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[Viken]

Odd.  Gamersgate and what used to be Impulse (Gamestop) already has them available.  Its only stream that's lagging behind in their releases, although I haven't taken a look through all of the other digital sites yet.

[forsaken1111]

FFS they delayed the release. PPL think they're actually still working on the game or installer or whatever.

Here i was, expecting this to release early morning like Dungeon Defenders did. (which also said it would release late in the evening german time)

You have a source saying they delayed it? I've seen Steam fuck up the countdown before with no reason given other than "haha you can't do anything about it".

I don't have an official source, but the talk on forums is, kerberos wanted to i.e. remove independant colonies and change/improve balance.

Don't listen to the steam forums ever. They removed the indy colonies and implemented those changes at ~2am this morning and sent Steam the final file then.

[Comp112]

No, they were all "lagging behind". GG and Impulse where not letting you play, stating that you 'already own it'.

Up on steam now, more then likely up on the others as well.

[Lord Snow]

blah

[Lord Snow]

Working now, you can activate it on steam. Might have to restart it before, but its working.



Sorry to say, but in my eyes this is a beta version.
Even basic things like reciting the sections and ship name in ship building are missing.


A lot of detail appears to have been added, but so far its empty detail. Obvious descriptions missing, tutorial, random maps... i feel like its been tested by veteran players of sots1 instead of newbs.

[forsaken1111]

Working now, you can activate it on steam. Might have to restart it before, but its working.



Sorry to say, but in my eyes this is a beta version.
Even basic things like reciting the sections and ship name in ship building are missing.


A lot of detail appears to have been added, but so far its empty detail. Obvious descriptions missing, tutorial, random maps... i feel like its been tested by veteran players of sots1 instead of newbs.

Very probably true, and that was acknowledged in Mecron's 'state of the union' iirc. They have a day 1/day 2 patch which they've been working on to fix some of that. Their focus was on getting the game out and playable and not delaying it further.

[Lord Snow]

O well i guess my impatience comes from never having the original Day1 SotS, only started on it when the 2nd addon was already out.
And the last game i felt being as hollow in spite of the rich detail was star ruler... of which i still think it never filled out its intended size.

[forsaken1111]

Understandable. I won't be able to try the game until about 7:30 EST today so I don't know first hand. I'd say just be patient and try to figure things  out. The manual will help too probably, some people are saying it explains a lot.

[engy]

At the behest of the DFC Chat I streamed an hour or so of gameplay: recording is up here:  http://www.livestream.com/engy. 

Also some random screenshots of a battle for our less bandwidth enabled friends:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/engysback/screenshots?tab=public&showdate=1&filter=app_42990

It did crash to desktop at the end. Apparently the correct verison is being uploaded as I type this.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?566854-Official-Info-I&s=f50597e152053cfeb91757fb89d29792

[forsaken1111]

At the behest of the DFC Chat I streamed an hour or so of gameplay: recording is up here:  http://www.livestream.com/engy. 

Also some random screenshots of a battle for our less bandwidth enabled friends:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/engysback/screenshots?tab=public&showdate=1&filter=app_42990

It did crash to desktop at the end. Apparently the correct verison is being uploaded as I type this.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?566854-Official-Info-I&s=f50597e152053cfeb91757fb89d29792

Nice. What are your first impressions?

[engy]

I really like it.  It's different and it's not going to play like SotS did.  For one, you don't actually 'control' your fleets in the same way you used to.  You give them orders to go Survey a system or Colonize a system and they go do it.  You can manually do the battles still.  Colonizers aren't used up; they are more like people transports.  You have some choices and consquences for making your colonies.  It's different, but I think it will be a ton of fun.

[forsaken1111]

I really like it.  It's different and it's not going to play like SotS did.  For one, you don't actually 'control' your fleets in the same way you used to.  You give them orders to go Survey a system or Colonize a system and they go do it.  You can manually do the battles still.  Colonizers aren't used up; they are more like people transports.  You have some choices and consquences for making your colonies.  It's different, but I think it will be a ton of fun.

Sounds like they took the core concept and evolved it a bit more. I saw that you give your fleets missions rather than controlling them directly which is very nice, I got so tired of controlling manually every single scout, refuelling tanker, etc.

[Shades]

Do they still have that weird invoicing thing when building ships?
I like the old queue system better.

Although I guess they needed to match the whole fleet control thing better.

[Cheese]

Nice, Tarka ships don't look as bad as I thought they would. Does travelling through those nebulas do anything to your ships?

[forsaken1111]

Do they still have that weird invoicing thing when building ships?
I like the old queue system better.

Although I guess they needed to match the whole fleet control thing better.

The queue system was inefficient for large orders though since you pay up front and then lose out on the interest that money would have made sitting in your treasury, which meant it was more efficient to order 1-2 ships at a time which was annoying.