Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

[DraQ]

<s>Too bad Nexus turned out to be such a boring piece of shit. I barely made it to a mission 5 or 6. This isn't a game at all - just select one command and watch a game play itself for 5 minutes until another order is needed.</s> wut its not shooter herp derp

The only bad things about Nexus are:
-unbelievably shitty weapon and armour/firepower balance
-the fact that you only get cool ships in the early few missions.
-crashiness
-messianic vibe about Marcus Cromwell
-the fact that the person who wrote the alien dialogues didn't die of repeated ball-stomping yet
-color coded nuclear fireballs

 

[MetalCraze]

But the biggest issue is a lack of any kind of gameplay.
It must be a great fun ordering your ship to attack something and then just moving camera around it for 5 minutes because you can't do anything else. You can't even manouever so each mission turns into a retarded puzzle "guess which ship to attack first to get the least damage overall". Good thing the "game" tanked.

 

[DraQ]

You can't even manouever

Press and hold "Shift", then go be dumb somewhere else.

 

[Arem]

Be wise and learn Skyway!

Poor Russian pirates have it hard.

 

[GarfunkeL]

EmoVamp, everything onboard a space craft generates heat. Energyweapons heat much quicker than anything else. Spaceship has only way to rid itself of heat permanently - radiation into space. While space is cold, heat radiation is extremely meager way to deal with heat - especially if fighting in inner system, where Sun still warms all objects easily enough.

Kinetic weapons (cannons, miniguns, mass drivers, etc) have very, very short effective ranges, because how slow & 'dumb' they are.

Ergo, missiles are best, especially since their seeker heads and engines will function better without athmosphere to mess things up. And they can maneuver while in-flight.

So, my money for 'realistic' space battle twenty minutes in future would be big cargo ships lobbing hundreds of missiles towards each other and the missiles would be MIRV's, trying to swarm the defences which would be very similar to current AEGIS-system. Combine that with insane levels of electronic warfare and voila!

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html

 

[MetalCraze]

This single mistake doesn't change that there's still no gameplay in this game.
I'll better go play some other strategy game which requires player's input once in a while.

 

[DraQ]

This single mistake doesn't change that there's still no gameplay in this game.
I'll better go play some other strategy game which requires player's input once in a while.

Go be dumb somewhere else. Or, at least, make legitimate complaints, like about how criminally imbalanced the game is, rather than retarded ones.

Speaking of imbalance - are there any mods leaving the rest of the game intact, but tweaking the weaponry, so that shield piercers are actually useful without having to decorate entire ship with them, so that taking out subsystems with lasers is a valid tactics, and so that huge booms from missiles can break an unshielded ship in half?

 

[Emotional Vampire]

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html

Hey, don't link me to Atomic Rocket, that's where I have all the info in the first place.

Yes, heat is a problem, but seriously, it's a weapon moving at speed of light. There is just no competition, period. What, you want to launch missiles and wait twelve hours before they hit the target? Not to mention they can, just like anything else, be shot down or avoided alltogether.