c8bd98 No.16024167
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c8bd98 No.16024180
Anyone know any good space strategy games?
940241 No.16024329
I wish there was something akin to a non-horror Dead Space 1. I.e., a game where you enter a derelict space ship and restore all of the various sub-systems - its drive, life support, and whatnot - back into a functioning state.
39abd3 No.16024375
>>16024167
So blasted through the dozen or so missions in the campaign. First off, graphics look gorgeous. There's something about mods for old games like Bridge Commander and Battlezone 2 that replace the old textures with more modern ones and it makes you feel like you're flying through space and shit.
That said, there were still plenty of bugs present. Dialog repeated over and over in the first mission forcing me to restart, enemy units would fire on your units in cut-scenes while they did nothing, phases cut out on some ships. That kinda thing. Also if you choose a ship like an Excelsior class for instance, anytime you select it, it will say "Excelsior standing by." Any of the mod ships like the Star Stalker class for instance won't say anything. Just a small thing but it does break immersion.
One thing that this and Bridge Commander have in common is that the AI flight paths in combat suck. Much easier to assume control of a ship and direct it yourself.
You can only choose Fed ships for various missions as well, if you pick one of the custom ones with Romulans or Klingons for instance, it defaults to 4 ships already on the map.
That being said, was still pretty good. Also one of the last Star Trek games for awhile since as Mad Doc folder, CBS split and the Abrams movies were made.
Also 2 new favorite ship classes, Star Stalker looks like a cross between Sovereign and Excelsior classes while I live the X engine design on the Defender class.
ced02d No.16024377
Are there any other real time 4X games like Star Ruler?
e49036 No.16024406
>>16024180
Homeworld
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Distant Worlds
Master of Orion
d4d27b No.16024711
I can't believe someone last thread was seriously endorsing the abortion of stock textures, bad handmade textures and ripped Freespace models that was Freelancer Crossfire.
2b9477 No.16024716
Can I pirate Hazeron yet?
cc6992 No.16024744
>>16024711
That looks like the plane from the box of Starlancer to me.
1cbdbc No.16024842
>>16024180
Battlefleet: Gothic Armada
45ecac No.16024970
>>16024842
Maybe. That is more of a RTT than a RTS, as there is no resources, building up of forces and instead its about using set resources to solve a problem how best to murder chaos cultists. Which is a problem itself because higher level ships cost the same as a first level ship.The quality is also all over the place because of their attempts to balance things, among other things like the AI being pretty damn stupid at points. The Eldar AI will frequently ram you like retards in their frail ships.
1cbdbc No.16025043
>>16024970
You make valid points. I mentioned it merely because the aesthetics were top notch and lining up a perfect spread of torpedoes / ramming is extremely cathartic.
91ebe1 No.16025111
Any of you guys didn't refund X4? Did they improve it?
3ffd99 No.16025176
Is there anything that can scratch my homeworld itch? I can only do so many salvage runs before it gets old. Cataclysm was good but I don't like how limited fleet size was and the beast niggering half my fighters is bullshit.
320d84 No.16025217
>tfw finally working on scifi backlog
>didn’t realize how fucking good scifi was before sjw infiltration
Probably gonna watch Babylon 5 along with DS9 and Stargate. What’s weird is even the CG from some of the 90’s shows look better than what we see today. Anyways, is there a chart of recommended scifi/space games? Only one I have on my pc at the moment is Sword of the Stars 1.
782c22 No.16025254
>>16025217
>Babylon 5 along with DS9 and Stargate
These still have a little POZ in them, but I appreciate that it was always contained to single episodes, and never really spread to consume the shows. (SG Atlantis has some annoying SJW shit though)
>recommended scifi/space games
As always I will recommend Sins of the Prophets. It's a space RTS based in the Halo universe, and you can set up 1700's British-style firing lines with giant railguns to fight the aliens, and drop nukes when they enter knife fight range.
320d84 No.16025276
>>16025254
>Atlantis has sjw shit
That’s disappointing, that’s one of the shows I was looking the most forward to watching, though I bet that it’s fairly ignorable when compared to the preaching that’s in today’s shows.
>British-style firing lines with giant railguns
That sounds pretty amazing.
91ebe1 No.16025291
>>16025276
Atlantis isn't that bad, SGU was 1000% worst. I'm rewatching it right now and the pozz level are acceptable, Babylon 5 and SG1 pre-Ori are alright too, except if you are the kind of guy to imagine SJW shit every time a woman talk. In your place I would watch it, Atlantis has problems though, they fumble the whole first season trying to find their footing. Start with B5 and DS9.
782c22 No.16025325
>>16025276
Atlantis is still worth it. It has some of the better space battles, and gets to flaunt how much humanity has progressed from "4 guys with smg-s walk through a gate" to "Fleet of unstoppable deathray cruisers bristling with super-nuclear missiles."
>That sounds pretty amazing.
It is pretty amazing, that's why I shill for it. Halo lore has insane potential that was only realized in that mod, and some of the books. I should get some gifs or webms of the bettter fights; they showcase the cool stuff better than the static pictures.
320d84 No.16025345
>>16025291
Nah, normally I find it pretty ignorable, I was even fine with the “girl power” episode of SG-1. Really, the only time it gets on my nerves is when it’s obvious political/social preaching that becomes the focus of the show and that normally only happens with entertainment after 2010.
And yeah, I’ve been jumping back and forth from DS9 to SG-1 when I start getting a little burnt out on one. Figured I’d throw Babylon 5 in there as I see people swear by it in these threads.
>>16025325
So I need Sins of the Solar Empire:Rebellion for that mod correct? I assume the GOG version should work fine with it?
00f175 No.16025351
>>16025217
>before poz
Mainstream sci-fi has been pozzed since Star Trek TNG.
>>16025254
>a little
Holy shit anon. Babylon 5 was all about the poz.
Rampant race mixing, psychic nationalists were viewed as backwards, muh immigrants, etc.
DS9 was muh spoonhead NAGHTZEEZ versus muh enlightened israeli holy terrorists, versus space jews versus commies.
Even stargate was pozzed with its love of euphoria.
91ebe1 No.16025361
>>16025325
What bothers me with Stargate is how they idolize the Ancients Lanteans when they are the one who are the reason for all the bad shit happening not just in one but 3 galaxies.
Pegasus: Colonize the galaxy and have orgies and shit until they create Wraith. War for hundred years happen then they evacuate to Earth and ascend. They could correct their mistake and not have the humans live as cattle for 10 000 years but decide they don't give a fuck.
Milky Way: Ascend and leave their toys behind for the Goa'uld to find, they use them to enslave humankind for thousands of years. Ascended ancients could correct it but they decide they don't give a fuck.
Avalon: Ascended ancients decide they could help their fellow humans and give them the gift of ascension, other ancients tells them to go fuck themselves, they get mad and leave, humans live happily.
782c22 No.16025365
>>16025345
I use GOG Sins Rebellion and I can confirm it works just fine.
>Babylon 5
The thing with Babylon is that the "science" part is fairly weak, but the characters and drama get insanely good around halfway into season 2 and STAY amazing for a long while.
>>16025351
>Rampant race mixing, psychic nationalists were viewed as backwards, muh immigrants
True, and they ease off of that as the galaxy goes to shit and military reality sets in, which is why season 1 is ABSOLUTE SJW TRASH and it gets better around the Shadow War.
782c22 No.16025383
>>16025361
>they idolize the Ancients Lanteans
They were only idolized until we knew more about them (at least on SG-1), with the way they slowly switch from some sort of mystical spiritual enlightenment thing to arrogant fuckwads who will let the Ori rape everything.
cad033 No.16025393
>>16025351
> muh enlightened israeli
if anything Bajorns are Palestinians
320d84 No.16025422
>>16025365
Cool, downloading the game and mod now.
102828 No.16025445
>>16025217
>recommended scifi/space games?
Homeworld+Cataclysm(called Emergence now because Blizzard are mega kikes)
Freespace 1/2
Wing Commander games
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
TIE Fighter
>>16025176
not really, even finding other strategy space games that have a Z plane is hard
Try Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, it's not homeworld tier but I liked it
782c22 No.16025462
>>16025445
>called Emergence now because Blizzard
>it's true
That's disgusting.
320d84 No.16025499
>>16025445
Tracking me down, Nexus looks especially cool
bb3647 No.16025516
is this the no mans sky thread
102828 No.16025518
>>16025499
>Nexus looks especially cool
the first part of the game is great, it does go slightly downhill after it goes from burning nips in the outer rim of the solar system to ayy lmaos
bb3647 No.16025537
91ebe1 No.16025551
>>16025499
Nexus gave me the biggest hard scifi blue balls ever. You like corporate espionnage in the space age with sweet sublight ships? Well fuck you, here's aliens and AI waifus.
782c22 No.16025579
>>16025551
And the early ships had that awesome retrothruster action going on. It was one of the only games where we see a ship have to worry about slowing down. Then they go and throw it all out.
320d84 No.16025617
>>16025518
>>16025551
>>16025579
I can’t tell, so does it start well, but end shitty, or just go in a different direction halfway through?
782c22 No.16025636
>>16025617
It started amazingly, and i didn't finish it. I don't think it went shitty, but it just became something I didn't care for (particularly in the plot/lore department, because "defeating the ancient evil that has reawoken" will never be as interesting as "megacorp political intrigue with black ops space fleets"). Also in my case, the combat later on was SLOW, as in it took several minutes of continous firing at point blank range to take things out. Might've been because I was on easy difficulty, but i'm not sure how the game handles difficulty settings.
4fd7e2 No.16025639
>>16025617
It goes in a different direction, the game starts with "low-tech" human ships but you find an alien cruiser in an asteroid and you commandeer it. You get to jump to another system and find a lost human expedition and link up with them and their advanced ships. Low-tech are pretty much never used again but they felt really good. The game is still excellent.
102828 No.16025678
>>16025579
honestly it's sad there's not more low tech scifi games where everything is still confined to the solar system and shit takes months at best to travel to/waiting for the right orbit to launch
320d84 No.16025696
>>16025636
>>16025639
Gotcha, I appreciate the rundowns. Definitely sounds like it’s worth a play still but I’ll keep all that in mind.
81fd89 No.16025725
>>16025678
Threadly recommendation for Children of a Dead Earth
782c22 No.16025744
>>16025678
I unironically liked the story campaign for CoD: Infinite Warfare for being confined to the solar system (some ships have jump drives, but they can't go far enough to reach nearby stars). If only they gave a shit about writing a decent villain faction and fleshing out the world a bit, I could have legitimately called it a great piece of science fiction. Had that wonderful Halo knockoff homage in it's visual and technological design, with a bit of Battlestar Galactica tossed in for good measure. Gameplay was nothing special though, obviously.
>>16025725
Haven't gotten to it yet. How does it play?
45ecac No.16025793
>>16025579
One compromise that I never understood why I don't see very often is low grade military, freighter and low grade civilian ships shouldn't have fancy shit like antigravity or inertial dampeners. These ships would have more of the spinning crew sections. You cut costs where you can, and dealing with radiation shielding is a lot more important but I vaguely remember more games talking about skimping on radiation shielding than artificial gravity.
81fd89 No.16025795
>>16025744
Autismal ship-designing simulator with a short campaign of real time missions attached to it. The core concept of the game is a small-scale near-future solar system war using a technological state mostly frozen in the 90s materials in the first screenshot were modded in. It does its best to be 100% hard SF but there's compromises due to hardware restraints, small dev team, "games are supposed to be fun", etc.
82e6ae No.16025807
Desert is just flat space with dunes.
782c22 No.16025826
>>16025744
>If only they gave a shit about writing a decent villain faction
Pic related by the way. Everybody knows evil totaliarian rulers make gun ownership mandatory.
>>16025793
>I vaguely remember more games talking about skimping on radiation shielding than artificial gravity
Fuck, I feel the same way, but I can't remember any.
>>16025795
>Stuff about fuel pumps and propellant mass
I love that.
>>16025807
The landers in DoK are my wet dream of giant aircraft. Did you go full assault Kapisi like I did? Just assign all the support cruisers to repair it and charge the enemy like a maniac.
102828 No.16025841
>>16025807
>tfw no Homeworld game about being Turanic Genghis Khan
>no final battle involving kicking the shit out of Higaaran and Taiiden armada sent to stop you
4fd7e2 No.16025866
>>16025826
>>16025807
Prepare for Vaygr occupation.
00f175 No.16025868
>>16025393
>he ignores the entire prophecy sub plot
The writers took the entire kike lore and compressed it into space kikes.
But I don't remember if they included child sacrifice and mutilation.
>>16025365
>and military reality sets in
You mean the part where Sinclair becomes a mega race mixer, psycorp is shown to be even bigger ebil NAZEES by destroying people's personalities, and earth nationalists are shown to doctor footage for propaganda.
And then there's the woman power shit laced throughout the series with Ivanava and Delen.
>Ivanava the space kikess lesbian
I used to like the show, but I can't stand it anymore.
Garaboldi is okay though, and I especially like Londo.
Londo sitcom /tv/ poster is a bro.
4fd7e2 No.16025902
>>16025868
The Shadows did nothing wrong, Londo is the only one who answered the question correctly.
320d84 No.16025927
here's something a tad bizarre. Anyone know why I don't have the option to quit the game?
df4f17 No.16026486
>>16025927
Because you are now in Halo art Online.
Remember, if you die in game you will die for real!
ce9ece No.16026526
>>16025826
>>16025807
I wish there was a game like DoK with basebuilding and survival against aliens.
782c22 No.16026578
>>16025866
>Prepare for Vaygr occupation.
Sexiest moment in that game was during the invasion speech when the ground defences shoot back. It really highlighted the difference between 1 and 2.
>>16025927
I have no idea why that would be happening. If the issue persists after a computer restart, you can bother at the SotP devs, they're pretty responsive from what I can tell.
Also, if you're still wanting recommendations, House of the Dying Sun is a good fighter game with light RTS elements. It's different from the original product they were going to develop and very short, but very solid with great audio design. Weapons have a nice punch to them as well. Despite the marketing, it doesn't need VR at all.
380bfc No.16026584
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Any recommendations for space game soundtracks that actually give you the feeling of being tiny and alone in the gigantic interstellar void?
Thinking of something like embed related.
782c22 No.16026608
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>>16026584
The song that plays on the ship in Strafe has a much more optimistic feeling of the big void. It has an undercurrent of what you were looking for.
Also the Factorio soundtrack nails the isolation feeling if that's what you're after.
303ec2 No.16026666
>>16025365
I was just thinking about babylon5 and how much I hate these fucking minbari "we dont lie, unless we do". But I guess its not their fault for being written this way, if you think about it they were perfectly consistent with their shit. But humans were just straight up terribly written. "We were genocided and now we love aliens! except 3 solders who hated them but they were biggots!."
782c22 No.16026698
>>16026666
Humans were undoubtedly cancer. Especially the HomeGuard or whatever they were called.
>"We put humans first, not aliens. We will achieve this goal by killing both human and alien ambassadors and nuking human stations."
It was the dumbest shit ever.
G'Kar and Londo were amazing, though. I'd rather the show have just been about them, honestly.
cad033 No.16026949
>>16025868
I've always considered The Bajorans Palestinians and The Cardassians Israeli's (visting, sharing the land, stealing it) with the difference being the Bajorans won
>kike lore
The prophecy and the nature of the religion was fleshed out in DS9 but the situation was set up in TNG either way I'm not sure kike lore contains "son of god" stuff
>>16026698
>G'Kar and Londo
The best thing about those two is that the first season made it clear the only difference between the Centauri and the Narn is that the Narn lost.
Even when the Shadows talk to them G'Kar only losses out on their support because of his mood at the moment he says the exact same thing Londo did after that but it's too late he already told them to piss off.
320d84 No.16027250
>>16026486
So long as I’m stuck in pre343 Halo, that’s fine.
>>16026578
Turns out using the new version of the mod on anything below 1.92 will cause that error. I’ve got it working now though.
4fd7e2 No.16028301
>>16026949
To G'Kar's defense when Morden came to see him he was busy fucking human bitches.
782c22 No.16028556
>>16026526
I just "played" Project Eagle because of that cool trailer you posted. It's boring as shit and the astronauts are too tiny to actually find without a guide. It's more of a sketchfab model than anything else.
2e99c8 No.16028616
>>16024711
>Freelancer Crossfire
Oh boy I remember that piece of shit
>rebalancing means making everything 10x longer to kill for no good reason
>Includes anticheat even in singleplayer
>can't alt tab
>can't use F1 in space
>if it detects certain programs running it crashes
>can't even make cruise speeds higher to reduce the absolute fucking borefest that are Sol / Altair / Galactic Core exploration because it checks all the mod files before launching and most likely even has a special check for cruise speed exclusively on top of that in their modified .exe
>If you use a map explorer like datastorm it doesn't really work because all the custom sectors are overlapped on top of each other
>mentioning anything about needing some help or wanting outright maps or cheats to the new systems would get you banned from their circlejerk.
>previous things wouldn't be so bad if their placement of things made any actual fucking sense
>never fixed the infinite acceleration glitch though
>never fixed save editing either
>with some basic knowledge can just get yourself in the admin station that has all the goodies including the "admin only" Estharian Ragnarok Gunboat.
>taunted the mods with screenshots of me using the admin ship for shits and giggles years ago which pretty much instantly got me banned.
>>16024744
Yeah they've imported a lot of stuff from Starlancer and not just ships but the stations and capital ships too into the game, and then also shit from Star Wolves which also clashes a lot with the rest since it actually looks better than the rest of the models despite being from a strategy game where you're never really supposed to look too close at the ships.
91ebe1 No.16032043
What can I do to enjoy Elite Dangerous? It looks like devs were trying to make the most boring game ever,even traveling is tedious as fuck.
4db96e No.16032087
>>16032043
>What can I do to enjoy Elite Dangerous?
Uninstall E:D and install X3AP Litcubes.
782c22 No.16032482
>>16032043
Bounty hunting and participating in high intensity conflict zones (try to find "war" systems from the map screen for these) in a Viper is fun for a few hours, and taking trade missions from station to station is good for another few hours. Aside from that, it's not so good. I hear there's ways to make good money exploring if you metagame and look up routes people have planned but I don't think that's fun so I didn't do it. I admit that watching the nebulas and starfields slowly change as you spend 18 hours slowly jumping to the galactic core is soothing and comfy, especially with the engines purring in your ears; I watched the last 2 seasons of SG-1 doing this. Thargoids are overrated, and the glamour of encountering them in the 'Goid sectors wears off fairly quick; you will probably not reach the point where you can take them on; only the worst of autists ever reach that point.
>It looks like devs were trying to make the most boring game ever,even traveling is tedious as fuck.
This is more true than you know. Fdev hates fun and will nerf anything they see people having fun with. They're a bunch of arrogant snobs.
782c22 No.16032502
>>16032043
Also, it is imperative that you set up the controls for the free camera modes. Taking pretty pictures is one of the best parts of E:D because it's something you can look back on to remember the major journeys you took. Without the screenshots, all exploration will feel meaningless because you'll forget it. I'm not saying the game is good (because it's a horrible game), but pretty pictures numb the pain.
ce9ece No.16032554
>>16028556
Nigger it's an interactive diorama meant to show concepts for a possible future Mars base sanctioned by NASA, not a game.
782c22 No.16032614
>>16032554
I know, but they could have at least done something with it, like Moonbase Alpha did.
ce9ece No.16032747
>>16032614
Everyone's telling them to, but they've been quiet.
021453 No.16033399
>Play Empire at War Absolute Chaos Mod
>Recently Took Over Nal Hatta, Tatotine and Other Shit from Tyber Zann
>Have a fleet of 6 Imperial III Star Destroyers (Shits lazers and Missles), 5 lancers, 24 Squadrons from Imperial III (Tie Defender and Tie Schimitar), Space Station Reinforcements(2 Imperial Star I Star Destroyer, 4 Lancers, 1 Interdictor and 12 Squadrons of Tie Defenders and Missle Boats), Golan II and Battlestation (With More Reinforcements Imperial I, Victory Class, 2 Tartan Cruisers and so on) and Normal Imperial Officer
>As Much as possible send all of them close to the space Station and form a defensive ring
>Rebels Red Army Rush with bombers and Fighters and almost killed 2 Imperial III's
>then The Heavy Carriers and Carriers coming in with more Cancerous Fighters and Bombers
>Squadron Screening and lancers are the only thing saving my Capital Ships
>Fucking Carriers have very High Health so its tedious to gun them down
>They just rush and rush towards the space station and the Defense Fleets i had are battered to the point very few can fight back
>After 1 hour and 30 Min we won and with massive Tie Fighers(and Variants) and bombers (Variants) casualty though atleast cap ships are safe
Jesus fucking Christ, Fuck Rebellions Carriers and Bonus Damages from Fighters and Bombers
021453 No.16033404
>>16033399
*
>Rebels sent a fleet to Correlia
>fuck
cbcd1d No.16033443
>>16032087
It's been so long, all I can remember is that litcube is absolute shit, but not why.
e22bb2 No.16033582
>>16033443
>Major changes to map
>Added Phanon(Player 2 which hates you)
>Added OCV(Weird mix of Xenon and Kha'ak, that slowly will conquer entire map if you allow it)
>Removed Kha'ak
>All ships are either made from paper-mache or are awfully slow, so you won't accomplish very much without actually building self sufficient complexes for all possible materials and docks in several unknown sectors.
At least Litcube's rebalance to weapons and missiles was good.
89f536 No.16033599
>>16032502
>taking pictures
>something to remember
I agree
f106c7 No.16033607
>>16032087
This.
We all wish ED was better but it simply isn't designed to be an enjoyable game.
cbcd1d No.16033625
>>16033582
Right, the phanon/OCV sounded good, but I never really got far enough in Litcube to find if they were actually fun or just annoying.
I think the main things might have been the economy rebalancing and slow everything. Ships in Litcube cost a ridiculous amount, and most ways to get money from vanilla are nerfed to hell as well.
e22bb2 No.16033692
>>16033625
>the phanon/OCV sounded good, but I never really got far enough in Litcube to find if they were actually fun or just annoying.
>Phanon
It's just annoying with its 8 phases. Until Phanon goes broke 8 times or gets enough money it will go straight into next phase until last one. Victory condition against them is just to completely destroy everything they have.
>OCV
Their advance can be stalled by dropping 20+ Lasertowers on gate between Unknown Sector Omega and Tokyo Lambda at both sides of gate, until Phanon or OCV destroys them. Some fast ship with decent cargo bay can be used to reclaim some minerals from destroyed/capped OCV M4 transporters. Just don't get too close to sector center.
>I think the main things might have been the economy rebalancing and slow everything. Ships in Litcube cost a ridiculous amount, and most ways to get money from vanilla are nerfed to hell as well.
Scavenging ships, weapons and missiles to sell or to use them yourself still works fine. For early game at least.
782c22 No.16033742
>>16033599
I just wish the screencaps were higher resolution with VR.
89f536 No.16033809
>>16033742
>93k Cr
You'd think he'd fuking drop more considering how much he embezzled. Fucker is jewing you even after death.
91ebe1 No.16033993
>>16033742
Bugged screenshots in low res in vr is a known bug since a lomg time, might be corrected in 2025.
3e5719 No.16034000
>>16033399
>42 fucking Y-Wings
Build more fighters and sacrificial frigates to screen your caps. You got lucky here.
3b8bd3 No.16034012
>>16033399
I see you're having fun. Wait until you get a dozen Marauders and a billion corellian missile ships.
8f8d03 No.16034079
>>16034012
I got it worse
Same Fleet Composition as above for both planets in pic related except Yaga Minor had a Hyper Velocity gun so it was kinda easy
8f8d03 No.16034082
>>16034079
Fucked up, The Maw Had Natasi Daala while Grandpa Pelleon has Yaga Minor
91ebe1 No.16034102
>>16034082
>Natasi Daala
My Rebellion waifu
782c22 No.16034107
>>16034079
>K-wings*56
I've never even played this mod, but holy shit that's bad.
8f8d03 No.16034111
>>16034102
>Rebellion
Anon, its Empire, Tarkin's Lover in legends
91ebe1 No.16034112
>>16034111
I was speaking about the game Star Wars Rebellio, played the shit out of it with the Empire side of course
8f8d03 No.16034121
>>16034107
If you want it really scary imagine Rebellion's Heavy Carriers carrying them in late game
3b8bd3 No.16034141
>>16034079
>>16034107
All EaW mods that add new units are terrible. So much useless shit you'll never use, and so many more enemies you'll hate fighting.
82e6ae No.16035210
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Imperium Galactica 3, the game that showed so much potential yet never was.
8bd481 No.16035814
>>16034079
>>16033399
>>16034012
I remember playing FoC and taking over the galaxy as imps. The rebels had no planets but they had 1 massive fleet that kept ping ponging between the two planets I own. The bulk of their fleet was the bullshit MC-30 frigate that shat out torpedoes like it was going out of fashion. Fuck those things.
addec3 No.16035858
>>16035210
Waaait… Am i looking at Nexus the jupiter incident here?
The music sounds similar, the alarm female voice is same, the sound effects are same, the ships look similar.
Dafuq?
782c22 No.16035864
>>16035858
As I read it, the devs had to abandon Imperium Galactica, but were able to take many of the assets, which they used to create Nexus.
82e6ae No.16035901
>>16035858
Nexus was a stripped down and shallow reflection of what IG3 was supposed to have been. Just grab the IG3 demo from somewhere and compare the battle complexity.
52a045 No.16038205
>>16028616
The stupid huge systems were awful, but the entire thing with its utter and complete lack of coherent artstyle was probably the biggest turnoff.
c8bd98 No.16038711
ENDLESS SPACE IS FREE UNTIL NEXT WEEK IF YOU LINK YOUR STEAM ACCOUNT
fc9311 No.16038730
>>16025744
>I unironically liked the story campaign for CoD: Infinite Warfare for being confined to the solar system
Yeah me too. IW did a better Destiny than Bungie. I love the art direction, clearly a lot of thought was put into it. Sad that the world building felt flat, especially on the enemy side.
I always see Infinite Warfare as the Black Flag of CoD, the game should've been a new franchise. that way they could have spent more time on the development of the solo game and removed the multiplayer.
Also CPO Boats is a cute
a96a31 No.16039178
c8bd98 No.16039257
>>16039178
You have to link your steam account with your games2gether account
https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space/blogs
a96a31 No.16039347
>>16039257
Ah, OK. I already have Endless Space, but it's cool to see how Amplitude thinks about their customers
7834f7 No.16040543
Any news on Rebel Galaxy 2?
897005 No.16040608
>>16040543
Devs are chink loving faggots that made it exclusive to the (((Epic Store))) for months on release.
a3a3ae No.16040718
>>16025445
>(called Emergence now because Blizzard are mega kikes)
You mean gearbox are mega pussies that changed the name to avoid any unnecessary drama against (((friends)))
63f21d No.16040865
There's this really good fanfiction story that 's a BSG and SG1 cross over.
Wouldn't have been funny if we got a new Star Gate,and a Parody of the colonials from BSG who were to show up & they were dumped on the laps of that planet that had that space ship race & lizard people?
BSG's Galactica and Pegasus are so hilariously weak when you consider that they don't even have basic shielding technology.
7834f7 No.16040893
>>16040865
Shields are for xeno lovers and weak faggots. Real human ships use armor.
c8bd98 No.16040909
782c22 No.16040929
>>16040924
I ain't clicking that "minecraft crack"
5cd904 No.16040944
>>16040909
Fuck, sorry. I deleted my post and redeemed it since I figured no one would respond after a while.
c8bd98 No.16041003
a3a3ae No.16041041
>>16025351
>Even stargate was pozzed with its love of euphoria.
I dont remember them saying anything against the christian religion, the only thing i remember that was related to christianity is when a Goa'uld was pretending being the devil and terrorizing a town.
The only episode that was pozzed was in SG-01, when the team found an advance civilization, they all agree to share technology if they helped them fight their enemies, they didnt like tealc though, so O'Neil was checking their crew list thingy and then he bailed the fuck out of there. The whole base blew up. They all asked why he decided not the help them, and the reason was, MUH RACISTS NAZIS, they were all WHITE, they didnt like tealc because he was a jaffa, they didnt like him because he was BLACK!
When I was a kid I didnt like that episode because it was retarded to let advance tech get blew up and let a qt girl die like that and now I think how pozzed the damn episode was.
>>16025361
I hated those faggots with a passion
>detects an ancient ship going .99999 at light speed
>holy shit! an ancient ship that actually works, lets get it!
>get near it and say hello and hope it doesnt start shooting
>they are actually people inside
>fug, no freebes
>they are actually ancient people from atlantis
>because they were almost at light speed, the time in the ship was super mega slow that is why they are still alive and missed the war against the bugpeople and everything
>thanks for fixing our ship!
>oh you live in atlantis? and you know the current political/geographical/something of the galaxy we dont know anything about?
>ok just let me, KICK YOU ALL OUT OF MUH ATLANTIS!
>oh look, the robotpeople we created and later nuked because reasons
>cease and desists!
>get holocasted agaig in their own house
>do we let just ONE of the anceint alive to join the atlantis team or something?
>nah
>so why did we wrote this whole damn episode?
>so can O'Neil had a reason to visit atlantis!
Also, the whole friendly but with some eating desorders female wrath was a missed opportunity
>>16025499
It got a HD re-release from THQ Nordic, its a pretty fun game that will never have a preequel and a sequel.
7834f7 No.16041071
>>16041041
I remember that SG-1 episode, it was with Rene Aubergonois (Odo). I found it retarded too because the only thing they asked was for fucking water, for once they met someone willing to share 'muh technology' and all they asked was something common as fuck on Earth.
Atlantis as a whole was a missed opportunity, I would have liked something different than Goa'uld 2.0 in another Galaxy. Weir made the most retarded decisions ever, I just rewatched that episode when Weir and Sheppard become host to 2 enemy fighter pilots and all the decisions they made were wrong, only Skinner had any sense and nobody listened to him.
>Hey I need someone to be the host to my 'husband', Sheppard want to do it?
>Yeah sure, especially since I have knowledge of layout, codes, weapons and tactics and everything important, I'll get an alien in my head
>Cool! Let's do it.
<Mackay: You'll never guess what happened!
40e001 No.16041247
>>16025351
>Holy shit anon. Babylon 5 was all about the poz.
You watch it wrong.
102828 No.16044176
>play a bit of new Battlefleet game
>devs didn't even get skelebots right
>they're supposed to be terrifying and near impossible to take on without overwhelming force/numbers
>instead they're pushovers who get their ships blown apart at a gust of space wind
In other news, lances are complete shit and the Eldar/Dark Eldar are again the bane of existence
Their AI is still terrible though and they'll probably run into each other forming a giant ship pile that you can torpedo and nova cannon freely. If they don't though they'll fuck your shit up
fc9311 No.16044230
>>16041071
> I found it retarded too because the only thing they asked was for fucking water, for once they met someone willing to share 'muh technology' and all they asked was something common as fuck on Earth.
They wanted heavy water so they could develop an atomic bomb.
42389d No.16044236
>>16044176
Get the biggest ship you can and charge at Eldar when they're recharging their shields but before they boost away. Got 3 kills when my battleship rammed ships in a straight line. Was awesome. Then while your big ship is soaking fire, you have your frigates and others follow in behind pick them off.
They can pick off your weaker frigates but if you have brace plus ramming you should be okay. That's assuming you're imperials. Not sure about other races. As for necrons, find it a bit weird they can mutiny and even have morale at all. You think soulless skeleton robots would be immune to morale.
I'm not even sure if ramming was covered in the tutorial, you got to do it with the Phalanx against the Blackstone fortress but works better if you practice it a few times with actual ships you can use.
I still suck at using torpedoes, the new population mechanic for a ship is a nice touch as well, allows you to salvage wrecks if they become unmanned and can hopefully warp them out to save them. Haven't gone up against anyone else apart from Chaos and Cosairs as Imps in the campaign, so I'm looking to see how the others are.
6e25c5 No.16044244
>>16041247
The series went to shit after the shadow war. Worse tack-on stories than fist of the north star.
7834f7 No.16044251
>>16044230
Yeah, they could have made robo-waifus or smoothies with that water for all the humans should have cared, they get water, we get technology. It was nearly the first time they encountered an alien race even willing to trade something of value instead of hoarding or hiding behind bullshit rules like the Asguards.
fc9311 No.16044263
>>16041071
>Atlantis as a whole was a missed opportunity
SGU was what Atlantis should've been. SGA forgot its premise after one season and became way too overpowered in the Pegasus galaxy.
7834f7 No.16044273
>>16044263
Yeah, SGU wasn't THAT bad and had begun to find it's niche when it was canceled. There was way too much drama though. A precursor to BSG.
fc9311 No.16044293
>>16025361
>What bothers me with Stargate is how they idolize the Ancients Lanteans when they are the one who are the reason for all the bad shit happening not just in one but 3 galaxies.
To me that's why I prefer SGU. The Ancients built a ship and let it fly on auto-pilot through the universe to accomplish one scientific mission.
>>16044251
I hated how the writers got rid of the asguards in the 10th season. It was such a dumb idea, Earth became way too OP. It's bad storytelling.
cad033 No.16044401
>>16044244
I think it had a great conclusion if you pretend there was no fifth season/only the last episode of season 5 exists
7834f7 No.16045079
>>16045033
Good old hard light forum autism.
03cd54 No.16046258
>>16044176
The tyranids are the bane of my existance right now, especially the old one (their mega ship boss).
So here's the problem with their boss fight.
>Boss has ungodly amounts of health, multiple nova cannon shots merely chave off a tiny bit of its health
>It comes with a constantly respawning fleet
>Wanna get close and dirty? PSYCHIC SCREAM! Now all of your ships are routing
Add to this the fact that tyranids OMNOMNOM your ship crews and turn your ships into drifting hulks and you got to my level of problems
102828 No.16046471
>>16046258
aren't the nids supposed to be completely unbalanced overall
I'm pretty sure win rates got leaked/released during the last beta and they were at 89-90% winrate since the current meta favors them so much
03cd54 No.16046484
>>16046471
Here's the win rate list from late beta times.
Tyranids are OP thanks to their average speed, high armor, troop value up the ass and tentacles that can come and eat your crew at any time.
Also their turrets double as this sorta living debuff that also eats your troops if you are close to them and their turrets respawn.
102828 No.16046494
>>16046484
the one that kinda surprises me for not being higher there is space marines. You'd think with their big focus on boarding/armor/good troops they'd be higher up along the lines of orks
d01a1c No.16046497
>>16041071
>lets act retarded episode
Yeah, these happen a lot in scifi. It just more noticable when supposedly smart people are involved in idiot plot. Its probably was due to Weir being totally useless for the show and they decided to involve her somehow.
>>16025361
How you can dislike race which made exploding tumor machine which activates by proximity, giving everyone who got close to it exploding cancer.
They start calling them screw-ups in SG-atlantis. Basicaly all the aliens were shitty except asgardians(as far as I remember). All the rest were dicks and they were wiped out because of it.
>>16045094
>unicode version is not working
>PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE THE REASON WHY TRUMP WON YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!
What the fuck?
>>16046484
>necrons 46%winrate
Shit game.
03cd54 No.16046502
>>16046494
It's because the space marines don't have big fat eating tendrils on their ships that they aren't doing better.
7834f7 No.16046602
>>16045033
The guy really want to get into the highlight section.
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8d0e40 No.16047428
>>16046471
>aren't the nids supposed to be completely unbalanced overall
So why do au exist then? Lorewise, any other faction should sneeze in their direction and kill them.
Also, Tyranid advantage is numbers, their individual ships are (and should be) trash.
bd0659 No.16047439
>>16025217
Speaking of, does anybody know where I can get good quality rips of Babylon 5 and DS9? I found some ~50GB bundle of Babylon 5 but the quality was absolute ass.
7834f7 No.16047446
>>16047439
I think B5 never made it above DVD quality, that's what I am watching, same wit DS9. On Netflix DS9 was the same quality as my DVD and torrent.
e49036 No.16047471
>>16047446
Yeah, it never made it into bluray but also the transfer was shit for all CGI due to the company being cheap ass jews.
7834f7 No.16049059
>>16048916
>until at least the Earth's destruction at the hands of the Shivans, the Vishnans, the Cylons and the Unknown Intellectual Mechanized Species (UIMS).
>No Cylons
I'm disappointed, I was at least expecting some BSG autism too.
320d84 No.16052206
>>16047446
I’m actually surprised with how good the first season of B5 has been. Perhaps it’s because I’ve never been exposed to much scifi, but aside from a poz episode here and there it’s really enjoyable and the cast are all really likable. I’m excited to see where the show goes.
cad033 No.16052276
>>16052206
Always remember that Ivanova is best girl
320d84 No.16052605
>>16052276
She’s pretty likable aside from being a literal space Jew.
7834f7 No.16052784
>>16052206
It's funny because most see the first season as literal trash. I'm with you though, I liked Sinclair more than Sheridan if only because Sinclair fought at the Line. But the actor who played Sinclair had health trouble, he was seeing and hearing things, becoming schizo and had to stop the series, you see it in the last episodes and the Season 3 (I think) episodes where he comes back, he looks medicated as fuck.
Ivanova in that blue night gown was in all my wet dreams back then.
2b9477 No.16052803
>>16052206
>>16052784
>most see the first season as literal trash
Really? The show feels like a slog without Sinclair, I lost all my marathon momentum when the new commander came on and I'm still stuck on the second season. Sinclair and Garibaldi had a really good rapport that's glaringly absent now.
I really hate time skips/offscreen status quo changes though. Hated it in Breaking Bad, hated it in nu-Battlestar, hated it in Evangelion Rebuild.
7834f7 No.16052813
>>16052803
The actor playing Sinclair was sick they had no choice, give it some time though, Sheridan starts slow but becomes a good character, he's more Humanity Fuck Yeah! than Sinclair and most of the time put human interest over alien's.
2b9477 No.16052825
>>16052813
Yeah, I went from outraged that Michael O'Hare wasn't on the show anymore to really bummed that he never had a chance to do more work. B5 was essentially his only major role, unless I'm missing something.
Sheridan comes off as too insecure or something, I'll get through it eventually though.
320d84 No.16052834
>>16052784
oh shit, I knew he was replaced in season 2 but I had no idea that was the reason why. That's pretty fucked up.
I figure they still finish up his whole plot with being kidnapped right?
782c22 No.16052842
>>16052834
Yeah, they wrap that up, I think in Season 3.
309d9d No.16052847
>>16052784
I dont know. I like both Station commander actors.
320d84 No.16052851
>>16052842
cool, figured the writer would be to autistic to just let that go.
7834f7 No.16052853
>>16052834
They finish his arc in Season 3, yeah it explains what happened at the Line and why the Minbari stopped the war while winning, also the disappearance of Babylon 4. You see the episode on B4 but from another angle.
I won't spoil it to you, it's a nice ending to his character with no ambiguity and the episodes were alright considering his mental illness.
320d84 No.16052858
>>16052853
nice, I'll probably jump out of the thread till I finish the show for now to avoid spoilers. I appreciate it.
75dae4 No.16052861
>>16025217
SG was pretty pozzed dude, you should re-watch it
7834f7 No.16052882
>>16052858
Rewatch at least the episodes on B4, Time Squared I think, and the one where he is kidnapped by Knight 1 and 2 to be interrogated. With the episode Signs and Portent where Morden come to ask the Question, these are the more important.
From a personnal note, I also liked the one with the war criminal furry who had the recipe for immortality, this episode shows the Vorlon agenda might not align with the other races where before they were shown as benevolent ancient aliens shepherding the others.
782c22 No.16052915
>>16052882
I really liked the nazi catwoman. Of course, the critical flaw of her plan was that cloning exists or scheduled breeding could be arranged, thereby nullifying the moral costs of her serum.
f468ae No.16053003
>>16025254
>3000-ton ferric-tungsten round at 12,000 kilometers per second
782c22 No.16053069
>>16053003
I did the math on it a couple weeks back. It comes out to 51.5 Gigatons of TNT, all pointed in a single direction. I'd be very curious how the guns handle recoil, whether by a specialized warp drive
or some other mechanism.
It remains my all-time favorite example of HFY.
2b9477 No.16053090
7834f7 No.16053112
>>16053069
Magnetic accelerator means minimal recoil.
782c22 No.16053124
>>16053090
>>16053112
What? Magnets work both ways, and on their own are not capable of violating equal+opposite action-reaction laws. They can avoid friction, but that's not recoil.
7834f7 No.16053840
>>16053124
I think it has to do with how long is the barrel for magnetic accelerator, it can be more easily compensated since the projectile is accelerated over a longer period of time.
782c22 No.16054046
>>16053840
While that's true in the sense that the force is spread more evenly (as the magnets accelerate over the entire length of the barrel), the projectile is being fired in a tiny fraction of a second. The station still needs to compensate for 2.1E+20 Joules of kinetic energy, which would be unchanged if it were a traditional gun. The greater time the slug is being accelerated (0.005 seconds vs 0.003 seconds, to throw out example numbers) is not relevant outside of a structural situation.
9ea47e No.16054254
81fd89 No.16054472
>>16053003
Imagine having to lift each of those slugs into orbit.
e14e12 No.16054928
>>16054472
But what if they were made in an orbital refinery?
61c6e8 No.16055427
>>16054928
Imagine having to lift the raw material for those things into orbit.
f668a4 No.16055435
>>16055427
But what if they were mined from asteroids?
782c22 No.16055449
>>16055427
They had space elevators. Also some low-gravity planetary bodies without atmospheres could use mass drivers to fling raw material into space.
e14e12 No.16056107
>>16046258
Today i met the Ork bosses.
Remember how in the first game you fought against one space hulk?
Well here you will be fighting against two, right after fighting off two previous waves of random Ork ships.
Also they come with tons of escort ships.
Luckily warboss Dumb and sub-Warboss Dumber get into an argument over command and start shooting at each other, making the last bit of boss fight significantly easier.
f468ae No.16056117
89f536 No.16059620
This just became available on trackers. I'm not convinced it's worth a download. Did anyone try it? From the videos I saw it seemed a bit bland.
0c9f02 No.16059793
>>16059620
I'm trying it out. Currently in the tutorial and building the space station is pretty cool as you get to move around it, running out of resources real quick though.
Just got the hanger which allows you to deploy to alien worlds often infested with bugs, it's like something out of star ship troopers in that you land, scramble for resources then get back with no bugs.
The clones you make can occupy positions on the space ship and serve as guards in case something goes wrong, which it probably will.
7c366f No.16059870
>>16025445
BSG Deadlock is great
cad033 No.16061035
I just watched Andromeda goddamn Tyr did not deserve to go out like that.
The best character in the show with the most interesting build up Sandbagged so hard
102828 No.16061293
>>16056107
>that mission where you help eldar against the sorcerer by boarding his ship
>no clear indication that you're actually supposed to try and warp out to advance the mission
>inquisinigger still undermining the defence of the entire sector
I'm gonna let this game lie until they roll out some patches, I might have dragged the campaign on too long as now it's just crash after crash and memory leaks everywhere
>>16059870
I really love that ships actually have their names on them
the Janus design is great too, it's just a meaty missile boat with armor strapped on to oversized engines
8d8966 No.16061995
>>16059793
Wish to amend.
Played for a bit and here's my two cents. They have a page on steam and were doing Betas there earlier but then switched to the epic store. This pissed a few people off and they're waiting till Jan 2020 to release it on steam, thing is I played a few hours on a cracked copy already and the gameplay is pretty bad. The basic cycle of gathering resources is a bit tedious, you go down to planet missions which you think is cool till you have to go 3 times to get everything and you only start with the basic stuff, requiring you to gather 2 DNA samples to unlock a research item like a weapon that you can carry to different playthroughs. Same with clones and the like. The grind is pretty high and mining is No Man's Sky in just waiting 10 seconds for a rock to burst.
Worst of all though is this business decision to wait an entire year before releasing it on steam. It'll be forgotten in 1 - 3 months and then when it does go on sale for steam it'll be boycotted by people who had it on their wishlists but had to wait an entire year to buy it. It's just stupid.
7834f7 No.16062001
>>16061035
Andromeda becane a shitshow in season 3 when they wanted something more episodic. It started to make no sense and being aired out of order, sometimes with a crew on Andromeda and a wing of slipfighters and sometime back to the previous season crew only. Also apparently Sorbo was a dick too. It's sad because I liked the show.
e7edda No.16062012
>>16061035
>>16062001
Much like Lexx, it's only good for the first two seasons.
c5415c No.16062051
>>16024744
>See you in hell, pilot!
Damn that was a good game.
cad033 No.16062217
>>16062001
>>16062012
I liked the third season (Tyr fathering the messiah of his race and using it to lead the empire come on you can't not love that) it's plots while dipping into the episodic more often still had the larger story in mind but I couldn't stand the 4th season that's when they changed the majority of the writing staff and it really shows
45ecac No.16062473
>>16059870
An anon recommended it in another thread, and I agree. My main issue with the gameplay is that the firing arcs are depicted in 2D, but Z-axis limits are important to consider. Everything else is pretty easy to figure out, but I don't remember seeing the z-axis on the arcs so I am figuring it out through trial and error. Not a big issue, but mildly annoying.
6b494c No.16062756
>>16041071
I just finished watching all of stargate and I didn't mind most of it but fucking McKay at the end of atlantis was just the same thing over and over again
>just give me a minute
>just give me a second
>oh no i broke everything
>i need more time
>just give me a second
>i am the smardesd
Still a good character though except for that shit and the dialed in bad things happening that he had to fix
>>16044263
>>16044273
I really liked the psychological aspect of sgu but it was so tedious and annoying at times just because the characters are so fucked and being retardedly against each other.
I made the terrible mistake of looking at the first issue of the sgu comic though. Has anyone read it? Or the Atlantis one? The sgu one had terrible drawing and cut out weird lines from scenes it was quoting from the show and the story just seemed retarded.
>>16054254
with mods it is and someone finally made a scriptable mod maker that can auto update with every game update (as long as the decompiler still works)
89f536 No.16062836
>>16059793
Alright, thanks anon. I'll probably give it a try cause there's plenty of seeders now. Anyone else had a chance?
Btw it's only available on the ching chong store so don't be stupid and think about buying.
0a5859 No.16063207
Any space game with focus on building ships and all parts from scratch?
782c22 No.16063314
>>16063207
Empyrion is a bad game and you shouldn't play it, but it does this.
82e6ae No.16063366
>>16063207
Master of Orion makes you build ships. Not your 'own', but still.
cc6992 No.16063421
>>16062051
Well well well, looks like the rookies have arrived
is all I remember cos my copy crashed when the Yamato appears. I think its the mission after the torpedo corvs and you follow them back to the carrier.
>>16063207
Reassembly lets you build all your ships. It has workshop support and some people have made some crazy stuff.
Avorion looks neat but its early access.
Both of them are "very positive" on steam, 85% and 88% respectively so might be worth checking out.
>>16063314
Empyrion is fine, its just a normal early access survival crafting game but with half decent autism building mechanics.
e63991 No.16064011
>>16044263
>>16044273
It felt like SGU tried to be Battlestar Galactica but it just fell flat on it's face from second episode onwards due to awful writing. How hard can it be to stay consistent and within the rules writers establish?
>oh god oh no we have fuck all in terms of supplies
>oh nevermind we have unlimited supply of ammo thank you very much
>and unlimited supply of everything
>also, no character will ever die because plot armor
bc272a No.16064118
>>16063314
>>16063421
Will check them out.
>>16063366
Not remotely what I asked for but thanks anyway.
84c6b0 No.16064201
>>16061293
Im at turn 105 or so and recently got Macragges Honour.
Whole of map is under my command and every other major faction has been pushed out.
Now there is only the chaos system left that was opened after i destroyed the four chaos champion fleets.
Gonna go full blog post now and spoil the bosses and what they are like (including that one chaos sorcerer you mentioned there).
Necrons
>They got another world engine, this one is named dark throne
>You fight in its orbit, destroying some orbital platforms and necron fleets that come to ruin your party
>The planet bombards you with some pretty powerfull cannons until you get to certain point in the mission
>A battle barge from Raven guard and a strike cruiser from Blood angels come to help you
>Raven guards crash land their barge on the planet in order to set up a vortex bomb
>They give their lifes heroically to end the Necron menace while you blow up their fleets in orbit
Eldar
>Here you get a choice, side either with an =][=nquisitor who wants to remove pointy ears, or side with the elven faggots to protect their craftworld, Eldrathain is with them btw.
>In my current campaign i decided to join the space dendrophiles and so had to fight the =][=nquisitor and his massive fleet of fellow imperial ships
>At my disposal were two fleets of pointy eared pansies who kept on getting themselves killed, also they gave me control of the craftworlds cannons
>One imperial genocide later the =][=nquisitor decides to move closer so he can fire his cyclonic torpedoes at the craftworld, i rush to him before he gets to the point and manage to kill him, only for the game to think that he had gotten to the point and reveal to me that it was all a plot to get the =][=nquisitor close enough so they could fry him with their defense guns.
>After this the faggoty elves leave the system saying that our temporary alliance is over, because they didn't say how long they were planning to fight alongside us, while clearly implying that they were gonna fight alongside us against the chaos forces
Chaos
>So far they have had quite a few sub-bosses, and here they are.
>One angry khornate who hides behind an asteroid field that teleports demons aboard your ships if you get too close to the asteroids
>One sneaky Tzeentchian who hides behind an asteroid field that teleports your ships around if you get caught up in their dimensional fuckery fields, also he pretends to be Abridail and his ships appear as imperial ships till you start damaging him
>One filthy Nurglite who hides behind an asteroid field that is infested by plague ridden flys that come to infect your ships if oyu get in between the asteroids while the flyes are migrating
>One lewd Slaaneshian whose asteroids stop your ships and cause their turrets to stop working for a while if you get close to them during the rave hour
>Then there was that one Sorcerer who you gotta board and not kill for the Eldar, some time fuckery goes around in that one and you get stuck in a time loop till you try and warp out of the fight the warp out button actually starts blinking during this part
>And then in a part after beating the four of those above captains you get an alert in Agrippiina system where they found a system that leads to holy terra (according to flavor text), you get to fight against the planet killer again in here, but don't worry, Macragges honour comes around at this point and at least in my game didn't have enough time to bring its guns to bear before my two Retribution class battleships and other assorted cruisers and battlecruisers tore the planetkiller a new one
cd13f6 No.16065478
>>16025276
>>16025254
> (SG Atlantis has some annoying SJW shit though)
I watched plenty of Atlantis episodes, but I can't remember progressive stuff that particularly stood out to me. This was way, waaaay back when it originally aired, so my memory is super hazy, but there's one thing I adamantly remember with crystal clarity: Dr. Weyr (sp?) is the most unlikeable fucking cunt to ever grace Stargate anything. Leaving aside the fact the actress herself does an underwhelming and stale job, she's such a horribly written character because everything she says and does is absolutely insufferable. She constantly has this "I'm a strong intelligent leader who does stupid things and acts like a bitch" aura, and because her actress isn't good, it feels like someone trying to act like a strong and smart leader when they clearly are neither.
782c22 No.16065581
>>16065478
It's mostly due to Weir, yeah. I noticed very quickly that she will say retarded shit and make awful decisions, and then the plot will worm and warp to make her correct retroactively. I chalk her up as a sort of Mary Sue. I saw everything about her character as feminist propaganda (unlike SG-1, Atlantis was primarily produced by pics related because "yes, every single time").
782c22 No.16065591
>>16065581
I should add that Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner are just some normal-looking dudes for contrast.
8e79f6 No.16066836
Didn't wanna start a new thread but grabbed Sunless Skies when it came out of early access. And the first thing that struck me was they've completely overhauled the UI so that it's actually bloody playable now. No longer do I wonder about where to get items or what the hell a shanty does, they've cut those down so it's more manageable. Also included a handy little log with locations of NESW for instance. Have yet to go into the combat or do deep exploration but the fact they've made the UI more friendly at least to me is a step in the right direction.
45ecac No.16068086
>>16064201
>Macragges Honour
I guessed it would be useless when I saw it. At least Abaddon's flagship has an unholy number of hangers.
d8bba6 No.16068131
>>16052784
>But the actor who played Sinclair had health trouble, he was seeing and hearing things, becoming schizo
Holy shit they should have kept him and let him just do random shit. I would have watched the fuck out of a show that was about a crazy fuck that ran a space station.
25e4d6 No.16068182
>>16068086
You get to keep the macragges honour and it also has shitloads of hangers.
The final fight against abby went like this.
>Fight against khornate captain and his theme fleet
>Next fight against Tzeentchian and Slaaneshi captain and their fleets
>Third wave is Matt Ward naw, it's just a fleet of Nurglites
>After that Abbies flagship comes around with an escort fleet and (at least in my playthrough) eldar come around to give me a helping hand
>Also the map is full of all types of theme asteroids mentioned here >>16064201
>Strategy i used to win the game was to camp in a corner behind macragges honour, spam fighters at enemies, set standing to long range firing and just long range macro rape everything into submission, including Abby
bc12b1 No.16070990
Sort of off topic, but does anyone know any good torrents for the complete Legend of the Galactic Heroes series? This thread has me wanting to watch it.
320d84 No.16071382
>>16070990
https://nyaa.si/view/1114478
this one has the series and movies but it doesn't look like there are any seeders at the moment.
a53295 No.16071736
102828 No.16072032
>>16068182
the fight against abaddon was a joke honestly, he ran his ship into the nurgle health reducing fields so the Vengeful Spirit was down to half health by the time I dealt with him
overall I don't think the campaign was a strong as the first game. Especially with a major lack of the nice drawn cutscenes the first game had that really helped to carry it
Most of the special missions were very meh as well, the only memorable ones were the ork ones
e49036 No.16072092
>>16062012
The third season of Lexx was good though, only by the fourth season it went to shit.
1616e0 No.16072640
>>16062756
>I made the terrible mistake of looking at the first issue of the sgu comic though. Has anyone read it?
Nope. To me, everything that isn't shown on screen is fanfiction-tier and should be ignored.
>>16064011
>How hard can it be to stay consistent and within the rules writers establish?
The problem is that Brad Wright kept the same awful team who worked on Atlantis (Mallozzi and Mullie). They don't know how to write characters. The show got better later on because he opened the writing room to new people.
>>16065581
You can meme about Cooper but he's fine as a writer and director.
>>16065478
>Leaving aside the fact the actress herself does an underwhelming and stale job
I actually respect the actress who played Weir, she left the show because she was sick of having shitty lines to say. SGA lost its premise after one season and turned into a clone of SG-1 with one-liners and characters becoming clichés of themselves.
ad8add No.16075322
>>16032087
cute danger noodle, and i'm not even in those types of unconventional pets.
ad8add No.16075326
>>16075322
fugg, should have saged
bully me
2881da No.16075601
>>16072092
Tolerable maybe, but not good. And if you compare to 1st 2 seasons it was shitty.
897005 No.16075629
>>16072032
>the fight against abaddon was a joke honestly
Abaddon is a joke.
76dc50 No.16082569
>>16075629
Reminder that Abaddon never took Cadia, he kamikaze'd all his priceless Blackstone Fortress's into the planet because he couldn't beat a Winston Churchill expy and his planet of humans with cardboard armor and laser pointers
TWELVE FAILED BLACK CRUSADES
dfb974 No.16082605
>>16082569
tfw cadia broke instead of falling
216227 No.16082805
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16026584
Not a space game soundtrack, but it tought to be. Nothing comes close to this when you want to feel like you arte drifting aimlessly thru space.
03cd54 No.16083016
>>16075629
This is what he fought against and the planet broke before they did.
9c832c No.16086967
Does anyone have that Babylon 5 viewing guide?
447ecb No.16087336
>>16082517
Somebody should make this.
91ebe1 No.16089452
>>16086967
>>16087336
My autism is not powerful enough even though I watched the series many times. Season 5 is optional but maybe watch it for Lochley, she made my dick hard as a kid. The problem is that many episodes have small references to the greater arc. This is my attempt.
Let's see for Season 1:
The Gathering
Midnight on the Firing Line
(*) Soul Hunter
(*) Mind War
(*) And the Sky is Full of Stars
Signs and Portent
A Voice in the Wilderness 1
A Voice in the Wilderness 2
Babylon Squared
Chrysalis
Soul Hunter and Mind War are not really required but contain some bits of backstory, Mind War introduce Bester which will become an important character later, and the PSI Corps. I'm ambivalent about And the Sky is Full of Stars, it is not that important for the Shadow War as is Signs and Portent but give a good account of what happened on the Line and that the Minbari might be more than they appear. Criticism is welcome.
30cb67 No.16089490
>>16053069
>51.5 gigatons
o bby
7046dd No.16089525
>>16072032
I had a lot of hope for the SP campaign but it's basically worse than before and often times simply bugged. And what's the deal with these retarded and distracting background objects, like the space station that's bigger than a planet.
91ebe1 No.16093884
Bumping the space thread.
e6be42 No.16093918
>>16082517
I want to bully her.
>>16082569
I don't read the books and I have a question. So did he ram the planet because the ships were too fucked to escape or was he just tired of losing and said "fuck it"?
782c22 No.16097215
The Navy railgun gets more aesthetically pleasing with every new iteration.
e664a7 No.16097254
>>16097215
I remember a video of that, it was like watching a commercial about shampoo that helps your hair to grow back again.
cad033 No.16099269
>>16086967
watch all of the first four seasons but only the last episode of season 5
you can skip the last episode of season 4 if you want to
91ebe1 No.16103813
>>16099269
Some of the plot threads are ended in novels too, like Bester's for example. They are not half-bad too. For more B5 universe there is Crusade too but it was butchered by the network because they mixed the airing order and meddled with the story.
863193 No.16103857
>>16093918
>I want to bully her.
10695e No.16103901
>>16086967
Season 1 is crap unfortunately aside from a few plot related episodes. 2-4 are excellent, 5 isn't as good as 2-4 but it felt like 1 only done properly.
91ebe1 No.16104709
>>16104659
I usually end up being the only one who likes Farscape in the space thread. Scorpius did nothing wrong.
>tfw no cute pk tech girl gf.
7c71b6 No.16105178
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16026584
This does it for me, mostly because I've seen the movie (Sunshine), and i find the scene accompanying this track to be the best scene in terms of being alone in space.
9b8c17 No.16105214
>>16104659
>>16104709
No you're not all though I don't post in space threads 'cos I don't play games with it enough. I love this show though
01dd4b No.16105483
>>16024970
>>16024842
bfga2 has a campaign. 3 actually.
45ecac No.16105976
>>16105483
I know, anon. I've been playing the necron campaign off and on. I'd still call the campaign RTT with a turn based strategy overview, but the TBS aspect is strange. You and the enemy follow different rules so that you can have time to get to invaded systems or don't just get swamped defending systems and unable to progress. Particularly with the ships coming from out of a sector from who knows where.
ca656b No.16106006
a5e027 No.16115203
Wish I could play some Freespace right now, but I've just had yet another Extreme 3D Pro shit itself. I'm getting really tired of Logitech's bullshit.
Anyone have an opinion on the Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS? So far it looks like the best stick available in the same price range as the 3D Pro. I'd like to get something that lasts at least a year or two before one of the axes permanently loses calibration or the buttons stop working.
e63991 No.16115333
>>16062473
I don't think there was Z axis in the firing arc display. The way to solve that issue was to just stack your ships so that your flak barrage(s) end up covering all of the available Z space. That also means that you are able to put out a huge volume of fire against a single target.
>>16104709
>>16104659
Farscape was great. It had a wonderful feel of adventure.
Also, threadly reminder;
MANDATE
a53295 No.16115739
>>16115203
I use one of those and it's alright. It can be a bit finicky at times and isn't entirely compatible with some games, but I haven't had any really bad problems with it.
The rudder controls on the back of the throttle are really neat.
782c22 No.16115854
>>16115203
>I've just had yet another Extreme 3D Pro shit itself
What the hell were you doing to it?
Mine's 8 years old and perfectly happy. The only thing that crapped out are the side buttons, but you shouldn't be using those anyway.
cad033 No.16115904
>>16115203
>Extreme 3D Pro
that's the one I have and it's never broken on me.
what the fuck are you doing to it?
75912b No.16115987
>>16104709
Harv was the hero we needed.
Also
S2>1st half S3>S1>2nd half S3>S4>Indian food served in a babbies diaper>actual shit>Indian shit served in a babbies diaper>PW
Fite me nerds
a5e027 No.16116123
>>16115739
How about the cord between the stick and throttle if you separate them? I've heard it's ridiculously short.
>>16115904
>>16115854
I haven't been doing anything unusual to it. You guys have just been lucky. Those things are notorious for breaking.
a53295 No.16116175
>>16116123
The separation thing is a gimmick to be honest. The cable is short as fuck, and the halves are too light to stay in place on their own.
However, it's comfortable and stable when combined into one unit.
a5e027 No.16116225
>>16116175
That could be a problem. I was intending to separate them. Freespace requires more buttons than the stick and throttle have, so I'd want to have the keyboard between them.
45ecac No.16120461
>>16115333
I hadn't thought of that. That makes sense.
>Mandate
Don't fucking remind me. That game pitch had a lot of things that I wanted.
ffb0fb No.16120974
>>16115203
But anon, Freespace is fine with mouse and keyboard. HOTAS obviously a best but that shouldn't prevent you from playing best space sim ever.
That aside if you get a stick you might as well buy once and buy right. For Freespess I would want at least 2 hat switches for targeting and looking, and a lot more buttons since it's quite a button intensive game. I would think the T16000M meets the critical mass of buttons where you basically don't need to use the keyboard at all. The X-52 definitely does, despite being a piece of shit. For the T-flight I would expect you'd need to use the keyboard just as much as the stick itself. Which is definitely a less cool feeling.
782c22 No.16121369
>>16120974
>best space sim ever
I still contend that House of the Dying Sun does it better, even if it's short.
a5e027 No.16122329
>>16120974
I've been looking at the T16000M as well, since I realized that the T-Flight doesn't have the cord length to comfortably separate the stick and throttle. I'm just not sure I could get used to using hats for button presses. Something about that just feels weird to me.
Either way, I don't think it's possible to avoid using the keyboard with Freespace if you want to use all the controls it has to offer. Weapons, targeting, wingman commands, power management, shield arrangement, hotkeys…there's a lot of stuff.
3de850 No.16126286
>>16115333
>MANDATE
trips confirm is going to be great!
what happened at the end anyway? did they release the source code or something?
a96a31 No.16126741
>go to check out The Mandate
>see pic related
oh man is it dead?
782c22 No.16126757
>>16126741
>He didn't hear about it
Yeah they've been dead for quite a while. I think it was officially confirmed on their forums and they didn't update their main site to reflect that it was done.
a96a31 No.16126788
>>16126757
Man, I was excited to conquer the stars in the name of the House of Romanov
a80046 No.16126802
>>16126741
They're dead Jim.
91ebe1 No.16127701
How's the Expanse? The thumbnails an synopsis looks nice but I'm pretty sure it's current year SJW bullshit.
45ecac No.16127962
>>16126741
>>16126802
With the way some things were going, it was probably better. They hired community managers, women with dyed hair, never actually got the full budget and things were quiet for some time leading into the death. Iirc, even the Mandate shill was getting cold feet about the whole thing.
e6be42 No.16128135
>>16103857
>wanting anons to bully her this badly
Only thing stopping me before was a total lack of artistic talent, but now I have to. Also if you are drawing these, they are well made.
>>16127962
>women with dyed hair
How many more must fall victim to this before developers catch on to Aposematism.
9df878 No.16128177
>>16127701
The space battles are rad.
Not that much faggotry. It's got a lot of space mutts and wymen types.
The worst of it is the lead white guy is born to a polygamous family and made up of a sperm/egg soup by its wives/husbands.
The space mormons are the only ones not scheming and acting like fuckheads.
ea5364 No.16129027
any anons who got BFG 2, Future Update soon
<Admechs
>Upgraded Nova Cannons and Repair Rites
>Their Lances have better Damage and have "Exceptional Accuracy"
<Imperial Navy
>New Skill called Commisar Encouragement that replaces Encouraging Speech
<Nids
>New Skill called Breeding Pool that respawns crew count
>Overloading Cavities replaced Swarm Mutation and gives back 1 charge to every skill at the cost of 1 crew per charge
<Necrons
>every 60 seconds the crew count is replenished and all ships have extra Doom Scythe
<Marines
>Honor the Chapter now scale it’s damage depending of the ship’s tonnage
<Eldar(Asuryani and Corsairs)
>Torpedoes are limited to just one to limit spamming shit
>Increase Lance Damage
<All Eldar
>no longer ignore effects of pierce armor weapons as it become a flat reduction of 25 armor points instead of automatically setting the enemy armor to 50.
<campaign
>Players can now set before a battle which ships will be deploy first from all of their engaged fleets.
Link:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/573100/announcements/detail/3690041187443372258?fbclid=IwAR2FLXk06GSJ8VYkkMgMQoDx3MFiRkbhsyyrl2G0tZWSxqXJ8JmICBssxsU
102828 No.16129259
>>16129027
>Players can now set before a battle which ships will be deploy first from all of their engaged fleets.
that doesn't sound like increasing the number of ships per battle
5a92b1 No.16129342
5a92b1 No.16129349
782c22 No.16129355
>>16129342
>>16129349
Bot or not? You decide!
a80046 No.16129428
>>16129259
It's still an improvement.
ba77ee No.16130694
File: e2df67ece988bde⋯.mp4 (Spoiler Image, 15.52 MB, 320x180, 16:9, The_Subversion_of_Science_….mp4)
Reminder that the communists ruined science fiction.
782c22 No.16130747
>>16130694
Start of video: Blue-haired bunnyfag twink yammers about mediocre platformers
Rest of video: Good recap of subversion
ba77ee No.16130796
Is X4 playable?
>>16126741
>there are still people posting comments on the kickstarter page
>>16126802
>i still want my refund
15c5ef No.16130868
>>16126741
>>16126802
>>16130796
What happened where they just shit at menaging money or was there something else at work?
782c22 No.16130872
>>16130796
>Is X4 playable?
I'm not sure, but Helium Rain is pretty good. It's like X but hard sci-fi, and combat is terrifying. Also every company grows as you go, so it starts out with just small ships and a few corvettes, and eventually works its way up to big fleets of shit with way breaking out over finite resources.
Cute dragon by the way
782c22 No.16130879
0fde2d No.16130884
>>16130796
>Is X4 playable?
Major bugs were fixed in majority, but you still better off waiting for complete version after it gets 100+ hotfixes.
782c22 No.16130887
>>16130872
>Also every company grows as you go
I should add that it's not "scaling" or any BS like that. They have to earn everything, and they only have finite money in the bank (which you can see). If you can economically cripple them their trade networks implode.
81fd89 No.16130905
>>16130872
How hard sci-fi are we talking?
ba77ee No.16130967
>>16130868
> shit at managing money
i guess
>>16130872
>Helium Rain
tell me more
do not lewd the dragon!
>>16130884
I guess I will wait until they release all the planned DLC.
782c22 No.16130983
>>16130905
>>16130967
The only seriously abstracted thing is that you use a fast travel system between areas - the time it takes varies depending where you are and where you're going. I think you can be intercepted while fast travelling but I personally haven't declared war on anybody yet.
Within a sector, you can accelerate indefinitely with no speed cap and all projectiles and missiles inherit your velocity, hence the horrifying combat where everything shreds each other in passes; there's a skirmish mode where you can spawn in all the ships you want to play with to get a feel for it. While your HUD displays damage to broad categories like "engines" "weapons" "life support", the game actually models damege to dozens of components on even the tiniest ships, so you can lose all the reaction thrusters on one side and things will get really wonky. Or you could lose a coolant pump, or a specific weapon, or something else. Time is passed in units of "days" which you advance either through "ending" the day, fast forwarding through multiple days, or fast travelling. Money and goods are produced at the end of each day (or turning in missions, which are generated based on the economic state of the stations/factions giving them and sometimes a good indicator of trade opportunities).
Personally not a fan of the visual style, which I would describe as "shiny russian," but the planets look nice in the background.
782c22 No.16130993
>>16130983
>Map pic
You have to discover most new sectors, either through missions or space telescope searches, so I'm not sure exactly how many locations there are, but it's rather limited, which keeps things manageable in my eyes.
782c22 No.16131423
>>16130983
Also forgot that there's no sound travel through the vacuum. You hear things that bump you or vibrate your ship.
Sage for triple-posting.
Also holy shit this dragon is cute.
129636 No.16131434
>>16131423
>Also forgot that there's no sound travel through the vacuum. You hear things that bump you or vibrate your ship.
Sounds comfy
9df878 No.16132434
>>16130694
That webm doesn't make a very compelling argument. The most popular sci-fi writers have mostly been anti-war libertarians at worst.
Not that I'm suggesting that writers like China Miéville and Yoon Ha Lee aren't overrated and oven-worthy.
It's on point with a lot of other things, like the scarcity of sci-fi and fantasy novels from before the 70's still in print, and Game of Thrones being a return to a previous style of writing fantasy.
82e6ae No.16132735
This heretical thread is still going. The K'had Sadjuuk is most displeased.
782c22 No.16132796
>>16132071
>You actually orbit the planets
How did I never notice that?
>>16132434
>The most popular sci-fi writers have mostly been anti-war libertarians at worst.
At the least, the ones running the awards now are all commies, pushing the social progressivism shit. Thankfully, most people don't read that garbage.
0a6559 No.16133510
>>16132796
Its a sad fact that Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein share rewards with these faggots writing about magic water falling on the heads of people who lie.
0a6559 No.16133513
>>16133510
>rewards
Fugg. I meant awards.
129636 No.16135883
>>16132735
>tfw he was right in a way and because they built the Mothership the Taiidans glassed the planet.
Also the Hiigarans deserved exile, they were assholes. Homeworld 3 would have been about going against Karan who became mad with power as she control Sajuuk and the Eye of Aaran. Instead HW3 will probably a FPS with a Battle Royale mode.
782c22 No.16136021
>>16135883
>the Hiigarans deserved exile, they were assholes
They may have earned the exile, but I seriously admire their ambition in declaring war on the whole galaxy and coming fairly close to winning. I'd love to see an artistic rendition of the warship they built around the Great Core, it sounded like a super star destroyer by the description.
4f7a8e No.16136045
>>16132796
All the better that I aspire to write sci-fi as nothing but absolute hard-sci about the importance of cultural and ideological solidarity.
129636 No.16136053
>>16136021
I remember a sketch of it being posted on the relic forums back in the days. I think it might be on well-of-souls if it still exists. I left forums and game communities behind when they became infested by redditards.
ba77ee No.16136090
>>16132735
>pale
arent they suppose to be all tanned and the kadeshi should be pale?
>>16135883
>because they built the Mothership
they glassed the planet because they used hyperspace, i think, cant remember all the small details of the lore, but also, didnt the discovery of the ancient ship triggered a world wide peace with all the tribes? in that game people still murdered each other after finding the damn thing.
>>16135883
I hope when Gearbox gets bankrupt THQ Nordic buys the IP and actually makes a mediocre homeworld 3 in space.
>>16136053
I went over there when gearbox announced the rerelease of homeworld to tell them about colonial marines drama, they were about to ban me for that, but i think they were left leaning for a while, because how butthurt they got when bush got reelected.
129636 No.16136096
>>16136090
Using Hyperspace alerted the Taiidan because a jump is easily detected but the ban was on space travel.
447ecb No.16136471
>>16136045
What a koinkidink. I am writing a sci-fi story with the same theme.
Complete with space not-natzi's and space not-EU and a large dose of LOGH.
4f7a8e No.16136536
>>16136471
But how many nuclear thermal rockets will yours have? There is no better sci-fi than the one which could actually physically happen given the right circumstances.
82e6ae No.16136603
>>16136090
Hiigarans seem to be as pale as a snowman's balls.
447ecb No.16136610
>>16136536
Mine has more sci-fi elements in it. Jump drives, artificial gravity and the like. But newtonian movement and mny limitations to ships and battles (like heat managment).
To give oyu an idea, this is the flagships of not space natzi's (Polaris)
7f7051 No.16136613
>>16136090
>they glassed the planet because they used hyperspace
Yeah, that's it. Using a hyperdrive broke an ancient treaty and the Taiidan responded to enforce it.
782c22 No.16137142
>>16136045
>>16136610
You better shill your books here when you're done. I want to read them.
4f7a8e No.16137301
>>16136610
>heat management
>but not a single radiator fin in sight
782c22 No.16137336
>>16137301
In anon's defense, these zones look like plausible radiator zones.
4f7a8e No.16137343
>>16137336
Half of those look like thermal air grills, and that is stupid. Unless it's one of those experimental radiator designs that might use filament or droplets instead of solid plates.
520ce3 No.16137367
>>16137343
Those are radiators/vents.
There is also foldable ones. I was thinking of how to make radiators and thought of increasing surface area by making the radiators "ribbed", putting them on thin metal armored plates, and the simply folding the plate inward during combat, so the radiators end up sandwiched between 2 armored plates.
520ce3 No.16137374
>>16137301
There are radiators, but those are used between battle phases to cool off faster, venting is more efficient in combat.
4f7a8e No.16137387
>>16137367
Vents do not work in space.
782c22 No.16137398
>>16137367
A small filament pattern in certain regions would probably be a better explanation. Making tiny repeatable patterns in materials is very common in cutting edge tech.
>>16137387
They do if you run matter past them, like a heat sink gas. Wouldn't be good for prolonged activity but for short combat bursts it might be viable.
4f7a8e No.16137556
>>16137398
Venting can work, but it can be considerably more efficient. Using a nozzle to heat the propellant and use it for thrust. Every single one of those vents imparts force on the craft when in use, which might fuck with your trajectory and therefore your careful little calculations.
Not to mention every gas used for venting is gas spent on venting. You can use mass in much better ways, especially when you can radiate away heat for free with radiators. Radiators that, although they can be fragile, they can be armoured up fairly well and retracted when not in use.
The best idea I thought of about close-combat heat management was giant heat batteries. Supercritical water tanks that store up heat inside the ship while the radiators absolutely cannot be used. Thermal batteries. It can then be vented afterwards - or, if all else fails, the entire tank can be ejected and or used as propellant. Using waste heat for regeneration in thrusters is also a good idea. The only other option is using a black hole to radiate waste heat, but have fun designing something that would work with that concept.
102828 No.16137574
>>16136021
>coming fairly close to winning.
not that close though, they still would have had to successfully sucker punch the Bentusi, which they tried and failed and got their empire burned for it
As always though, HW2 was a mistake
782c22 No.16137621
>>16137574
>HW2 was a mistake
I liked it more than the first one, actually. We get to see the Hiigarans become a powerhouse and wage proper war, and I enjoyed the faster pacing. The embodiment of what I liked about 2 is from the invasion cutscene where Makaan is giving his speech, and they fire surface-to-space missiles back; really contrasted things with HW1.
c21220 No.16137880
>>16137556
I think the level of heat generated on a warship would be very insufficient for use as thrust. The thermal medium in your ship can only get so hot before the structures that carry it will fail. And concentrating heat in one area requires work and generates more heat so your ability to pile all the waste heat into one rocket chamber where it contacts reaction mass is very limited. So the exhaust temperature is not going to get above a couple thousand degrees C. Hilariously bad exhaust velocities and specific impulses would ensue. I'm not sure if it's better than nothing.
Some innovative take on a liquid droplet radiator would be more fruitful. Or the black hole thing. Very few people actually care whether a concept would work from a scientific standpoint as long as the technology is presented with a lot of thoughtful consideration in terms of mechanical design and limitations and sells itself well. Even projects considered "near-future" like Orion and Daedalus are cheated beyond belief from a technological standpoint, so fuck it.
ba77ee No.16137882
>>16136536
>mfw Solic-core NTR
Any vanilla versions?
>>16137621
>We get to see the Hiigarans become a powerhouse and wage proper war
>The vaygr are conquering the galaxy!
>Lets build a new mothership
<Ok, let me call the Kiith Somtaaw
>The fuck are you saying? Karan S'jet will rather be dead than connect to a lesser Kiith designed ship
<Well, what do you got?
>lets grab the old mothership schematics and make it better!
<all different production facilities are exposed
<cant build all the ships
<have to hyperspace a shipyard, that doesnt have any production facility build on her
<some ships schematics copyrights were extend
<cant build A LOT of useful ships like:
<cloaked fighter, missile destroyer
<Repair corvette and support frigate
<why dont we build a support destroyer that heals?!
>and use those gay ass healing beams? fuck no, let the resource collectors do that shit
<Ok we are ready, lets fight off the Vygar, here is a list of potential targets we could hit, but its up to the player command to decide what to do.
>The hell are you talking?! Its the END OF TIME! That means we need to find an ancient relic before the other guy finds it!
<Why didnt we do that earlier?
>Hiigarans
>powerhouse
Anyway, anyone have a homeworld 1 and 2 downloads? I want a digital pre-gearbox era copy.
0af66e No.16137911
45ecac No.16137964
>>16137882
Shouldn't at least one of the other Kiith have their own mothership? The entire point of why Kiith Somtaaw fucked up so badly was because they were trying to become a major player; yet a mothership seems like a pretty hefty investment, especially for a mobile mining base.
4f7a8e No.16138184
>>16137880
Which is why it is usually very inefficient to disperse waste heat using vents. The only worthwhile application of venting-cooling is the Hydrogen Steamer design, which uses either boiling hydrogen or helium to blend with the background heat signature and basically be thermally invisible. Even that one doesn't primarily use the hydrogen for propulsion, instead dispersing it equally in all directions and relying mostly on solar concentrators for a power plant.
The most practical and likely to work variant would be tons and tons of redundant but fairly fragile radiators, especially on a battleship. It won't matter if a shell non-destructively knocks out one, two, or even a dozen radiators as long as you always have two more to replace them. Even inter-reflecting radiators are better than nothing. Making them fragile (but making them out of a cheap and light material that doesn't spall easily like potassium or magnesium) allows you to save on mass which you would otherwise waste armouring them up.
The only real way of dealing with mid-combat heat management is to have practically no heat dissipation requirements. Rely on thermal inertia and use mostly thermally-inert weapons systems and thrusters. Missiles, low-velocity chemical ballistics, closed cycle chemical rockets and DUMBO core nuclear thermal rockets come to mind. Make your combat ship into a Gyrojet pistol - as light and simple as physically possible, put everything you can into the bullet which is disposable.
ba77ee No.16138528
>>16137964
>yet a mothership seems like a pretty hefty investment, especially for a mobile mining base.
Well, they could have a mothership or a carrier for the mining operation.
>mfw just relized that HW2 could be a hiigaran civil war were you could pick a kiith with their own autistic ships and tech
891fd6 No.16139046
>>16136610
You better keep it armor only, no shields. Shields are for faggots and aliens, real men use armor.
>>16137882
I think he refers at the end when the Hiigarans own the Sajuuk, the Dreadnought and the Eye of Aaran which permit travel mostly anywhere on top of the fact they possess the three Cores. The Bentusi are gone and there is basically no power left to keep the Hiigaran in checks since they can Gate travel and just Far Jump anywhere.
17500a No.16139106
>>16139046
Better version.
891fd6 No.16139214
>>16139106
Thx bruh I had it somewhere but couldn't find it.
863193 No.16142423
>>16142397
That song was terrible, the only good idol song he made was for megane
6aee34 No.16142446
>>16142423
My favorite was the necron chics song, Anew.
8c7723 No.16144505
>>16063207
Aurora4x and KSP.
447ecb No.16144544
>>16139046
No conventional shield, but energized/polarized armored hull that doesn't stop damage, just reduces it before it gets to the hull. Every hit hurts, it just hurts less.
1f4786 No.16144584
>>16082517
>asking a chick where she wants to eat
>not just taking her to a place
He's getting no pussy tonight.
1fd51d No.16149349
Just wanted to let you guys know, Battletech has a free weekend event.
Here's my two cents on it.
Gameplay is fine, pilot leveling and mech management are nice, the fact that you can never use more than just one lance (4 units) at the same time is shit, but what can you do in the age of nu-xcom and such?
Story is either secretly genious or utter garpage and here's why!
You help a princess regain her lost kingdom and in the process fuck up said kingdom six days till sunday. In original battletech lore the said kingdom doesn't even exist and according to some lore books said area is under control of the two other sides we come in much contact with during the story, the Magistracy of Canopus (they fund our rebellion) and the Taurian Concordant (we fight them for a while). So basically said kingdom will fall in the coming 50 years or so and it is most likely because of the shit Princess kamehameha and mercenary commander (you) do, at least you get rich and get some great mechs to your arsenal during that war.
81e408 No.16149369
>>16149349
>Battletech has a free weekend event.
Silly, anon, its always free.
Can you use mechs, tanks, planes, elementals?
1fd51d No.16149384
>>16149369
No items, mechs only, final destination.
Although enemy can and will use tanks and in one level planes are an instant game over timer.
Also it's set in the time before the clanners started hopping in and around, so no clan mechs either.
1fd51d No.16149390
>>16149369
Oh and also, a bit more retardation.
Our main story narrator is this one princess/queen of an periphery kingdom.
And for some reason her dad has made her look back at the star league with nostalgia and she thinks star league was good and all.
You know, the folks who just burned the periphery and became a locally accepted synonym for devil are viewed as good guys by our boss/walking paycheck.
699708 No.16149774
>>16130694
>>16130747
anyone know the source of the webm? couldnt find it
5fd53f No.16151748
>>16138184
>inefficient to disperse waste heat using vents.
Where do missiles put their waste heat? Or wait they vent them. This is why missiles are most powerful engines in the world BTW.
447ecb No.16151779
>>16025868
Lando is the best thing in that show.
Bu a lot of SF is goig for that "Stonk Wymn" to the point of absurdity. One reason I hated Kira from DS9. DS9 was trash in general (except for the space battles)
447ecb No.16151827
>>16142423
Macha was also good…for a xeno
897005 No.16151839
>>16151779
>DS9 was trash in general
c38eba No.16151852
>>16126741
>>16126802
>The Mandate is dead
4264ea No.16151863
>>16151779
Quark makes DS9 worth tolerating all the Bajoran garbage.
1f4786 No.16151879
>>16151779
>DS9 was trash
Bajorans deserve gassing but that doesn't change the fact that DS9 is the best Star Trek. DS9 isn't trash.
000000 No.16151881
>>16063421
>Avorion looks neat but its early access.
Dunno its already better than nuElite or many other space games. You can own a lot of ships.
It's kinda like freelancer but bigger with more freedom and physics(inertia).
Only thing it misses is characters. Everything is faceless.
60734d No.16151883
>>16126741
>>16126802
Its shit like this why i dont pay into kickstarters.
they always fail.
447ecb No.16151954
>>16151879
No, it's trash.
Dukat and Quark are the only interesting characters. The plots are terrible, the klingons are a laughing stock that get beaten by women. Sisko is an overacting tard that's all over the place.
53becb No.16152228
>>16151748
If missiles are the most powerful type of engine then why aren't spacecraft powered by missiles? I'm sure it would be a huge improvement over solid or liquid rocket boosters.
In that case I think airplanes should be missile-powered too. I bet MH-17 could have escaped unscathed that way.
2907b7 No.16152254
>>16152228
>everything should be missiles
I wonder who could be behind that post.
897005 No.16152348
>>16152254
everything should be guns
782c22 No.16152411
>>16151748
>>16152228
Missiles are not an engine type, you might as well define a spaceship as a powerful engine then.
Generally missiles use either a RAMjet engine or a rocket engine to propel themselves (usually a solid fuel rocket motor). Rockets are the most powerful engine type by a long way, and are significantly more powerful than even SCRAMjet engines. The advantage of airbreathing engines is in-amo range and fuel efficiency because they can use environmental air as part of their propellant, so a jet engine with 100 pounds-mass of fuel will be able to go farther than 100 pounds-mass of rocket propellant with the same payload, but it will go slower, and can't go into space. This is why cruise missiles typically use jets to go long distance, and anti-nuclear missiles use rockets to go really fast for interception.
9d939e No.16152623
>>16024406
That alien ain't listening a shit
07e2f8 No.16152663
>>16152411
Life without a sense of humor must be hard.
8ab21d No.16152665
If any of you Starsector fags remember the New Galactic Order mod from a while back, it recently got updated to 0.9a. If you're familiar with what happened to the mod previously, you can guess what happened next. Ahne is now banned although the guy who updated the mod isn't, and the thread is going to be deleted in a couple of days so go grab the updated copy while you can.
782c22 No.16152685
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16152663
I've been arguing with flat earth retards a lot lately, and I can't afford the risk of people that dumb invading this little bastion of space discussion.
>>16152665
I miss the Persean Arm Coalition.
398ee3 No.16152723
>>16152685
>he actually believes flat earthers exist
782c22 No.16152750
>>16152723
There's a lot of overlap with Qfags or Owen Benjamin's cult of boomers, but yeah, they exist now. Even if it was a CIA psyop to discredit other people, some morons fell for it.
5099fa No.16152921
>>16152685
video unavailable
782c22 No.16152993
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16152921
Try this. It's The old Sovereign Class Battleship from a mod. Unfortunately the creator never kept it up to date, so it doesn't work anymore.
fcc384 No.16152999
>>16152665
>banned for a mod
Imagine being so asshurt you have to ban a mod you don't like.
8ab21d No.16153093
>>16152999
I wouldn't say that Alex was particularly upset over the mod itself, but the fact that several authors of popular mods are so vehemently against it. He can't leave it well enough alone if he has to deal with these faggots whining on the (((discord))) or in DMs and such. In the end, Alex claims that the decision was made due to references to real nazis (which Ahne had supposedly scrubbed) as well as Ahne's most recent posts in the thread to which I agree, he could have handled things a lot better. It's about as neutral as he can be on a public forum full of DA whores and liberal drama queens.
In any case someone could always invite Ahne or Kittah Khan to post updates here, but I don't know if there was ever any real interest in it in the first place. Also, parody commie mod to take the piss out everyone when?
4f7a8e No.16153429
>>16153093
>mfw "Hey anon, why don't you join our Discor-"
c38eba No.16153644
>>16153093
>DA
Diable Avionics?
8ab21d No.16155200
>>16153429
I think it's an unofficial server, but that doesn't mean he isn't a member and could be contacted through such means. I imagine that's where they've been circlejerking their 'victory' over ebul facism. Sure would be a shame if some unscrupulous individuals were to send a couple of bots their way to trigger them to oblivion But doing that would probably be counterproductive to future mods with a similar aesthetic, so don't actually do it you faggots
>>16153644
Deviant Art, although the current keeper of Diable Avionics was also involved in the shit flinging. The dude doing Shadowyards also does submits shit on DA. I imagine a couple others probably have as well, and I know some fanart ends up there as well.
c38eba No.16155297
frankly I just want to see someone bring back the Thule mod from several versions ago that had straight up Nazi UFOs. That mod was amazing.
4f7a8e No.16156637
Speaking of banned mods, does anyone have the latest version of Starsector's Galatia Complete? I only have one of the previous version, though I could upload that as well.
2296af No.16157554
>>16155200
>But doing that would probably be counterproductive to future mods with a similar aesthetic
Heh. I actually have a not-nazi faction in Steelclads
04f11e No.16158331
man, this game is amazing, just tried the free weekend and bought it soon afterwards, I used to make fun of battletech players but now I understand
giant robots man, never can get tired of them, the heavy footsteps, the giant shells of ammunition dropping on the floor, heavy lasers that heat up the mech, the impact on their armor, and that sweet sizzle as you smoke down your enemies
the camera action screen they show really helps keep it interesting
782c22 No.16158389
>>16158331
>He never played mechwarrior
04f11e No.16160390
>>16158389
battletech is my first real non japanese mech game tbh, I have heard about mechwarrior and its real time fights, will be trying that game series next
91505a No.16160439
>>16160390
Stay as far away from MWO as possible. Play MW3 or 4 instead.
04f11e No.16160472
>>16160439
will do, when it comes to these types of games I prefer a good campaign over random matches against players, plus seeing how old they are I can put all the graphics to max
b26610 No.16161944
Aussie-made space combat/trading/adventure game Objects In Space finally launches on March 1. Space combat inspired by submarine warfare, ship designs by Arena Net's new Lead Game Designer Jennifer Scheurle. Fun Fact: The lead programmer featured briefly in the new Lt. Corbis video…
782c22 No.16161967
>>16161944
I heard it has an absurd ratio of niggers in it.
91ebe1 No.16162507
>>16161967
>>16161944
Tranny with journo connection made it, his blog make it sounds like he'll kill himself soon. At least they got to 1.0 before.
4f7a8e No.16163023
>>16161944
It's got polish niggers in it.
Hard fucking pass.
863193 No.16171378
Get in now, that's an Order
>>16171344