1776a2 No.14848606
Space emperor edition.
What are ya playin'?
What are ya flyin'?
Who are ya purgin'?
Also public service announcement, Galactic Civilizations 2 complete edition is free on steam till tomorrow.
1776a2 No.14848646
Aight, now that we got a new space thread i might as well start it off poorly and talk about the updates on stellaris current build.
So, i mentioned earlier that they scrapped the old percentage determined anomalies and instead gave them text saying "normal, hard, very hard" and so on and so forth.
Well, as it appears they also made sure that you can no longer fail these, all the hardness matters with is the speed at which your scientist goes through that anomaly.
Also they changed how tomb world tiles looked like and they also added this weird thing.
As far as i can tell, all this giant tube does is float around in space, move from planet to planet, hover over the said planet for several years while boosting research on said planet, after which it just moves to another planet and does the same thing all over again.
Also before noticing the tube i found a thing called bunker bot as well as a planet that had been eaten up by grey goo.
Also after fumbling around for a while i discovered the secrets of the L-gates.
They are just regular star gates but they take you to a location outside the galaxy, which ended up being first kinds spooky but ultimately i discovered it to be a pretty booring, yet lucrative location.
What made it spooky at first was the fact that there were multiple broken and shattered planets along with planets eaten up by grey goo all over that extra-galactic sector.
No habitable planets, but what i foudn there was stuff called grey crystals, grey actuators and so on and so forth, strategic resources which increase production on different fields as well as increasing your ships defences and offensive capabilities while stacking with regular resources.
More to come…
6ce175 No.14848648
1776a2 No.14848661
>>14848646
I also found a strange machine in this new stellar region and like Cronk, i pulled the lever, thus increasing my researchers experience level and getting some research points on that rock.
Gonna check through my pics after this post to see if there was anything else new or cool in them.
1776a2 No.14848679
>>14848661
And that's about it.
All in all i would rate this DLC as 2/10 It's ok but not worth the money.
Like, the L-gate thing basically requires you to find one of those gates, then gain intrigue about it via either research or through random events and researching anomalies, it's basically the ancient alien empire chain all over again, but a single digit longer and without any info on the builders of the gate or what happened behind it.
0637df No.14848692
I just started playing Pandora: First Contact. So far it seems like a really shitty version of Alpha Centauri, but I wanted to play a 4x game and I've already played pretty much everything else. Are there any good obscure 4x games that I probably haven't played yet?
573ffa No.14848696
>>14848646
>2 pic
Is this Xenon Terraformer?
1776a2 No.14848708
>>14848692
Not really a 4X but have you tried Chapter master?
>>14848696
Nope, it's just a flying free service library that offers your planetside nerds some saucy new science mags from an ancient alien civilization that forgot to add its initials to the thing.
Either that or it's some sorta extra dimensional fuckery.
Pic related was ultimately nothing, i went to research the next system as this screens continuation commanded me to and only found out that my instruments were on the fritz.
b0f025 No.14849464
>>14848646
>they scrapped the old percentage determined anomalies and instead gave them text saying "normal, hard, very hard"
> it appears they also made sure that you can no longer fail these
b2a552 No.14851663
>>14848679
Seems kinda 'meh' for the price, though at least we get some classic sci-fi references in the encounters (the big, mysterious cylinder ship is likely a reference to "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke).
307a92 No.14851780
>>14849464
this is done because most players, logically, waited until they have level 5 (or better) scientists and only then they researched those anomalies
8eb202 No.14851832
>>14851780
I think recently they added a 5% minimum failure chance, but apparently that wasn't enough.
744871 No.14853108
>Galactic Civilizations 2 complete edition
9N6H0-QV6T2-BGYB7
I already own it, so have fun.
1776a2 No.14853307
Welp, it's confirmed now, you can't build dyson spheres or ring worlds in binary or trinary star systems.
a54980 No.14859682
The Brick now has some miniguns and cannons strapped on. Resource harvesting for bigger weapons ongoing. Interior cannons added to keep wildlife out. Turns out the warp fuel tank (which borders the cloning and medical tubes) and gravity generator (which is literally touching the hydroponics area) emit radiation as well. I need some serious refitting. Loving the red glow on exterior surfaces from the interior lighting, even though it's technically bugging through the ship hull.
2a548f No.14860896
>>14853307
I have discovered that you can death star the shit out of orbital habitats.
Also i discovered that the colossus casus belli is kinda shit, because when ever you capture a system and/or a planet they get transfered to the invader immediately, without need ot end the war.
Why is this bad? Because after the war, the random systems without planets that were under enemy command got turnedinto no mans territory and it was annyoing as fuck to go through some territories i had conquered in the year stick and stone and some of them i hadn't even originally explored because ayy lmay species number 4589 had already taken that system by the time my explorers got that far.
Also some pics of space battles by the time they were over.
a54980 No.14860915
>>14860896
>death star the shit out of orbital habitats.
Do you mean turning orbital habitats into an unbreakable battlestation, or destroying them with a superweapon?
2a548f No.14860935
>>14860915
The latter.
Although my planet killer is glitching through it while doing it.
a54980 No.14866999
>>14866771
Hurry up Alex, you lazy fuck!
2c160f No.14870848
Ok guys, i just have to tell you how my current stellaris game is going because it has been so god damned ridiculous and fun
So i started off this game as a space Rome, decadent and enslaving and decided not to give a damn who i enslave, human or alien, all were welcome within my empire as long as they could work the fields or mines or entertain the patricians by bashing each others brains out in the arena.
Early on i discovered that the galaxy was essentially a fucking medieval fantasy setting in space, i discovered a nation of fanaticalpurifier orcs (who later found god and became pretty good bros for several hundred years), Elves as void born raiders and finally dwarves as a fallen empire.
Every other alien race was the average freaky alien or intelligent bird, although one of the more comical (and tragic) ones were my next door neighbors (who are now part of the empire), a race of five headed hydras that were solitary, aka they wanted to live alone and would have less happiness the more of them there was, must have been a miserable life to live with five heads when all each of them wants is some privacy.
So after the initial conquests and expansion i started researching sciences at a rate that soon left the fallen empires within dirt and after conquering the dwarves, i got their secret dark matter tech, which basically menas i got better shields and power cores than anybody else.
After all of that i got into building mega structures, creating the via appia, aka the star gate network which would lead to and from Terra to the farthest reaches of space and am even now building it further towards perfection.
Of course the galaxy just couldn't stay all nice and divided for long and very early on a federation was born, a federation that pretty much ate up all the nations on the other side of the galaxy, leaving a bunch of stragglers on the other side of the galaxy against them.
Until the fucking hydras joined them.
It was after that that the federation got on top of my list of things to destroy, so now i have been at war with them multiple timesthrough out the past couple of centuries, each time taking pieces of them with me, but unfortunately they have also grown, the fucking orcs decided to go and join their side after having been in a defensive alliance with me for centuries and then one of the chucklefuck empires within the federation bombed several of the rare as fuck lost empire factories into atoms on one of my planets.
In return i went and destroyed all of his habitable planets, space stations and this one ring world he had with my colossus/deathstar.
2c160f No.14870878
>>14870848
Random pics for interest.
The current status of the galaxy is as follows.
There are three federations at this time, the oldest one being the Grand League (the fucks i have been at war with multiple times), the not so cool kids club, aka Condign Compact and finally the cool kids club, aka Golden Compact, population space rome and some other random empire that are a bunch of slaving despots that nobody else likes.
The dwarves are completely under my rule as well as the hydras, the elves got destroyed by the orcs and that one empire who i was pretty certain i had murdered is still somehow hanging about, either they became voidborn or the game bugged (which is supported by the fact that in diplomacy screen their homeworld looks like a desert planet but its name box is blank and when clicked to see their homeworld, the camera goes nowhere).
Also one of those silly xenos empires thought that A.I and robots were cool and so they accidentally caused their own rise of the machines with the machines deciding to assimilate everyone they come in contact with, nice going ayy lmaos, you got what you deserved.
2c160f No.14870936
>>14870878
I forgot to mention, after the last war one of the orc colonies i captured decided to rebel and rejoin the Orc empire before i could get my troops there.
I am perfectly cool with their decision and respect their independence, but it just so happens that we are yet again at war with their home nation and their planet was just found to be housing a threat to the entire galaxy as well as some deep core located high quality minerals so we just had to go and planetcrack their planet.
The locals respectfully decided to not leave their homes despite our imperial legislators before hand warning shipped to them via regular mail, estimated arrival time of this warning is within the next couple of centuries, but that is still no excuse to ignore our declaration of their planets destruction.
dc150f No.14876151
Anyone played Battlestar Deadlock? DLC dropped for it and I picked up the Codex version to see what it's like.
ff8b7f No.14876203
>Space thread
>some autists turns it into his personal blog
>ID+ Filtered for sanity
658bb4 No.14876229
>>14870848
How is Stellaris overall? I see it go on sale plenty of times but I haven't picked it up yet, are any of the dlc's a must have or are they all shit?
b0afdc No.14876399
>>14876229
Tries to be universal and versatile, ends up doing nothing particularly well. They tried to cover every "trope" if you'll pardon the word with the result that race/empire generation is incredibly generic, bland, and lacking in variety or depth. You can neither create any cool out-there shit like silicon life or asteroid-hopping vacuum dwellers nor is the game really focused enough to have a distinct character/flavour. It's just this weird in-between.
The political system has also gotten worse over time. Collectivism vs Individualism was a great dynamic and you could shape it in a variety of ways paired with other ethics, but then they replaced it with Authoritarianism vs Egalitarianism where Authoritarianism is just being a slaver empire and Egalitarianism is being a progressive democracy. Nuance gone, interesting pairing with other ethics gone, cool government forms like a Neural Network Administration that uses "deep mind" type software to determine their government's actions - gone.
The pace of the gameplay is shitty, the scientific tree is sorely limited, the combat is still imbalanced and dull. Empire management is tedious and sectors are poorly implemented.
Like everything Paradox makes these days, you can see the potential but it's unrealized and will never be realized.
a984ba No.14876415
>>14859682
tell me more. I might wanna pirate and try this game
dc150f No.14876482
I'm so use to scrolling mouse wheel to get the bigger map in SINS and it's weird I have to click a button in Stellaris, wish I could just scroll out.
3e0302 No.14876578
>>14876415
Empyrion: Galatic Survival
Very good, I recommend it.
P.S. - be careful when exploring old ruins. Especially abandoned reactors. IT turns into Alien
263b48 No.14876622
>>14866771
Hopefully soon, I want to start the Luddic genocide.
a984ba No.14876760
>>14876578
Thank you anon.
b219d9 No.14876865
>>14876229
DLC's are following.
>Anniversary portraits
Free and it has within it nothing but some new portraits for race archetypes.
>Plantoids species pack
Adds plantoid species along with their ship models and space station models and some different portraits, nothing too incredible here.
>Humanoids species pack
Moves humans and few other human looking ayys from Mammalian tree to Humanoid tree, gives them new ship and station designs and adds several new portraits, including space elves, klingons, orcs and dwarfs.
>Leviathans story pack
Adds new shit you can encounter in space, like ethereal drakes, gigantic crystalline entities, specters, enigmatic fortresses and enigmatic dreadnought (which used to be the only dreadnought level ship yoru fleets could get till 2.0).
>Synthetic dawn story pack
Added a new end game disaster that could happen, gives synth pops a chance to rebel if they are poorly treated, gives you option to play as robots since start.
>Utopia
Allows you to build stuff like dyson spheres, ring worlds and some other mega structures which until now could either only be gained by nicking them from a fallen empire or by being lucky and finding one. Also adds ascencion perks, which would allow you to either go the way of the eldar or the way of the necron, or you could go gene path and unlock space marines
>Apocalypse
Adds two new ship types, the colossus and the titan, with the former being a death star and the latter being a dreadnought you can build yourself. Also this one adds the raider races which are a bunch of void born pirates/mercenaries/space mongols.
>Distant stars story pack
Added L-gates which once fully researched lead to a new sector outside the galaxy, full of planets with neat materials on them, no habitable planets though at least on my game.
Added more stuff you can find in the galaxy while exploring, such as the enigmatic tube that just hovers over your planet and gives you some research boost.
Are any of these worth it?
Well the story packs at least add something new to discover while playing, Utopia and Apocalypse add also new content that is worth while.
The species packs and the portrait are pretty useless, since you can just go and mod the game and add better looking ships that way, but then again, you could also get planet killers through mods earlier on along with Titans, so you could skip the apocalypse and just use mods instead.
dc150f No.14876906
>>14876865
>Found another alien species, owl type creatures, very tech focused.
>Only 3 stars over from my home world.
>Surveys have found a number of interesting things, including pulsating stars.
I'm putting together 2 strike groups to deal with this. They die first, not me.
b219d9 No.14876911
>>14876906
Do that, also build some invasion armies on your home planet.
dc150f No.14877902
>>14876911
Hey, you can actually change ship designs when creating them. Got some simple missile frigates now.
And I found this thing orbiting a black hole. Guess I can't just push it in. I'm gonna need more than missile frigites
ea711c No.14878011
>>14877902
Do the event chain of the orb, you can alwyas kill it afterwards.
b219d9 No.14878290
dc150f No.14878306
>>14878011
With sectors, is it best to let the AI micro stuff or should I keep doing that?
b219d9 No.14878357
>>14878306
You can pretty much just leave it all in AIs hands.
Just remember to put the resource squeeze to maximum so you can get the most out of the sector.
Also if there are any uninhabited planets within said sector, have it auto-colonize.
ea711c No.14878372
>>14878306
Check "Respect tile resources" and the other option that prevents the AI from scrapping your buildings, control development every other decade or so and rectify nonsense.
>>14878357
Wouldn't do that, sectors have their own resource stockpiles in addition to your global stockpile, so leave them on half. That way you can fast-drain them for resources after a megastructure or mayor fleet build.
de6993 No.14878684
Is it just me or does every space game focus on the boring aspects of space i.e. the empty void and the barren planets? I feel like I spend too much time traveling between planets just to find out wow it's fucking nothing. Any good games to recommend that focus on life on a space ship/station with some semblance of depth for internal affairs? I thought Space Station 13 did it good, and even though it was a railroad horror game, I like how Alien: Isolation managed to capture what a day in the life of a station citizen would feel like.
dc150f No.14878722
>>14878684
Space Colony is like sims, I kinda like it. Startopia is set on a space station and is pretty groovy.
4f5cb2 No.14881981
>>14849464
Failing at anomalies wasn't fun and it could break the chain for precursor events.
Let's be honest, a lot of what we like about Stellaris is the narrative you get as you discover various anomalies and make decisions. Completely shutting you out of that wasn't a great idea to start with. Now, randomized results based on decisions would probably be a good idea.
4f5cb2 No.14881986
>>14876865
>mods
You could, but frankly I don't mind giving Paradox my money. They always support games way beyond what other devs would do and provide fixes we actually want.
That said, there are some great mods out there.
925ef3 No.14882019
>>14881981
That tells me that the game is generally boring. That same kind of thing can happen with quite a few 4x games. You don't necessarily need events or event chains to create a "narrative" that interests the player, and relying on that means that the game doesn't have the mechanics to really drive itself forward.
4f5cb2 No.14882146
>>14882019
If that's what it tells you, you need to re calibrate your understanding.
5aa733 No.14882177
>>14866999
It's awful that such a good game had to be created by a perpetually drunk perfectionist Russian with a sloppy schedule. At least he makes the good shit.
>>14876229
Best game for 3 first playthroughs, cookie clicker afterwards.
0f4a20 No.14882212
>>14882177
This pretty much describes my feelings towards stellaris.
Also there's like only three ways of playing your empire.
Either you go imperial (like i did in the playthrough i posted about) and conquer everyone, fanatic purifier, where you go and kill everyone or you make a federation maker and just build the biggest group of friends in the galaxy.
Now sure you can spice it up a bit with some random changes, like you could go as not-necrons instead of fanatical purifiers but it's basically the same but with lots of more clanking.
5aa733 No.14882584
>>14876865
>>14881986
>giving money to Paradox
>ever
Those fucking hacks don't deserve any money, especially not for literal mod content DLCs for their mediocre and unfinished games.
330def No.14882613
>>14882598
HOLY SHIT! Sean is still there. I thought he took the money and ran.
5f7692 No.14882619
>>14882613
That's what Chris Roberts wanted you to think.
4add67 No.14882806
>>14882598
>finally admitting it was launched unfinished
e4592e No.14882825
>>14882598
Is it good now?
0bd0b9 No.14882873
>>14882825
maybe wait till the multiplayer patch comes in july
5f7692 No.14882962
>>14882825
It's been good since the last patch.
0f4a20 No.14883167
In case anyone wants to know what combat is like in Stellaris, it's pretty much this.
https://youtu.be/VhoK5tcX2RQ?t=10m32s
34e882 No.14883937
>>14882873
Huh, this looks surprisingly good, how much have they added?
744871 No.14884090
>>14883167
that's pretty accurate
5f7692 No.14884191
>>14883937
Too much to list tbh, both major and minor stuff. And I don't know what exactly will be in the coming Next update.
0f4a20 No.14884518
IMPERIAL NAVY SOONesque FELLOW ADMIRALS!
a984ba No.14884779
>>14884518
I hope my new laptop is strong enough to play it
c55881 No.14887637
>>14882962
Is it actually worth a pirate?
5f7692 No.14888260
>>14887637
It most certainly is.
5cfc7a No.14888441
Prepare your buttholes, the Hur'q are coming.
In 4 days.
b0f025 No.14888504
>>14884518
It's gonna be a hilarious shitshow on release
a54980 No.14888982
>>14887637
Tried pirating it, and it actually is. Play on normal difficulty, survival difficulty multiplies grinding by a factor of 20. On survival, the fuel tank has to be completely replenished every time you take off. So you just carry way more fuel right? But that doesn't work with the same limited inventory, so you get fucked. These issues do not exist on normal difficulty, which is actually enjoyable. I did like the 12km long hike to my spaceship at the start on hard mode, taking cover from the acid rain in the natural caves of the world, and generally getting to know the land and wildlife
>>14887679
>Overkill
I don't see 30 Punic Supercarriers in those pictures, anon.
9fed60 No.14889206
>>14882598
Noob question but how do I combine fleets in Stellaris. I'm trying to put this dreadnought I picked up into a fleet but I split it instead into 3 other fleets.
9fed60 No.14889222
>>14889206
Top left corner, the put the button away in a small place.
1ce9ce No.14889256
>>14882598
>>14882613
Well he got off to a rocky launch but its good to see he's sticking through and trying to make good on broken promises, even though the hype and crowds are long gone. Despite the memes I'd rather see these people succeed than fail, its when they fail and pretend otherwise that deserves scorn.
>>14870848
>>14870878
>>14870936
>>14877902
>>14887679
>>14889206
>>14881981
>>14876229
>>14889222
I can't forgive them for how they ditched the two other types of FTL instead of putting out the effort to balance them. You could always choose hyperlane-only matches in the past, removing the other FTL types is all downside, fuck your "muh tactical movement" it basically turns space into a 2d plane with geography just like if you were on a planet's surface. Gravity well weapons were enough to break FTL stalemates with warp and jump drives. I guess if you want to change how borders work you gotta break everything else to go with it, huh? And they still can't figure out what to do with warscore. I like what the new DLCs introduce but I can't bring myself to patch-up to play with them and a broken underlying game.
3750cc No.14889403
>>14889256
To be fair, there are the naturally occurring worm holes and some ancient star gates (which you can build yourself later in game after researching the tech for it), but yeah, removing two out of three FTL styles was not cool.
a54980 No.14890431
Starsector 0.9a patch notes are out (just patch notes, not the update itself).
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=13445.0
69b76f No.14890614
>>14889256
To be honest Stellaris feels to me like a playground for Paradox to try out new ideas. Like the tile system and how to make an AI to handle it, or how IIRC smaller fleets now get a bonus against bigger fleets to give small empires a fighting chance. Simplyfing FTL makes me think they just gave up trying to make multiple movement systems work, similar to how they couldn't make sector AI not retarded so they just let players manage every planet anyway.
c7555d No.14891319
>>14890431
I though this day would never come.
a984ba No.14891367
>>14890431
Still no word about boarding parties.
78db97 No.14891371
>>14884518
Neat I expected it around November-December.
a55e16 No.14891564
>>14848646
>>14870848
I want to try Stellaris but I couldn't find a pirated Linux version.
070d8e No.14891583
5f7692 No.14891657
>>14891583
It's not worth converting into a webm and I'm not supporting reddit's asianemasculinity community.
070d8e No.14891693
>>14891657
>what is hooktube?
come on, anon.
5f7692 No.14891697
>>14891693
I mentioned it in the second part of my post, anon.
070d8e No.14892109
>>14891697
>lazy faggot that cant make webms in current year plus 3
>huurr duurr hooktube is da leddit!
>i will just use jewtube instead!
>>>/out/
a54980 No.14892185
lol
They're still my favourite so far
0637df No.14892258
>beaked merchants
>they're smelly and destroy civilizations
Is NMS /ourgame/?
a54980 No.14892339
>>14892258
I mean, your character seems to know that "based gek!" is a common lie.
4dc5f2 No.14892680
Me and my friend will rule the galaxy togeth…
a54980 No.14893239
>>14892339
The SpaceJew is now trying to inject multiculturalism into the base by inviting the more warlike Vy'Keen in.
The basebuilding is actually pretty enjoyable, and I like getting to know the characters that show up. It also puts an end to the awful lack of inventory space in the beginning of the game, and everything seems useful so far.
Whoever was in charge of the cave systems in NMS deserves a medal. They're gorgeous.
781ed1 No.14893402
>>14879582
＞If you have nothing to hide why lock your door or wear clothes
93e329 No.14893416
>>14892680
Is this from the stage show?
5f7692 No.14894779
>>14893239
The caves are pretty great. I was exploring this rainy hazardous fungal planet and went into one for cover and spent like half an hour in it. The dynamic sound system really enhanced the experience, with the rain and moisture making these echoing dripping sounds.
ff03ea No.14895098
So had my first major war with an empire towards the galactic core. He managed to bleed 2 fleets but my battlships were hardy enough for him. I've conquered his home world and several other systems but I'm guessing I need to conquer all before he surrenders.
Also there's a spiritualist empire north west of it allied with a bird civ, they're getting close to forming a fed and eastwards is blocked by 3 different empires.
I'm gonna conquer this guy, settle the systems my science vessels have been scouting while I've been busy, rebuild my fleet and expand east for awhile.
4b7278 No.14895129
>>14893239
>Shilling no man's sky
You dont fool me mate
5f7692 No.14895992
>>14895129
Honestly it's the game I've dreamt about playing since I was a kid. I don't have any neat pics since I've been playing it on the PS4 pro but even if it's not a perfect game there's just something satisfying about playing it. Landing your ship on an entirely new planet just in time for the sunrise is great. You can build a comfy house on a tropical world and hear the rain gently tap against the glass of your windows during rainfall.
There's also an incredible sense of freedom when you can just jump into your ship and take off whenever you want to. And when exploring a toxic hellhole it can get pretty tense on the way back to it.
NMS is easily an 8/10 game.
34a2be No.14896173
>>14895992
Makes sense if your childhood consisted of playing with rocks and nothing else.
24d310 No.14896676
Expansion goes good. Cleaned up an empire I didn't fully conquer in the galactic core and I've got a bit of space left to expand out.Found the secret to the L-Gates with the help of the Curators and I'm getting networks of gates and some mega structures out. Few problems though, 3 fallen empires within about 10 jumps of each other to the northwest, luckily Covenant is in between them and me.Mandate is Fedding up with the Synergetics and Co-Operative. That power block while not as power in tech or ships as I am, could attack me in different points, making conquering them difficult. Next targets for me is Compact as they should be an easy target if I claim right and the UN is only a few more jumps away from there, perfect change to liberate the homeworld for my Empire.
324784 No.14896762
>>14896173
> if your childhood consisted of playing with rocks and nothing else.
b0f025 No.14896772
>>14896676
Is corvette spam still the best fleet tactic?
5aa733 No.14896780
>>14896772
Why would it stop being the best one? Paradox is terrible at balancing.
5f7692 No.14896790
>>14896173
I know that millennials are too young to have experienced science fiction while it was still good but come on.
I just landed on a an arid planet with great flat plains of rocky sand. During the nights the surface freezes to dangerously low temperatures and there's frost. I've stumbled upon an alien who I somehow got to exchange my peashooter with an top of the line experimental rifle. I'm pretty sure he killed someone to get his hands on it.
Playing a high fidelity game where you can jump into a spaceship and set down on any planet you like and have adventures there has been a pipedream since forever. It's rather an odd sensation to finally be able to play such a game.
a54980 No.14896794
>>14895129
They've pretty blatantly ripped a lot of ideas for their updates from subnautica. The Rovers are seamoths (with weapons and mining gear) and the basebuilding is pretty much identical, with the addition of staff who offer missions. The space combat is really fucking basic, and I wish they'd expanded upon it more. There was clearly some infrastructure for fighting large ships (ie: you can shoot off specific turrets), but the game never does anything with it. Overall I quite like it, but it could have been so much better if the space portion were handled with more care.
24d310 No.14896802
>>14896772
I've got a back bone of battleships myself with enough corvettes to be fodder for any fleet.
1776a2 No.14896808
>>14896802
I for one just spam battleships with Titans acting as fleet flagships.
781ed1 No.14896820
>>14896794
does anyone know if the upcoming multiplayer update will include significant non-multiplayer content? I'm considering pirating it to give it another shot, which obviously means I won't get anything out of MP anyway. So really the question is is it worth waiting.
a54980 No.14896903
>>14896820
I have no idea, but if Hello Games wants to sell the new release of their game, adding flashy space battles would be the thing to do it. I couldn't care less about multiplayer. I would advise waiting for the update before pirating just in case it does add lots of content, because NMS isn't the kind of game you want to delete all progress and start over in.
a127f2 No.14896947
5aa733 No.14896957
>>14896947
I guess "this year" does count as soon.
a127f2 No.14896972
>>14896957
This year? More like after Bannerlord
a54980 No.14897076
>>14891367
>boarding parties.
Possible? I hate how vague Alex is. It's like he gets off on teasing us.
232e9d No.14897079
Big update for Empyrion incoming.
24d310 No.14897107
>>14896676
>In the space of a month
>UN goes Fed, making 3 empires in it.
>They open their borders for some reason, so my ships go through their territory. They then close them again, meaning one main strike group, a science vessel and about a dozen reinforcement ships are MIA currently.
>Covenant goes Fed.
At this rate, the Saiiban league are gonna go fed and I'm basically penned in by this federation. Is this how Reinhardt felt wanting to expand the empires borders?
9233d7 No.14897175
>>14897076
More likely that Marines will be used as colony security and for raids against decivilised planets.
13395a No.14897282
>>14896808
Did they fix the bullshit of not being able to purge some of your alien slaves and robots so that you always end up with way too fucking many and you either have to completely remove xeno or go on a butlerian jihad or just deal with having way too fucking many pops that you don't need?
1776a2 No.14897366
>>14897282
Yeah, you can now purge either one pop or the whole species.
Either it was the whole species or it was just the whole planet.
Yeah, im pretty sure it was just the whole planet, if you want to purge the whole species you gotta go to said species' rights and set them as undesirables.
13395a No.14897373
>>14897366
Oh man I didn't actually expect them to fix that retarded change I might have to actually start playing this again.
24d310 No.14897615
It was gonna happen eventually. Took Earth but war exhaustion isn't low enough to force surrender, so moved onto another empire. Turns out they know the secret of the L gates as well and now I need to build citadels around black holes. I'm confident I'll come out on top. Found 5 of 6 events for a precursors but haven't found the last one yet.
1776a2 No.14897665
>>14897615
Wish i could send my fleets to help you on your galactic conquest.
But unfortunately we are still far away from dimensional warp gates.
24d310 No.14897707
>>14897665
Good news is I won, bad news is they warped out with at least 50% of their fleet. They're doing hit and run attacks with the L gates as well.
1776a2 No.14897743
>>14897707
Only thing you can do is to fortify your L-gates or conquer theirs.
24d310 No.14898055
>>14897743
I unlocked VI armor after slaying that space dragon so I put that on all my ships, my main line battle ships and titans were still running level 1 armor and shields. I swear I changed the design to level 5 when available Anyway, conquered 2 empires, fed is in retreat and I've got admin stuff to do like dividing sectors, looking after the core worlds and retrofitting ships. Making good progress however.
1776a2 No.14898081
>>14898055
Sounds great.
Try picking a fight with a fallen empire if you can, taking down some ships of theirs should be enough to get you some of their tech which is definitely worth losing a war and several fleets for.
Im talking about tier VI power generators and shields here.
633360 No.14902076
>>14896790
>>14896794
Did they fix the FoV?
a984ba No.14906845
I wish the Imperials had an anthem
a54980 No.14908026
>>14902076
It goes to 100. Don't know if you'd call that 'fixed.'
5a642a No.14908331
>>14896903
I'd assume they'll make you start a fresh game for multiplayer mode anyway.
e9bd7b No.14908787
>>14848606
>Galactic Civilizations 2 complete edition
Is it any good?
baea83 No.14908915
>>14878684
Redshirt
>>14878722
Tammy did nothing wrong.
e9bd7b No.14908941
>>14878684
There was a space game where you played with an AI and spoke to it to advance, dont remember its name sadly, want to replay it.
ff03ea No.14909105
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
>>14897743
God I hate Tami. Only good at cleaning and wanting to socialize all the damn time.
ff03ea No.14909113
>>14898081
Got the dark matter stuff. I actually got Dominion victory but I haven't had any of the late game stuff yet so I'm gonna wait for awhile and conquer the rest of the galaxy.
bd0f77 No.14911616
>>14898081
So I got lucky enough to get Chosen One on my faction leader but now a cult is springing up around her, do I go 40k an worship her as a God or do what the Emperor wants and keep believing she's human.
069bff No.14911839
>>14891319
It hasn't come yet.
61ae8c No.14911962
I'm guessing the AI assumes i know what i'm doing because i'm the strongest member of our federation by a long shot, as they all decided to follow me into the first real strike against the contingency. It's so weird having the galaxy be super friendly with each other and work for the good of everyone. It usually turns into a 40k tier hate fest leaving everyone except me too weak to defend it against the end game crisis. It goes without saying this shit tanked my FPS but went surprisingly well, finally got a chance to throw my fidget spinner at something too.
I admit this game has flaws but something about it just scratches the right itch for me.
d0d907 No.14913280
>>14911616
She is now god empress of mankind.
d0d907 No.14913295
>>14911962
I just can't decide which one looks better.
The clusterfuck style space battle where loads of stuff is happening, or the fleet moving towards another fleet and unloading with high powered beam cannons from far away?
92190d No.14915937
>>14853108
good taste my nigger. Finding 3 to finally be worth it after all the DLC came out. 2 is still the gold standard.
92190d No.14915961
>>14878684
I too am in search of space games with attention to the inside of ships. Plenty of space games and they are all glued to cockpit or some kinda RTS/TBS. Some games come close but overall fall short of total delivery or the goal was not quit that. So far all games that explicitly wished to do this are either failed or so far off that who knows if it will work out.
92190d No.14915980
>>14896790
that would be real fucking neato if the game didn't feel like an empty sandbox with a dead universe.
5f7692 No.14923392
>>14915980
It doesn't though. If anything the universe is too busy.
4395d2 No.14925087
>>14923392
Well I downloaded this about a week ago and played it for a bit and I can 100% say youre full of shit. It was enjoyable for the first 10 hours or so but once you get going and the means the base the resources the ship, then in just feels like an empty sand box with a lot of randomly occurring scripted events. There isnt anything special on planets, as they all have the same special things (monoliths, outposts ect.) and lack interesting rare ideas like large bases, spaceports, cities. Combat on foot is pretty boring with sentinels being your only real enemy with slight variety. Space battles felt lack luster, attacking large ships didn't do much and most of the time the other ships wouldn't agro onto me after I attacked one of the others. The land vehicles lack a good feeling and fighting in them feels terrible. Overall the game is ok, it comes real close to hitting some real good parts but misses by a centimeter and makes it feel wrong. Feels like wasted potential. Maybe I'll see how it is when their NEXT update comes out it might be more entertaining then. Also that they are asking for 60USD is just far too much.
ace7b1 No.14925160
31a7be No.14926603
3eaf9a No.14975020
Any good Star Wars Space Sim game/Mod out there?
a54980 No.14975158
>>14975020
There's the X-Wing series (I've only played X-Wing Alliance with the XWA Upgrade mod). Kind of like freespace, but arguably more sim-like. I haven't even finished it yet (it was really good, but I got caught up in work and forgot), so I can't speak to any mods for it, but it had a level editor so there has to be something.
3eaf9a No.14975200
>>14975158
Huh, guess i'll try it out later if I have the time, I was hoping there'd be one where you can be a Empire pilot.
a984ba No.14975239
>>14975200
TieFighter is more your speed you loyalist you
3eaf9a No.14975267
>>14975239
I love being an expendable ball of die.
a984ba No.14975374
>>14975267
That's only for the rookies, Wait until you become a bright and make the terrorists wet themselves in fear of the Empires might
43c6f5 No.14975457
>>14975374
THIS
hahahahah how the fuck are shields real hahahaha nigga just dodge hahahaha just fly away
b5f252 No.14975574
When is there going to be a game that does for space games what black flag did for pirate games
I just want to fly big ass ships but also be a dude on the ship
Closest we've got is angels fall first, and we all know how that turned out
5688c9 No.14978535
>>14975574
The Mandate :^)
2f57ea No.14980788
>>14975574
Angel's Fall first?
4fb7f8 No.14981025
>>14980788
Imagine Battlefield 2142 with spacecraft ad capital ship boarding.
38e5a4 No.14983008
>>14882177
>Miami no longer exists
And nothing of value was lost
e79974 No.14984817
Battlestar Galatica deadlock review:
The new ships in the DLC are fun, it also adds more missions into the campaign. The Berserk seems better than the Adamant, better guns, better fighters, but worse armor and no missiles, overall more useful than the adamant later in the game. The new battlestar class is cool, better than the Artemis battlestar and you get it well before the Jupiter class comes out. I'm too retarded to understand how to properly use Janus missile ships compared to the Rangers, the faster reload on the Rangers makes them easier to use for me.
It's fun, but repetitive, the combat is great and that's all the game has. Not true 3d space. Thanks to the dude who brought it up awhile ago.
e57484 No.14984870
>>14984817
Oh, that'd probably be me. I saw it got new DLC and was wondering whether it was worth it.
a54980 No.14984920
New Starsector DevBlog (if anybody cares).
http://fractalsoftworks.com/2018/06/12/pirate-bases-raids-and-objectives/
-Pirate bases will crop up on their own
-Pirates will organize and launch large raids on inhabited systems
-Sensor Arrays, Nav Buoys, etc. are now campaign-level objectives that can be destroyed or hijacked for in-system bonuses. Domain versions are better, but makeshift ones can be constructed. Ideal targets to before attacking an enemy station/planet; they also draw defense patrols to investigate.
e79974 No.14985375
>>14984870
It was worth it for me. I pirated it to try, then got greedy for more ships and enemies and bought it. It was on sale last week. Knowing when to turn on the battlestar flak seems to be a large part of determining if you win or lose. I recently started using the sweeper squadron chaff to stop missiles and it worked well.
ad0fd5 No.14985467
>>14876760
They just released Alpha 8 today, so make sure you get that. Added random solar systems, much bigger planets, and a ton of other shit.
a54980 No.14985553
>>14985467
War has changed.
d98418 No.14990557
What's the current word on Space Engineers? Are planets still an unoptimized and unplayable mess?
4fb7f8 No.14990615
>>14990557
No updates since March. Devs largely abandoned it in favor of working on SE2, despite SE still being early access. Play Empyrion instead, they just made the planets huge.
a9dcd4 No.14990632
>>14984920
Nice dont give a shit. Tell me when this game will be released oh and kenshi too.
b5f252 No.14994615
>>14994543
>We live in a timeline where a seth macfarlane star trek parody is a better star trek show than the actual airing star trek series
3e0302 No.14994907
>>14985467
IT's out?????
There goes my weekend…..
3e0302 No.14994913
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Here's some Empyrion Alpha 8 gameplay
d91e92 No.14995595
>>14994615
>>14994543
what fresh hell is this
71947d No.14995632
>>14994543
It's pretty close to Star Trek but even more pozzed than even ENT and VOY.
71947d No.14995655
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>>14994543
>>14994543
>>14994615
>>14995632
Also just remembered this. Someone should make a webm.
d0b7f8 No.14998067
>>14995632
ENT was alright at the end. The right amount of HFY.
65fd09 No.15002028
98a210 No.15003561
>>14995655
I was going to until you explicitly asked. Now you can lurk and learn how to do it yourself, summerfag.
Fucking Hooktube generating complacency everywhere. People can't even use the download button on that site because "muh muh embed and I don't know how to block it and find the original source."
71947d No.15003617
>>15003561
>me not wanting to do it means I can't do it
>being this arrogant
b3239a No.15011174
Voxel-based spacegames, there's three that are on my radar:
Starmade. Largest potential, most interesting mechanics, also unplayable in single player, boring and dead. Fun only comes about when playing with a friend, and even then it's a long, long build up for no real reason because you'll never get into meaningful combat. Haven't played the power update yet though so for all I know it's even deeper in the shitter.
Empyrion. Comparatively much smaller-scale ships, not very in-depth mechanics, buggy as fuck, but still slightly better than Space Engineers. Playable in single-player, although there's no real challenge to speak of. Once you get a SV of any size and EVA module game's effectively over. Don't like how they went about the implementation of FPS elements, I really don't like the npcs, but block damage modeling is garbage so I don't know which would be worse.
Space Engineers. Unholy, buggy boring unfun mess of shit everything. Piping and atmos concept is neat but buggy as shit and simple. Horribly optimized.
Why does a good game of this genre not exist? Why? The idea itself is pretty basic. It's clearly tackleable by indie teams. Goddamn I just want to make actual capital ships with actual systems and actual reasons to do so.
c6e638 No.15013239
>>15011174
>Comparatively much smaller-scale ships, not very in-depth mechanics
EH?
Wut you talking about?
5e777e No.15013657
>>14975574
Star traders frontiers? Might not be what you're looking for but it has a good mix of comfy and autism.
b3239a No.15013770
>>15013239
How about you elaborate on why you disagree, cuckchan?
b0f025 No.15014387
>>14980788
indie battlefield with space levels that includes capital ship boarding
pirate it and take it for a spin, even against bots it's pretty fun
>>14978506
>went back to try out some of the wing commander games
>no where near as good as the X Wing series despite being released around the same time
has Roberts always been a bamboozler?
10f77f No.15023768
Got me this one recently.
It's alright, has a ton of different play styles for the civs that i can see going over most peoples heads.
4fb7f8 No.15029470
Is Starpoint Gemini Warlords any good?
71947d No.15029577
>>15029470
If it's anything like SG2, it is.
a0cc65 No.15038152
Anyone got any updates on the station map being made for a new SS13 server here on 8/v/? Last thread that died had a mention of it with what looked like decent progress but there hasn't been a new thread since.
e98a07 No.15039243
So Elite Dangerous is reduced by 50% right now, is the game and the horizons expansion worth £20?
71947d No.15039253
>>15039243
Sure, if you can invest your time in a barebones game.
026ebe No.15039275
>>15023768
what game is this?
71947d No.15039325
>>15039275
Endless Space 2.
e98a07 No.15039356
>>15039253
Should I get it off steam or the frontier website? Is there any difference other than Steam doesnt get a cut of the sale?
71947d No.15039377
>>15039356
You don't have to launch the steam client. The game is always online anyway but it would still be one layer less of drm. Other than that, there's not difference.
3a1882 No.15039483
Is Endless Space 2 good and worth getting?
04294d No.15039575
>>15013770
>immediately bring up insults
Way to prove your retardation.
I'm saying you're wrong.
Empyrion is easily the best game of that type currently available.
9b4b34 No.15041901
Recent game called StarCrawlers got an update, it plays like Grimrock but in space.
646908 No.15044336
9f986f No.15044342
>>15044336
Steam has it as an early access game.
d9a8b3 No.15044351
>>15039483
No because old games exist
>>15044336
get fucked you dumb faggot, come back when it gets released
646908 No.15044354
>>15044351
I'm playing right now and it's pretty good.
aa3e91 No.15044415
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>>15041901
Last I played it on release it had a terrible case of roguelite syndrome.
Alright music though.
f05e99 No.15045168
>>15044415
What do you mean? The overall end goal of the game is very unlikely to be achieved on your first "run" and you need to rely on deaths and points between lives to increase that likelihood?
aa3e91 No.15045239
Are the SPAZ games any good?
>>15045168
Gets old real fast with like at most ten hand crafted rooms+two corridors being recycled every mission.
a54980 No.15049854
>>15045239
First SPAZ is good. It feels a little on the casual side at times, but it holds steady for the most part. Very relaxing, and becoming a mass-murdering space barbarian is actually a viable option.
Can't speak to the second as I haven't played it. It looked nothing like the first one.
bd0f77 No.15049915
GoG released Fallen Haven, seems an old game and is a turn based strategy sci-fi from the description. Anyone play it?
f94918 No.15052680
Are there any good space games/4x with turn based combat like Master of Orion 2?
889f7f No.15055998
>>15052680
A game called Ancient Frontier just got some DLC, can probably pirate it somewhere. Dunno how good it is.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/521790/Ancient_Frontier/
b3239a No.15056010
>>15039575
It must literally be painful to have an IQ as low as yours. Let me put it more slowly for you. Tell me why you think Empyrion is good. Tell me why you think its mechanics or size of ships are even comparable to Starmade's. The answer is that they're blatantly not, and you must not even know what Starmade fucking is to make that assertion. Either make an argument or go back to where you came from.
365944 No.15056031
>>15049915
Just watched some gameplay of this, it looks like this is what Red Alert 2 was based off.
ea9b29 No.15056158
Has anyone played Planet Nomads? How does it compare to space engineers?
8635f9 No.15066107
What was the name of the game that has grillions of windows and is about resource management in space (maybe our solar system) or similar? It has very basic graphics, I think. Looks old.
a984ba No.15066152
8f694a No.15066252
>>15044351
which old games? i am looking for something that plays like distant worlds, it would be a turndown if it's just about conquering the galaxy since racial objetives are much better, like having the highest trade income if you are playing as space jews
8635f9 No.15066378
>>15066152
That's it, thanks. I'm trying to follow a tutorial but I can't make new ships, the "New Class" dropdown in "Manage Shipyards" is empty.
b8d6b9 No.15066435
>>15044336
>igg
anon, STOP!
8635f9 No.15066473
>>15066378
Nevermind, I had to retool it first.
b8d6b9 No.15066562
>>14995655
>omeone should make a webm.
71947d No.15068057
>>15066562
That's great, anon. Thanks for doing what I didn't bother to do.
744871 No.15068091
>>15066435
what's wrong with igg?
besides the fact they shove their logos in to indie titles
3bcb22 No.15068118
>>15068091
something something bitcoin miners
169f28 No.15068149
has anyone played starship corporation? i heard it's nice but also COMPLETLY BUGED AS FUCK! was it fixed?
also is HELLDIVER a good twin stick shooter on pc? even if you play alonebecause no friends
>>14888504
why is that?
1ce9ce No.15068653
>>15068091
Some of their releases supposedly come with bitcoin miners/viruses/banners. I don't dispute that its happened to some people but I and probably you as well can attest that not everything you get off of IGG is comped. Thing is, you can't tell until you've already downloaded it.
54e1bf No.15068728
>>15068149
Helldivers is "okay" solo, you can stealth everything up till borg tanks which have perfect vision and instant alerts; it's definitely not designed to be played that way. I wouldn't call it a traditional twin stick shooter either, you'll get a lot further and do a lot better if you play tactically and stealthily rather than running and gunning.
All of the funsies stuff only really happens when you're both with people and everything goes to shit but considering how serious it gets and how seriously you'll have to take it to get past the later levels I just found the harder difficulties frustrating even with friends.
Overall I would not recommend for solo, if you have someone to play with (preferably 3 other people) then I got 100 hours out of it for like a tenner or so.
169f28 No.15070265
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>>15068728
ow.. ok, i do not like playing with random online because i like to play it at my pace. even at 60% off my friend do not tend to buy game if they do not forsee them playing verry much.
Is there anygame worthwile then?
Stellar tactics look so good but there is no sales and is early access…
other than that, even if it's not really a space game i would recommend X-morph defense, it's always nice to play the bad guy
744871 No.15070825
>>15068653
>you can't tell until you've already downloaded it
sadly true
but yeah, those ads/banners are horrible
52e143 No.15072128
>>15014387
>has Roberts always been a bamboozler?
I'm afraid so.
a127f2 No.15072591
>>15049854
The second tried to be M&B in space combined with a ship building simulator. The problem is that it's very easy to build an optimal ship and that they fucked with the research system to make it more boring. The end result is that you build the same ship every time and research the same path every time which makes for boring gameplay.
9aaf74 No.15072952
>>15068728
Except the game gets easy when your main weapon is the laser rifle and you airdrop at the start of the match one of those multi use rocket launchers for yourself.
>>15070265
I would definitely recommend you to try it out, playing with randoms isn't too bad and when ever you take over a planet you get the bonus that planet was offering, be it a deployable minefield, air support, a mech or a nuke launched from outside the map at your position.
All of these things make it more easily soloable.
The best tactics i know of are the ones that require either vitality booster (faster running speed) or the jetpack for improved movability on the map.
Couple those with some high damage explosives and you are less like movie starship troopers and more like the anime starship troopers, minus the power armor.
a747e4 No.15073284
Are there any Xenoarchaeology games? Like flying around the universe, tracking down clues to locate alien ruins on dead planets, and then looting the ruins Indiana Jones style? To date, all I've found were Lucasarts' The Dig and Infocom's Planetfall, but both of those are only partial matches.
169f28 No.15074718
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>>15072952
> recommend you to try helldiver
alright, i bought it just for the theme.
I also bought nex machina (the only title made by Housemarque super stardust and dead nation to be released on pc)
but i guess that's Out of topic since we aren't speaking about space anymore
8635f9 No.15077151
>>15066152
>>15066378
>start scanning
>get "Error in ShowMinerals: Error 13 - Type mismatch" at start of every single turn
Fuck. It doesn't seem to do anything other than waste time having to press OK, though. It seemed to be working so well in WINE, too.
Guess I'll research to see if I can fix it.
3e0302 No.15078446
Have a simple and comfy small Explorer vessel:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1261170146&searchtext=thunderhawk
Plenty of guns, space and speed. Cheap. Still a SV.
f849cd No.15078479
>>15073284
there's one that I saw video of months ago where you had to send remote controlled machines down to a radioactive planet & pick up clues, upgrades etc. It was some sort of horror thing, looked like a good concept just can't remember the name.
196102 No.15078499
>>15078479
>Arse
Okay I hate to get Autistic but why the fuck do Brits say arse instead of ass. I can't envision a single erotic thing about it beyond a hairy fat anglo smoking or an ugly misshapen woman begging you to fuck her in the ass with her smoking while saying it.
b8ba3b No.15078506
>>15078499
British English is what most of the commonwealth use, so Aus, Canada, NZ that kinda think.
US English tends to be the one taught overseas. That being said, I still like british way of saying Al-U-Mini-Um.instead of Al-Loo-Mi-Nim.
f849cd No.15078509
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>>15078479
Found it, it's called Scavenger SV-4
>>15078499
An Ass is a type of donkey
196102 No.15078513
>>15078506
Not my point, arse sounds gross, it's the word not the dialect. I guarantee you if a girl says "Fuck me in the arse" instead of "Fuck me in the ass" 9/10 times it'll be an ugly British woman with a muffin top, and dyed red hair.
It's absolutely disgusting.
f849cd No.15078520
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"I hate to get autistic" -> is permanently a sperg
I forgot this guy was a retard tbh
best just to ignore him
This is a good thread to ask for a little tech support actually, I got SMAC from GOG recently and can't get it to run on win7 64bit even though it's supposedly patched up to do so - with compatibility settings I can get the initial Firaxis logo to appear before it crashes, smh
f849cd No.15078531
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Some Scavenger SV-4 footage from the developer
ada80c No.15081677
>>15056010
Stop projecing.
I played Starmade together with the rest of the /v/fag brigade. It was a good run and i was a good game - building ship is decent, making your own turrets is great. The generator and some other mechanics were MEH.
Empyrion has actual exploration, NPC's, working planets and survival.
You can make big ships in Empyrion too, tough I can't tell you size limits. There are tricks to go over the standard CV size.
a984ba No.15081772
>>15081491
10/10 anon, most impressive
edf34e No.15083657
>>15081491
WIsh I could play this game on my toaster
12a516 No.15083678
>>15083657
What game is it? It looks almost like space engineers but it isn't
edf34e No.15083683
>>15083678
I'd say Empyrion
12a516 No.15083701
>>15083683
What's the deal with it? I've heard a couple things about it but do you know how it compares to say space engineers? Is it just more of the same? I guess you say you can't run it so you probably don't know
c1fe24 No.15083826
>>15068728
I played it solo at launch and remember initially having trouble with the tanks, but then finding a way to deal with em, though its been so long that I don't exactly remember what it was. Some things I do remember is that you can see them on your radar as a bigger dot than others, dropping in at the edge of your screen is just a bug in how the game renders things, you can crawl past them fairly easily, and if you blow them up then another will just spawn in again. I think what I did was repeatedly alert them and run away, or lure them with some other means, to get them away from objectives I needed to complete. The only thing I couldn't solo was the arena missions.
If you like Helldivers, I would highly suggest picking up Earth Defense Force 4.1, or 5 when it releases soon, and playing as Air Raider.
>>15070265
This guy knows his shit. X-Morph Defense is a great little tower defense shooter with an amazing engine. It is almost a shame they used it for that when it would make for a great RTS engine.
Anyone here played Astroneer? I would not suggest it as it is pretty buggy and crashes a ton for me. That said, I am still enjoying it when it works for being a pretty comfy and relaxed little exploration game. I don't usually like games like it, but something about it just works for me.
edf34e No.15083898
>>15083701
It looks bretty nice if unfinished from what I've seen
b2a552 No.15084679
>>15083701
It's Space Engineers minus the welding, much of its mechanical function modeling (no equivalent of conveyors, inventory just goes where it needs or has to be moved manually), and some fleshing out of space mechanics, but plus actual gameplay like quests, neutral interactive NPCs, more than two types of ship weapons and more than one infantry weapon in vanilla, actual varied settlements and abandoned bases, and most importantly actual competent devs still working on the game. The only big downside is it doesn't really have a true creative mode, only a toggleable creative inventory with infinite jetpack time and a really limited build helper window for mirroring, etc., but we'll probably see a proper creative mode down the line. I'd recommend it just for the actual planetside gameplay, the actual active playerbase and devs, the really good scripted faction servers, and the fact the game has a motorcycle that you can ride around on to move about the map fast, but also place and retrieve like any inventory item.
ada80c No.15084730
>>15083701
It's lighter than Space Engineers on the mechanical aspects, but has a LOT better planetary exploration and comes with a lot of different blocks so you can build really nice ships.
Behold my (small) hovertank!
fb6285 No.15087559
Reminder that there will never be a Freespace 3
689775 No.15088123
7f80c3 No.15089809
>>15087559
Right in the feels!
5672eb No.15090606
>>15087559
Looks like C&C5 concept art :^)
17f17c No.15091283
>playing endless sky
>see this
54e1bf No.15091895
>>15083826
The problem I had with the tanks solo was that they'd just drop onto an objective and I'd have to run away and come back later, iirc they take two shots from the 2 man rocket launcher and they'll just respawn anyway. It made doing the missions boring, slow and frustrating because the game would just spawn them on top of me. At least with a team you can turn dying into a last stand or comeback, solo it's GG. I got 100 hours in with just one other guy, it's good for that but I'd not rec it solo, you can do it begrudgingly but it's just not designed for that in any way.
b45b06 No.15094721
its almost summertime, cant wait to play some space vidya
>>15078446
they are still developing that? impressive, also funny how we haven't heard of any new space survival stories, there was a cool one thats yet to be released though not too long ago where players were dropped in a spacecraft graveyard and had to survive by scavenging those ships
a984ba No.15097607
>>15094721
The only good thing so far to come from the new LoGH are the ship aesthetics
1a1a0b No.15097724
>>15072128
Come one now, at least post something uplifting about Star Cult simulator. You wouldn't want their fellowship to just come here and fuck your board now, would you?
a984ba No.15098036
That reminds me, Does anyone have a working download for Empyrion? I want to try it and buy it if I like it
a127f2 No.15098097
Just tried SOTS 2. The game has potential but is ruined by it's buggy nature and is incomplete in many ways.
Damned shame too, the first game was a masterpiece.
1a1a0b No.15099451
>>15098066
>"Gameplay" didn't even make it to the screen
d93f57 No.15100441
>>15098097
Didn't the devs say they lost the three quarters finished codebase for the game and had to start from scratch and PDX made them release the game nonfunctional?
a127f2 No.15102505
>>15100441
They say that, but I suspect that it's not true considering how their zombie game turned out. Their behavior on their forums doesn't help.
925ef3 No.15102843
>>15102505
They also said some other shit that made me suspicious. It did have some neat ideas, but when your AI, despite cheating, still manages to bankrupt itself, you need to rethink some things. At least it did, they fixed that. It is especially odd when the first game is easy to pick up, but SotS2 seems like a deviation from that. I don't think it is the most complex 4x I've played, but it has some obtuse game mechanics that make playing it a lot more tedious than it needs to be.
After all the other studios blaming their bullshit on publishers, and not owning up to it, I'm not falling for it. There are scummy/crappy publishers, but most of the studios that have used that excuse for other failings, like the game being incomplete or buggy, have turned out to be shitty later on.
4395d2 No.15102915
>>15097607
I think that is the worst part of it. They ruined the perfection of the old one and made it look like PSO or something.
a127f2 No.15102923
>>15102843
Were you there when they started going full socjus in the forums?
Remember when they stickied a post defending Hamburger Hepler and calling anyone who criticises her a misogynist?
3e0302 No.15102987
>>15094721
>>15097607
I disagree.
They look more like fighters than large warships.
What's with the massive windows everywhere and weird engines?
a54980 No.15103261
>>15094721
>>15097607
The ships remind me more of pixies/enchanted fantasy creatures and luxury yachts than actual warships. Crap design. Also, where the fuck are the fleet formations? The ships are just randomly pasted in everywhere.
Also >>15102987 is correct. Hulls with oversized engine clusters more commonly signify either fighter craft or alien technology. These ships look like the fucking Vipers from BSG.
53c7db No.15103302
>>15103261
Plebs cannot appreciate the charm of warships in space or formations.
a54980 No.15103316
>>15103302
>Exterminatus.jpg
Fucking saved! I can never find enough sweet sweet orbital bombardment pics.
087a8d No.15103336
>>14893416
No it's from the OVA.
a54980 No.15103355
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>>15103336
Liar!
What does OVA mean?
17f17c No.15103467
>>15103355
>What does OVA mean?
5eefcd No.15103609
>>15103574
>wearing hats indoors
bddeb1 No.15103839
>>15103355
Origami Violently Assplodes
fc3a24 No.15103911
THREE GREAT ARMIES IN RUIN.
THE ORDOS CONTROL ARRAKIS. THE SPICE. THE UNIVERSE.
FINISH IT!
THAT. IS. THE MISSION.
you're all fucking plebians for not mentioning Dune this far into the thread
61da3f No.15104170
>>15103911
Although I do like Dune, lace selecting not present in the first one notwithstanding, technically not a space game.
c70fa3 No.15104266
>>15103911
>tfw we will never get a good dune movie
5f7692 No.15112902
>>15104266
Lynch's Dune was great though.
5f7692 No.15112996
>>15104170
Does Emperor of the Fading Suns qualify as a space game?
3e0302 No.15113370
>>15102505
Their zombie game was a pet side-project they cobbled together in theri free time. Making things for it was basically their stress ball.
I'm surprised how good the game was (tough optimization was shit)
925ef3 No.15113403
>>15102923
I didn't go onto their forums, but I remember hearing about it. I was terribly disappointed that anyone could defend someone who said they are working on a medium they don't like, for a creative job, in an interview. Especially when they are not actually that good at writing. Thinking back, I remember hearing that they tried to make all the parts of the game separately and then combine them and expect them to work perfectly together.
684c4a No.15113960
>>15103609
Well in 1925 you could put your hat on a hanger but in 2018 it would just get nigged by a nigger.
e598bc No.15113984
>>15102843
Sound like a combination of overambitious game design and a scummy publisher occuring together
>some obtuse game mechanics
tbh SotS also has a bunch of unexplained or unintuitive mechanics you might discover during play.
684c4a No.15113991
*hyperdrives into your system*
a54980 No.15116135
>>15113991
I think I had about 50 Bactrians (the capital ship one) in my fleet and most of the glaxy in my pocket before quitting that game. I conquered Luna and the alien planets, but Earth's defense fleet was just too silly.
57686f No.15116223
>>15116135
I still don't have the money to do that but I've just been capturing every ship I can capture. All of the ships in my picture except the bactrians are captured
I even came up with an effective farming method.
>go to hostile territory
>order your fleet to follow you
>move away from the center of the system
>stand still
>wait until they're the most compressed ball of ships possible
>order them to wait
>park up in the very middle of them by cancelling a jump
>you're now completely immune to damage
>anything that comes within range of your ships will get attacked by all of them at once
>the ships with the most health will keep going in and out of your fleet's range because every time they come within range a hail of bullets pushes them away
>most of them will survive and be boardable
>the weaker ships will mostly be destroyed but a few will survive too
>having 3000 hand grenades in your flagship helps with boarding
a54980 No.15116285
>>15116223
I'm not sure if it's changed since, but I plotted one good short trade route, and went back and forth repeatedly for several hours on end, purchasing the starter freight ships as I went. I acquired so many of the little things that we could power through attacks with minimal losses by sheer volume of the little turrets, but it also lagged my game, so I moved up a notch in ship size, and repeated the process until I had a large armada of Bactrians. I then discovered that you could conquer planets if you had a high enough threat rating, so I did that. Even with most of the galaxy conquered, the taxes didn't even cover my fuel costs for jumping around. And yes, the compressed ship ball is how to win.
a54980 No.15116295
>>15116285
Yes, I spent ~12 hours doing the same trade route repeatedly, and enjoyed it. The compounding silliness of my fleet size as I went is what kept me going.
925ef3 No.15118355
>>15113984
It was more basic mechanics, and clunky is the correct word, even if there are other parts that are quite obtuse. For example, I liked the idea of fleets needing food, and having bases, in practice? It meant that you needed to go through several menus assign a specific mission to send the fleet, which would then go do whatever and then come back. You had admirals that were supposed to be important for some reason, with them all having traits, aging and dying off as the game progresses. They were supposed to learn new things through experience but I'm not actually sure if that can happen. I think they can break the rules of FTL to force intercept battles, but I don't remember ever using that option since if the enemy was going to attack, I was just going to put all the defense platforms where they were going to arrive and the fleet right next to them. The defenders will always have an overwhelming advantage if they aren't getting out teched, or the attacker is sending in multiple fleets to attack in waves, because you can only field one fleet of a limited size at a time in battle iirc, offensive fleets will need to take into consideration supplies for the trip, or even entire supply ships, as well the standard stuff like defense platforms and planetary defense systems attacking the ships. This is one of the reasons humans got screwed in SotS2, their supply usage was higher than any other faction, and since you used supplies for travel, and battle, that was kind of important.
Then there was everything with the space stations. I think the idea was to put the tall versus wide empire dynamic that some civ games have into SotS, but in order to support a large station you need to be rolling in cash, which means a lot of well developed systems, preferably ones with multiple planets. Then they added a leviathan that has the purpose of transporting dinky little defense platforms around. I think most can only carry one. The siege leviathans are pretty nice, though.
dddee0 No.15118776
>>15102923
Yes I was there. I go temp banned for not being "yes man" enough.
How far has Kerberos fallen. It is sad.
819a96 No.15119932
>>14866771
>>14866999
Is Starsector shareable?
fca349 No.15119983
>>14882613
No Man's Sky is an odd beast. Delivered nothing that was promised but sold a shit ton. The devs actually acquired some morals and started to fix the game. Its still not 100% of what they promised but its slowly all so slowly getting there. Sean could have taken the money and ran but he didn't.
NMS in 2018 is pretty decent not great but decent.
a54980 No.15121499
>>15119932
I was able to share it with friends since it doesn't seem to lock the license number after several uses, if that's what you mean.
Also, it seems they refer to buying the game as "preordering" even though you can play it immediately. Strange.
>That processor requirement
>>15119983
I've come to the conclusion that Sean is antisocial and freaks out under the spotlight, rather than a spiritual jew.
38035d No.15121793
>>15104266
That is a terrible idea, I don't think coloring any of the books with a cinematic adaption would do any good for anybody except for validation. I am never going to read read any Tolkien because of the movies. They hijack the personal experience of a book by injecting it's own aesthetic. This is all pointless though if you don't care about stimulating imagination. I am just glad I have never never fallin backwards into a theater before I knew about the books.
Here is some okay fan fiction E.U. material.
a54980 No.15121858
>>15121793
>I am never going to read read any Tolkien because of the movies.
Anon, at least do the Rob Inglis audiobooks of the trilogy if you can't be bothered to read it; the course of major plot events is not much different (except Arwen isn't there), but the way it's told is so much comfier with far more worldbuilding and poetic descriptions of how everything looks (book Helm's Deep is way cooler, for example). I'd also recommend the Hobbit in physical book format first, it's nothing like the movies at all, and surprisingly engaging for such a vanilla story.
I had watched the Sci-Fi channel Dune miniseries (which I quite enjoyed) before reading Dune, but I still loved it thoroughly.
e954db No.15122778
>>15087559
Reminder that we should be thankful there will never be a Freespace 3.
You know its for the best, anon.
e03e11 No.15123631
>>15122778
Someone who doesn't understand science fiction would definitely ruin it, yes.
What makes the Shivans so amazingly alien is that we can't know or understand their motivations. You assume they're trying to kill you? Well no, they're really not. They don't really care about you at all. If they actually focused on you, you'd be dead. Why are they blowing up that star? We have no idea - it might be a tiny part of a billion-year-long project.
We're like an ant wondering why someone destroyed our home and imagining there's some special animosity directed specifically toward us - when the truth is, the person who destroyed our home is mowing the grass in between a runway and a taxiway. Think about how many new concepts you'd have to introduce to an ant to make him understand a lawn mower, a runway, an airport, AIR TRAVEL! THE WHOLE WORLD?? WTF?? (the ant is freaking out)
Science fiction is the only medium where you can tell a story in which humanity is in that position. And most people do not understand it. Guaranteed Freespace 3 would have the Shivans sending ambassadors and communicating directly with us and explaining their plans, which would be dumb. It would absolutely ruin it.
bddeb1 No.15123638
>>15119932
I think so, but then again, in order to crack it you have to edit one line in one file, so dev presumably doesn't really give a shit.
58e8fa No.15123762
>>14848606
>Galactic Civilizations 2 complete edition is free on steam till tomorrow.
Thanks anon from last month.
a54980 No.15123845
>>15123631
They give me the same vibe as AI War with their behavior.
5f7692 No.15124236
Please recommend me a comfy science fiction short story collection that's unpozzed. Or just a novel that's light and standalone, I need something to read on my way to and from work and right before I go to sleep.
492e3c No.15124263
>>15124236
Perry Rhodan, but first you have to learn german.
The rest is sadly pozzed.
There might be some ok wappanese ones, but no one learns that language.
e03e11 No.15124296
>>15124236
>science fiction short story collection that's unpozzed
Check out the Berserker series by Fred Saberhagen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_(Saberhagen)
There's a lot of them, including books consisting of many short stories. They were written starting in the '60s and the last one I think was in 1990. They're completely free from SJW bullshit.
A Berserker, in the series, is a giant, spherical, AI-controlled space ship. Some hints are given as to who built them, but nothing definite. It's thought they were made by a race to use in a war against another race, but maybe the Berserkers ended up killing both races.
5f7692 No.15124372
>>15124296
Nice, I will give it a read. Although the killer machines plot reminds me of Mass Effect from reading the series summary.
7f2cc9 No.15124373
>>15124236
If you want novelettes and short stories you can't go wrong with some classic scifi. Go to a few used book-stores and look for anthologies from between the 50's and 70's. In my experience they're usually a good bet.
My personal favorite collections are "Expedition to Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke and "Some Dreams are Nightmares" by James Gunn no, not the guy who directed guardians of the galaxy.
The latter also compiled "The Road to Science Fiction" series, where the first books cover stories that led to the creation of the genre from ancient times, and the later volumes are a collection of exemplary novels and short stories from the golden age of scifi.
I've seen fags trying to push Clarke as some gay icon even though he never claimed to be one.
Even if he was a closet fag he kept that shit to himself and out of his works. It drives me nuts that assholes are trying to use him to grandstand.
5f7692 No.15124468
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>>15124376
That's a classic. The BBC (before they were pozzed) radio dramatisation of the Foundation trilogy is also great.
819a96 No.15124501
>>15123638
In starfarer_obf.jar?
5f7692 No.15124507
>>15124373
>you can't go wrong with some classic scifi. Go to a few used book-stores and look for anthologies from between the 50's and 70's.
I do have some already but I don't think I would like to risk the quite substantial wear they'd likely to endure if I'd read them on the go. I will however look for the ones you recommend to read at home. Clarke might have been a gay pedo but man could he write.
425cd4 No.15124549
>>15124507
Get an e reader on your phone. I use moon reader. It might feel strange reading on something much smaller a book, but once you get used to it, especially with the auto scroll function that some apps have, it's just fine. If your tin foil hate keeps you from having a smart phone, get a kindle. It's well worth the cost if you do a lot of reading out in public.
As for short stories, there's a book in the Xeelee Sequence series titled Vacuum Diagrams.
bddeb1 No.15124725
>>15124501
Yes. I remember from a 4chan screencap that you need to change extension of starfarer_obf.jar to .zip, then open starfarer_obf.jar/com/fs/starfarer/launcher/opengl/GLLauncher.class in Java Bytecode Editor, open method "prepare" and herein change line 63, from "goto 64" to "goto 84", save method and then change extension of the file back to .jar. You might need to use something like Total Commander because Windows can't handle long file names, like in a line "invokestatic com/fs/starfarer/title/oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO/B/Ò00000(Lcom/fs/starfarer/title/oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO/B$oo;IZZZ)V".
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1c042c No.15124739
>>15124735
Please tell me how to think about him anon.
4bc6e7 No.15124759
>>15124373
Creatures of man is also bretty nice, go give it a read.
984803 No.15124955
Saw that the Krait Mk.2 got released awhile ago in Elite: Dangerous so I've gotten back into it recently.
It has quickly become my favourite ship, but I'm a little melancholy about retiring my Python. I love my Python.
Too bad it's still a fucking boring game, I really hope they add atmospheric flight soon. I don't care about habitable terran planets, I just want to explore Titan's, ammonia worlds and other exotic locales.
It would also be pretty neat if there was a fledgling species that we could interact with and uplift or something too. The galaxy is way too sterile, even woth Thargoid and Guardian ruins.
Maybe even the Guardians could turn out to not be dead.
a54980 No.15131058
>>15124955
Is there a financially viable combat path? I've been bounty hunting and participating in war zones, but nothing seems to pay.
f78c59 No.15132052
>>15118776
Why do they blame the very people who will ended up buying their games?
Do you guys know that she is a jew? Do you think they went way over their head with SotS 2?
8ae2de No.15132482
>>15124236
Just read anything by Robert Heinlen(although level of pozz changes dramatically from Stranger in a strange land to Starship troopers).
Also Orson Scott Card and anything 40K
a54980 No.15140911
>Getting back into Elite: Dangerous
>Take simple data delivery mission
>Station is 1 light-week from the star
>25 minutes of sitting doing jack shit waiting to get there
>Take bounty hunting mission
>Actually pretty fun, the target found me first
>I have to go back to that station to get my money
>Can't abandon completed missions, so it'll clog my mission screen forever if I don't
>30 seconds from station
>Lose internet connection briefly
>Game kicks me
This game is the space engineers of space flight sims; feeds my autism, but scars me for it.
Also, it appears the character portraits use random generation for skin color on a slider, making the majority of people brown or black. I don't even get bothered by it because of how hilarious this shit looks.
The VR is awesome though, I must admit.
087a8d No.15140970
>>15140911
>That second image
When will developers realize that niggers have more defining features than just their skin color? It's so hilarious seeing people with obviously white features having black skin. It's especially hilarious in BattleTech.
a54980 No.15140998
>>15140970
I like to imagine it's just people with a radiation induced melanin condition.
b284a1 No.15141027
>>15139169
>wanting X Rebirth 2
0c8e55 No.15141628
>>15140911
I just got to Maia after a half hour only to have the servers go down for maintenance. I hope they aren't nerfing the meta-alloy missions. But they probably are.
da2f48 No.15141800
>>14882873
does the world look better now? i was thinking about casually playing once in a while…
acbabb No.15144932
>>15140911
People still play this shit game? It must be dead.
7b8cbd No.15144937
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
Any vidya where you can make space great again?
a54980 No.15144960
>>15141800
I thought it looked okay, but I don't know what launch was like for any reference.
>>15141628
What the fuck is a meta alloy? I just do trade missions and conflict zones, and ignore any dream of progression.
e03e11 No.15145232
>>15144932
I've been playing it all day. It's fun. It's just got a steep learning curve - you should have given it more time.
0c8e55 No.15145597
>>15144960
>What the fuck is a meta alloy?
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Meta-Alloys
Basically just a rare material. There were transport missions out at Maia where you could do one jump to deliver and make 50 million per mission. But the server downtime last night nerfed them.
a54980 No.15145795
>>15145597
Can I still make more than 200k/hour in my Viper Mk 4?
0c8e55 No.15145828
>>15145795
I don't know. There are vids on youtube that show some fast money making situations. But they are the kind that have to be jumped on quick because some of the players and FDEV are fun police and they get nerfed quickly.
a54980 No.15145839
>>15145828
Okay. Thanks for the speedy reply.
8db112 No.15146320
>>15141027
>nothing can ever be good again ever
to be honest my expectations are low, but I'm looking forward to either be disappointed or surprised it isn't a total dumpster fire.
e03e11 No.15146494
>>15145795
200k? Yeah, absolutely. The thing that just got nerfed was 300 million (with an M) per hour.
The bounty on a single large NPC ship will be over 200k so if that's your goal, no problem. You don't even have to kill them yourself. Just follow the NPC cops around in a resource extraction site and shoot at whatever they shoot at.
I think the key to this game is to pick a single solar system and get allied with the ai factions there. The missions you get when you're allied or friendly are significantly better than if you just showed up and are neutral with them.
I suspect that the people who are frustrated and saying it's difficult to get money are moving around aimlessly and have no "home" system (admittedly, easy to do when there are 19,000 inhabited solar systems). I did that too when I was new. I'd take a mission to go from A to B, then at B I'd take a mission to C, then to D. I had no connection to any of these systems and none of the gameplay meant anything. At some point, I stopped moving around and stuck with one faction - I took whatever missions they offered, even when those missions sucked. When they started liking me, the whole game improved. When they went to war, the combat had meaning for me.
0c8e55 No.15146875
>>15146494
>I think the key to this game is to pick a single solar system and get allied with the ai factions there.
I was thinking of doing that with Shinrarta Dezhra.
e03e11 No.15147588
0c8e55 No.15147631
>>15147588
I had to grind my balls off to get there.
24e60f No.15147959
Mining in Star Citizen is really coming along…
a54980 No.15149834
>>15146494
>I think the key to this game is to pick a single solar system and get allied with the ai factions there. The missions you get when you're allied or friendly are significantly better than if you just showed up and are neutral with them.
Ah, that must be what I'm fucking up. I've just been wandering rather aimlessly so far.
>>15147959
Lol.
5f7692 No.15150656
I've recently been playing MOO and MOO2 and honestly I have to say that although I really liked MOO2 back when I played it back in the day I have grown to prefer the first one.
http://www.sullla.com/MOO/mooeditorial.html
This writeup pretty much hits the nail on its head. There's something incredibly beautiful about the design of the first game that can't be found anywhere else that makes it a true pleasure to play.
So if anyone is itching for a 4X space game I really recommend you to check out Master of Orion if you haven't already. The second game might be much better than garbage like Galactic Civilisations and Stellaris but the first one is solid gold.
acbabb No.15151162
>>15145232
It's a shit game bruh, it has the depth and complexity of a free phone gacha game.
a54980 No.15153028
Don't take passenger missions without checking how many destinations they have. I took this guy to the 4 corners of inhabited space for a measly sum because I thought he just wanted to go somewhere close by.
a54980 No.15153031
Also it looks like we've passed the bump limit.
e03e11 No.15153063
>>15151162
Nah. It's a great game and has tremendous depth. What it doesn't have is a story that holds your hand, "go here, do this" - that's off-putting to some people. I get it.
I can even agree with you that Elite Dangerous would be significantly better if there was a single-player story to guide you for a bit. And then, after that, drop you into the open world. I get that you feel lost without that.
But some people have this amazing thing called "an imagination" and we prefer a game where we can go where we want and do what we want. And there are more than enough things to do that are fun.
>>15149834
> I've just been wandering rather aimlessly so far.
Pick a minor faction that is compelling to you in some way - maybe the name, maybe the government type (or their enemy's government type), maybe the solar system is attractive - and give it a week with a Cobra doing whatever they need done.
Don't worry that some of the jobs will be shit. Of course they'll be shit jobs! They don't know you so they're trying to rip you off! Imagine you're Mal Reynolds and you're dealing with pic-related. There are no cutscenes for this. Nothing in the game will spell it out, but you can imagine that's what's happening.
When you prove yourself, you'll literally be dealing with another person. The NPC character will literally be smiling at you now. And they'll pay you more and offer better jobs.
Get that faction into a boom state. Eventually, they'll go to war to take over a space station. Fight for them. Win the space station. It wont just be a random combat zone, it'll be a fight that you have a stake in. It'll be fun.
You know that you can change the color of stars in the galaxy map? I've turned red stars (federal systems) blue (imperial) all by myself. It's fun.
e03e11 No.15153070
>>15150656
If you can find a place to download it, this game was pretty good too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!
e03e11 No.15153082
>>15153070
lol, 8ch fucked up the link. The game is Stars! with the exclamation point on the end. There's a wiki article with the exclamation point in the URL. You're going to have to cut and paste it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!
a54980 No.15153413
>>15153063
Thanks for elaborating on how that works, I never knew wars actually did anything.
These Alliance police retards bumped their Anacondas into each other and got into an outright brawl. Really stupid thing to see.
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