Do you use the Wiki?

[Aidan]

Just wondering who here browses the FTL wiki or uses some other community guides/resources (well i guess if you're browsing this forum the answer is yes).

Do you think this impacts your playing experience negatively? I usually visit the Wiki for whatever game I'm playing (if there is one) to give myself a better understanding of the games mechanics and strategies, but I think so much of FTL is about making mistakes and learning from your past experiences that I've decided to play blind from now on.

[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by Aidan:

Just wondering who here browses the FTL wiki or uses some other community guides/resources (well i guess if you're browsing this forum the answer is yes).

Yes. All the time. Usually for things like the stats tables and so on.

I had a no spoiler policy before I beat the game, but now I'm trying to optimize my game.

This is basically what I did with Nethack.

[Ray Robertson]

No, never use wikis even after playing a game for years and beating the crap out of it. It is difficult for me to say whether using a wiki would benefit me. My philosophy though is that you learn and remember better if you learn everything through your own experience. I will browse and be active on a game's forum once I think I know most everything I can learn through just playing, but still try to avoid reading a post that might spoil something for me.

From what I've seen I tend to be a better player than most people in the end.

[slappy_d0]

Sometimes for things like checking fire rates, etc. Not too much, I think I remember 90% of most outcomes at this point.

[Drain]

I used to use the Wiki sometimes when I first started playing. It is useful to learn how to unlock ships, rather than pray you blunder to the right sector and through the correct actions.

[Dr. McWeazel]

I use it occasionally, mostly to get a few values on loading times for weaponry, but occasionally for a reminder on what to do in an event if I forgot. I don't feel it's enhanced or taken away from my experience as a result of that.

[DarkTwinge]

I think a balanced approach is best on average - play the game for a while blind, explore the world and learn a lot of things through play, and then start looking things up to flesh out what you missed and what the game simply does not tell you anywhere.

It's a cool experience to discover thigns on your own, but it can also be very time consuming and frustrating, especially for things that are not at all clear in-game (such as exact event odds). If you want to be the best you can be, you definitely need to look at outside information from some sources.


Quick note that the wiki is occasionally inaccurate, so check the source files directly if possible.

[Sirius]

What Wiki?

Just kidding. Yeah, I have looked at it, but I don't use it.

[Ray Robertson]

Using code-dived or recorded event outcome probabilities feels too plastic and unpure to me(and unfun), thank you. I'd rather be a less than perfect player than turning a game into a chore.

[Jersee]

I occasionaly use wikis when I get more than 20 hour on a game, so I not only checked the FTL wikia, but other games like XCOM,TF2, even Borderlands..

[AlienRenders]

Yeah, Wiki is a must. Just looking up things like which events are unlock quest events, etc. I don't want to redo the ones I already did most of the time. Sometimes, I just want to look up weapon stats, etc.

[slappy_d0]

Correction, I've used the wiki 3 times in 6 jumps. I don't get to the crystal sector very often...

This is also one of the most innacurate/unrecorded areas of the wiki...