Why the fuck are there so few space combat games? I just want to dogfight in the stars damn it.
Why the fuck are there so few space combat games? I just want to dogfight in the stars damn it
Jonathan Gutierrez
Caleb Price
Space... is strong!
Xavier Peterson
Me too, user
Jack Robinson
What happened to that one user who was supposedly making a Freelance clone?
John Garcia
Is this good?
Aiden Flores
What's stopping you from playing what's out there?
Chase Turner
Boot up halo reach and play that one space dogfight mission. Still incredibly fun and really fucking weird that they never brought that back in.
Jace Edwards
First I've heard of it but looks neat thanks user
Kayden Williams
they just aren't that fun and the niche of players who 'want it' dont actually know what they want
fundamentally, the problem that you don't care about because you're a braindead npc, is that spaceplane combat lacks all the interesting flight mechanics of atmospheric combat that makes the fights engaging on a high level
So it can only ever be dumb shallow arcadey shit, and that simply doesn't build up a strong playerbase
until space combat games are made with actual physical depth and mechanics in mind it will continue to be nothing more than dumb shallow arcadey shit that cannot build a strong playerbase
Alexander Reyes
Arcade gameplay is fun. I don't want an autism sim.
Christian Foster
do you like a crazed MC mumbling to herself all the time and 'shoot the glowing weakspot' boss fights
Carson Stewart
The Eternal King
Everspace 1 & 2 are legit, especially if you want something more like Freelancer and deliberately not a sim.
Gavin Wright
Trainwiz, he's making Underspace and it's coming along nicely, it's got a few demos out already.
Jaxon Phillips
Not that user, but I want something like Privateer, but with modern controller support and shit.
Sebastian Hill
Out this year baybee, just finished another boss too.
Ryder Lewis
it has no depth, its "great" for playing for 15 minutes while your drug addled brain goes "wow the colors"
But it isn't interesting, there's no challenge, there's no reason to compete with other people. It is incredibly dull and easy point and click for, quite frankly, mouthbreathing retards.
Look at the most popular air combat games, and you'll see that all but the most arcadey console retardo games have incorporated even just the very basics of flight and atmospheric simulation, like lower air friction at higher altitudes, lift and stalling, and gravity.
Space combat has interesting environmental considerations, but they don't translate well to space fighters, and drooling retards don't care about game mechanics anyway, they just want flashing lights and pretty colors on their screen. Unfortunately if you try to cater to NPC's like this you'll find they play for ten minutes and then jump to the new shiny or die of an opioid overdose. It's not worth investing into them because you can't build an actual community and reliable customer base off retards.
David Kelly
Any of you fellas ever play Evochron Legacy SE? Any thoughts?
Angel Lewis
That's a cute headcanon you've got but a handful of people have a thing for simulators doesn't make them enlightened beings. What makes one of these games fun are tense action-packed combat moments not more realism.
Juan Miller
>Muh sims
>Muh competition
>Muh community
I don't see anyone but you even talking about multiplayer, retard.
Isaiah Ramirez
Youre the user making it?
Caleb Watson
It is not a "handful of people" who "have a thing" for simulation.
it is literally the entire air combat scene. If you don't simulate even the most basic elements of atmospheric flight you don't have air combat, you have some drooling retard's dumb idea of what planes do.
And "some drooling retard's dumb idea of what spaceships do" is right now literally the entirety of the "space flight sim" genre.
When someone figures out how to actually make it interesting, instead of designing a game centered around idiotic stats, rock/paper/scissors counters, bullet sponge spaceships, and head to head jousts ad nauseum, you will see more players and more games getting into it
until then you will just whine and complain that your dumbfuck shallow space fighter game with no interesting mechanics whatsoever hasn't been made for you to mindlessly drool over for 10 minutes
Dylan Rogers
Aye.
Robert Lopez
Based Trainwiz.