Sins of a solar empire dev mode series#

The devs have also seemingly gone for the 'hide the mechanics' approach, similar to sword of the stars. You could also notice that capital ship weapons, all have the 'capital' damage type, so it dosn't matter if it's missiles or beams or whatever, their all the same in this respect. Damage is dealt seemingly arbitrarily at random while missiles hitting or beams pounding has no effect. Something that's funny is that damage is almost completly unassociated with the weapon graphics. There's also an 'armor' rating that noone really seems to know for sure altough it's probably subtracted straight off from damage, favoring big hitters. There's 'shield' mitigation that's actually general (even when shields down) and work in a way to subtract a % of damage that goes up for each hit but down with time, the idea is that this would make focused fire less effective. The difference is mainly in how they are regenerated, with different special abilities. On top of this, there's many factors to damage calculation. To be exact, 8 dmg types and 6 armor types: There's a huge system of damage and armor types. This might come as a surprise and it certainly was to me even after playing the game for quite a while. TEC are kind of roughly similar to UEF as well, blocky designs and being 'standard guys', altough i wouldn't take that one as far as the aeon-advent comparison.ДЄnyway, enough of that, some things about the actual gameplay. the way the units look and the religion stuff. What I meant with similarities to supcom was more about the 'first impression', the design style, and more specifically for example, the Advent reminds me a LOT of the Aeon and I'm not sure how you could miss that. Okay, I had a bit closer look on the game. We'll stay in character and everything! It'll be fun, I swear.ДЄwesome game tbh, it reminds me more of WC3 than supcom though. So, I'm gonna try multiplayer with my friend. I then hounded the remnants of the enemy fleet through three sectors before I finally caught the dang flagship in an asteroid field and blew it to pieces before it could regenerate enough power to jump. I fought back their flagship with my fleet and gauss cannons, while building my own capital class ship. But then I tried the normal player and I had to desperately beat back an attack by a flagship lead fleet in the first 30 minuets of the game. (also, nothing made the megalomaniac in me more elated to see the small mushroom clouds that bloom on planets when you start orbital bombardment. It was nice that the easy opponent played very defensively, so I had time to fiddle around and build mega huge fleets to smash into their defenses. Zoombie wrote:I finished my first game against an easy opponent. If you want a retail box, I don't know, myself I can't buy it yet in Canada through a store. Or better yet, let's play a multiplayer battle.ДЄlso, to the individual who asked about the time it would come to EU, it is downloadable via stardock's 'Steam'-like service. Post a picture of yourself holding the Sins box in your own home, opened, with a piece of paper that has your name on it. In the event you have played the game, you most likely do not own the game. Here's the impression I get from you when I read your post: You have most likely not played the game. How about you come up with a flaw that can't be found by googling 'sins of a solar empire sucks'. The bland really boring units come off even worse then Sins since a plane/boat/walker/tank is just another plane/boat/walker/tank, while with Sins you at least have frigates, cruisers, capitals, fighters, planets, asteroids, wormholes, space stations, trade routes, pirates, resource trading, multiplayer savegames, random map generators, and legendary publisher support from Stardock. made from polygons in a three-dimensional plane? experimentals came at the end of the game in Supcom, capital ships are in the beginning in Sins. The capital ships are also especially different, and they can't be considered on the same plane as 'experimentals'. Sins has very different units, and research goes in very different paths.

Sins of a solar empire dev mode series#

A spaceship is not just a spaceship, it is a series of tubes.ДЄlso, Supcom had nigh-identical units on all sides, right? Just the experimentals and high-level rare units were different in significant, meaningful ways.