Sword of the Stars II (Or another 4X space game I will probably buy)

MikeJ · 2011-12-27T12:36:01.000Z

Aeon221:

Missiles that shoot beams. Activate brain? Nawww.

I don’t know if it evidence that it’s a good idea or the opposite, but your tax dollars were spent on this.

Aeon221 · 2011-12-27T12:38:52.000Z

No they weren’t because I was like five! Haaaaa!

But seriously missiles with lasers?!

Janster · 2011-12-27T13:38:41.000Z

Rorschach:

Provinces will eventually be the “units” for governance actions. Eventually provinces will pool production and morale etc. so you manage five provinces instead of twenty individual colonies.

aha, I figured it would be like that, just didn’t see anything that actually made me able to do that.

Stepsongrapes · 2011-12-27T13:42:12.000Z

Aeon221:

No they weren’t because I was like five! Haaaaa!

But seriously missiles with lasers?!

You should read more sci-fi. The bomb-pumped laser is a pretty common concept.

The idea is that chemical/nuclear boom-boom is easy to make and very high energy (compared to lugging around a giant battery) but terribly inefficient because it is unfocused energy release. Glue on lasing means.

Riztro · 2011-12-27T14:05:30.000Z

Scifi mumbo-jumbo aside, missiles with great stonking superlasers. Screw brains.

Rorschach · 2011-12-27T15:45:46.000Z

Actually it’s missiles that blow up into super lasers.

Riztro · 2011-12-27T16:02:31.000Z

Even better.

Janster · 2011-12-27T18:51:58.000Z

Aeon should know better than to question sci-fi concepts tsk tsk

Mike_O_Malley · 2011-12-27T19:02:47.000Z

Rorschach:

Actually it’s missiles that blow up into super lasers.

Bah, call me when they have lasers that turn into missiles.

schurem · 2011-12-28T01:55:21.000Z

Played a bit last night. Liked what i saw. I got dumped to desktop before i could actually get into combat (tried renaming a fleet). Not regretting my purchase at all.

I actually like the weapons test thing. Like the guy said, makes it real easy to visualise spread, firing arcs and impact.

Dan_Theman · 2011-12-28T05:04:49.000Z

Glad to hear it’s looking more fun, as I was thinking of giving it another spin once I need a break from Skyrim. And shame on you for trying to rename your fleet ;)

Eric_Majkut · 2011-12-28T08:55:03.000Z

Sooo I like 4X games but the last time I checked up on SOTS2 it sounded broken as all hell. Has that been remedied yet? I’m sorta in the mood to give a new 4X game a shot and this seems like the only decent choice out there…

Dan_Theman · 2011-12-28T09:08:54.000Z

There’s still some broken stuff from all reports (cf - schurem’s CTD) and they’re still in the process of adding some extras back in over the next month, but it’s getting significantly better.

PS - that’s not to say that it still won’t suffer due to the UI from hell, but that’s part and parcel with SotS games ;)

Riztro · 2011-12-28T09:12:22.000Z

It’s playable. I’d still not recommend it to anyone without the caveat that you’re in for a very bumpy ride. There’s a lot of UI that is either cumbersome or flat out displaying the wrong information. A lot of the games systems are still missing bits and pieces that will hopefully make the game enjoyable to play eventually.

If you absolutely must have a 4x game there’s some of that here but I’d still recommend holding off for another month or two.

Sepiche · 2011-12-28T09:14:00.000Z

Yeah I think the general consensus is that it’s playable now, but still buggy, unpolished, and missing some peripheral features.

kerzain · 2011-12-28T09:27:45.000Z

It’s almost ready for beta.

McKnight · 2011-12-28T11:16:38.000Z

kerzain:

It’s almost ready for beta.

This made me smile.

KevinC · 2011-12-28T11:19:18.000Z

kerzain:

It’s almost ready for beta.

Sad but true.

Fenris99 · 2011-12-28T12:05:13.000Z

Is there a beta discount?

Sarkus · 2011-12-28T12:11:48.000Z

Fenris99:

Is there a beta discount?

Through January 1st on Steam . . . . ;-)