06/04/25, 21:47No.2059239

I played the demo and it sold me on it. Make no mistake, this IS a shameless FTL clone and it doesn't even make a cursory attempt to hide it. That being said, it doesn't feel as 40k as people seem to be making it out to be although I haven't kept up with the warhammer lore since whatever the Dawn of War 2 era was. Fun game though overall

Anon06/04/25, 23:43No.2059322

Finished my first run, first impressions are pretty positive. The "normal" difficulty is much, much easier than FTL, but higher difficulties seem to be the way to progress the game and hopefully offer more of a challenge. I like that boarding is such an integral part of the game and the crew management is much better than FTL's. If you've played a ton of FTL, it really isn't anything new, but it plays differently enough to be interesting. Grimdark setting is also properly edgy.

Anon06/04/25, 23:59No.2059336

This sounds like easy money, GW should really look into this concept for a good W40K game. But again, GW is retarded

Anon06/05/25, 24:24No.2059342

The music sounds grim dark. The artwork is grim dark. How do you know it's AI generated? I can't tell. If it is, it's good stuff.

Anon06/05/25, 01:09No.2059360

current crew includes: >Witch (Commander) >Imperial Enforcer >Engineer >Berserker >Blood Witch >Necromancer

Anon06/05/25, 14:53No.2059656

>Have a super busted ship with a module that refreshes a weapon every time I fire a lance, with multiple lances and a big fuck off 7 shot flakk gun >Teleport my commander onto the bridge to guarantee the shield penning lance shots go through >Didn't notice the ship had 15 health, not 20 like the last one >immediately pop the ship with a single salvo >with my commander still on it >instantly lose >>Literally one fight from the final bossI already killed myself and I want to do it again for real.

Anon06/06/25, 09:13No.2060294

The crew combinations are really all the fun in this game. Just finished a run where I managed to get together a Chaos and Death Knight and a High Magister to teleport them to instantly btfo a large room of my choice. And for the 2nd stage boss bullshit I also had a blood psyker that can teleport all the freshly spawned thralls back to my ship for easy disposal without ever letting them fix the shields. Shame my infiltrator with the chaos star and assault armor did not survive, combination of suffocation immunity and increased system damage made him invaluable for wrecking demon ships. It's only fitting that he went down in one as I was a second too late to pull him out.

Anon06/06/25, 13:37No.2060454

>it's a mostly linear rush to the boss instead of a freeform adventure FUCKING SHITCUNT 60 GAYNIGGERS

Anon06/07/25, 24:24No.2060845

I like it. There seems to be a depth of builds that FTL cannot really replicate. I played multiple games where boarding was my focus and in each I did it completely differently. Also, unlike what people say it's normal and feasible to just ignore boarding. You might lose out on special loot from preserving the loot containers on enemy ships but it's fine for the most part. In fact vast majority of ships has no way to get your crew onto the other ship and buying the boarding pods or teleporting psychic powers/items is not guaranteed.

Anon06/07/25, 05:20No.2060962

speaking of boarding I sort of wish I could choose who I teleport back home individually instead of having to grab everyone at once

Anon06/07/25, 18:17No.2061299

>get a greater corpulent from a special event choice, give him the scythe that boosts damage for every kill and item that limits enemy dps to 2 >buy a gorgothian, give him heavy translocator and the heal on kill weapon >have an assault cyborg from starting as explorator b as backup I thought I'd seen the height of boarding with a team of four fully kitted notmarines of various colors but these two stinky fucks just rape entire crews with decent management, the cyborg spent more time on defense or sniping crates than contributing to fights with them they can chew through centurions and send them running like little bitches and at one point during the final fight the corpulent had at least 30 dps from guzzling thralls the crew stun system I picked up along the way was just adding insult to injury

Anon06/07/25, 21:53No.2061422

So I've found the Nurgle and Khorne stand ins but Khorne is split in two, is there a tzeentch and slaanesh? Also how do I unlock all the commanders? The first four are there and I have the first two but I'm not really interested in the mutant or mechanicus and dont want to waste the resonance, do i have to purchase these two to unlock the next page?

Anon06/08/25, 06:45No.2061619

What's the point of going through abstract wounds and increasing the game difficulty? Better scrap/equipment rewards and more resonance if you win?

Anon06/08/25, 11:20No.2061708

>rigged their inventory to explode Third time in a row, what am I doing wrong? I swear with my first playthrough I was clean sweeping these merchants.

Anon06/08/25, 16:09No.2061827

I can't count how many runs have been soft carried by the hull reaper

Anon06/08/25, 17:42No.2061875

I can't win with the ariokite ship for shit. I think that blood sorcery centered builds fall off in the late game much much harder than Death Cult's "just spam 6 gorillion skeletons and ghouls" shit.

Anon06/08/25, 19:09No.2061938

wonder if the last couple guys will get a C variant in the future

Anon06/09/25, 08:01No.2062352

I really dislike the Heavy Frigate A. It's clearly a boarding focused ship in every aspect but then for some reason it has no way to actually board anything and the main subsystem is laser artillery

Anon06/09/25, 14:53No.2062587

>teleport my commander to the control room to fight the pilot while the first weapon salvo hits >forget to teleport the commander back afterwards >ship explodes this happened to me like 5 times at this point, I wish there was a warning or something

Anon06/09/25, 19:34No.2062827

I ran out and bought this as soon as I realised it wasn't actually an official game. >buying games Devs need to eatThis is gonna get in trouble. I had seen it on the store page awhile back and thought "Wow they ripped off FTL too GW will give the rights to anyone for anything". Nah this has too much together with 40k. It has the clear Adeptus Astartes look on some characters, The same ships as Battle Fleet Gothic, I could make a list and GW probably will as they uck.The thing is though the game itself and the gameplay looks fine. It's the art being way too similar. the fact people will look at it and assume it's a GW licensed product is what will fuck this over. Not cheering on GW but there is no fucking way you could get a jury of people with no experience in 40K to not think Space marine with burning sword is not equal to Adeptus Astrates with flaming daemonsword are the same. Battlefleet Gothic ship in fleet and Gothic Space Ship aren't the same either. Having GM'ed Rouge Trader and played Battlefleet Gothic some of the ship parts ARE the same.The gameplay is FTL no way you're gonna convice someone that a bunch of Boxes are the same as a pewter model. Little sprites aren't distinguished enough to go Those 32 pixels are a Primaris Psyker! The images being straight outta the Dark Heresy book but a little different are a problem.Hopefully when GW goes after it we can still play it on Steam and it won't get locked and broke like some illegal games. If I were you I'd back up your copies outside of a steam folder. No way GW ain't coming after this when you can put a picture next to another and the common man can easily see it.

Anon06/09/25, 21:36No.2062924

>enjoyed the game >came to look for the general >almost left when my ctrl-f didn't return any results Way to trip yourself up Chang

Anon06/09/25, 21:40No.2062928

Does anyone else feel like the enemies have more evasion in this game than in base FTL? The burst laser was far and away the best weapon in that game and the void war equivalent feels really unreliable.

Anon06/10/25, 10:27No.2063374

Last boss on Torment 5 is fucking my shit up. The run goes more or less swimmingly until the boss, I hit the first phase change, and then it all goes to hell. Shields and weapons get damaged and I can't repair them until I deal with the invaders. Meanwhile I get bombarded by the boss weapons. If I do manage to stabilize, I hit the 2nd phase change and that kills me.It feels like I really need a boarding strategy that is able to wipe out all but 1 of the enemy crew. That way I can hit their systems and it wont be repaired for a while, and don't have to struggle against 40% evasion because no pilot.

Anon06/10/25, 11:12No.2063408

>mobile shovelware gets the IP license >this couldn't

Anon06/10/25, 20:30No.2064051

I wish the game actually explained why should we hurl ourselves into the not-Astronomican, what's it going to accomplish and why does everyone try to stop us from doing so. I'm not asking for a novel-length plot, but FTL provided a clear enough explanation of what's going on.

Anon06/11/25, 02:11No.2064477

>On torment 5 >Running the petraglyph, it's a scuffed as fuck ship but I've got a pretty nuts boarding crew so it hasn't mattered >Brain is on autopilot up until the point I realize I just jumped into the final fight without spending my scrap >Only have three weapons equipped. One lance, an ion and a single power single shot >My siege bombard isn't upgraded at all >Sitting on literally hundreds of scrap and most of my husks don't even have consumables equippedHad the fight of my fucking life here, Just BARELY clutched the dub because my boarding party was legit that OP. Three war cult units and a halberd that reduces DPS on kill meant that anything doing 6 or less dps actually did 0 so they could sit there and fight the entire enemy crew. That took care of the shields but it was basically an incredibly slow dps race between my single and first rank bombard shot and the enemies missiles.

Anon06/11/25, 07:38No.2064650

Torment VI clear, halfway there. Imp Scribe was the MVP. Fury Missile also put's in a lot of work when you save up munitions and have it auto fire on the boss weapons. Interestingly, if you trigger the demon heart early, when the boss gets the phase 3 reinforcements all the oxygen comes back.

Anon06/11/25, 08:06No.2064661

Does it actually do anything better than FTL or is it just a reskin? From screens looks like extremely modded FTL with bloat.

Anon06/11/25, 08:25No.2064670

They dropped the update roadmap for 2025, looks cool. Not sure about "dungeons" and "planetary assaults", but I'll have to see how they work before making any judgements.

Anon06/11/25, 21:41No.2065315

Fucking FINALLY.

Anon06/11/25, 22:12No.2065349

How is it a shameless ripoff when FTL came out 13 years ago and they wont make a sequel? The combat mechanic is tried and true and I was excited to see someone else's take on this "genre". It is more of a homage to ftl than a ripoff.

Anon06/12/25, 21:01No.2066077

Is it just me or are the B variants of ships significantly better than the A ones? Great example is the overseer. >A comes with a gun combo that will fire after a lot of early game enemy ships and a funny worm >B comes with a fully operational thrall pit + blood spear + thrall summon combo AND siege missiles which will be great in the late game

Anon06/13/25, 08:12No.2066361

>lost my captain to an enemy's Radium Blaster II So this is what it's like to be on the receiving side. I wish the weapons were a lot more visually identifiable. It's nice that you can mouse over and read them, but I don't want to have to do that for every ship.

Anon06/14/25, 18:17No.2067351

Reminder that non psionic imperial citizens is the only righteous crew option

Anon06/14/25, 18:50No.2067375

I really like this but I feel it's much easier than FTL. Anyone got the same impression?

Anon06/14/25, 20:19No.2067432

This is one spicy sector one

Anon06/14/25, 23:35No.2067552

May as well ask about Multiverse in this thread. What is the point of that beacon you can activate at the start? I activated it twice. Once I got some esoteric schizo oricle ship that I had no idea what it was for and other time I got raped by a horseshoe ship. Worst part of Vanilla FTL was trying to get the crystal cruiser and this shit seems ten times more esoteric. Granted I somehow stumbled across Lanius queen once, won by the skin of my ass and didn't even get a ship.

Anon06/15/25, 05:11No.2067686

Good: It's a really cool FTL WH40K conversion that slightly improves many things Bad: It's still FTLVerdict: FTL/5, would pirate again

Anon06/15/25, 11:28No.2067834

I'm just a newbie retard that found out about this game yesterday but had some fun in the demo. >start with the only option, the imperial ship with boarding pods and 2 clear boarders >by end of 2nd sector end up with 2 imperial sidearm modules (+2 dps for each module to the enforcers) and +10hp for imperials module >also find two +10hp armors and some polearms that give bonus dps in medium rooms >the two guys are basically terminators now, send them into 2-square rooms and they just melt anyone that comes to fight them >get a medbay so they're always top shape >also find a psyker with enemy crew stunning spell just in case they actually had any troubles fighting someone (like the death knights) >somehow never found more imperial enforcers, just built some husks in the free starports to operate stations >end up just boarding everyone to death with the two chad fuckers, including possessed ships, finding pressure suits helped >all my scrap spent on just upgrading shields and engines, who needs ship weapons anyway was fun but honestly too easy desu

Anon06/15/25, 14:10No.2067913

activating death shrine should give the captain immune to poison desu

Anon06/15/25, 15:22No.2067954

>the best 40k game to come out in a LONG time is not even 40k

Anon06/15/25, 20:25No.2068174

can you ever get anything from fighting traders (besides tiny amount of scrap) or do they always blow up all their cargo

Anon06/15/25, 21:08No.2068208

i refuse to play any commander but exile only 3 out of 9 a-class ships that come with a preinstalled boarding mod which means that playing with the other ships without exile will cause me to miss a few chests which is simply unacceptable >play ships with boarding modules no, i need to unlock the last a-class ship >play cyberdisabled no, exile is superior

Anon06/15/25, 23:01No.2068275

whats the point of unlocking all this shit if exile+imp.cruiser A can beat anything

Anon06/16/25, 02:59No.2068392

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Anon06/16/25, 16:11No.2068699

>be wight >in death cult ship >90% death cult crew >death shrine active >encounter planet of death cultist >they still ambush and bonk me dumb mortals

Anon06/16/25, 23:55No.2069066

Torment X is really stingy. Getting just 9 scrap from an encounter feels mean. Really need to plan what your build would have look like and can't afford to grab things that might be useful. What do I have to look forward to from torment 11 and 12?

Anon06/17/25, 01:51No.2069117

I really want to get two, but the correct move is the shield charger right?

Anon06/17/25, 14:20No.2069403

so we got nurgle cult and khorne split into 2 cults (blood and war). where is the blue bird and purple whore

Anon06/17/25, 18:34No.2069571

It's a reskin.

Anon06/17/25, 19:48No.2069630

I unlocked some other commanders but I keep just starting with exile having a decent combatant with innate teleport from the start is just too good desu. the only bad thing is missing out on 5 evasion because he is always out fighting niggers

Anon06/18/25, 17:21No.2070384

>find siege armor in first half of first sector (immune to suffocation) >few encounters later find assault drill (breach hull on kill) My Exile is now a one man wrecking crew

Anon06/18/25, 18:43No.2070449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSWlMJbkfmg

Anon06/18/25, 20:50No.2070579

>finish the game on torment 1 >see that torment 2 just increases the pain but doesn't give any bonuses to balance it out >just keep doing runs on torment 1 I have roughly a third of the ship roster unlocked at this point, sure hope I'm not missing out on any super secret bosses or enemies

Anon06/18/25, 20:57No.2070584

>heavy B starts with no shield >arrive at first system trader >sells shield booster but no shield how dare u

Anon06/19/25, 22:42No.2071631

doom engine is the easiest boss prove me wrong

Anon06/21/25, 12:07No.2073267

Youtube comments are mental.

Anon06/22/25, 07:24No.2074051

what are the higher torments like? I'm still getting the hang of 4

Anon06/22/25, 10:35No.2074129

>teleports in your command throne and kills your captain >refuses to elaborate >leaves

Anon06/22/25, 14:58No.2074260

Running into enemy ships with 4 shield bars and enough guns to fire 10 shots when you're only in sector 3 is pretty annoying.

Anon06/23/25, 02:35No.2074818

Is anyone familiar with the first battlefleet gothic game in here? Don't want to start an entire thread for just one question that ain't related to the gameplay.

Anon06/23/25, 04:06No.2074896

is this better than multiverse? if not then i see no reason to waste money on a glorified FTL mod.