b861cc No.16617383
Welcome Captains,Admirals and Emperors to another Space Thread. Please fill out the forum to let others know what you are
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And thank you for visiting the Space thread and please enjoy your stay
b861cc No.16617388
>Born to early to Explore Space.
This is the worst timeline.
5a05c2 No.16617398
Thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1UjaRyYvs
How is Sunless Skies? Does it hold up to Sunless Sea?
I'd love an eldritch space game.
In space, only the old ones can hear you scream.
80019a No.16617401
How likely is the possibility of space-faring creatures to exist? What would their exosystem be like?
b861cc No.16617411
>>16617398
>Sunless Skies?
Never heard of it until now
>>16617401
Silicon life maybe, Might also possibly live in asteroid systems
b6e15f No.16617429
I hope sexy future space women like to wear skintight bodysuits.
Will I be fucked over if I start my first Distant Worlds game as a pre-warp civilization? I feel like I want to start from the bottom instead of having stuff going on as I start, but if that's like an extra hard and/or novel challenge for the game I'll just start a normal game.
dbf632 No.16617892
Can you recommend me some space games that aren't too complicated and have intuitive UI? I liked Everspace for its combat, but I want more than that. Tried Rebel Galaxy, but it's barebones. Starpoint Gemini 2 is a huge mess with terrible UI, unnecessary mechanics and poor FoV.
cde28a No.16618074
>>16617429
You'll get deep-dicked by pirates until you develop but it's playable.
f4156c No.16618208
>>16617912
>XR2
Good taste, Anon.
f31d32 No.16618540
>>16617398
Sunless sea was a reading simulator eith tedium in between every reading session. I imagine sunless skies is the same.
1d429e No.16618731
>>16618540
It is exactly the same, so much so they actually smalled down a few of the bigger maps because there was so much empty space between points of interest.
245974 No.16618756
>>16617892
Why not Freelancer?
8af6fb No.16618764
Anyone wanna fool around in Space Engineers?
562959 No.16618781
>>16618764
What do you even do in space engineers besides weld, grind, and dream of things you can't make?
8af6fb No.16618792
>>16618781
>Dream of things you can't make
Nothing, that's why you do it with your pals
562959 No.16618817
>>16618792
I know your pain. I'll reinstall, and I can join you tomorrow 90%, but not certain.
8dd17e No.16618835
>>16618781
I was building racing course but SE heated my room too much and I was already feed up with it.
562959 No.16618876
>>16618835
I tried to build a mobile ground base but the wheels kept spazzing out and flipping it over so I gave up after 6 hours of tinkering.
9f89eb No.16618878
>>16617401
pretty much impossible unless you count us
>>16617892
Starcraft is fun
562959 No.16618885
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>>16618878
OG Starcraft and Brood War is a legit masterpiece.
8dd17e No.16618914
>>16618876
Wheels are really sturdy now and I build quite big shaver for ice which could easily be a mobile base.
>>16618885
>terran faction logo
Lol.
1d429e No.16619735
>Have 5 pretty good fleets up.
>Trying to get together ground forces by clear way ahead anyway.
>Don't encounter any major resistance.
>Turns out this empire was part of a fed.
>Another empire I border sends in 3 different 8k fleets.
>Quickly surrender.
Note to self: Invest in psi Corps, Battleships and have at least 7 fleets ready before I invade again. Better to lose territory now than later.
1dfeec No.16619864
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This interactive experience thing is looking good. It's a shame that they couldn't do more Star Trek ships.
c35bcb No.16620704
I finally decided to get into Dune. I've heard the books by his son are terrible, should I only stick with the original trilogy? Also are any of the games good?
f2f224 No.16620724
>>16620704
I've only read the first one, and it was great. I hear that the recommended stopping point is "God Emperor of Dune."
6d56ab No.16620726
Two questions
>Is Between the Stars any good?
>Rebel Galaxy Outlaw when?
Also how exactly does Elite play? Going from port to port selling and buying goods, and getting into any fights on the way like the first Rebel Galaxy?
6b3431 No.16620745
>>16619864
But anon, The Orville is one of the best Star Trek ships.
f2f224 No.16620754
>>16620726
I've played a bit of Between the Stars. It's okay, but I'd wait for it to get further in development. It isn't one you'd want to play, then repeat down the road due to the way its progression is structured. Certainly fun as-is, with the exception that you can't control which weapons fire at a time, so you have to fire everything at once, even if it's ineffective against shields/hull. Does have the "Rebel Galaxy in 3D" thing going for it, sans music.
>Spoiler
"Early 2019" my ass
I'm meaning to try Elite again because anons are telling me the pacing has improved dramatically, so anything I could say is probably outdated. You could pull up some recent livestreams to try and get an idea perhaps.
89788f No.16620766
>>16620704
I've read the first book, and it was amazing. I saw the synopsis for the next one, and for others later on, and thought it sounded like shit so I never bothered with them. Sometimes an artist (or author) can worsen the story by continuing it, even if they themselves write the sequels.
As far as I'm concerned, there was only ever one Dune book.
5e0e15 No.16621354
>Playin
NMS and now Outer Wilds, finally after all these years the game is done. And I gotta say, it's really something. It's kind of the opposite of NMS, being a single handcrafted solar system with tons of story and lore shit, a lot of stuff to discover. It's really great and comfy and moody at times. Exploring ancient ruins, going into the depths of a rainy ocean planet, walking on a station orbiting extremely close to the sun… It's everything I hoped it to be. Also, the devs being an indie studio and filled with kind of hipster looking people I was worried there would be forced agitprop and space gays, but no, it's 100% clean. Only downside is that it's only on sale on Tencent~EGS, so despite it being worth it I can't give the dev guys any money for it.
Seriosuly, you guys should check it out if you're even slightly into the exploration part of space games:
http://fitgirl-repacks.site/outer-wilds/
>Listening
Steve Roach - Sigh of Ages https://youtu.be/g-bjkrXL0zM
>Reading
Chasm City
>Watching
Nothing really, thinking of rewatcing Babylon 5 one of these days.
5e0e15 No.16621413
>>16620766
>As far as I'm concerned, there was only ever one Dune book.
That's a shame, the next three are rather good, especially pic related.
d5c7c8 No.16621440
Is Elite Dangerous good yet guys?
5e0e15 No.16621452
42b1e6 No.16621468
I honestly hope Starfield is just Daggerfall in space with more complex questlines, but I know Todd has given up on everything that made his older games so great.
9757cf No.16621507
>>16618914
It was surprising that the Dominion logo was the same in Starcraft 2, I thought it was completely different until playing through Starcraft again.
>>16621468
I'm only expecting disappointment.
b861cc No.16621607
>>16621468
Maybe it's his charisma but I don't blame Todd, I blame the Jews at Zenimax who force him to rush out games
42b1e6 No.16621643
>>16621607
Don't forget that Todd has been the lead of every TES since TES2. He made the best games in the series as well as the worst.
052707 No.16621700
> Be true space Jew
> Playing a space/sci-fi Minecraft lookalike
> Join a server
> Know how to create automated drones that handle mining and construction using blueprints
> Start off on starter planet
> Create a small base, and toss out a few drones
IT BEGINS.AVI
> Quickly snowball, soon have five different storage facilities, all heavily defended with missile and railgun turrets, with Chain Gun turrets acting as anti-missile protection systems
> Corner the market by selling all materials extremely cheaply, and kicking every other trader out of business with drone swarms dive-bombing their storage complexes
> Do the same with all the other planets in the system
> Corner the market completely
> Raise prices to ludicrous amounts
> No one can leave because the materials to make warp cores are snapped up by my drones immediately, and my prices are high
> No one in the starter system can fight back either, for the same reason.
> Plebians call for aid
> More experienced users who live outside the system respond, create civilian relief ships loaded with supplies to get new players the fuck out of my dystopia
> Upon warping to they systems warp point, they are met with a blockade of fully automated stationary weapon batteries, along with a drone who had been hard at work creating a minefield that tracked enemy ships.
> The entire fleet gets its shit pushed in, I lose only one station due to a kamakazi effort by one of the capital ships.
> While they are recovering and starting to get a battle group together to actually deal with me, send drones through laden with supplies to create more stations and mines on the opposite sides of the jump points.
> From there, using the jump points as my FoB and Construction yards, send out drones to the various planets to quickly put down heavily defended fortified positions on various planets, while mining out their advanced resources.
> Corner the market on advanced resources
> The goyim flee the system while they still have a chance, drones starting to seal up the exit warp points. Most escape by plowing through the half activated floatilla of stations, a few mining vessels succumbing to repeated batterings from floating chunks of debris from previous engagements in system
> It's at this point a player notices a vital flaw with my stations. He vows revenge on my antics, and to raise a true army to face me.
Continue?
f2f224 No.16621715
>>16621700
Please go on, this is neat.
c17b83 No.16621727
>>16621700
yes, definately
341d5c No.16621759
>>16621354
>Outer Wilds
I agree that it is super good, but there is space gays. The player's species has one sex. Very gay. I'm more bothered by how stupid they look though. Shoulda just had everyone wearing spacesuits or something like the other guys with their masks. Sequel with a much bigger emphasis on gameplay with completely unrelated setting/plot would be neat.
ffc151 No.16621929
>>16621727
>>16621715
You asked for it. This has no happy ending for our Merchant Lord.
> Now, to keep this short, most of my stations were mass produced. The settings on the turrets were always the same. An issue I had neglected to fix at the inception of my venture.
> Turrets, when it came to targeting functions, had only a few, sparse settings. They could be set to Target inbound missiles, weapons on ships, the ship with the highest danger factor, the furthest ship, or as was my case, the nearest.
> As long as a ship had power, even if cut in half, or a small chunk drifting, as long as that chunk had a power source going, it was deemed a ship by the onboard computers.
> As the fleet punched through, and one of my turrets took out a mining vessels, it split, a small chunk with the reactor floating right in front of my turret that was active. It spent all of a full two minutes whittling down that fucker, allowing the fleet to escape.
> The owner of the ship, a miner, who was currently piloting a cargo barge in the escape, saw this.
> It gave him a moment to think. And with thinking, came a plan.
> He called it a direct counter to my gun platform stations.
> I called them Teacups.
> The drones he made were small. One small fuelcell for the power source, one primary thruster on the back, four directional and adjustment thrusters on all sides, with a armored crest directly up front protecting all internal components.
> The drone was programmed to do one thing, and one thing only. Fly to my stations, locate the weapon systems, and sit in front of them.
> Alone, they were harmless. One shot could take a single teacup out.
> Together, in groups of thirty or fourth, it didn't matter how many I chewed through. They would sit in front of the guns until all that remained was their damnable metal paneling blocking every shot after until those were also destroyed.
> Three factors made these the best counter.
> One, cost of creation. They were hellishly cheap.
> Two, ease of deployment. Simply place down a constructor, make fourth, send the signal, watch them run.
> Three, their own construction. They were fragile, but left enough wreckage that would block my shots for a good, long while.
42b1e6 No.16621943
I would like to use this non-vidya post of to teach you guys about a somewhat obscure moon: Enceladus.
It's the sixth largest moon of Saturn, it was named after a mythological Greek giant. It's one of the brightest objects in the entire Solar system relative to its size, it is made almost entirely of freshwater ice.
Enceladus has liquid oceans beneath its surface, pressure regularly causes massive jets of water to stream out of the moon's poles. Complex organic compounds were found in these streams by the Cassini orbiter. The moon is considered to be one of the best bets for life in the Solar system.
5e0e15 No.16621953
>>16621759
>The player's species has one sex.
Is this canon? I never saw anything about that. I know the three eyed sheep aliens are male and female.
>Sequel with a much bigger emphasis on gameplay with completely unrelated setting/plot would be neat.
I see you haven't finished the game. I don't want to spoil a cool ending, but a sequel would pretty much have to take place in another setting. And you should play to see the end, the journey to the Eye sure was something else.
Also, I just finished the game myself. One thing that struck me was that the anglerfish are scarier than they were in the alpha and holy shit did I almost shit myself every time they noticed me, despite numerous visits to dark bramble.
6a8489 No.16621957
>>16621943
>you will never live in a comfy cabin on a remote snow world
f2f224 No.16621964
>>16621943
There are a scary number of potential life-bearing environs just within this one solar system.
5e0e15 No.16621979
>>16621943
Aryan tier moon tbh.
>>16621957
I don't want to overdo the shill hyperbole and make it unfun, but you can do that in NMS. Wish I could do it for real though. Maybe befriend and tame some icicle crusteans or whatever weird critters may live on such a celestial body.
6ecf11 No.16622068
>>16621943
>best chance for life around Saturn
>not Europa
5e0e15 No.16622447
>>16617892
>Can you recommend me some space games that aren't too complicated and have intuitive UI?
Frontier: Elite II, since you're not being very specific about what you want to see. Space games are kind of a broad term that involves a shitton of genres and sub-genres. If you want a more combat oriented game I recommend Freespace 2.
>>16618756
Why not Starlancer?
>>16621607
>I blame the Jews at Zenimax who force him to rush out games
It's funny, because Bethesda the publisher has almost nothing to do with Bethesda softworks when it comes to people and stuff like that. Zionmax who fucked over so many good devs, like Human Head, Arkane and Headfirst Productions. Yet many people blame Todd for the shitty publisher.
I mean just look at Fallout 76, people really seem to think Todd was the guy who decided to push it out the door before it was even remotely complete, when it was the publisher who was responsible for it.
a6c4cb No.16622475
I just bought the Steam version of Space Engine (I wanted to support the dev for a while anyway). They're putting together a bigger team to add more stuff.
f2f224 No.16622479
>>16622475
Is that nebula making the "white power" hand gesture?
5e0e15 No.16622489
>>16622475
I'm going to buy it at some point in the future to support the dev. But I'm kind of out of the loop when it comes to long term plans for the software, what kind of endgame are the devs aiming for? I mean besides improving what's there, I would love to see more 3D looking clouds and shit.
a6c4cb No.16622502
>>16622489
>How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
“The full version is planned to have a more complete set of features, such as:
An expanded and refined graphics engine (e.g. 3D water and clouds, vegetation, shadows, etc.)
Completed Flight Simulator gameplay (e.g. spaceship physics, navigation, autopilot, etc.)
Updated Planetarium (more tools and features, updates of astronomical catalogs, support of the full GAIA star catalog)
5e0e15 No.16622508
>>16622502
>An expanded and refined graphics engine (e.g. 3D water and clouds, vegetation, shadows, etc.)
I'm sold.
a6c4cb No.16622550
This nearly gave me a panic attack the first time.
1c1cdc No.16622570
>>16618792
>>16618781
>>16618817
>>16618764
I built an F-zero racing track once, it was pretty fun. Y'all still playing it?
599583 No.16622921
>>16622550
Black holes are fucking spooky as shit.
e4e218 No.16622989
>>16622921
I remember the first time I fired up Space Engine, I decided to explore the galactic center (Sagitarius A*) and I felt ever fucking millisecond of that experience. A strange mix of awe and Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.
b6e15f No.16623181
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>>16622921
Black holes are spooky because they are so mysterious and (seemingly) unnatural, but I find pulsars to be scary as well. Maybe it's because they're more traditional objects, just taken to a ludicrous level.
>mass of a Sun or two squeezed into a radius of just tens of kilometers
>surface gravity of maybe billions of g
>revolves potentially hundreds of times every second
>surface rotational velocity comparable to the speed of light (~.2c max, but still)
>despite the fuckhuge density it still bulges at the equator because of the intense rotation
The first time I thought to find one in Space Engine I of course clicked "Land on Object". I was slightly disappointed because it seemed like nothing special happened. The sky was turning noticeably, but not all that fast. Then I realized it was flickering as it moved. I slowed the simulation down and it became apparent the screen refresh rate just couldn't keep up because the star was revolving several times between each frame.
30aa8b No.16623199
>>16622550
An panic attack? Really? At most you were spooked and unsettled.
1dfeec No.16623557
3e2970 No.16623621
Next lewdspace is finished, lads.
Video editor murdered the quality so here's the ffmpeg version.
dbf632 No.16624452
>>16622447
>since you're not being very specific about what you want to see
Both of the games I mentioned focus on space combat. First is about piloting a fighter/gunship with nothing but combat and scavenging, the other is like Freelancer, but with capital ships, smaller space scope, a bit less features and much less jank.
>Frontier: Elite II
>Freespace 2
Too old. If it's 3D, I prefer to play games from this century.
f2f224 No.16624489
>>16624452
Modded Freespace 2 is up to snuff. Check out FreeSpace Open
dbf632 No.16624605
>>16624489
What about space games with realistic physics? Found Independence War 2 and Evocron Legacy so far, but apparently Independence War 2 crashes often.
5e0e15 No.16624819
>>16624452
>Too old. If it's 3D, I prefer to play games from this century.
Rude. If you want space dogfights then I really can't think of any recent games that did it well. It's mostly open world sims or arcade style games that doesn't take advantage of the third axis and play more like old naval games. Freespace 2 was kind of a peak.
ecf7a4 No.16624828
>>16624819
>If you want space dogfights then I really can't think of any recent games that did it well.
HotDS does it just as well as FS2.
d40499 No.16624836
>>16623181
You sure those are sounds and not just a light pulse being converted into sound?
5e0e15 No.16624853
>>16624828
I will refrain from commenting on that since I've yet to try it out, but it didn't look as good from what I've seen of it.
b6e15f No.16624911
>>16624836
Obviously they are the electromagnetic waves that the pulsar sends converted into sound.
99e872 No.16624931
>>16624911
Belly-Button Is the Signature Of Your Personal Creator I Believe Her Name Mama Pastor Told His Flock That God Created All Of Them Truth Was That They All had Mama Made Belly Buttons, Church Was Full Of Liars. Earth Has 4 Days In Same 24 Hrs., 1 Day God Was Wrong. Einstein Was ONEist Brain.Try My Belly-Button Logic.
You faggots need Starfox in your life
ecf7a4 No.16624935
>>16624853
Years ago I played it for 2 hours and dismissed it as lacking in content and depth. Now that I revisited the game I see the light. 40 hours later I actually appreciate it even more, as a masterful dogfighting game that does that one thing very well.
Storytelling and scripting aside, just from a combat standpoint, it does everything FS2 does but better. A lot of FS2's letdowns don't exist in HotDS. Almost every weapon and upgrade is viable and satisfying to use, changing your fleet loadout actually changes the gameplay, and the fact that you can control any ship at any time adds a lot more interest since the player is responsible for much more - there's zero downtime.
There are a handful of fanmade FSO missions that offer more interesting gameplay, in terms of the strategy and mechanical skill required of the player. There are definitely some blue planet missions that you simply can't top no matter what. But HotDS is super fun compared to stock FS2.
df7060 No.16624972
Should I get Elite Dangerous?
d40499 No.16624985
>>16624911
That's what I thought, I hate stupid clickbait videos
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5e0e15 No.16625544
>>16624935
Well, I guess I'll have to try it out then. Moving it furher up my backlog.
450067 No.16627555
Playing Empire at War Remake, The mod is really fun
>Playing as the Empire
>Early game is super cancer since Victory class star Destoryers are expensive so i have to make do with Acclamators
>Fighters are really dangerous now since most of them have shields (Atleast rebellion) which means tie fighters/interceptors/bombers die quickly due to not having one Fuck you palpy
>Due to how expensive it is to build space stations i have to concentrate on key systems and religiously Defend Rendeli and Kuat Drive yards since i want to spam Star Destroyers soon
>Rebellion harrassing my space lanes with Fighters and corvettes but atleast Acclamators and what few Victorys i have defend easily
>Fast forward mid game conquered enough rebellion systems so that i can just foritify and defend
>Main fleet (Mid Game) is IMP 1 and Venators since i needed interceptors and shielded fighters
>Late game Buy IMP 2s and kept Venators and Victory classes and built Death Star
>have a slow and painful push in the outer rim and its my fault for letting have most of the territories
HOLY SHIT THE FUCKING DEATH STAR IS SATISFYING TO USE and the death animations are good too
2436ec No.16627591
>>16622475
I hate how mountain chains look in vanilla. Solar System planets/moons instead look absolutely fantastic now. I've spent hours just fucking around on Mars and Luna.
21a2ec No.16627602
>>16623621
Rad.
>>16624489
It's amazing just how good FSO is.
f0e132 No.16627637
>>16622550
If only EDs black holes were that cool
f0e132 No.16627638
>>16624972
Do you like slow, boring tedious games?
5e0e15 No.16627778
>>16627555
I need to replay Empire at War one of these days.
f2f224 No.16629246
>>16624853
HotDS is one of those rare games that I can say has "perfect" gameplay. The only thing I can think that would improve gameplay is better map controls in VR.
eaa808 No.16631055
>>16622570
Trying to, don't have much time off
I wish there was a quick way to turn off gravity on Planets so if you detach a craft without enough thrust you're not fucked when it explodes on the ground. Make it a creative mode only thing or whatever.
d5a8cb No.16631655
>The Solider voice prompt.
>Station lost.
>Our soldiers are making planet fall.
>Enemy fleet defeated.
>Spiritualist voice prompt.
>Our station has fallen to Heretics.
>Our champions are making planetfall. May the spirits protect them.
>Heretic fleet defeated.
Since I have a God-Empress, I think I like this one more. Also while Spiritualist isn't affected by my governing ethics, about 25% of the pop follow the God-Empress. Also the Stellar League made up of 5 + earth empires fighting another fed made up of 4. They're also fighting a Fallen Empire that I think has woken up. They're ridiculously strong at 133k fleet strength and I need that tech.
>Gave Sidney the Chosen One trait as I was going Spiritualist anyway and I wanted her to live from the start of the game to the end.
>Sidney was just a girl on Earth when she heard of the Ulysses Initiative, the project to shoot 5 ships into the wormhole at the edge of the solar system.
>She trained herself in military craft, spent the better part of her youth in the Academy then eventually took the position of Lieutenant, serving under her Captain aboard The Chrysanthemum.
>The Chrysanthemum entered the wormhole but encountered difficulty. The UN heard nothing from the other ships and scrapped the project. The Chrysanthemum was lost in the Wormhole and there were casualties aboard the ship, including the Captain. Sidney was knocked unconscious with the turbulence.
>It was there that she ended up in an unknown place. What would be known as the Shroud, she panicked and asked for help, asked for something to save her people. A spirit of immense power gave a fraction of his power to her and when she woke back up aboard the Chrysanthemum, she guided it out of the wormhole and toward the moon that would be known as Unity. People aboard the ship would call it nothing but a miracle.
>With the Captain dead and with her reputation for saving the ship, Sidney was promoted to Captain, but changed the station to Marshal instead, as she was now responsible for overseeing the set up of the colony.
>Over the next few years, the colony was attacked by bugs and that meant every citizen of the Chrysanthemum had to fight them off with basic weapons. This gave us a strong sense of unity however, the planet doesn't want us here but damn if we'll let it chuck us back out into the void. Sidney herself lead various units in defense of the ship site that would turn into the capital.
>After taming Unity and establishing a planetary Capital, there came the question of what to do next. Sidney then christened herself as "The Grand Marshal of the Commonwealth of Man". She laid down the objective that it was Mankind's Manifest Destiny to take the stars, that the aliens she knew that where at her door would seek to snuff them out, so they would take the stars from them first.
>It began small at first, a couple of escort Corvettes was all they could build but Sidney knew that technology would give them an edge over the other space faring aliens in this arm of the galaxy.
>She had found out what happened to the Hibiscus, another Ulysses ship that ran out of power and their crew turned to cannibalism. She thanks every day that the entity in the Shroud granted her power to help her people.
>It was 30 years into her reign of Grand-Marshal that people noticed something strange, by all accounts, Sidney was 80, yet didn't look a day over 30. That's when she explained the miracle that had helped save their ship in the early days and within 20 years, some of the more prominent humans had expanded their minds to become psychic. By the turn of 2270, Humanity as a whole in the Commonwealth of Man exploded in psychic energy and every single one could feel the Shroud in the back of their mind.
d5a8cb No.16631658
>>16631655
>It was here that Sidney had her first child, Anastasia Beauclair. It was also during this time that the Commonwealth had spread out and captured several Xeno species. One, the Cervanti, were "space elves" as Sidney put it and "would look good for them serving on their knees." So while other species were forced out or sold to the slave market, the Cervanti was manipulated with on a genetic level so they would become the ultimate servile species of Man. The men were made stronger and shipped off to deep mines, electrical grids and farms, knowing that if they screw up under the watchful eyes of the enforces, they would be erased and another body called from a template stored in a nearby gene-bank. The females were only lightly experimented with as they were to serve as concubines and the like for those in high strata.
>By 2280, the Commonwealth had received it's first transmission from Earth in almost 100 years. What greeted them is still reviled about to this day. Instead of a human chancellor of the UN greeting them on the miracle of their survival, they were greeted by an enormous snail called a Wacegi. The Wacegi explained that the UN had joined a Federation called the Stellar League and had ceded leadership of Earth to the current leader of the Federation, their race. Sidney grew a rage so powerful it was said that a planet wide strom covered Unity for an entire week afterwards. She let it known in no uncertain terms that the Commonwealth of Man was no friend to Xeno and that when they take Earth, no Xeno shall walk it again.
>After this, Sidney had enough. She had noticed the growing religious cult growing around her and granted them a position of worshiping her. Calling herself now the God-Empress of the Commonwealth of Man, she built temples on every world humans had set foot on and combined with their new telepathic abilities, they reached a level of Unity previously unknown to man.
>But sad new came at 2320. Anatasia had died. While Sidney was drawing power from the Shroud and was somehow Immortal, she still saw the need for a successor, just in case something happened to her. Valerian came to be the crown prince and in Anatasia's honor, the twin planets of the Nithascal system were renamed with her children's name.
>By 2350, the Commonwealth had the lead in technology in the galaxy, not quite as powerful as that of a Fallen Empire, yet but that's when they made a breakthrough. Opening up the L-gates allowed them travel to a system where the science team met a being called Gray. Gray was a colony of billions and billions of nanites that had destroyed their creator species but tried to recreate them when stuck in the L-cluster. When Sidney talked with her directly, she invited her into the Commonwealth. Some of the Governors questioned why but after the recent death of the Governor for the Unity sector, Sidney put Gray in charge. While some were doubtful, they could see the close connection Sidney wanted in another Immortal, even if Gray was a few million years old and Sidney was only 180.
>By 2400, The Commonwealth owns half the galaxy. Transportation is beginning to become a problem. Sidney recognizes this as her Fleets are relying on wormholes and L-gates to get around. She pledges to build Gateways and a Dyson Sphere to deal with the energy crisis.
Phew, that's 200 years of history for the Commonwealth of Man. Just wanted to chronicle it. Gameplay of Stellaris might be ehhh but story wise I dig this shit. Hope you don't mind greentext.
a36a4c No.16632851
>>16631658
>>16631655
Reminds me of my Empire in Star Ruler
>Star as a small confederation of 4-5 systems minding my own business. Just trading and producing mining goods.
>Alien neighbor declares war out of the blue, I am not really prepared but put up a good defense even if I am slowly losing the war.
>They invade my last system but short of finishing me they just leave but still be at war. I decide to never forget.
>Spend the next few decades completely redefining my economy and building 3 massive carriers equipped with sun implosion devices. I make them and their escort jump to the home system of the aliens, deep into their territory.
>The carriers were hastily built and my designs flawed. The first one has its engine fail at the edge of the enemy home system, it's no big deal it can provide cover for the 2 others. the second one gets entangled in a battle and can't advance, the third one gets close enough to the star to fire but needs some time to prepare the weapon.
>It finally fires and as the star stars to collapse the carrier that fired starts to prepare to jump away. The two others are too damage to leave but continue to provide cover. In the end, it jumps at the last second and only one carrier and 2 escorts makes it. Out of the 60-70 ships that went in, 3 came back but the alien home systems is now destroyed.
>Following this, I start to completely distrust the alien, I shut down my borders and just mind my own business, advancing technologies and growing my empire. Border-crossing rights are often asked, but always denied.
a36a4c No.16632909
>>16632851
This is not over.
>After a while, my fleet becomes completely automated, the carrier which destroyed the alien is still in service but not crewed anymore. It orbits the Homeworld.
>I start working on the Project, a giant ship, solar system sized. It is being constructed in a secret shipyard base outside the galaxy. Even at max FTL speed it would take decades from the nearest star system to reach.
>The Project start to sucks most of my resources and I no longer care for what happens around, I am too focused on it.
>Aliens again declares war against me but this time I only have an aging fleet, the newest model being several hundred years old. Even then I am more advanced than them and they have trouble fighting my fleet.
>Still, I am losing because I continue to focus on the Project, delivering resources to the base outside the Galaxy.
>The aliens get to my home system again, the fighting is fierce but I continue to ship resources to it. I lose my home system but still get to keep a few resources producing system on the edge of the galaxy.
>A few thousands years later the Project is complete, a fully automated star-system sized ship but I have no empire anymore and my race is extinct. Deciding a galaxy without humans is not worth existing, I made it slowly makes its way to the center of the galaxy and collapse the black hole in the center (it has HP) which destroyed everything around it.
Fuck, now I want to play Star Ruler again.
f2f224 No.16632994
It remains the greatest System Shock webm of all time.
b57748 No.16633122
>>16632851
>Star as a small confederation of 4-5 systems minding my own business. Just trading and producing mining goods.
>Alien neighbor declares war out of the blue, I am not really prepared but put up a good defense even if I am slowly losing the war.
>They invade my last system but short of finishing me they just leave but still be at war. I decide to never forget.
>Spend the next few decades completely redefining my economy
So you became the TEC. Nice.
4131ac No.16633722
Point me to some Goddamn Innies!
5e0e15 No.16638468
Is Deep Sky Derelicts any good?
7ba351 No.16640134
>>16632994
And you're a fucking faggot.
f57226 No.16640721
Space always felt like the perfect setting for a mountainblade type of free-play game. A detailed galaxy size map where you can build a trade empire, be a pirate, bounty hunter or crown yourself king of a planet. A loot of cool detailed game mechanics, even if menu and RNG-based. There has to be something like that right? Even if it’s a mod for an old game.
a36a4c No.16640732
>>16640721
Starsector, except for the big galaxy, but the size is adequate. Fun game too.
09aa4f No.16640752
>another fucking year until new ED content
It better be fucking good Braben or I'm gonna personally shove an umbrella up your cheeky britcuck ass.
That being said new Spess Engine is good.
4cb859 No.16640754
>>16640721
Same thing the other guy said, you're describing Starsector.
f57226 No.16640766
>>16631658
Is this your writing for a custom civilization then? Think I’ll have to borrow from this when I’ve learned the game and set up my own civ.
c17b83 No.16640802
HotDS is only 5 shekels in the (((steam sale))), should i get it?
4cb859 No.16640854
f598e5 No.16641914
>>16621759
There's a pretty feminine character on your homeworld. I'm going to assume there's more than 1 sex since it doesn't say otherwise in the game.
f598e5 No.16641968
>>16641914
Just going to add some of the smaller things I noticed in the game that I found later after I beat the game while I'm at it.
>there's a small bit of ruins inside one of the volcano's of Hollow's Lantern that was used to test the minerals that were resistance to extreme temperatures for the Ash Twin Project
>your ship has a fucking eject button (seriously I noticed this yesterday after playing the game since release)
>you can actually follow and catch up to the probe fired from the orbital probe cannon
This is one of those games that could have used a bunch of secrets to make exploration more rewarding. I can't get over how fun relatively small gravity pools are in a space ship.
1b10c0 No.16642001
>>16640752
>It better be fucking good Braben
Hope is the first step on the road too disappointment.
1629b8 No.16642681
>>16640766
Slightly modified Commonwealth of Man.
If you take psyonics as Commonwealth you get the option to change into an Imperium instead of Dictator ship. You can rejects but you get alot by aligning like this, the temple for producing unity and some nice civics. 3 leaders also gain Chosen One when you get the Transcendence Ascension Perk, which are immortal leaders and get a few more benefits.
Hey, New Luna is producing 145 engineering tech. Oh wait, it's just overlapping with the trade value.
Recent things that happened in the Commonwealth.
>Valerian died, declared a Saint. New heir is Yu Beauclair.
>Sidney celebrated her 250th birthday.
>The gateway and Dyson sphere begin construction.
>No war for 30 years, alloys going towards upgrading space stations and gateways instead of ships.
>The Stellar League is now made up of 6 empires + earth. They started a war with a fallen empire and lost. Twice.
1b10c0 No.16642703
I tried playing Stellaris with the latest DLC and stuff after not having touched it since release.
It has reached "that point" all Paradox games eventually reach where it has become impenetrable for returning players because of all the DLC, added and changed mechanics and general bloat.
1629b8 No.16642707
>>16642681
Blue is Favorable Compact. I'll crush them first.
Yellow is Stellar League. They may be inferior but they're 6 empires and if they make several fed fleets out of that, I'll be in trouble.
Green are fallen empires. I gotta raid one for their tech.
League are kinda like the FPA, they like wasting ships and personnel against battles they can't win.
>>16642703
The new construction mechanics were a bit weird at first and stuff like moving/growing pops and the slave market need a bit of work as so many people have been sold into slavery that it broke my scrolling list. But I still like this game.
d3040d No.16642799
I don't feel like Space Engineer's "Decorative DLC Pack" is worth a shit since most things in it were already added via mods years ago.
I want to make a comfy little Jumpship for my space adventures.
Twin Hydrogen Engines for getting off planets, then regular Ion Engines for basic maneuvers. Basic industrial and medical functions added via the Survival Kit. Not designed for combat, but would have a couple turrets for defense. Solar power for long voyages, laser antenna for long range comms. A few Oxygen Farms on the roof so I can breathe. It'll be nice.
d3040d No.16642806
>>16631655
This sounds dope as fuck
1b10c0 No.16642884
>>16642707
I checked it out and was barely able to control the game anymore. It's the same shit with EUIV, there's so much bullshit in there now that, if you didn't keep up to date with every DLC, you have no idea how to handle all of it.
Basically the only Paradox game I manage to still play optimally is CK2.
453dea No.16643654
>>16622550
It needs to turn into an anime when you get in it.
341d5c No.16647169
>>16621953
They confirmed it in some blog post talking about how they should translate unisex species into other languages without gender neutral pronouns.
I did finish the game which is why I specified completely unrelated setting/plot. Like the end card showed those neat planets with interesting environments and I thought it'd be cool to have a ton of just that now that the core game is built. Anglers were fucking awful. Took me several days to work up the courage to go into bramble. The atmosphere makes it way worse. And then that fucker in the ending sequence.
>>16641914
Very feminine (male). I wouldn't mind if they just ignored the topic, but then the moon guy mentions two of them flirting with each other. Still good game. Schafer getting his dirty hands involved was a lot more disheartening.
a36a4c No.16647675
>>16647169
> how they should translate unisex species into other languages without gender neutral pronouns
They'll have fun in French where everything is gendered, trannies are kvetching here trying to pass some retarded grammar rule about a new pronoun and they were laughed out of the room.
dbf632 No.16647828
>>16647675
Nearly every language has gender grammatical cases. English is the only queer friendly language I can think of.
812c6a No.16647839
>>16647828
Japanese seldom mentions gender, and relies more on >implications.
a3760d No.16647872
>>16647839
Absolutely fucking wrong.
In Japanese you use "that man/ that woman" or the person's name. Unless you are already talking to the person.
812c6a No.16647894
>>16647872
>In Japanese you use "that man/ that woman" or the person's name. Unless you are already talking to the person.
Just like english faggot. Point is it doesn't have gendered cases, and most ways people referre to themselves or others has connotations but not hard definitions like using boku rather than watashi.
812c6a No.16647895
>>16647894
also ignore the way I spelled refer.
a36a4c No.16647905
Oh yeah, and in French it is a grammatical rule that male orm win over female form since our plurals are gendered too. If you refer to a male and female thing and need to use plural, the male plural will win over. It makes feminist mad
dbf632 No.16647956
>>16647905
Same for several slavic languages, if not all of them. French isn't special, it's just English that's oversimplified and queer friendly.
dbf632 No.16648015
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Oh, yeah, I actually had a question about Independence War 2 and forgot about it. Did anyone play it? Is there anything except pirating cargo from freighters? It doesn't look like I can visit any other stations even if I dock. I'm in Act 1 and I already tire of this.
Also, check out this intro. Can you believe it was made in 2001?
9a03eb No.16648037
I'm trying to find a game. It was a space based rts where you can repair each ships modules(life support, shields, weapons) and order the crew your evacuate I think. There was also a quote in the intro/trailer "We have awakened gods". I've been trying to remember for years. Can any anon help?
a36a4c No.16648041
>>16648015
I played it when I was younger, I remember the story being interesting. But yeah, you can't really interact with stations except in missions. The free roam mostly consist of pirating shit, I recommend the Jaff mod for that, you can change his ship and make him shut up, it gets old fast. Later you have different ships and more systems and ammo to exchange cargo for making you look for ships to pirate from certain l-point and factions.
You can spice up the game with mods from here.
https://www.i-war2.com/downloads
>>16648037
Sounds like some of the Star Trek games. Do you remember more?
d40499 No.16648068
>>16647828
You mean shit languages. English is the only good language
417821 No.16648095
>>16648015
I stopped playing this turd because you couldn't even remap the configuration keys.
7fa75e No.16648144
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16621354
>>16621759
Outer Wilds was such an amazing game (Not worthy enough to be given money tough, due to EPIC gamestore, and devs being californians) There should be more games like this in that you explore planets and do more than just stay still on an empty space of land in a nameless planet.
I would like, for example, be inside a gas giant, like going on an station inside its atmosphere (Or even deeper!), and watch the brutal winds & storms of said gas giant. Is there any other similar games to this?
9a03eb No.16648242
>>16648041
I remember in the demo the humies discovered/poked at an alien empire at Jupiter. Does that help?
a36a4c No.16648253
>>16648242
Did it start with a Mars-Earth war? Could be Hegemony.
a36a4c No.16648275
>>16648242
Also what year is the release timeframe? Early 2000s? Starshatter comes to mind too even if it isn't really a RTS.
4cb859 No.16648309
>>16648242
>poked at an alien empire at Jupiter
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident?
9a03eb No.16648312
>>16648275
>>16648253
Early 2000's. Around the same period as Nexus, that much for sure. In the demo I played you start off with a station and a few ships. You escape and lure the enemy by a minefield.
a36a4c No.16648374
>>16648312
I'm out of ideas anon, sorry.
9a03eb No.16648381
>>16648374
It's ok. Thanks for trying anon.
dbf632 No.16649854
>>16648095
You can do it in the config file and even bind axis controls to mouse axis.
dbf56d No.16652122
that new nebula rendering in SpaceEngine makes me hard
se://v=990&n=Diffuse%20nebula&b=RN%208496%2D644&p=Milky%20Way&t=+2584287A02E33B5905E32591D0&x=-664DEB80DB2938A9F00CC69&y=-D88F2B3CB2B2E49E54F48C&z=+218B491161C27D6A48C9B5C&qx=-0.03661427&qy=0.8432117&qz=-0.2480755&qw=0.4755123&u=36.478&m=1&s=1&f=0&e=0
also PROTIP for lunix users: if your avi video recording comes out weird just record jpg images and then run an ffmpeg command like `ffmpeg -r 60 -i f%07d.jpg -c:v libvpx -crf 10 -b:v 3M out.webm` from a clean capture directory that just contains frames from a single capture
dbf56d No.16652187
just one more
se://v=990&n=Diffuse%20nebula&b=RN%208496%2D6756&p=Milky%20Way&t=+2584287DEDFCA5E26098D6C500&x=-F43EBF3843E3C34351EDF14&y=+719CB6A0BE563F9DC2AF8B4&z=+762807E82F67624ACEAA444&qx=-0.07755338&qy=0.8756571&qz=-0.4503922&qw=0.1560674&u=3.3922&m=1&s=1&f=0&e=0
b861cc No.16652410
After a thousand years the full song was found
c388ee No.16652433
give me your best space drama vidya.
1d0952 No.16652507
2dfb9c No.16652541
>>16652433
Where is this from?
a6efbe No.16652580
2b9dbe No.16652855
>>16652433
I love that movie, like the thing, alien and 2001 combined.
c83900 No.16652979
>>16652580
Saucenao doesn't work with webms
9c010a No.16653037
>>16652979
You didn't even try it.
c9de03 No.16653460
>>16640754
>>16640721
>>16640732
starsector gets old quick. The early and middle game is fun; but once you get a planet and max it out money becomes practically a non-issue and there's really nothing to do except go to random systems to find blueprints.
once you get these blueprints and have a massive OP fleet there's just nothing to do with it. I guess this is the problem with all open world games though. It just feels like the balance of planets is way off, planets are way too OP and just one or two is an infinite money printing operation.
3e3de4 No.16653758
>>16621354
just finished outer wilds
tell me there's something else where i can explore with a purpose
de0095 No.16653776
>>16621354
I'd love to play Outer Wilds but I recently upgraded my computer at a local shop because I didn't trust myself to fuck around with the motherboard and PSU replacement- but they lost my fucking PSU and I've been harassing for them to look for it.
I brought it in from home as I bought it from them a few years ago. One of the techs obviously wasn't told it was mine and probably put it into stock. I currently have them checking their cameras to prove I brought it in, but I guarantee they'll question if I grabbed it off the shelf or not, in which case I'll tell them to count their fucking stock and check the serial numbers because it won't add up.
I should have just did it myself. 10 days without my desktop so far.
838330 No.16653787
de0095 No.16653790
>>16653776
Well, they just got back to me, said I definitely did bring it in myself, and apologized profusely. Good shit, thanks fuckers.
c2c284 No.16653876
>>16653776
>>16653790
I'm sure you've figured this out by now and you don't feel like getting your ass spanked any further, but never trust computer shops for upgrades. One of the local shops installed an ancient 80gb hard drive in my ex-gf's brothers computer. He was charged about $150 for it. He was a fucking retard and didn't understand what was wrong with it. This was 5 years ago, by the way.
Oh, and I have a friend who went to a seperate shop. He wanted to install a video card that another mutual friend gave him. He upgraded from a 980 to a 1080ti and just gave him the old card. He was too afraid to install it himself, so he let this shop do it. When he went back to get it, they handed him a bill of almost $500. They didn't just swap video cards, they explained to him that his hard drive wasn't compatible with his new card, so they replaced it, scrapped his old hard drive, and also installed a new copy of Windows 10 at his expense. They also had to tack on hefty charges for "mounting kits". They replaced his PSU with a significantly cheaper PSU of the same power. He let them play him like a fiddle. It has been a year, and we STILL make fun of him. Both me and the guy who gave him the card would have been happy to help him. I wasn't even told this was happening until he said he couldn't do anything because his computer has been in the shop for two weeks.
A warning to everyone - keep your systems far away from computer shops. They are only good for buying parts, and only if they're not ridiculously marked up.
a421ba No.16653953
I've been playing this game called Helium Rain and it's pretty good. It's basically X3 but less shitty and also with less stuff. It's got a smaller map and only 13 flyable ships but its really solid and well made for a small indie game.
They've just released mod support so maybe it'll get some more content in the future.
b861cc No.16653956
>>16653790
>>16653876
And remember anons, if you don't have any real life tech friends to help you the anons here or on /tech/ can help you. It's what I did when I wanted to get a new laptop that could play games. Also don't be afraid to look up on YouTube on what to do
69ca4c No.16653984
>>16653953
I know you propably aint a shill but still, how about this time you at least change up the post body if youre too lazy to make more screenshots. It does not exactly add to your credibility to always open with the same sentence and the same screens.
a421ba No.16654014
>>16653984
This is the first time I've posted about it, I found the game yesterday and I took those screenshots an hour ago.
Don't be so paranoid just because I like the game enough to tell the relevant thread about it.
4cb859 No.16654052
>>16653460
That's normally the point where you start a new character and try a different approach to things. Also the more recent colony changes really fixed a lot of colonies instantly flinging players to the endgame.
>>16653984
I was the one shilling it a while back. Believe it or not, other people like the game too.
4cb859 No.16654061
>>16653953
Be warned; in the endgame if you have too many fleets, they can end up blocking you from selecting certain planets, so merge them as you go.
Bonus screenshots of retarded shit in the scenario mode.
c541b3 No.16654067
>>16653460
That's an issue with all games with open worlds, yeah. If you can do whatever at your own pace, you can't be forced to always fight an uphill battle. Colonies have been rebalanced a bit, they're currently big money sinks and you need about a million credits to get it up and running properly, and ship prices have been increased as well (about three times higher price than previously for ships bigger than frigates). Colonies would be fine, if there was some challenge that required this kind of money, or if colonies were harder to set up.
4cb859 No.16654083
>>16654067
Colonies are really neat if you play ironmode in that they can keep you from starting all the way from scratch. Personally, I think that once the player passes a certain "power threshold" the Remnant should start a war or something; this would give a larger threat that colonies would be needed for resisting, while also giving that Alpha core Star Fortress and Planetary Shield a real purpose for being there. The dev was planning on adding more story stuff at some point, and it seems like the game is reaching a state where that should start getting implemented IMO.
c6cd22 No.16654086
>>16653953
>>16654061
Looks interesting, how long to the endgame? I mean, do you snowball as soon as you find a nice traderoute or even when you are rich as fuck there are other goals to get?
83af42 No.16654107
>>16653876
Christ, that sounds like a horror story. The place I went to is pretty good, and the markup isn't awful (obviously buying shit off of Newegg is better, but my outdated motherboard died, and I need a computer for various reasons). It's a franchise in Canada and they're generally pretty decent.
It was a minor fuck up though, they didn't try to screw me, but the $80 service charge was pretty greasy.
4cb859 No.16654111
>>16654086
If you go by GOG, I conquered the system in 30 hours. In my case the snowball process started after I had autotrader research (which entails a research station and a consistent funding source for it [I used solar power but other options may work better]) and a good little AI trade ship that made way more money than I did because I suck at trading. It took about 10 'meh'-tier hours to reach this point, but afterwards I had a blast with corporate backstabbing and truces to fully monopolize all trade. I could have done a lot better if I hadn't blown my money on some fighters early on. As long as you maintain good terms with pirates you really don't need a military early game, so it's certainly possible to get through the early slog faster than what I did. Thankfully scenario mode is there for learning about combat without having to put your own coffers on the line. I need to try it again with a more factory-oriented approach to see how it goes over. Really the issue early is that nobody has enough trade ships, so nobody can make things to build trade ships. Time accelerating for a couple months could probably fix that quick, at the expense of denying you the player of that first foot in the door.
c541b3 No.16654114
>>16654083
Yeah, game is mechanically nearly complete. Next update is going to be the content one. Remember that in 0.8, cores and survey data were basically free money, but it changed significantly in 0.9. At the moment the game is without any endgame and it isn't great. I wonder if we are going to have restricted-ish areas, some sort of timer, or something else entirely.
4cb859 No.16654129
>>16654114
Alex is retweeting shit about narrative design (and some horrifying antifighter missile swarm) so one can infer he's reading up on "how2writevideogame." Considering he designed the game to allow omnicide against every planet, I don't think he'll be scared of letting player choices have significant consequences, which is good. Speaking of, does that scientist looking for the cores ever do anything if you just steal it?
a421ba No.16654451
>>16654111
I dunno how you can suck at trading, the contracts lay out where to move things and give you a bonus for em. The hard part is double loading routes, I've not found any good ones yet but depths water to lighthouse fuel to the forge is 2 out of 3.
My first station is water in the depths because it has no input so it's pure money.
I agree with the lack of AI traders, half of all the stations in my gameworld aren't producing anything because they have no inputs.
4cb859 No.16654475
>>16654451
>half of all the stations in my gameworld aren't producing anything because they have no inputs
Once the trade blockage clears up you'll notice that the size and power of the other corps starts to take off. Especially once the shipyards acquire enough supply to get up to speed. Your saving grace is that they'll sometimes jew each other.
cde28a No.16654491
>>16654129
If he's going to add serious anti-fighter bullshit he better add a way to order carriers to hold their strikes. It's dumb enough watching 3-4 waves of torpedo bombers suicide into a station unsupported before my capitals can get there to tear down the shields.
4cb859 No.16654502
>>16654491
I recall he was working on better coordination with an Omen and an Onslaught, hopefully the AI upgrade extends to fighters as well.
cde28a No.16654632
>>16654502
Better frigate escort AI would be great, I've stopped ordering frigates to escort anything larger than a Hammerhead because against big ships they just hang out in the back outside of weapon range all fight instead of flanking or screening like they should. It's like they don't understand that they're expendable.
b15613 No.16654723
>>16654129
>and some horrifying antifighter missile swarm
My main ship was the carrier and had smaller carriers as wingman, fuck.
c541b3 No.16655725
>>16654129
You could have at least posted the video in question.
>>16654502
That's already in, now escorts, instead of suiciding, will try to make sure the escorted ship has to take on only a single ship at a time.
>>16654632
>escorts should flank instead of escorting
35ed0a No.16655829
>play outerwilds
>finish outerwilds
>cry inside
Pretty good game, shame I missed the fucking thread. Are there more games like this? It was actually nice to explore with meaning.
At the end of the game though it's implied and directly mentioned that suns and planets are dying, which is why the Nomai stick together, so how the fuck is there life at the end? Did the eye of the universe give back life or something?
14.3 billion years is a long time to be fair but there was a scout thing right at the end, dunno if that was just a meme but I doubt the universe just exploded
Gonna try Helium rain too, looks pretty cool. Any tips?
f598e5 No.16655860
>>16652433
Read The Forever War if this concept interests you btw.
b4aed1 No.16656132
Any anon played Star Rulers? Should I get the first or second one?
450067 No.16656152
>>16655860
Anon, Have you read the comic book series of the Forever War? Is it good?
3bccc7 No.16656210
>>16655829
Nah. Outer Wilds is pretty unique. When I played the old build of the game years ago I was really looking for another comfy space game like it and I never found anything.
The universe is going through Heat Death, followed by the Big Crunch. Who knows what exactly the eye is, what I figure is that since the eye is older than the universe itself the Eye is the center point to which all matter returns during Big Crunch, which is followed by a new Big Bang creating a new universe. By being in the eye the Hearthian astronauts and Solanum you fuck you better have not forgotten about her(him? can't remember) are able to jam out to the end and creation of the universe, maybe imparting a little something on what's to come.
The reason the scout was there is because you threw your scout into the eye. It's mostly just a fun little extra thing but it implies that what enters the eye survives, either by becoming quantum or whatever else.
Also everything in OW is scaled the fuck down immensely. If you can fly from one side of a solar system to the other in less than two minutes I'll believe that 14.3 billion years is enough time for stars/planets/life to evolve.
30b374 No.16656290
>>16653953
I like it, with one exception:
It has very high lethality because there are no shields. It's supposed to be realistic, which translates to paper-thin armor even on endgame ships (they get a lot of dakka though), and that combined with the lack of shields translates to heaps of lost ships in AI fleets and quite possibly your own demise.
2da7d9 No.16656387
>>16654114
I suspect Alpha admins might come back and bite you in the ass and not in the
>lol containment empty
Sorta way. Would be nice if it swung the other way too. Funny thing to mention, I'm pretty sure the only things that get maxed admin level skills are the players and alphas. Go ahead and start taking a peek at colony admins when in port, you might be surprised at what you find.
the Hegemony has a secret
f598e5 No.16656388
>>16655829
>but there was a scout thing right at the end, dunno if that was just a meme but I doubt the universe just exploded
Spoilers:
Your own universe fizzled out and you basically witnessed the creation of a new universe at the end and when you fired your scout into the eye it couldn't be retrieved because it no longer existed in your own. If I had to guess, the Eye is just the new universe in creation but it doesn't behave by your universes laws so it's basically whatever the writers want to do they can get away with. Which is why the end is such a cluster fuck of weird shit
Honestly the ending of the game was the weakest part for me. Both story wise and gameplay. They didn't go full meta like most indie titles like to but even then I like my stories with some structure and rules. With neither there's really no reason to be engaged for me. Gameplay wise once you enter the eye it's just a series of "do x" without any real puzzle or challenge. Wasn't a fan.
Still, loved what we got. And I say it every time I bring up the game. I fucking love small but powerful gravity wells in vidya. It's fun as fuck to mess around with. Even though I've beat the game and have discovered everything there is to find. I still like to get a solid orbit around the Sun Station and do risky things that require planning. Such as leaving my ship at the white hole, landing on the Interloper in my space suit, making it to the center of it when it orbited close to the sun, leaving it on the next orbit, and then leaving the comet when it was near the white hole again and making it back to my ship. Try that shit and tell me it isn't a game in itself as far as challenge is concerned.
b4aed1 No.16656463
>>16656210
>>16656388
How fast was this game cracked?
f598e5 No.16656489
>>16656463
It was on PirateBay from CODEX day 1 If I recall. Not hard to download by any means.
3bccc7 No.16656497
>>16656463
I torrented it day one. It's epic exclusive so despite waiting fucking five years to spend money on it I'm not dropping a cent. I guess the epic store has some weak shit for DRM, at least when it comes to third party indie stuff.
a421ba No.16656713
>>16656290
That sounds pretty good actually. Can't wait.
cde28a No.16657162
>>16655725
Escorts should escort rather than hiding behind the light carrier it's charged with protecting while it gets mauled. Sometimes that might involve being a distraction.
1b262a No.16657960
>>16631658
>2400 comes into the Galactic year. Sidney orders the construction of the Gateway and Dyson Sphere projects. Due to the ammount of Alloys required, she also orders the fleets to return to home starbases and remain on standby orders.
>For the first time in 200 years, The Commonwealth isn't at war and a miniature golden age of construction, science and art breaks through. Sidney is delighted that her society is doing well but knew that she needs a break from war in order to shaw up her defenses and society.
>Sad news occurs in 2410. Valerian, beloved second son of the God-Empresses, dies at 150 years of age. Sidney mourns, renames Nithascal Secundus to Valerian II and names Yu Beauclair as her new successor. Sidney also celebrates her 250th birthday with some sadness.
>By 2420, the frame of the Dyson sphere is in place and the first gateways come online. Construction is accelerated on both while other Mega-structures are researched. The first ships in the Titan program are starting to be constructed.
>By 2430, 2 Forge worlds are operational. So with the feeding of minerals and output of Alloys, a retrofit program is engaged to refit most of the fleet with new weapons and specialty designed psi-shields recently researched.
>By 2440, the retrofits are almost complete and the first Titan class vessals are rolling out of their docks. The next phase of Gateways come online and things are looking good. Sidney orders a test by attacking a fallen empire. The fleets use the new Gateway system to take a year to move into position instead of half a decade to move across systems. It was also this time that the Cybrex Alpha Ring World was starting to be reconstructed.
>Using and expanded 12 fleets, they storm into the territory of the Fallen Empire. The star-bases put up some resistance but overall it goes smoothly. Except for Strike Fleet Chiron and 3 other strike groups with it, they face a 60k and 2 130k fleets. They escape with half strength each and then they move to quickly capture their home system. Chiron jumps first and it's an entire week before the next strike fleet joins them. What they see is Chiron reduced to one battered carrier and an Admiral who was trying to jump away. They covered that one ship but took a pounding themselves as the Fallen Empire was trying to rebuild it's fleets. But we took care of that and the Psy-Corp ground troops took care of the local defenses on the ground.
>The net gain from this was Fallen Empire worlds and 3 gaia worlds which are way more technologically advanced than mine. Also Dark matter tech, specifically the reactors as my Psi-shields are better than Dark Matter Shields. The downside was the few hundred thousand dead in fleet actions, the decimation of Chiron, who's home system is the capital world of Unity and 6 of the 9 titans built as for some reason the stations targeted them over the dozen battleships firing at them.
>With this much loss, much of 2450 was spent rebuilding but thanks to the Gateway project being largely completed during the war and the last phase of the Dyson Sphere being completed soon, the Alloy of the Commonwealth could rapidly be used to replace fleet vessels and by 2457 the fleets were once again rebuilt.
>It was then that we needed to expand. Population controls had already been enacted on several worlds and the commonwealth was eager to show it's strength once gain. By targeting a Favorable Compact empire, we could get closer to Stellar League territory and pressure them without engaging them directly. And so we went to war once more.
>During the early years of 2460, Unity also became a Ecumenopolis world, and for her 300th birthday Sidney had decided it would become a paradise world and by building leisure districts everywhere, it would become the soul of the Commonwealth.
There's also a break away human empire right in the middle of the largest empire in the Stellar League. Perfect excuse to invade and annex.
1b262a No.16657964
>>16657960
>The fed ships in a line is larger than the diameter of a star.
They're only corvettes but there are 350 of them.
27bbc5 No.16658201
>>16657960
Amazing how you manage to trudge through this bland mess of a game.
1b262a No.16658242
>>16658201
I spent many a long night trying to conquer 300 planet systems in Sins of a solar empire.
d4feec No.16658243
>our system in Elite Dangerous got taken over by communists
27bbc5 No.16658246
>>16658243
How many people still play ED? 2?
d4feec No.16658252
>>16658246
About 5k daily peaks on Steam.
Probably 1-1.5k more on their launcher.
Of the people from the thread? Probably just me.
1b262a No.16658256
>>16658252
I got a friend who plays every few months building up then taking a few months off.
27bbc5 No.16658257
>>16658252
I suspect ED is making FDev bleed money, to be honest. Hosting servers can't be that cheap even for a non-game like it.
d4feec No.16658259
>>16658257
It's a p2p game, with mostly background simulation shit servers
It also makes a metric assload off of those 2$ skin pack sales
27bbc5 No.16658266
>>16658259
>It also makes a metric assload off of those 2$ skin pack sales
d4feec No.16658894
>>16658266
Oh yeah, it's jewish as fuck. The skin packs actually cost 4$ and you can only apply them to the ship you bought them for, but you get six different recolors. It's an atrocious system. The other terrible thing are the ship kits, which are 12$ for 16 different pieces of stuff you can stick on your ship to change the model, but each ship has it's own kit you have to buy. The other stuff like the cockpit voices and bobbleheads and engine colors are mostly fine, since you buy them once and get them for all of your ships and SRVs.
The skin/kit thing is so fucking terrible, that you're downright retarded if you spend any money on that before you get to the endgame, where you'll always be using the Anaconda, Cutter or the Fed Corvette. I mean, you're a retard if you throw money at this in general.
I did drop like 15$ because I'd played 600 hours of the game and wanted to look rad
c83244 No.16658922
>>16658894
And those fucking "raider parts" dear god do they look like trash. They are trash!
27bbc5 No.16659073
>>16658922
Hundreds of hours of design went into this, you pleb. Now give me your money so we can waste it on a different game.
c83244 No.16659080
>>16659073
I'm not paying $14 to make my starship look like a turd
27bbc5 No.16659104
>>16659080
I don't get the concept anyway because 99% of the time you're NOT GOING TO SEE YOUR SHIP. The external camera is in no way usable.
b861cc No.16659113
>>16658922
>>16659080
I'm starting to see a pattern, Every raider in every game always has the same look which is rusty spiked scrap metal welded all over the armor,ship,clothes,base
518f9f No.16659298
>>16658242
>Sins of a solar empire
Man that game really deserves another installment
d4feec No.16659685
>>16658922
You know what's even worse? If you buy that shit, you have to splash 4$ more on the rusty color skins for your ship, or it just looks mismatched and terrible.
Yeah, you can go around in supercruise until your paint wears off and looks like shit, but it'll still be scraps of a flat, matte color compared to the rusty shit you duct taped onto your ship and look terrible.
a36a4c No.16659755
>>16658257
Bruh, they only have to get the intern to change numbers in the excel sheet they call a background simulation. Forum dads are enough to pay for their other games, they don't give a fuck about ED except to milk old fools by giving them shitty skins.
69a3d7 No.16659946
>>16658243
I do some missions in wheemez every other day when i'm not material gathering for engineering, but it's still too much for one person especially when the mission generator gives you shit missions to do. I'm parked in a system near wheemez where i found a void opal hotspot but havent started the game up since the summer sale started.
a9f316 No.16660996
>>16659080
It reminds me more of a catfish. That is an ugly color, though. Do people really pay money for that?
c83244 No.16661291
>>16660996
Yes some people pay for that crap. Also some catfish are super cute.
b4aed1 No.16662309
>>16661291
Does anon like Cory cats?
a6f72c No.16662438
Does stellaris still run like absolute ass
d4f7ef No.16662479
>>16662438
Oh yeah, trying to manage +170 planets can result in lag and when claiming territory from battle there's a good 2 minutes of freeze while the computer transfers territory.
4cff34 No.16668689
My galactic empire begins with a small trading company…
4c663f No.16670648
>>16653956
Why do people have to ruin things with nigger beats?
b781d1 No.16670948
>>16642707
>they like wasting ships and personnel against battles they can't win
Oblige them.
b781d1 No.16670976
>>16654086
>that is a cute gi-
>what the fuck
Thanks anon saved
ef3bf7 No.16671818
>>16617383
Ok so there is this game that I want to play again, but I completely forgot it's name. It is a sim type game where you explore and colonize a planet, no it is not alpha centauri. The most notable quality is that the first guy you talk to looks like Michael Jackson and your hub is inside the base so everyone goes about their business like a literal ant farm.
Does anyone have any clue what I am talking about?
6b3431 No.16672772
Been having fun with Starpoint Gemini Warlords, gameplay is a step up or sideways from 2, ship customization is more complex/freedom/irritating than in 2, building up a space empire and balancing faction relations is tedious but fun and it's much easier to lead a fleet of ships into battle when you don't have to personally give them a paycheck.
c6cd22 No.16672822
>>16671818
Do you have a timeframe? Early 2000s?
a9f316 No.16672858
>>16672772
I had to stop after a bit. While having an empire cuts the grind severely for your ships, they had to add it back in somehow. So there is a point where the game just has a huge mass of resources needed to continue on the main quest. The ships are not as interesting as I like. They all feel like they play the same, from gunship up to the highest class they play, because they don't change the momentum between the classes, and there are no real differences in the way guns work between the classes. There are different turret configurations and you will get more of the heavy weapons, but nothing made me feel like I needed to change my engagement tactics. You do what you do no matter what class you are in, and given the power gap between a ship and one that is one or two tiers above it, there seems to be no reason to use the skills to empower specific classes. Not unless your goal is to use the money saved from not sizing up to buy the best upgrades and weapons you can get your hands on.
Fleet battles also are a bit ridiculous looking, because ships will just zoom in and stop at the optimum range for their weapons. Makes it a huge pain in the ass if you are trying to be sneaky and do a two pronged attack on the enemy.
11536e No.16673323
So, after my shitposting about Elite's turbojewish monetization, they've announced changes!
>completely new and redone ingame tutorial, with voice acting, a storyline, etc..
>changes to the skin rendering system, so they're not as washed out or shitty looking
>all of the "skin packs" are getting broken up and you can buy exactly what you want
>they're introducing a "premium currency" you can earn by playing regularly
>you can buy any item from the cosmetic store with this premium currency
>this is coming in September
>fleet carriers and a couple of other new features in December
Y'know, it's a few years late, like all things Frontier Developments, but at least it's a positive change.
9ff8c2 No.16673329
>>16673323
Now if only they'd do something worthwhile with the ayys.
4275d6 No.16673674
Please spoonfeed me, I want a decent space game. I'm trying to figure out whether I should play Star Conflict, EVE Online or Elite: Dangerous, but I ain't sure which one is the most fun or whatever metric of enjoyment someone would use for these types of games.
8e2df9 No.16673706
>>16673323
Cool. Now if only they would make the game playable offline so I could pirate it and actually PLAY the damn thing, that would be great. But nonono, gotta have that always online drm bullshit kikery.
c17b83 No.16673817
>>16673674
you got
>grind
>chink grind
>autopilot simulator
11536e No.16673840
>>16673674
Alright, so, Star Conflict is made by Gaijin Entertainment, famous for War Thunder and their rampant jewry and "historical accuracy" of making the Russians better than anyone else. Avoid like the plague.
EVE was sold to Tencent and has been dying a slow, painful death since 2015-ish, with no hopes of recovery. Enjoyable if you can find the right group of people to play with, but the free to play option is shit-tier, so you'd be paying a 15$ sub. There's also a very acquired kind of autism required to enjoy it.
And Elite is actually OK nowadays, not terrible, but not great by any means, you can skip the money grind with minimal effort, since mining is broken as fuck right now. But it is a grind and a half even outside of that, and it'll cost you around 15-16$ for the game and expansion. Requires less autism than EVE but the fun ceiling is also lower as a result.
c9aea9 No.16673931
>>16672822
I actually found it, its such a generic name so I always kept passing over it in DOS game lists.
6ee669 No.16674581
>>16673674
There really are no good space games on the market. Eve has depth but is often clunky and full of fun taxes in the form of skill grind. Remember, you train skills in real time.
ED looks great but that's about the only positive aspect. Money is no concern anymore but you still need to grind endlessly for engineering materials and factiom reputation and once you've done that the game is essentially over. The development is so slow it might as well not exist at all.
be1012 No.16674589
>>16673931
A friend lent lent me that on CD 20'ish years ago and I spent hours unsuccessfully trying to get it to run. Always wondered if it would have even been worth the effort or if it was trash. Little me was pretty hype about the packaging.
6ee669 No.16674594
>>16673323
Knowing Fdev, the exchange rate for credits to funbux will be astronomical (get it? Hurry hurr). The option is only there so the forum Dads can smugly tell you that you can in theory not pay any money for it.
c6cd22 No.16674605
>>16674581
FDEV is using ED's dads as cash cows for their other projects. Sometimes they release some shitty update developed in 2 months so they can keep the "100 devs working on ED" meme alive. It's so sad that NMS is now a better game than ED despite it's horrendous launch.
For now I play Starsector and Evochron while waiting for Rebel Galaxy Outlaws.
507388 No.16674625
>>16673323
>they're introducing a "premium currency" you can earn by playing regularly
>premium currency
Jesus Christ.
c17b83 No.16674712
>>16674625
>jesus christ
more like YHWH
69a3d7 No.16674812
>>16674625
whats wrong with that? its free points to buy skins otherwise you'd have to shell out real cash. I think that "premium currency" already exist for xbox players since the only way to buy shit from the console is to buy mircoshit space bucks which in turn gets converted into whatever money currency the game uses to buy "extras"
6ee669 No.16675002
>>16674605
Imagine what you could do with 100 devs and a good director.
11536e No.16675153
>>16674812
It's free points to buy cosmetics, but, you'll now have to buy said funbux to buy stuff, instead of just paying for shit in a simply written $/Euro/Bongdosh price. Meaning, they're opening the game up to all kinds of chinese f2p currency scams.
Good thing I'm a fucking NEET with infinite time, and have played 600 hours of the game without any major incentive to do so, so being able to jew Frontier is only icing on the cake for me
a908eb No.16676047
>>16675153
There's barely anything to buy that's really relevant anyway. A few tacky cockpit lights or bobbleheads and computer voices, that's it. You don't see your own ship and neither is anyone else so why bother with paintjobs.
c17b83 No.16678964
>>16676047
why the fuck would anyone buy them then
b19d11 No.16680355
14bcc5 No.16680730
>>16657960
>2460 saw a time of relative peace for the Commonwealth. Researched improved life, the ships sat in their dock yards waiting for the orders to set sail and Sidney still ruled from the Steel Halls of Unity.
>After a decade on inaction and building of 3 new full fleets, Sidney gave the order. The First Great Crusade against the Stellar League. One of it's members, The Djunn Union was on the south eastern part of the Commonwealth's borders. They would be a perfect first target.
>In little under 3 years and with very few ships lost, the empire was erased and it's territory seized.
>Sidney smirked at how easy it was for her will to be imposed upon the galaxy. It would soon become her domain and the other empires pushed out of the galaxy.
>A decade past of repairing ships, setting up new star-bases, building more Mega-Structures and generally making sure the Commonwealth functioned as intended.
>Some day in early 2490, Sidney received a communique. A subspecies of Yapathi, had been overthrown the United Nations of Earth after being allowed to live on Earth and declared themselves an independent nation.
>That Humans would allow Xenos to tread on their Homeworld. That they would allow them to gain independence. That they would allow them to build Habitats around the damn Sol System in an effort to expand their population. That the humans of the UNE would allow all of this to happen and not even attempt to regain the Homeworld.
>It's documented in Unity's history, that shortly after becoming God Empress, Sidney received a message from the UNE that caused a week long storm on Unity. This history now reflects that upon seeing earth ruled by an independent Xeno nation, her rage was so great that the storms that covered Unity, Anatasia I, Valerian II and Yu III lasted an entire month. That's when the people of the Commonwealth knew how displeased she was.
>Sidney sent passed along a simple communique to her Admirals and Generals.
<"It is time. Reclaim the Homeworld. Earth must know the Judgement of Unity."
>During the 2480's a weapon was created, one of such devastating power that the project was known only to Sidney and the upper echelons of Unity's command. With psychic power being a dominate feature of everyday life, so much so that people think their thoughts to each other rather than talk, Sidney had ordered her top scientists to develop a weapon capable of harnessing the collective psychic power of a species. This weapon was called the "Judgement of Unity" and it's first target would be Earth.
14bcc5 No.16680734
>>16680730
>Sidney announced the Second Great Crusade by declaring war upon the Stellar League with the goal of knocking out the UNE and recapturing Earth and a secondary objective taking territory in hostile another hostile empire so the Admirals have a clear path to destroy an ancient mining droid that was being set upon by League fleets.
>They managed to get there in time to salvage the nanite repair system from the destroyed bot. Now all attention was focused on Earth. After securing the hyperlanes into the Sol system, Judgement was ready for the heathens on Earth.
>Like a Damocles Sword, when anyone in the Northern Hemisphere looked up, they would see the subconscious light of an entire species about to assault them. It took 3 months for Judgement to fire but in those 3 months, the government collapsed, there was rioting in the street and Earth descended into chaos. All that ended when the beam of pure psychic energy hit Earth.
>The beam didn't just wash over the people, it infected every plant tinting it gold, became a golden shimmer in every dark corner, it bathed the world in a golden light in a way that hasn't been ever seen. Every being that day just stopped what they were doing, whether aliens beating up the local human population or humans running for salvation, everyone stopped like they had a lobotomy. It was then they acted in mass concert, aliens handed their guns over to the humans and both parties moved with stiff formation and formed parallel lines. The sounds of successive gunshots could be heard for days, even into the night.
>It was only after a full week of bloodshed did Roy Cairns descend with his 6 legions onto Earth. The Psysoldiers that make up each Legion reported back to their COs that they felt very calm despite the mass death around them. As if the presence of Sidney herself infected the entire planet. The Psysoilders burnt the alien bodies, recovered the guns from the humans entranced with golden eyes and performed triage on the worst injured. A communique from Sidney to Roy said to keep the Humans of Earth protected and sheltered for the meanwhile, as the effect of the Divine Touch would last for a few years. Once they were out of the Trance, they would be genetically modified using the template of Commonwealth Humans, then incorporated into the Commonwealth. They may have been wrong, but they were still human and thus worthy of salvation.
>And so the Second Great Crusade came to an end. Sidney has ordered the fleets back to their stations and new ones are to be raised to protect Earth so that no Xeno sets foot on it's soil ever again, even Cervanti are not permitted. Now all that remains is a decade of administrative work before the 10 year cease fire expires and the Third Crusade can begin.
14bcc5 No.16680740
>>16680734
The game is also lagging something fierce now that I built that sensory array. Something like 30 seconds on an auto save and at least 5 to 10 on major battles during that last war.
6670ac No.16680804
Do I buy Star Citizen? I want to walk in my ship and do space stuff. Why isn't there anything that offers me this
b861cc No.16680814
>>16680804
No, you are going to wait and suffer with me and then pray to God that a game like that comes out, that you will be abducted by aliens or that space travel becomes cheap and affordable
7a02c1 No.16680833
>>16680804
>Why isn't there anything that offers me this
Pulsar.
14bcc5 No.16680856
>>16680804
Genesis Alpha One? Just make sure to pirate.
a421ba No.16681323
>>16680804
Objects in space.
c17b83 No.16681353
>>16680804
space engineers lets you do that
956e99 No.16681850
>>16678964
Forumdads are retarded like that.
fce456 No.16681857
>>16681850
>Buy a skin you only see yourself while docked and other people can only see during PvP
>Forumdads never do PvP
>???
>Yep, Elite 1 was a good game *sips*
c9de03 No.16682040
>>16680833
>pulsar
pulsar is for children
>>16681044
>X4
X4 is a broken mess and is half the game X3 was
>>16681353
>space engineers
lego's in space
what is needed is DCS is space with the ability to walk around. large ships should require multiple people to man different stations and each station should have 5000 buttons and various MFD's/etc and require reading a 500 page manual to understand (slightly different for each ship/faction).
c9de03 No.16682055
>>16682040
-this should be an MMO
-star citizen only without the aids and arcade game flight model.
-ships may be purchased for cash but should all be obtainable in game (similar to how eve online manages to pull this off).
-All things should be freely listed on the market.
-Ship death should be permanent to facilitate the market demand, actual death should have severe consequences.
-Monthly subscriptions are acceptable.
cf7b9d No.16682116
>>16682040
> large ships should require multiple people to man different stations and each station should have 5000 buttons and various MFD's/etc and require reading a 500 page manual to understand (slightly different for each ship/faction)
So did you look up the game >>16681353 mentioned? Because from what it looks like, it ticks at least a few of those boxes.
a421ba No.16682237
>>16682040
>DCS in space
Objects in Space
Rogue System
cf7b9d No.16682477
>>16682116
>go away for two hours
>realize I misclicked when referring to >>16681323 as "game anon mentioned"
Fug.
c17b83 No.16682676
>>16682040
<i want games that do this thing
>games that do that thing
<no i dont want THOSE games, i want different games!
e25f85 No.16682694
Is there a good space game that really gives you the feel of the scale you're dealing with? Mayn strategy games showcase galaxy and have like a thousand systems in them, which doesn't really convey just how big (hundreds of billions of systems) the galaxy is. I know Elite:Dangerous does this, but it's not a good game, so I'm looking for something else. Doesn't need to have the whole galaxy and it doesn't need to have literally billions of stars, just something that shows how HUGE it is
c17b83 No.16682697
>>16682694
space engine, but its not really a game and more of a simulator
flightsim mode is WIP
903c9b No.16683049
>you can only get the new version of space engine by purchasing off steam
c17b83 No.16683201
>>16683049
yarr harr fiddle dee dee
5e45d2 No.16683775
>>16680804
>Why isn't there anything that offers me this
just wait to get isekaed into another galaxy and have your very own shipfu.
c37a50 No.16683811
Is there like a comprehensive list of comfy spacecore games? I really enjoyed the fuck out of Solar 2 even though it's an incredibly simple game. I know nothing about space games outside of that.
f917b1 No.16684269
>>16638468
It's good enough for me to keep playing until the end. Linear. There's a level limit which in turn doesn't allow you to unlock everything on the skill tree, grinding elements exist but not that much and your team are limited to three people.
Not a lot of upgrade for your dudes that you won't come unscathed from every battle. Unless you have a good shield and shield mod.
c9de03 No.16684395
>>16682237
>Rogue System
I remember seeing this before and was wondering what the name was, it was the closest thing to DCS in space.
>let's see what has happened in the last year
so much for rogue system; fuck that was the last hope.
>objects in space
this looks interesting thanks anon
b2f75f No.16684654
I got on a bit of another kick trying to eyeball out potential life in SpaceEngine. Figured I'd do it before summer starts trying to kill my toaster again.
c9de03 No.16687279
>>16682237
I've been playing objects in space the past couple of days. It's a great suggestion. I haven't actually been excited to play a game in a while, now I actually look forward to playing it.
It does seem like the dev's have abandoned it unfortunately. Their forums went down a month ago and dev's have said nothing. Steam rentalfags in discussion area are all saying dev's have abandoned the project unofficially.
b906d3 No.16687694
>>16682237
Is every npc still a nigger?
7fa75e No.16687772
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16648037
Conquest Earth. Didn't played it, but I remembered watching the intro in youtube before, and know I remembered the name. Enjoy.
cd11e0 No.16688372
>>16684395
>niggers in space
ISHYGDDT
c6cd22 No.16688706
>>16682237
Made by a journo connected tranny and his brother, probably abandonned when the tranny went mental.
c9de03 No.16688859
>>16687694
Now that you mention the vast majority of NPC's are niggers in space. Japanese niggers, finnish niggers, everyone is a nigger. I only put a couple of hours into it so far but now I cannot recall seeing a single white person.
c9de03 No.16688933
>>16688859
I restarted the game looking for this now.
<every single npc in objects in space is a nigger
<every single one
c9de03 No.16689253
>>16688933
>>16688372
>>16687694
3 hours in, still only niggers in sight. i'm quitting this game now. this is so overboard i can't deal with it.
>i wonder who could be behind this
d39102 No.16689278
>>16688859
Very (((odd))) how all these future predictions of what people will look like in the future have people with light skin and light colored eyes when halfbreeds come out with black hair and dark eyes 99% of the time.
0220ae No.16689445
>>16689278
Those aren't half-breeds. That's typically what a nigger looks like when they've been diluted down to 16-25% nigger. 16% is where most races get a coin flip between whether they'll look white or slightly like their 1 drop. 8% is typically where it starts to become very difficult for the average person to tell the difference. So I guess they're predicting a future where niggers have been almost bred out of existence by whites.
b14185 No.16690666
What am I? I can ask myself this question endlessly and still never come to a conclusion.
I swear existence has to be on purpose, something chose to put us here. The odds, the circumstances, space is impossible to comprehend for us.
We'll never get to see the bigger picture.
I daydream a lot that we're actually small, we could be the insides of quarks for matter in a much bigger world. The cycle is endless.
Everything is infinite and every piece of matter contains universes upon universes.
We are all so warped, we evolved to do such horrible things, sometimes it feels like we;re in hell. There are people at this very second being tortured to death. It's unfair, none of us asked to be human, to be at the mercy of our surroundings. Can we overcome this evil that plagues our consciousness or will it destroy us?
I often get these abstract emotions, filled with some odd sensation of nostalgia. They are faint pictures in my head that stir up a feeling of longing unlike anything I have ever felt before.
What is this? Why can't I escape this cage? I'm begging anyone, let me out. What did I do? What I have done to deserve this? I've always struggled with how my brain wants the world to be versus how it actually is.
Somewhere there is a perfect world, somewhere there is a place we can be happy. I stare into the ocean of black and pick out those shining stars, maybe home is far away and we can't be there anymore.
I miss home, wherever it is.
1cfb6e No.16693238
>Objects In Space
yar har fiddle de de
d40499 No.16693261
>>16689253
>Nothing but niggers in space
>Made by entirely white people
c17b83 No.16693263
>>16693238
not even worth pirating.
d7ca25 No.16693283
>>16620766
the original haxalogy(?, meaning 6 books) by Frank Herbert are pretty good (at least the first 4 books)
dont touch anything by his son (cant speak from experience but thats the general notion)
a421ba No.16693384
>>16684395
>>16687279
I guess they're both dead, that's a shame they both looked really interesting and had promise.
Funny story when I first saw pic 1 on the store page I thought they were all star trek bumpy forehead aliens but after >>16687694 I looked again and they're all low poly niggers with diverse hair styles.
While I was looking on steam I went through the "More like this" list and found some interesting stuff. Rentry is a real space mission sim that fits the DCS in space requirement. Similarly I also found this orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ which supposedly runs the real flight computers from the rockets in an emulator so you can be a real astronaut.
Then also there's Celestial Command which is like a regular space game but with orbital mechanics. It looks interesting and I'm tempted to give it a try but it's early access. Has any anon played it?
aa5c9b No.16693408
>>16693283
I just finished messiah and it was really meh, felt like nothing really happened and it was just moving along I had the same complaint about the moon is a harsh mistress, but I digress. are the rest of the books any good or should I just move on to something else?
also wouldn't six books be hexa?
1cfb6e No.16693441
>>16693408
The general consensus is that God Emperor is the where the series peaks and the best book to finish on. Books 5 and 6 are generally regarded as 'fan only' material, though I thought they were great.
Avoid the Brian Herbert trash.
d67af2 No.16693443
>>16693283
now thats some shittaste
a3ff76 No.16693474
>>16688859
>remember when freelancer or something had each faction as a race
>spics were raiders
<now everyone is a nigger
e32d13 No.16693481
>>16653876
I took my computer to a shop once. I'm pretty sure they found my 4 gig folder of incest hentai when they replaced my motherboard, they weren't able to look me in the eye when I was checking out, kek.
c81641 No.16693483
>>16673706
It's an MMO and the background simulation is dependant on updates, I don't know what you expect.
c81641 No.16693492
>>16687694
To be fair, the ship that colonized most of the planets is apparently from Johannesburg.
875ded No.16693507
>>16693474
>remember when freelancer or something had each faction as a race
>spics were raiders
<Niggers didn't get off of earth and died there because they couldn't into space
Really makes you think.
a3ff76 No.16693521
>>16689253
>3 hours in, still only niggers in sight
it was pretty obvious, when i saw the gameplay i notice an abnormal amount of niggers, i though it was the nigger station, but it looks like the galaxy got blackened.
4b2dba No.16693590
>>16689253
Is the game fun at least?
c9de03 No.16694497
>>16693590
it is for the first hour, then you realize how shallow it actually is. it's highly dependent on the story which looks like you run out of quickly. after that, there are only 3 ships you can use which all seem too similar to eachother. you can upgrade components but there is no end-game after that except to continue to trade and do contracts which are nothing more than "take X to Y".
combat might be slightly more entertaining and there are bounty hunting contracts but it's still pretty shallow. load torp, fire torp, wait until enemy goes boom.
there is stealth aspect to the game, every module on the ship produces emissions, high emissions means enemies can detect you farther out, low emissions means they can't detect you at all. even this is shallow though, the only real emissions that matter is the reactor, because it produces 100x the emissions of anything else. this is also where the component upgrade metagame is, you can replace components and sub-components with modules meant for high efficiency, power or stealth, but there is no point to the other two (power/efficiency); and again the only thing that really matters is the reactor. You can go into this "emcon" mode, which basically just shut's shit off, but only the reactor really matters.
it seems like mods could fix it by replacing niggers with humans and adding more ships/components, but too much of this is the core gameplay. trading is a joke because there is no real economy, and even if you built up some kind of super stealth ship there would be nothing to do with it.
c9de03 No.16694507
>>16694497
compare this situation to X3 where there is certainly and end-game beyond "take X to Y" and acquire credits. Acquiring credits actually means something, you can build stations, more ships, and entire fleet, start fucking with NPC factions or with litcube start fighting an actual war.
imagine X3 with a slightly more complicated ship to operate, no actual combat beyond firing torpedos one at a time, you can only fly one ship and you can only choose out of 3, you can't build stations or build anything, there is no real economy (trading at one station does not affect anything else) and there is nobody to fight except random pirates, and nothing to protect except yourself anyway; and the galaxy is only 20 systems.
5796d6 No.16695413
>>16693483
The only reason it's Online Only is to prevent piracy. There is nothing in the background sim that requires it to be online and MP is almost nonexistent.
eadab9 No.16695991
I'm putting an end to my playthrough of Stellaris as the Commonwealth. I just spent an hour microing stations, fleets and planets and the game crashed before I could save. I think me microing 350 planets and 700 stars is stretching the engine to the maximum. It's pretty laggy 300 years in and I've got a good look at the current content available. Last time I played I just took a cursory look at the game but now I did a 300 year playthrough and got to see 80% at least, even if it would take another 200 years before the mid game events take place.
Overall, it's not too bad, I appreciate this over other 4x games because you don't have to build on damn tiles and it incorporates alot of SINS mechanics I'm familiar with like galactic stockpiles, fleet upkeeps, trade routes, research and tech trees. That being said, Sins and SupCom have this mechanic where when the game gets put under a heavy load like that, ingame time will slow down so while 20 minutes pass in game an hour will pass real time. It is long but considering I play sometimes on a toaster it's appreciated, thing here is Stellaris isn't optimized for late game.
I'll probably check it out in another few years when some more content and optimization are put into it. Next time I play Commonwealth, smaller map, change years to about 200 years between midgame and end game stuff.
68f6ad No.16696111
>>16695991
>microing 350 planets
>300 years in
I'm impressed you even got that far. Every time I play it always feels like the game is "over" by 2350. Playing past that is just waiting around for the crisis while the performance slowly degrades and very little is actually happening. If you do play again I'd highly suggest setting mid-game year to 2275 and end-game to 2300. That'll usually cause the crisis to spawn about 2350 and helps a lot to keep it interesting.
f74627 No.16696362
>playing Stellaris again
Why does my opinion always drift towards "it could be fun to play again" over time?
Is there a mod that makes the AI empires play by the same rules as you?
68f6ad No.16696397
>>16696362
StarNet is pretty good if by "play by the same rules as you" you mean spamming forge worlds and actually conquering shit. It's the only AI mod I've tried that actually kept up with me early game. I guess Glavius's mod is better if you want baby-mode AI though.
c9de03 No.16696540
>>16696362
funny i just had the exact thought that playing stellaris might be fun again until you reminded me that the AI blatantly cheats the dev's lied about it for the longest time until some autistic players came up with concrete proof and they had no choice but to admit it.
c9de03 No.16696541
>>16693384
these look interesting thanks; i'm going to check them out since niggers in space turned out to be such a disappointment.
5796d6 No.16696549
>>16696362
The biggest issue is still the complete lack of flavor and context for your faction.
6b3431 No.16698369
>large ship menacing me without firing any weapons because it knows I can barely hurt it
>can't board it anymore because "lol biometric shields"
0354d7 No.16698478
>>16693441
That might be the consensus, but God-emperor is so meta into the universe its not funny. Leto literally made a sandworm dick for himself to put others offguard.
The prequels aren't bad and are interesting enough in that goes a long way to explaining the setting, but the ending is low-tier literal deus inc machina. Kevin Anderson and Brian Herbet had big shoes to fill, so it is partially understandable.
>>16693481
I worked at a computer shop and was doing a data recovery for this guys dying hard disk. Windows XP put the wallpaper as wallpaper.bmp in the profile folder, so when I found a file with that name, I restored it to his wallpaper. It was him taking a selfie in the mirror with his dick out naked. Like I give a fuck what's on computers with my own terrible stash.
The boss couldn't look at the screen without disgust though :^)
>>16695413
>>16693483
Elite:D promised singleplayer until they noped the fuck out of it practically at the end of the dev cycle. I never did get a refund for the collector's edition I bought and I don't think I played more than 20min and saw what a shitshow this was. I just wanted local multiplayer Freelancer with a new and shiny engine. Cunts.
aedde4 No.16698503
Fully recommending a yar of Genesis Alpha one. It's kind of bare bones, and might seem a little boring but wait until your crew members get sick with helix or you're caught with your pants down near an undetected pirate ship
Helix is a disease where a spider plants it's eggs in your crew members, and when head to their quarters sick they hack up all the eggs. I lost a whole floor during the last out break and half my crew since all the beds were on that floor
36a789 No.16698568
>shoot enemy
>numbers pop up
1f5cb1 No.16703755
Remember to pirate, kids.
9a71bc No.16703857
>>16703755
>implying anyone in this thread has the epic games store launcher installed
1f5cb1 No.16703865
>>16703857
It's /v/, there's bound to be a few.
c9de03 No.16703961
>>16703865
>a few
half of /v/ not only has steam installed they have thousands blown in steam rentals
e83f2f No.16704276
>>16703961
I feel like that can be excused though. Many of us didn't know better back then. We do now though.
c9aea9 No.16704419
>>16703865
Epic is mandatory if you want the Unreal 4 engine.
c9de03 No.16705156
>>16704419
all unreal 4 engine games are free
6b3431 No.16706422
I love watching all the bits of hull debris my beams peel off of enemy ships once my strike teams take down their shields. Wonder if SPG3 will give me this satisfaction as well.
c9aea9 No.16706443
>>16705156
I'm not talking about playing the games, I'm talking about getting the devkit. You get Epic packaged together with the devkit.
e0e430 No.16707037
Im tired of seeing space ship simulators, but that are mostly about fighter or barely bigher stuff. What games let me control true battleships amd cruisers?
b1c8ee No.16707151
Is Rebel Galaxy 2 out yet? Shame for it to be chink store exclusive, but what are the improvements so far from the original?
All I want it
>Ability to control the fighter ships
>Coop mode
>Specially a coop mode where one player controls a fighter and te other the main ship
>Ability to disable turrets and weapons with fighter
>Option to fire to both sides if needed
>More weapons
>A better gameplay overall
7fa75e No.16707200
>>16707090
>No name or filename in file
I cant guess what game. Please tell me.
6b3431 No.16707213
>>16707200
Starpoint Gemini Warlords, as seen in >>16672772
Playable ships range from smaller gunships to really big titan ships, no playable fighters but many of the larger ships have hangars you can slot fighters/bombers/interceptors into.
4131ac No.16711024
is stellaris worth a pirate yet?
bb829c No.16711051
>>16711024
Maybe the version before the Iron Sky dev cucked out.
936343 No.16711671
>>16711024
It stopped being worth pirating ages ago.
6170ca No.16712254
any space games with qt girls?
6442f2 No.16712376
>>16711024
>>16711671
Nah, still salty af about the FTL changes. If you ask me its because orionfags were mad that hyperlanes were objectively inferior to warp/wormholes.
50281b No.16712655
I would play Elite dangerous but Auto turrets are basically useless for PVP and PVE. That and you're expected to do engineer grinding if you want to be viable in pvp. If exploration were worthwhile and you could stumble across planets with fuckable aliens I that'd be neat. That or give you the freedom to walk around your ship.
a9f316 No.16712920
>>16712376
That is generally what happens. It was the case in SotS as well if the map was large. Eventually the humans would have a disadvantage because of how slow moving ships across their empire took.
87a9fa No.16712950
Stellaris needs an AI patch because it's been fucking broken since they forced fleet limit caps. At least you can accurately model a civilization of space Jews accurately now
b03c1c No.16712976
>>16682040
>pulsar is for children
You fucking take that back.
98742c No.16713026
>Playin
Void bastards
It's pretty fun. Rogue-lite with a comic-book aesthetic. Boils down to a space-hobo simulator as you raid (mostly) abandoned ships for supplies, while working towards parts you need to advance the thing that resembles a story. Hopefully will get more content in the future because it's a pretty light game, so that means they can squeeze in more eventually. Only complaints is that enemies don't have actual 3d models, they have "sprites" that change based on with direction they're facing along eight ways. Hopefully they can add models in the future as well but it's not as much of an issue right now.
f407a9 No.16713322
SoTS 2 is the best 4x space game ever!
6b3431 No.16714690
Finally after a long storyline it's time to truly get this empire on the road.
Still SPGW
b03c1c No.16714939
>>16713026
>$30 for a short game
Yarr harr
36a789 No.16715926
Negative, Joelock, no other personel on the site. Why do you ask? Over.
1f5cb1 No.16726592
Approaching bump limit.
I'm just getting started in Celestial Command and it's… different.
2c0f25 No.16726727
>>16726592
Looks like KSP meets… whatever the genre that Homeworld is. Escapes me.
2c0f25 No.16726801
>>16658922
>random assortment of crap welded to a ship equals “raider”
>purposely increasing mass with parts that are literally dead weight, decreasing your delta v
>attaching them asymmetrically so that your thrust is off axis and your engines have to compensate, wasting active processing power lowering their efficiency further
Not only does it look like shit, it makes my inner astronautical engineer scream. Never mind that in-game, you’re not going to be able to tell “raiders” from regular ships at meaningful distance if THIS is the visual distinction.
6b3431 No.16726845
>>16726801
The parts are supposed to be used with the matching "rusty piece of shit" ship material most likely, to make the ship look like a piece of junk.
Raiders and pirates don't normally give a shit as long as it flies.
2c0f25 No.16726846
>>16640752
>SE update is 25 bucks
>can’t afford that shit
>guy deserves it because he’s a lone insane Russian with multiple Ph.Ds working on this fucking masterpiece to put all other space game backdrops in his spare time for the last decade
>have to wait until I can buy the damn thing to enjoy the new update
Life is pain. At least he has officially released licensing options for his renderer to be used in other games. I expect to see actual gameplay in some other games with the beauty of SE soon.
2c0f25 No.16726875
>>16726845
>all the beautiful rape babies of the Star Wars EU will never appear on screen thanks to Disney
>no Y-TIE, no X-TIE, no Z-wing, not even any of the silly TIE fighters that aren’t bastardized
I have no Raith and I must Sienar.
cde28a No.16726935
>>16726875
>TIE Fighter wings powering ships with shield generators and hyperdrives
6b56bb No.16726998
>>16726875
The Y-wing to me always looked like it was two separate ships welded together, or at least one ship with most of the cladding ripped off.
bfbd68 No.16727076
>>16622550
I liked how I was sucked in the first time I visited a black hole.
I couldn’t escape.
892029 No.16727116
>>16726935
>Speeds past you and Blows up your capital ship and fighter wing
Nothing personal terrorist
f9618c No.16727460
Working on building a heavy combat transport
Has two hangars on the back for launching fighters, and is protected from enemy fighters by its gun turrets.
Trouble is finding a place to fit all its generators and giving it enough thrust to support its heavy armored ass
2nd pic is a troop transport for colonial security. Its got a bit of armor and can fire rockets. The folding doors on the side protect its passengers from small arms fire and debris. Also working on a light vehicle transport version that just has a merge block for picking up certain vehicles.
f05761 No.16733311
>>16726592
This looks pretty good, how is it so far?
1f5cb1 No.16733684
>>16733311
Pretty slow. I'm doing scrap recovery contracts for the local stations with my new grabbing claw, and it pays alright. I think I should've played it with fluid space enabled (no orbital mechanics) first before moving on to proper vacuum, because it makes learning really difficult. I'm actually really glad the game movement is in a 2D plane because otherwise docking would take way too long.
f05761 No.16734024
>>16733684
Doesn't sound too bad, how big can you make your ship and drones?
1f5cb1 No.16734244
>>16734024
I haven't encountered any cap, but my assumption is that there is no limit except what your computer can handle. Pics from promotional material.
I have noticed that it's possible to change the orbits of stations you're docked to, and, with perseverance, fling them into the asteroids. They don't seem to take collision damage.
f05761 No.16734781
>>16734244
Nice, this sounds pretty good so far for being and early acess game
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