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Taerkar posted:Fury-Class torpedoes are awesome, but they're somewhat less awesome when you salvo a bunch of them at an enemy capitol ship line and one of your Wolf frigates dashes across into the line of fire. I quickly learned not to call in my missile boats in chasing battles when my Imaginos took a salvo of my own Kadur LRMs up the tailpipe.  Poor little ship, I loved that guy.
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SHAOLIN FUCKFIEND posted:Next patch they'll have front shields, so they'll be pretty easy to flameout. It's more that their special drive boost is just so bloody fast and recharges so quickly. If they're on the retreat I simply don't have any way to stop them. What option do others use?
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Dezztroy posted:..oh. I wish I wasn't so impatient then. Oh well, good to know if it happens again, thanks. It's a tie between SF's Imaginos (http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=4018.0) - the damaging teleport special is so hilariously fun, especially against drones and fighters. Too bad the Imaginos is absurdly expensive to use and constantly requires servicing. The other one is the Shamash (I think that's what it's called, from the Shadowyards mod: http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=4018.0). Phase frigate, with a built in energy weapon and mines. I put two ion cannons on it and rear end rape bigger ships. No seriously - with a bit of skill this thing easily takes on even a medusa. Once you're behind them and you hit their engines, game over. Honourary mention should go to the foxhound frigate - it's like a hound but with better stats and a TON of drones. Give it a front shield emitter (it's flux/damage ratio for the shield is very efficient, probably a bug honestly), extended shields and some low flux weapons. It is a fantastic support frigate for destroyers and cruisers, makes mince meat of ships without PD weapons, with a shield it can last a while in combat and is fast enough to capture strategic targets. It eats weaker ships like lashers and hounds for breakfast.
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SHAOLIN FUCKFIEND posted:Next patch they'll have front shields, so they'll be pretty easy to flameout. Double post I know, but your sprite work is amazing and your ships are extremely well balanced to the vanilla ships. I would go so far as to say your mod is the best one so far I've seen in terms of new ships and gear.
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Jinx posted:Double post I know, but your sprite work is amazing and your ships are extremely well balanced to the vanilla ships. I would go so far as to say your mod is the best one so far I've seen in terms of new ships and gear. Agreed. Blackrock's aesthetics are just great. Now if only there was a capital-class Nevermore. I want a supersized AM Lance to take out destroyers in a single hit.  I wish the AI was better at using BRDY ships though. In my experience they tend to overload quite often because the AI is so stingy with venting, even if they're in a Scarab sitting at 500 armor and full hull. Thanks for all the frigate suggestions, I'll try them out. Dezztroy fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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Dec 23, 2013 01:00
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I loving love the sprite work for this game. Just some of the best art and best designs I've seen in any space game.
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Been a while, but there's a big upcoming patch-notes update. The next build looks to be eliminating more of the more binary elements, so you can field ships even at zero readiness, but they'll be a huge liability. Also an Easy starting point that gives you a small fleet to begin with, rather than making you work your way up to that.
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quote:Logistics widget (lower left) now shows skeleton crew needed along with crew, i.e. <crew icon> 100/150 (as opposed to <crew icon> 100) A small but awesome change there. That was the most useless info line, now I can easily figure out my minimum crewing requirements. It might save me a few tenths of a supply a day!
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Dezztroy posted:Agreed. Blackrock's aesthetics are just great. Thanks a lot. The need to have restraint to not bloat the faction lineup vs. the urge to make a cap ship with a turreted AM lance... Hurrgh  David posted a blog update about the new ships, but little talk about whatever's being worked on behind the scenes.
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http://fractalsoftworks.com/2014/01/ New update! Main features: Adjustments to combat readiness (more ship longevity and more choices, details below) Four new ships! Campaign help – dialogs that explain various game mechanics – how to split cargo stacks, how CR works, etc Choice of starting difficulty – Easy and Normal. “Easy” gives you a choice of better starting ships and a Mule combat freighter, does not affect the rest of the campaign Updated to use Java 7 and the latest version of LWJGL (2.9.2). Improved performance, OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is no longer supported Reduced memory usage (mostly affects larger mods) Lots and lots of assorted bugfixes/improvements etc The Chad Jihad fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jan 17, 2014 |
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Ya ya ya ya! Blackrock patch soon. http://gfycat.com/FlashyCoarseBandicoot
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Not a big enough  in the world.SHAOLIN FUCKFIEND posted:The need to have restraint to not bloat the faction lineup vs. the urge to make a cap ship with a turreted AM lance... Hurrgh Do it, Do it and then restrain it to a fun ship like the crazy hammer ship (i forget what mod thats from) was. Name the mission: "A Dream of Anti-Matter Lances.", just you in that cap ship against waves of ships.
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Shadowmorn posted:Not a big enough Neutrino Corp. I don't really like most of their ships, but the USS Hammertime makes up for all of it.
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I've been having a lot of fun with some of the ships introduced in the new patch. The cerberus is the ultimate pursuit ship but kinda garbage otherwise I've found, although it is hilarious to jam to the gills with bombs and hit the burn drive. Once you are at max speed start spamming your bombs and you create a solid wall of ultra fast death. The monitor is the real star of the show though, it moves at a decent clip, especially with engine mods and is basically invincible. It may not have the stopping power to handle anything on its own but it makes the perfect escort, making strike craft basically a non issue with its two flak cannons and fortress shield plus two handy universal slots to fill in whatever damage type you need on demand. I like to roll with an ion cannon and sabots for maximum dickery and set it to escort something with a big gun and a vulnerability to point defence. Haven't tried out the new carrier yet as I want to start a more fleet focused character build to get the most out of it.
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Oh wow this was a good moment to check how things are going. Once mods are updated, what's the current must have (I assume BRDY at least)? Is Uumoz sector still improving? Last time I checked it only took a few saves to lock up the game and ruin the save.
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Mindblast posted:Oh wow this was a good moment to check how things are going. Once mods are updated, what's the current must have (I assume BRDY at least)? Is Uumoz sector still improving? Last time I checked it only took a few saves to lock up the game and ruin the save. Uumoz and Exerelin require you to up the game's ram usage and make the game use 64bit java if possible. There are details on how to do this in the Exerelin thread in the official mod forum.
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Zudgemud posted:Uumoz and Exerelin require you to up the game's ram usage and make the game use 64bit java if possible. There are details on how to do this in the Exerelin thread in the official mod forum. Once this is done it's absolutely stable.
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Exerelin looks great. Is it compatible with Uomoz/Uumoz?
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Mindblast posted:Exerelin looks great. Is it compatible with Uomoz/Uumoz? No, they both pretty fundamentally change the gake in incompatible ways. Exerelin is still weird and feels really rough and unfinished to me. Its a neat idea but the way some of its ideas are implemented is still really wonky.
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Mindblast posted:Exerelin looks great. Is it compatible with Uomoz/Uumoz? Personally I prefer Exerelin since that gives you more of a purpose., Uomoz gives you crafting and the ability to make your own customized faction but does not let you affect the universe in the same way as Exerelin. On the other hand Exerelin lets you play as a specific faction and conquer other factions territory, you now days get some control over your faction like the ability to direct AI fleets and influence diplomatic relations. One benefit of Exerelin is also that you can simply use more factions than what is in Uomoz which gives more variety. A mix of the two mods would be cool as currently that is probably what I would want in the finished game.
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This game is amazing. I was a little worried since I've been burned by thinking games that look like this would be better than they were, but this just completely exceeded my expectations in every way and evaporated 3 hours of my life on a work night. I was a little concerned when I read there were only two systems but I quickly picked up the Exerelin mod and that alleviated that almost completely. The "base-capturing" seems sort of arcane and I'm still figuring that out but I've basically made it my goal so far to wipe the Sindarian Diktat. I love the feel of the ships in this game too. I bought my first capital ship and have been cruising around grinding/obliterating fleets and decided it was time to join the big leagues. Got an Onslaught-class Battleship and...holy poo poo, it's got a signature weapon built-in?! That's loving rad. The ships in this game have so much personality thanks to the varied mechanics of the game, I just can't say enough good things about it. That said it does worry me that the developer might burn out or something. It doesn't seem to update particularly often so hopefully I'm wrong. I really hope trading and a more robust faction-warfare gets added soon. It surprises me that Starsector hasn't gained more traction, too, since I know there are a ton of EV:Nova fanatics out there and this certainly scratches that itch for me. I can see this game entertaining me for a long, long while.
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Soothing Cacophony posted:This game is amazing. I was a little worried since I've been burned by thinking games that look like this would be better than they were, but this just completely exceeded my expectations in every way and evaporated 3 hours of my life on a work night. I was a little concerned when I read there were only two systems but I quickly picked up the Exerelin mod and that alleviated that almost completely. The "base-capturing" seems sort of arcane and I'm still figuring that out but I've basically made it my goal so far to wipe the Sindarian Diktat. The station capturing is pretty mechanically straightforward, it just requires supplies and marines, both in enormous amounts. While not every ship has as much personality, there's one for almost every niche or role you might want. The game was just updated a few days ago, the dev just takes his time with the updates, which are generally pretty substantial. cybrancyborg fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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cybrancyborg posted:The game was just updated a few days ago, the dev just takes his time with the updates, which are generally pretty substantial. He also REALLY hates bugs so he does tons of testing. It's even more evident when you remember this game is still in alpha.
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Honestly the fact that the dev seems to take a while to update is the worst of my gripes, and that's basically nothing considering the quality of the patches and of the game in general. It's fantastic. I'm now realizing that it might be optimal to fly my fleet over my current logistical capacity with sub-par CR so I can shore up my weakness to heavy fighters with fighters of my own, and I've never played a game where I got to make choices like that. Just a drat fun game, and it's only in alpha(!!). RE: station capturing, from my understanding of it, I thought you just needed the supertanker and the troop transport ship? That's what I had at the beginning of the game to capture my first station, anyway.
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Soothing Cacophony posted:RE: station capturing, from my understanding of it, I thought you just needed the supertanker and the troop transport ship? That's what I had at the beginning of the game to capture my first station, anyway. And a metric ton of marines, supplies and some RNG luck.
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GruntyThrst posted:He also REALLY hates bugs so he does tons of testing. It's even more evident when you remember this game is still in alpha. He's super-cautious. He seems afraid if that he releases an alpha build with bugs in, there'll be a huge backlash and the game will lose players. The sad thing is that he might be right - aside from art, the game is entirely a one-man project, far from completion, and you just know that a lot of people will freak out if an update isn't entirely stable.
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Dominic White posted:He's super-cautious. He seems afraid if that he releases an alpha build with bugs in, there'll be a huge backlash and the game will lose players. The sad thing is that he might be right - aside from art, the game is entirely a one-man project, far from completion, and you just know that a lot of people will freak out if an update isn't entirely stable. He probably just doesn't want to have to deal with a community filled with relentless bitching, especially since people have paid money for this.
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ghetto wormhole posted:He probably just doesn't want to have to deal with a community filled with relentless bitching, especially since people have paid money for this. I got my $10 worth out of Starfarer like two years ago. These latest updates, with character creation and system traveling and Uomoz Sector are just loving gravy. I kinda like the slow update schedule, when a big version comes out I grab it and binge out then set it down for a while.
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GruntyThrst posted:He also REALLY hates bugs so he does tons of testing. It's even more evident when you remember this game is still in alpha. Alex kinda polishes from the ground up, rather than making a huge, sketchy-rear end but feature-rich game and then try to polish it afterwards.
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I made a thing: Bounty Hunts. Adds some missions (some randomly generated, some not).
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^ Much like Starsector itself, this mod is going to be one of those things a lot of folks didn't think of that they'll never want to go without. Thank you for making it.
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Talkie Toaster posted:I made a thing: Bounty Hunts. Adds some missions (some randomly generated, some not). This is cool as hell. Good work!
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Gotta show you guys this by HELMUT over at the official forums because it owns owns owns
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Holy poo poo, that is fantastic.
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Goddrat those are awesome.
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Indeed it is, which thread is it from?
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Pretty boss spritework there, do you know if those are a part of some existing or upcoming mod?
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They're basically pirate lords' custom versions of a bunch of mod/stock ships, from what I understand. I think he's making a mod to work with the bounty hunts mod. He's not made a thread yet.
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