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Post by bookworm21 on Aug 5, 2015 5:39:06 GMT -5
My 18th is today, so now I can finally use PayPal I could get in on the ST2 Kickstarter. I will admit I'm a little late, but better late than never  |
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Post by hissrad on Aug 5, 2015 8:11:46 GMT -5
Well happy birthday man!
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 5, 2015 16:50:36 GMT -5
Happy Birthday!!!
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Post by hollywo0d960 on Aug 9, 2015 21:13:54 GMT -5
I'm just curious when do we get alpha access to st2 if we backed KS for that tier?
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Post by Alex Fury on Aug 10, 2015 15:34:55 GMT -5
Belated, but happy birthday Bookworm
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Post by bookworm21 on Aug 13, 2015 1:58:22 GMT -5
I'm just curious when do we get alpha access to st2 if we backed KS for that tier? The rough time line given is about December of this year onwards, for several months. |
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Post by amongstshadows on Jan 16, 2017 23:33:59 GMT -5
I've decided to resurrect this thread rather than make a new one that takes up space.
Just was wondering if st2 was staying as a one vs one combat system, or if there would be more than two ships fighting at the same time?
I always thought it was goofy that the military of a world would send one ship at a time to stop your blockade. Then again maybe shalun law says battles must be one vs one lol. But what about independents?
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Post by resistor on Jan 16, 2017 23:54:43 GMT -5
I've decided to resurrect this thread rather than make a new one that takes up space. Just was wondering if st2 was staying as a one vs one combat system, or if there would be more than two ships fighting at the same time? I always thought it was goofy that the military of a world would send one ship at a time to stop your blockade. Then again maybe shalun law says battles must be one vs one lol. But what about independents? Combat will be 1 main ship vs 1 main ship, but those ships can carry smaller craft to act as fighters and boarding shuttles. |
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Post by fallen on Jan 17, 2017 1:17:05 GMT -5
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Post by bookworm21 on Jan 17, 2017 9:18:16 GMT -5
We've put down the foundational work so that sequels of the new game engine (Heroes and beyond) will be able to gather game state data from the previous games. Mass Effect was a big inspiration for this. It is very possible that your Episode 1 Act 1 choices in Heroes of Steel will have impacts in Legends of Steel, Episode 2 Act 3. ME raised the bar for everyone who's planning a set of connected games =) ... is this still a thing/planned feature? |
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Post by fallen on Jan 17, 2017 12:00:37 GMT -5
bookworm21 - the game state data has been gathered ...
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Post by Cory Trese on Jan 17, 2017 12:02:45 GMT -5
FOCUS ON ST2 YOU HIPPIE.
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Post by sheff on Jan 17, 2017 12:39:32 GMT -5
Have we hit a nerve cory trese?  Episodic ST 2? The 40 dead captain's ships show up on the auction block three weeks later... |
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Post by Cory Trese on Jan 17, 2017 12:52:40 GMT -5
I'm afraid the ST2 data structures are too complex for us to use them in an episodic way like HoS.
That type of data portability requires a lot of up front planning, and wasn't part of the ST2 plan, so we walled that entire wing off.
Because the setting is procedurally generated, and the player's quests are hand coded and mix together, it would be pretty impossible to carry that data forward.
We have laughed about the option that when your Captain dies, the Crew elects a surviving officer Captain and you get to play on.
In that mode, ST2 becomes the story of the SHIP, not the story of the CAPTAIN. It is interesting, but I think less so than the game ending.
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Post by sheff on Jan 17, 2017 19:39:17 GMT -5
That would be an interesting mod to the game. Oh, oooo, expansions. You got the expansion Star Traders, Tales of the Ghost Ship right there. The higher the tier of ship, the higher the level of the captain that buys her. Just add a specialiality that enables the Templars to take over your vessel if it's too OP, and you become a Proper Overpowered Regular militarY General filled to the gills with a platoon of crazed soldiers and torps aplenty. Then I can't lise the game ever again. EVER!!! No more risk, or peril to endure from anything.I am a rock, i am an island, sound of silence, all that jazz. |
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