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Yes! I feel it is well worth the money and will be in the top Steam sales

11 (36.7%)

No, I have not heard enough about it to make a valued judgment

8 (26.7%)

No, I feel it is too expensive.

4 (13.3%)

Yes

7 (23.3%)

Total Members Voted: 30

Voting closed: August 19, 2011, 09:26:16 am

[Astral]

Absolutely love the Sunspot, all things considered. Pumping out projectile blockers drones with 1 cloaked zapped and 2 cloaked bombers, with 400% health and 35% production time. Also like how maneuverable it is for a huge ship, with room for my preferred 2 point defense arrays and 1 tractor beam.

[Anvilfolk]

I never use the Sunspot! Either the cruiser or the carrier...

Are drones that effective? How about the Point Defense? I installed a couple, but they fire so slowly if you don't invest in that tech :\

[Sean Mirrsen]

"If you don't invest in that tech" are the key points here. The way the bonuses are piled up on every level of a given tech, you get MUCH bigger boosts on the higher tiers. Add some good specialists to the mix, and you might have a decent fighting force - one that attacks automatically and doesn't break your cloaking. A certain plot mission involving hijacking and escorting a big ship through a minefield and some enemy ships, for instance, went a lot smoother with a cloaked Sunspot and cloaked fighter/zapper drones than with any other ship I've tried. Even in straight-up combat, Bomber drones pack a decent enough punch (at level 8 cannons) that they deal with smaller breeder ships almost faster than my turrets can swing at them.

The Sunspot is pretty much the only ship that makes the Drones worthwhile though, and it's pretty limited otherwise. It can't use missiles, and it's got just the one huge and two medium turrets - every ship but the Freighter severely outguns it. If the drones are busy elsewhere, it likely won't survive a direct confrontation with another Huge ship. But I like it so far.

[Sergius]

WOOT! I managed to import my serial to Steam. Buh-bye Impulse, thou shalt not be missedth.

Hm it seems I had missed that little tidbit of info, that you can now respec. I'm going to check on how to do that.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Research screen, inconspicuous button on the top right when a category is selected. Costs data proportional to amount of levels being respecced, probably up to and including losing levels.

[Sergius]

From what I read, you don't actually lose data, but you "owe" data that you must repay before you can keep leveling.

[alexpoysky]

FWAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Love the game LOVE IT!

[Sean Mirrsen]

Just finished the game. I guess I need to replay the game on a higher difficulty or something, because the final boss was easier to kill than... well, I'm not sure. It was tougher than any single enemy, but was still a total pushover for a "final" boss, at least for the kind of tech you can acquire by the endgame. Or maybe it was the mass drivers. I wonder if I can reload, respec, and try it with beam weapons and missiles?

Spoiler: Ending impressions (click to show/hide)

The ending itself was also rather underwhelming, if not outright disappointing. Now, I realize the game was unlikely to have anything more than it did (a bit of illustrated narration and a dialogue), but it felt a little too small for the kind of effort you make to reach it. I'll still play again, if only to see if I can survive on higher difficulties, but this time I'll make sure to explore everything first - the final fight is too straightforward (again, might have been the mass drivers, in which case it should count as a bug) and the ending is too unimpressive to strive for completion again.

[Sinned]

Just finished the game. I guess I need to replay the game on a higher difficulty or something, because the final boss was easier to kill than... well, I'm not sure. It was tougher than any single enemy, but was still a total pushover for a "final" boss, at least for the kind of tech you can acquire by the endgame. Or maybe it was the mass drivers. I wonder if I can reload, respec, and try it with beam weapons and missiles?

If you can be bothered, do it & leave some feedback... maybe it's something they need to take a look at.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Did it. Well, now it was a little more difficult, but I guess I just expected it to be, you know, invulnerable when it's not affected. As it is, I just sailed up to it with the Starcruiser, and held down both mouse buttons. A minute or two of careful watching of the shield (never got below 50%) and power (had to pause at some point), and the monster kicked the metaphorical bucket. My own mothership was never in danger, and I only lost my one medium and no more than two or three allied ships. It's probably the difficulty as well, I should give it a go on Hard. Mass drivers will probably still tear it apart though - its only "defence" is a frakload of armor, and MDs bypass that. Whatever shield it has is gone after the first shot from the mothership, and it never gets a chance to recharge.

[Levi]

Woo, finished!  Was a pretty decent game all round.

Except now I want the exact same game, but styled as a galactic conquest game against 7 other AI's. 

[Jacob/Lee]

Played the demo, this game looks really cool. Going to buy it soon.

[Blorfy]

Hi Everyone,

We just released a huge tuning/balancing patch today, and I wanted to make sure you all knew about it.  We are really happy with a lot of the changes, and Chapter 4 in particular got a big tuneup.

Here is the changelist to get you excited


Added   Damage Viewer (Turn on in options)
Added Added Hotkey (Y) for auto turrets
Added Drone research levelups will increase drone damage
Added Invading marines can now steal data, blueprints, blackboxes and release specialists, based on hacking skill in crew research tree..

Changed Cannon boosters: lowered reload speed increase, added projectile speed, range, damage buffs.
Changed Missile booster: lowered reload rate boost, added damage boost.
Changed Beam booster, added damage and range boost
Changed Grav missiles regen much faster
Changed Increased torpedo speed, damage
Changed Increased all missile damage
Changed Increased hunter SRM ion damage
Changed Increased SRM damage
Changed Damage increase for micro missiles
Changed Mothership shields stronger
Changed Ion cannon converted to Energy damage type
Changed Disruptor cannon and Pulse cannon damage reduced
Changed Cloak damage lowered to 33% boost.
Changed Allow turrets to fire on autofire if cloak disrupted (and probably player has fired recently)
Changed Changes move to position AI to make it less orbity
Changed Increased specialist storage by 1 per mothership level
Changed Specialist drop rate increased
Changed Specialist bonuses decreased (was destabilizing late game)
Changed Late game zombie level increased
Changed One sidequest drops a Godlike specialist (so can always get the achievement reliably)
Changed Insane achievement should unlock expert too.
Changed High capacity reactor, faster recharge, more expensive
Changed Give fusion beam a good damage boost,
Changed Overload/Focal emitter slight damage boost
Changed Escort ships do not run from explosions, was too annoying.
Changed Minefields will not track non hostiles, even if attacked. But the relation will lower if they are destroyed.
Changed Minedroppers longer reload time.
Changed Made civ torpedoes faster/more damaging
Changed Disruptor cannon slightly slower reload, Pulse cannon still old faster speed.
Changed Increased scanner ranges
Changed Lowered mine damage a bit
Changed Scanner mines can hunt non cloaked vessels too
Changed More data for killing ships
Changed Systems with more tech blueprints, tend to have higher level starbases
Changed Increased sec4 base upgrade requirements
Changed Zombie critters better infectors, but fewer
Changed More hitchhiker critters on zombie ships
Changed Zombie crittes move faster
Changed Each zombie kill on a ship has a 50% chance of producing a new zombie onboard.
Changed Increased  invasion combat rate
Changed Mines less health, less damage, higher speed
Changed Armor slightly more resistant to projectiles
Changed Hull more resistant to projectiles and lasers, weaker against missiles
Changed Rebalanced reactors so smaller weapons register better.
Changed Casting Stones mission less difficult
Changed A system you just left cannot be invaded.  This allows for better strategic decision making and pushing an invasion back instead of it leapfrogging over you.
Changed Zombie invasions can be reinforced from neighboring stars. 
Changed Made fewer ally reinforcement ships, but made them tend to be larger.
Changed Readjusted all difficulty levels.
Changed Difficulty affects: Zombie critter combat prowess
Changed Difficulty affects: Respec cost
Changed Difficulty affects: Station upgrade Rez/Goon Cost
Changed Difficulty affects: Blueprint cost
Changed Difficulty affects: Relation improve cost
Changed Difficulty affects: Bribe cost
Changed Difficulty affects: Zombie intercept turns
Changed Difficulty affects: Zombie intercept fleet size
Changed Difficulty affects: Zombie invasion chance
Changed Difficulty affects: Zombie invasion strength

Fixed Damage system optimized.  Should help Zombie slowdown for some people.
Fixed AI not allowed to shoot stuff in tractor beams
Fixed Various typos
Fixed Reversed Taskmaster and Foreman specialist skills..
Fixed Hooked up Mediator specialist skill
Fixed Speed Loader Specialist Skill
Fixed "WINNIE MCDONAGH" Specialist
Fixed Broken gender based specialist bonuses
Fixed Eye Popper achievement can occur on FE
Fixed Beams stuck in fire state forever.
Fixed AI blowing up player ships should not cause relations change.
Fixed When a ship is venting, sometimes the last vented crew member dies and the ship explodes.
Fixed AI is obsessed with mine layers, people abusing them as decoys. 
Fixed A scanner hitting a mine layer will get the mine layer to chase you..
Fixed "Oh its you" missions sets civs to enemy upon start
Fixed Optimized cloaking  code
Fixed  Mine targeting optimized
Fixed Escape pods can be picked up sooner after launch, especially large ones
Fixed Phantom blueprint drop fixed
Fixed Moved weak spot on Jamison's Hammerhead Armor to the rear. 

[alexpoysky]

Good call, that is one hell of a patch Blorfy!

[Levi]

Fixed AI is obsessed with mine layers, people abusing them as decoys. 

Haha, I'll miss that.