/v/ - Video Games

Somebody combined Superhot, DOOM, and isometric shooters.

I'm only shilling it because it took shots at Epic, the game itself looks average.

any you niggers hear about starbase? made by same people who did trine

>>16740837

It read some of the options from my cyoa and posted it

>>16740672

I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with these designs.

On one hand, I absolutely despise how flimsy and fragile they look.

On the other, I can really appreciate a ship that's basically just a gun with engines strapped to it.

>>16740265

>playin

Rimworld, if that counts.

Given the whole use rockets to raid tribal fucks with your plasma guns and power armor, I'd give it a pass.

>listening

Assorted spacer filk

>Reading

Honor Harrington. I think i'm on something like book 13?

Can't remember off hand.

Technically "listening", I guess. Audiobooks are nice when you're driving a long ways.

>Watching

Last thing space-related I watched I believe was Red Dwarf. First season was free, so, I gave it a shot. Pretty okay.

>>16740265

>Playin

Nothing until C# Aurora comes out

>Listening

Gundam OST

>Reading

Currently Forges of Mars Omnibus.

>Watching

The awful shitty Iron Sky sequel. God give me amnesia and my $7 back.

>>16740851

>Honor Harrington

That Mary Sue? Well, at least the battles are decent.

>>16740703

Looks interesting. Especially the power conduits bit.

But I don't like that everything is robot.

>>16741171

Honestly, the character herself doesn't bother me half as much as the nation.

The lot wants to pretend they're massive underdogs, while basically handing them every single possible advantage outside of raw numbers. Puts a pretty nasty wrench into any real stakes I have, when it comes to navy battles. Probably why I can stand the character, for the most part. Navy fights're always going to end in the Manticoran's favour, so, I don't really end up counting it against her.

Politics are interesting, though. And I'm a sucker for worldbuilding. Space-Mormons are fun, too.

>>16745407

Wouldn't be an issue if I hadn't been carrying escape pods, a meta alloy for the engineer, and various other cargo from running around on planets. Now I gotta haul my ass back to maia and try not to get anally probed by ayys and pirates.

>>16740703

If it's Starmade but with bots and not hokey art style I'm onboard

Is there an Elite squadron for /v/ at all?

>>16749498

I knew some anons from here started a clan

>>16749502

>>playing any game with /v/, ever

It can be really fun, I've had more good eperiences than I've had bad

>>16749502

I haven't played in a /v/ group in quite a while, but it's always been a better experience than playing with randos

>>16749730

There's a development paper going around that shows the Dungeon 3 devs received funding from a german multimedia fund to work on a game called Spacestation Startopia.

https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/eacea-site/files/eacea_24_2017_list_of_selected_projects.pdf

Who else playing Empyrion right now

who else played Empyrion with /v/ a while back?

>>16740265

In the middle of bumfuck nowhere with an ASP Explorer in Elite: Dangerous.

The "short" fun trip to Sag A* with a detour past colonia tskes fucking forever.

" Oh good, I can plot a route directly back to kremainn now. Its only 689 jumps! "

(Averaging ~45 jumps per hour @~30ly)

>>16749935

Mark should edit the default CSS of /v/ to insert an extra newline between lines of text just to piss you off.

>>16749935

>"Am I fitting in yet guys?"

>>16749758

The Bio-deck was super cozy, and you could make hella money farming those little flower bushes for Luxury Goods and selling em.

I just wish the standard sandbox mode had more to progress towards after you buy a Star Dock from Arona. After that you basically never have to worry about money if you understand the basic trading rules (why do the sex having half naked Sirens need so much medical supplies? 🤔 Why do the stoner hippie Karmaramas sell food and Black Market Goods? 🤔)

>>16749743

Do we have any sort of indication that it will be related to the original StarTopia in any way?

>>16749957

>(2)

>>16749952

>🤔

Man, it's been a while since I've seen emojis here.

"Reddit spacing" was a thing decades before reddit existed. It's purely a D&C tool and anyone that fell for it is a complete retard.

>>16749952

There's been no news or anything unfortunately. I think they'll begin a marketing push probably sometime next year. They have been working on this since 2018 and when they haven't been working on DLC for Dungeons 3.

>>16745388

Does the "spam heatsinks to evade scans" tactic still werk in this day and age?

>>16749992

It looked like shit then and it looks like shit now.

>b-but muh 20 word paragraphs™

Eat a dick.

>>16749757

I do.

Just finished designing my huge CV (around 200 blocks long).

Gathering the resources to build it in survival is going to take 10 forevers.

R8 my ship:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1811865432&searchtext=Paladin

>>16749935

No one cares, fuck off yourself.

>>16750015

Better than the Idris from Star Citizen/10

>>16750026

>His only (3) posts in the thread have been to bitch about someone's post format

>Has contributed nothing to the discussion

>Sees nothing wrong with this

<"Am I fitting in yet guys??? Please tell me I'm fitting in!!!"

Fuck off faggot no one gives a shit but you, you autistic nigger.

>>16749993

I've never played any of the Dungeons series. You think the devs will be able to make a decent StarTopia type game? If that is what they're making, at least.

>>16749756

me

Are there any good space games in virtual reality?

t. about to fall for the meme

I got a chance to try a headset, I was actually quite impressed and now I want more.

>>16750092

There's ST Bridge Crew on the occulus store.

>>16750059

>>16750073

I've played Dungeons 3 and its a solid dungeon keeper clone with an admittedly kind of shitty overworld.

Dungeon keeper is fairly close gameplay wise to startopia so if the same devs are making a new startopia, as long as they keep the curvature, chances are good that it'll be at minimum as good as the original startopia.

>>16749743

>The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency or EACEA is an agency of the European Union located in Brussels, Belgium. It manages parts of the Union's programs in education, culture, and audiovisual fields.

What the hell where did you get this.

Is the EU funding videogames?

>>16750092

House of the Dying Sun.

>>16750092

Elite Dangerous is supposedly a thousand times more fun in VR.

>>16750098

Would be cool to have different station types, like a donut like normal, or a long tube like the Sides from Gundam

>>16749756

I can’t afford the new one right now, but I’d like to be playing it.

>>16750098

>I've played Dungeons 3 and its a solid dungeon keeper clone with an admittedly kind of shitty overworld.

Dungeons 3 is garbage.

>>16741082

Haven't watched the iron sky sequel myself.

How bad is it? What happens?

>>16750092

Elite Dangerous and House of the Dying Sun have been good in VR. Distance (racing game where your car has rocket boosters/rsc thrusters) is also surprisingly fun with VR+HOTAS w/ rudder pedals, but it will make you sick if you're one of those weaklings who gets sick from vidya. Also hyped for Project Wingman VR but that isn't space.

I haven't replayed Everspace with the headset yet, but I think it would be nice.

There was one guy on Hardlight forums who got it working with Freespace 2, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.

>>16750015

I want to play it with /v/ again

>>16750098

>Is the EU funding videogames?

Yes. CDPR literally runs on EU taxpayer money.

>>16750677

It would be fun. Though I also dread it.

>>16750128

why did he release it on steam?

>>16750937

thats by proxy of poland so does it really count

>>16751110

>>16750128

I just pirated it. The new version is really good though

I just wanted to be a space trucker, listening to space country music/ old heavy metal and thrum mongol songs while driving my powerful cyberscania around the galaxy trade routes.

>>16751110

Of all the game devs out there, I feel like he's basically one of the only ones who deserves a damn thing from me, simply because he's alone, doing it in his spare time, and has Ph.Ds in the field. And it's not even a damn game! I'm fine with him charging for it, particularly charging for the rights to use the engine as a back-end for OTHER games to build onto it. I'll pirate THOSE games to see what people manage to do with it, but I'd like to pay him.

>>16749756

Is this a game? I thought it was a toy.

What's the win/lose condition?

Anyone here play starsector?

>>16751588

better question is does anybody have the mega link to it?

>>16751588

I'm still surprised there isn't a new thread for it yet, given how it went over with those other games.

>>16751588

been looking for a game like this for a while, thanks

>>16751602

Dev posted a direct link to the installer, just punch in Sseth's key (TEITW-HP9ON-A7HMK-WA6YA) and it works fine.

httpsdon't use link shortenersKmCidj6GoD

Original dev tweet if you're paranoid : https://twitter.com/amosolov/status/1157385545720483840

>>16751650

Does this jewish faggot have to wordfilter everything?

>>16751724

I loathe everything about these images.

>>16750092

nothing wrong with playing space games with a VR set.

>>16751724

any books/comics/something about an adventure of a captain and his qt ship?

>>16751650

Any recommended mods and portraits?

>>16752294

>>16752426

Ship/weapon pack is good without really deviating from vanilla aesthetic or balance.

Also, nexellerin and vayra's sector add a shit load of gameplay towards the tail end.

>>16752779

I've got a bunch of ship mods installed and the best ship point for point is still the Hammerhead.

>>16752878

That may be on destroyer sized hulls, anything bigger than that has some real crazy ships that either have too much flux, too much forward facing weapon slots or too much speed for vanilla hulls to stay competitive. Also some frigate size hulls are straight up better than average

>>16749502

I actually enjoyed Space Trucking Simulator way back before they started the severe credit inflation and then added in lots of additional forms of grind to replace/supplement it. E:D was best in the beta, still somewhat ok at and shortly after release, and has gone down the tubes since then. Even if the gameplay itself has improved, the metagame has gotten so bad that it far outweighs any improvement in actual gameplay.

>>16740840

It's the thin portions right in the middle, I think. The original Pillar of Autumn didn't have any weird small connecting parts, it looked extremely believable for a military ship. Then they started shifting towards having ships be a few blocky components with tiny connecting sections.

The Covenant actually suffered less from this sort of design shift, tbh, so in modern Halo their ships look a lot more practical than the UNSC's.

>>16751073

tbh I have 0 complaints of playing with people from spess game threads since they started popping up on just about any game people are playing

>>16752752

>>16752294

There are several portrait packs.

As for mods, there are many, MANY to choose from. Combat Chatter and Common Radar are must-have.

Aside from that you have many faction mods.. Try Steelclads.

>>16753612

nigger, this video already was posted here >>16751588

at least you didn't make a new thread about it

>Ironclads

I remember it getting shit since some time after 0.7.2 and I never bothered with it since

>>16751514

Try Elite Dangerous

>>16753766

Ironclads is dead.

Someone else took over maintainance and made Steelclads. It currently has 6 factions (not counting AI, aliens, pirates and others), tons of weapons, large portrait selection, great music tracks.

Alas, the roaming AI and alien fleets are not implemented. You can only fight them in the simulator and missions for now.

>>16751723

he's a paranoid GGfaggot so yes

>>16754104

>>>/tumblr/

>>16754111

Further proof that GG thread has the thinnest skins on 8chan.

>>16752752

>that ODST inspired helmet.

fucking noice

>>16754120

lets not get into that discussion, don't want to derail the thread.

>>16752752

also the riddick one is pretty swell too, please continue this project

>>16751588

I have been aware of starsector for couple of years now, but Sseths video finally drove me into buying it.

Now im done with all the tutorials and im off to do my own shit.

Already helped out a station quarter master by exchanging some shit his supply corp got him by accident for heavy machinery.

>>16751514

Post space country/folk or whatever else you have.

>>16754252

Yes, getting them all to look as if they're kinda the same art style is the hardest part.

>>16754291

What did you crack open? I have never got a hoard close to that good, not even from the red planet or Domain exploration motherships.

>>16754315

So, i was at this one bar and there was this one cra<zy scientist who said that there was gonna be a old tech cache on this one system, Mel Texat star system.

There i found the cache and it was pprotected by a small fleet.

I managed to kick their asses and claimed this as salvage.

>>16754320

Oh yeah and i still gotta deliver that AI core to him.

>>16754291

The data cache is packed like that.

>>16754324

There are no drawbacks to just taking the core for yourself. You got scammed, fag.

>>16754327

Oh well, at least i still got all of that other stuff.

>>16754320

Oh that guy. That is a one-time only event so it gets better rewards. I always get AI cores from it though.

>playing starsector again

>dont see any chances on the skills you can pick

>go for low supplies, fuel and better salvage first

>see the (your fleet) message

I always wondered, does your WHOLE fleet gets the upgrade like your guys patrolling your colonies or it only applies to the fleet you are flying around with?

>>16754252

Is there a way to change the portraits of your companions and colony administrators?

>>16754423

only the fleet you're flying around with, there are no skills affecting colony fleets besides Fleet Logistics 3 (and that's technically a colony modifier)

>>16740265

>Lose attention

>Fill out the CYOA with all answers

Oh well, might as well post it.

Time Kidnapped. Feeling.

Comfy. Ship's Choice. Dandere. Digital Uplink. Game Focus. Cosmic Radiation. Ship Only Network. Ship.

>>16752426

Nothing to fix the permanent damage thingy?

My brother started playing yesterday and he told me that sometimes, you take permanent damage.

I mean, I understand an issue if the keel gets damaged in a real ship, that dooms the entire ship. But in fucking space there is no such thing as permanent damage. Just take the thing apart, fix or replace, then put it back together. There is no "it's too heavy to remove everything but the keel and fix/replace it" in fucking space

>>16754516

Do you mean damage mods? You can repair them when you're docked on a planet.

>Restoring a ship removes damage hullmods (D-mods) and incidentally fully repairing and replenishing CR. The Restore button [G] is located in the bottom left of the refit screen when in a dock at a planet or station. It is not available from the refit screen when in space. The cost to restore a ship is somewhat proportional to its base cost and how many D-mods it has.

>>16754518

>You can repair them when you're docked on a planet.

fug, is that a new thing?

>>16754516

There is also no such thing as a keel on a spaceship, as you're not a fucking boat.

>>16754526

Well, yeah, but that's the only example I know of "permanent critical damage" to a ship, as the keel is made from a single piece of wood (at least, on small ships)

And that's exactly my point, space ships don't have anything similar, so there should be no permanent damage

>>16754533

>Spaceships don't have key points running through their superstructure

What? Look at any rocket built using composites; you break that shit the whole hull needs to be replaced.

>>16754541

>you break that shit the whole hull needs to be replaced.

yeah, but you can replace a whole hull, you can't replace a keel, the boat is doomed, you gotta make a new one from scratch. at least wooden medieval ships, the fiberglass ships of nowadays, everything is possible

>>16754563

>Still not getting that it's the same concept

You move all your spaceship bits into the new hull, the original structure is doomed. Might as well say you didn't lose the whole boat because you can move the wood paneling, sails, etc. to the new one.

But to give a non-keel example on modern naval vessels, say I shred the housing around a reactor on a submarine. It's not fixable and the whole thing needs to be rebuilt (Or torn completely apart, then rebuilt) because you can't just slot in new superstructure. The same will apply to big spaceships in the future.

>>16754623

Remember to meme responsibly.

>>16754522

I think it's there since 0.8 or so. Restoration is quite expensive, it's often cheaper to find a new pristine ship of that class, instead of restoring the one you have.

>>16754744

Harbinger's frontal mounts no longer have the missile capability.

>>16755265

Simulate, simulate, and simulate again.

Alternatively, use the missions mode from the main menu; you can outfit and refit the ships in there however you like and test to your heart's content.

>>16755301

That ship appears to be from a Star Wars mod, but I've never seen that mod before.

My tips are to take the "Domain Probe" missions because they have extremely low-level enemies to fight, which nets you a nice balance of XP, money, and some faction reputation.

>>16755320

Nope, you'd have to go back to much older game versions for that. Alternatively, play Space Pirates and Zombies for sweet boarding pod/shuttle action.

>>16755265

The default Balanced loadout for the Hammerhead is pretty good. That's two heavy mortars, two railguns, two MRMs and PD lasers You might have a hard time finding railguns though, but you can replace those with dual light ACs and put in the hullmod that increases weapon range. Try using that as a baseline and tweak it as you see fit.

And do this >>16755295

Personally I always have more fun and feel more effective with smaller ships. Tempests are high-tech frigates that combine good speed with medium energy mounts and solid shields. I let the big ships engage the enemy front while I sneak around the back and hit their engines.

>>16755328

Fug, thanks anon

>>16755383

The video or the game anon? If it's the game Sseth just straight up gave his CD Key so that you can play it for free

One last question for Star Sector, Can you get an AI ship Waifu?

>>16755540

>Any other fucking changes i need to know about?

Have you tried reading the changelogs? I hear they log changes in there.

http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=15027.0

Some of this isn't in yet tho.

Tech mining definitely deserved a nerf, in fairness. But the Harbinger was just an anti-fun maneuver because he wants us to play Doom cruiser instead. I just want AI improvements (like fixing the unusably retarded Hyperion AI, holy shit).

>>16755566

It really did need a nerf, but now it serves very little perpose. He could have just made the decay really fast making it useless after like ~2 cycles.

The doom is also still pretty meh. As for AI, its still frustrating as hell trying to figure out what loadouts they are actually capable of using. They are incapable of using most missle loadouts efficiently and suck at using close range weapons.

>>16755587

I consider it's purpose to be "run until site depletion, then deconstruct and make another industry. I don't know if it can generate blueprints below a certain richness level though.

>The doom is also still pretty meh.

You take that back now. It's meh in AI hands, but it's a wonderfully fun mid-game to early late-game flagship.

Really the AI needs to know when to initiate a strike to capitalize on weakness (such as a flanked vessel presenting an unshielded area), rather than playing all engagements as either frontline flux/damage tanks or scared harassers. This is because the AI is currently designed around a "threat avoidance" system that doesn't properly account for targets of opportunity beyond an overloaded enemy.

>>16755512

I need a shodan portrait

>field repairs

>level 3

>(D) hull deployment cost reduction also applies to maintenance cost

nani?

>>16755627

Every D-mod drops the CR recovery costs incurred at the start of a combat engagement (it's 20% per mod up to a max of 80% I believe), so FR3 could reduce the supply/month logistic cost by up to 80% on D-mod ships. Of course, you shouldn't be using that shit late game because of the 30-ship fleet cap. This shit's in the D-mod tooltips on the refit screen.

>>16755621

>You take that back now

no, im too salty about the harbinger to give in.

>It's meh in AI hands

So is most of the ship roster.

>This is because the AI is currently designed around a "threat avoidance" system that doesn't properly account for targets of opportunity beyond an overloaded enemy.

And it works really well, all he really needs to do is ad a variable setting of acceptable risk based on AI personality. Something where a cowardly officer will only engage an enemy on the verge of overloading and and aggressive officer will attempt to capitalize and use strike weaponry at around %50 to %60 flux. With steady in between. Other than that all i would want is a missile strike command like fighter strike, then it would be golden.

>>16755265

>Hammerhead

>slow as hell

Just you wait until you get to cruisers and capital ships. Hammerhead's "balanced" loadout, with railguns and heavy mortars, is very good.

>>16755301

No, that ship is from some mod that is now defunct.

To make money, you either explore (easy), trade (also easy) or do bounty hunting (hard, but fun). You should do some exploration and trading until you have decent money to bounce back in case you fuck up.

>>16755320

Ship boarding was replaced with salvaging ships. You can salvage multiple ships and without the risk of them blowing up. There's no in-combat boarding, though.

>>16755499

>>16755566

>pick Harbinger

>phase

>fly to an enemy ship

>hold F and left mouse button

>unphase

>phase again as soon as possible

>do it again 9 more times

How do you counter something without a counter and specifically designed to counter most of its counters? Admittedly, I don't like phase ships very much. I prefer fast, but conventional ships.

>>16755540

Tech-mining was changed mainly because it could attract expeditions on its own. Now it's too expensive and it shouldn't be an industry, but it's fine as a kinda last resort way of acquiring blueprints.

>>16755673

>all he really needs to do is ad a variable setting of acceptable risk based on AI personality. Something where a cowardly officer will only engage an enemy on the verge of overloading and and aggressive officer will attempt to capitalize and use strike weaponry at around %50 to %60 flux. With steady in between

Officer personalities actually differ in behaviour, but the majority of it is based on ship's own flux level. Steady officers retreat at 50% flux, aggressive at 90%, reckless at 95%. I agree that it would be very good, if AI realised that the other ship might be in worse situation than its own. I think eliminate orders could help with that, but I'm not sure if results would be 100% satisfactionary.

After watching Sseth's vid I decided to actually play Starsector, and it's alright, it's extremely mediocre and limited and it doesn't support fullscreen windowed, and I think it's java based, but so far it's the best one of these games I've played, and it's still just not there even though it's somewhat enjoyable.

>settle a mediocre ocean planet

>weak fertility

>producing 20% of the system's food

They really really need to fix this shit.

>>16754291

I found a busted one like the top right and one of those alpha core AI's in one salvage mission, shit was good, now everyone won't stop coming to my fucking systems and ruining my shit.

>>16756899

>producing 20% of the system's food

Kelp and fish farming not good enough for ya?

>>16756900

It says global market but it makes the AI mad, how the fuck is a planet with only 10s of thousands of people producing 20% of the total market's food. Shit needs reeeeeeeeeebalancing, or a guide on modding it so I can rebalance that shit.

>>16756899

>ocean planet

>farmland at all

What's your game version? Ocean planets having farmland and ocean surface conditions was fixed some time ago, but until then it caused them to produce twice as much food as they should.

>it doesn't support fullscreen windowed

What have you tried? I play it at my native resolution and it just works.

>>16756917

It's probably an older version of Starsector since I pirated it.

.9a rc10, I'm guessing it's ancient.

I did not bother to check but somehow it just works if I run it windowed at max res, that doesn't even make sense.

Still I want more options for things like infrastructure, interplanetary infrastructure building empires, or even exploration, it seems kind of limited, even though it's unfortunately the best I've played.

>>16756966

Just download if from official site.

>>16757187

You should have built space roads.

>>16757187

RIP your planet. You could always try correcting whatever's pissing the other guys off.

Remove luddic cells by destroying the stations they work from. Try visiting the bar on your affected planets.

>>16755470

>Bazinga2

>>16757187

You can bribe the attacking force afaik.

>>16757265

I did but ran out of cash

>>16757187

you dont own nothing goyim!

Just recently started playing Starsector, anyone got some protips for Hammerhead loadouts? Saw an anon above mention Heavy Mortar and Railguns, currently I'm using 2x Heavy Mortar, 2x Sabot SRM on 2 different manual weapon groups and 1x Ion Cannon, 1x Tactical Laser, 1x LR PD Laser, 1x Light Dual Machine Gun all on autofire.

I also deploy a:

Wolf with 1x Pulse Laser, 2x Annihilator Rocket Launcher and 2x PD Laser.

<I feel like the Pulse Laser is too much of a drain for this ship.

Condor with 2x Light Auto Cannons and 1x Salamander MRM Pod with Thunder Heavy Interceptor and Piranha Bomber.

<Suggestions on good Figthers?

Wayfarer with 1x Light Dual Auto Cannon, 1x Light Assault Gun, 1x Vulcan Cannon, 1x Ion Cannon, 1x Swarmer SRM Launcher and 1x Salamander MRM.

<Doesn't feel like a great combat ship, kind of shit Flux Dissipation and awkward turret angles.

Also have a Mudskipper that I don't deploy and a newly acquired Gemini that I'm not sure if I should bring into combat or not, currently has 1x Hammer-class Torpedo, 2x Arbalest Autocannon and Wasp Interceptor Drones. Mostly threw on some weapons I had on me at the time.

>>16757187

Have you tried not being a poor nigger?

>>16757359

>hammerhead

Swap ion cannon and tactical laser for railguns/dual autocannons OR one of the heavy mortars for an arbalest autocannon. You don't want to tactical laser always on autofire, because shooting even weapons cheap on flux causes you to lose 0 flux bonus.

Wolf could use having annihilators swapped for sabots. Don't use Piranhas against anything but stations. And wayfarer is indeed shit.

>>16757359

>pulse to big for wolf

Wolves are not brawlers and while they can mount big shit it overloads them quick. Try sabots, they are really nasty and can overload stuff quick.

Hammerheads are great though. For early game it can be tough to get shit like hypervelocity drivers which I like on my hammerheads.. Early game I'll stick 2 thumpers on the front with railguns if I can get them, duel autocannons if I can't. Then Harpoons for finishing nerds. then I'll do like PD lasers or something.

Is there any reason to pick dedicated targeting core once you get the integrated targeting unit?

>>16757645

No. ITU is a direct upgrade. DTC is only there to crutch a player who has somehow not gotten an ITU by cruiser+ stage.

>>16757551

>>16757455

Thanks for the suggestions.

On an unrelated note, how long time does it take until I can trade/turn in missions with a faction that I might have ambushed nearby? Keeps saying I should return 'later' with my transponder off, despite me stealthing in.

Also how does jetting cargo work exactly? Did it with some illegal goods not super far away from a planet and placed it in orbit but despite returning almost immediately it's gone every time. When I'm too close to it and a patrol asks to scan they clearly tell me that they can see jettisoned cargo, but this is not the case here.

>>16757679

It will tell you how long you need to wait before they let you in. Says it in weeks or months. As for cargo I have no idea. I've never been caught.

>>16757679

Between a week and a month, I'm not sure. As for jettisoning cargo, that's presumably anti-cheesing script being too aggressive.

>All those shitters whining on the Starsector forums about supplies and credits while the Galactic Academy stipend makes it impossible to run out of cash early game.

Where do all those braindead faggots come from?

>>16757729

>Buy big ship with most of credits

>deploy them all in a fight

>oh nooo I used up all my supplies!!!11!!

We have all been there but some of us just figured it out after a while.

>>16757758

This looks like a small window of time to deliver this stuff, hard to do if you don't have the stuff at hand or close by. Most of the time I just set myself a route between the best place to buy and sell or create them myself by attacking convoys, and I get fat stacks that way.

>>16757809

Yeah this was taken near the planet with everything in my cargo just waiting for the CD so I can turn them in.

>>16757551

I forgot to ask, do you consider Thumpers better than Heavy Mortars? Have some I could equip.

Also gave my Wolf Sabots and a Graviton Beam for better Flux management.

It occurs to me that I've never willingly installed a thumper on any ship in all my playthroughs.

>>16757729

Anon, are you imblyign Sseth's following is majority retarded redditors that are barely capable of breathing, much less playing the VIDEO GAMES? Starsector admittedly has some learning curve, but I imagine that there's a lot of faggots that look that there are no quest markers like in Skyrim and get dumbfounded.

>>16757793

That, too, might be a possibility, now that I think about it. Ships are expensive.

>>16757837

Thumpers are for dealing damage directly to the hull (and I'd say quite niche), while heavy mortars are general purpose cheap HE guns. Thumpers are decent when you have slots to burn, and you don't on Hammerhead.

>>16757857

Proximity charge launchers.

>>16757758

Are the probe defenses scaled with your fleet size, time or your level? cause i cant seem go toe to toe with them and make a profit anymore. my fleet is to large to effectively do the easy money exploratory missions, and i just had to scrap my flagship. given that i do suck at the combat, but shit dealing with the 28 fuel a day burn out there bumping into storms on the way burning threw the supplies… can i just downsize for a bit again until i colonize a planet or am i missing something.

>>16757837

Cheap, lots of boolet, easy to find, can overload shitty flux ships you hit early game, range. Mind you it does FRAGMENTATION damage. This is good against bare hull, ie once the armor is stripped off and fighters/missiles. Its just my personal taste. I find the muzzle velocity to be shit on mortars so I don't bother with them. I can get stalled out though if I fight heavier armored ships and I don't have railguns on my kinetic. Rails can punch through armor at a reasonable amount but autocannons are SHIT.

>>16757857

To thump is divine.

Also I just stuck them on one day after considering that same thing and they did pretty good.

>>16757872

If you go to a planet and click the Fleet tab, you can put ships in storage.

>>16757981

That's a solid early-game fleet there; could use a tanker though.

If you can get a wolf and shade, do so, because you are lacking in the "nuisance" capability that keeps little fleets alive.

If the ship has a nice blue tint, keep it. If it has a white tint, it's solid. If it's orange, it's only there until you replace it (if you can). Gryphon is a fleet support ship and is okay.

Early on, D-mod ships can be pretty good, so just loiter around the core picking up free ships that meet your needs.

>>16757981

You can never have too many Hammerheads.

>>16757981

Lashers, Wolfs, Tempests, Omens, Centurions frigates. Enforcers, Hammerheads and specifically pirate Shrikes from destroyers. Your current fleet needs a shepherd or two and a dram.

>>16758022

When you say 'tint', do you mean where it says 'Design Type' or that their actual model has different tints? For example I see Hedgemony has their own Wolf design, is it on par with a regular high tech Wolf?

>>16758070

Yeah a Dram for more fuel might be a good idea (guessing not something I deploy). Already have a Shepherd, reckon I need another? Should I bring them into combat or use them as utility ships?

>>16757981

Oh, keep an eye out for pirate Falcons

>>16758204

>long travel enemy factions have to do to reach me affect them

I guess it will take them a lot of time to get to your planet, also you will have less accessibility.

>>16757729

I feel personally attacked right now. I had 142k before but somehow I keep on trying shit that I cant manage and now I always I stay stuck at around 8k. Can't even fight pirates anymore for some reason.

>>16757910

Wait, was that the reason why my supplies have always been eaten up in a flash? Fuck me I gotta change things up a bit.

>>16758204

There is a higher likelihood of them getting harassed by pirates and Pathers.

>>16758269

>you will have less accessibility.

Not if he genocides everyone or makes several colonies in that region. The "center" from which the bonus is calculated is dynamic and can be changed.

>>16751724

>he brought down the fucking website.

oh… so that's why it wouldn't load…

i have a cracked version dating from 11/2018 but should i play this version and buy it when i ll replay ti with mods ? or buy it and play with the latest update now?

>>16758166

>increased maintenance

>degraded engines

Best setup would be another ship.

Cut all those mods except maybe bulkheads and spend more points on guns, especially long range ones because Legions are slow as fuck. Light needlers and heavy maulers are the classic pair if you have them. Add maneuvering thrusters and a targeting core if you have them. Turn at least two of those fighters into bombers of the same type, Daggers are generally best but whatever you can fit is fine. A single Pilum is useless because you'll never have enough missiles in the sky to get through PD, a single Salamander is only slightly better because at least they're sort of fast. Replace both of them with a pair of pretty much anything else. Annihilators are good for forcing ships to keep their shields up without spending flux.

>>16758293

It's fine. Set your Annihilators to alternating.

>>16758314

The game is like 15$, just buy it and be done with it.

Hey what are the orange bars next to the pictures of the ships I find?

Is that their power level or something?

>>16758293

What the fucks do those settings even do?

Does it set the rate of autofire or something?

>>16758327

well i launch it back then and the combat system was strange, i couldn't see shit exepct for a blue fog (as if it had multi layered visual) and i couldn't order and control my ship in the "all clear" visuals.

but ok, ill probably buy it. i mean sseth's video shown that's it's more than just a space game since you can colonize and create your own faction

>>16758342

Each orange bar is a permanent debuff (damage mod), you can remove them at a dock, but costs more than buying a new ship

>>16758314

fractalsoftworks.com/preorder/

Just download it and use Sseth's key.

>>16758348

>shit nigger what the fuck are you doing

No idea, thanks.

>>16758288

>my supplies

supplies and fuel are for the ship, credits are for crew, officers and administrators.

>>16758292

>Not if he genocides everyone or makes several colonies in that region.

when i first played it a long time ago, i created more colonies near my other colonies to have better accessibility, but they still bitched that they were far from colonies.

>>16758371

for future reference, low tech ships love PD and flaks (single and dual) are the best PD guns in the game

if you have no fucking idea what you are doing, try using default variants, then tweaking them to your needs

>>16758317

>best setup would be another ship

Unfortunate, but I'm inclined to agree with how it's performed in bigger battles lately. I should've known autofit wouldn't work out long-term.

>>16758394

Legions are fine as long as you keep in mind that they're carriers with a bit of armor and some guns, not battleships with a flight deck. Those two mods are just really unfortunate.

Swarms of small fast ships

A couple of Carriers

Which works best? I mean fill the whole deployment with one or the other

>>16758394

You could try not downsizing literally every mount. Give it hammer barrages in the large missiles, some medium kinetics and medium flak in the medium ballistics. Broadswords are best mixed with other fighters; they're bulky, have decent kinetic, and distraction flares, so they're good at supporting other assault fighters and making openings for bombers.

>>16758390

>flaks (single and dual) are the best PD guns in the game

Heavy machine gun is PD now, and is superior against high-tech fighters while also being a great contributor in knife-fights.

>>16758371

wait.. you can actually use his key?

>>16758512

Yep.

>>16758585

Is the cash cow is finally going dry? Maybe they will be forced to actually release something

>>16758593

Who are you kidding? This is when they grab the cash and run like hell.

>>16758644

the bigger question is who is going to be the 250 million dollar fall guy?

>>16758686

Keep us posted, I want to watch you spiral into disappointment and disillusionment as you progress.

>>16758710

>>16758686

i keep thinking i want to buy this game but /v/ says it's a huge mistake so i haven't.

>>16758717

It's really fun for the first hour or so. Once you figure out its incredibly shallow NFA mess.

>>16758710

Anon I do enjoy some parts of the game the ships for example but the rest of the game I just don't like it like power play

>>16758717

Just buy it on sale I bought it during the xbox live spring sale for 15 dollars

>>16758748

was on sale for $14 on steam during the space sale, nabbed it then and felt it was alright for a space version of euro truck sim.

>>16758477

carriers are your bests friends

>>16759249

I lucked the hell out and found a pretty damn big and decent one just floating out there somewhere in space.

The world works like a living breathing galaxy right, a bunch of shit goes on without me right? So actually there must have been an actual battle there a bit before I got there and found the carrier, fucking sweet.

>>16758717

It's okay if you can get it on sale. You can squeeze a few hundred hours out of it. The majority of it will be wasted on hitting the jump button though.

Question: Would Elite: Dangerous be improved with the complete removal of the Frame Shift Drive and just using near instantaneous hyperspace jumps between all locations instead?

>>16759459

If youre solo or using a specialized exploration drive yes. Trying to make a 200+ jump journey with the charge time adds a lot of time spent doing nothing over the course of the journey. Of course the actual loading screen would persist.

In multi player or with any other ship/FSD the charge time would remain.

>>16759663

inner-system jumps would be great but don't see what happening tbh.

>>16758717

the main good thing about elite if you are not into RP is the exploration.

>>16759459

It would mean cutting off what little fat there is to pad game time and Fdev isn't going to do that.

>>16760025

Meh what's the bug deal anyway?

>>16760162

For now they're just forcing 8chan to find a different protection service. The issue is that if Cloudflare is willing to succumb to pressure on their security services, giving in on site platforming is plausible to follow at some point.

>>16760179

>once we get space leg and would have stuff to do during FSD that go beyon what the cockpit offers.

Behold, the hopefag.

one of the main attrait of elite dangerous is actually managing to picture how big the galaxy and some solar system actually are

Just get space engine for the "realistic sense of scale" stuff.

>the concept of ED and main selling point is "blablabla it's an acurate depiction of our own milyway that you can explore and develop

Did you watch the promotional material? It's not that. The promotional stuff is by-and-large combat. And besides, just having scale isn't good for a game; No Man's Sky is bigger, but does that make it good? No!

>>16758610

A few months ago, it was Space Station 13. Its your turn now, Starsector. Hell lets not even lie, a lot of activity in this thread has been Starsector since the review dropped though thats not to say Starsector has never been discussed in space threads before.

>>16751588

>>16753612

>>16760025

>>16760295

Basically just giving the go-ahead for black assets to DDoS percieved Pro-Trump websites and outlets that they can't just plain deplatform like they have been for the last half-decade.

>>16760162

>Meh what's the bug deal anyway?

You see what happens when you ask these kind of questions?

God, I love you all.

really missed the space threads, good to be back from a deep space mission

>>16761499

only the great strategy games like supreme commander have such a mix anon, a shame the new one Planetary Annihilation didn't live up to the hype, had promise though>>16761499

>>16762448

>really missed the space threads,

Same.

>>16761533

>buying microtransactions

There was your first mistake.

Space thread bumpable yet?

>>16768981

Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well. The space battles in ‘Star Wars: Empire at War’, and the ‘Risk’ style map of the galaxy is a very underrated gem IMHO. Much more interesting than the land battles.

Something like the space battles in ‘Empire at War’, with more believable technological weapons and shuttles engaging in a last ditch effort to defend earth from an overwhelmingly superior force when the stars are right again would be dope AF.

Building outposts on nearby satellites (the moon, Mars, the moons of Jupiter, &c.), and developing more advanced tech and weapons…

Is Rebel Galaxy Outlaw worth playing or is it as repetitive as the first?

>>16772371

Yes.

>EVE is too multiplayer oriented and time consuming

>Elite Dangerous is too focused on the manual flying aspect and carrying cargo

>Star Sitizen is vapor ware and unpayable

>No Man's Sky is too focused on survival and has a weird colorful aesthetic

I don't know bros, maybe space games just aren't for me. But I keep craving for a good and fun space exploration game.

>>16772491

Got this from embed related's comment section:

>"Really the two big problems for me are:

>1. Unbalanced reward-to-effort ratio for the various things you can do

>2. 99.9% of game time is spent supercruising"

There is more wrong with it but these are the main problems.

Fetch quests were never the main issue.

>>16772401

>But I keep craving for a good and fun space exploration game.

considering your criticisms, what do you want from a space exploration game? how deep should it be? sim or arcade? online/offline?

Do you like SpaceEngine? It was made by one russian scientist.

>>16772529

I think a big problem with the space genre is the emphasis on procedural generation. Most games use it but space games to it to overkill. Space engineers, Elite, Avorion, No Man's Sky- even for the games that have some redeeming features, all their worlds are big, empty nothingburgers. A sandbox is fun for a while but without any challenges to stimulate you, your imagination gets bored. The proper space game should be have certain random variables plugged into a semi-rigid story, like Xcom. It should feature a ship/base building mechanic that's not as tedious as placing every block by hand. It should tie resource gathering to missions and not just mindless mining, and most importantly, it should have deep combat. Maybe that takes the form of managing a squad in a turn-based setting or maybe if means you raid megafreighters in first person CoD style, but whatever the case, it should be complex and make it feel like all the customizing and base building is actually worth something. The tools you design and resources you gather should carry over into the missions and make it so you can approach your problems in a way you designed

>mfw 8chan is back

>>16772613

>their worlds are big, empty nothingburgers.

to be fair it's space, it's supposed to be empty. and realistically there's only so much variation if you wanna keep it realistic. seeing another gas giant in a different shade of beige gets boring at some point.

the real problem that a lot of games do nothing with that backdrop, plus you always have to consider that not everybody wants a super-deep universe simulation. if people can argue endlessly about flight models alone, just imagine what happens with more systems.

in a perfect world there would be a game for everyone, but that's not feasible (yet).

While 8chan was dead they announced Homeworld 3.

Opinions?

>>16783002

Absolutely neutral opinion on my end.

DoK was very good, but most of it's systems were pre-Gearbox, so I have no clue how 3 will go over. At the very least I do expect some good art.

Some Distant Worlds II screenshots and info

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4737033

>>16772384

Makes me sad that by the time space fleet battles become a thing all small ships will be drones, hell probably everything will be "manned" by AI.

>>16740667

>wego turn based games are all superhot clones now

Does this include the ones that came out before it?

>>16785607

What's your point? What is wrong with hitscan weapons? Have you played with them? It isn't easy as you might think. It's alien technology, so it should be different than "ours". Very high heat output, big cooldown, draws immense power, really difficult to master… In close combat its really hard to hit specific part of the ship.

Regarding updates, they really bring more and more, faster and faster. There is a really big difference before alpha 3.5 lets say, and the updates that came after. I'm currently downloading the 3.8 as I write, and as I saw online from evocati, huge difference from 3.7. New planet, smoother fps, new guns, new ships, fixes etc. With this one, the system is complete, now they will polish stuff and add more missions, interactive shit etc.

Calling Star Citizen a failure, vaporware or unplayable, at this point, is just retarded.

>>16783002

multi in the first two weeks should be fun. better still be a 3 dimenional battlescape. nothing lik coming from below on a unspecting hiigarian carrier.

will they support mods is the reason question. Will they shit up the story line somehow. will it be DoW3 all over again?

Anyone fucked with the x4 3.0update?

Happy new year space thread.

Got any hopes or fears for this year?

>>16792647

I hope we can make it through a hole year without gundam retards trying to argue why giant robots are perfect space fighters or even why gundam is anything but a shitshow dragging down the entire giant robot genre.

But I would settle for a good space game.

>>16792647

Happy new year anon. I hope for a good Space game with boarding and land battles as well as well as spending another year with you anons

How's that one homeworld RTS that was recently released? Deserts of whatever? Singleplayer AI any good?

>>16785252

>Hurt me plenty

Casul

>>16740651

Jesus Christ I feel like this game was announced a decade ago because I remember reading about it a long time ago. They're still not done with it?

Crying Suns is meh. Better than FTL in both story and gameplay, but still an FTL-clone.

>>16807464

is that black hole?

on topic, got gifted X4 recently, any essential mods or changes? or is the vanilla experience ok by now for an egosoft game?

>>16807476

I haven't touched X4 in quite a while, looks like you get to be the one to report on it!

>>16807476

I use Variety and Rebalance Overhaul to un-cheese combat. I have Faction Enhancer installed to kick up AI warfare but as far as I know they have actually improved that in vanilla. FireFX if you want some new shooty fx. Freeq's paintjobs for sick ass paint jobs.

>>16807476

Download the experimental, no mods since they often break on the experimental branch. Its an egosoft game so theres still about 3 years to go until its in a playable state.

Small Elite update is out, bunch of bugfixing, the ability to re-buy your crew in case they die, and they made exploration actually give out cosmetic jew credits at a reasonable rate. Also a change to mining profits, by making supply & demand actually affect shit like Void Opals, Painite and the more valuable shit, so it'll still sell high, you'll just have to look for more places to sell. Has a huge performance issue that's getting patched today in the PC version, and in a week on console.

>>16807875

Im pretty sure void opals were always affected. I remember me and some autists tanked the price of void opals in a system so hard we had to migrate about 100 systems to find a reasonable price again.

>>16807476

Its much improved now. The AI will actually have wars. Ive had a system the xenon have been parking destroyers in and trying to build defense stations. The combat AI is way better, still a tad clunky though.

One of my gripes is that combat doesnt feel punchy enough. I got a destroyer and its like I'm slapping things with a wet noodle. That and boost is tied to shields so lol at ur lyfe if they go down and you try to disengage. They are still working on it so who knows if that will change.

Starsector update when?

>>16807972

>best ship

>press lmb and win

>no flux buildup

>>16807865

>>16807494

>>16807869

>>16807920

thx guys, gonna look into the mods mentioned but probably start with vanilla first.

>>16755512

>>16755481

i never knew i wanted a ship ai companion till now.

>>16807972

>not early 2020

fuck, game needs more story my imagination can only take me so far.

>best ship

that things an abomination

>>16810470

>can you get ship waifu

Next patch he is adding in installing an AI into a ship so yes in a way. I'm sure that totally won't whip around and bite you in the ass.

>>16810586

i don't need a ship waifu just an ai companion i intend to use create an ai human hybrid.

> I'm sure that totally won't whip around and bite you in the ass.

I'm already going into this knowing a hal 9000 scenario is highly plausible. Nothing will disappointment me at this stage. Hell i let the ai run entire planets and was never tempted to remove em, i didn't give a shit about other factions trying to kill me because i intended to subjugate them all in the first place.

XWA getting more of the love it deserves

>>16810616

Just join tritac bro, then the robofu will be programmed to suck your dick.

>>16820193

They need to get their bugs fixed first, their ai keep trying to kill me

>>16820259

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>>16820288

Nah those work great, I meant those ==[REDACTED]== i managed to salvage one from ==[REDACTED]== sector.

>>16783002

>Opinions?

Gearbox.

>>16807476