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FTL: Faster Than Light Cheats For PC

  1. Easy way to level shield skill (Pre-Patch)

    To level the shield skill early, you must power off the shield's subsystem and power it back up during a battle with an enemy. You will gain exp every time the shields power on and you can achieve max shield level very early in the game doing this.

    Contributed by: Kiroshi117 

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  1. Ship Unlocks

    Unlock all ships in the hangar.

    Unlockable
    This ship is found by first acquiring the 'Damaged Stasis Pod' augmentation - as a reward for a random encounter found in Pirate Sectors, Engi Sectors Crystal Cruiser
    Get to sector 5 with the Kestral. Engi Cruiser
    In a Rebel Stronghold sector you may locate a "huge Rebel shipyard". Choose to look around, this will trigger combat with a difficult opponent. Defeat Federation Cruiser
    Unlock 4 ships, not including the starting Kestral. Lanius Cruiser
    Complete a quest involving a famous thief. This can be found in a Mantis Homeworld sector. You need to have a Mantis crew member as well as a teleport Mantis Cruiser
    Complete a quest that you can find in an Rock Homeworld sector. One node will involve a Rock ship insulting you. Respond with the option along the lin Rock Cruiser
    Complete a quest that you can find in an Slug Home Nebula sector. Requires level 2 sensors or a Slug crew member. Slug ships will often surrender and Slug Cruiser
    Complete a quest involving stolen blueprints, that you can find in an Engi Homeworld sector. You need to have an Engi crew member. One node will have Stealth Cruiser
    In a Zoltan Homeworld sector you may be approached by a ship claiming to be an unarmed peace envoy. Choose the Hear them out type option and you'll ge Zoltan Cruiser

    Contributed by: Ozone806 

  2. Alternate Layouts

    More layouts and colors for ships you already have.

    Unlockable
    Get two of the three achievements for any ship. Type B Layout
    Get to Sector 8 with type B of a ship with advanced edition content on. Type C Layout

    Contributed by: Ozone806 

Walkthroughs & FAQs

Type Name File Size
General FAQs FAQ by BSulpher 246K
In-Depth FAQs Ship System FAQ by FatRatKnight 94K