I tried to get into Terran Conflict and Albion Prime but neither clicked after about 10 hours with each game. Maybe I didn’t give either enough time but both just felt boring to me. Still I’ll be watching for reviews on Foundations and might give it a shot if people here are singing it’s praises.
I hope that’s the case, because I was not a fan of the “space tubes” for traveling between systems.
Oh c’mon, that was SO FUNNY.
Howler
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After Afterbirth, I’m not pre-purchasing this time. I’m happy to see them make another game, but after being burned so badly my skin peeled off, I’m waiting for reviews.
Chaplin
5450
I guess I am jumping into this late, but is Final Theory worth looking at then? It looks a bit like a HoMM level tactical combat with a 4x-lite (more war game-ish) strategic layer. Do ships care about facing for weapons or damage? Actually, is there a solid modern space naval game that cares about directional combat?
Howler
5452
X4 Foundations Gameplay Official Video from EgoSoft
Grifman
5453
Directional combat is extremely important in Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.
There are weapon facings. There is no directional shields that I know about.
I like the tactical combat, and the upgrade choices you make.
Unfortunately, where it falls a bit flat for me is the one fleet move per turn. Added to the very slow animation of each AI player taking their turn and the game feels very slow to me.
I’m curious if there are more unexpected twists in the game than the one I’ve seen, but, the thought of the slow slow turn times (for what you do each turn) kept me from playing again tonight after spending 4 or so hours Monday.
Friends, it’s been ages since I put a dispatch together, and since then, there’s been like, 60+ news pieces, including maybe half-a-dozen space games dropping on Steam just in the last week. I wouldn’t normally post this here, but there’s just so much here that I hope y’all find it useful.
SamS
5456
Helium Rain is out of early access tomorrow!
And no one is more excited than I.
So this looks interesting. An FTL-like from one of the Teleglitch devs. Just out in Early Access.
lol - so is there a win state in the game, or more just explore/survive? (it looks cool, so I’m tempted to follow your directive)
I believe there IS a win state.
vyshka
5462
@BrianRubin have you heard anything about Pax Nova?
It was just announced like, yesterday, cool your jets. ;)
RichVR
5464
Speaking of rain, did you ever get Megaton Rainfall? If so, any thoughts?
JoshoB
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It’s from the Dawn of Andromeda guys, who did Lords of the Black Sun before that. I feel like they release a variation on the same game every year or so now? And they’re always rather mediocre, judging by the reviews? Here, they’ve gone a bit Civ5 with the planet-based stuff, so that’s interesting, but otherwise… I’d wait for reviews.
