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Game is pretty good easily sunk 12 hours into it but after getting one shotted by a single hegemony ship going mach 3 I think im done

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This game is very easy to play tho you do want a mouse for ion weapons and torpedos but the game is also decently easy unless your unprepared form acents or irani fleets they will tear you apart.

A pretty interesting game, but still quite a few issues at present. I played through the campaign on medium difficulty, and (almost) all of the second game mode on hard, and found a few bugs and a few balance issues that, once fixed, could leave a very solid game. - The core idea behind the game seems to be that the player has allies fighting alongside him, but that doesn't go very far. The allies don't really use tactics of any kind, and there are only four of them, whereas there are several dozen enemies per sector, each with better stats. There's a skill that routes the friendly ships on the global map towards player battles, which is cool, but even then, they don't make it very far, and they spend time chasing down small cleanup fights when they could be capturing territory. - On that note, the second wave of friendly unlocks seem to be worse outright than the first 6k ship. The last set of ship unlocks, at the end of the tree, has a better ship, but even it doesn't last that long. - Moreover, every type of enemy other than the basic red and brown guys has a special mechanic that amounts to "use your shield/barrier to block this attack or it will kill your ship", and friendly ships don't ever do this, so the player's wingmen will die almost immediately. It's a shame, because they're fun and quite useful in the very first stage of the game, and the mechanic becomes obsolete after that. Might be worth giving the NPC Empire ships the shield changer and barrier modules as their factional gimmick, and letting them use them to protect themselves against these special attacks. - There's a bug in the campaign mode where the last Ascent spaceport can never be conquered. The player spawns in, kills 3-4 reinforcement fleets, and can jump out, but the sector is never marked as captured. Might have something to do with the fact that I attacked the Ascent early on, taking most of their shipyards, before the game told me to do so. - On that note, factions seem to spawn new shipyards whenever the player conquers one. Given that taking an enemy homeworld is the end of that faction, and homeworlds have shipyards, I don't see why they should do that - it takes away the agency of the player targeting enemy infrastructure. (It also lets the player farm an absurd number of shipyards.) - Enemy reinforcements tend to go on for a lot longer than they should when there aren't any enemy fleets present. There's not really any reason why the fifth enemy sector I capture in a given area, long after the last fleet in the region has been wiped out, should be able to call in half a dozen waves of reinforcements for itself. It doesn't really add challenge - if I took out the first X waves of Y ships, then there's not really any reason why wave X+1 will be any different - but it does draw things out needlessly. Having fleets appear on the global map is a very cool mechanic, and it should be more heavily integrated. - Enemy ships tend to be very slow, in comparison with the builds the player can create, since they cap out at a small handful of engines, while the player can put around a dozen onto his ship. Unfortunately, this means that a good chunk of the game can be done through kiting alone. - Moreover, enemy ships are often idle on spawning, and just sit there while the player shoots at them until he gets close enough. Also, probably the most severe issue: Hard mode is permadeath, and reinforcement ships can spawn directly on top of the player, killing him instantly. Happened to me about 90 percent of the way though the second game mode, and not especially keen on doing that over again. Might be worth just having death revert the player to a save state (no respawns), instead of locking the file. Should also add a check that forces anything spawning into the combat screen to do so at least X distance away from the player.

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Difficulty abruptly rising after completion of several campaigns reminds me of another hexagonal ship building game whose protagonist is a space trunk pilot

I don't understand how anyone who played this could dislike it. It's hitting this perfect sweet spot of "easy to pick up," "one more sector" and "ooo now I can add THAT", which is trickier than it might sound. Highly recommended.