SplatterCatGaming ( I was not impressed)

[Ankido]

I saw SplatterCatGaming playing this game. After 20 mins into the video I realized this is just a story game. I have yet to see combat. This style of gaming annoys me as I'm more of a hands on combat person when it comes to space minus the exploration, trading and building up fleet. I understand it's free but why so much dialog? Where is the combat?

For the record. When I looked up the game it said "Ignored". I"m guessing a while back I came across this and didn't seem too impressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1LJabHzyZM

[Amazinite]

Well watching the video, 20 minutes in he's only *just* finished the tutorial missions, and he didn't even choose a combat ship for his starter, and the entire video itself seems to be more just an introduction of the game, so I'd say that you haven't gotten a full look at what the game has to offer. While we do place a large emphasis on the story, there's plenty of combat for you to partake in.

Beware of spoilers, but here's someone within the first hour of the game using their starter ship to capture larger ships in combat and progress pretty far in a short amount of time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAGDMocTFM
Maybe not the best showcase of combat, but certainly more than SplatterCat showed.

Given that the game is free, no harm in trying it out for yourself to see what the combat is like. Something I will note though is that if you think you'll be able to grab a Sparrow, the starter combat ship, and go to town, you're gonna have a bad time. Interceptors aren't really useful against anything but other interceptors and smaller ships like fighters or drones if you're able to pick them off, so while you're only just starting off you need to choose your battles wisely. Once you get into owning a medium or heavy warship is where combat really starts to take off.

If you don't want to go through the hassle of building your way up to a respectable combat fleet, while I really wouldn't advise doing this without playing through the game first, you could use a plugin that grants you access to any ship you want and buy a warship to jump directly into combat, or edit your save file to give yourself a bunch of credits and immediately buy a ship.

[Ankido]

Originally posted by Amazinite:

Well watching the video, 20 minutes in he's only *just* finished the tutorial missions, and he didn't even choose a combat ship for his starter, and the entire video itself seems to be more just an introduction of the game, so I'd say that you haven't gotten a full look at what the game has to offer. While we do place a large emphasis on the story, there's plenty of combat for you to partake in.

Beware of spoilers, but here's someone within the first hour of the game using their starter ship to capture larger ships in combat and progress pretty far in a short amount of time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAGDMocTFM
Maybe not the best showcase of combat, but certainly more than SplatterCat showed.

Given that the game is free, no harm in trying it out for yourself to see what the combat is like. Something I will note though is that if you think you'll be able to grab a Sparrow, the starter combat ship, and go to town, you're gonna have a bad time. Interceptors aren't really useful against anything but other interceptors and smaller ships like fighters or drones if you're able to pick them off, so while you're only just starting off you need to choose your battles wisely. Once you get into owning a medium or heavy warship is where combat really starts to take off.

If you don't want to go through the hassle of building your way up to a respectable combat fleet, while I really wouldn't advise doing this without playing through the game first, you could use a plugin that grants you access to any ship you want and buy a warship to jump directly into combat, or edit your save file to give yourself a bunch of credits and immediately buy a ship.

I guess I'll give it a crack. Appreciate you not taking the post offensive. Great response in changing someones mind. Here I go!

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Originally posted by Ankido:

I saw SplatterCatGaming playing this game.

He finds some interesting games sometimes, but he's one of the worst Indie-focused YouTube channels out there. He religiously sticks to 30 minute run-time, most of the time leaves the tutorial in, spends at least 5 minutes introducing the game instead of playing it, so he ends up with maybe (sometimes not even) 10 minutes of *actual* gameplay. Ugh. Not to mention his mindless babble to fill space instead of, I dunno, dead air? I'd honestly prefer dead air to blathering blatherskite.

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[Ankido]

Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

Originally posted by Ankido:

I saw SplatterCatGaming playing this game.

He finds some interesting games sometimes, but he's one of the worst Indie-focused YouTube channels out there. He religiously sticks to 30 minute run-time, most of the time leaves the tutorial in, spends at least 5 minutes introducing the game instead of playing it, so he ends up with maybe (sometimes not even) 10 minutes of *actual* gameplay. Ugh. Not to mention his mindless babble to fill space instead of, I dunno, dead air? I'd honestly prefer dead air to blathering blatherskite.

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Don't you hate it when those special kids wave their hands all over the place unable to control their muscles and nerves? If I said I hated that people would jump all over me. It's rude. He has a condition a disorder. He's said it before, he can't control himself.

[Goose]

lol he just did the tutorial? yeah of course you aint gonna see combat, if you tried combat you would get creamed in a matter of 2 seconds.

[HUcast]

its free. Just try it yourself. in the time you took posting this you could have done so. Also, if too many words give you pause, it's probably not the game for you.

[wallofsleep_vol4]

The galaxy is crawling with combat. A few space jumps and you'll probably find yourself on the verge of getting mugged. This is really a sandbox space exploration and economy game wrapped inside of dueling human and alien factions. You can ignore the story altogether and acquire your plunder through brute force and cunning. Customizing your ship takes money, technology, and generally involves compromising for your ship's best intended purpose. It's a total slaughterhouse and there's a reason this Escape Velocity updated game has survived 30 years.