[Ravenholme]

Yup, it's great fun.

Very hard though compared to Freespace 2.

Piece of Cake compared to FS2 Insane hehe

Kidding aside...

From my (admittedly limited) experience everytime the game appears to get too hard... you are not using the strike mode right, needs some practice

The Multitarget missiles and autotargeting guns can be insanely powerful when used correctly and I suspect the missions are designed with that in mind.

Popping into Mech/Strike Mode and unleashing a can of whoopa** that obliterates a corvette or an entire squadron of fighters in a single salvo, then switching back to fighter mode and zooming away with afterburners before you get hit too much is certainly one of the most awesome features of the game heh

Definitely agreed. With skill and luck, you can defang cruisers in one volley. It's how I earned the "Destroy 20 targets at once in strike mode" achievement.


Though it's actually the Ship Pen mission I'm finding difficult, specifically the second part. (Trying to avoid spoilers here)

[Jeff Vader]

Voice acting is not very good (in the first mission I could never tell which of the two female characters was doing the talking without actually paying attention to the head animation), but the skyboxes are nice and when I noticed there were Freelancer-y mouse controls I went

[Klaustrophobia]

can anyone report on play with a joystick?  i'm thinking about this, but if it doesn't play well with a joystick i'll pass.  i REALLY don't like flying with a mouse/keyboard.

[Mikes]

can anyone report on play with a joystick?  i'm thinking about this, but if it doesn't play well with a joystick i'll pass.  i REALLY don't like flying with a mouse/keyboard.

Plays about perfect with a Joystick. They spent some time on the controls... the game actually controls very nicely with gamepad and mouse/KB too, but as far as I m concerned Joystick gives it the best "feel".

[Spoon]

Great options for almost everything... Can't reverse the Y axis when playing with mouse and keyboard.
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Can't get through the first mission without the game flipping the **** out and giving me a white screen. Supposedly the dev team is trying to fix that soonish.

[Suongadon]

Hmph. I can't seem to get the strike suit down, but the bomber-mission-that-was-fun I did on my first try with a big stupid grin on my face.  So many missiles.

[Alan Bolte]

Gonna keep an eye on this thread - if Spoon says he likes it once it's patched I'll definitely pick it up.

[Spoon]

40 minutes spend on this game, still not past mission 1 due to the game giving up on life and crashing to desktop. Patch didnt resolve anything. (Though you can now reverse the Y axis with mouse and keyboard)

Controls feel kind of Freelancer-ish, skybox looks pretty. Not much more I can say so far really.

[Mikes]

40 minutes spend on this game, still not past mission 1 due to the game giving up on life and crashing to desktop. Patch didnt resolve anything. (Though you can now reverse the Y axis with mouse and keyboard)

Controls feel kind of Freelancer-ish, skybox looks pretty. Not much more I can say so far really.

Drivers and all up to date? Just asking... because the game is rock solid for me. Not a single crash in hours of playing.

Running a HD7970 on an Intel I7 rig.

Hmph. I can't seem to get the strike suit down, but the bomber-mission-that-was-fun I did on my first try with a big stupid grin on my face.  So many missiles.

I hear ya! The Bomber is almost like flying an antifighter missile armed Ares in FS2 ... except... more missiles! And... Torpedos too! LOL.

Still learning to use Strikesuit right as well...  I'm finding that I can use it longer and longer when I use the weapons right to the point that a full missile salvo from the suit, in a target rich environment, instantly results in a full flux bar again. Insanely powerful when ya can pull it off.

[Spoon]

40 minutes spend on this game, still not past mission 1 due to the game giving up on life and crashing to desktop. Patch didnt resolve anything. (Though you can now reverse the Y axis with mouse and keyboard)

Controls feel kind of Freelancer-ish, skybox looks pretty. Not much more I can say so far really.

Drivers and all up to date? Just asking... because the game is rock solid for me. Not a single crash in hours of playing.

Running a HD7970 on an Intel I7 rig.

I found the issue. Apparantly the GTX570 is undervoltaged for DX11 games. I had to up the voltage to 1.050 (from its stock 0.988) before it would run without crashes. Crazy.

[Spoon]

6 missions in, i'm personally really enjoying this game. Once you get the strike suit, you'll be transforming and spewning missiles all over the place. Which is lovely and very macross-ish. It also reminds me of project slypheed quite a bit.

Yes it is very arcadey and yes I can imagine this game being too hard for some people, but for me it definitely clicks.

[Mongoose]

Gabe from Penny Arcade did a glowing little blurb about this, and name-dropped FS in the process.  I might need to give it a look.

[Unknown Target]

It's a great game. It can be repetitive, as RPS mentioned, but honestly I haven't had any problems with that fact.

[Mikes]

It's a great game. It can be repetitive, as RPS mentioned, but honestly I haven't had any problems with that fact.

Frankly... I dunno. If killing fighters or defanding cruisers (in completely different missions with different objectives that often require different approaches due to the amount and type of enemies present at once) is "repetitive" nowadays ... then those reviewers would call FS2 repetitive as well. I somehow find that thought offensive

Mind you one (idiot) review that I read, even compares that to MMOs as if "killing x fighters" in a Space Sim, in a huge battle, where every single fighter was after your hide, was somehow the same as a "kill x monsters quest" in an MMO, where you monotonously kill "one monster at a time" and you usually fight that and only that monster (or maybe 2 oh no! ) with literally the same 1-4 keypress rotation while checking your brain at the door.

After playing the game myself and then reading  some of the lower score Metacritic reviews I am frankly dumbfounded... and a somewhat angry at what kind of idiots review games those days.

[MatthTheGeek]

Frankly... I dunno. If killing fighters or defanding cruisers (in completely different missions with different objectives that often require different approaches due to the amount and type of enemies present at once) is "repetitive" nowadays ... then those reviewers would call FS2 repetitive as well. I somehow find that thought offensive

FS2 _is_ repetitive after a point. Especially when a good thousand user-made missions have done the very same mission styles that retail did, over and over again, with a few variations.

Which is why mods like Tenebra, Antagonist, Vassago's Dirge or Dimensional Eclipse, to only list the few firsts that jump to my mind, are so awesome. They try new things.

[Mikes]

Frankly... I dunno. If killing fighters or defanding cruisers (in completely different missions with different objectives that often require different approaches due to the amount and type of enemies present at once) is "repetitive" nowadays ... then those reviewers would call FS2 repetitive as well. I somehow find that thought offensive

FS2 _is_ repetitive after a point. Especially when a good thousand user-made missions have done the very same mission styles that retail did, over and over again, with a few variations.

Not just every game, but every activity,  is repetitive "after some point". That's a blanket statement and not what I perceive to be the problem.

The issue is that some reviewers slam the game because you have to kill fighters in every mission. This is about as stupid as slamming an FPS game because you have to shoot your gun at soldiers in every mission. Considering the actual missions are actually different, with different objectives and different hurdles to overcome, I find those remarks indeed idiotic.

If you look at the lowest score review on metacritic (by Eurogamer) it is even worse, i.e. that "review" can pretty much be summed up by:  Wahhhh failed the 3rd mission 20 times, game sucks! (Seriously...)
This, apparently, constitutes a review nowadays. Just pathetic.

[MatthTheGeek]

Welcome to the club of not giving any credit to reviews anymore

[Klaustrophobia]

NEVER look at the critic reviews.  user reviews filtered by grammar and use of caps lock.

[Mikes]

Oh.... I've known that for a while. No worries about that.

What still makes it infuriating is that those reviews (i.e. the completely biased / unfair ones like that Eurogamer review) will nevertheless affect sales and hurt the developer who just brought us a solid game.

[Lorric]

Ah, "repetitive". The stick so called "professional" reviewers use to brutally bludgeon Dynasty Warriors games with.

How I hate those reviewers.

It's not just Dynasty Warriors though. It seems it's not good enough to have a game that specialises in one form of gameplay now, unless it's a game that's had a huge budget pumped into it.

Ignore that word.