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- Feb 4, 2013
I know at least @Fuck Taxes has that sweet avatar and when I ran a search I saw multiple Kiwis of character and distinction making references to what is honestly my favorite game right now, so I made a thread to talk about it!
If you're looking at this and you don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, get some education homeboy:
MOTHERFUCKIN STARSECTOR
describes itself as "an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game", which is like describing your favorite sandwich as "some stuff inbetween bread". I initially found the game by searching for something that was like Escape Velocity (first finding Star Valor, which is also fun but is a pale imitation) and that led me to this shit, arguably the most fun I've had with a game in a long time.
Currently $15, it claims to be in "alpha" and has been declared as such for a long time (10+ years I believe), but anyone who's played any amount of this game will tell you that there's more here than you can find in some AAA games. You may expect a game in alpha to have a million and one awful bugs but I haven't encountered a single one except for needing to quit every so often due to memory leakage, usually around hour 5 or so.
Here's some of what you can expect when you mainline some digital space crack:
This game is seriously some of the most fun I've had on the PC in a long time, its made in Java so theoretically it'll run on any system that can utilize Java, and its system reqs aren't terribly arduous either.
real ones don't like Hegemony, all space cops are bastards
If you're looking at this and you don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, get some education homeboy:
MOTHERFUCKIN STARSECTOR
Currently $15, it claims to be in "alpha" and has been declared as such for a long time (10+ years I believe), but anyone who's played any amount of this game will tell you that there's more here than you can find in some AAA games. You may expect a game in alpha to have a million and one awful bugs but I haven't encountered a single one except for needing to quit every so often due to memory leakage, usually around hour 5 or so.
Here's some of what you can expect when you mainline some digital space crack:
- Pilot your own space ship and do space ship things, like shooting at stuff and collecting things, with fine graphics and physics interactions as well as awesome particle effects and sweet sounds
- Don't wanna fly solo? Good news fucko, you get a whole fleet of ships that you can modify and rearrange to your autistic hearts' content
- Wander around a procedurally generated rectangle of space filled with all sorts of crazy bullshit, stellar formations and individual star systems filled with lots of goodies and neat things to discover, exploration is a big part of this game
- Interact with different factions, communities and individuals, who offer procedurally generated missions and content
- Fight, steal, salvage, and get shat on by all kinds of ships, weapons, devices, ship systems and fighter craft
- Engage in covert ops, large engagements and everything in between
- If that shit isn't enough then there's also deep skill trees for you and your fleet officers, allowing you even more customization and build configurations
- If THAT shit isn't enough then there's also the economic aspects, including a fleshed-out economy and procedurally generated economic dynamics
- If THAT SHIT isn't enough then there's ALSO the colony and industry aspects, wherein you can found your own colonies and create your own little empire on cool planets you find with sweet resources. Find a dope blueprint but don't wanna pay a fat markup for some space bro to put the shit together for you? Well if you put together a good colony in a good place and defend it well then eventually you can make your own stuff and custom order your own ships and weapons to really get your fleet put together how you want it
- If THAT SHIT isn't enough then there's ALSO a fun little storyline, its not complete yet but what's there is cool as hell and decently engaging, at least the first time
- If THAT SHIT isn't enough then there's ALSO HELLA MODS, tons of mods for the game with a very active community putting together all kinds of new content, seriously with mods there's like three or four whole new games buried inside, even without the whole game makeover-type mods you still have hundreds of new ships, portraits, utility items, functions, weapons, fighters/bombers/whatever, factions, there's even mods that fundamentally change and fix the way the game interacts with you and with itself to make it seem even more fleshed out and immersive
This game is seriously some of the most fun I've had on the PC in a long time, its made in Java so theoretically it'll run on any system that can utilize Java, and its system reqs aren't terribly arduous either.
real ones don't like Hegemony, all space cops are bastards
