Starsector's Masterclass Combat
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2022
- Game link: fractalsoftworks.com/preorder/
Captain Trek's Guide to the Modiverse: fractalsoftworks.com/forum/in...
Starsector mod index: fractalsoftworks.com/forum/in...
patreon: / cassius_scrungoman - Ігри
Follow up covering campaign & Nexerelin mechanics:
ua-cam.com/video/WpgTzuKUyQ4/v-deo.html
I bought this game around...10 years ago now, when it was still Starfarer. I spent 15 dollar on the key and I honestly am starting to feel sorry for the devs because I'm probably approaching 3000 hours of game time and haven't given them money since. There's really no argument whether or not this game is worth a purchase.
I feel ya mon'
You can always keep supporting the devs. Not like someone is forcing you to not give them money
You can always buy the game for a friend.
"I have little to complain about the AI, it just works"
Just make your flagship make it's own choices and realise that half the time AI outshines our lord and saviour... ourselves.
Hell fucking no. The ai is absolute garbage. They never shunt flux when safe, play waaaaay too passively when when they have overwhelming numbers, bodyblock each other on a consistant basis (causing myself and each other to die). If they dont have more flux vent rate than the flux build up rate of their weapons they will never fire all their weapons no matter what. I feel like a professional linebacker running circles around special needs 12 year olds trying to play a game of football whenever I pilot a ship. Im on cycle 229 of an ultra modded 0.9b(sseth's freebie version) that Im still trying to win before I move onto the new version. I hope and pray the new AI is better.
Oh, except for phase ships and ships with no shields. They suddenly become competant then. I've been trying to find a viable way to win against deathstacks of 60+ capitals without going full laser pointer paragon fleet and suprisingly low tech with shield bypass and reckless officers works.
@Bunny Hoppin
1) AI without officers is intentionally dumb
2) AI default mode is a bit passive - get automated commands or other mod and set it to aggressive
3) try to use tempest swarm with heavy blasters and see it wreck most of fleets.
3b) for anything refusing to die this way use drover spam
4) learn the way AI works - in order for AI to shine your shops need to fit specific constraints
Note: to beat the shit out of remnant ordos with more than 1 Radiant you may need to lose some ships to actually win, the same applies when fighting high tech battlestation.
@@BunnyHoppin- also: ua-cam.com/video/jBw32bjg2og/v-deo.html
The ship AI can be quite dumb at times yeah, which is why you have to use the commands you can give them, and learn how they react to those commands. For instance, the Eliminate command can be placed on several enemies at once, while also selecting your ships to target an enemy specifically with the Eliminate command; however, if your ships are nearby several Eliminate targets, they will engage with the closest ones first. Even if you command said ships to prioritize Eliminate some specific target farther away, they'll still be aggressive towards the closest enemies while very very slowly disengaging in order to go fight that other enemy you prioritized. If you don't want this to happen, override the Eliminate command with the Engage command, the Avoid command (which will get your ships moving real quick), or no command at all. Remember, command points spent opens a command window, during which any commands issued are free, so micromanage as best as you can during that period. If your ships are getting bodyblocked, then tell some of them to rotate somewhere else by setting a waypoint or a rally command.
And yes, when you're just starting out, learning the combat, even AI ships without officers are going to be more competent than you. Remember to engage with the Refit screen, you can customize your flagship to play more to your strengths as a limited real life being rather than to the strengths of an AI ship that can do more inputs at once than you. But also remember that you can pause the battle to change autofire and such, and to take in the current state of the battle without pressure.
not only is the combat so good, it also has a *complex galaxy wide economy system.*
Nothing like the feeling of blowing up trading caravans full of goods so you can cause a shortage on another sector so you can peddle industrial quantities of CRAB at their black market for maxiumum profit
ehh kinda, it's simplified through how they do units and shipping and pops. Blowing up a shipment only effects it's home colony and the colony it was shipping to (sometimes also it's home planet). This is understandable though since you're playing the game locally and not on a 164gb RAM 20 core server, and it's already pushing the limits (some of the blame falls on java)
"Anything that is a frigate or bigger can become a carrier" Me: Laughs at ArmaArmatura Corvette carrier
its not that complex tbh
Starsector is so good, and it’s criminally underrated.
It also gave me the best first run ever, where I left the tutorial, and immediately got a Conquest. Albeit with like 4 D-mods, but still. Conquest right off the bat. It was wonderful.
Well, in vanilla, the conquest is one of the best ships
Well, in vanilla, the conquest is one of the worst ships and even worse with 4 D-mods
The Apollyon class is the most fun I ever had in Starsector. VIC surprised me, how well balanced the ships are, generally speaking, taking into consideration vanilla content.
You're praise is 100% on point and completely justified. This game, man, this game.
Now this is quality content, quick, sweet and to the point. Well done sir.
I love how everyone who reviews this game talks about the [REDACTED]
Never expected such a good script from such a small channel! Keep up the good work!!!
Hey, I made the CoH2 Portrait Pack mod for this game!
I'm always looking for more Starsector content on UA-cam, the combat is very deep and I'm never quite sure what's optimal, so this was very nice to watch, thank you.
Ooh nice ! I'm using it, hunting Ostruppen Commander is now my passion thanks to you !
should i start Starsector with nexerlin? everyone i have watched play is using it, or should i play vanilla first?
it's up to you! personally, i'd recommend playing with Nexerelin, but Starsector has a really good and interesting base game too.
Do at least one run without it, but most of us find it to be a core part of the experience.
I recommend always playing a game vanilla first. That being said I don’t play without that mod anymore. It really should be core.
I'd say play vanilla first just to know how everything works. New players tend to get murdered by Nexerelin's invasions and the like. Also invasion fleets... tend to be quite a chonker to get through, so knowing how to fight is a must imo.
@@avanitia I started with nexerelin I joined the parean faction or however u spell it, and ended up winning by conquest i have no clue what happened but i guess I'm a natural 😎
Iv been playing on to learn a little more though, tbh though it doesnt seem all that difficult so far other than being attacked by fleets double my power, it has been pretty easy to learn
I first heard of starsector two days ago.
How the fucking fuck in the fucking world did I miss this gem, being a long time Mount and Blade / Eve online / Kenshi / Battle brother gamer ?
Seriously, all these youtube algorythms could have suggested me content on this game before, I had to randomly come accross a reddit comment to find out about it.
Here goes my next 1000 hours of gaming I guess
sounds about right. Didn't hear of it until last sunday. So fekking good.
Any time would have been too late, I have been playing it for years, but I had the same reaction when I did find it. I bet those who found years before me also had the same sentiment.
It also has a second punchline, mod content, its massive both in terms of quantity and quality, the foundation was brilliant enough to inspire for some of the best mods I have ever experienced in gaming.
Cheers!
i misunderstood the title, i thought this was going to teach me how to git gud but it was just a discussion on how great the game is. no arguments its fucking great
The refit screen is both my heaven and bane. I get too distracted by it but it's just so fun creating a unique ship to you.
It's not very good but seeing a speed rating over 250+ on a cruiser is just satisfying.
For me is the hell, i can spend 1 hour for one ship bc i cant decide wich build take xd
when in doubt, devastator cannons
@@randombillyn i doubt bc i like fragmentation dmg more than the otherd so i have do balance the dmg to break the shields quickly and ripp off the armor
@@francogaray2649 well, devastator cannons still have a high dps, and their high flux efficiency makes them a good weapon, especially for brawlers.
It'll take sometimes, but it will shred basically anything.
It's main problem is its lack of damage at long range.
I do especially like it against pirates, and this kind of factions
@@randombillyn im fighting lanestate union most of the time, so devastators didnt work so well bc they have a lot of armor and long range weapons
4:13 Nice Beaglerush easter egg
Not sure how long you've been at this whole UA-cam thing, but your delivery cadence and video transition pace are spot on. Well done. If you build it, the subs will come.
I've been saying Fallout New Vegas is my favorite game by a landslide for like a decade now, but Starsector comes close - like really, REALLY close.
At 4:14 is that Beaglerush?? Awesome video, I love this game beyond words, it's so nice to came back and play it every year or so, it's amazing how the quality has been consistently top notch all the way back since it was just a battle simulator.
Haven't dared to delve into mods (yet). My personal favorite ship is a Fury with two phase lances and a pod of sabots (anti-shield). Very good against small to medium ships, especially pirates and luddic path ships, as well as the drones that sometimes protect the survey probs and ships.
Really feels good to fly around and pick of vessels here and there.
Throwback to when Sseth reviewed this game and his fans literally crashed the payment processor's servers
oh I remember that mod guide from Trek when he first put it together. I'd just joined and my god it was so useful. As a new player I was a bit overwhelmed by all the mods so having someone make such a great list really helped a lot.
Diable Avionics for LIFE! Fuckin love carriers and strike craft, and from when I went looking for mods that emphasized carriers and strike craft, DA seemed to be the one that was the best.
Happy to see more CCs get into making videos. I've ben playing this game since early 2014 and it has been a personal favorite of mine since. Best of luck with whatever faction you choose. And give the Star Federation ships a try. FTL was another personal favorite of mine from the back then and that mod beat the Imperium out for my favorite faction.
6:11 - The Kingdom of Terra has weaponized... truck nuts.
I like this. I like you. More Starsector content please. Just started playing, I love it! I have no idea what I'm doing though, perhaps that's part of the fun.
None of us knew what we were doing on our first few playthroughs, it's ok. Honestly, some of the best stories in this game come from early playthroughs and a lack of experience.
One of the most underrated games, can't wait till it goes on steam so that it reaches more people. Im anticipating the overwhelmingly postive reviews
The fact that you said “subscribe”, in like .5 of a second and left it there.😂 I was like, alright fine I’ll subscribe on both of my accounts
Very well put together
If you like DME and Volkov, Cassius, you really owe it to yourself to check out ScalarTech. God that's a fun little faction. Low Tech Armada is also great for just adding more pirate insanity that shouldn't even fly to the game.
Saw this game first when Sseth made a video on it. Immediately got it to play the Doom-class Phase Cruiser. Never has blowing people up been so satisfying.
Phase ships just hit different man
Honestly, I don't find phase ships all that fun to use. Capitals, Safety Override builds, and anything with Plasma Burn/Plasma Jets, though...
That modded teleporting ramming slice ship sold me on the game holy shit
Oh! And if you like DME at all, you should check out Harmful Mechanic's new faction mod, Magellan Protectorate! It's all chunky armor boys, all the time, with a lot of unique hit-effect weapons, and HM apparently has a *lot* of additional content planned for it. Something to look forward to!
Amazinf content, this is truly amazing!
Great Video! And the Kingdom of Terra is imho the best faction mod out there, by virtue of it's unique mechanics alone.
This was super funny. Just started starsector last week.
Been playing games since I was a kid in the mid 80's, and I can 1000% confirm that this is one of the best games ever made. It is nothing less than criminal that it is so unheard of, or not on a major platform (Steam!?). If I was a millionaire or rich (millions are pennies these days it seems), I would make sure the devs never had to work again....
On anything else......
You earned a new subscriber and a new Starsector player/potential modder
That damn refit screen has stolen more hours of my life than I've ever thought possible
I'm terrible at combat in Starsector, but what makes the game so special is that I've put more than a hundred (extremely enjoyable) hours into it playing as a smuggler and explorer.
It's really a game you can play however you like.
Im a simple man. I see starsector. I upvote.
It is a magnificent achievement of pc gaming. I think I'll buy it a few more times to support the devs.
I just got this game, how did I not find it earlier is crazy to me.
The AI in Starsector is truly amazing, and not just for enemies but your own ships as well. Its hard to describe how awesome it is to be able to send a squadron of frigates against an enemy flank, and think to youself "Yeah they got it, I can focus my attention elsewhere"
This is sort of a game you keep returning to. Great replayability, usually fueled by reading or watching some sci-fi stuff, there is a burning desire to start a new Starsector campaign. It's good already, but it keeps getting better with yearly updates and new mods
I was hooked after my first Falcon P fleet. Explosions are addicting.
2:39 That has got to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my (albiet limited) time playing starsector. I'm gonna go install that mod now
I loved the giant ship that looked like a tooth from The Kingdom of Terra, I forget its name but somethin about setting off a explosion behind your own ship to shoot forward at breakneck ramming speeds was just so enjoyable to me.
Ziggurat with 2 Rift Cascade Emitters, 6 Antimatter SRM's and 4 Resonator MRM's with S-Modded ITU and Advanced Optics, best ship in the game!
Yeah i absolutely love this game!
It's all fun and games until you encounter Ricardo the Swole in his Flexmaster.
Hey hey people...
Ahem... Yes, this a great game that can't have enough praise, really well done, really recommend to buy.
Excellent game and content. Support it
Honestly I would love for you to do a bigger video talking about more aspects of starsector, if you feel up for it anyway.
God fucking damn it I have to reinstall the game alongside half of all the available mods now thanks
starsector always reminded me of this flash game called RealSpace 3 i played when i was a kid
Ah yes the Doom, favorite ship
Great great game, would love to see a play through.
We shall watch your s
Endeavors with great interest
as a fellow enby i hereby say you are swag money gamer
It’s good because it’s a passion project, not the mass produced AAA cash cows we’ve seen the last decade latching onto the flavour of the month theme, roguelike, zombie, survival, battle Royale etc.
I just started playing Starsector! :D
i hope you enjoy it!
I liked this game so much I paid for it.
10/10 would pay again if I lost my reg key somehow.
The fact that imperium got updated means I can now use the nuke+gravity superweapon combo
I love how absolutely everyone who plays this game doesn't spoil *[REDACTED]* because they're such a good *[REDACTED]* that you *[REDACTED]* after you think your *[REDACTED]*
*[REDACTED]*
Oh no. Now I have to play it.
truly one of the best games
I purchased this game right about the time it first came out, when the campaign was but a distant dream and there was no concept of building your own colony. It was just a basic 2D combat simulator, but it already had a lot of the addictive gameplay piece you covered in this video. I often talk to my wife about game design, and this game has great game design.
Now, what I would like to ask you is, since you have great taste in games, are there similar games out there you would recommend? I got a great deal of enjoyment from playing Mindustry, I enjoyed Factorio, and of course I love the X series (X4 the latest one I've played) despite their flaws. What are your favorite closely / distantly related games to StarSector that you would recommend, good sir?
I like this video.
God damn, now I want a "muda da" attack.
Thank you
$15 is in fact a steal for Starsector - I'd gladly pay $100 for this game.
didn't even touch on the absolute ridiculousness of the vanilla super ship, the Ziggurat. That thing is so absurdly fun to fly and it honestly can't even be properly explained just how obscenely overpowered it is once you get a feel for it. It can solo the doritos, can solo a star fortress, can solo any vengeance fleet (from nexerelin), can solo several cathedral-class ships on its own, can solo the Anargaia (massive ship acting as a main hub for a faction from the legacy of arkgnesis mod) and able to beat a remnant nexus supported by 2 ordos, each with a couple radiants and/or solars. I'm almost fully certain, that there is no other ship, even when looking through mods, that is more powerful than Ziggy.
There is something even better: Its DRM free, once you own a key. You own it. As in, no ammount of further installs is gonna stop you or something like that.
Past techi! You've beaten me to it by a year?!
I love the mobile suits, I mean mobile armor
Ah the only game I wish I had bought sooner.
I still have starsector on my laptop and an old flashdrive. I haven't played it since A year pre-covid. I got upsetti with the combat system. Because WASD was too much for me. Maybe I'll give it another shot.
I am glad that this game is finally getting the recognition it deserves. I got it when it was still called Starfarer, and had seen many feature changes since then, from the shift of crew experience to the addition of officers and colonies.
I know that Sseth covered it, and he is right that its a 10/10 with the community mods making it better/worse/!BETTER!
2:39 "Holdo Manouver"? ;) :D
Now I know where Holdo got it from ;D
0:45 not to mention it’s free if you use the code Sseth provided in his video.
Not only the best combat system, i find the ai to be very good. They know how to exploit strengths and weaknesses.
he's using the based meta cruiser
Gonna recommend the unsc mod cause the unsc ships are a tad unhinged. You only need about 5 frigates and one cruiser to body a high tech station in only a minute thanks to the mac cannons that come internal on the ships
They got shitty shields tho .... but god the armor and macs ....
@@quentinchambon9362 lets not forget the wings of short sword bombers as well
@@thegodemperorofmankind3090 oh yes those are fun ..... except when used against you .....
YONE ULT XDD
U earned a sub :D
yeah i like using ouroboros from kingdom of terra too, but only at late game phase, without exploit expansion hangar bug it already great ship(i use 10 segmen as hangar and the rest as weapon chamber), but when exploit that bug and suitable missile and weapon it become to OP( can solo, Remanant starbase plus 3 Full size Remanant fleet, well of course a long battle)
also amazing video
First time I paid for a game outside of Steam and GOG in a somewhat shady looking website. 10/10, will buy the game again this year.
I want to love this game, I have like 10 hours in it, and I still don't know what my objectives are other than zip around
Intel screen
"Please support these Devs!"
For real y'all... this is a great game. I did pirate it at first using Seth's key but I did buy a copy just to support the guys! Buy the game, it's the tits!
Same, I played 400 hours with sseths key and then just yesterday I bought a key because the game is just so good.
@@5erase I don't recall how long I played before I purchased... but yea... It have got my moneys worth and then some out of this game.
After using your tips from guide my suicide ram rates of fleet officers reached 41 % smh
Amazing game!
I only came across it due to a torrent site but thought it looks good so will give it a go so I downloaded it played it for about 4 hrs backed up my save uninstalled the torrent copy and bought 3 copies one for me, my best mate and my cousin.
Interesting
1:17 hmmm something about that design is familiar... maybe it reminds me of a bird of some kind?
Huuh, the AI being competent, I can't agree. Sure, it could be worse, and sure, I understand it must be hard to make, but still, competent is an overstatement
I just wish I could get 'aggressive' officers that didn't decide to ram into 350u of the enemy ship because they've got fucking PD weapons...
@@killsode4760 And I wish I didn't have steady capital ships hiding behind me while my cruisers and destroyers go flying right in front of me
Manipulating the behavior of the AI isn’t just dictated by “aggressiveness”, the way your fit out weapons + the types and ranges + roles of those weapons play a huge part in AI behavior.
Competent is very accurate - great would be an overstatement. It has its flaws, but it's pretty consistent with those flaws and you can do things about them. The only problem that is unfixable is ships chasing smaller ships way too far away from the points they are supposed to be defending, but that's rare and only happens when the ship is too slow yet almost has it beat.
@@Arkar-pl9ku yeah, I've gotten more aggressive play out of steady officers than aggressive ones just by giving them heavy firepower with low range and decent flux management.
>ALLIED SHIPS COME IN FRONT TO SHIELD
THEN WHY DO MY FRIGATES DO THE EXACT FUCKING OPPOSITE OF THAT AND JUST RETREAT PASSIVE AGGRESIVELY WITH MY HAMMERHEAD, LEAVING IT TO DIE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ships behaviour is determined by many different things, such as ship types, weapons, player orders and tactics and officer personality
Bigger ships (hammerhead) is supposed to defend smaller ships (the frigates) while they support and distract the target
Should have thrown in HMI just to show the other end of the spectrum from VIC and DA. Sure wacky abilities and cool guns are neat, but what if we strap a small planets GDP of engines onto this low tec starfortress and go hunting pirates?
Oi you forgot to speak about sseth and its review of the game has more Information about the game and its fun.
considering sseth's name is plastered over every google search of this game, i think it's fair to assume everyone knows of that video.
@@cassius_scrungoman I will say that review is more for "look how cool that game is, play it" rather than for lore or gameplay mechanics (it says transverse jump is illegal while it is not, it just doesn't enable your transponder when jumping into the system among few other things; tl;dr - skill issue)
*HEY HEY People intensifies*
Which mod was used when showing off the [REDACTED]? My next run is trying to max the automated ship feature.
You're making me feel bat for autofitting
BLACKROCK DRIVEYARDS BLACKROCK DRIVEYARDS BLACKROCK DRIVEYARDS ok thanks