/v/ - Video Games

So is E&D shit or not?

Will we watch LOGH ever again together?

>>15864941

>So what exactly is SETA used for in X4?

In previous X games, you used these to fly faster and to pass time when you needed to get weapons/resources from complexes or factories.

Travel mode made SETA kind of redundant for former so it can only be used for latter now.

>>15864682

It's only good if you like grindfests.

>>15864671

>Playin

Taking break for X series for some time.

>Listening

Soundtracks from SRW.

>Reading

>Watching

Nothing in particular for both.

>>15865002

>In previous X games, you used these to fly faster and to pass time when you needed to get weapons/resources from complexes or factories

Yeah I know, I suppose you could still use it for that, but is made redundant as you said for actual travel. I guess if you want to watch over base building or some other operation it might be useful. Instead of waiting real time for an AI ship to arrive to do, whatever.

>>15865119

>Are the X games good for something like that?

Yes. At least on hobo phase before you build your self-sufficient economy in some unknown sector.

>I wanna play a spess game where I can smuggle spacedope while avoiding pirates, something like that.

Illegal goods? You will get your chance to do that.

>>15865272

Cool. I've got a copy of X3 TC/AP. Should I start with TC or just play AP since I've heard that it's the better of the two. Also, should I play with any of the overhaul mods I've seen out there? I've seen people say that the game is much better with Litcube's, will I be overwhelmed if I just go into it with all the new shit that that adds?

>>15865286

>Should I start with TC or just play AP since I've heard that it's the better of the two.

Vanilla AP has more content and sectors.

>Also, should I play with any of the overhaul mods I've seen out there?

I recommend to play vanilla game before touching LxXRM or Litcube mainly to learn controls and get basics of gameplay.

>I've seen people say that the game is much better with Litcube's, will I be overwhelmed if I just go into it with all the new shit that that adds?

There is big chance that it would happen.

Also as new player either turn off Phanon(a.k.a. Player 2 which hates you) or OCV(Borg which slowly conquers galaxy with overpowered ships) in your first Litcube's playthrough.

>>15865286

>AP

Just a few pointers

The stock market is so broken that its literally cheating.

If you ever end up "Trusted" with Argon you will be given a faction mission to "Help with the war effort" triggered by traveling to M148. Doing so will cause the faggot to call you up at random and demand you go somewhere because of reasons. These are mildly annoying on your own however they kick you out of SETA every time they happen and you can't unsubscribe from this jackass's mailing list.

If you're trading and going on a long expedition park often and save often. The autopilot in SETA will occasionally position you wrong for the docking approach causing you to splatter on a station. Normally this kills you, but if you're a capital ship you can damage to the station which will cause the sector police to become hostile.

Which video game is this thread about?

>>15866446

Space

>>15865045

There's tons of fujoshit out there.

>>15867341

I just got going on Season 3 myself. The history channel episodes are great once you get to them.

>>15865286

Another pointer if you want to go full smuggler: I'm 99% certain you can actually build spaceweed factories and other illegal goods production complexes. Different races have different things illegal, so you can use that.

>>15865045

There's another show made by the same people who made LOGH. It's not quite as good, but it's not bad. Tytania I think it's called..

>>15867402

Dolores has a dick and you're a faggit.

>>15865045

>know some books

I assume you've read E.E. Doc Smith's entire Lensman series then? weird trivia: the Lensman anime is based both on the books and the Green Lantern comics… which were also based on the Lensman books.

>>15868376

Exploration is "better", you can also map planets now, there's a new codex, which updates with interesting discoveries made by you and other players, mining is has more to do, like deep core mining and blasting rocks apart it's also stupidly profitable right now, and the clan system is in.

>>15866330

I'm pretty sure you can turn off war reports in the options.

>Playin

Crisis of the confederation mod for CK2

>Listening

The silent lords audiobook

>Reading

nuthin

>Watching

nuthin

I want there to be a decent 40k game, just one that lets you play as the guard or maybe on a hive planet. Even world of darkness has a couple of decent games, is it really so much to as for?

>>15869824

it's purely for nostalgia reasons, plus I'm most familiar with it compared to foobar, WMP and whatever other players are out there. It plays what I want it to play, media library is a bit unwieldy at first and I still miss Shoutcast TV

>>15869941

>>15869901

I didn't really make out the lyrics, it's an okay song I gues

>>15869984

What's the best way to practice combat with flight assist off?

>>15869675

>Is it because the station is out of materials?

That's the only reason why it would stop in first place or if that station making these got destroyed, but you would get notification in latter case.

>>15869489

>It's embarassing that their AI is much more inept than anything seen in a early 00s business/city building sim.

You have to consider that Sweden Yes is responsible for AI. They have a hard time with logic.

>>15872099

This economy clusterfuck sounds quite like a fun challenge, except it affects everything in the game, no matter what you're doing. I suspect that AIs are just getting fucktons of resources even on lower difficulties now, without them it's really fucking hard to get anywhere. And they still haven't fixed tall, wide and tech thing. Fabulous.

Is X4 good enough to play now without major bugs or just to wait for next year expansions?

>>15873072

It's mostly playable, but you'd still be better off waiting.

>>15873126

Alright, thanks.

>>15874113

no, they just stay there

>>15868084

the dick makes it better

>>15868084

It's not a dick, it's a cockpit.

posted a video with dogfighting last time. This time, capital slugfests.

keep being impressed by the size of the patch notes every few weeks, it isn't a buggy fuckfest either which is massively appreciated compared to everything else lately.

>>15876994

I forget this was a thing. Nice to see its chugging along.

>>15864671

Leftists love space games and use them to push the idea that a multicultural future is a foregone conclusion. Leftists hate historical games and pervert them to push the idea that multiculturalism has always existed.

>>15877352

Why the hell would you give a you to lazy obvious bait?

So I just found out X4 released and decided to try it despite all signs pointing towards Egosoft being fucking idiots who learned nothing from Stillbirth. Turns out I was right. God damn is this some hot steamy garbage. Do all Egosoft employees have down syndrome? Why on earth would they double down on all the stupid ass bullshit they introduced with Stillbirth? The X series is dead and is never coming back.

>>15876994

Holy shit, Infinite is still around?

>>15869489

That's what happens when you rework your game for the second time 2 years after the release and most of your staff members are cunts and other diversity hires.

How is EVE Online these days?

>>15864671

Stellaris on hardest difficulty and ironman mode. The best xeno holocaust simulator

The start is insanely hard, if you survive the first two wars you will be so fucking far ahead of everyone else that the rest of the game is about micromanaging your ever growing population while stomping scrubs because they dared making those branch offices in the planets you want to make them (don't make them a vassal, that don't remove the branch offices and makes it impossible for you to force them to via Hostile Takeover war goal).

Also, don't make rivalries with your neighbors, because they will fuck you up if you don't rush 20/20 ships, and they get 40/40 before you do. I've found myself buying time to sue for white peace because the war took too long. That 0.5 influence will most likely not be worth sucking dick

Planets are the big shit, don't bother with sectors unless they have a blackhole (1000 minerals/month mega structure requires one)

You can get your big dick huge stations with 9/9 defenses all you want, if the enemy don't have to pass through a straight line over it, they can just skip them to attack your planets

Avoid winning easy wars fast, as you can take control of all sectors resources for as long as the war lasts for no Empire Cap cost, just make sure to not let your war exhaustion each 100 nor give the chance for them to surrender (they automatically do if you can sue for war goal). Leave that last one planet for when you are about to force to end the war

You can go past the Empire Cap, but you should never ever do that unless you are already at the 10th repeat on most research projects, that shit will fuck your research fast. 10% sounds like nothing, but it's cumulative and exponential.

Always rush research, all other ways of playing the game are wrong, even if they probably work

>>15879406

But E:D's flight model is beyond retarded. It's the reason I refunded that heap of shit. Why would you want planes in space?

>>15879439

I just want being able to turn off flight assist and docking that is more engaging than fly slowly to the hook/hangar.

>>15879406

I thought X4 was fine and like it a lot more than the previous games (especially the early game), but the auto trader is bugged and I can't continue until they fix it. Player-owned shipyards are in the upcoming patches.

>>15879483

>I just want being able to turn off flight assist and docking that is more engaging than fly slowly to the hook/hangar

But both of those are in X4, without the stupid sped restrictions in E:D.

>>15879483

>fly slowly to the hook/hangar.

But you only do that for like first 20 minutes of X3. Then after that you have a docking computer and you just rocket towards the station on full blast seta until you get close and hit shift+D and you're just instantly docked. That's much better than being forced to navigate in some dumb useless station.

>>15869168

>Keep a small (20 sectors) empire with 5 planets

>Have a station on every single sector inside the trade route with 6 trade hubs and a offworld trade thingy

>Don't have to care about pirates because pirates only spawn in route (and not around it) and don't spawn where there is a station

>>15877801

>1k mineral

you got yourself some black holes right?

Mineral is literally the easiest and hardest shit to get at the same time.

It's easy as fuck to get X, but by end game you will be using X^3, it's currently my bottleneck

>722 empire size

you have already "won" the match, right?

>>15876994

Wait, is this that fucking game that you could just fly into a blip in the sky, and eventually reach a star, and then fly into a planet and boom, there's a planet there? That super cool demo from 5-10~ years ago?

>>15879616

>Wait, is this that fucking game that you could just fly into a blip in the sky, and eventually reach a star, and then fly into a planet and boom, there's a planet there? That super cool demo from 5-10~ years ago?

That wasn't really the cool part considering it's nothing that hasn't been done several times already. The cool part was the seamless transition to planet surfaces.

>>15879627

>The cool part was the seamless transition to planet surfaces

well, yeah, that's what I've meant with "and boom, there's a planet there". As usually it's just a skybox or a 'small' sphere that kills you

>>15877766

>>15879616

They're not doing a full MMO anymore, the small team decided Infinity: The Quest for Earth was out of scope for their tiny team. So they're doing a solar system war game instead, something more like planetside 1. So, now it's Infinity: Battlescape instead. Match based, economy is per match, and the matches are supposed to last anywhere from a few hours to a few days depending on the parameters.

It's the same engine with seamless full scale planets and shit. There are currently factories/mining outposts spread accross each planet's surface, and the goal of each match is to cripple the opponent's production and hangar facilities until you ultimately destroy enough of their stations that you win.

embed is some fighter gameplay from a few weeks ago, with a few attack runs on some base turrets.

>>15879651

Just go for it. It's good.

>>15879651

I was hooked from the first episode. Just sit down and put it on.

I've been having some fun with X4, but a few things bother me right now:

First of all, station building is way too easy - I took my HQ and just started building multiple of everything on it. After a few days I had a megastructure that mass produces huge salable surpluses of everything. There really should be balances in place, like waste byproducts or various radiations that make having certain modules incompatible within a certain distance to other modules, or one type of production severely diminishes the productivity of another type of production, etc. Having a single station build everything and produce more income than I can figure out how to spend is very lame and boring. They also put the PHQ in way too useful a sector - in the middle of all races in a dense resource rich asteroid field. Put it in a totally barren sector 6 gates from the nearest inhabited world and MAYBE it would be a challenge making it profitable.

Secondly, the various empires are all way too active (weird complaint considering how sterile and empty X3 felt I guess.) In my current game, in the time it took me to build my megastation, the other empires have seemingly built dozens if not hundreds of little specialized stations all over the place - yet all of them have shortages in their wharfs and shipyards so severe that I've had ships on order waiting for 10+ hours at all of them. Once the January patch hits and I can glue some shipyards to my PHQ, I'll be able to easily steamroll over the cosmos.

Third, the combat is a joke. I can take a single Nemesis corvette with 4 medium bolt cannons and a torpedo launcher and clear entire Xenon sectors. Even destroyers have nothing - just get in close so the "go along for a ride" mode kicks in and you auto-hover in place no matter how they maneuver, and then just sit there between their engines like a genital wart and shoot until they explode. That proximity gravity reference frame mechanic should be disabled for enemy ships at the very least, and probably disabled for any ships you don't actively have an open docking invitation for.

And then finally, I don't really see how the player's economy does much to shape the universe. I could spam stations across all sectors, but what would that really do except make more money? I could kill everyone with ships, but I want to be able to kill empires with business. I'd love a mod to make it so all empires can no longer construct stations or ships themselves - they ALL have to go through you. You could actually dive deep into all kinds of political machinations and weaponized economics and make empires choke or flourish at your whims. It'd be much more interesting than this, but there'd need to be serious additions - like assassins and hardcore station-destroying sabotage bombings and shit like that. If everyone's welfare hinges on you, you'd expect things not to be so rosy after all.

Anyway, X4 is a fun game so far only played 52 hours so far and will play more. 7/10 it has potential to be something really good if they release substantial patches and expansions over the next ~5 years.

>>15879651

The episodes are actually pretty short (~20 mins after subtracting intro/outro). I just went one season at a time before taking a break for a few weeks. It moves too fast to drink it all in over a short timespan.

>>15869500

You just get out of your ship and use the repair laser on the red panel things until they all beep - each time one of them beeps something on the data vault moves and reveals either another red panel, or a resource you can grab, or a bundle of wires. If you repair the wire bundle it vanishes and you get credit towards the data vault quest.

Most vaults have about 4-5 red panels you have to find.

>>15879987

All good dude, I know you'd said you'd done them before, but I didn't want to be rude by assuming you didn't have alzheimer's.

>>15879884

>Use the repair laser

>The locations are sequential

Fuck how did I miss that? I kept trying to clip through part of the hull because I thought it was bugged inside the geometry, tried blasting stuff with cannons and handheld laser pistol.

>>15879616

>you have already "won" the match, right?

Kinda, the contingency is at this point an annoyance that occasionally blocks a few space routes for my ships.

As for the black hole mine? Yes, i got one and i am eyeballing one broken one sitting in middle of contingency controlled space, gonna expand there through L-gates and then take out the last contingency hub (well second last if you count in the one that pops in after the initial hubs have been popped).

>>15868084

>Viturak Transport Cabal, who will grant access to black market Vasari travel technology

As an Advent, my biggest bane has always been Visari and their portal tech. Even when I invade their space I only make about 3 planets in because of all the space stations and portals. This could really help me.

>>15869168

>>15868092

They'll probably band-aid fix a bunch of that shit in the coming weeks with minor patches. It'll probably in a mostly playable state by Feb/March.

>>15877801

What are the production bonus from having forge/energy/agri world? I thought it was just flavor. Or are you talking about the Energy Nexus and the mineral/food equivalent buildings?

Ring Worlds are pretty shit now. If you're unable to expand you'll need to maximize your mineral production on every planet, maximize your trade value on every planet so consumer goods aren't being manufactured through artisans. Ring Worlds don't help all that much with that. Habitats are amazing though since they provide easy building space (IE stick all your forges/consumer goods buildings on habitats) and since they provide the most important resource in 2.2: population growth.

Let's take a minute to talk about how important pop growth is now. Before 2.2 a size 10 planet could house 10 pops, you'd have your administration building, you'd get your adjacency bonus from your admistration building, you'd have your unity buildings, and that's pretty much it. If you had migration, one tile would be getting worked about 15%-20% of the time at best. Now a size 10 planet can fit 80+ pops. The more planets you have, the more growth sources you get, the more growth sources you get, the more resources you can squeeze out of your planets. On the flip side, purging/displacing xenos hurts your economy a LOT. Taking a planet with 80 pops means 80 more slaves or workers if you're some sort of xeno loving faggot to work in your hellholes. But purging/eating those 80 pops is the same as losing out on years' worth of growth for your empire. And habitability is a huge deal now, trying to colonize a planet at 50% habitability means 50% more food/consumer goods costs. A very low % habitability could mean a planet is actually a detriment to your economy. Which in turn makes Highly Adaptive trait and the special tradition tree that genocidals, hive minds, and despoilers get even better.

Biggest problems I have right now is that the piracy system is dumb even if you manage it well enough to never have pirates spawning, and that the khan/crisis/fallen empires haven't been rebalanced to the new economy system. Had the khan spawn in a huge galaxy on admiral difficulty at around 2300. He had more fleet power than the rest of the normal empires in the galaxy combined. Hell, if every empire had gotten together and combined all the fleets as one to fight all of the khan's fleets in a glorious battle, the galaxy's fleets would've gotten crushed. Had the Scourge spawn on 1.25x crisis strength on a huge galaxy and the small roaming fleets had 140k power, which was about as much as I had and I had been swallowing my corner of the galaxy for a good 50 years before they showed up.

>>15881269

>>15881321

>>15881437

A rural world adds a 2% bonus on worker production while a specialized planets (mining worlds, agri worlds, forge worlds) give a 5% boost to the particular thing produced there.

>>15881321

Do you mean the fortresses or the smaller stations? Because I would think that the Trade Federation would cause more issues with those. Particularly the loyalist faction. If they place both by where your invasion force warps in at, it can get pretty ugly.

>>15882149

Occulus star bases. Got a friend who absolutely loves going Vasari Rebels, meaning the Star bases can go through phase lines. I'll invade a section, destory his fleet, starbase and titan just to control a single sector then while I'm regrouping, he'll warp in another starbase along with reinforcements. And he'll continue to send them if that's the only way into his sectors. Me having access to phase lane tech would allow me to capture the sector or sectors where he's manufacturing this shit, even if it's only a raid, it'll hopefully cripple him enough for me to push up.

>>15881437

>Had the khan spawn in a huge galaxy on admiral difficulty at around 2300. He had more fleet power than the rest of the normal empires in the galaxy combined

Move the midgame disasters to 2400 and late game ones to 2500, problem solved

>And habitability is a huge deal now, trying to colonize a planet at 50% habitability means 50% more food/consumer goods costs. A very low % habitability could mean a planet is actually a detriment to your economy. Which in turn makes Highly Adaptive trait and the special tradition tree that genocidals, hive minds, and despoilers get even better.

You got only 50% right. You always take the non adaptable trait. By 2330 you will be terraforming all planets to gaia, you can handle the 70% hab on your main planet type until then

>>15879483

I always quite liked the X2 docking, where you have to locate a hole in the station hull and carefully maneuver into it, then fly through the tunnels on the inside to your parking spot and if you fuck up a single step you either explode or damage the station, which means you're now inside a hostile station that wants to kill you.

E:D has too much docking from open space where you just have to fly straight down.

>>15881269

>new Sins of a Solar Empire DLC

still nothing on the race that even the vasari are scared shitless?

>>15883568

>Sins of a Solar Empire

is this RTS or 4X?

>>15883971

Both.

>>15883983

does it feature a pause button in single player?

>>15884028

Hit the pause key.

>>15884028

>a pause button that lets you calmly take decisions

GIT GUD

>reinstall Elite Dangerous

>wow these graphics are nice

>wow there's cool shit like night vision for my ship

>wow there's a whole new mining mechanic, let me transfer my Python over here to do some mini-

>32 minutes delay before it transfers

Fucking serious with this shit?

>>15884155

The community was massively upset at the idea of having any ship transfer whatsoever because "dass not how I'd was in da orishinell :///" so be glad for what you got.

Really ED is a case study on how progress can be held back by the customer.

>>15867263

Sounds like you've got a fractured arse. Smuganimegirlpic.png

>>15884155

>32 minutes delay before it transfers

>not reading japanese comics while you wait

>>15884289

If you want to be efficient about playing ED, a second monitor so you can do something during the million tiny downtimes is a must. Great design isn't it.

>>15884227

Those ED forum poster dads are half the reason I have high blood pressure.

>>15882998

Terraforming to Gaia World is bugged and removes most of the available districts. Hell, with that trait, having an ocean species colonizing a continental world might produce a deficit. It's *that* bad. The only way I can see it being decent is if you're running Slaver's Guild with Stratified Economy, and you try to avoid putting non-workers on low habitability planets as much as possible. But outside of that exception, putting pops on a planet they get low habitability on is awful. Have fun with your rulers costing 1.8 consumer goods and your specialists costing 0.9 goods and all your pops costing 1.8 food to maintain. Even if you manage to squeeze out some profit from low habitability planets, the extra district costs won't make it worth it.

>>15884347

it's only 1.3, you are not going to be colonizing 10% hab planets until they are gaia

>>15884347

Terraforming to Gaia World is bugged and removes most of the available districts

I've seen both increasing and decreasing the total amount of districts.

I think it just reroll the tile features, some have +2 districts and whatnot. A bad reroll makes it get less, a good reroll makes it get more. I will be sure to check what is really happening on my current playthough

imagine starmade

but with a working economy and combat system

but on death you lose everything

like a block-based working non-pay2win eve online or so

im autistic i got like all the details in my head and fantasize about it constantly help

>>15877760

My main gripes are poor personal managemnt, too much peace, bad weapon balances and generally bad ship balance.

What other problem are you reffering to?

>>15884368

well, I am dumb and had all my 7 planets to finish terraform at once (And am playing in ironman mode).

But I don't see any obvious problem with the planets. I think they fixed the issue with gaia terraform

>>15886420

scrap that, it's really bugged

some planets got 0 mining/farming/generator districts

they DO keep the max districts, but it's all resource being forced into becoming city

I will check if this happens on planets that were not colonized yet

>>15886836

Well you got yourself now a decent spot to start a ecumenopolis on.

But yeah, terraforming is now absolute cancer.

Or at least RNG as fuck.

>>15867402

Is the Yamato remake better or worse than the original?

there were 7 blocked districts, now there are 7 world tiles missing. coincidence?

>>15887475

The black hole that is the galaxy suddenly collapsed.

Turns out it's the fucking protection range on stations that fucks with the performance late game

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1592074962&searchtext=performance

>>15887519

You collided with a planet and you didn't see it because it was flat

>>15887519

So like, the audio cue of stuff hitting your ship isn't enough? Or the Hull and Shield indicators at the center of focus on your screen aren't big enough? Or the "Hull Critical" warning isn't loud enough or what? To solve your other issue for you, if someone is asking you personally to drop your cargo, their face will pop up with a prompt and it will be louder than overheard comms.

>>15888563

Well lad I've been blown out and surprise attacked a few times in 40 hours and I've always known. Maybe mix your audio to put voice and SFX higher and scale up your UI a bit. I check the map like every 10 seconds if I'm in deadspace so I usually see raiding parties coming.

>>15889302

>Kylo Ren in DMC5

>Now in MGS

wat

>>15879410

>You can get your big dick huge stations with 9/9 defenses all you want, if the enemy don't have to pass through a straight line over it, they can just skip them to attack your planets

That's why FTL inhibitors are so crucial, which is a good thing the tech tree is so comprehensible to use without any possibility of going 30 years without that option becoming available.

A new one dropped.

>>15898978

How about a star wars overhaul mod for mount and blade wherein you collect taxes from planetary administrarions and/or revenue from business ventures you establish? and sell into slavery the aliens and rebels you take prisoner along the way

>>15877233

>>15898978

>Is one of them particularly good at being a first person space game introduction?

X3 is the best of these right now. Even if UI and controls take time to get used to, especially station building.

X4 lacks content to be recommended right now. Maybe year or two of waiting will change that.

E:D is complete grindfest on par with Korean MMOs.

>>15898978

X3 is also a turbo-grindfest, don't let the autists here fool you.

>>15901496

>What's the deal

Probably typical broken egoshit, maybe you have to research it? Once you do create some Right Wing Death Squads and send them into other people's games. Surely this will create zero problems or drama and be fun for all ages.

>>15901657

That's just as sad and cucked as I'd expect it to be, coming from a German company.

>>15904500

As I recall, Crossfire adds the Great Escape theme to some of the prison facilities.

>>15904531

I tried playing this back about 5 years ago and conked out after going through the first jumpgate to colorado because it was so slow. This mod cleans up the visuals immensely so I think I'll stick with it for a bit.

lol

>>15901496

wait, X4 has multi? I thought it was a solo grinder like the ones before

also, how's NMS these days?

>>15864671

Playan' starsector. It's pretty good – the combat is great and I love the details in this, from shit like tracking a colony's population, it's resources and habitability, to all the stuff you can encounter while salvaging.

Only problem is I found a battered Paragon-class battleship orbiting a sun in some remote system, took it over and fixed it, and now there's nothing to challenge me since this beast can easily obliterate entire armadas on its own. Does any anon know if there's some special endgame missions or if some later events fire or something that would give me a new goal to strive towards?

>>15905090

For endgame stuff, you can go to threat level: red systems (there should be a glowing red beacon in hyperspace) which have things quite a bit scarier than a paragon. Alternatively, bring peace to the entire sector by saturation bombarding every planet you don't own into dust; the massive swarms of pirates you encounter after doing this can provide quite some challenge. Also, you can go to the list of planets and sift through the luddic path stations, targeting whichever ones are most convenient; they can be a lot more difficult than one expects.

>>15898978

X3, specifically Terran Conflict. Albion pride has a few more things, but shit like war sectors and giant rapid response fleets really hamper what you can do.

Haven't played X4 yet, but it's generally a bad idea to play an X game before the free DLC as an apology for the shitty launch drops.

>>15901496

Have you modified your save/game? A mod/script?

That makes it so you can't send shit out, but others can send them to you.

>>15877801

>Habitats produce none of those main resources.

Habitats are pretty shitty right now. They cost a fortune and don't produce much (except in special cases where you have livestock, I heard they are good for that). I think they should have a production bonus from minerals to simulate asteroid mining or something. It's really shitty how asteroid mining is almost completely absent in a space game like this, and habitats would really excel at it, since you could just build them near a 95% metal asteroid.

>>15904500

And now I know why I dropped it again. The amount of side stuff you have to do in order to rank up for story missions is a bit ludicrous. Missions pay out ~15k and I've got a good ship and that but I need another 300k before it says I can level up and trigger the story mission.

>>15907032

Is that show actually worth watching? I just saw what looked like racemixing and avoided it.

>>15904927

>BSG

BSG Worthy of Survival NEVER EVER

>>15907234

Well, it IS the future… It's not like I am happy about it either, but when you see demographic predictions for 2100, I am happy to see there are only 3 niggers on the show. The one female on the main cast is an uggo British yeswymyn, but the show really focus on what matters and there's not much sjw on it at all.

>>15906493

U dont andastandu. EgoCredits are a premium currency that they plan to sell later.

>>15907350

Alright, I'll give it a watch sometime.

>>15907234

read the books faggot

>>15907392

>spoiling the fun

Nah, m7. I won't even come close to them while the show isn't cancelled yet. Watching it is so much fun. Those space battles….

>>15907234

It has good technical background.

But it kinda went to shit with some silly alien goo.

>>15865119

A good Abh is a dead Abh. Reminder that all that support the Abhominations are themselves traitors of the race.

>>15907032

It's called Children of a Dead Earth

>>15907768

Mad lander detected.

>>15864781

do we have any streaming events? I've missed all threads like that

Is there a mod in X4 that replaces npc models with the ones X Rebirth? I would prefer Yisha and the other goblinos over niggers.

>>15869925

Winamp Winamp Winamp. It really kicks the Llama's ass!. i remember downloading cracked winamps of napster backin tehday

Anyone have a mega file with the logh gaidens and golden wings they can share? They are getting pretty hard to find these days

>>15907797

Any good? Tell me more.

>>15867402

Is there more logh Gondola?

>>15911667

Yeah if you've got the kind of space autism that likes plotting orbits and managing delta-v it's great. It's a near-future setting, all of the technology in it is either currently available or plausible in the near-future. The strategy element takes place on a larger map where you plot your burns and skip minutes/hours/days/months at your leisure. When you/your missiles/your drones make a pass at an enemy it goes into a realtime encounter where you've got a window of time granted to you by however close your encounter is. Then you can take more control of your ship and weapons as you have a sort-of jousting match. You can build your own ships and weapons as well. I made a gun that shoots diamonds, it's not very good.

All the physics are by-the-book and stuff like lagrange points are implemented. If you penetrate an enemies fuel storage and they run completely out of delta-v they'll float off into space or be unable to de-orbit. It's kind of hard to compare it to anything else in the space genre. Maybe like, Aurora but on a smaller, combat-focused scale.

It's funny. I enjoy the new exploration mechanics in ED but judging by the reactions from the boomer fanbase, they hate it because it "requires" them to scan every little detail of a system and planet in order to satisfy their OCD.

>>15912134

Sucks to be them.

Hopefully E:D devs won't cave to them this time.

>Find yourself near a neutron star

>Every system around it mapped

>Travel towards a nebula from the bubble

>Every system along the way mapped

>Move away from landmarks and specifically below the galactic plane

>Still find mapped systems

My ass "only 0.01% systems mapped".

>>15914118

Having to fly up to every stupid rock was terrible though.

I just got Horizons from the Steam sale. Is ED worth reinstalling now?

What order do I watch LOGH?

>>15914502

Watch the first movie, then watch the series. That's it.

>>15914502

The Show first then the OVAs with spiral Labyrinth movie being the first few episodes condensed into a move fashion ( and has some yang wank added in that's really awkward to watch)

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>>15914562

>he didn't watch My Conquest is the Sea of Stars

>he watched Gaiden

Do you always like wasting your time?

>>15914518

>>15914562

thanks

>>15914597

I was going to watch it all but then they got taken off of youtube around the time the new series was rumored to be announced and watching them on other anime sites got bothersome with the never ending ads

>>15914701

I didn't have a lot of space on my computer at the time

>>15914720

The community itself is what holds back ED. It's hilarious / sad.

At least exploration isn't completely ass anymore. I flew halfway to the omega nebula and scanned only interesting shit along the way and made 35mil.

>>15916570

Dads want their games as shitty as their jobs. I really think midlife really do come into play.

The SRV controls in ED are, once again, some of the most needlessly obtuse and time wasting shit I've seen in any game. We wouldn't want our players to play the game *gasp* EFFICIENTLY now would we?

>>15917316

Forumdaddies suck it up. These manchildren don't care about respecting their own time. Make everything as tedious as possible because that's "authentic" or something.

You can't even argue that "it's REALISTIC" most of the time because if you wanted realism, the majority of features would be automated in such a highly advanced space faring age. You sure as shit wouldn't land by playing 3D Lunar Lander.

>>15917395

>>15917406

You have to remember that the game supports HOTAS controls. While it appears to be set up for XBOX controls, they do seem to take HOTAS into special consideration when it comes to the vehicles. Not tzhe menus though. So these mixed consideration lead to no control scheme to be good for everything. It's a fucking mess.

I also agree that the game probably deliberately wastes your time. Considering how little there actually is to truly do and how much less even it was back in the beginning, it's very plausible.

>>15917444

You're right and your trips confirm. I didn't take a HOTAS setup into account. Even then though, they could easily a) detect a HOTAS hardware setup and adjust the controls accordingly and b) have a dedicated, sensible setup for KB/M, controller and HOTAS all neatly separated from each other.

>>15917859

Crash your ship or your game?

>>15917918

I get disconnected from the server from being near a POI.

>>15916769

I would enjoy NMS if it has decent flight mechanics.

About fucking time!

https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/156

>>15920377

finally some big dick ships?

Where could I download a decent copy of the LoGH episodes? The tracker I used to use has closed.

>>15919936

Daaaamn, I would pay 100$ for this game + a decent Legend of the Galactic Heroes mod

>>15917859

>>15917927

if you ever have trouble on a planet or something you can shut down elite and disable horizons, this will put you back into space above the planet. Ive heard of people crashing near planetary pois before so it might be related.

After you are back into space just shut down elite again and boot back up in horizons.

>>15922570

I did just that. I had heard of this trick but figured there would be some fuckery involved like being set to 1% hull or something. Apparently not.

So yea I escaped that planet of doom. No disconnect in space. Must be something about Horizons content.

Now I'm stuck in a connect -> load -> instant disconnect loop out in space.

Bravo Fdev. Bravo.

What's up with Distant Worlds: Universe?

It really looks like Aurora4x but with fancy GUI, except everything is watered down and the automation makes everything boring… But then without the automation it's a micromanagement hell.

Since I started watching LOGH I can't listen to classical music without envisioning massive space battles.

I should have done this sooner.

>>15934496

Which episode are you at man?

>>15934702

EP 26, right after kircheis' death.

I can't believe I had this on my drive for a year before actually watching it.

>>15934895

My favorite part of LoGH was the imperial civil war arc.

>>15934895

M favorite single episode so far was the Battle of Amlitzer because watching the entire rebel navy get hopelessly and irrecoverably shredded to Dvorak is Godly.

>>15934895

Oh, you'll LOVE the history channel episodes when they come in S3. Those should be required watching for anybody.

>>15937562

Happy new year, anon

Goddamnit, why did you have to start with… I'm not gonna say "the worst OP", but at least the one that's not the best? Like it's good, but Sea of Stars is SO much better. I wish I had a webm around of it.

>>15938373

Everyone is being a fuckwit, including stardock.

This entire thing is a complete mess, which is to be expected because the various Intellectual Property was split in a fucktarded way.

>>15904927

I'm always surprised that Freespace flies so much under the radar in any of these threads and across pretty much the entire genre, despite being sold pretty well on GoG and receiving high praise. Good .webm, to think it's really easy to set up such a scenario and the engine can now handle way more than in the past. I should make some of my own .webms with experimental missions.

>>15946646

I didn't know it was any good until the very webm I posted was posted in on /v/ a few months ago. I had written it off as another Wing Commander-type game, which I really didn't care for.

Hosting space shit >>15953947

>>15958590

I'm glad he can play with his family, but why the fuck would you abuse them by playing Elite?

Anyone else looking forward to Rebel Galaxy Outlaw?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIe4Bz9KGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFR2j8jAzU

I'll admit I'm hyped because it got rid of everything I didn't like from the first

highlights include

>Space Boat Combat gone, Replaced with arcade dog fighting

>Heavily Expanded Customization

>Randomization gone replaced with thought out content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKoJKe_yKQI

>>15959724

Looking forward to it, yes. There was a rumor it would only be released on Epic/Tencent's platform, but i saw no evidence to back it up. A bit worried about POZ, given the protagonist.

>>15959757

the protagonist is the character you were chasing after in the last game it's a prequel

>>15959724

>>15959724

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>>15959769

I know, but she's an ugly butch woman, so the risk is there.

>>15959788

>>15959785

>>15959782

https://rebel-galaxy.com/rebel-galaxy-outlaw-launching-on-epic-games-store-qa/

Apparently it is releasing on Tencent's platform first, with a 1-year delayed launch on other platforms. In other words, it's still going to be a long wait.

>>15959884

It's because China is offering them a higher ratio than Steam (88-12 vs 70-30, don't know GoG's). They seem to be rationalizing it as some moral stand to create a new niche for indie devs, but really they're just selling out to the Chinese in the hopes of more money.

>>15959951

I know but the rates won't matter if they sell substantially less

you can't make more on ratios alone those ratios only matter if they sell near what they would on a larger platform (steam) that extra 18% won't matter if they only get ~40% of sales

>>15959966

the full list

https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/Epic-games-store-exclusives#

>Indieshit that no ones ever heard of

>Two indieshits with rep (Super Meatboy and the game we're talking about now)

>an "exclusive" indieshit that's only exclusive in that it's early access retard beta testing is on the platform while the actual release is going to be on steam

>and a canceled Unreal Tournament

seriously this was their plan?

this is how they're going to fight steam?

oh and I forgot

>The last parts of the dying walking dead game that continued to sell less and less as it went on

Watch out Valve you might choke on all that money and laughter

I mean to be fair it also has the spiritual successor to the Jaws video game that Nostalgiafags like me would actually consider cool

At least this is in it's own way good news only two things worth getting on it instead of having games I'm actually looking forward too get gimped in mass

>>15960121

Well, hopefully we get a pirate versions sooner than later.

>>15960151

Any thoughts on Osiris and Everspace?

Bup

>>15916522

>>15916517

you're a faggot just download it newfag.

>>15959951

Do they really think the Chinamen will be any less tyrannical than any other company if given the chance?

If anything, Gaben and steam have been surprisingly benevolent over the years, siding with the customers more often than with the devs and publishers.

>>15867263

It's now in permanent maintenance mode, or whatever it's called when a game is dead and will never receive more updates. It'll probably get shut down soon.

On a whim I played that Jurassic Park game by Frontier and let me tell you: It explains a lot. I thought FDev were just lazy specifically regarding ED but no, they design all their games like that.

The entire game is basically time gated with a million 2-5 minute timers you click over and over again to progress. It's laughable.

>>15981902

>Friend: "Let's check out the new update! They fixed a bunch of things!"

>Literally half an hour of loading screens later finally meet up

>Now what

>Nothing to do

>End up shooting NPCs with terrible AI for an hour

>Go to bed salty

>It's been half a year since then

FDev really fucked up that game too

Also

>NPCs still cheat

>>15981807

>Not saying which game

>Have to skim through the change log to find keywords

>It's X4

I'll never get that minute back

The main problem with Open is that ED is a very grind to win type game due to Engineers. PvP where you have to grind to be on equal footing with other players is utterly retarded.

>>15959860

>In other words, it's still going to be a long wait.

>not sailing the high seas

>>15982968

The instances of actual PvP and the reason to engage in it in the first place are almost nonexistent anyway.

>>15977564

How's the game? I nearly bought it but it seemed a little light on content.

>>15993388

Can't say really much about this game, controls setup are aimed for gamepads without an option to change nonlinearity of axises. And there is no head movement. The economic system is good and very small, so it's easy to see any impact on economy instantly, once you deliver demanded goods or destroy someone's freighter.

After a few hours I was too tired of trading, so I haven't tried combat in campaign, only in skirmish.

Game is sector based and their size are small.

For me it's harder to feel distances between sectors, cause you only get a timer of days you can skip, rather than a graphical map with actual position of bodies in this star system and trajectories of your fleet.

Is it worth playing Dreadnought?

>>15995160

It's like World of Tanks with 6dof movement and even shittier balance.

>>15997249

I`ll reserve my opinion on Juno until I have played it. I`m more salty that the game will be an exclusive of the fucking (((Epic Game Store)))

>>15997249

why can't marketingfags ever answer questions professionally and like a normal human would

>>15997249

Fifteen years ago this sort of tripe might have made me interested, now it just makes me disgusted. If they can't answer in a concise and professional manner they should give over their PR to someone who can.

>>15998157

My cousin recently got a fiance of some 40 year old "only thing I love more than myself is my son", owner of a 8 year old with autism. I finally understand this meme

>>15997249

>Use a gamepad

>For a dogfighting game

Are these people fucking retarded? It's common knowledge that a space game controls best with keyboard and mouse. Gamepads are shit and HOTAS are there for immersion.

>>15997249

>No capitol ships

IS THIS NIGGER SERIOUS?! I PLAYED REBEL GALAXY EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BLACKGATE, YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS! I can't believe I was planning on pirating this. Can't even play as a robot either.

>>15999771

How old is your cousin.

>Try out Star Control because see the shit storm surrounding it and wanna see what it's like.

>You go around systems mapping shit collecting resources.

>Huge ass map with about a 100 star systems.

You know I'm gonna go visit them all. This is tickling my autism.

New GalCiv3 expansion adds hypergates and artifacts.

I feel like they're slowly turning that into SINS.

>>16000303

It's just Symphony in German.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/472634-Update-3-3-02?fbclid=IwAR0VD2pYLoPEXyMQC4DXqsvuef6j2D7EbLQTm3f95A-QWjhX-Bv-g_Mdb-8

>Renamed a starport in the Havans starsystem to Anita's Legacy.

What does it mean?

>>16004772

Probably just some lore reasons.

>>16002643

>humans inventing hypergates

NO!

Humans invented the hyperspace travel that allowed FTL without the use of hypergates. That was one of the things that made humans special. At least one empire in GalCiv would give pre-FTL civilizations hypergate tech just so they wouldn't have to go through STL travel speeds to invade them. That was actually how humans invented hyperdrive tech; the empire that used that method to conquer gave them the tech and humans instead turned out hyperdrive tech. Humans then proceeded to go around the galaxy handing out hyperdrive tech to everyone, which was as stupid as it sounds given the empires that got it.

I'm happy to see it make a return, but at least make something that makes sense with the ridiculous lore of the games. Something that would fit the game mechanics and flow. For example: as empires expand they see the old tech in new light as it allowed faster, but more rigid travel than hyperdrive.

I am happy to see the shape shifting dragon jews return, though. It was amusing to see your cash in flow spike as the galaxy went to shit from wars everywhere.

>>15864671

>Ctrl+F: Independance War 2: Edge of Chaos

>0

What a shit thread

>>16004772

Afaik people can petition FDev to rename places and factions, so maybe it has something to do with that. It's how you get Beagle Point and shit.

>>15901496

Sigh. Updating my years-trusted driver version right now just to play X4. I hope it's worth it

FOR THE PRRROFITSSSSSS

Hey guys, remember that one game where you got to command and control your own capital ship and it's crew, and you got to fight for Space Romanovs?

YEAH, ME NEITHER, THANKS TO INCOMPETENT FUCKS BEHIND MANDATE.

>>15995160

I played it near launch and early game was alright, but mid to later tier ships were balanced like shit + matchmaking sucked, so it all falls apart. Not sure if that has improved since then. Probably not though.

>>15997249

Those wacky answers means this is a cool game made by cool people who totally don't each own 11 cats, are alone in life, and are in their late 30s to early 40s. Seriously though, this sounds like cancer, and any small amounts of interest I had left are now gone.

>>16002869

Chinks are throwing around money to get more users to spy on/steal from.

>>16008433

>fractured space but looks actually fun

I hope it isn't pozzed either but I've never heard of either of those companies so who knows.

>>16009063

Looks like it has exactly the same fucking issues as that game too.

>>16009918

>ask me anything about BFGA 2

have the devs already started flailing around with the nerfing, completely destroying faction viability, yet like they did to 1?

Is it the same micromanagement ability fest like 1?

Are they seriously going forward with that retarded control points system?

Did they get rid of the "you have to wait X number of battles for your damaged and destroyed ships to come back" system for multiplayer

>>16009918

Is BFGA2 any good?

>>16010580

Is it true that they removed autocast?