Posted on: December 17, 2023
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Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: Rezensionen: 7
Space battles fall flat
The idea to combine 4X with Homeworld like fights is an interesting one and on the surface it is well executed. The tech tree isn't to deep, the number of ships you can build is limited, but you can call it steamlined. And because you fit out your ship hardpoints with weapons of your choice you still got tactical deep. In difference to Homeworld you are only allowed to control one faction, because the "bad guys" have to be stronger by simply getting stronger ships. Sadly those are the ships that do look better. And while the 4X mode does work in its limited borders, the 3D space combat is the weak point of the game. There are no formation options, neither can you set the behavior of your ships. Sure, if you order ships somewhere, they will end there in a wall formation. They won't keep this formation while going there. Fast ships will overtake, at last as long they are not "blocked" by the bigger ones unable to overtake (fighters fail attacking by being "blocked" too). And movement will end up in a line "formation". Fighting gets even worse, because the moment ships start to shoot at the enemy, they will start to close in at the enemy until their shortest range weapon is in range. And because they move how they move, they will even block each others line of fire. Your plan was to outfit your cruisers with a long range Gaus, to hares the enemy, until it gets in range of your rocket launcher and finish it up with your guns? The moment the Gaus fires the first ships on full throttle And if you got the "good" idea (as I did) to add a repair beam to your cruisers, so they can support each other. That one is treated as a "weapon" too. One with very short range. So your cruisers want to hug the enemy, while all other weapons are actually longer range. When you loose many more ships (and well outfitted ships are expensive) then needed, because those ships do what they want and your defense starts to break, space battles are not very enjoyable and the game breaks down.
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