I highly rate this game and the ability to win in 20 or 30 min. While you are waiting, you can complete the entire game. Each play-through is different. Stars are different, nebula is different, enemy locations are different, enemies you ran into in the past may or may not be there as well. Then you have the truly random elements as you might start and stars are blowing up and you need to stop it but this is a rare event as there are other rare events. I think might highest score was 45,000 approx. That is if you do everything perfect and have a bit of luck. Highly addictive to just better your score.
Loved the games and played all on Ranger mode and completed all 5 on Ranger mode which gives them them an extra sense of anxiety. Exodus I think was probably the easiest of the bunch as ammo seemed to be more plentiful. I see people having a bug in Exodus about having to take some binocs. I never had that problem so I can't speak to it. Worked fine for me if you want an alternate opinion.
I have all the Mount & Blade games and Warband is far better to me that this Piece of junk. Things like getting nothing substantial from the risk of raiding towns. You get some food typically. If this is all you get, and you risk getting attacked, why would you just not let the AI do the raiding? Supporting armies is a lot harder in this game due to low rewards from raiding. Maybe they will fix that, but then you have little girl generals running around who look like they are barely 12 yrs old that takes away all seriousness of the game. This is not period authentic so it takes away from the feel 100%. Give a solid Joan of Arc type mentality and maybe I can buy that, but not this. I could go on but the point is if you are looking for a better Warband, this is not it. I gave it about 28 hours according to my Steam profile prior to going back to Warband.
If you like button mashing to win a fight, I would highly suggest you skip this one and go with Skyrim. Button mashing will probably get you killed. If you like to think about your fight to win, this is the game. If you want a great story, get this game. If you want to experience life hundreds of years ago, get this game as it gets every last detail from the era. If you game is to have a fantasy RPG, then this is definitely going to disappoint. Note you will spend your first hours trying to get out into the real open world. This is on purpose. If you do no learn what it has to teach you prior to going out into that world, you are going to die. No way around it. You cannot expect to explore without knowing how to defend yourself as you are going to get jumped by bandits or enemy patrols sooner or later and you will need to know what you are doing to survive. Spoiler alert.... Going after a murderer and having to join the monastery as a monk to find him is going to be painful. You will learn to appreciate the life you have after experiencing that one. Those that have been there know what I am talking about.
If you are unaware, the Devs for the Syndicate series could not reuse the name, but they basically made Syndicate 3 but had to call it Satellite Reign instead. If you want to get your fix of Syndicate on modern hardware, I would highly suggest looking at that one which is also on GoG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/satellite_reign
...But on Modern Hardware and with a full city to explore at will instead of mission based. You are free to do what you want to do, and there is nothing more satisfying that getting two opposing factions into a firefight with each other and you you skipping in the back door while they are busy.
https://www.nexusmods.com/startrekbridgecommmander/mods/4012 Complete overhaul for this game and adds 1920x1080 support.
Bought the GoG version and had no sound after installation. Went digging around on the Dev's site and he has a post saying sorry, I forgot to include this package in the installer. My bad. I installed the DX package listed and still no sound. Not going to hunt this problem down. The Dev should upload a new fixed installer. Refunded.
Game is attacking capitalism yet showing slave labor that is found in the three Marxist ideologies of communism / fascism/ and socialism. The Devs are not very up on their history it seems... Couple this to the fact that the game just kind of sucks....
