Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

[solops]

Anyone played this game? It is $10 at GOG and looks interesting. Several good mods for it, too.

[Beowulf]

I have very fond memories of it. What a great game it was.
It's single player, story driven RTS in space. The battles are more "personal" in scale than in Homeworld, as you command only handful of ships, that go with you from mission to mission. If you lost one - tough luck.
You can upgrade them with various engine and weapon subsystems. The Z axis is somewhat important, which is not always the case for space RTSes. You can have some mandatory (for the genre) fighter and bomber wings ready to be launched from you craft.

There was a sequel planned, with a trailer that looked like nothing before, and the scope of their pitch was, I think, not matched yet by any release in the genre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYO8AaZwMM - just look at that - it's from 2006 or 2007.

[Anguille]

It's a great game and i've enjoyed it very much. I still plan to replay the campaign this year.

[RedArgo]

I only played a little bit, but it seemed like it was on rails, ship movement anyway.  Am I wrong or does that change when you get past the early missions?  Maybe I should revisit this.

[mikeck]

Great game. Still very good graphics by todays standard. Good campaign and definitely worth $10

Edit: I would add that there is a mod that allows you to create custom battles between the different ship types. Nothing mind blowing, but sometimes you just want to blow stuff up

[panzerde]

Absolutely concur. Really great space RTS. If you poke around you can find a great mod that allows you to set up skirmish battles, too. One thing I really liked about it - if you were fighting in say, some asteroids in the ring of a gas giant, it really seemed that way - the planet was HUGE and you couldn't see the entire thing, your ships felt tiny in comparison to the vastness around you.

Definitely worth $10 even today. Too bad they never managed the sequel.

[glen55]

It's $10 on Steam, too.

[panzerde]

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident just received a major patch! Mostly updates dealing with screen resolution and modding, but it should make the game more playable on modern systems.

After we acquired the Nexus franchise our goal was to make the game experience better but unfortunately our hands were tied for a long time. Now we were finally able to do actual work on Nexus and this resulted in a lot that we actually did.


ADDITIONS
• Added option to use the current desktop resolution. It’s the default.
• Enabled using modern monitor resolutions including Full HD.
• Added correct displaying of GUI elements, briefings and subtitles with
modern monitor aspect ratios: 16:9, 16:10, 21:9
• Added separate field-of-view setups for different monitor aspect ratios.
• Added VSync option. It’s on by default.
• All available text languages are selectable from the launcher.
• All available audio languages are selectable from the launcher.
• Added multiplayer NAT resolver to help connecting to Internet servers.
• Added accepting Steam invites for multiplayer game.


FIXES
• Removed obsolete DirectX 8 executable versions.
• Fixed disappearing of the loading animation in fullscreen mode under
modern OSs. Also dimming is applied to the GUI during loading.
• Fixed mouse cursor latency.
• Fixed lagging of NPC mission dialogs with the unpacked data files.
• Fixed the issue shortcuts stop working after switching tasks with Alt+Tab.


MODDING ADDITIONS
• Editor window size is configurable from mod_tools launcher.
• Configured window size is independent from the fullscreen game resolution.
• Nexus can be started in windowed mode from mod_tools launcher.
• Nexus can be started in windowed mode with the /win command line option.
• Mission Editor enables returning to main menu and load another mission.
• Mission and Solar System Editor enables editing main campaign’s missions.
• Published former developer tool Briefing Editor to ease altering main
campaign’s mission briefing scenes.
• Published former developer localization tool NexLoc to ease adding new
translations.
• Options saved to the user’s AppData folder instead of the registry.


MODDING FIXES
• Fixed Converter crash under under modern OSs.
• Editor windows startup arrangement changed, Quit buttons added.
• Editors warn about unsaved changes.
• Solar System Editor uses the usual solar system navigation GUI.

It's just $9.99 on Steam.

[spelk]

Brian Rubin, the Space Game Junkie, just started a lets play run with Nexus

https://www.spacegamejunkie.com/reviews/lets-play-nexus-jupiter-incident-entry-1-shakedown-cruise/

[Pete Dero]

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident just received a major patch! Mostly updates dealing with screen resolution and modding, but it should make the game more playable on modern systems.

Seems to be only available for the Steam release.  I still have the CD version installed.

[bobarossa]

There is a comment in the GOG forum for the game that they are working on getting the patch too. 
https://www.gog.com/forum/nexus_the_jupiter_incident/gog_staff_102_patch_coming

[jamus34]

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident just received a major patch! Mostly updates dealing with screen resolution and modding, but it should make the game more playable on modern systems.

Seems to be only available for the Steam release.  I still have the CD version installed.

Same here Pete

[Gusington]

It goes on sale often...over this past weekend I think it was at 2.99.

[Nefaro]

There is a comment in the GOG forum for the game that they are working on getting the patch too. 
https://www.gog.com/forum/nexus_the_jupiter_incident/gog_staff_102_patch_coming

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[Jarhead0331]

I've got to be honest, I dont get all the raving about this game. I've gone back to it three or four times over the years to check if the problem was just me, but every time, it leaves me bored and frustrated. I like all the components in the game, but for some reason the sum of all the parts is missing something. I'm not a particular fan of the first few ships you get to command and it seems to take far too long to open up with options.

I dunno...it just doesn't feel like an authentic naval capital ship simulator in space to me, as some people like to describe it. I get an instant hardon when someone says that, but then when I play? Total shrinkage.