Opened this on mobile safari, wondering why I can only see players and movement while drag-scrolling the screen...
Space Frigates
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#72I'd be more interested in good content about actual space frigates.
The long term vision is to allow players to control much larger ships. True frigate class ships. I'm still in alpha right now but will continue work if there is interest.
Can't play it where I am now... how well would this work on say Android Firefox?
Re: Space Frigates
#73I'd be more interested in good content about actual space frigates.
The long term vision is to allow players to control much larger ships. True frigate class ships. I'm still in alpha right now but will continue work if there is interest.
Well if you someday write a postmorten of you experience implementing this, the HN dead hug, how to deal with it and so, it will be very helpful. Think about write down your actions everyday so that hypothetical report will be easier to write.
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#74Unplayably superjerky in Australia, Firefox 72.0.2, OSX.
Video game difficulty levels:
1. I'm too young to die
2. Hey, not too rough
3. Hurt me plenty
4. Ultra-Violence
5. Nightmare!
6. NBN
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#75Re: Space Frigates
#76If you're interested in a free game that has had this core functionality (online multiplayer Asteroids) since 1995 - visit https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum... (edit: replaced with Steam link) There has been a dedicated community of thousands of players, many of which have been playing well over a decade. Plenty of videos on youtube under either "Subspace" or more recently "Continuum". http…
Can I ask what the compelling gameplay is of this game, where people spend thousands of hours on it? From a distance it doesn't seem like e.g. a bit persistent world, but more of an arena, short one-off games kinda thing; I find it hard to comprehend you could spend thousands of hours on that.
I spent a summer there. Even playing solo free for all it was so much fun being the top scorer in a zone, having that little trophy next to your ship, and having people hunt you or get blasted. The ships vary, but there's a fast fighter that can one shot kill most things if you are a very good shot, and zoom by other ships on after burners with a little spin, dodging the return fire. That ship can also put a bullet through the openings in walls and bases and sometimes take out a defender. Even spending an entire summer at it, I wasn't the best shot by a long shot.
That's just my experience as well. There are many other types of ships like bombers with big explosive, slow shots with blast effect, and other ships that can have other players attach to them as turrets. If your team in the arena can escort a bomber safely to a base with some fighters, you can often nuke the enemy right through the walls and capture the flag there. Meanwhile if you are just piloting a fighter it's a big win to take out one of the turret ships. Then there's other ships like ones that can cloak and fire sneak attacks, etc..
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#77If you're interested in a free game that has had this core functionality (online multiplayer Asteroids) since 1995 - visit https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum... (edit: replaced with Steam link) There has been a dedicated community of thousands of players, many of which have been playing well over a decade. Plenty of videos on youtube under either "Subspace" or more recently "Continuum". http…
Extreme Games is my favorite (large CTF game with a bunch of different bases). Unfortunately it wasn't one of the default zones on the client last I checked and you had to go into the client's server view to add it. Really is one of the best zones. Much more interesting than Trench Wars. If anybody played Infantry, the EOL zone was based on Extreme Games. Though it would blow my mind if anyone knows what I'm talking…
Wow that takes me back. Some incredibly thrilling gaming moments with large numbers of people that climaxed after sometimes literal hours of back and forth.
I was in one of the better clans at the time and the sheer skill of some of those players was astounding.
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#78Is the fact that steering is almost impossible a bug or a feature?
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#79Is the fact that steering is almost impossible a bug or a feature?
It's space. There isn't really steering; you have to use thrust to modify your vector.
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#80I’m suddenly reminded of this game I played the hell out of back in the day: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_Nova
Endless Sky is a well-polished FOSS version of the same thing. https://endless-sky.github.io
It looks like it's a single-player game.
Is there a multiplayer (specifically, co-op) option?