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[PDH]

Clearly that wasn't the case...

That's what I thought.  Clearly I am better at accepting pap now, but nothing has satisfied.

[crazy canuck]

Clearly that wasn't the case...

That's what I thought.  Clearly I am better at accepting pap now, but nothing has satisfied.

I cant get no satisfaction

[PDH]

Check out Stardrive yet?   Pretty good game and the customization of ships is pretty neat that most of you would get lost in it and only do that.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/220660/


Has an open beta if you buy it, release date is officially the 26th.  One man project, pretty impressive.

Well fuck, I bought in to it.

[Alcibiades]

Let me know what you think.   

[crazy canuck]

Check out Stardrive yet?   Pretty good game and the customization of ships is pretty neat that most of you would get lost in it and only do that.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/220660/


Has an open beta if you buy it, release date is officially the 26th.  One man project, pretty impressive.

Well fuck, I bought in to it.

I try and I try and I try.

I cant get no....


Well let us know if this one satisfies.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Stardrive is pretty good.  Still needs some work though.  I've seen someone saying there will be a big patch when the game gets officially released, so that'll be cool.  I think it was in the SA thread, which zero posts in, so hey maybe he was the one who said that. vOv

[PDH]

I hope there will be a big patch.

Good -
It draws from MOO2 in a loving way. 
The races are archetypes and that is what it should be. 
The ship customization is quite good, it can take a nice long time to make a new ship - though there are plenty of "ok" ships of each class to choose from if one doesn't like this. 
It is easy enough to jump into, complex enough that one learns things even after a few long play throughs.
Space combat is not just move from square to square, but pseudo-inertial movement where your ships take maddeningly long times to turn around.
Real time is not bad, a pause (like the EU games) lets you do your orders or whatever else.

Bad -
AI is stinky, at best.  Sure, the other races colonize and research, but it seems like they sort of cheat.  By the mid game of normal level they are running quite a bit behind.
Documentation even with the help is...sparse.  Sure, with enough sorting one can figure out how to send marines down from orbit, but that takes a long while of searching and fumbling around.
Why are galaxies always flat?
The other races are too...programmed.  Some always fight, some always will at least try for peace.
Science is too easy after a time - once an empire gets running it is just bam, bam, bam - new discovery.


Other than that, there are a few glitches as expected in beta, and a lot of polishing left to do.  I for one never so much cared about how a ship looked as what I could cram on it, and this game is for that kind of person.  It seems as if there isn't too much "blam - you're dead" stuff here, rather a lot of incremental stuff in the science (arms) arena.  A bunch of mid-level ships can take down a high end ship, for instance.

We will see after the full release happens.  For now, it was worth MY money.

[Alcibiades]

One of the things is that the different races only build ships that are the generic versions or you have designed.  Not sure if hes made it so you can download other people's databases, yet.

[The Brain]

 
The races are archetypes and that is what it should be. 

Bigot.

[Cecil]

We will see after the full release happens.  For now, it was worth MY money.

Mine too. I downloaded it on friday evening and started up a game. When next time I looked up from the computer 15 hours had passed and it was the day after. Addictive gameplay indeed.,

[Berkut]

Hmmm, the plan is for MP after release...

I am: intrigued.

[Alcibiades]

Developer is pretty sweet, responds to individual posts and threads on the forum, is very active.

Like I said, this is really impressive for a one man show. 

[Berkut]

Pulled trigger.

[Tamas]

Developer is pretty sweet, responds to individual posts and threads on the forum, is very active.

Like I said, this is really impressive for a one man show.

I bought this also but.. developer sweet?

he fucked over EVERYONE who preordered in Desura. He moved to Steam, and since he didnt bother to take note of who purchased over at Desura, he decided he cant hand out Steam keys to them, but alas, has stopped updating the Desura copy of the game. OOOPS!

[Alcibiades]

Hadn't heard that, guess ymmv