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To this day this game remains one of my favourites, but its seriously aged and its a cunt to get running in 1080p with functioning mods
But it seems like there are no other space sims that scratch this itch
They're either too complicated to learn, grindfests, or cheaply made garbage.
Please help me /v/ I want to experience my childhood again ;_;
>inb4 StarShittizen presented by Kike Moneybags
>inb4 Elite
>>340737510
>>we have to be faster trent
that said, I second your motion
>>340737674
>"You dock first Trent"
>Docks before you can
Fucking Juni that slut
>tfw this board is so full of redditors that nobody is old enough to remember this game
feels bad desu
The entire space sim genre is complication and grinding, everything I'm gonna say assumes those traits are just endemic to the genre.
X3,Evochron and Elite Dangerous are all pretty good, you will have to learn how to fly them though. Do you want more effort put into flight model? Get Evochron. Story and world building? X3: TERRAN CONFLICT. If you played much earlier space sims then Elite Dangerous is a true HD remake of that era of space sims, and gas gazing presentation
I've been playing Rebel Galaxy and have been very pleasantly surprised. Easy to pick up but very deep in ship outfitting, almost gives you more of a chance to develop play styles than most other games would.
>>340738419
Why can't there be something so elegantly designed as Freelancer? All they have to do is replicate the same system
It was straight forward enough that anybody could pick it up and be at least competent at it
But it also had the depth for those who were really autistic about such things
I just wanna explore a cool as fuck galaxy without having to worry about 15 fucking fuel gauges and whether or not my dinglebuckleberry thruster wing plate thingamajigs are engaged
Freelancer was my first game on the PC and it baffled me as a kid. It it looked so good and the fact that it ran on a tin can machine. The only space sim I found even remotely close to the experience it gave me is x3(I still play it from time to time).
Most space simulators suck ass these days. take Elite dangerous for example. Also fuck Microsoft for destroying Digital Anvil.
Have they fixed X: Rebirth yet? I've heard that Home of Light made it a brand new game, but I wanted to confirm it with fellow spacefags first.
>>340738625
Freelancers great but I can't think of anything it did that made me go 'wow that is exceptionally better designed than other options, I think its just a competent product. Like Freespace 2 having a very small amount of bound keys for gameplay but didn't lose complexity for it.
To be honest I think you just don't understand the other games, and are making an inappropriate conclusion with very little data
>>340738741
My nigga
Starlancer was one of my first, and with it came a demo cd which had this on it
I played the demo for fucking years, only in the New York system lol
Then when I was old enough to buy stuff off ebay Freelancer was the very first thing I bought
Oh man I'm getting feels ;_;
>>340738191
Man, I fucking remember /v/lancer.
Greatest time I've ever had with anyone from this place...possible exception being Tribes.
But still, it was goddamn glorious, the epic space battles, escorting convoys of frigates as fighter wings.
It will never be so good ever again.
>>340738787
Which is why I made this thread, to see if anybody can recommend anything similar
No need to be a dick about it anon
>>340738914
>Here are some games you might like
>Awww I wish every space game wasn't so complicated and hard
>They're not you just don't understand them
>Fuck you anon
You seriously pulling this?
>>340737510
I wonder what ever happened to that /v/lancer server. I remember having some sanic thruster on a nomad ship. Shit was fun.
>>340738191
It's been like this for awhile now so it shouldn't be something new. since 2011 a lot of /v/s content has gone down the shitter.
just look at the front page for example.
>>340739116
Can you fuck off, nigger?
Go back to RSI forums you fucking twat
>>340739182
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but /v/ was never seen as a good board.
But you're absolutely right that now it's nothing but gamefaqs migrants.
>>340739228
Another thread with potential ruined by 12 year olds, shame. OP give X3, Evochron, or Elite another shot you might enjoy them.
>>340739294
it was better than what we have right now if there was a measurement of good and bad.
>>340738780
I'm curious as well. Can anybody comment?
>>340739228
He's being sincere, you spastic twat. The space genre as a whole is "complex" and there's no going around that unless you want a babby's first spaceship simulator.
>>340737510
Try Darkstar One, doesn't have MP, but it's good shit.
>>340739327
I am OP.
>>340739419
No he's being a rude twat for no reason
Fuck him
>>340739480
Sweet will give it a look anon
>>340738780
>>340739419
No personal experience, but Egosoft has a reputation of always fixing their shit. X3 was a mess on launch as well.
>>340738780
It's pretty smooth now in terms of performance. The sound effects are annoying as fuck after awhile, i'm still playing x3 though. I just cant let go of the shit I have.
>>340739294
The fappening brought in a lot of redditors who migrated through /b/
>>340737510
X3 master race
>>340737510
This is seriously my favorite game of all time. I still remember when I got it as a kid and literally beat it in two sessions.
I then continued to autistically explore the galaxy, sector by sector, until I had all the alien weapons and the best ship (pic related).
i sank 150 hours in it the first playthrough, and about 400 hours in total. I still play it every year.
I really dont know why I love the game so much, but I do. Its probably the atmoshphere, story, and perfectly build world.
So say I don't like steam. If I buy Evochron directly from Starwraith's official site, is there any DRM bullshit or is it all good?
>>340739830
I always liked the Sabre Outcast ship personally
The Corsair home system is fucking spoopy though, it was so cool
I miss the feeling of finding all those hidden systems, god damn
>>340739830
>the first time you find this place
DUDE WEED LMAO
>>340740029
Reminds me of the hyperspace sequences from this.
It was a fucking crime that Salvation Prophecy didn't get more attention
>>340740254
>62% rating on steam
Is it actually decent?
>>340740437
>steam
What the hell did you expect?
It's essentially Battlefront 2 only in real time. Meaning you and your bros will group together, assemble the fleet, and go into hyperspace when you decide it's time to attack the enemy.
Give it a torrent at least.
>>340739930
Well its not about which ship was the best-looking, but which had the highest armor + weapons slots. IThe best looking ships IMO are the Bretonia Crusader and Kusari Blood Dragon.
>>340740029
Man, that brings some memories. I think I'm gonna reinstall it, again.
>tfw escaping the system moments before a military blockade begins
>>340740563
Sweet I'll check that out too anon
>>340740606
>Kusari Blood Dragon
>Cant buy it
WHY
H
Y
I loved that ship too
haven't played x since X2.
terran conflict or albion prelude?
>>340739830
Same. Great game. Now install Discovery. The Titan is a cheap newbie ship in that mod.
>>340740715
AP is the most recent and up to date if you just want to sandbox.
Still play reunion and TC for the story, though.
>>340740737
I can't stand the roleplayers in that mod
Bunch of weirdos
Only sandbox trading/exploring/fighting space games allowed?
Playing this at the moment. Fun but way too fucking short.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56fCuO7JEy4
>>/vg/145111952
>>340740923
Elite is a boring grindfest with no goal
>>340740737
LOL, dont worry, I sank way too much time into that mod. Its been a while though, are the servers still running?
The "story" in DIscovery is shit though.
>>340741012
>space sim
>goal
>>340741117
>read the OP
>We don't run this chan but we have an understanding with the people who do
>>340741187
Hey man, you new here?
>Yeah
fighters are neat and all
but othere than X series are there any games that have a bigger focus on cap ships, and arent RTS?
>>340741295
Only one I can think of off the top of my head. Old though.
>>340741040
It's active as always. Still about 120 people on the main rpg server.
>>340741040
The story isn't that bad, although the tactical and strategic relevance of each decision just boggles the mind and you'd think the population of Sirius is braindead. Otherwise things just progress extremely slowly.
>>340741295
>bigger focus on cap ships and aren't RTS
That's asking a lot. Maybe you're looking for more of a simulator/management sort of thing? In which case Planetbase is pretty recent and pretty good. Doesn't have the ayyyyy goofiness of Startopia either.
Someone is still hosting a /v/lancer server, but it always crashes soon after I launch to space.
> trent the ayran protagonist
> juni the asian qt waifu
> nomads secretly (jews) take over the galaxy starting with the germans
> trent flies ships with names like patriot, valkyrie, crusader, wolfhound, legionnaire
/pol/ the game
>>340741012
Yeah. You have no idea how many games have I bought in search of that Freelancer feel. None have really satisfied me. Only the game where you have just one ship that is upgradable was kinda good - cant remember the game though.
I played Elite" Dangerous for a while, but as you said, its empty as fuck, and focuses too much on "realism." Yeah, there is some alien presence, but almost none.
What the fuck do devs of today have with generated solar systems? Look at pic related. It has more atmosphere than anything in the space games of last 10 years.
I sinfully haven't gotten around to playing Homeworld but recent got the remastered collection (which includes the classic games). I tried HW1 classic but the controls are a little dated for my casual ass (everything else is great, though). Does the remastered version do anything drastic to the game or does it just change the controls to a more streamlined HW2 type?
>>340741565
BUILD DYSON SPHERE
EDISON TRENT 2016
WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH NOMAD IMMIGRATION
>OP wants some good old arcade space adventures
>every fucking faggot advices him to try space autism simulators of their liking
And this is why /v/ is shit and we can't have nice things. Also fuck all the DCS fags who ruined arcade spacesims in autism that we have now.
>>340741691
Up until a few days ago it totally changed the game to HW2 style RNG combat instead of physics, formations didn't work etc. assault frigates were like flak frigates.
The patched it a few days ago so that now both HW1 and 2 remastered use physics simulation for combat and formations work.
Haven't played it enough to know the balance effects in detail but the feel is back to HW1 classic.
>>340741691
>anything drastic to the game
Almost nothing is changed, just improved graphics. The controls are similar, if not the same ( I really dont remember). Its good though, I recommend it.
>>340741862
Thanks anon
I remember I asked on the RSI forums if the jewish overlords could add a third person hud and I got flamed from a thousand autists about how it would break immersion
Then a mod banned me for "starting a flame war"
Refunded my pledge right then and there
There is also this game called Starshatter: The Gathering Storm.
>>340737817
not flying at max speed directly at the dock and hitting the dock button right at the very last second, 1 mm from collision and skipping the whole docking cutscene and getting straight in there with no fucking about.
>>340742263
I laughed harder than I should have
I absolutely did this
>>340741862
Don't worry senpai. No man's sky is coming out :^)
>>340742059
Way to shit on everybody in the thread who tried to help you out, faggot.
Now go eat a dick.
>>340742059
lana rain
>>340742414
Pretty sure I've thanked most of the anons who gave me suggestions, faggot
>>340742249
>Starshatter: The Gathering Storm.
More like StarSHITTER.
get it? lolI'm sorry, I haven't actually played the game. Actually I'm checking it out now. Seems cool.
A moment of silence for our fallen brethren.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj56okQaxZI
>>340742398
I thought /v/ermin were shitting on that one as well? Even if it does look amazing and has been tested extensively.
>>340741862
>Elite: Dangerous
>autism
ED is the most casual of spaces mentioned here
>>340742735
Kek thats a good one anon
>>340742573
That's what I saw as well. Too much time on /v/ with everyone calling each other shitters.
>>340742617
/v/ shits on it because it's not a spreadsheet sim. It suits OP's taste well.
>>340742398
>procedurally generated worlds
>no central story
>"focused on exploration"
Yeah, I'm sure it isnt another Elite" Dangerous.
>>340742598
Please, dont.
>>340742797
Sorry to break it to you dad but it's true.
>>340742910
>spreadsheet sim
Just because you don't like X doesn't mean you need to shit on it.
>>340742969
You're part of the problem. NMS isn't a matter of "It looks great! Hype!". It's been tested and shown. People have seen what it is and it looks great.
>>340742814
I know right?, I'm swapping things with "shit" without even noticing, I have to come back and read the damn thing again almost everytime.
>>340743130
Its literally not you low grade shitposter and you know it
It is the exact opposite of an arcade space sim
>>340743192
I'm not shitting on it. Both Elite and NMS are good games for people that enjoy that kind of thing. I actually need something to do, some goal. And when I explore, I want to find strange, awesome or alien things - in procedurally generated games, you'll have seen the entire games in 5 hours. Exploration in Freelancer was sooo much more fun than in Elite.
I'm also worried for Star Citizen, they are going for a multiplayer heavy game which I dont know I¨ll enjoy. Its my most anticipated game, if it ever releases. The scope of it is just too big in my opinion.
>>340743130
Fampai, the combat in Freelancer is "casual." It takes much more skill to fight in Elite than in most space sim games.
>>340743714
>in procedurally generated games, you'll have seen the entire games in 5 hours.
>>340743714
It's not space, but you should give the Solaris Project a try.
Thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrzOhJv6WCM&list=PLA34D2877DA328CBF&index=52
>>340743814
Explain how it isnt. Whats the difference between a blue planet with green aliens and green planet with blue aliens?
>>340743192
>It's been tested and shown
In controlled environment with dev team present and no more than few hours total of gameplay, if even that. That is not tested and shown, that is advertised.
>>340744018
>this music
oh god fuck yes
>>340744068
>not tested and shown
It was tested extensively. Hell, one of the reasons they went and thankfully added an offline mode was because testers named every new planet and species something related to dicks.
This has been around for a while, It's not the usual cycle of
>E3 reveal
>Show select gameplay leading up to release
>Release
>>340739807
I was never reddit.I came from 9gag after the fappeningFuck board culture, oldfags and their inflated sense of belonging is fucking retarded
![1462050079001[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2cZyRUQ.jpg "1462050079001[1].jpg")
it looks like shit now what happend
Does anyone remember this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_GU-tEMQhU&index=49&list=PLA34D2877DA328CBF
Literally the best fighting song in Freelancer.
>>340744018
I can top that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi1M747Iw48
Also you're also using two variants in your example. Procedurally generated games, if done right anyways, will put certain limitations and exceptions to each variable. So if your green aliens can't swim, don't expect to see them on a water planet.
>>340742598
This makes me sad.
>tfw you have to blow up that huge rhineland ship with your space buddies
>tfw you go outlaw and begin hijacking trade convoys
>tfw you find the wreck of the lost spanish ship
great game.
>Kharak is burning...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXRJBK8oJSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqpiKAOI67M&index=18&list=PLA34D2877DA328CBF
Soundtrack for my favorite mission.
>>340744528
>>340744495
I always liked this track, though it's not from a sim.
>>340744907
Now with a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKakINXjl8
>>340738191
Nigga please, I still have the disc somewhere around here
>>340742263
>tfw you ram your fighter in the trade lane and hit the button just a nanosecond too late
Btw Pulsar: The Lost Colonoy gave me kind of the feel. It's WIP, but it's so that you're part of a crew, so one pilot, one gunner. Combat-wise its similar, but you're part of a crew.
Probably there are some modded Freelancer MP servers full with slavs online
The only thing I hated about Freelancer at the time was that you couldn't pilot capital ships.
And then X3 happened to me.
Holy shit what a game.
>2004-7
>freelancer + planetside all day erry day
>the amount of mods for freelancer were ridiculous
>capital ships, thousands of new ships, expanded systems
Those years were seriously based as fuck
>>340744812
Fuck you, man. I just woke up and don't need these feels.
>>340737510
>>340737510
Everspace is looking pretty good
>>340746695
>rogue like
into the trash it goes
>>340737510
Pioneer is a free open source reimagining of Elite II. It's comfy as fuck, with a realistic Newtonian flight model and realistic distances between planets in a system.
>>340738787
>Like Freespace 2 having a very small amount of bound keys for gameplay but didn't lose complexity for it.
FS2 had a ton of bound keys. It had something like 20 of them just for targeting.
>>340746309
>tfw to this date I still can't get into X3
>tried X: Rebirth
>couldn't get into it either
that feel
>>340741295
FTL?
>>340746309
The springblossom spoiled me. I couldn't enjoy any other ship.
>tfw playing freelancer as a child embedded in atmosphere and rp'in a pirate
>tfw nothing will ever suffice ever again
I played discovery with a friend a while ago but admins would get mad that we rekt people as pirates and banned us. lool
>>340748314
The admins got mad at me for not roleplaying like a fucking tard
I just wanna play the game and talk shit with some bros
>>340748402
I had the pirate I.D's. So technically yeah i was allowed to kill peeps if they were doing shit.
>>340737510
>Bretonian
>Doesn't have the slightest hint of a Bretonian accent
>>340748981
>Want a drink?
>Get me the sidewinder fang
Trent is underrated
His random edgyness makes me kek
>>340743814
depends on how much content there is for generator to work on. it's not a magic wand or substitution for textures. diablo 1 also has that so called procedural generation but it worked because assets were varied.
nowadays, it's hailed like holy grail but realistically, it just saves space.
>Space sims
>Post one of the most arcady space games
Fuck you OP.
>>340748314
Unfortunately that's the drawback with disco.
The mod devs and suchlike are godly. .. but fucking admins for every fucking server are flatout cunts.
>server reset for next patch /version
>everything gets wiped and you have to start all your characters from 1500 creds in a starflea again
>lose your starfighter character with max tier vhf/hf and fully equipped.
>lose your jump capable HUGE transport character that makes your creds
>lose your capital ship character worth over 6 B credits
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
>>340748402
>>340748643
See
>>340750789
Server mods and admins are giant fucking douches for disco
>>340750197
I hope you die a painful death
>>340737510
Independence War 2. No, it's not mouse driven but it is damned good.
>>340742598
Trust me, you would not have wanted Freelancer 2. It was planned to be vastly smaller, with mission based maps and a couple open "regions" akin to hubs, rather than interconnected systems. Shutting this down was by far the superior option.
Don't mind me. Just killing all your traders.
>>340752928
Forgot my pic
>>340751221
Let this sink in:
>Inherit pirate base
>Can thrust to 9999+ m/s
>Can thrust backwards to 9999+ m/s
>Your warp drive puts you up to literal light speed
>Planets and stuff are realistically spaced
>You can squat lagrange points and kill off freighters
>You have a team of homies whom you can call up to come in and pick up your freight
Game is pretty comfy
>>340755187
craptopable?
THEY BLEW UP THE DONAU
>>340756395
Very
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Independence_War_2:_Edge_of_Chaos
Game can get a little long in the tooth, though. There isn't that much ship customization, but it's still there. You'll spend a while flying around in a shitty tug before you get a real-actual combat ship.
>>340757312
well, i got me something to play then
unless anyone know of any stalker in space
Any of these games work on mac? If it has a cockpit view that'll be a plus.
Freespace/Freespace 2? Although no space exploration there.
>>340751169
Are you trying to imply that I am wrong? Freelancer is space Arcade, not space sim.
>play X3
>finally saved enough money to buy a true capital ship in the form of the Split M7 Panther
>It's an escort carrier the size of a frigate, but with massive hangar bays for fighters
>struggling to put enough armaments and shielding on it to go on pirate hunts to buy more weapons for the turrets and fighters to fill its cavernous hangar bays
>finally save enough money to buy 20 Argon M3 Nova heavy fighters
>but they're unarmed upon purchase
>now have to outfit the Novas with shields and weapons of their own
>send my freighters to work overtime hauling the necessary materials for my weapons and shield factories to equip my burgeoning fighter wing
>after several hours of campaigning in pirate and Terran territory, I finally have enough arms to fully equip my CV and her fighter complement
>finally eject from my old workhorse M6 corvette gunboat and relegate her to patrol duty around my factory complexes
>enter the bridge of my new Capital ship
>start its newly tuned engines
>launch 5 fighters for combat void patrol with 15 fighters in strategic reserve
>suddenly, Xenon incursion in the sector
>order my flagship to go all ahead full into their formation
>fighters in X formation around me
>watch glorious space battle from the bridge
>red beams scattering into the void, high energy plasma bolts streaking all, turrets madly firing at ordnance and bogeys while fighters and interceptors all around pirouette elegantly around my (relatively) massive ship and bathing them in anti-strikecraft flak
Jesus fucking Christ I love this game so much. And this is with just 1 ship. Can't wait to try my hand in fleet-level engagements.
>>340758598
I seriously can't get into this game. Spend like 15 hours in it and I haven't the slightest what am I to do
>>340758598
>Playing Argon
>Got nothing but a shit Centaur
>Full on Terran incursion led by an Osaka
>Fuck fuck fuck
>Manage to get within its deadzone and slowly pick it apart shot by shot
Took me a while and a shit load of reloads. I just wanted to see if I could do it. I did it.
>>340759238
>creeping up into the osaka's deadzone in its "buttcheeks" with a centaur
holy fuck are you me? I did that exact same shit
No one Discovery's here?
>>340759585
They have furries there
>>340759642
Actually they banned them all. Servers are half empty nowaday though. 3 years ago it was 200/200. Now it barely gets to 40 people at once
>>340759642
They were banned, though. It's actually now an official rule.
>>340759736
PVP slavs and silent traders.
>>340759023
yeah, the lack in proper tutorial is a massive issue with X3.
>>340759023
It's all about taking bite-sized chunks out at a time. By far, the fastest way to earn money and utility early game is by capturing freighters and expensive pirate fighters. You'll use this to jump start your own merchant fleet, or as seed capital for your own combat team.
Consider:
>>340758598
>get Zephyrus class military transport
>stick souped-up discovery in first hanger slot
>add three Nova Raiders in the other slots
>get jump drive
>go looting over in Hatikvah's Faith
The players that actually get rich get rich do so by setting up a universe trader or space weed factory and turning SETA up to 10x, then going to bed.
>>340759931
It looks super cool though. Everything Freelancer was promised as in 2001 and failed to deliver. But for fucks sake does it have to be so complicated that even the "short" tutorial videos on youtube are like 2 hours each
>>340759497
It's just the most sensible thing to do. No ship is perfect and I figured a capital ship like that HAS to have a weakness of some sort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfpPRbALe_E
>liberty ale
>>340738625
>I just wanna explore a cool as fuck galaxy without having to worry about 15 fucking fuel gauges and whether or not my dinglebuckleberry thruster wing plate thingamajigs are engaged
None of those games are that experience.
>>340760103
It's perhaps my only gripe with X3, that you can't just jump straight into capital ship combat. You gotta slog through that merchant fleet/industrial complex phase. To outfit and maintain ships more expensive than a light frigate you pretty much need a planetary grade industrial base. While it makes sense economics wise, I wish there was a way to just jump past that. I just want to pound the living shit out of some toasters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s21vQCLASko
>>340760103
>zephyrus bro
My nigga.
>protecting the Zephyrus by sortieing out in a fighter alongside your 3 ragtag wingmen salvaged from previous pirate encounters
The closest i've ever come to rogue trader.
>>340737510
good game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1oF2C7iN_A
>>340738780
There was a free weekend some weeks ago and it's still pretty much fucking garbage.
Don't know what these people here are citing when they say the game has been fixed.
>>340741435
>120
More like 60 lel
It's dying
>there will never be an X4
>star citizen is going to be shit
>no mans sky going to be shit
>sword of the stars is shit
>stellaris is too basic
just end me famalam
>>340761086
Well hey now, we still have another three years before we can accurately give up on Star Citizen.
>>340760641
You can be my wingman.
>tfw your TM is low on energy but you need to get to a shipyard so that you can sell yo capped ships
>call up yo mistral bro and get him to jump you in some e-cells from yo power plant
>stash all yo stolen crystals and shit
>thanks bro, see you next week
>>340761489
Actually, all this midget-carrier talk is reminding me of Star Wolves.
>Flying around with your mercenary crew
>Dock your fighters and refit them in the middle of battle with different weapons, or even send your pilots out in a different ship
>Put a big AMS on your carrier and watch incoming missiles get blown out of the sky before sending out your fighters to engage
>Put a big sensor array on your carrier and let your fighters pick off enemy command ships and fighter clusters from long range with MIRV cluster missiles.
>Put vulcan miniguns on your carrier's turret hardpoints and watch as AI drones helplessly get blow out of the sky
That last one is a lie, the AI drones are weak to missiles but >shush
>>340761086
I wonder why paradox hasn't shat out a DLC for Stellaris yet, totally unlike them not to milk it from day one.
>>340762139
its great, it gets hard to get anything better than 2 gen ships for the crewdo i need berseker tech for alien guns?
>>340737585
What's wrong with Elite: Dangerous?
You know, besides the grinding and lack of content and broken features and such
>>340737510
game is fun but i loved starlancer a lot more.
it is more military focused but i had more fun with it.
i wish they made another game like starlancer without space openworld gameplay.
>>340762421
Dunno, I've just been selling them. There's apparently a skill later in the game that allows you to fit them.
I've just finished the humanitarian aid mission and bought myself a raptor.
why can't you guys just be my friend irl ;_;
>>340761086
Egosoft said they are working on a new X game. I guess they realized they fucked up with Rebirth
>>340763004
they are pretty good as light figters and supports, give it to the chick she'll make em shine
and get the berseker tech, it will make her and the missile carriers killing machines even without missiles
whats the best way to get outcast rep?
>>340763356
It's been a while since I play vanilla, but I guess you could fly to Tau 37 and get a bribe on the freeport there.
Otherwise you could do missions for their allies, like the Rogues.
>>340741295
There is Rebel Galaxy. Ships are big ones, but pretty arcade. The problem is that it turns into a grindfest since having the proper level weapons is mandatory, dmg and cost is exponential.
>>340740847
Why did they change the name?
>>340763657
playing the thing its fun, and the OST is great
Post your shippu.
>>340763653
i want to replay it and i remember you could buy rep
but didn't remember where
thanks
the only pain is the forced main missions
i wish it was optional
>>340737510
There's this Russian game called The Tomorrow War. It's not open-world and graphics don't hold up, especially in cutscenes, but it's still pretty much the closest I came to scratching the Freelancer itch of flying around beautiful systems. It's got in-atomsphere flying, too, and an option to switch physics from arcade to arcade with inertia to full space autism.
>>340764631
>no seeders
fuck
>>340764631
Looks interesting. Will check it out.
>>340764082
NEXUS JUPITER INCIDENT
should i play?
>>340765449
yes, its great, but its all about tactics, not controlling the ships directly
fucking great still
>>340737510
Vega Strike might be worth a try. It's free, so you've got nothing to lose by trying it. There's even a Privateer total conversion for it, if you liked that game.
>>340764631
Wow at those cutscenes. It's like final Fantasy in Liverpool.
>>340765389
cant see any torents
>>340765938
That's because the game is hastily put together shit that was used to promote a mediocre book series
>>340765389
>>340764938
dont bother. its shit.
>>340765826
I hope for the sake of your sanity that you haven't heard the voice acting. It's ridiculously awful.
>>340766087
Yeah, source material is very meh "Soviet army IN SPEHSS" kind of bullshit with tons of wasted potential. The game itself is okay though, playing around with different ships and beam-ballistic-plasma weapon system was fun. Some of the areas were cool, too, like the tutorial around Saturn, or that planet with weird gravity bullshit. Shame about torrents, but it's understandable. The game got zero publicity besides "8/10 it's okay" reviews in local magazines.
There's an EVE with more OG spaceship combat. Full crafting and a loot drop system for PvP.
>>340740029
>mfw i just realized those ice spikes in the unknown system look like weed
far out, man
>>340739830
My fellow raider.
Corsairs are the true hispanics, junkie pseudohuman shits can fuck off.
>>340744812
Why can't we have a space sim set in the Homeworld universe so i can finally be a Turanic Raider and get my hands on a Missile Corvette?
>>340768241
>Why can't we have a space sim set in the Homeworld universe so i can finally be a Turanic Raider and get my hands on a Missile Corvette?
Check out House of the Dying Sun. It feels really close to a Homeworld universe space fighter sim.
>>340768241
>space sim set in the Homeworld universe so i can finally be a Turanic Raider
Imagine flying around in a Kushan heavy corvette and not having enough room to reach the eject button while you and your turret bros are bathed in flashing red light indicating MISSILE LOCK
>>340768936
but anon,it has a bad word on it
I'll keep an eye on it nonetheless, thanks
>>340770047
it mildly reminds me a bit of the x-wing/tie fighter games
>>340770047
That's it. It's blue explosions. That's what makes Homeworld Homeworld. Blue explosions.
>>340770047
Can you give me please the name of the video game that is shown in this webm video, anonymous poster?
>>340771765
>Enemy Starfighter is now House of the Dying Sun
http://dyingsungame.com/
>>340771868
Thank you very much, anonymous poster. You brightened up my day a little. You have my blessings.
>>340771973
Just to let you know. If you plan on buying the game, its in Early Access (just released few days ago) so not a whole lot to do.
If you play on normal difficulty, you can finish the game within two hours.
Its one dev thats working on the game and he's planning on adding a wave mode in the future.
>>340741295
Uh... I guess Eve if you've the state of mind to grind that much shit.
I guess you could build one in Space Engineers. I managed to cobble together a 1:1 shell of a Star Destroyer. The game has a lot of trouble rendering shit that big, though. Even the shell was too big without all the shit inside it.
>>340772873
Thanks for the information, dear anonymous poster. I will not buy this game as of yet, but I'm keeping my metaphorical eye on it. Sadly it came to my attention that a formerly planned version for the Mac OS X and GNU/Linux operating systems has been scrapped in favour of Windows. While I do indeed also use Windows, it's still a little 'bummer' as you say.
>>340737510
Tachyon was pretty fun.
>>340765449
>NEXUS JUPITER INCIDENT
Pretty good, but I found it a bit frustrating. It seemed like the ships disobeyed commands sometimes
>>340739480
>Darkstar One
I enjoyed it, but here's something I wrote to try to help players get it running with a controller + keyboard
https://www.gog.com/forum/darkstar_one/lite_tutorial_for_configuring_darkstar_one_to_work_with_xbox_360_controller_and_kbm
I still think Freespace 2 is one of the best.
It is a pain learning the million controls. You don't need to, but it can make it a lot easier.
If you have not, look up freespace 2 open (Better graphics, lots of options) and get mods from hard-light.net
Some of them are extremely well made and pretty long.
You can also use a microphone to command your wingmen instead of the keyboard, which is nice when you have some fighters on your ass.
>Alpha wing, cover me
actually works
>>340775446DIVE! DIVE! DIVE! HIT YOUR BURNERS, PILOT!
>just spent about an hour fucking around in E:D while listening to space folk music
was pretty comfy senpai
I really wish Frontier would get their shit together and fix their fucking game. They nailed the aesthetics and the feel of flight. It's everything else that sucks.
so uhh, its not exactly a sim but its fun with 5 people. Who wants to pirate it and play?
Needs 4 others. I'll drop links if anybody is interested. Each player gets a job to do on the ship and they make it function/work. You can go to planets, board enemy ships, pirate enemy ships and pretty much do whatever the fuck you want in space. Also you can get blown the fuck up.
>>340737510
This game was amazing.
Are there any servers that exist?
>>340739807
>>340739294
You two aren't wrong, but you're forgetting that "Nuzlocke" named /v/ in his "What is a Nuzlocke" page so every kid that liked the dank memes he used followed the page to /v/.
Lol @ people thinking Freelancer Discovery is dead. A few weeks back the server was maxing out because the staff decided to make a spontaneous event out of recent RP done by a faction. There were even times when you couldn't get on because the server was full.
This video summaries things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Qg0HoZFJA
>>340777650
got any vids?
>>340778963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0DDr_G6mGc
its not the best looking and there are a bunch of new features since this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUPWcsXCcVk&index=2&list=PLAC272AA1CDF5A764
this game has the BEST storyline, atmosphere and tension, I fucking teared up at the end of both games
it's fucking incredible what you feel after you play the campaigns
>>340779708
Agreed.
I'm actually thinking about making a custom controller for Freespace I and II with an atmega 32u4 since it has native USB support.
Joystick, buttons, knobs and sliders and shit.
>>340779152
Instant mute
>>340780292
I didnt actually watch that video nor do I know who made it. It was the first result on google for "pulsar the lost colony game play". I happened to notice it was 8 months old and i know theres some new content recently.
>>340737510
Remember that first time you went through the manhattan sectors massive minefield into alaska
shit was bonkers ill never forget that final fight either;alien dyson sphere,man who saw that shit coming
>>340742263
>tfw running right between the claws of the docking ring and putting my ship in a silly position so that i get a chuckle or two when it enders it's landing animation
>>340780063
>you will never pilot with a joystick a fully functional SF DRAGON
>still remember that pain in the ass mission when you had to attack 2 dragons right after Lucifer blew the fuck out of a station
