StarDrive releasing in just a few days

MaximumSquidMaximumSquid Join Date: 2010-07-20 Member: 72593Members
edited April 2013 in Off-Topic
For anyone who remembers MOO:2 and other quality 4x genre games it seems that after almost 2 decades we will finally have a spiritual successor

Something Awful Megathread:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3528351&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Official Forums:
http://www.stardrivegame.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

My short thread asking a few questions on the main forum:
http://www.stardrivegame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4232

Reposting here because apparently a couple of the StarDrive regulars are also die hard NS fans

Oh I should probably link the steam page too:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/220660/
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    edited May 2013
    Gonna have to check this out
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  • FrizzlecatFrizzlecat Join Date: 2013-03-07 Member: 183752Members
    Ah, well, Star Drive. Yes. I was briefly torn between this and Endless Space. Decided that I will go for Endless Space once they've integrated espionage.
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  • AngeluszAngelusz Harmonic entropist Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18072Members, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester
    :ooo I love MoO2. I even have it installed on my android device using Doxbox - couldn't resist playing it again. ^^ I'll definitely check this one out.
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    edited May 2013
    So is anyone enjoying this? I played it a bit but... well it's very clunky.

    I'm not sure what exactly it's got that's it's really good at. Seems a lot like civ 5 but without the awesome terrain features and interface that make that game easy to play but add emergent depth. Or maybe sins of a solar empire but with worse controls and no node system to funnel combat together, less structure.

    The ship design system isn't really... good enough to make it a selling point. It's in depth yeah but it seems suited for a smaller-scale game. The economy is fairly standard, so far as I can tell, the ground combat honestly detracts from the game for me, and the whole interface is just not that well designed for a game of this complexity.

    It's like if sword of the stars 2 didn't have the really cool combat engine, basically.

    I guess it might be more fun if I play it doggedly enough to acclimatise to it but I'm having difficulty justifying doing that. Just seems like it's not really very good at anything, even games I don't really like I can at least say are unique but if anything this seems like a graphical upgrade of star ruler, with all of that game's problems.
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