XO - Space Against Time
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- XO is a fascinating twist on the sci-fi roguelike, as you're challenged to fight your way through a hostile galaxy without any weapons, accompanied by a refugee fleet without any armor...
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Hi everyone, I'm one of the XO devs so if you have questions I'll try and respond here! And thanks @ManyATrueNerd!
Cool. Do you have an expected release date for the full release, or an expected update calendar?
@@owenmcintire119 we will release on Steam early access this year, but full release depends on a lot of things, so it's impossible to say. We want to add a lot more to the game.
I love the graphics.
Good work so far! The starting ship should launch its own fighters XD
How long before you get Colonial One in your fleet?
Your legendary perception at work again... Did you see that when you can give a command like Hail or Follow, you can actually tell your ship if it should approach the target clock- or counterclock-wise?
In my extremely limited defence, as it's still in alpha, there's very little tutorial, so that's probably not the only thing I missed...
@@ManyATrueNerd That's okay, we love you anyway ;)
@@incrediblyStupid678 Mostly
Yeah, I was going to mention that, and Jon's defence is indeed extremely limited.
XO Dev here, we plan on improving the first event to make spinward/antispinward actions clearer. Glad you picked up on it, it's way too subtle right now!
Game: exists
Jon: It’s like FTL but...
Honestly I'm considering making the least FTL game ever then emailing Jon saying it's FTL but not.
It'll sell nothing because it'll be shit, but still.
19:21 The blue thing that freaked Jon out was his own ship. The green thing he thought was his own ship was the cache he just looted.
*A BattleStar Galactica Mod for this game would be a Masterpiece*
Fun fact - it was initially introduced to me as FTL and Battlestar Galactica's love child.
XO Dev here, we don't have the license for BSG but we do plan to make the game moddable...
I'd love to see an Stargate mod; let me stop the invasion of Goa'uld or the Replicators dangit!
@@jumpdrivestudios4833 I am in Love for you guys 0-0
@@shazdeh4693 wow that's an awesome idea!
Oh Jon, the victors write the history. At best you will have a comedic passage in a harvester book of conquest.
4:23 "He doesn't have any guns, and we don't have any guns. So if we decided we were at war, I'm not sure what we'd really do about it. Probably just exchange rude words over the comms."
Jon are you aware that Canada and Denmark have basically been at "War" for the last several decades over an uninhabited isle in the middle of the North Atlantic ocean (Hans Island)? We show up, drop off a nice friendly note, run up our flag, and leave a bottle of booze for each other each time we do it. It's just the polite thing to do!
So do answer your question of what two polite people that go to war do... That's what we do.
game: has resources and is in space
jon: IT'S LIKE FTL BUT
Jon, I saw it. I, the Poet, saw and heard everything.
You lead them to their death.
You only tried to save them because you needed more supply ships.
Don't feel safe Jon. The Poet remembers, words and deeds will be written down.
This has potential, I'll be keeping tabs on it. Thanks for the heads up Jon 👍
Starts video,
My brain, "is that a pentagram in the corner?"
Graphics give a very original Elite vibe.
Also I wanna say its a "Vetrographics" style, but I'm not sure that is 100% the right phrase. The Star Wars Arcade Game is in the same style. That.
It's more lines than vectors. I think of vectors as generally color filled.
@@5Andysalive There was a graphics style in the late 70s early 80s, something along the lines of VectroGraphics, Vector Graphics or similar.
@@KashouWannabe Exactly! I love the old school vector arcade games - Battlezone, Red Baron, Black Widow, Asteroids, Omega Race, etc., and Elite on the PC of course.
This game looks similar to games on systems like the Vectrex.
Vectors don't need to be filled, in retro computing parlance you'll find "filled" used as an adjective before "vector" because filled vectors are much more expensive computationally and were less common. Also in the underlying math a vector is really just a point or a direction.
Thorsten Ørts Vectors are a mathematical entity with, dare I say it, "Direction and Magnitude", oh yeah!
It looked like when you chose your destinations in a system, you could select the direction you rotated on. Not sure if it works that way, but it looked like it.
So this is what civilian ships see when the prethoryn show up.
Are we absolutely sure that the Harvestlrs are bad guys? Isn't it possible that they want to be our friends but are just really bad at giving hugs?
It seems like a good concept, but the pacing seems too quick. They throw the harvesters at you without really giving an opportunity to build. Also seems like the harvesters expand too quickly.
XO Dev here, glad you like the concept! Our dev pace is pretty quick; we've already adjusted the harvester's expansion rate down in v1.10. There's no building in the game as in a traditional RTS, you have to build your fleet on the run, so yeah the harvesters do push you to keep moving.
Kindly have Claire remind you about this when it hits $team, Jon. I'd love to see you stream the release build.
Would love to see more of this
big damn hero jon
big damn hero.
ACTUALLY, you COULD be a big damn hero if you bring this back. Super cool, Stellaris battles with FTL?
I backed this game on Kickstarter 4 years ago and promptly forgot all about it. Still looks like decent fun. Can't wait for the final release when I get my Kickstarter copy.
Such a surprise! A game with step-by-step mechanics, the ability to be good guy or bad guy based on decision making. It looks like "Many a True Nerd" not only is an expert at the controls, a marksman & a resources management master - he knows his games.
Question: Could you try "Delivery from the Pain" game? It seems like zombie Apocalypse action. Your take on it would be a worthwhile video. Hmm. Decisions, decisions . . .
Alpha version?
Early access?
Well say goodbye to this game because Jon is never gonna cover it when it is fully released
So little faith - Overland's coming back to celebrate its launch version later this month.
@@ManyATrueNerd you sure told him. 😅
@@ManyATrueNerd Jokes aside, I get why you may not cover some games when they are released.
The cult of Claire finds your lack of faith disturbing...
This game looks pretty cool so far I'd love to see what's done with it later game and if the diferent governments later game start putting out active battleships to defend gainst the harvester threat, I would love to play this cant wait for it to come out
Thanks Dylan, there is a lot more to the game and quite a few more ship types including big warships from the other factions!
@@jumpdrivestudios4833 I cant wait to see the rest of the ship types I enjoy games with a good bit of variety
You should try Starsector. It's a Mount & Blade-like space simulator. Pretty deep.
I would say this is like "Star Control but".
Incidentally, try out Star Control, Jon. The Ur-Quan Masters.
Hmm... I think the Harvesters take over systems a bit TOO quickly... could be a balance issue.
Well you convinced me. Just bought for 25. Now to wait until they release it.
This game definitely isn't for everyone, but with a solid story supporting the gameplay this could be something very special.
Yeah, even the most basic of a story would make this pretty good. What exactly is the pact-empire-Corp? Why are some of them at war? Who are we as a a player?
Just throwing the player out there with a battleship isn't terrible but some reasons would be nice.
Solid story, that's for you to decide, but there's currently over 10,000 words of narrative and a multi-year attempt at making a coherent trope-free universe. You can skip through all or most of it, as ManyATrueNerd did, or you can read it if you're into that kind of thing. The first event sets up some of the basics, but he (wisely) skipped all that and got straight to the gameplay.
@@jumpdrivestudios4833
You can't make a "trope free" universe.
@@Idazmi7 yeah I should have chosen my words more carefully. What I meant is that I tried hard to create something new.
@@jumpdrivestudios4833
That's understandable, and for the record, I think you're succeeding. If I have one criticism, it's the infinitely spawning fighters on those harvester ships. Seems a bit overkill to me.
I'm a backer of this game and eagerly read each update but haven't watched anyone playing it yet.
Thanks for backing us!
When you have even slightest interest in occult things you just can't unsee red downward pointing 5 point star drawn inside red downward pointing pentagon.
Next thing you do is trying to decipher demon's name: Cipre, Ciper, Cepir, Cerip, Recip...
When you finally understand it's just first letters of faction names you still can't comprehend why, just why game makers decided to make it downward pointing star and pentagon instead of being an upward pointing ones...
Yeah that instantly caught my eye, it's extremely jarring. I wonder why they chose that design.
Why IS there a pentagram?
@@fraser9580 Possibly a plot element?
XO Dev here, we had to describe the relationships between five different factions, there's not really another good way to do it. But if you must have a name I prefer EPICR :)
@@jumpdrivestudios4833 Hello XO dev! I've been following the game for a very long time, way back when the original kickstarter was launched. Very excited that it's finally releasing after reading so many dev logs.
Was ready for a angry FTL clone comment. But it seems to have some nice new and different ideas and more depth than that.
It's still about facing completely luck based random encounters but has more mechanics inbetween it.. Let's face it: it's not like FTL at all. Which is good.
However Jon is still not quite sure what a "Galaxy" is. As are the game devs. It's not a galaxy with individual planets. And for one Solar System it's way too much planets.
Hopefully in work.
Well it is not like FTLexcept in the fundamental flaw of FTL, most clones and most rogue likes in general: It's designed to kill you, not to be fun. Also involves "endless spawns" and rapid growth of unbeatable enemy. Hopefully not (again) ruined by annyoyingly unfunny difficulty levels.. I guess it's on my "watch careful from a distance what happens with it" list.
Holy crap I just realized that. What the actual hell is up with that map? Individual systems in which you scavenge through, with many more stations and ships within each would be much more compelling. Make the jump an event instead of something common.
Xo Dev here, thanks for the compliments! Just a small correction until/if you get a chance to play: the events do follow rules - they are for sure not completely random. So it's more procedural than straight RNG. We tried that and it was... not good. But you're right, it's definitely designed to be challenging. We're trying to give you multiple ways to succeed, and opportunities to recover from setbacks.
@@SadenIsWatchin The original game design had multiple planets at a given destination, but it just confused things and didn't add anything to the actual gameplay in practice. It was one of the first things we cut.
@@jumpdrivestudios4833 Copy that. Some ideas just don't work out the way they sound on paper.
Imagine FTL but the encounters are mostly interesting funny or creative. Not all a 50:50 chance to die or lose someone.
I honestly can't think of one off these procedural "story" games that does that. High difficulty seems to be the defining feature. Which is a shame beacuse many of them have amazing base ideas and concepts.
Hey Jon, you ever play Escape Velocity? Early Mac game, like FTL
i was looking for dnb tracks.
than i realized this was one of jon's videos sneaking its way into the pile of music..
More please!
I f you like that art style and space games, I'd love to see you try something else. Warning Forever
it's basically a top-down boss rush shooter with a twist: the bosses you fight evolve differently based on your behavior.
Might not sound like much, but this mechanic makes it VERY addictive and your reaction to all this would probably make good channel material :)
wow this game seems... extremely cool
So basically FTL: Battlestar Gallactica.
This somehow reminds me a lot of Star Control...
So your ship is call Broadsword and there's no Danny Boy reference?
All together now..."diddly diddly dee"
I'm liking the shorter week day vids.
Cool, BUT why is the relationship graph in the top right corner SATAN
It's just the best way to describe relationships between the five factions, that's all.
Jumpdrive Studios I know, but couldn’t they at least but it right side up?
@@owenmcintire119 I'm the creator of XO. :) Hi. We tried it both ways, and it looked weird the other way. It's not a huge deal to add a 'flip the relationship chart' option if people feel strongly about it. After beta we're likely going to early access so there will be plenty of time for feedback. We know the game isn't perfect.
Jumpdrive Studios oh wow. I honestly didn’t, notice you were the developers. Cool, if it’s the best way, I guess you would know.
gives a ship named broadsword - gives no weapons, so, basically just a handle?
Hey Jon, for you next game I think you should do "Bendy and the Ink Machine". Love you videos keep up the good work.
Why is there a pentagram on the top right
Probably shows the influence of the 5 factions. Each letter in the pentagram corresponds with the name of a faction.
im a simple lad.
i see a new MATN video,
i click it
Hopefully Jon will play Cyberpunk 2077
A space game where you start on the bottom of the galactic ladder and need to defeat a purple swarm of powerful enemies? SPAZ 2 tried that and did an okay job, hope this one isn't as easy to break the balance of though.
Well, if it is easy to break the balance, I want to know about it so I can fix it. Never played SPAZ 2, but XO is more about building a fleet and dealing with factions/making hard decisions from the looks of it.
@@jumpdrivestudios4833 SPAZ 2 was incredibly easy if you spammed nothing but long range fighter modules while kiting the enemy since the AI didn't flank or encircle just beeline straight to you/allies.
@@nogravitas7585 you'll definitely get encircled if you kite in XO
This reminds me a lot of battlestar galactica.
"Space against Time" Palkia and Dialga?
Is like FTL but similar to like god of war but
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Mental note: never ever join Jon's fleet
So, Battlestar Galactica.
what is that... star doing in the top right..?
It's like showing faction relation ships, I think.
@@hakenbacker i sure do hope theres a way to flip that chart ingame..
@@BeefjerkyMusic Pfft, it's fine.
@@hakenbacker yup, that's it
Yaay :D Maybe I should start a Let's Play... nah.
jon ought to play star traders or star sector
Those harvesters would become too annoying for me.
Me : This looks like a really dull game, even for Jon.
Also Me : Is that a fuhreakin' pentagram in the corner? (watches)
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Im only interested in the X series. Sorry.
So basically this is FTL meets dark souls?
More like FTL meets Mount and Blade
Neither of these seem to make sense. Hell, it's barely FTL anyway besides...the resource mechanics? The RPG elements? For such a subpar game FTL had a really really long reach.
@@SadenIsWatchin FTL? Subpar? FTL is a fantastic game! A lot of things in XO were inspired by or triggered by FTL.
@@muffinz7035 FTL is a decent game the first time you play it. Then it's just meh. Just my opinion of course.