The challenge
FTL: Faster Than Light is a single-player game about flying one ship across the galaxy, one jump at a time, with a small crew. Basket's series, "Faster Than Lunch," starts the game from scratch on Normal difficulty. The goal, as the video descriptions put it, is to beat the game with each ship design and get all the achievements.
A run is one attempt at the game, which ends when the ship is destroyed or the Rebel Flagship is beaten. Every run here has its own page, with all of its parts embedded in order. The series covers 62 runs across 10 ships and 25 ship layouts, in 205 videos uploaded between November 2014 and November 2016.
Three stretches
- Late 2014 (the Twitch era): Kestrel Cruiser A, Run 1, and the first two parts of Engi Cruiser A, Run 1, in parts of 10 to 23 minutes.
- April to October 2015: the bulk of the series, one part a day, almost without a break, from the rest of Engi Cruiser A, Run 1 through Stealth Cruiser B, Run 3. Parts run from 6 to 43 minutes.
- June to November 2016: nine lunch-time streams, each uploaded as a single video of about an hour, apart from the last one, which runs two and a half hours. These streams have no run numbers, so each page is named for the date of its stream.
The runs
Every run has its own write-up, with all of its parts embedded in order. All 62 are listed here by ship.
Kestrel Cruiser
- Kestrel Cruiser A, Run 1
- Kestrel Cruiser A, Run 2
- Kestrel Cruiser B, Run 1
- Kestrel Cruiser C, Run 1
- Kestrel Cruiser C, Run 2
- Kestrel Cruiser A, Run 3
Engi Cruiser
- Engi Cruiser A, Run 1
- Engi Cruiser A, Run 2
- Engi Cruiser B, Run 1
- Engi Cruiser B, Run 3
- Engi Cruiser B, Run 4
- Engi Cruiser A, Run 3
- Engi Cruiser B, Run 5
- Engi Cruiser A, Run 4
- Engi Cruiser B, Run 6
- Engi Cruiser C, Run 1
- Engi Cruiser B, Lunch Stream, November 15, 2016
Stealth Cruiser
- Stealth Cruiser A, Run 1
- Stealth Cruiser A, Run 2
- Stealth Cruiser A, Run 3
- Stealth Cruiser A, Run 4
- Stealth Cruiser A, Run 5
- Stealth Cruiser A, Run 6
- Stealth Cruiser B, Run 1
- Stealth Cruiser B, Run 2
- Stealth Cruiser B, Run 3
- Stealth Cruiser B, Lunch Stream, August 5, 2016
- Stealth Cruiser B, Lunch Stream, September 26, 2016
Zoltan Cruiser
- Zoltan Cruiser A, Run 1
- Zoltan Cruiser A, Run 2
- Zoltan Cruiser A, Run 3
- Zoltan Cruiser A, Run 4
- Zoltan Cruiser B, Run 1
- Zoltan Cruiser C, Run 1
Mantis Cruiser
Slug Cruiser
Lanius Cruiser
- Lanius Cruiser A, Run 1
- Lanius Cruiser A, Run 2
- Lanius Cruiser A, Run 3
- Lanius Cruiser A, Lunch Stream, August 2, 2016
Rock Cruiser
- Rock Cruiser A, Run 1
- Rock Cruiser A, Run 2
- Rock Cruiser A, Run 3
- Rock Cruiser A, Run 4
- Rock Cruiser A, Run 5
- Rock Cruiser A, Run 6
- Rock Cruiser B, Run 1
- Rock Cruiser C, Run 1
- Rock Cruiser C, Lunch Stream, June 21, 2016
- Rock Cruiser C, Lunch Stream, July 15, 2016
- Rock Cruiser C, Lunch Stream, July 18, 2016
Federation Cruiser
- Federation Cruiser A, Run 1
- Federation Cruiser A, Run 2
- Federation Cruiser B, Run 1
- Federation Cruiser C, Run 1
Crystal Cruiser
If you would rather watch straight through, every part is in the playlist on YouTube.