'A firefly vibe with space battles' - Rebel Galaxy

[sandman2575]

The game is just fun..... one of those you can just relax and play.  Good job for a 2 man dev team, and one that keeps things streamlined without a lot of clutter and extra junk.  The 2d plain is not an issues as the naval style combat with your capital ship coincides, however if you were in a fighter I could see how the 3D plain would work better, however in this context is works well and fits in.


PE

I agree the game does a good job of disguising its "2D" limitation, IMO -- still feels like space travel / battles to me.

Game is definitely fun -- a steal at $18, I think.

[glen55]

Downloaded it last night, will dive in tonight.

Unless I missed it, nobody has mentioned yet that this games is from the same developers who made Torchlight.  Those folks have to get the gold medal on bang for your buck.

[Grim.Reaper]

Another patch....up to 4 patches in the first week....great service, but likely will wait a bit to get serious with this one if there is nearly a patch a day:)

1) Tons of escort mission improvements. Escorted ships will blow the crud out of any asteroids in their way. Your ship also won't noodle off into the distance if they react to damage from other ships. Also, escort missions are always to outposts - not stations just on the other side of an annoying planet. Lots of good stuff.

2) Can disable camera shake from the launcher if it makes you ill

3) Fixed a rare mission-related crash

4) Nasty Surprise mission doesn't have as huge of a Faction penalty

5) Antimatter drive mk1 and EMP Nova weapons aren't available ( they weren't intended to be for sale, and EMP Nova doesn't even work!)

6) Fixed a few mission spawns that were confusing/inappropriate factions

7) Mission waypoints on a jumpgate also show the NAME of the target system

8) The Radovich is no longer flagged as a miner. I.E. it won't independently decide to blow up asteroids on your behalf.

9) Fixed rare secondary weapon swapping crash.

10) Fixed super-rare case where a bunch of moons around a planet would cause a station to spawn IN a planet

11) In cases where the window is resized from the desired resolution to something that actually fits on the desktop, mouse aspect ratio is corrected so that mouse clicks aren't 'off'

12) AI turrets properly take into account range increase from range extenders in all situations

13) Fragment Recovery mission Hexxite is indestructible until revealed by a pulse

14) Korian Super Swarm mission tweaked

15) Militia bribe chance increased

16) Player turrets now have extra simulation ticks in low-fps situations to prevent bobbling in low FPS. (hopefully)

17) Meet Zenya mission - conversation activation range doubled, and an additional tip reminding you to scan ALL traders was added.

18) To reduce exploitability, traders will only offer to purchase between 1 and 5 of your cargo components ( no more guaranteed high-priced sale of 20 meteoric diamonds, sorry! )

[Capn Darwin]

Two weeks without a hitch myself. Windows 10 seems to have a number of issues. Go figure.

Still having fun with it too.

[panzerde]

Although I was planning to buy in on this, the very generous Capn Darwin gifted me a copy! It's been a busy week so I haven't been able to play as much as I'd like, but I have to say it's a really enjoyable, fun game. Not too heavy on the decision-making, which is what I need when I'm busy and not in the mood for a weighty war game.


This game seems more my speed than Elite: Dangerous. I don't have the reflexes or the patience anymore for that style of game, as attractive as it seems. Aside from the very Firefly-esque vibe of the whole game, the broadside and missile combat give it a little bit of an Honor Harrington vibe, and I like that.


Thanks Capn!

[Grim.Reaper]

Don't get me wrong, not saying it is a bad game in anyway, haven't played enough to really know.  Just saying until the patching flow slows down, not going to invest time in it right now, I do the same thing with other games like OOTP where there is a lot of early patching.

[Shelldrake]

From the videos that I have seen I will be picking it up if only for the Firefly-like soundtrack.

[Capn Darwin]

Grim, totally understand. Plus if you have a Mac or win10 machine I'd give them some time to see what the deal is with those issues

With a side note to folks playing: I would strongly suggest setting VSync to on. A few folks are getting crashes that are related to GPU workload and temps. One my machine, the GPU hits 100% and the temp goes from idle 40c to around 80-82c after playing a short time. I did a test last night turning VSync on and dropped to 75% and temps in the low to mid 70s C. Frame drop was from 50-60 down to 40-50 range. Not noticeable at all really. I will be emailing Travis today about the loading on the vid card.

Safe travels thru the 'verse and may all your cargo pulls be shiny.  O0

[BanzaiCat]

Really want this game considering the recommendations and positivity coming out of this thread.  O0

[sandman2575]

At $18, you can't really go wrong (esp. with Steam's refund policy) -- well worth picking up!

[Labbug]

I feel like a dummy, but I still have not figured out how to save a game of Rebel Galaxy.  I am using mouse and keyboard and there must be a menu I am not accessing.  Thanks for any help.

[Capn Darwin]

Game auto saves when you leave stations or if you jump out to the main menu? There is one save file per  game.

[Labbug]

If there is only one save file per game, does that mean that if you are destroyed you are done and have to start a new game?

[Capn Darwin]

No. You just restart at the last station you saved at. The game is real low impact on dying.  O0

[Labbug]

I got into situation where I was outgunned and surrounded and could not run away and was destroyed.  I loaded the last save and it started me back in the same situation.