The Battle of Sol

Tags: 6DOF - Flight & Space Pilot Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Checkpoint chasing adventure in space with overly complicated keybinds, static 2D space backgrounds, ecology plot and somewhat clumsy dogfighting. The game failed to give a coherent tutorial while using only one interface method. I had to sort of frankenstein my way through using both input methods. I can see what this game is trying to accomplish. It is an on-rail with combat instance-based adventure. Probably with a rail shooter segment here and there. There are better more modern alternatives for this kind of space 6DOF space combat, and some involve a sandbox world or a more streamlined control interface. Removing Battle of Sol for being redundant with a dated execution on its feature set.

Унылая более чем полностью, графика просто жуть какая.

Lacklustre in every area. if you really want to give this sort of thing a try go grab Freespace which you can surely find somewhere for a dollar after over 20 years.

for the price not a bad game at all not sure about all the complaints i seen so far been decent game

"The Battle of Sol" is a spaceship game with no open world or RPG features - it´s a sequence of missions where you must do what you´re told with the gear you´ve been given. Right off the bat I liked how the devs tried to input personality into the characters, especially with humor in the dialogues - I have heard pretty dull dialogues in other games lately. I loved the fighter takeoff, it really gives you a sense of speed. I also liked the sound effects of the engine and of the lasers. The cockpit instruments and indicators are great, also. I like the overall graphics, I don´t know why other reviews disliked or "meh" them. But the ship controls are so different from what I am currently playing that I will have to finish my current, ongoing space sims before hopping into this one, so that I don´t get confused. Good thing is that you can remap the key bindings, which I will do eventually. I like to match ship controls throughout all the games as much as I can. There is a feature called "slide", where you essencially turn off the engine and drift in space. I think this is the substitute for the strafe, which is non-existent - actually, you don´t use WASD to pilot, which is very very weird. So "slide" is mouse right-button, while "missile" is F. Looks like this slide thing is important. And "enemy target" is 2. Why? Because R, T and G are used as a means of allocating energy to after-burners, weapons or hull integrity. This is a big deal, too. The energy gets depleted quite fast, so you have to manage the allocation in-battle. I don´t think I´ll remap the keys after all... And I got to play for the other side, too! At least once, as far as I know. The enemy - a kind of Oriental/Middle-East/religious people in red-lighted ships - can hack systems; you have to memorize a series of letters that appear and then input them to hack. I imagine that doing this mid-battle will be hard. Anyway, it is different, it is promising. Five missions in, I like it so far. UPDATE: ten missions in, + or -. You keep switching between two different ships, with two different characteristics, so you never have time to get really good in neither of them. And now I´m at a mission where I have to: 1) scan and destroy like a dozen of APD (stationary radar transmitters or something like it); 2) fight an old foe, who´s in a huge gunship; 3) fight off several waves of fighters pestering you. Detail: the gunship has, like, fifteen turrets, and you can only do damage to the gunship if you destroy each turret, and you can only destroy a turret if it´s locked on your targeting system, even if you´re face to face to it, super-close; (and when you try yo lock on one turret, all turrets stay highlighted at the same time, so it´s super hard to know which one you locked on, and even if it´s on the side facing you or the other side) and the gunship keeps moving frantically, so you´r always facing the rear engines of it and, since THERE´S NO STRAFE in the game, it´s almost impossible to circumvent the ship and position yourself better. Detail 2: the fighters pestering you appear out of nowhere, always behind you, and: a) they have missiles; b) you don´t have any missile, ever. So it´s super hard to the level of unfairness. * * * I´m still marking it as "recommend" because I´ll give it another try later, maybe tomorrow, but I´m almost rage quitting it. So I´m about to change the position of my thumb. And don´t "git gud" me. Games are supposed to be fun, not annoying, not irritating. I´ve been performing well in this game. I´ve already completed 19 games this year. I simply don´t want to play the same level over and over again just because the game was designed for children who can spend a whole afternoon playing one level. This game is not even that engaging. chances are the only memory I´ll have of this game is this moment where I´m mad when I was supposed to be happy. UPDATE 2 AND FINAL: Just as I found the strategy to beat the big gunship, the game started cheating by means of bugs. Bug 1 - the ship disappeared when its hull was at 50% and never returned. I spent more than half an hour going to and fro, to no avail.I had to start all over. Bug 2- this happened four times: every time I was about to destroy the ship, a message of "warning: you are leaving the mission area" appeared and in some of the times, I was very near the NPC ship, so the ship can leave the mission area while I cannot? Anyway, no matter which direction I went to avoid this, I ended up being destroyed, losing the mission. * * * Sorry, I cannot recommend a game that prevents you to progress by being impossible to play.

It's perfectly serviceable....until it's not. Things go downhill fast the closer you get to end of the campaign.

Sadly can't recommend it since the controls are a complete mess both on KB/M and Controller.

this is basicly sol exodus but better. buy it! its like a freespace 2 lite

Me lembrou muito um jogo da franquia Star Wars de Playstation 1, obviamente de naves, tem o mesmo problema que havia naquele jogo, a sua jogabilidade é "pesada" tudo demora pra responder no jogo, em momentos em que você tem que ter muita precisão e o jogo não da qualquer tipo de ajuda com isso, no máximo estabilizando sua nave, porem isso também não ajuda TANTO. Algumas coisas que poderiam deixar a jogabilidade melhor, seria, por exemplo, os foguetes que uma das naves tem, ser tele-guiado mesmo que levasse um tempo para fazer isso. Trilha sonora do jogo quase inexistente, ou pelo menos eu não notei pois estava MUITO desbalanceado o som. História relativamente boa, sem MUITA criatividade, o bacana é que você joga com pessoas de ambas as facções o que te da um ponto de vista de ambos os lado. Nota 3/10 Preço muito alto para a jogabilidade apresentada, se ela fosse melhor, respondesse mais rapidamente, com certeza seria no minimo um 6/10, infelicidade, jogo tinha potencial.

I realised I have 1100+ games in my Steam library and I was going to die before I played them all. So thought I'd spend a bit of time on each one, a new one every night, and leave a short initial review. This is quite a good basic space shoot em up - I like the fact that there is no trading, just missions and shooting. Everything is serviceable and if you have ever played anything like it before, you will get the hang of it. The problem for me is I have Elite Dangerous which I have spent hundreds of hours in in VR and this isn't that - nothing is - but if it runs on my Steam Deck I would probably play it on that. If you want something cheap, not too deep and easy to run/play, you can do worse than this. it would be a good entry point into the world of pew pew if you pick it up in a sale for a good price. Fun, but I have to move on. Recommended.