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[Clownmite]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/581910/Iron_Armada/

Played a few hours of this and it's really fun. Your entire team starts aboard a mothership. Characters have jetpacks they can use for maneuvering in space, where you can mine asteroids and space debris for money. You can then buy ship parts to further add to the ship you're on, or build new ships.

Ship design is really important; you'll need enough power for everything, turrets can only swivel so far, and maneuverability is determined by where the thrusters are and how big the ship is. Anyone can change the construction of a ship or crew certain weapons emplacements -- and yes, you can even board enemy ships.

There are a few server issues I've encountered, and there is no tutorial or much other player-facing help, but still a fun game that has a ton of potential.

[Ranged66]

Huh this looks fun, I'll try it

[Ranged66]

Huh this looks fun, I'll try it

Okay this is fun as fuck, takes some getting into since there is no tutorial.

Basically: It's a team v team game in a Space Engineers but 2D way. You build your own ships and try and capture points or destroy the enemy spawn points/mother ships. You gain cash by mining asteroids or chunks of salvage, or vanquishing your foes to harvest their components to sell (or use!). There's also passive income from every capture point.

You then build ships with floor tiles, armor tiles, reactor components, different engines, manned and unmanned guns... You get the point. And then you duke it out with the other team, who all started from 0 cash too. So in the beginning you get small fights with shitty gunboats while the ships of both teams get bigger as the game goes on (unless one side gets dominated).

So you can have big motherships, put some Flak Cannons on the side of them (they only work when manned but they are strong. Hard to destroy, and they hit hard.), have a guy running around repairing incoming damage (or trying too, you can die quickly in this game). Then you have a few teammates building fast fighters to cap points or to harass enemies using railguns etc...


Edit: Dev told me in discord that there is a tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADks9YKXniQ