Senaste recensioner av Kethrian

Could be a fun little game BUT... the bugs and crashes ruin the experience and it really lacks polish. The higher level you get, the worse the bugs and crashes become. By the time you are doing the late game inferno arenas, you are lucky to finish 1 game in 3 without being revived under ground, kicking an enemy out of the map, stuck in a constant dodge/fall in one direction or just flat out crashing the game.

The more patches they do, the worse it gets.

While its easy to join a multi-player game, the net code sucks and if you aren't the host expect to teleported around the screen at the worst possible moment.

The small number of maps and enemies are pretty samey, but the mission modifiers do a good job of keeping it interesting and its alot of fun with a few friends (when you're not all cursing about the bugs and crashing!). Boss fight mechanics are entertaining and varied.

For the most part, the character skills are balanced enough to make plenty of different skill builds viable and fun to experiment with, though be aware that some skill upgrades just don't seem to work as described (event horizon upgrades for zero being the most disappointing),

Then there's the little stuff and lack of polish. Weapons are elemental but have the same core effect. A beam laser is just a beam regardless of whether it is fire, ice or acid etc. There's always a unique effect to go with the type of weapon to differentiate it, like a range modifier or crit bonus, but the killer is that a fire, ice, toxic, electric, cold, kinetic and plague beam all look exactly the same!!! Would it be so hard to change the colour or sound effect?

Would be good if the Devs would spend some time fixing the bugs and tidying it up a bit, and even then, only worth playing with friends.

I had high hopes for this game. Its a nice concept but extremely poorly executed.

I would have liked to do a "Pros & Cons" review, but im seriously struggling to find any pros beyond the reasonably nice ship models.

So, in no particular order, heres a list of reasons why you should give this game a miss:

1) At the time of writing, Ive completed 20 out of the 50 missions that make up the campaign and have completed them on all 3 difficulty levels, however I have yet to be shot at by an enemy ship yet! Not one single enemy has ever fired a shot, launched a fighter or a missile!

2) The same scenario every time - Warp in with the enemy ships on your right. No objectives, no story line, nothing.... The only thing that changes is the composition of the enemy fleet.

3) No damage models - Every ship just seems to be a bag of hitpoints. You do seem to be able to knock the engine offline sometimes, but there are no subsystems to damage and weapons cannot be take off line.

4) Many of the game mechanics are terribly thought out, missiles and fighters being the worst of the design decisions. To attack with a fighter you launch it and it then autopilots at the target ship while you watch from the chase camera with a button that says fire, when the reticle is over the target, you press fire... Wow... just wow!

5) BUGS - Shots randomly go whistling straight through enemy ships sometimes, the mission "End" button often gets obscured by the move command of the next ship even though the game should be over, and if you complete a mission on admiral difficulty without first doing the easiest difficulty, the mission ends up as "unresolved".

6) No Context - There is an intro video that sets the scene, and every couple of missions you get a popup news article about fighting on earth, but there is no story behind your set route around the solar system, and no mission objectives - Its just a casual waltz around space erradicating the NAN forces.

7) Although the ships look quite nice, there are only about 5 models for each of the 2 factions. The same model is used for each of the upgrades and the cruiser model is even recycled for use as a heavy and light cruiser!

This game should be avoided at all costs!

Reminds me of the old browser based space conquest games, like OGame.

Things take hours (real time hours!) to research or build. you assemble a big attack/defence force and then send them off on a 6 hour mission to auto fight it out with a target settlement. The idea is you form a community with your friends and neighbours and assist each other in attack/defence.

Graphics are dated and gameplay is restricted by the absolute necessity to have a premium account, otherwise you need to be logged in for things to keep working.

Pay 2 Win is an understatement - your development speed is directly proportional to the length of your credit card bill. Buy boster cards that increase the speed you develop - The more you buy, the easier it becomes to grow. There is no way to compete with this if you are playing for free...

Take all the best bits of Mincraft, Space Engineers, Robocraft, Starmade... Throw them together with a campaign and story line missions, then add a large dose of cool and youre getting somewhere close to this game.

It has a steep learning curve, but there are plenty of videos and tutorials available to get you started. You can get your first small boat up and running pretty quickly but it will take some time and experimentation before you can make some of the crazy stuff you see on the videos and You Tube vids.

The Dev is active, responsive and listening to the community, with updates coming thick and fast.

Definately give this game a go... but please give it more than 10 minutes before making your mind up (like your standard steam reviewer).

Dated graphics, BAD animation. PvP Game modes could have been fun but most rounds end after about 1 min, which would be okay had you a) found anyone, b) not just spent 10 mins trying to find a game.

Standard PvE survival is out of the question... you`ll have more fun seeing how many cocktail sticks you can shove under your fingernails. You start on a set map (the procedural side of things seem to involve which of 5 doors are open or closed) and you wander around following a mobile phone set of quests which just send you to waypoints...

Steer clear of this one!