Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

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It's not bad for a slide show game. It's basically playing the desktop version or the card games, you just pull your deck cards, and play with the cards that you have. Then the rest it all comes down to the choices, which of the 2 lesser evil you're going to approve, and suffer the consequences regardless of what you choose, most options are usually bad, or worse. There isn't much strategy involved, the battles are pretty much down to luck, with all the bad hands you're given, it's just how long you can survive before being demolished by the Cylons.

Perfectly captures the spirit of the series. Alternates between tough decision-making and tense real-time small scale strategy combat phases, managing to be both lore-accurate, and a side story with little to no bearing on canon. The only downsides are the absence of the series' OST (being emulated) and the presence of traders (which makes no sense). Otherwise, the best BSG game out there !

12std im Spiel und praktisch alles schon durch. Früher machte man noch richtige, vorallem FERTIGE spiele. das ist nur ein Kriesenmanager ohne grossartiges gameplay. Dies ist ein Grundgerüst für ein richtiges Spiel mehr aber auch nicht

This game is great, I haven't played a ton, but I was thoroughly surprised by how well it captured the mood of BSG. If you're on the fence, give the demo a try, but for the price it's worth the dip. Gameplay is a bit like advanced FTL. It plays a fair bit slower, the fights are very tactical, and in-between you resolve events to keep resources up, balance opposing factions among the civilian ships, manage multiple crisis, improve the ship and recover from the latest combat. A full run takes a few hours or more. The negative reviews about the "Dodger" class ships and some of the other RNG are totally valid, the dodger is generally a super annoying ship and some encounters are loaded with them, and those do suck. The flood of events can get feeling oppressive, especially near the end; however I feel really matches the tension of the BSG universe, and is a great fit for the universe overall. It does slow the pacing down and can be a little annoying in that way, but I wouldn't want to see major changes to the system.

Mixed thoughts on this game, I like the setting and generally this kind of game. However it doesn't feel particularly finished, QoL issues abound, there's very little background lore so it feels like they've just sloppily slathered the art style and some references over the game that could have been anything. I feel it's missed out some elements as it lacks the RTS of deadlock or say Gothic that would make the combat sections feel more interesting. The ticking down random weapons of the gun star don't feel that interesting and it makes it a pause fest. Something a bit more like a classic FTL experience where you configure the ship or the fallout shelter style the latest trek game did would have made that combat style more interesting by giving some baseline weapons you manage and improve in the non combat phase with only a smaller amount of deployable one offs. And of the one offs the nukes are just annoying, they're an ok concept, but they shouldn't take up a weapon slot if they're going to be a main resource rather than a general ammo resource. Once you have a few runs the events start repeating themselves. And the heroes are a little one dimensional, the bars a good idea, but you only get one and sometimes two chances at events that might or might not be the heroes, it isn't an click the character any time for a conversation that might or might not go somewhere or you can build favor with in smaller ways. The decisions are presented as impactful, but the scenarios are simple "spend x type of resource to solve" there a few deeper interactions, but its too RNG not RPG to be truly enjoyable. Some of the combat ends up very similar, the diversity of new ships even if they totally lack any interesting lore to read does add character, but sometimes they're just too random and there's no real way to counter if you don't have the right tools. Having a diversity of ships always available and you have to adapt on the fly with them to counter things like electronic warfare style effects would be interesting, and even having more use of pause to have to do something to make that work in some kind of minigame would make it at least skill based. As it stands however you can get RNG'd with an unkillable enemy configuration because it can spam unkillable ships. This feels a bit like a very mature alpha or beta of a game that has had BSG slapped over it. There's certainly some good bits of the game, but there are games that do this better and the combination of things they've borrow to build this version is the wrong combination, or at least not implemented well enough or deep enough to be the right combination. Ultimately you end up with something that feels a bit shallow that could have been a mobile or browser game. Hopefully they fix it, but I'm pretty disappointed with it and I kind of wish I had played a demo first as I don't think I would have bought it at launch if I really understood it. It also frustratingly made me want to go play deadlock, and then get even more frustrated I couldn't go buy the DLC for it as the license has clearly been pulled, which frankly should be illegal and I've no doubt will happen to this game.

This feels like playing those first four episodes of BG! Legitimately on the edge of my seat playing through each run. I'm a bit disappointed at the mix of graphical styles. I absolutely love the 8bit renderings of the bridge scenes, but it clashes with the painterly story overlays and the 3D combat scenes. This makes the game feel less cohesive, like it was created by 3 different teams. There are some polish and graphical issues (overlays and blocking events are inconsistent, the "grey overlay" doesn't quite line up with the screen; the game doesn't respect laptops with "camera notch" cutouts at the top). A quick "bug fix" week of dev time would sort this all out, so looking forward to future polish patches to really tidy it up. Despite my quibbles with the presentation, overall the game still works very well together. The depth of progression for your BattleStar, your Heroes, your Squadrons, and even your Support Ships (nevermind the various other ugprades...) really does make it feel like you are honing your fleet over the course of the run. Some upgrades are legitimately exciting, big-ticket unlocks. Ultimately, I think it's worth the money to play through successfully even just once (which took me 3 attempts). The escalation system isn't particularly interesting to me, but the other fleets are. This might be sequel or DLC territory, but I like to see things play out - and don't like using anything with an activateable ability. Is there a way we can have AI run the squadrons during combat? (Playing via crossover on OSX and it works great. Would love to see a native build.)

Интересное развитие идей Crying Suns

Vorabbemerkung: Wer Kampfstern Galactica noch kennt, wird hier einige Nostalgie Momente haben. Um was geht es in dem Spiel: Übernimm eine kleine Flotte überlebender und versuche vor den Zylonen zu fliehen. Dafür springst du von System zu System, bei dem du eine deiner Ressourcen (Schrott, Güter, Atomraketen, Treibstoff) wieder aufstocken kannst, neue Gegenstände/Raumschiffe oder Personen findest. Damit es nicht zu einfach wird hast du in jedem System ein paar Runden zeit bis dich die Zylonen einholen und du weiter springen musst. Als wäre das nicht schon schwer genug gibt es drei Fraktionen in deiner Flotte um deren Zufriedenheit man sich kümmern muss (Arbeiter, Militär, Unterwelt). Zusätzlich gibt es in jedem System kleine Mini-Events/Krisen/Chancen, die dem Spiel eine weitere würze geben. Das Spiel ist ein aufbauendes Spiel - die ersten Runden wird man nicht weit kommen, erhält aber nach jedem Spiel Schicksalspunkte, die man für den nächsten Durchgang in seine Flotte investieren darf. Mit diesen kann man sich z.B. mehr Ressourcen zum Start sichern. Meinung: Ein spannendes Spiel. Etwas sich wiederholend, da man immer wieder von System zu System springt und Krisen löst. Zum Glück sind Systeme und Krisen randomisiert, womit der Wiederspielwert erhalten bleibt. Man sollte jedoch unbedingt die notwendige Frustrationstoleranz mitbringen, wenn man es mal wieder nicht geschafft hat, sondern es als zusätzliche Motivation betrachten! In diesem Sinn: Alles wird wieder geschehen! (für die Insider ;))

If you are fan of BSG, this is straight 10/10. if you like strategy games, commanding fleets, space strategy, this game is great too.