SPACE GAMES GENERAL

>>379290352
What space games are good

>>379290662
nms

>>379290662
Nothing according to /v/

We are only discussing bad games here with moderate fun.

>>379290662
Starsector

>>379290662
Sins Of a Solar Empire.

Rebellion makes it even better.

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Stellaris or Endless Space 2?

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>>379290662
Starsector

Strategy games shouldn't even count in discussions like this desu.

>>379290662
Everspace are pretty cool
It is very much like FTL

Ohh. FTL is another fantastic space game

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Descent is the greatest space game. Prove me wrong.

>>379291798
Stellaris for real-time, ES2 for turn-based. You pick from there.

>>379291981
Ignoring this cunt

I got sins of a solar empire on the backburner. /v/ should i bump it up in priority? get stuck in? is it really that great?

>>379290352
>I've put over 30 hours into starsector and I'm looking for other space games.
That means it's time to install more mods anon. Nexelerin just got updated.

What happened to that Dreadnought game?

Everspace looks good but I'm not sure I want to throw £23 at it

>>379290662
Starfox

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>>379292143
You should really give it a try. I played Sins since 2008 and still play it to this day. Only downside is that there is a "story" but no campaign. Mod support is one of the main reasons people get it (Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, and Halo) . The space battles still look great after all of these years and the devs are still putting updates for it on steam like 4k support.

>>379292607
>on rails

>>379292143
It's okay. SoaSE is a weird hybrid of 4X strategy and RTS if you enjoy those sorts of things. The ship designs are sexy as fuck though.

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>>379293269
Still in space.

IS EVERSPACE GOOD REEEEE

Pitch me ideas for a good combat system for a space game.

>>379293605
it's ok

>>379290662
Continuum

>>379291798
Stellaris has more variation between games. ES2 is flashy but shallow. If you want both you should buy Sword of the Stars.

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>>379290662
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phJl7aefe0g

>>379294280
Fuck I miss this game.

W-where can I errrm.. acquire.. this?

>>379293631
EVE's is good. Controls like an ARPG.

>>379290352
I like space games and got bored of Everspace after 1 hour

>>379290662
Elite Dangerous

>>379294378
toobad you wasnt around when it was /v/lancer

multiplayer freelancer with mods and all of /v/ played it. shit was fun.

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>Ctrl + F
>Colony Wars
>0 Results

Looks like anon is full of extra faggotry today.

>>379295102
Best console space game, IMO, and even competes with PC titles.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9bmxYK2mw

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sup m8s, what's going on in this thread

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Well if strategy games count than I'm going to throw in Conquest: Frontier Wars.
It's a space game where you control fleets of ships through space and fight with enemy fleets, similar to Sins of a Solar Empire except it has resource gathering like age of empires or starcraft. Made in 2001, there's mods that improve the graphics and UI.

Nexus; Jupiter Incident

Just gonna leave this here.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/xwvm

I dunno.
Complex 11 was uploaded today.

>>379295569
I spent hours watching fighters embark and disembark from those little hangar bays. What a great game.

>>379293631
Freelancer + Rolling + Special Attacks.

You know what, Just copy and paste Star Conflict.

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>perfect combat
>great loadout customization
>lots and lots of ships
>decent netcode

>nothing to fucking do
>dead ass playerbase after one of the first major updates
>korea grindy

>>379295304
>there will never be an X4

>>379290662
Elite Dangerous
X3: Albion Prelude
EVE online (with massive caveats)
Evochron Legacy looks decent but haven't tried it personally
Homeworld
Hegemonia

Those off the top of my head

>>379296742
they plan on doing a real x4 now that the abortion that shall not be named is in the past.

>>379297245
id honestly settle for just x3 with better pathfinding and a better UI. goddamn why doesnt anyone else make similar games?

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Bestest Space Game

I still like Freespace.

>>379290662
EVE Online

Actually feels like a real space game. Everything else is just a shallow, arcade shooter that feels like I should be paying in quarters, not actual cash.

>>379297103
>EVE online (with massive caveats)
The caveat being that the playerbase is dying for real this time and it won't last another year

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>>379298004
>The caveat being that the playerbase is dying for real this time and it won't last another year

By that you mean....are you saying that if you die in the game you die in real life?

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>>379298004
Fake news. The game actually has a massive playerbase.

In the early 2010s EVE was hitting major news networks which was inflating it's population. Also it had more lax restrictions on multi boxing. Now they disallow certain applications for multi-boxing, shrinking the playerbase.

There could be as many if not more actual people right now playing than at EVE's peak, especially with the F2P available that prevents multi-boxing.

>>379298248
No what I mean is that "Eve is dying" has been a meme for over a decade but recently it's starting to look like it's actually dying.

They tried a F2P stunt and it didn't help, the playerbase is still dwindling rapidly.

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>>379298573
My caveat was that it is unlike every other game I mentioned and requires a special type of person to enjoy it, had nothing to do with the size of the player base.

>>379290352
I had fun with Rebel Galaxy recently

>>379298573
Most of those players are afk in stations or multiboxers.

>>379292120
stellaris is turn based also u faggot

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>tfw there will never be a good Star Trek game

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>>379290662
escape velocity nova

it's a little text heavy but it plays great and you could run it on a toaster

>>379298969
>The caveat being that the playerbase is dying for real this time and it won't last another year

>had nothing to do with the size of the player base

How does a game die without the playerbase shrinking?

>>379299125
Fucking what? No it isnt

>>379290352
>>379292414
It's a decent game but honestly I don't think I can recommend it. From what I can tell there are a handful of randomly generated map strings. You lose all inventory on death, it can be recovered with a certain skill. Loadouts are locked in the beginning. Progress feels increasingly limited though and exploration is almost pointless until you're 50% on fuel. Combat is fine. Ship selection is limited to three, but most of the tree is limited to each individual ship and is non-transferable. Encounters feel repetitive. Upgrades are crafted en route and there is a lot of content locked behind a looong grind which makes playing seem even less rewarding since it's really repetitive in nature.

Star citizen

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Still got elite dangerous on my wishlist together with everspace and house of the dying sun.
Tried rebel galaxy but that was a weird flat space naval war game.

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>>379298573
This is the same graph for the past year. Notice how the player count is almost back to the numbers before that big spike (which was the free to play introduction).

So you have the same player count as 7-8 months ago, but they already used all the tricks in the book to boost player numbers.

The game's development is also going at a snails pace because they're investing most of their cash in meme VR games and other projects instead of Eve development.

>>379299125
Wrong.

Will Star Citizen bw the space game we all deserve.

When it comes out that is


[Spoiler]sometime never[/spoiler]

>>379299608
HOTDS is fucking amazing, its a damn shame you can clear that shit in half an afternoon.

>>379299225
we're different people shit for brains

>>379299741
>Having your android suck you off while you log in to Star Citizen for the first time with your full dive VR helmet

I can't wait

All I want is eve online but with interesting combat.

Not just "get a lot of people together and press F1 and maybe F2 if you're feeling fancy"

I know I'm oversimplifying but let's be real, eve combat is fucking shit.

>>379290352
Independance War II is the best space game i've played.
Second is the Freelancer.
99% of /v/ never heard of IWAR

>>379299971
I actually almost helped fund this.

Back when we didn't know the full extent of how shitty most EA titles would be handled.

>>379299902
Oh sorry, how do I turn on post IDs?

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This is Now a ProJared Appreciation Thread!
what is your favorite projared video?
mine is the one where he debunks the theories that Bioshock Infinite isnt a good game and really delves into the brilliance of its craft. he does it smooth and i really like it that way. whats your favorite video?

>>379300125
When will jontron make a new video?

>>379299125
Not turn based faggot. You can pause it but that's not the same.

>>379299954
>maybe F2 if you're feeling fancy
you shut that shit down right now soldier. Primary is Aardvark. Now press F1.

>>379299971
My friend convinced me to get it.
I'll never forgive him.

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>>379299156
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV9rI0kU3m8

>>379290352
Imagine FTL with Freelancer combat.

space station 13 is the best game ever made with a space setting

>>379300692
>a bunch of teenagers piloting the entreprise
>having a laughing induced stroke because of tits
This is the future we chose.

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Everspace

It's good I guess. Not much to it though. Most annoying runthrough so far had me having to take on pirates and the carrier with the anti-warp had a shield that just never went down no matter how many of it's drones I shot down.

Eventually I just hid in an asteroid until fucking two Confederate battleships warped in, and even they couldn't fucking kill it. It took the combined power of two battleships and two corvettes just to kill this one unit while I sat in an asteroid for 15 minutes.

The girl who drops you supplies is a qt though.

>>379290662
Starshatter: The Gathering Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRmBfQk_mls

>100% accurate newtonian physics in space and in athmosphere
>dogfights taking places over a distance from 3km to 10km

>campaign is programmed to be actually two AI Admirals playing RTS against each other
>you as a player can enlist on AI Admiral generated missions
>getting destroyed will mean that the destroyed ship is permanently lost
>AI Admiral has a predefined budget and can buy new fighters and carries, each month more money is granted by government according to performance

>player can rise in ranks
>start as a wingman in a fighter squad
>become a leader of a squad
>become a captain of a frigate and get to command that frigate in addition to commanding 3-4 fighter squadrons
>become captain of a destroyer and get to command that destroyer, in addition get to command several frigate units (each of whom have their own fighter squadrons) and get to command like 6 fighter squadrons aswell
>eventually become the admiral - and will get access to mothership which will provide the player the RTS mechanics that the AI Admiral was taking care of previously.

Its basically the ARMA of space sims.

>>379290352
Why no one on /v/ ever talk about Endless Sky? It's free. I found it last week and already spent more time on it the Overwatch

>>379300692
Has anyone here played this?
How is it?
Seems like it would be fun if it is completely fleshed out but i could see it going the way of NMS.

>>379290352
Everspace gets boring real fast. Liek several hours fast.

Cryosleep and wake up every 6 months to check on Star Citizen / Squadron 42.

They all fucking suck.


>>379301243
This game was actually really cool; I especially liked that the flight model was highly customizable and you could either go full sim sperg OR turn it into straight up Wing Commander, and either way was interesting and fun. Also had some cool mod support.

Matrix Games took it down because the TrackIR support was busted, and the one man team responsible for the game apparently couldn't get it working, and the faggot flight sim dads all cried about it until it was removed.

>elite dangerous still refuses to go under €15
HOW

>>379300739
Terrible comparison. EverSpace has decent 6DOF combat but it really is nothing like FTL.

Dumb persistent unlock system, dumb crafting system, meaningless jump choices, etc.

>>379300692
funnier than it should be

Strike Suit Zero is a very good game if you just want to play indie Wing Commander but with mecha transformation and circus missiles.

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>>379302080
I bought the game on steam a while back. I couldn't play it because of a flickering lighting issue that makes it unplayable for me. I tried messing with the nvidia control panel for a bit and never figured it out. Do you know anything about this?

>>379301243
>>379301243
Sounds interesting. What happened?

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>>379290352

Any good singelplayer space survival games kinda like subnautica?

>>379303898
see >>379303575

>>379303898
Empyrion: Galactic Survival
Minecraft with space mods

>>379304005
I said good

>>379304107
yes

>>379292143
If you enjoy macro and not much micro in your RTS, Sins is god tier. If you want to stutter step every single stimmed marine shot, Sins is not for you.

>>379290662
/v/lancer
maybe if i remind them it will come back

Rogue Galaxy

House of Dying Sun
if you re into short and good

>>379303161
>What happened?
what do you mean?

if you are referring to the progression story
>be entirely in charge of how the rest of the war plays out
>be the one giving missions out to AI pilots and captains
>send scouting runs to determine enemy positions
>keep fighters patrolling around base of operations to prevent any enemy bomber runs
>do bombing runs against weakly secured enemy installations
>use intel from scouting to set up ambushes to isolated enemy units

>for example a frigate is moving alone with its squadrons
>set up a minefield in its trajectory
>send bomber fighters and anti-fighter fighters to lay in wait near minefield
>when the frigate arrives rek their asses

>create an opportunity where enemy base of operations makes a stupid move
>send cruisers, destroyers and frigates to attack the enemy

>if you get tired of commanding, transfer yourself to one of the lower units and start following AI Admiral orders

There are also like 4 campaigns. 1st one is an introductory one about Republic vs Rebels, which is basically like NATO vs Al'Qaeda. Last campaign is hardmode about being the Al'Qaeda tier rebels and trying to win a war against an opponent with more resources and better technology.

>>379290352
>tfw no EVE + Everspace game

>>379304493
Star Citizen :^)

>>379304659
They said an entire system will have max up to a couple hundred players interacting. Last night I participated in a multi fleet engagement in EVE involving 400 people on one side. So unless they change their numbers or somehow make crazy optimizations to the engine, I highly doubt it'll ever come close.

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>>379300692
>VR will take our society to a new level

>>379305215
For gameplay purposes 100 would be enough. Wouldn't make it as interesting of a slideshow but slideshows ain't interesting to begin with

>>379290352
I've been playing a lot of Stellaris recently.

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>>379303161

>Sounds interesting. What happened?

kek

Is the industry really so fucking bad these days that when people hear about great games with great features they automatically assume they never got released/died/are stuck in early access or some shit?

Nothing happened, the game came out, it was great, then industry proceeded to nosedive in quality and now trainwrecks like NMS, Star Citizen and Elite took centre stage.

If you're ever looking for anything great to play irrespective of genre, just look up what was considered good, or even just ok from 95-05 and go nuts.

>>379305215
>Last night I participated in a multi fleet engagement in EVE involving 400 people on one side
That sounds very impressive to people who don't play eve but I know from experience most of those fights are boring as fuck.

In fact the more people involved the more boring it gets, especially when tidi kicks in.

>>379306167
If you play space games for depth and simulation, it's not boring. If you play space games to watch things go boom and to feel like you're in guardians of the galaxy, it's totally boring.

>>379306607
I am still waiting for a game where I can feel like I am in Farscape.

>>379306708
>Farscape.
Mah nigga!

>>379304082

This is unironically more enjoyable than NMS.

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>ctrl+f
>kerbal
>0 results

c'mon son

>>379307616
too dumb 4 mexican space program

Motherfucking AI war fleet command. If you love rts and singleplayer you'll love this shit

>>379307616
>kerbal
>a game which gameplay consists entirely about stacking cilinders on top of each other and then sending them onto orbit

lol

>>379307616
I put dozens of hours into it but it's boring when you look at it from any angle.

Management sim: Too shallow
Space travel/exploration: Nothing really interesting, just lifeless rocks
Space Combat: Non existent
Ship Building: Too simple
Multiplayer: Non existent

Where is the gameplay exactly in this game?