Post apocalyptic desert landscape where humans, mutants, aliens and killer robots fight it out in a card driven mini-4x - with copious references to pop/pulp fiction (such as snake plisskin and mad Max).
IIRC a game should take an hour or two; it’s basically about finding and destroying the other headquarter(s) whilst protecting yours.
It’s a great great game, with a lot of clever ideas in a clunky package: The UI takes some getting used to and the first few games will be confusing…but it is quite a straight forward game at heart.
Wow, great to have this one accessible on Steam. I have an old school digital copy kicking around somewhere. Perhaps other Cryptic Comet titles are on the way?
For clarification – this IS “the original,” right? Were any significant changes to the game made that would impact play? It’s my understanding that this is same game, different store (potentially including pesky DRM), but please correct me if I’m wrong. $8.99 hangs in the balance!
Bought, installed, and I’m having a problem running it. At Vic’s suggestion I’m running it in Windowed mode, but no matter what compatibility setting I try, the top and bottom are cut off, making the game unplayable. This at 1920x1080
I’ve already posted this in the Steam forum, but perhaps Vic will see it here first. Or maybe someone else has an idea.
sounds like a monitor issue? It seems it zooms the 4:3 to 16:9, tronking upper and dow parts. Probably can be checked in display properties or video drivers, or in the monitor’s settings themselves
Can’t help much, I know next to nothing about Windows!
You could check your monitor’s manual to check if there is a setting about auto cropping or such for 4:3 resolutions.
Although all this shouldn’t be an issue if you run the game in a window as Vic suggested. You are in trouble, I think.
Edit: I checked a bit, and it seems you can’t crope the way you’re experiencing it from Windows itself, so maybe it’s really related to the way your monitor scales the game?
Hey Sonoftgb,
Sorry about this. Director is wacky sometimes for no good reason. Are you saying that you get the window, but the display inside is not aligned properly. Like it’s to big for the small window and is getting clipped?
I take it you are running it in Admin mode?
Also, you can try running the full screen version and see how it looks. Maybe lower your display resolution first. That will be a pain but might help. The full screen .exe is in the steam folder that gets installed in Steam/SteamApps/Common/etc
I’m thinking, something very stupid: could it be related to the DPI settings thing of Windows 10?
Go to System/Display settings, and make sure your scale under scale and layout is at 100% (here, at 150%, it exhibits the kind of glitches you are seeing, is why I am asking).
The problem is that all the fonts of the system will show smaller and might get hard to read, especially on a laptop screen. But in my experience, higher scaling can lead to some glitches in games.
It might be greyed out: here to be able to modify it to test my theory, I had to type “DPI” in the search bar on the left, and click on “Make everything bigger” to tweak it.