The Free Open World Sci Fi RPG With 20 Years of Content | Transcendence
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Transcendence gameplay with Splattercat! Let's Play Transcendence and check out a game where you'll cruise around the galaxy attempting to answer the call of a hyper intelligent AI.
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Chat - I have made a mistake. I've had the game for so long on steam that my brain farted and thought it was free with the dlcs on the side for money. That is apparently not true. This is a big screw up and I feel super bad about it. The base version is free from the devs website but not on steam, much like TOME. Not sure what wires got crossed but that's on me ----> sorry about that. :(
no problem lol, I wonder why they don't just put the free version as demo on steam, this can solve the confusion
If you want to be on steam you have to pay steam.... It does make their game more visible and I do like the central storage and updates from steam. So meh bought it
@@AnomynousNo doubt it's worth the scratch anyhow, and as a game manager, I agree with purchasing it. I do like the idea of vanilla posting as a demo, like what Delta V Rings of Saturn did so Ukraninans could get it free, and everyone else as a consequence. Us indies don't need billions. I for one am much too busy but I will start posting projects for donations and then once ready for steam I'll be taking the demo being the base game with the full game also being sold and add-ons or expansions for sale as well so packages can be put together for discount sales as well.
Now if only I could stop being a trucker long enough to put more things in motion instead of just spinning design plates and infinitum.
Man's gotta make his bread. /Caligo I think... :)
If that's a big screw-up you're better at this than I thought possible 😂
This was my first pc video game like 15 years ago. So glad to see its still in development, years after it was put up on Steam.
Is is the same game? I've been looking for this kind of game since childhood, but I feel like the graphics back then is just some green line art ship and planets
@@itsdaffxter20 years of development changes alot of things. Shouldn't be that hard of a concept
@@itsdaffxterI smell a Gen Z kid who's never played a video game
@@TheXxPSYCHO Why? Because he said that he remembers back then that the graphics were a lot worse? Is that so hard to imagine that the graphics were worse 20 years ago? I smell someone with blue hair and a hemorrhoid
Always like to see one of the old timer's come out and give a thumbs up on one of Splat's videos... Thanks!
This is such a fun game. To be fair, I also love the modding scene that grew alongside the creator of this game. My favorite is the Playership Drones mod by PM. Nothing feels more satisfying than plundering the hull of the Kronosaur that was sent to unalive you, then turning it into our very own mobile packmule and heavy frigate escort while you're still zipping around in the tiny Wolfen gunship.
Playership Drones is the core mod to have. Keeping your own personal fleet parked in a system is both convenient and fun when pirates fly in and get vaporized by the full might and power of the player's navy.
Splat, I watch alot of your videos. Just thought I'd take a moment to say how much I appreciate your insight into games, your humor and the references you make. I'll never look at pigeons the same way. Have a blessed day, man!
Glad you're back, man
Welcome back, brigador.
OMG. This game is still around?? I was playing this with on my school's Pentium PCs!!
Definitely going to buy it to support the Dev.
11:00 "you don't have a talent tree or anything like that" - You totally do! You have "Domina Powers" that you level up by making donations at the temples!
Reminds me of Escape Velocity and EV: Nova. A good thing.
EV: Nova is the gold standard for space games IMO but I have extreme bias lol
Endless Sky is amazing, free, and the true successor the Escape Velocity. (It even has the Kestrel.)
Glad to have you back. I’m prob around your age and always enjoy your references. Cracks me up when you talk fondly of the 90s and early 2000’s. It’s great when I hear your stories and I remember having the same experiences. You said you were thinking of where and more importantly what direction your life is headed. I’ve been watching your UA-cam videos for the past couple years now and have seen all your older videos as well as playlists. You’ve been entertaining me after finishing work and can relax a bit. I know you have some very thankful watchers such as myself so I just wanted to thank you. I know you also don’t have advertisers on your channel, but I think what you do is a service and a lot of work. I honestly wouldn’t mind if you did have sponsors/advertisers since it is only a small portion of the videos and of all the channels I do watch you deserve to be properly compensated. I know it’s prob not just finances that you might be dwelling on at the moment, but to me you deserve to not only make content you enjoy, you should be given an opportunity to have some help in delivering your content. You should be rolling in it in my opinion lol and to be able to maybe have some editing help or assistance in gaming research and anything else making content entails. Maybe that would enable you to have the time to do anything else you enjoy in your life. I know this is a long comment but I really wanted to thank you and I will be watching and supporting whatever you choose to release on your channel. I hope you will be as happy and content as I am watching your videos.
Was there an announcement I missed? Where/when did he discuss the break?
man I remember looking for free games that ran on Windows Vista on a Dell Optiplex back in 2008 as a kid and playing a bunch of hours with Transcendence. It's wild that I can still download it now to my steam account over 15 years later and it's still in active dev.
1:48 Splattercat Space Gandalf in Space Moria: "I have no recollection of blowing up this place..."
I'll say again, glad you are back on YT again. Don't listen to the haters, your knowledge, presentation, and energy are great. Keep doing what you are doing, man. Just remember- haters gonna hate, potaters gonna po-tate.
This!
It’s hard to fathom the amount of dedication someone needs to invest 10 years into making a game, and while space exploration tends to be outside of what I normally go for. I’ll go check it out
These solo developers live in another dimension
Oh man, this reminds me of the mid-90's gem "Escape Velocity"
I'll be checking this out.
Luv to see a game that's been around and continues across the years!, and if it gets a sequel or update mores the better! Glad Splatty's back, hope all's well with him. Hard to imagine Splatty being at-all lonely, seems such a interesting and likeable person!
Been playing this on and off for more than 15 years - really incredible labour of love, amazing how far it's come, and great to see Splat giving it some much-needed airtime
So glad to see my daily cat again c:
Thanks for the content, chief!
Kinda reminds me of a cool old game i wish was still around. Silent death was a beyond fun online game similar to this style.
Welcome back bud! Game looks really cool. Thanks for the efforts and keep them coming; Indie games need a voice.
Happy you're back homie keep having a good day you got me through many bad ones
Thanks Splat. Great content. Good to see you back.
Aw man, I've got to get back into Transcendence again now... So fun, so moddable, endless content remixed in endless ways!
12:34
"I was analysing where do I want to go with my life and I found this and literally stayed where I am, meeh no changes needed".
I played this in 2002 or 2003. There was not much for it at the time. I revisit it from time to time. It was clearly a labor of love by the dev. Even in the beginning, there were mods. Someone added Star Trek ships, which were totally OP in the early game.
Settings > Ease of Access > Keyboard. Uncheck the box saying "Allow the shortcut key to start Sticky Keys"
Saved me a ton of headaches.
Transcendence is a phenomenal game. Kudos to George Moromisato.
Oh man, how have I never heard of this before .. Super busy as far as games are concerned right now, but this one goes straight to the top of my Steam wishlist. Thank you!!
17:00 Heh heh, he said girth... ;)
Loved it. Great content Splat - like always.
Holy shit, I played this game 17-20 years ago and I had been trying to figure out the name of the game was to find it again! THANK YOU!
Love that Splat calls his adversaries 'nerd'. What was that about pots and kettles...
I played this way back in college. Nice to see that it's still kicking. It was ready fun
I played this like over a decade ago with the Toonami ost on repeat. Broken Promise coming on while drifting through space is pretty sublime.
Thank you, Splat! I appreciate you!
Escape Velocity vibes. Good memories.
welcome back to the nerd castle indeed, glad to see ya back!
I'm one of the 4% who make it to the tail end of (most of) your videos! ;) I caught that comment and chuckled. Pretty sure it's the same for any YT creator whose videos are more than about 3 minutes long...
you can also savescum to find out what the rom does and if its bad or does nothing cuz you already got the upgrade you can just reset to the save before using them
There may be other game channels but yours is the one im subbed to.
You're not a perfect person, but you are a really cool person and I'm very glad to have found your channel.
'Sticky-Keys worst nightmare...' XD XD XD
Splatty is in fine form today. XD
That last ship was a fan, splat... How _dare_ you?
Sweet dude this looks awesome, great find. Ima go download it now
Welcome back, glad to see ya!
one of the things that makes many games possible is conflict, death, and destruction. This is also part of what makes video games fun as you get to enjoy destruction and such in a way that doesn't cause any legal damage. it's a video game. it is far more difficult to design a "video game" where everyone has to live in peace. This normally means giving the player the literal power to terraform the land, all of it.
I love this game to death, thanks so much for covering it SplatterCat!
The visuals are very clean and i like that they are sort of understated.
The cosmos never struck me as neon.
Thanks for showcasing! ^^
Now this is a blast from the past.
0:58 it sounds like we're RPing, role playing, as Dr Rush from Stargate: Destiny.
Its nice to see this game around. I remember completing a version like 10 years ago.
"he just got reinforced..."
"he just got unreinforced..."
Thx! I thought about that game just a few weeks ago and wanted to check if it's still around - but couldn't remember how it was called... :D
If you have to shoot twice, it's not a Jacobs.
I feel like I just discovered that water is drinkable.. how could I have missed this one.. thanks splat.
When the aliens rock up and try to murder you, punch them in the face and say "Welcome to Erf!"
I remember this one. Biggest issue was the fact that there were issues with the save file. If it reaches a certain size, like if you decided to slowly and painstakingly explore the cosmos on your way to the "end" of the game, the game will fail to load it, and it will crash unless you manage to delete alot of blown up space stations, ships, and stored items.
This happens at about 30%-60% the way through your journey most of the time. If you play it light and fast, you'll make it to the end without your save file being incapable of being loaded by the game. No idea if this was ever corrected, but if it was, I'd be more than willing to put my money into it for the expansion packs.
In regards to specific things for your playthrough, pirates will attack targets that are not allied to them. Some of those transports that the pirates don't attack are smuggler ships, which will not make the system's constabulary hostile when you attack them, and will also be carrying illegal goods for that system.
A good tactic is to blow up a pirate station and use its carcass as a place to store items like extra fuel or random damaged items that you can sell to tinkers.
When you run out of fuel, a timer appears that counts down until your life support system runs out of power and you die.
Any utility equipment labeled External like the armor repair spider is capable of being damaged when you get hit with shields down, so it is recommended to not take damage while it's equipped.
The corrupt saves problems seem to have been resolved several updates ago.
@@RavenAdventwings That's great! I've been keeping this one off my games to play again list because of that one issue
I like that there are cast shadows in space... :D
THIS was the game I remembered playing a long time ago. I looked for it for so long, but I couldn't find it.
I effing love you. Thank you for learnin' me!
Looks cool! I was just playing Nethack the other day and love scifi, so seems like a good game for me, haha!
suddenly star valor makes a lot more sense, honestly. thanks for your coverage, i'll check this out.
Welcome back my man!!!
Where have you been?
My days felt empty without you in them lately!!!
That donetsk part. wish we could save it that easy
oh my god i remember playing this back when it was first getting developed, it was so different way back when, i was so much smaller too
Thanks for the vid Splatt
I did try this once, ages ago. It never really grew on me but I cant remember why.
Never played Nethack but this gives me some Escape Velocity vibes... And that's a great thing
looks a lot like Star Valor... that's not a bad thing
Glad to see you back Splatty 👍
Looks like it plays like an expanded form of Asteroids with the collision turned off for easy mode.
Yep. Wikis and achievements are the bane of much gaming fun IMHO.
Cool art design & intriguing game world.
My slow reflexes would be a problem during combat though, Still, I may just give it a whirl.
Yes.
Being old can be a problem.
But free so even if I suck at it...
Get the cargo hauler with the omnidirectional laser as start ship while you get used to moving around, then try the Sapphire and Wolfen later.
Wow, I played this... in 2007-2008. 16 years ago. 😅 Was quite addicted. Might have to give it another go, if only to celebrate its longevity.
Man I played this such a long time ago. I found it after playing EV Nova a decade or two ago. Loved it.
Good game. so much depth even when it comes to just kitting out your Ships, custom drones and side kicks.
ThankYou SirSpatt
Quite a fantastic space game it is! Reminds me of Stat Valour and Drox🥰
Looks interesting. I hadn't really thought about how this niche of top-down space games has continued to evolve from the earliest days of computer gaming. I found a similar format game a few years ago, Endless Sky. I'll def check out Transcendance too, since I loved the original NetHack, and it'd be fun to see how the creator has translated that into his own game concept.
I tried Endless Sky a bit, too. It feels more like a different take on the Escape Velocity games with how the ships operate and how the systems are basically just a network of planetary systems linked together via multiple jump lanes. It's a different kind of fun, I guess.
Hey I loved Endless Sky and if you haven't heard of Starsector you should check it out
You might want to give Star Valor a look too. Splat did a video on it a while back.
Oh wow, anyone remember "Swarm" for the Windows 98? If this didn't remind you of that, and you remember that game then you got issues lol. Except in Swarm everything kills you. Rocks, aliens... Yourself on explosives (i believe).
Well I'm firmly in the 4% bracket :))
im happy to be one of those 4%'s, and you keep selling me on so many things.
It's lazor collimator. It collimates mah lazors.
at first glancce looks like another open source game, Endless Sky ;D
...20 years, got to respect that.
Wow, been a long time since I checked this out.
"Inspired by NetHack"
Or Escape Velocity, because this looks EXACTLY like Escape Velocity XD
This is exactly what I've been looking for.
I actually played that when was a youngling ca. 15 or 17 years ago. Holy shit time flies. Im trying to remember what pc i played this on (and in what city in lived in) but i cant.
Woo! I am one of the 4%! =P
Not free on steam. £11.39 in the UK
They may have spotted that you were covering it... LOL
Did you even read the description on steam?
'The core version of Transcendence is available as a free download, but this Steam edition bundles two paid expansions.'
Been saying that to everyone....like damn read the page and you'd see its linked to the freebie
Thanks for the video.
As far as I understood from the review I read; the DLC's came out a long time ago (the review I read is from 2015 and that says that the Steam version has all the DLC's already) so I'm wondering if there will be more official adventures/DLC if there hasn't been any new ones for a long time. The game looks alright either way =)
The AI sounds like Sean Murray.
I wish Splatter gives Star Citizen a try.
Why would Splat play a game that is a total scam?
@@Kevbo2040 It's Free to play twice a year. I would like to hear Splat's opinion on the game.
1. It's a scam. 2. It's not an indie game. 3. Having raised over half a billion dollars from rubes by selling pictures of ships, it has no incentive to ever be more than that.
@@lifetime05 I have seen him playing Triple A games before. Some people say it's a scam many say it's not. No harm in trying it on the Free Fly event and hearing his opinion.
Seem like a interesting game, thanks for showing me it.
Played it back in the day. I remember being disappointed I couldn't buy newer ships and switch to them. Seems to be the same.
Single player dark orbit, i like it. Wonder why it took so long to develop, but if its good then worth it
I like the idea of crafting your ship up to be unique with mods and buffs. Or the programs that can cause I guess like imbuements. But 20 years you say? Where have I been? To young I suppose even though I feel aancient.
its still free on their website.. however they are now charging 14.99 including expansion on steam with no way to buy the base game.