Manits cruise accession / enable bug

[DX_Blaster]

Hi FTL Team

1st, I want to congratulate you. You made a very great game, I like it very much, bought it last year some time after the initial release (missed out on the KS campaign). I had 100+ hours of fun with it and still play the game form time to time. I also like the fact that you allow and support modding.

I think I found a bug in v1.54:

I had not managed in v1.03.3 now to successfully solve the quest to enable the Mantis cruiser,
but the ship is enabled by default on v1.54 for me.

Also the new Lanis cruiser was enabled by default when I started v.1.5.4 the 1st time (game toled me I got an achievement [Your own fleet], maybe that’s the default behavior, but I doubt that).
-> Edit I guess that achievement [Your own fleet] is the trigger for the Lanis cruiser, so its not bugged but a consequence of the bug that enables the mantis ship for me.

I have installed FTL Advanced parallel to the old version (different directory) so I can see what’s deferent. I still have no access to the Mantis ship in the v1.3x version of the game.
As FTL and the Advanced version use different profile data files that’s easy to proof / to simulate this behavior. (I just deleted the advanced profile, again the imported profile unlocked the mantis and Lanis cruiser for me).

If you want I can send you any extra file you need to track down the bug. (right now I only attached the prof.sav file)

I want to be able to solve the original or different way to enable the mantis cruise (maybe lanis cruiser too) as mentioned in the change log for v1.5.4, so hopefully this bug get fix in the next patch release.

with best regards
DX_Blaster

P.S. sorry for my bad English, it's not my native tongue.

[Matthew]

There is an alternate unlock system in FTL: Advanced Edition. If you beat the game with the 'previous' ship, then you get the next one in the Ship List. Perhaps that's why you have the Mantis Cruiser unlocked now?

[DX_Blaster]

Hi Matthew,
thank you for your quick answer.

I don't know how the mechanic behind the new unlock system works, but it seems possible as I have unlocked all ship models, but the mantis cruiser with FTL v1.3.x. So, I guess I have to play the old version until I manage to unlock the mantis ship or start a new career by deleting the old profile because I want to track down this legendary pirate myself .

I also have two questions:
1st: Is this alternate unlock system somewhere described in detail? Because the change log just tells there is one, but no great detail how it works.
2nd: Am I right that that Lanis cruiser is unlocked when the achievement "Your own fleet" is triggered/unlocked?

wbr DX_Blaster

[Matthew]

Answer:

1. Click on LIST in the Hangar to see the full ship list with explanations of all unlocks.

2. Lanius Cruiser is unlocked if you have 4 ships unlocked in addition to the Kestrel.