Starsector: Best space combat 13 years in the making - 0.96 out (2023 update)

Destarius · April 21, 2021, 6:24pm

If it breaks my mods I will be very cross! Cross!

TurinTur · April 21, 2021, 6:52pm

That’s pretty hefty for a hotfix! More like 0.96!

KevinC · April 21, 2021, 7:11pm

Sounds like they nerfed a few more skills? I’m glad there are some skill bonuses for cruisers+ now that were restricted to frigate/destroyer previously though.

rhamorim · April 22, 2021, 7:50pm

RC15 is out.

https://fractalsoftworks.com/2021/03/26/starsector-0-95a-release/

MrCoffee · April 22, 2021, 8:45pm

Anyone knows where the game story ends in this version?

I got up to the point where i reactivate the gates, but i havent gotten new missions from the provost yet

ShivaX · May 30, 2021, 10:34pm

https://fractalsoftworks.com/2021/05/28/a-tale-of-two-tech-levels/

Kolbex · May 31, 2021, 3:04am

I bought this eight years ago. Maybe I should play it now? Been kind of waiting for one point oh, but another eight years seems like a long time to wait.

Janster · June 1, 2021, 8:06am

It’s feature rich and literally bug free, plenty of spicy mods. He’s not hitting 1.0 cause it might give impression he’s finished with it, is my take, he’ll never be finished…bwhahaha. Fucking gem of a game

Destarius · June 1, 2021, 8:49am

This game is great, and amazing with mods. No reason not to lose dozens of hours of your life now.

Kolbex · June 1, 2021, 12:57pm

The only reason is that I’m already losing dozens of hours of my life to dozens of other games!

Destarius · June 1, 2021, 1:26pm

I mean, an hour or two can’t hurt, right?..

MakuMaku · June 1, 2021, 5:22pm

You can’t just play an hour or two on this game! You get the feeling you barely done something in a system and then the two hours are already gone. Before you know it you’ve played 4 or 5 hours, it’s 2 AM and in a few hours you still have to get up and do your normal job… -_-

ShivaX · June 1, 2021, 7:15pm

MisterMourning · June 2, 2021, 12:43am

Seems like he’s been putting a lot of thought into making Low Tech ships more viable. They’ve pretty much always been sub-optimal outside of some niche cheese strategies like Drover spam. Neat.

Left_Empty · June 2, 2021, 1:19am

precisely why i have never ventured outside of the scored battle scenarios!

ShivaX · June 2, 2021, 8:56pm

BrianRubin · June 3, 2021, 1:58am

Christ that’s amazing.

KevinC · July 16, 2021, 10:31pm

The skill system – the one in the currently released version, 0.95a – has some things about it that I like, and some things that I don’t think worked out particularly well. One feature is in both categories – “pick one of two skills at every tier”. In some cases, it works well and you have an interesting choice to make. In other cases, the skills don’t lend themselves as well to it, and it ends up feeling unnecessarily restrictive.

The other high-level feature of the system that I really like is the ability to have some top-tier skills that you need to invest into an aptitude to get, and that can be powerful and game-changing. You can’t have that in a system where you can cherry-pick any skill you want at any time.

So, the goal of these adjustments is to keep the progression and high-impact choices, and add more freedom where “pick one of two” doesn’t have a compelling reason behind it.

BrianRubin · July 16, 2021, 11:20pm

I dig it.

RothdaTheTruculent · July 26, 2021, 3:10am

(my weekend, after trying Starsector for the first time)

I think the initial fever is mostly broken. Do people have any suggestion for end game goals/different styles of play? E.g. once you have a good fleet of 200+ points of ships, 5 colonies or so, visited the AI planet, is there anything else that I’m missing?

I’m starting a new game now, this time on Normal mode, but I feel like I will end up doing mostly the same things just more efficiently now that I kind of know what I’m doing.