Battle Fleet 2

[Sir Slash]

My joints squeal every morning when I get out of bed. But otherwise, yes there should be no masculine squealage.

[Gusington]

What a bunch of old duffers. TEEHEE

[capitalj]

That's an old PC wargame term referring to your persistent forces that carry over from mission-to-mission in a campaign.  Your personal ones that you build up.

All units are persistent but if they are destroyed during a battle then they are lost forever. Ships that are damaged can be repaired as well, so it will be up to you whether you want to keep the damaged ships in your fleet or move them back to port for repairs.

Yes, it's kind of like total war's strategic map.

[Nefaro]

That's an old PC wargame term referring to your persistent forces that carry over from mission-to-mission in a campaign.  Your personal ones that you build up.

All units are persistent but if they are destroyed during a battle then they are lost forever. Ships that are damaged can be repaired as well, so it will be up to you whether you want to keep the damaged ships in your fleet or move them back to port for repairs.

Yes, it's kind of like total war's strategic map.

Cool stuff.

O0

[steve58]

Didn't get to checking out the updates to Kerbal Space Program and Endless Legends as intended for the weekend because I noticed that Battle Fleet 2 was also available.  Picked up the PC version for $10 and have been playing it a bit.  So far I like it.  Its seems like a good beer and pretzel type game.  Has a campaign (USA or Japanese), Quick Battles and even Custom Battles where you can configure your ships (made one destroyer with all torpedoe launchers :) ).  Three diffuculty levels.  Ship types include Frigates, Destroyers, Cruisers and Carriers.  Has 17 maps with islands (Wake, Hawaii, West Coast, New Zealand, New Guinea, Austrialia, Gilberts, etc) and one just ocean. Those islands do come into play since you have to manuver around them and their height can sometimes block your shots, not to mention the coastal guns :).

[fabius]

Looks like it's still on Steam Green light but not the store.

[tgb]

Looks interesting.  I'll file it away in my mental attic for future reference.

[Barthheart]

I've bee playing it on my iPad. Fun game. See my post in mobile gaming.

[capitalj]

Looks like it's still on Steam Green light but not the store.

Yeah, we can't seem to get enough votes on greenlight to be accepted into steam. You can get it on Desura and our website though: http://www.battlefleetgame.com/buy.html

[Nefaro]

Glad to hear it's on Desura.

  8)

[fabius]

Looks like it's still on Steam Green light but not the store.

Yeah, we can't seem to get enough votes on greenlight to be accepted into steam. You can get it on Desura and our website though: http://www.battlefleetgame.com/buy.html

Thanks!!! Odd it didn't make the votes. Will pick this up. Turn based suites me better than RTS. Is there multiplayer online?


Edited: seems Desura doesn't want my card. Will keep looking on Steam.

Edited again: just accepted on  a retry. Will give feed back after a blast.

[FlickJax]

just voted on greenlight, come on guys all vote.

[jomni]

i voted. 

[Shelldrake]

i voted. 

+1

[tgb]

I picked it up, and it's fun, although determining range and angle of fire seems a bit too easy.  One thing I don't get is the damage modeling.  Several times I would see shells score a hit, and little numbers would pop up, which I assume indicates damage, yet the statistics screen doesn't reflect any.

I'm also not too thrilled with the "goody crates" floating around  seems a bit too gamey.