Given I've never played MP I don't think I can give a good prediction. However, I expect that in the Pros v Cons that many reviews do that the lack of tactical combat will get a fair bit of mention in the "Cons" section, if only due to the fact a couple of recent space 4X have had it.
I always thought it was a bit odd that it wasn't 'pick one at the exclusion of the others'. In the end I treated them no differently than any other tech and I barely noticed any penalty towards making a informed choice over just picking at random because it seemed so easy just to get all the others. I like that now I have to think about what choice I make. This wasn't the only way they could have gone. They could have kept all choices open and still m
So now we can set ship roles, but carrier based craft are still locked away. In a game that is about freedom in ship designs the fact the carriers continue to specifically going against that is almost mind-boggling. [quote who="Franco fx" reply="12" id="3541616"] This should be included as a click option in the game. It is equal or better than many tutorials I have seen [/quote] If they add this a a guide on steam than a player could access it th
I agree that it is a bit clunky. There are a couple of things that should be done to the designer to make it an easier tool to use. However, I wouldn't say it was unintuitive, but rather that it tries to give you as much freedom in design as possible by giving you a blank slate. This is in fact it's great strength that it gives you this freedom (only constrained by the limitation of parts) to create whatever you want. However, the game is still lite on explai
The devs have not avoided the question of espionage and have been clear about it for almost a year now. Espionage will not be in the base game. It will be added in an expansion, likely coupled with Fleet/ship commanders. They have stated this numerous times and have answered questions on espionage in just about every other stream they have done. To suggest that they are avoiding it or trying to hide from the question is just not true. I can't say I was a bi
I personally think this is a good move. However, I'm a bit concerned that this is coming in so late and close to launch.
^ They have said that there will be no hotseat multiplayer in the game. However, they have also said if enough people express an opinion for it that they will revisit the idea.
It would be a nice feature. It would also be nice to have a time slider when you watch a reply so you can skip to parts you want to see. Oh, and the free camera...something needs to be done about it. It is terrible.
Survey ships are now armed at the start and their point is like all pirates/barbarians in similar games is to hamper and harass you in the early stages. Usually they serve to make you have a military early on and to be easy XP farms for your units. Of course the latter doesn't matter since there is no ship XP (though Paul suggested that with fleet admirals get put in XP would return in conjunction with the admirals rather than the ships). Plus early threat is a good th
Maybe I'm misremembering GC2 but when you clicked on a part on a design and then back on the same part in the part list didn't it give you that part matching the settings of the part already used and not just the default? I'd like to see that back or some quick and easy way to copy a part you've placed that isn't using the symmetry command since that comes with its own issues.
[quote who="Gauntlet03" reply="915" id="3534576"] That fighter makes me think transformers... don't know why... but its just... more than meets the eye? [/quote] I actual did want some animation in it on the wings, but due to the repeating nature it would look like it was flapping. It would be nice to have a "once" animation that just ran an animation once. It would make the pre-engagement part of the battle viewer more interesting if you had ships ap
My first Beta 5 creation: a new fighter! Beefed up version
Haven't really had a chance to make anything new yet with Beta 5, so I've been playing with the ship colour themes. Here is my missile cruise with I think Inverted Steel as the theme. Really liking it. Lights might be a bit too bright...not sure if one of the options can adjust that or not. <img src="http://cloud-2.steamusercontent.com/ugc/530637206236296221/C5A1BCF9B8EDFB2758AF616413CA3741E18A5026/" alt="" width="1024" height="5
If you make your design a template you can access the design in subsequent games regardless of what research paths you choose.
Noticed two things in a quick play with Beta 5. 1.When selecting the shipyard which is building the ship as its rally point it still spits the newly build ship out and sets it to idle. 2. After a starbase is destroyed the lines that connect to the resources being mined by the starbase remain leading back to the hex where the starbase used to be. I however didn't check to see what happens if you build a new base at a different location re
I'm not sure I necessary buy that excuse. I'm more inclined to suspect that it's more of a case that time is running out before launch and they're going for the easier solution, which is to take away control from the player and put in set parameters. Shouldn't really be too upset about this though. In terms of the game as a whole there are far more important aspects that need completing and fixing.
It's probably the aspect of the carriers I'm most disappointed with. I remember at least once in the dev stream that the idea that we could set what fighters were used was mooted by Paul and I hope that they do add this. It would also be interesting to see how the battles balance out if you could set your carrier fighters up to be guardians rather than interceptors.
[quote who="aerez4546" reply="1" id="3527499"] Quoting , quoting post We'll also be having some exciting Stardock news this week, so be sure to check the forum and our social media outlets for more info.
I haven't actually done any ship designing since the comp, so with the new beta I'm eagerly jumping back into it and looking forward to seeing my work explode in the battle viewer. Knocked up a tiny scout and fighter. Scout Tiny Fighter Edit: Removed broken image links
There's a super-thread for all ship designs here to stop us ship designers from taking over the place. If you want to shortcut to all tech open up the console (~) and type "unlock" and that will give you all the techs. It will save you having to grind through turns just to get the big hulls when all you want to do is play with the designer.
Only just noticed this today, but some of our ships from this thread are getting used to promote the ship designing aspect on the Steam store page, which is pretty cool. Or at least I'm assuming they are using the images from this thread given they used my forum name and not my steam id. Link to the store page.
Congrats Tez.
[quote who="Edladner" reply="2" id="3510032"] when do we get to see the "almost made it" category? I just enjoy looking at ships. [/quote] There's a link on the brackets page. Or you can click here .
Borderlands 2 after watching a playthrough of Tales of the Borderlands.
Congrats to Hamilmac in our bracket and good luck in round 2.