A warning to those who reach the end

[Striker Tenshi]

SPOILER ALERT
Unless you're a masochist: Please for the love of your crew, BEFORE jumping inside the Phasmid Queen, get everyone, except one, into the lifepods and jettison them for a chance to save them. I kept my crew intact and jumped into the Queen thinking i'd have to fight something inside... nope. Tried to get everyone into the lifepods before self-destructing, 0% recovery chance, and everyone died. Super salty about that...

[Neoco]

This happened to me too. I accidentally tagged the wrong gate and jumped backwards and when I jumped back to in front of the Queen, there were enemies incoming again. I didn't want to fight them again so I used my captain's quick jumping ability to get to the Queen. Didn't have time to send any crew to the escape pods, so my entire crew died. I had that crew and ship the entire game so I like to think that the ship meant everything to the crew so they all decided that if the ship was to be destroyed, they would also want to die with it.

It really stinks that you have to sacrifice at least one of your crew to kill the Queen. I mean you made that antimatter bomb that wiped out the Phasmid homeworld pretty quickly. Would it really be that hard to produce another one?

[MieszkoPiastowski]

Originally posted by Neoco:

This happened to me too. I accidentally tagged the wrong gate and jumped backwards and when I jumped back to in front of the Queen, there were enemies incoming again. I didn't want to fight them again so I used my captain's quick jumping ability to get to the Queen. Didn't have time to send any crew to the escape pods, so my entire crew died. I had that crew and ship the entire game so I like to think that the ship meant everything to the crew so they all decided that if the ship was to be destroyed, they would also want to die with it.

It really stinks that you have to sacrifice at least one of your crew to kill the Queen. I mean you made that antimatter bomb that wiped out the Phasmid homeworld pretty quickly. Would it really be that hard to produce another one?

I love the ending myself. Space crew is the game where you get attached to ur crew while playing. Having to sacryfice one of them at the ending really hits hard.

[Antiga]

I genuinely wonder - does it matter?
It's the end of the game, so... From a gameplay perspective, it's of no importance, right?

Or can you keep playing after the end?
If a whole plethora of things still remain to be done at the end, and you can effectively play sandbox style while still growing and/or progressing in one way or another, then it's quite a "♥♥♥♥ you".

Devs need to know that isn't acceptable in most games, unless the game was build around such mechanics, and made for masochists. A game like Dark Souls, for example.

Either way, whichever is the case, I'm there with you in regards of disliking such a situation. Even if it doesn't *really* matter from a gameplay perspective, it'll just feel like a "why?". If it does matter from a gameplay perspective, I find it absolutely unacceptable.
FF7's Aerith is possibly the only example in history where this was incredibly well done, and thus acceptable.

[醉仙望月]

Originally posted by Antiga:

I genuinely wonder - does it matter?
It's the end of the game, so... From a gameplay perspective, it's of no importance, right?

Or can you keep playing after the end?
If a whole plethora of things still remain to be done at the end, and you can effectively play sandbox style while still growing and/or progressing in one way or another, then it's quite a "♥♥♥♥ you".

You can keep playing sandbox style after the end.
You have to buy a new ship and replace the dead Lv12 crew with newly recruited Lv7 crew.

[Antiga]

Originally posted by 醉仙望月:

Originally posted by Antiga:

I genuinely wonder - does it matter?
It's the end of the game, so... From a gameplay perspective, it's of no importance, right?

Or can you keep playing after the end?
If a whole plethora of things still remain to be done at the end, and you can effectively play sandbox style while still growing and/or progressing in one way or another, then it's quite a "♥♥♥♥ you".

You can keep playing sandbox style after the end.
You have to buy a new ship and replace the dead Lv12 crew with newly recruited Lv7 crew.

That'll completely ruin my will to keep playing. Finished the game, so nothing "unique" to look forward to anymore. My fun from this point will depend on what I've gathered and build up to so far, and possibly what upgrades still remain. To take most of that away... Yea. Not sure what the devs hoped to achieve by doing this.

[Striker Tenshi]

Originally posted by Neoco:

This happened to me too. I accidentally tagged the wrong gate and jumped backwards and when I jumped back to in front of the Queen, there were enemies incoming again. I didn't want to fight them again so I used my captain's quick jumping ability to get to the Queen. Didn't have time to send any crew to the escape pods, so my entire crew died. I had that crew and ship the entire game so I like to think that the ship meant everything to the crew so they all decided that if the ship was to be destroyed, they would also want to die with it.

It really stinks that you have to sacrifice at least one of your crew to kill the Queen. I mean you made that antimatter bomb that wiped out the Phasmid homeworld pretty quickly. Would it really be that hard to produce another one?

That sucks man and I agree, but I get what devs what were trying to do; the whole 'heroic sacrifice' to save the world thing... still left a bitter taste because my crew was the same in that I had that crew for the whole game.

[spoony bard]

Originally posted by Antiga:

Originally posted by 醉仙望月:

You can keep playing sandbox style after the end.
You have to buy a new ship and replace the dead Lv12 crew with newly recruited Lv7 crew.

That'll completely ruin my will to keep playing. Finished the game, so nothing "unique" to look forward to anymore. My fun from this point will depend on what I've gathered and build up to so far, and possibly what upgrades still remain. To take most of that away... Yea. Not sure what the devs hoped to achieve by doing this.

Just a FYI I haven't gotten any new upgrades since I hit ~45k research. I'm a little over 100k now.