Sword of the stars lets yiou build you own capital ship component by component.
Its a full on 3D space combat sim.
You can point and clink on parts of the enemy cap ship to taret specific pixels on the enemy's structure.
The game sounds so awesome I thought I should post it here and ask if anyone has played it or what you guys think :-
I've played it... It's a strategy game. The only real-time part to it is when you get a mission, which is intensely rare. Otherwise it's just waiting and spamming the "End Turn" button. When the Real-Time battles happen, the controls are hard to use, and frustrating. [/negative critique]
It looks good, it sounds good, but it's not particularly a game I'd want to play.
sword of the stars is fun - but utterly unbalanced. the good sides are.... a serious RTS part when a fight happens. - the bad parts are balancing of shipclasses. - i have won battles with 3 cruisers against 110 destroyers. ( cause they only came in groups of 4 )
version 1.4.1 is much better, but still - the ships and factions are not balanced too well. furthermore, it has a few bugs and some events are just too hard.
compared to "master of orion 2 or 3", the strategic part is almost pointless. no planetary improvement or choices that need to be made. its a bit like "lost empire: immortals". one of the best games when it comes to the strategic part AND the tactical part is still the old master of orion 2. - moo 3 is good, too, but feels like trying to have fun with exel tabs.
anyway - sots is hardly good enough to be a good example for balancing capships.
' Wrote:I haven't tried that game yet...I don't think I will as I hate the idea of....
*skit*
ok I move the ship 3 kilometers, and then shoot you ok?
*other guy* ok, then I damage your shields with photon torpedoes.
Aka... I hate the "take turns"...I like it more action like moving around at free will...but that's just my opinion.
It's only turn-based when you're not fighting.
Otherwise it's Real Time Strategy. (like Starcraft, only with ships and shiny graphics)
Combat and Events are rare, so you build a fleet, then spam the "end turn" button until it's complete. You then go out to concur the worlds, while defending your own.
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