My friends, welcome to another really busy week of space gaming! This week, we’ll plow through more of the campaign in the original Descent: Freespace – using the FSPort from the Freespace Open Project – in the hopes of finishing the campaign, and the Silent Threat (Reborn) expansion before we dive into the retail Freespace 2 campaign on September 30th. I forgot just how dark this campaign can get.
This week also continues our month-long celebration of Freespace 2, starting with Derelict and The Deuterium Connection, plus further this week we’ll see Diaspora, Dimensional Eclipse and more!
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, Far Cry 2 stream. 5:00 PM - A discussion about sequels we wish we’d see, for the podcast.
- Wednesday - 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Ashes of Oahu stream (due to an unmissable engagement in the morning).
- Thursday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Far Cry 5 stream. 5:00 PM, Geneshift LAN Party broadcast.
- Friday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Sunless Skies stream.
- I’m also enamored with Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, so I’ll likely do an impromptu stream of that somewhere along the way. [/list]
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.
Finally, in my endeavor to become fully self-employed so I can work on Space Game Junkie more often, I’m launching a new SEO and marketing consulting business today, with the hopes of helping independent game developers (or anyone really) get a better handle on their marketing for an affordable price. If you know someone who could use this service, please let them know, and thank you.
That should do it for this week y’all. Thanks so much for being so damned wonderful, and I hope to see you in the streams or in the comments! Have a great week!
orald
6410
Agreed.
On my last failed run I was in the starting sector second system and lost 11 of my 16 commandos, four of which were captured and turned into sex slaves?! and then my battleship got blown up in an encounter.
Hahahaha yeah, sounds about right.
Damn, I never heard of Star Crusader until this post. It was so easy to miss things back then, since I didn’t get game knowledge from the internet yet.
Gameplay looks pretty bad nowadays, looks like, so I think I missed my window:
Wow, that looks incredible. It’s still got the old school graphics, but with updated smooth feel to the gameplay, hopefully. Which is what would be missing from something like Star Crusader if you played it today.
Star Crusader is amazing dude. You okay space Romans trying to conquer an new area of space, but the aliens are mounting a resistance. Eventually you can join the resistance, or not. It’s got so much content, and amazing missions like stealth missions. It’s so great.
Bluddy
6414
OK but on the other hand… it’s very, very janky – even for 1994 tech. The systems may be advanced, but the feel IMO is worse than original Wing Commander.
I don’t know, that youtube video makes it look really rough. The combat sequences look really low frame rate and not smooth at all. It’s going to be a tough ask after playing a modern game like Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and Freespace 2, which are so smooth and higher frame rate in comparison.
orald
6416
Shortest Trip to Earth 25% off at Humble. Worth a buy?
Freakin’ schweet! Alas I’ll only be able to watch live for a tiny bit but glad you’re continuing the series (although I totally understand that for FT streamers/YT content producers the pressure is always to do videos on the New Hotness).
I do try to do that a bit here and there, but wow I love doing the variety I’ve been doing.
cicobuff
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I have it but it didn’t grab me as FTL did. It’s weird but the feeling is that all the additions and design changes to the FTL formulae only added to a sense of busy-work without a corresponding increase in enjoyment.
orald
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It does have the look of “more is less” about it. Thanks @cicobuff
Bluddy
6421
@BrianRubin I’m probably in the tiny minority, but I’d personally love to see some old-school combat flight sims. Feel free to choose the definition of old-school to be anything you want (so long as it’s post 1989). Not enough classic combat flight sim streamers IMO.
Also, underwater submersible sims.
I streamed some Jane’s Fighters Anthology the other day. Since it’s a request I’ll do it. I was gonna do 1942 Pacific Air War but it did NOT wanna work. My concern though is flight sims have a lot of downtime. But, again, since it’s a request, I’ll do it. ;)
Yeah, I was thinking of doing Subwar 2050.
How about Subnautica? It’s been described as a “NMS-alike”.
:runs-and-hides:
But seriously the next Aquanox. Maybe I am projecting my imagination but I am hoping it will be an open-ish world like IWar2 or Underrail.
Bluddy
6427
Some more suggestions: EF2000, Red Baron 3D, Longbow 2, European Air War, Strike Commander, Falcon 3.
Djscman
6428
I finally hit on the right Google query to figure out what this game was.
It was called Rescue! and apparently Paramount came down hard enough on it to necessitate the removal of the ST:TNG sound effects.
Apparently there’s a Java remake on Sourceforge but I haven’t played it yet.
http://rescue.sourceforge.net/
