Posted on: March 18, 2025
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Games: 354 Reviews: 89
The worst of FTL and Bomber Crew
The makers of Bomber Crew tried to take that game and turn it into FTL, but failed to redesign ANYTHING about Bomber Crew to be able to do that. Space is now 3D, but did nothing to improve the camera system from 2D Bomber Crew. You now have big ships to move crew around like FTL, but they kept the incredibly slow and clunky crew movement from BC (and made it worse with zero G). You have to worry about boarding and hacking like FTL, but they kept the BC system of forcing you to switch to external view to manually lock on to every target or your gunners will just sit there. You have as many stations and boarding that FTL demanded, but they kept the BC cap of always being 1-2 crew short of manning everything. You CAN enable manually targeting and raise the crew cap in settings, but they designed all the difficulty around these arbitrary restrictions and it becomes TOO easy (and still not fun). Just a mess that tried to cash in on the FTL craze by grafting it onto their previous, totally incompatible game. Not one minute of thought was put into adapting anything to make it all work. I slogged through even the ridiculously hard B-17 dlc for Bomber Crew, but I quit Space Crew after just 5 missions.
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