I still can't believe they killed KSP 2 as hard as they did. What a disaster for a game IP that was basically a slam dunk. The first game was genre defining, the second one nearly killed it.
Homeworld 3 made me so sad. All they had to do was follow the formula of the previous games and keep the mechanics intact, but nah. The story is absolute ass and the worst part of the game, and the gameplay is a lobotomized version of the Remastered Homeworld 1-style mechanics.
yeeaaaahhhhhh... after watching mandalore's video. then reading the steam reviews... i frankly kind of dont want to even touch it after i finish Homeworld 1 & 2
"Starcom: Unknown Space" is also a fantastic space game. It's a top-down RPG reminiscent of some of those flash games in the past, except fully fleshed out and with an open world. There's resource and ship management as well as a ship builder where you build your ship hex by hex. It's worth a look. I've had a ton of fun exploring, scanning anomalies, fighting new enemies, reconfiguring my ship for either better heat and energy efficiency or for thicker more comprehensive armor or more speed... whatever the situation calls for.
I just finished that one. The away missions give it a very Star Trek feel. The writing and story had a sort of TNG vibe as well, I enjoyed the story more than I did Everspace 2's or a lot of ther ARPGs I've played.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The largest static server meshing shard to-date was 1,000 players, and it was generally a buggy mess. Progress for sure, but not hardened enough yet for a live release. Keep an eye out, though, because there have already been some significant features added/polished this year in game, and more are on the horizon.
@@Aero_Yukitbh I'd be happy if we got server meshing capped at 300 players by the end of the year The performance gain would be great and they can always work on pumping the player limits later But most likely case is 4.0 being delayed into next year because they've got their hearts set on >600 player shards
its still *alpha* or whatewer they are calling. its not a game yet. They pushing engine and server tech for sure, but call it full game is same as calling Concord best game of the decade.
The best part about KSP2 getting axed is that the modding scene for KSP1 has been living a sort of second golden age, with several KSP2 devs going back to their modding origins, and even sneakily porting a few KSP2 features.
Star Trucker got a patch like 2 hours ago that fixes some invisible walls around turn-in points and some sequencing/progression bugs in the questline. Based on how long it took them I'd expect key rebinding to be done in like a month or two. Luckily it's enjoyable enough with an xbox controller. edit: the patch had balance changes too; now instead of the smallest cheapest battery being the most cost efficient, the biggest most expensive battery had its energy more than doubled so now it's the most cost efficient and it actually lasts more than a couple jobs
Nice, I'll have to give it another go. It was too boring to play with the mechanical stuff disabled, but swapping batteries constantly was just a giant pain in the ass. Also, do we ever eventually get bungie straps or cargo nets or some other way to help stuff strapped down in the cabin so i can fly around with gravity generator off to save power without risking bludgeoning myself to death?
@@TheYamiks i know he bought kits from this and that asset store, im not sure whats copyright in his game, even that one gun is likely an open asset someone else bought, cig/rsi/sc prob paid someone and the artist sold on market, or was that the doom gun:/(if its on an asset store without a low tier notifier on "hey we found this is copyright", otherwise one/both companies likely bought the asset first), still waiting for him to add the sixbanger as a playable ship(found the kit for that). edit:looked up the gun, the uploader of the model from SB2 is under free use in commercial works ie dbk could use the model willy nilly, it was published 2 years ago, so unless id software patented the design and requested it get taken down, hes using legit assets, nothing stolen. And a one man ue4 project of sb2s size is quite the undertaking. and then theres astrometica prologue.(removed from account for being a carbon copy of subnautica, though someone else stated that)
I had a lot of fun in Space Docker VR. Full Newtonian physics flight model if you want it! Blue Danube music playing in my mind as I try and fling boxes into a spaceship. Graphically simple, but still fun. Pretty tricky trying to pinpoint accurately dock with your cargo box while hurtling around a black hole, while having to fully control all 6 degrees of freedom of your ship. Fortunately they added a 'handbrake' that you can use for when you are pitching and rolling and yawing at several revolutions per second! A handy and probably vital anti-puke mechanic!
The Yamiks secretly loves Starfield. He may talk his shit, but his official Steam profile says otherwise. All these other games he talks about has less than 10 hours of play, but he played Starfield for 300hrs. Yamiks, you aint fooling anoyone choom. Yamiks doesnt play games, he plays Starfield.
maybe starfield is secretly the best space game out there currently and exposing all the space games selling virtual space ships for real dollars. hence, it gets bad reviews but those following the hype might just be missing out. o7
@@5pacecake it might be worth playing one day if someone can put 200% more meaningful content in it, or if a group ever makes a huge total conversion mod for it... but even then it will still be more about navigating between loading screens than playing a game
@@driver3899 that's what they say. the focus on that is ridiculous once you play it though. I'm not going to say it's a perfect game, it's far from it. it would be great having less loading screens. especially when you just do vanilla missions, it gets annoying at times. I think bethesda made a good game. but then restricted it too much to make it more accessible. so you need mods to take away restrictions, mostly. some gameplay loops could use more fleshed out mods then we have now, sure. but, I've tried a lot of space games over the last decade and starfield is surprisingly good compared to others. and only a year old.. I'm usually avoiding single player games but starfield is triggering my space fantasies at least. maybe it says a lot about other space games as well. the perfect space game is yet to be made.
@@5pacecake Yeah I agree with pretty much everything you said, I played it for a good chunk of time to see all the things but then realised that even though it has huge amounts of potential its really pretty barren and shallow and worse than they it also has zero respect for my time or for immersion. Then the spell was broken and I coulndnt be arsed do any more in it. Weird because I really like bethesdas worlds usually and space is way more my thing than fantasy I hope they keep working on patches and DLC to increase its depth and try give it some sort of actual atmosphere. Then if the loading screens can be gotten around as much as possible, add like 250 more POIs (on land and in space) with random interiors and properly written side quests in them every now and then... then it would be getting pretty damn close to we are after I think. What would your ideal space game look like in terms of features btw?
@@driver3899if they would add a multiplayer server in starfield we'd be close. I agree on POI, but just in space is enough. they need to be bigger as well. I want to see the eye before you're too close to the eye. planets and moons got more unique locations then you might think. and life. there's plenty of well written, fun side missions already, the latest trackers alliance mission in zero G being added was just great. you know there's only going to come more. they should flesh out outpost building more. give us a lot more assets in the vanilla game (you could go far in creation kit though) if multiplayer, clans could build bases together, raid each other, add a lot of variety to planetary gameplay. the world in starfield is big enough for a large clan to hide, but maybe not forever. maybe a lone wolf could keep his hideout undiscovered. more big space fights would be a nice addition, we only got one and that's not big enough. again, multiplayer could bring a lot extra here. in the end just seeing all those unique builds of space ships coming together would be so nice.
Star Wars Outlaws. I called that 💩. To everyone who thought it would be great... I f**king told you so. Also the Fact KSP2 is STILL up for sale is insane.
What everyone is looking for is an space online game that plays like destiny 2 on world and space combat like ever space 2 just more detail to keep a lot of people entertained. All of these games are just part ,but a whole world to keep playing.
Brachway just released, too. And boy, it's good. Take FTL, put it in bed with Slay The Spire, and Breachway comes out - and it's good even so early in the early access.
Jumpship is the game I'm most looking forward to. I'm not holding my breath because we all know these ambitious, relatively complex games made by small studios usually end up as hopelessly janky mess, but does still look awesome nonetheless
Breathedge was very fun, but the developer kinda shot themselves in the foot by announcing on STEAM that breathedge 2 was coming out as an EPIC exclusive lotta negative backlash for that one. Edit: they did not give a release date only that it was now under development.
Depends on where you live. Though a PSN account is no longer required, countries that can't get PSN were never added back onto the list of countries that can download the game.
Great video! I recently picked up Everspace 2 for the PS5 and have been really enjoying it. It'd be fun to do some multiplayer co-op but even as a single player game it's great. And as an ex-ED player on console, I'm glad to see other games still focusing on that genre. Since Frontier won't be getting any more of my money I'll happily spend it elsewhere.
Star Trek Bridge crew is barely a game. If they had released any actual story or mission content beyond the tutorial it would be great, and the expansion doesn't even provide that for the new ships, but if you want a multi-player role-play experience the genre demands, you're better off simulating it with Empty Epsilon or Artemis and a real living, breathing GM, or go and do something like Bridge Command in London.
Games I would add to the list (or keep an eye out for future development): STARCOM Unknown Space Untethered Congrats to SINS and X4 for their content. I suggest trying out "Genesis modlist" if you were unfortunate enough to own Starfield.
Another 'Space Game' you should maybe check out is Occupy Mars. It's in early release but appears to be making good progress. I think of it as Subnautica without the water.
Kinda surprised there's no mention of Starsector considering you made a video praising it a few weeks ago. Although I guess it doesn't fit neatly into the 3 categories. Closest would be "updates and new content".
Another disappointment for homeworld 3 is that it was released on mother's day in the US. Like changed the release to land perfectly and they didn't capitalize on it at all
While I look forward to Falling Frontier, I’m very happy and content with Nebulous Fleet Command. It’s a great game and I hope it continues to get support and love
HA! More like see you when the pyramids have returned to dust!! Still convinced that game is nothing more thatn a series of marketing adds with like 1 dev in a backroom somewhere pumping out cgi animations and advertising it as "gameplay" while simultaniously charging like 25 fukin grand for the top of the line ship package... and what tf does THAT get you!? hence the well deserved title of scam citizen
@@edcrosbie4651 I've been playing almost every day for many months, I also played around patch 3.12 before and I can't agree. The work is going slowly, old bugs are replaced by new bugs, I can't evaluate the project positively, nor recommend it to everyone as good fun (unless for someone this project is the closest to a dream game), but overall the work is moving forward. New features are appearing, AI has been improved, new locations are in the game, server meshing tests are starting to look better. I'll have to wait a few long years for the final effect, but unless something unexpected happens, SC will finally become a real game, and not just a tech demo in the alpha phase.
Check out Flight of Nova if you're interested in Newtonian flight models without speed caps. Oh and the closest thing to Jump Ship which is in early access right now is Void Crew.
After over a decade, dam near a BILLION dollars... and pledge packeges in the 25 to 30 fkn THOUSAND dollars.... U scamed citizens sure have a funny idea of "progress" Stockholm syndrome at its finest! I see cris roberts on the back of his 150 meter fukin yacht making "progress" on a martini and the white powder off a strippers a$$ and i think yup... theres where the money went
Is it strange that star trucker gives me more entertainment than space marine 2 ? dont get me wrong, space marine 2 is cinematic masterpiece and call back to good ol' times when games werent *with agenta*, but star trucker is just hooked me more . And dont forget that this game was developed only by 2 guys.
Hey @TheYamiks good video but you miss one good co-op game. Is good game but only with friends. Or is not a game for solo. The game is Void Crew. Co-Op space game where 4 ppl take control of a ship and make mission where they try to keep ship healty.
I'll keep my eye on Starminer. I just want a space sim with newtonian physics. The only games I can take seriously are KSP, Children of a Dead Earth and Terra Invicta (I haven't got around to playing Delta V but I'm getting it next time there is a sale). I want something without where you have to control the ship from an immersive interior where you need to interact with a load of pannels or maybe like a brain attachment GUI kind of think which can explain your menus, it doesn't have to have any planets or anything just asteroids and space stations to dock at. If you can go into atmospheres there would need to be a proper simulation. I hate Star Citizen because your spaceship is just a UFO that can hover around anywhere, the atmosphere doesn't change anything. Also how your ship is so low-tech, you fight enemies in visual range with way worse missiles than there have been IRL for like 40 years. No space vessel should have an exposed cockpit with a window like every ship in the game does. Star Citizen really underperforms as a flight sim compared to DCS, which has a similar monitizing scheme. Well a bit different because the buyers know what they're getting into. But its kind of messed up when a 1980s Su27 is much more advanced than a spaceship which can go faster than light. FTL in general is something I can't stomach, it breaks physics too much. Unless its being intentionally broken so you can have a story about going back in time. You know what we really just need an Expanse space sim, I can live with something not perfectly realistic because most people don't like worrying about the rocket equation and a proper game like this would be worth the sacrifice. The Expanse has seriously done more than anything else for recent pop sci-fi.
I want just simple shooter like Wing commander or Freespace with just modern graphic. It's so difficult to do it?? I really don't need exploration, walking on planets mining and building. Just sitting space ship and shoot and not flashy and cartoonish
Ok i saw that's in xbox game pass and I play it so far I like it bucose I can fly and shoot. But it's still no Freespace 2 or wing commander. I don't like the part where you have to gather resources and craft items. I don't like boring fillers in game that take time from fun. It's like in all mother games most of mine time in in game I fly and look what's to pick up. I want to be a fighter pilot not a miner. When you play black ops or call of duty you not going as a soldier mining and pick up rubbish to make something with it most of you're time
what about Eve Online, yuo know the game thats dead since 2003 ;) had 2 major updates in 2024, some for good and some for worse .. but still things do keep turning.
i hate when people do this! just because a game has "space" in the title it doesnt make it a space game. please tell me about all the things you can do in space in space marines
If you enjoyed playing Freelancer, Underspace is definitely worth checking out. Star Valor is another great game that will be getting base building DLC at some point in the future.
Homeworld Desserts of Kharak was interesting but even though I haven't bought Homeworld'3 yet I'm certain its superior. One its a space game not a planetary game. Two it has more then a dozen Frigate classes, and greater variety of Frigate classes in a game inevitably makes for superior gameplay. k
It depends on your computer ofcourse. Playing on a potato, or a 2847k dual screen curved watercooled tripple quadruple quintiple ram with a 20800856x video card 286th generation. I cant afford that. Most players probably dont have a high end machine.
You missed an important space game. It's been in early access for a while. - Starsector - It's web page is straight out of the 90s. The method to pay and download the game is jank. But OMG. So satisfying to play. It's like Gratuitous Space Battles crossed with Mount and Blade.
I see you shitting on elite a lot, but do you actually play the game by any chance? (Especially tried a new account lately?) It comes across as someone bitter about an ex and constantly whining about it for no real reason. I'm a new player and have been enjoying the game quite a bit. Taking a boatload of grind to be able to join thargoid war is completely false for example. I purchased the game in July and had a ship kitted out for rescue in less than a month, and had a krait ii built for titan bombing a few days later (with engineering), and It was all an enjoyable experience. I can accept the p2w criticism though I don't fully agree with it; you're not winning anything, and you don't have an advantage over someone else anyway, if anything you're at a big disadvantage since the prebuilt ships are significantly worse at their respective roles than ones you can easily build yourself in less than a day of playtime. It is nice to have for a new player wanting to skip parts of the game to maybe do some activities with friends that already play the game, and if it funds the developers to make new content on a more regular basis, I see no downside. (I've read that elite had huge content droughts in the past years, that sounds terrible, but looks like frontier has been pretty active this year which is great to see) Anyway, if any of you reading are looking for a cool game to try, definitely give elite a shot, you get a great sense of progression as you play and its such a fun game. I guess I can't blame an old player who quit the game back when things weren't great for being sour about it.
do I actually play ED : yes, but lately i've stopped for longer periods due to addition of pay-2-win and FOMO. I want to give them time... ether it is to succeed or fail. I want to see what they'll do. I do however keep a VERY close eye on it to not loose touch...and film random pickup B-reel. Thardoid stuff : I've made a video on how you can fight cyclops in a fucking SIDEWINDER, but realistically you do need boat-load of engineering and items to properly take part, especially if you do it solo....prove me wrong! "you're not winning anything" this is a very retarded argument. pay-2-win is about using MONEY to gain power in-game... dont fucking LIE to yourself. when we think of p2w it's not the "win-screen" that is the problem but disbalanced nature of someone throwing their wallet and progressing faster and getting stuff sooner....and that's what enables this "winning" as that stupid dipshit argument pretends to dismiss. (yeah you can tell that i'm sick and tired of these half-brained dismissal attempts thru stupid argumentation tricks by now. Fuck those arguments)
I just want to fly a space fighter or other small combat ship and have fun fighter that are fast paced and intense. Freespace. Wing Commander. X-Wing vs TIE Fighter. I don't need a whole fucking empty galaxy. Just let me be an ace space fighter combat pilot. Please. I don't need the extra shit like trading and civ management or grinding for days for enough money to rebuy a ship. Just let me have fun flying and blowing stuff up.
I really struggle to see how the pre-built ships in elite are pay to win, if you actually look at what is included you could get all of it in game in like an hour or 2. No one is buying the prebuild AX ship and winning with it unless they are already good at AX combat. Same with the other pre-builts, they are really just starting points for their respective gameplay loops. Elite needs to make money somehow and this doesnt seem an egregious way of going about it.
Watching the video, gets to 17:47, (me) "Wait a second! I swear I just saw.... Rewind, slow and enhance!" (bug horses appear) "I knew it!" For a second there I thought I had gone mad lol
Super butt hurt about Home World 3, the first was incredible for it's time and the story was awesome, then HW2 came out and holy cow!! Epic space battles! Deserts of K.. something was cool, but a little gimiki and more emphasis on abilities of units, but alright game play. The story was nice and felt like they respected the lore. Then what the he'll happened in HW3, oh that's right bought by gearbox that outsource everything to save a buck, hired sweet baby inc (thank you SBI for F**king the lore to hell with your "inclusivity"
What happened to a squeeky toy!? Did you finally hugged it to death? :( Trump: "You're fired!" Take2: "Your pipeline has been rationalized. Now if you don't mind spreading it so I can yank my foot out of there? Thank you."
I thought of going buy Homeworld 3 until S*** happen. I knew something fishy when they add mobile game on smart phones. As well cut scenes video. Until I found out they did under hand ways to make DEI... Those AAA company are trashing game that we love they trash it. Instead we got bad story plots.... Meaning they just rebrand and make it their own twist for LGBTQ stuff.... For poor A.I bet it new team with DEI people...
