Sins:Rebellion just had a major update https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/04/05/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion-4gb-memory-support/ and it's on sale on Steam for $10 and I'm considering jumping in. Should I?
I was just going to post the same exact question! Well done. What say you all?
Always been a fan of Sins. It's not for everyone but as far as RTS goes it's not bad.
I've probably put a couple hundred hours into it back in the day.
I really hope this update doesn't break mods...
Is there a speed adjustment? Is it pausable? I'm just not very good at frantic clicking.
You can pause the game and give orders. You can also speed or slow the game. I like it, but do not play it as much as it deserves. Battles are cool visually.
Excellent! That's exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks.
I will probably purchase tonight - hard to resist for 10.00. How's the learning curve?
I just finished installing and, in the start menu, there is a link to a YT tutorial vid and the 1st thing the narrator says is that he made the vid because the learning curve was steep and he didn't feel that the game tutorials were sufficient to get you comfortable with the game. We'll see.
Eek...counting on you then, Millipede.
This game is not "steep" in my opinion.
I totally forgot I even had this game. Played the campaign and beat it and then put it away. I am reinstalling it now since I have forgotten everything about it. Its like gaming Alzheimers - I get to play it again like its new.
Con
Quote from: Con on April 06, 2017, 03:59:23 PM
I totally forgot I even had this game. Played the campaign and beat it and then put it away. I am reinstalling it now since I have forgotten everything about it. Its like gaming Alzheimers - I get to play it again like its new.
Con
You may have gaming Alzheimers, but at least you don't have gaming Alzheimers.
Quote from: Gusington on April 06, 2017, 03:09:20 PM
Eek...counting on you then, Millipede.
Double eek... counting on me could be an error since I'm currently deep into "Imperium Galactica" and it could be a while before I get to "Sins". Just had to get it now while the sale was on and it ends tomorrow. For what it's worth, just skimming the aforementioned tutorial vid... it doesn't look too overwhelming. I get the impression that the author just thought that the in-game tutorials were a little vague.
Perfect! Everyone knows that my day of purchase is very very far ahead of my actual day of play. Except for Alan Wake which I bought and finished in the last two weeks. But that's the exception.
I could go by JH's claim of 'not steep' above but I know that he is smarter than me. What to do...
Good game. It's an RTS really though... a very very long winded one :)
Music score is amazing! I could happily play it in the car.
I'm tinkering with the options menu now :)
Eek...counting on you then, Gus. ;)
I never played Rebellion but played a fair amount of the original SoaSE and felt like they had a good recipe. You take an RTS game, where individual fleet flag ships fill the role of "heroes" from other games, and you build huge fleets of much smaller, supplementary ships and try to expand before the other guy does.
I found the pirate mechanic in the original a bit tiresome, but otherwise, it was very enjoyable. I'm not sure how much changed in Rebellion although it's always gotten rave reviews from the folks who played it.
Its been a long while, butI remember it feeling like an RTS on a board game's board. The map felt restrictive, but that's obviously for gameplay flow reasons. Matches already take a while.
Still a restricted map for a space game feel awkward to me.
Tower-defensy even.
Anyway, the game was pretty enjoyable at the time for a while. Nothing special to me though.
Again, it has been quite a while since I played (Stardock even had their silly Steam-clone back then!).
Yskonyn, would you believe that in the original sins alpha they had free movement and revolving solar systems. But because it was too complicated for the test players to comprehend, they removed it and we ended up with lines between planets representing the only way in or out of the planet.
I didn't know! Would have been an awesome mechanic! Perhaps in Sins 2? 😉
Honestly, i didnt find it steep at all.. It is very straight forward in my opinion. My only con is i wish it had more races instead of 3 which are divided into loyalist or rebel. As for the pirates, you can turn them off if you wish. I find playing with them can make for a more exciting game. Also there are many mods out there for the game.....
You guys really need to explore the full conversion mods available for is game. My favorite if Sins of the Prophets, which is a Halo mod. Thrawn's Revenge Star Wars Ascendancy is also very good.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/halo-sins-of-the-prophets (http://www.moddb.com/mods/halo-sins-of-the-prophets)
http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-ascendancy (http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-ascendancy)