Having fallen in love with Trinity, I preordered Rebellion, and I got access to the Beta, which I'm downloading as we speak. Has anyone else played the Beta yet? What is your impression of it so far?
Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion Beta
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It's crashtastic. But, you know, a beta. So we expect that. Still, have yet to finish a game because of it.
I want it so much... I really do... But I'm broke and in college... Damn it... The titans are so beastly lookin'. And lemme tell ya... Those ten hour games against a shitty AI because your friends can't come over to play? Those aren't too bad. But when I played against my friend who bought the original, and let me install it, that was epic. So many cap ships... I kicked his ass though.
I haven't had any crashes yet. So far, I'm loving the gap that Corvettes fill. Having something that is extremely cost effective for the amount of damage a swarm of them can put out is a great way of stemming pirate raids until your big guns can respond.Aris Khandr said:
Sad to say that they tend to happen several hours in. Five+, from the three games we tried.Soviet Heavy said:
I haven't had any crashes while I was playing but I have had a few starting up and ending a game.
The higher difficulty AI is pretty broken. It spams super weapons like crazy. The Rebel Advent also has a bug where it only build capital ships.
The higher difficulty AI is pretty broken. It spams super weapons like crazy. The Rebel Advent also has a bug where it only build capital ships.
I really liked it, only had one crash too which is good. Unlike the Elemental: Fallen Enchantress beta that crashes constantly.
The Advent seems really weak, especially the rebels.
The rebel Advent Titan's 6th level ability is terrible, especially since only one ability benefits from it.
The rebel Advent Titan's 6th level ability is terrible, especially since only one ability benefits from it.
As someone who plays Advent and gears his fleets to rely heavily on "fighter superiority" I love the corvettes. They're dirt cheap and cost half the supply that the standard Disciple frigate does, meaning that I can jump into a gravity well and immediately have a swarm of fighters and corvettes rushing to targets while everything else advances.Soviet Heavy said:
In the SP game I'm currently playing each fleet I have active has thirty corvettes in it. That large of a "cloud" makes it hard for enemies auto-attacking to actually get a bead on anything.
I haven't gotten in the beta, but I do plan to buy the expansion. I'm a big fan of SoaSE. It's one of my favorite RTS games.
So...with the "advent" of Rebellion (ba dum tish), this means I'm going to be spending a whopping (projected) $110 this year on games. And that includes upwards of 10 games.
Yep. Gonna be a cheap year for gaming. In a good way. (yay for F2P)
So...with the "advent" of Rebellion (ba dum tish), this means I'm going to be spending a whopping (projected) $110 this year on games. And that includes upwards of 10 games.
Yep. Gonna be a cheap year for gaming. In a good way. (yay for F2P)