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Looking for a spaceship/sci fi game to play. Any thoughts? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m a massive sci fi fan and played the ever loving shit out of Star Citizen for a while there. Loved the 6 degrees of freedom and the capability to be a person or a starship.

I know Starfield is coming in September and I’m excited for what is has to offer but in the interim does anybody have a sci fi/star fighter game they can recommend? I kickstarted Everspace 2 so I can give that a go and I’m almost done with the current No Man’s Sky expedition

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those aren't the only 2 choices though. Ideally we'd get something like modern visuals on top of the game design of 15-20 years ago. Remember when you could host your own server and play with dozens of people? Remember college LAN parties of Wolfenstein with 60+ players? That's what this could have been. We need TF2 in space, but we got Overwatch.

Squadron's ugly flaw (aside from the bad latency caused by US-only servers) was that they copied the current trend in pvp games where it's a 5v5 battle and everything has to be "balanced." It was like playing crappy football with Star Wars ships. The objectives were pathetic and matchmaking was so bad that the games were almost always a pathetic wipe because one side was a team of 5 near-pro level gamers vs 5 solo newbies.

Still, it was gorgeous. And in VR it was chef's kiss

With some patching it could live up to its potential, but as it is it's sadly a dream that never came true.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess, but realistically EA doesn't work that way. Especially under disneg licensing terms. Overall, I kinda appreciated squadrons for being a no BS, give the fans what they want kinda game. Trying to do live service updates with Disney licensing terms just doesn't work- look at avengers and fan reactions to battlefront on release.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can appreciate that.

I enjoyed it for what it was. I just saw so much more potential in it, and was heartbroken that it didn't go in that direction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want a great game though, you have to play freespace 2, which i raved about in another post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! I will check it out!