That’s enough to put me over. I like SG2 but I ended up hanging it up fairly quickly because it felt like it would take forever to get any meaningful ship upgrades.
That was my major issue with it too. Warlords feels wayyyy better in this regard.
How enjoyable is Warlords in its current state? If I understand correctly, there is almost no story yet.
Well it just crashes to desktop at launch for me :( I guess this one we will wait on a patch.
cicobuff
3767
Took the bite and got Starpoint Gemini 2. Started the game and promptly crashed into Planet Trinity in the campaign. Haha. The “tutorial” really need some polishing.
I got it last night and played a few missions. No crashing.
Plain looking but the UI feels pretty concise and usable. Played 3 tutorial missions so far. I was hoping I’d have to take off from the planet, but I haven’t gotten there yet.
Intriguing, but I haven’t clocked enough time for a deeper eval.
Tom_Mc
3769
No crashes here either, i’m sorry Rod. It’s interesting. You get Kerbal style orbital mechanics but they do give you a pretty good set of help dealing with that.
Tom Mc
Cheers! I got it running with the patch and switching to online mode in Steam. Enjoying the tutorials now!
Papageno
3771
Did you ever get an answer on Warlords in its current state, @Misguided?
BTW Rod, I wonder how enjoyable a strictly scientifically based space combat game would be with a universe to scale, unless they have some handwavium-powered FTL propulsion such as ED’s “supercruise”.
You can limit it to the solar system!!!
Papageno
3774
I think I’m going to take the plunge anyway, maybe after watching a recent Let’s Play or two on YouTube. I heard Brian’s interview with one of the devs on the SGJ Podcast a couple of months ago and it sounded pretty cool. Also they’ve got a good rep as far as delivering on their previous Early Access stuff, and less than 17 isn’t going to break the bank.
Papageno
3775
Well, of course you can, but it would still take months if not years to get from one planet to the other. If it’s a single-player game you can just put an interstitial card saying “7 months later” or whatever, but for multiplayer?
Cool. Let us know how it goes.
Everspace just showed up on Xbox Early Access yesterday. Anyone take the plunge?
Pulsar: Lost Colony showed up as an Early Access game in Steam. Looks pretty cool: up to 5 player co-op, each player gets to man a station in a starship. You can find and receive missions, battle other ships, go down to planets and explore them, or teleport to other ships and try to capture them. Online drop-in/drop out multiplayer so folks can leave or join as they choose.
I’d be interested in teaming up with other folks that may also be willing to take the plunge. They do have AI bots for crewmembers - I’m guessing when there are less than 5 people playing.
First Impressions here.
RichVR
3779
It’s kinda funny. I was going through Steam today. Checking my wishlist, going through my queue. I am constantly seeing:
1 friend already owns this game:
BrianRubin
Tom_Mc
3781
So you don’t like it Brian? I’ve been looking at Pulsar the last couple of days and it seems kinda interesting. I’d like to get a group together.
Tom Mc
I was responding to Rich. Pulsar is awesome.
