I really like FTL, but it's sort of absolutely god damn insane how unfair it is to the player at times. I'm not just talking about the notoriously ball-busting final boss either, just throughout the game you run into encounters that favor the enemy hugely for no reason. For example, we're both within range of eachother in an Ion storm, but only MY ship is affected so I'm at a huge disadvantage, have my weapons disabled for over half of the fight, and then they just jump away because I couldn't do anything about it. Or when we're both shooting eachother from within a weird nebula that just takes away half of my energy! Not their energy, no they actually have a boosted shield from it, 10/10.
I understand giving the enemies an advantage from a game design perspective, but it's so brutally unfair that it makes the player feel like there's nothing they can do to win, which is dumb.
I understand giving the enemies an advantage from a game design perspective, but it's so brutally unfair that it makes the player feel like there's nothing they can do to win, which is dumb.