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[Dansmithers]

No, I have played it, I just think that it looks too busy for modern ships(mainly interlocking blocks instead of cubes).

You can do cubes and beams as well as the standard interlocking block

you can do cubes?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

you can do cubes?

First thing I thought after seeing this comment is using a Borg Cube as a ship.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

you can do cubes?

First thing I thought after seeing this comment is using a Borg Cube as a ship.

Thats also possible, in terms of cubes, its somewhat difficult to get it right, but floodfill will do it.

[Dansmithers]

you can do cubes?

First thing I thought after seeing this comment is using a Borg Cube as a ship.

Thats also possible, in terms of cubes, its somewhat difficult to get it right, but floodfill will do it.

YOU CAN DO CUBES OH MY GOD YES

[Urist McScoopbeard]

To be honest, from a distance you can't really see the difference anyways

[Graknorke]

Could someone please explain how you load custom vehicles into a mission? Because I'm having trouble doing any of them with the default ones given.

EDIT: Or maybe I'm misunderstanding how these work.
Two of the three seem to be about building up defences, except the game won't actually, you know, let me build.

[yarr]

Ok I bought it but it looks like I'm too stupid to even finish the tutorials
In the Skyfortress tutorial the final step is to demonstrate destruction "Fly high and then turn the engine off (q)" but my robot-guy auto repairs any damage that is happening to the fortress? So it never completes?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also the UI is a stitched together mess but the Dwarf Fortress crowd should be able to get used to it

It might be nice...I just don't know it yet hehe

[Graknorke]

Ok I bought it but it looks like I'm too stupid to even finish the tutorials
In the Skyfortress tutorial the final step is to demonstrate destruction "Fly high and then turn the engine off (q)" but my robot-guy auto repairs any damage that is happening to the fortress? So it never completes?

If you keep going higher (which you can do without the engine, all that seems to do is power the turbines to keep you from falling apart) the damage speeds up, to the point where you can't repair it any more.

[Shooer]

Also hitting R will toggle your characters repair.  Used to need to do that when dismantling enemy ships because you would repair about as fast as you would damage them with your melee and pistol.

[Graknorke]

So this game is brutal.
It suggests the story missions for new players, which pretty much force you to already be very well acquainted with how all the systems work, definitely beyond what's explained in the tutorials.

[Shooer]

The story missions need a lot more work, a lot more.  I would suggest playing the campaign.  Easier to get into (difficulty wise) and just use the points you get for the needed level 4 on a SMG and you'll have little trouble taking out enemy ships.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

So this game is brutal.
It suggests the story missions for new players, which pretty much force you to already be very well acquainted with how all the systems work, definitely beyond what's explained in the tutorials.

yes the story missions are particularly nasty, however, you can cheat on a lot of them (not thatd you want to, but you cant use certain items without completing them, large ship propeller the main one)

[Graknorke]

So the level-locked campaign is easier than the story missions that are recommended for new players?
The alpha is showing through strong with this one.

Though I will say that the AI-only multiplayer is a genius way of exploiting the game's strengths and removing the problem of latency in multiplayer matches.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

So the level-locked campaign is easier than the story missions that are recommended for new players?
The alpha is showing through strong with this one.

Though I will say that the AI-only multiplayer is a genius way of exploiting the game's strengths and removing the problem of latency in multiplayer matches.

I haven't played the campaign yet (because Im having more fun designing ironclads) but I hear that most players lose in the first hour or so.

[ThtblovesDF]

The first Assault being way to hard was apperently fixed in the last update, but yes, it was brutal - you have to learn how to make a good engine or you are stuck in a "i pay more energy to get the oil i need to make energy in the first place" loop. Check out the guides on steam.