Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

[ShivaX]

Medicine Hat, Missouri, Louisiana.

Thank you. It’s so annoying that I can’t look at stuff in a system when I’m looking at the sector map.

[Janster]

Its the middle one, where I can still use the auto aim stuff. I drum most power to shields, a little to engine, nothing to guns as I use ammo stuff.

Shields go pop quick.

By the by, when I bring up the green menu with the circle, the game should really PAUSE…

[rei]

By the by, when I bring up the green menu with the circle, the game should really PAUSE…

I think it merely slows and that’s by design.

[rei]

I’m asking, because I see a Photon Cannon, but no Proton Cannon.

There’s no Proton. It’s just misspelling or misremembering Photon.

[cicobuff]

Patience Padawan. Patience.

I do think that the combat have not “clicked” for you yet. Perhaps part of the frustration comes with fighting against the game, as in playing it like some other game?

Flow with the Force.

Getting used to the combat in the starting areas (in the System Map, see that the difficulty is “Normal”) is key to learning I think. Most games gate the difficult areas, but RGO allows freedom, which will lead to many deaths of Padawan learners.

[Lantz]

I think we can all agree though that it’s just terrible design.

I think that it’s clear that not having a $3k real US Dollars capital ship pre-order option has made it impossible to put together a coherent design.

There isn’t even a news van…

[stusser]

According to the internet it just gets even harder even with upgrades. Except for the people who say it’s a cakewalk after you get them. But that’s because they found it so easy to make money. Except for the people who say it’s impossible to get any money and you have to grind forever. Unless it’s the people who say the opposite.
I think we can all agree though that it’s just terrible design.

I think I may have given the wrong impression, it’s clearly a great game, it’s just Privateer and not Wing Commander. Like the best rum raisin ice cream in the world, when you really want pistachio.

Since the “side” missions are the entire point, it makes sense that you need to grind them. Otherwise there wouldn’t be anything to do.

[J_Thomas]

I think I may have given the wrong impression, it’s clearly a great game, it’s just Privateer and not Wing Commander. Like the best rum raisin ice cream in the world, when you really want pistachio.

Since the “side” missions are the entire point, it makes sense that you need to grind them. Otherwise there wouldn’t be anything to do.

This is pretty much how Rebel Galaxy worked too.

[stusser]

I don’t think anyone went into the first game hoping to play a spiritual sequel to the 2D capital ship broadside simulators from their childhood!

[jpinard]

4 autocannons and 2 proton is the best loadout I’ve tried

IMO it’s the best loadout period. The mix of auto-cannon and proton cannon is sublime.

I’ll give that a try too. I hadn’t gone that route since their speeds are different.

[tbaldree]

Since the “side” missions are the entire point, it makes sense that you need to grind them. Otherwise there wouldn’t be anything to do.

Actually there are a whole LOT of story missions - 14 ‘buddy’ missions, a series of station missions, and the main campaign itself. There are a lot of hand-built, fully voiced and scripted missions.
But most of them happen after you’ve figured out how to play and gotten your feet under you and left Texas.

[jpinard]

@tbaldree irregardless of the whining, you guys did an amazing job with this game. You went out of your way to do things right and I appreciate all that extra effort.

[krayzkrok]

Not that anyone cares, but I think I may have solved my GPU throttle problem in the best possible way: by using two beer coasters. Admittedly, they are quite thick beer coasters, but when placed under the laptop just so, they allow extra airflow underneath which appears… so far… fingers crossed… to just be enough to allow the GPU not to cook itself to death.

It has so far also been an excuse to use the remaining beer coaster for its intended purpose.

[stusser]

Ahh-- I have the main story of course, and just got Richter’s first buddy mission after doing his intro. Would just take a bunch of grinding to get out of Texas. Which I might yet do, I played a bunch this afternoon, got the mass-driver and second power generator, and made it up to 50k credits.

Anyway don’t take me as a hater. Far from it. I’m an admirer.

[RichVR]

Play pool. Win money. Buy stuff.

[rei]

I did no more than 3 hours of relaxing-to-music low-risk trading missions (it’s great when you are able to load up on 2-4 deliveries at the same stop) to get to nearly 100k.

[tbaldree]

Ahh-- I have the main story of course, and just got Richter’s first buddy mission after doing his intro. Would just take a bunch of grinding to get out of Texas. Which I might yet do, I played a bunch this afternoon, got the mass-driver and second power generator, and made it up to 50k credits.

To be clear, the ‘main’ story missions don’t usually give you any cash (and given the narrative it wouldn’t make sense if they did). Side ‘buddy’ missions generally do. But there is obviously the general idea that you’d enjoy puttering around and blowing stuff up and being a space mercenary outside the scope of those missions, and that’s certainly a significant part of the game’s intent.

[tbaldree]

Anyway don’t take me as a hater. Far from it. I’m an admirer.

I don’t take you as a hater at all! Just wanted to let you know that there was other stuff to do beside mission board stuff :)

[jpinard]

I care! Glad to hear it! Hope it stays that way.

[Vesper]

So I mapped “dump power to shields” to my right stick down as mentioned up-thread. But I’m not entirely sure it’s working. When I hit it I don’t see my power go down or my shields markedly improve. Do I have the wrong things mapped? I read this as “use up a bunch of afterburner power for shields” but maybe I am mistaken?