6389

When I played WC3 for the first time a few years back I’m pretty sure I used m&k as I found it worked better than my gamepad.

I’m pretty sure the answer is simply pick a flight sim from 90-95.

6390

Of which there are many. Try Star Crusader. it’s amazing.

6391

To be honest I think there are probably quite a few older space sims that work just fine with an Intel 620. My previous laptop had an Intel HD Graphic 4000 in it, considerably less powerful than a 620, and I was playing X3: Terran Conflict on it just fine with mouse&keyboard. There were a couple of situations where it started to chug slightly, but the 620 shouldn’t have a problem. Also DarkStar One works great with kb&mouse and is an enjoyable and atmospheric combat game, and I’m pretty sure I had that running on the 4000 as well. DarkStar One is a much more straightforward game than X3: TC is too, if that’s what you’re after.

6392

Yeah, games that are ten years old or older should work great.

6393

Thanks @krayzkrok I think I will check out X3: Terran Conflict.

Hadn’t heard of DarkStar One, but there is a guy on steam that seems to know his space games who had this to say about it, “If you want Freelancer-style gameplay with just one ship, a poor story and boring combat, you can do worse than this game.”

;-)

6394

Well if you want to listen to that guy, then sure. It’s certainly not the greatest space game of all time, but I certainly enjoyed it. Anyway, your choices are little more limited given your hardware. :)

6395

Hey, I think he’s talking about me!

I did not like Darkstar One very much at all.

6396

Jus havin’ a little fun witcha

6397

I might try getting Hardwar to run on my W7 machine again. That, G-Police and Descent are the 6DOF games that really get me hot and bothered; I’m actually not much for games that take place in open space.
Anyway, Hardwar is an absolute bastard to get running, harder than Boiling Point somehow. I think I gave it a try when I first installed W7 again a year or so back but no dice with any of the patches I could find. I know for a fact I tried everything on the exceptionally beautiful and perfectly preserved Hardwar fansite, except maybe run through all the legacy fanpatches. They actually have the game, right there. Has anyone managed to play it recently?

6398

According to Steve over in the Aurora 4X boards, C# Aurora is nearly at release! I’ve been waiting for this to come out before starting a new game.

6399

Heh, “game” he calls it.

6400

" Reviewing the original DOS version, a critic for Next Generation remarked that Star Crusader is lacking in originality, but praised it for having gameplay with all the depth of Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger and considerably less “fluff”, thus making the game accessible to the many players who either do not have PCs powerful enough to run Wing Commander III or simply have no interest in that game’s cinematic elements."

Damn, but I love the fluff.

6401

Star Crusader is better than Wing Commander 3, and on par with TIE Fighter.

Yeah, I said it. It’s that good.

6402

Lol no

6403

Yes, sir. Yes.

6404

My friends, welcome to another very busy week of space gaming. This week, our game of the week is the new Resurrection DLC pack for Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, in which you’re put in the CiC of Galactica herself. As always, it’s a tense war, but being in a familiar settings lessens the sting somewhat. BSG: Deadlock has a lot of wonderful updates too, such as multi-select, so it’s good to return to it.

This month also marks the twentieth anniversary of Freespace 2, and we’re celebrating by having a new video covering a new mod EVERY DAY of the month (you can see the list here). This will culminate on the 30th – Freespace 2’s actual birthday – with an all-day stream in which I plow through the entire vanilla campaign! First up is mod/campaign, The Aftermath Reboot as well as some missions from the Best of FS1 Collection.

Moving on from pre-recorded content, here’s this week’s streaming schedule (please remember all times are Pacific):

  • Monday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tachyon: The Fringe stream.
  • Tuesday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Forza Horizon 3 stream. 5:00 PM - A discussion on Games as a Service, or GAAS, for the podcast.
  • Wednesday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Missionforce: Cyberstorm stream.
  • Thursday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Warhammer 40,000: Gladius stream. 5:00 PM, Deep Rock Galactic LAN Party broadcast.
  • Friday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Sunless Skies stream.

You can see all of our planned upcoming streams and events on our calendar, as always!

You can watch any of these streams on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer and Steam.

That should do it for this week y’all. Thanks so much for being amazing, and I hope to see you in the streams or in the comments! Have a great week!

6405

So Mr. @BrianRubin , have you heard of or tried the demo of this?

Going by description and animated gifs only, it sounds pretty intriguing.

6406

Last time I played it was balls hard. Waiting for 1.0 to dive back in.

6407

I’m not Brian but I have played around with the demo and I like what I see very much.

It has the FTL being pursued by bad guys mechanic, but there is much more to the story with a mystery to solve, away teams for surface exploration and recovery, and pausable real time space combat. Don’t know how repetitive the encounters will be from sector to sector but it looks promising. And tense. And kind of eerie.

You play a clone of an admiral and it looks like you will die (at least I probably will and often) and get reborn as a new clone but I don’t know if you retain memories from past clones.

There is lots of text to read and the ‘voice acting’ reminds me of the robot gibberish from Steamworld Heist.

I will probably get it.

6408

Sweet! I’ll wishlist it because it does sound very interesting. Thanks for the feedback!