When you finally begin to progress to the final stages of FTL: Faster Than Light, an unexpected boarding kills half your crew members. To rearm your destroyed ship, FTL: Faster Than Light Advanced Edition adds new weapons, drones, augments, enemies and other content.
Some of the new additions detail as follows:
Mind Control System: Temporarily turn enemies into allies. Force a boarder to repair the damage they just did, or have the enemy pilot sabotage their own helm.
Hacking System: Lockdown and disrupt enemy systems. Unique effects for each system, ranging from forcing a teleporter remove boarders to making the medbay damage instead of heal.
New Sector and Events
New Weapons and Effects: Many new weapons that take advantage of new mechanics: overcharging to increase the number of volleys, stun effects to freeze crew, and area effect targeting, to name a few.
And more systems, drones, augments, enemy ships, enemy layouts, and hostile environments.
Alongside the FTL: AE release, an iPad version makes its way onto the App Store.
FLT: AE is scheduled to release as free download on PC in early 2014. An iPad version launches simultaneously.