History VideoGame / FTLFasterThanLightMultiverse

* MinionMaster: [[spoiler:Wentworth Technicians]] cannot fight directly, and instead have an ability to summon a temporary drone to fight for them. [[spoiler:The Technician C]] relies on using this ability for boarding .

** The strongest special crewmember by far is [[spoiler:mounted Jerry, who moves very fast, keeps its high ranged damage and adds even more close combat damage, has an unparalleled 300 hitpoints, sabotages very quickly, heals constantly, takes only half damage from combat and [[TakingYouWithMe if he dies, he explodes and deals a]] OneHitKill [[TakingYouWithMe to everything in the room, system included]]. However, you only get to use him against the Flagship, and only if you have recruited both Jerry and a six-legged equinoid beforehand.]]

* LamePunReaction: In one event, you see a Rock ship that tells you a joke [[note]] Why can't you expect perfection from geologists? Because they all have their faults![[/note]]. One of the prompts that appear after? "End their pityful existence".

Has its own wiki [[https://ftlmultiverse.fandom.com/wiki/FTL:_Multiverse_Wiki accessible here]].

* CosmicHorrorStory: Downplayed with the Nexus storyline. [[spoiler:During your adventures, you may discover the existence of the "chaos gods" known as the One Who Rhymes and Her, trapped in a portion of the Nexus of the Multiverse who treat reality as a game to be broken, with Her desiring to become a full MultiversalConquerer. So long as you keep your [[KarmaMeter Nexus Notoriety]] down, all endings involve you defeating them, either by resealing them or [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu destroying them altogether]] in a TrueFinalBoss fight, but getting there involves going through some creepy things and discovering just how truly alien [[IntrepidMerchant Sylvan]] is, as a living dimensional anomaly influenced by the gods.]]

* AntiHumanAlliance: The Coalition, made up of Mantis, Rockmen, Leeches, and Slugs, is one of these, in response to the [[FantasticRacism human supremacist]] Rebellion and the weakness of the Federation.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Burst Missiles launchers shoot multiple missiles per shot, the Elite Chain Kernel shoots a kernel every two seconds once fully spun, and [[spoiler: the Carnage also launches 3 missiles at once that each do 2 damage.]] On the Minelauncher side, we have the Ra and its four mines per shot, the [[spoiler:Onslaught that sends 3 but that deal two damages and charges quickly, and the [[HardModePerks Chaotic]] Pharaoh that launches ''twelve'' mines at once.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:The One who Rhymes and Her are both [[EldritchAbomination powerful eldritch entities]]]]. Are they dangerous and tough foes? They sure are. Are they invincible? Absolutely not, and at the end of the [[spoiler: Chaos Ending for The One Who Rhymes and Nexus-Chaos Ending for both, they meet their ends from your guns]].

* OneManArmy: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the layout of Jerry's Cruiser, as it has an unique one-man teleporter, and gatling Jerry with a pony. You can combine them into [[InfinityPlusOneSword Mounted Jerry]], a LightningBruiser which can and will decimate entire ships by himself.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Due to AscendedExtra below, some characters come out as this. As such, Captain Nights, who in vanilla is an AffablyEvil Slug pirate captain who wants to [[WorthyOpponent test your worth]], here he is [[spoiler:a corrupt tyrant who seized the crown of the Slug Kleptocracy from Slocknog]].

** Furthermore, due to the CanonWelding with VideoGame/IntoTheBreach, it's confirmed that the Rusting Hulks were the team that destroyed the Vek Nest (in this timeline, at least).

*** "'''A Dubious Investment'''" is unlocked by paying a slug to crash your ship on a moon.

* AchillesHeel: Shells take twice as much damage from suffocation. While their abilities are active, Mantis Suzerains and Bishops take greatly increased suffocation and fire damage as well[.

* ArmorOfInvincibility: The Alt-Paladin cruiser is equipped with "Divine Armor Plus", which allows it to negate 100% of all hull damage: however, it is not immune to system damage, and cannot resist the hull damage of weapons that cause a breach.
* AscendedExtra: Tuco, the Giant Alien Spiders, the six-legged horses, Slocknog, Captain Nights, Kazaaakplethkilik, General Turzil, Ariadne and Ruwen have been given a more important role than just one-off events, and even [[spoiler:Admiral Tully]] may join your fight if you deliver a certain parcel to the Last Stand. The Crystalline people themselves also count, driven out from their isolated home sector; they no longer are an unusual sight.

** Sylvan's ship is equipped with no less than 4 BLII equivalents and 2 BLIII equivalents (6 Hektar lasers), which means that at worst he'll be firing no less than twenty-four laser bursts at you, or two and a half Flagship power surges!

* BoringButPractical: Some of the elite variants apply;
** Human Soldiers deal 20% more damage, receive 30% less from crew to crew combat, and are more resistant to fire and suffocation hazards. These characteristics allows them to stand their ground against a Mantis on a one to one fight.
** Rock Crusaders are even more bulky than their base counterpart, but still eliminate their opposition just as slowly as a human.

** Sylvan's ship is equipped with no less than 6 BLII equivalents (6 Uplifted Burst Lasers), which means that at worst he'll be firing no less than eighteen laser bursts at you, or two whole Flagship power surges!

* BossOnlyLevel: The Showdown is a sector that only exists to give you a breather before the fight with the TrueFinalBoss.

* TheMultiverse: [[CaptainObvious The main setting of the overhaul.]]

* CastFromHitPoints: Free Mantis Warlords, Crystals, Shells and Rockman Cultists all have an ability that consumes a portion of their health. The Shell inflicts system damage and hurts any other enemy crew present in the same room, the Shell Scientist heals all crew in the same room to full, the Shell Mechanic repairs the entire room, Crystals lock the room down, while the Free Mantis and Cultist gain damage and speed. [[spoiler: The Augmented have an ability cast from hull points instead (if you don't use the enemy ship's hull to cast it, that is), which heals them quickly and makes them stronger, but deal one hull damage and create a breach in the room they're in. The Anointed's ability is a stronger version of this, which deals two damage.]]

* JokeCharacter: The Crapbucket is a ship that can be purchased in one event for 500 scrap. It only has 8 points of hull, making it exceedingly fragile, it looks completely wrecked, and its two weapons are random, which can generate improbable or even unwinnable combinations. Occasionally it can become a LethalJokeCharacter (to a point) if the two weapons are [[GameBreaker game breakers]].

*** "'''Failed The Challenge'''", "'''Super Failed The Challenge'''" and"'''Ultra Failed The Challenge'''" are respectively unlocked by dying in [[spoiler:[[HarderThanHard Chaos Mode]]]], dying in [[spoiler:Chaos Mode while in the Obelisk sectors]] and dying in [[spoiler:Chaos Mode while in the Nexus]].

* AchievementMockery: Dying to [[HarmlessVillain Leah]] [[spoiler:outside of the Obelisk sector where she [[NotSoHarmlessVillain isn't so easy]]]] nets you an achievement.

* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Many of the most powerful technologies, such as the , are reliant on "Aether", a resource which can only be harvested from various precursor ruins.

** The Weapon Pre-Igniter isn't nerfed per se, but it can now only be found at the end of a quest given by Sylvan in the [[spoiler:Kleptocracy Capital]], hence making it a lot rarer. However , the Tuco A cruiser starts with one, and the Sylvan C cruiser starts with an upgraded variant.

** The New Order Cruiser has unique access to a maximum level of ''four'' for its Clone Bay , allowing it to clone its crew instantly: when combined with a level 4 teleporter, the ship can endlessly pump the enemy full of boarders.

** [[spoiler:Nexus-Chaos]][[note]][[spoiler:Classified as Nexus by the mod.]][[/note]] Endings: [[spoiler:Achieved by beating Sylvan Prime while in [[HarderThanHard Chaos Mode]], the Gnome teleports to Prime's ship and kills him. She thanks you for helping, Then, depending on your reputation]]:
*** High: [[spoiler: The C.E.L cannot help you. She is free to return to the Nexus destroy you and the C.E.L, and from there conquer the Multiverse]].
*** Low: [[spoiler: The C.E.L is able to help you, so She returns to the Realm of Madness to gather forces and rejoins with The One Who Rhymes. Once you reach the special Her beacon, you engage the Vision of Evil, an immensely powerful ship. The C.E.L disables Her ship's invincibility after two minutes of fighting, letting you destroy Her and The One Who Rhymes, freeing the Multiverse from Her menace forever. You will become your Cluster's ambassador end end its war... eventually. [[EarnYourHappyEnding For now you're enjoying a well-deserved vacation]]]].

* {{Nerf}}: This mod makes several of the stronger systems, such as Hacking, more expensive to upgrade, to balance around the higher and more frequent scrap rewards. Furthermore, the hacking drone is now destroyed if the system is unpowered mid-flight, invalidating the "hacking bypass". [[note]] In case the enemy has defense drones, launch the hacking drone, then just as the drones shoot at it, depower it to dodge, then power it again to make it reach the ship. Extremely useful against phase 2 of the Flagship.[[/note]] However, you can build an internal Defense Scrambler augment at empty beacons for a cost that's similar to a Weapon Pre-Igniter, coupled with 10 drone parts.

* TheUnintelligible: Morphs talk in a bizarre, unreadable dialect. OOJ MAJOO, however, seems to be able to communicate in some way, with splices of recordings.

** [[spoiler:[[HarderThanHard Chaos Mode]] is unlocked by defeating three Rhyme Cultists (who themselves only start spawning after you defeated a Siren ship, then beating [[EldritchAbomination The One Who Rhymes]]. It's activated at the start of a run]].

* UniqueItems: Later in the run, [[MiniBoss Multiverse Renegades]] may (or ''will'' if crew-killed) drop special weapons when defeated, which can only be found that way. They are typically upgraded versions of other weapons, such as the Obsidian Missile, a Breach Missile that deals double damage against systemless rooms, or the Nevermiss a special Laser that ignores shields entirely.

* FourStarBadass: Both the Leech general Alkram and [[spoiler:Admiral Tully himself]] can be recruited as unique crew, and both are quite capable. While not recruitable, [[spoiler:Admiral Vance himself is present on the MFK Flagship Ace,]] and proves to be quite the threat when he boards you.
** Due to the nature of Mantis culture, Mantis Suzerains and Bishops also qualify.

** The Great Eye [[spoiler:is described as being cubical with green lines, foreshadowing that it is of Obelisk design.]]
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: "She" will sometimes communicate to]] the player via error messages.

** Alongside the Chain Vulcan, it is possible to assemble a Gatling Laser in the Civilian Coreworlds. The Rift Waker that drops from [[BonusBoss Sylvan]] is an even stronger variant of it.

* JokeCharacter: The Crapbucket is a ship that can be purchased in one event for 500 scrap. It only has 8 points of hull, making it exceedingly fragile, it looks completely wrecked, and its two weapons are random, which can generate improbable or even unwinnable combinations. Occasionally it can become a LethalJokeCharacter (to a point) if the two weapons are GameBreakers.

* OminousVisualGlitch: [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination She]] causes the game to glitch out whenever [[spoiler:She uses Her powers. Her ship in particular, the Vision of Evil, appears to be distorted by glitchiness]].

* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Burst Missiles launchers shoot multiple missiles per shot, the Elite Chain Kernel shoots a kernel every two seconds once fully spun, and [[spoiler: the Carnage also launches 3 missiles at once that each do 2 damage.]] On the Minelauncher side, we have the Ra and its four mines per shot, the [[spoiler:Onslaught that sends 3 but that deal two damages and charges quickly, and the [[HardModePerks Chaotic]] Pharaoh that launches ''seven'' mines at once.]]

* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Burst Missiles launchers shoot multiple missiles per shot, the Elite Chain Kernel shoots a kernel every two seconds once fully spun, and [[spoiler: the Carnage also launches 3 missiles at once that each do 2 damage.]]

* ShopliftAndDie: You can attack Sylvan, the wandering trader Slug, but doing so is practically suicide as the ship has [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard 8 layers of shields]], a Super Shield, six weapons that are straight upgrades of the Burst Laser 2, and nearly the entirety of all ship systems.

* RunningGag: [[TakeThat Mine Launchers being]] [[VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLightCaptainsEdition disliked]]. The rock emporium manager complains nobody likes them, the civilian guard comments that they're not very liked if they give you one, Sylvan considers them to be "trash", and Fed B's description describes them as being liked by none other.