Finally!!! Unending Galaxy is amazing. Amaaaaaaaazing. It’s made by modder of the X games who wanted a similar game but in 2D. It clicked with me hard wherein the X games never clicked with me. It’s seriously great you guys.
With the endorsement, jumped in to buy… only to find that it’s a windows only game! Arrg!
Just tried the demo of Unending Galaxy and couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Perhaps it doesn’t reflect the 1.2 version. The tutorial barely helped.
Oh really? Where do you think you hit a wall?
At the start. Keep getting into free camera mode and can’t figure out how to get back to view of my ship.
Then I accepted a ore mining mission with 25 minutes, but suddenly I died, and a screen flashed telling me what happened but it disappeared before I could read it and I was at the main menu.
The tutorial told me how to control the ship. With WASD. That was it. Then the tutorial ended, as far as I can tell.
It all seems rather amateurish. Does it really work, Brian? Cuz if you say it does, I’ll keep trying.
Wow. I was about to shake my fist at Brian before hopping off to Steam to buy this but I’ll hold off for now till Tylertoo hopefully comes back to clarify if this is still unbaked.
Yeah, it really works. I also went through this as well
http://wiki.anarkisgaming.com/ug:start
But lemme get home and see if I can tell you how to do it. I think you have to select the ship to control via the Empire screen. You can then give orders to your other ships from there.
Ok that wiki looks good. I’ll try again tomorrow. Bed time now.
Destarius I’m playing the free version. Try it for yourself. At dev site.
Thanks tylertoo. Will give it a whirl.
I got the demo/free version too, based on Brian’s approval (see Brian…you have a responsibility to your fans!). Not fired it up yet, but these last few posts have been very handy for when i do. We can all report back and blame Brian later ;)
Hello my friends, and welcome to another week of polite promotion! For this week’s game of the week, I return to Distant Worlds Universe with a couple of mods to try out. First up is Extended Universe followed by Star Trek: Picard Era!
On the podcast this week, Tuesday at 5:30 PM Pacific, we’ll be broaching the topic of board games as we talk to the creator of Squadron Strike: Traveler.*
On Thursday’s Multiplayer Madness (also 5:30 PM Pacific), we’ll be playing multi-person bridge simulator Quintet, plus giving away some Steam keys!
That’s what we have scheduled, but I hope to pop more up throughout the week! Thanks y’all!
The Ad Astra boardgames are really interesting, but they have dismal customer support.
I bought from them Attack Vector 1. Never received it, but was charged for it. Emailed them but never heard back.
Then I bought (much later) the PDFs of the 2.0 version (because yes, the game sounded amazing even though I should have learnt). Even though it said in the PDFs that I could register to get the extra ships, it turned out it was reserved for the physical game (told me so in the forums), so I never got those. To their credit, they did tell the store to change that after the fact. Still, you can imagine I was not happy.
Then I tried to buy the physical game again, but since I no longer lived in the US, shipping to the EU was far more than the game itself (and I would have been charged customs on top of it).
STILL… I was checking the KS (even if it feels overpriced at $95 for a cardboard only game), but it seems the shipping is at $77 so total cost including customs will put it north of $200. I don’t think so.
Now, compare this to how the Sanagami Island Tactical Simulator (a Honorverse version of their game, sort of in-between Attack vector and squadron strike) is being handled after they lost the license and another company took charge. The new company is offering all the extras that were previously register-only for free on their forums , and they also provide all the extra materials to make a fully playable print-and-play version (the Ad Astra games PDFs are not supposed to be self contained, although there was nothing warning me about that when I bought those)…
Sigh… This is really old school way of making business.
/rant
I’ve heard good things about Ad Astra my own self.
Maybe it has changed, it’s been a long time since I had to deal with them and they certainly seem more communicative now.
Oh, sorry, I meant the games, not the people. No idea on them. ;-)
Ah, the games are really interesting. Not the easiest to play (specially AV:T) but full of goodness. If StarFleet command shows what can be done with a system as “simple”(in comparison) as Star Fleet Battles, a digital version of AV:T would be a dream come true.
Come to think of it, you liked the Rules of Engagement 2 manual, didn’t you? If so, I think you would really enjoy reading the AV:T rulebook.
Yes, for that price I would recommend it (to you, not in general, it’s an out of context rulebook!).
You can’t play the game, but you get to see how they abstracted (or not, because some thing have little abstraction) the specifics (plus some cool numbers taken from real equations). It’s a little dry (it’s rules) but so it that manual and still manages to be great. They go into detail on to why they chose certain models for damage, orientation, tracking and other things.
It’s a very interesting take on space combat, probable the most realistic I have ever seen.
The Setting book is interesting too. Come to think of it, thisis a better deal (and still very well priced).
Yeah, I might bite on that $15 PDF deal.
