Installed but did nothing. I think it's because I don't run galaxy. I don't know. GOG has no support anymore. Requested a refund but that was ignored too. Buyer beware. I was so frustrated with GOG I finally sign up for steam just to play the DLC. It worked but now I have the obnoxious steam app. The DLC itself is awesome and I'd recommend it. Just know if it doesn't work you are SOL.
Yeah, don't believe the fanboys who give everything 5 stars. There isn't really anything worthwhile about this game. First it's short. So short I finished it in one sitting. It would have taken less time if it wasn't so buggy. It's a bad sign when the readme file tells you "When this bug happens do this with the cursor to get control of your units back." And that's one that came WITH the game. This RTS has no resources. None. You get credits just for being alive. The manual has more pages about the battle cards then anything else. Want all your units to die instantly because "Other guy played a card" well woo! That's not an RTS. Now from the credits screen it looks like one guy programmed the whole thing, so kudos to him. There are 3 pages of QA people. They did a crappy job since so many bugs remain. It's just frustration on a stick. Made worse by the fact the game runs too fast on modern DX. You'd think by the mid 90s people would know to put in time delays. You can fix some of the speed issues with the DXWRAPPER GOG is using to make the game run but the title screen still runs at 600fps. I did not play this before but I suspect the "fog of war" returning almost instantly is a side effect of the game running too fast. So exploring the map is useless and you end up hunting blind for the last unit.
The game suffered from a hasty release and as a result the AI is mostly brain dead. So don't be afraid to crank the difficulty all the way up. If you like Bruce Campbell you'll enjoy the play-though. But this game really shines in multi-player. At least it did 17 years ago. Having 30-50 people in a map was fun. Each ship feels unique and for the most part balanced. Energy and system management were well done but there is little need to explore anything because of the lack of challenge in single player. You'll want a joystick but you can play it with a mouse. There were also mods for multiplayer which will let you fly all the NPC ships. Depending on which ones you find some were more balanced then others. However getting online multi-player to work may not be possible anymore due to the lobby IP address being hard coded into the game. YMMV
Title says it all. There are 3 mission types, strafe, bomb, dogfight. about 80% is dogfight. First off if you don't have a joystick, don't buy this. You won't be able to dog fight without one. There are two axis controls for flying. The X-Axis rolls the plane and the Y axis pitches. There is no throttle control. You fly at a continuous speed. You stall if you pitch the nose up. So avoiding your "wing-men" can be tricky. If you left this game alone the wing-men would probably still be chasing to enemy tomorrow. Also they shoot you in the back quite often. The enemy is about the same. Even on hard, they are dumb as bricks. They don't even dodge really. If the controls were good you'd have every mission done in 30 seconds. If you kill your own guys, which you will want to do often, your guns quit working. The story is there but I feel very cheated that there is no voice acting on GOG. So it's a boring slog. You play the same missions over and over and over. Only good thing is this game forced me to dig my sidewinder out of retirement. One last point of gripe is the save system, there really isn't one. As stated by other reviewers, it'd be nice to have a replay option. It does save when you exit and if you die it will let you continue but it only saves every 5 missions or so. Making even the journal entries repetitive. Arguably the best part of the game, or at least what every fanboy review mentions, "The fun journal story". Never again kickstarter, never again.
Camera controls are awful. Interface is meh. Graphics are pretty good but not great. Voice acting is nothing to write home about, but forgivable since it wasn't an english game to start with. I didn't care for it. It's boring. The intro is a worst part, your main guy get's his butt blown off and says "You'll be sorry..." Man, where is the fire? Where is the passion? Not here. If these guys are the "elite" mercs then why do they loose in their own cutscene? That's about how the game went and I just did a big Alt-F4. Not worth the time.
I played Homeworld. I liked it. I liked this game more. Not as a memorable though. Really it had a more compelling story but it didn't have the cut scenes to make it stick in your mind. Even so I remember the ending being epic. The game play and everything else about this game is better then HW. If you liked HW you should get this one. It's way more story and tactics driven then HW but the plot keeps you humming along. In game looks really good and at the time I thought they could do a really good Babylon 5 mod. But not having the human touch that was put into the cut scenes does take away from the story. Still it's a really good game, well worth playing.
It's as good an adventure game as there ever was. Glad this type of gameplay didn't die out. The puzzles aren't terrible, but if you get stuck, holding the spacebar or the middle mouse key shows all hotspots on the screen. No more pixel hunting! Yay! Downside is the cliffhanger ending, but a sequel is already set for release. Just hope it comes out on GOG too. I'm not going to buy it if it's on steam.
