Microsoft Allegiance

Best game from the year 2000

Microsoft Allegiance is a professionally-developed network game( with offline play available in training missions). It has deep and satisfying gameplay, both in strategic aspects as well as individual ship management. The game's match lobby shows that it can support 2 teams of up to 100 players (pilots) each or larger number of teams (6 teams is a balanced amount)- map dependent. Though it rarely has playerbases of more than two-to-three dozen players in a server at once. Those days which have that many players are Sundays (occasionally Saturdays and Fridays) in the PM Eastern United States Time and are usually limited to one player-populated match server at a time. Although now there are network bot-populated 24-hour match servers (team deathmatch and "conquest" gamerules - although the conquest bots don't seem to engage other pilots). However, if you want to play with as many internet players at a time, then you'll apparently want to make the "Anniversary Game" - something I've never before had advanced warning of, but intel says is this upcoming Sunday, March 24th 2024 at 3 PM Eastern Time. I'd advise going on the wiki at "freeallegiance.org" after training to download the image of the keyboard layout for a 'steady hands' setup and have that up in a separate window to in-game remap your keybinds from "Escape->G (game settings)->C (controls). It may take some time and some adjustment to the new buttons, but it's worth it to be able to control most of your craft and its contents and targets without having to continually glance down to the keyboard. Another, less discussed, issue with controls is that if you dock at a base with any of your ship's thrusters firing, they will continue firing and making you drift upon launching - the way to fix this is to toggle your recticle/cursor on then off again. Another tip that I personally overlooked for years is, when firing at your target, disregard the craft's icon, instead aim at its model position. Some Pros: -The feeling of flying as a fleet on a strategic, or even as-needed tactical operation is priceless, yet free! - flying up to an enemy base or strategic ship or carrier to destroy it and orbiting it in weapons range while yor ordinance reloads or you whittle down its defenses is very fun -The feeling of capital ship scale when you watch a friendly small ship escort going the same direction behind it try to bump the capship to donate the smaller ship's inertia, forgetting friendly fire is on until the full hull & shields' small ship taps the larger one and immediately and unceremoniously explodes across the sector -Cooperating on a stealth run against an enemy base and watching you and your partners evade detection until it's too late to be stopped -Being able to save loadouts between matches of a given faction's ship on a given server using the Control + 1-3 keys when in the loadouts menu in-base Some cons: -The (F3) sector view not having a reset rotation or default orientation symbol (i.e.: Celestial North) -The kickban-happiness of some of (read many of) the veteran players in positions of power (as team commander or team captain), even for understandable offenses such as setting one's loadouts in base or deploying no-eyed probes at the enemy's base exit doors -The limited playerbase and marketing of the game leading to small match sizes and low game-setting options for most of the year

Great game that requires good situational awareness and teamwork to win. Best chance of joining a pickup game is on Sundays around 3 pm EST, sometimes Saturdays as well. Different ships, tech paths and roles within a game make it fun and accessible for different playing styles. Sometimes you just want to scout and have a relaxing game, other times you prefer to pad your kill bonus in an interceptor, or hunt miners in your stealth fighter, or go as a team to galv an enemy base, or prox mine an aleph (chokepoint) to prevent the enemy from entering your sector... and a hundred other scenarios that require skill and proper timing. Oh and also you can become the Commander and plan and coordinate all of this!

Allegiance, birinci şahıs uzay savaşını yukarıdan aşağıya bakış açısı, gerçek zamanlı strateji ve gerçek zamanlı taktiklerle kusursuz bir şekilde birleştiren, takım tabanlı çok oyunculu bir uzay savaşı simülasyonudur. Takım komutanları çok çeşitli stratejileri uygulamak için üsler oluşturur, teknoloji araştırır ve oyuncuları koordine eder.

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This game is perfection and deserves an active playerbase. Join the Group, join the Discord, and start playing during primetime. The game is actively developed and has aged very well. See https://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=717241&sid=35a12452ee73b65553f32d8a22b2b172#p717241

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I've played this on and off for 25 years and it will never stop being my favourite game. The community has kept this alive all that time and I look forward to it continuing <3