Thanks captain!! Although difficult in its early stages, it's a great game!! I have FINALLY been able to get the second starship which has made things easier, but it was tough! As I said before, cool and addictive game, worth every #!!
Once my tax return comes in I'll throw down for this game simply because the dev is a firefighter. Thanks for your service
Yeah so I purchased, can't even complete 1 mission. I can barely even hit what I'm aiming at. Glad to support the dev, but this is almost done getting played. Not having fun.
Holddown to fire, also RSI @Captain Jim: While it's nice to hear that you have additional mechanics planned for holding down the fire button, I respectfully ask you to reconsider: For someone with RSI like me, the constant button mashing is about the worst aspect of the game. Mine is not an extreme case, but I have constant low-level pain, and button mashing causes nasty spikes pretty fast. Not to mention that said button mashing is exactly the kind of activity that induces RSI in the first place. For many action-oriented games, butotn mashing instead of autofire for me is a deciding factor to drop the game immediately. Yours didn't go out the window immediately; so you definitely have something good here, or I wouldn't stick to it despite the mashing So, please, consider from an accessibility point of view: I'm convinced autofire would make the game open up more easily for more people, and not just those with RSI.
Traveling outside of space lanes! First off I want to say I'm absolutely loving this game so far! it's the most fun I've had with a mobile space sim since GOF2 and can't wait for more updates for whatever you have planned next! But I just wanted to ask anyone out there ... Have any of you took any missions yet involving outside of space lanes? I just did 2 and there the most heart pounding moments yet - just saying! If you thought the game was hard before just wait!! So my question is do any of you know if these are 1 shot deals where you do them and won't see them again? Or will I run into them again in the future as a repeat like some trade missions? PS: I'm really sorry if I spoiled the surprise for anyone but just curious if anyone else discovered these yet? A good tip is to put your shield and lasers at 50% each and your gaurtanteed a much easier time at dispatching enemies and surviving. Also, if your being chased by a pirate and constantly being hit, just keep yawing a hard left and right until your shields go back to 100 and with this tactic you should be able to dodge enemy fire
A couple of people have mentioned there was a massive jump in difficulty shortly after the start of the game that may have coincided with status changing to "Enforcer". Is that tied to difficulty? Also, as mentioned by at least a couple of us, the cost of dying if carrying cargo is excessively punitive. As someone else already mentioned, this is a health/pain issue. It may feel right to you, but not to those of us with hand issues. Give us the option, please.
I've done one missions that was outside space lanes, fun stuff. I'm grinding my way to the 68k ship right now, the escort missions in Nifehl are kinda nice for making money.
All I know is that I had no problem in the tutorial, then all of a sudden, I pretty much lose every battle with pirates if there is more than one at a time. Also, after the tutorial I die once, then lose everything and am left with 5 credits. Yeah thatll be hard to come back from when I cant even beat the easymode ships. Im not the best at these kinda games, but I can usually expect to at least get past ONE match after a few tries.
With regards to the auto-fire suggestion, I'm erring more towards requesting it. Depending on my day to day pain levels, I can be unable to use my hands at all - this obviously rules out any kind of game playing so the auto-fire wouldn't hugely benefit me but it puts me in a position that I can appreciate how depressing it can be to be unable to enjoy something no matter how much you want to. I'm not personally having any problems with the difficulty, which is a first for me as I'm usually found at the bottom of most Game Center leaderboards! That's not to say multiple difficulty modes wouldn't go down well though as then I could buy it for my Dad who loves Elite-style games. Whatever makes it more accessible to a wider audience has to be worth considering I suppose. Without meaning to be condescending, I'd thought I'd just share my typical battle maneuvers in case they help. I always avoid the game of Chicken bandits play at the start of combat as that's the easiest way to lose half your health. Approach them at a slight angle and keep weaving slightly, raising your shields to about 40% helps too. Once they've passed you, reduce your throttle entirely to give you a tighter turn cycle and get behind one of them. From there you just keep matching their movements and speed while firing roughly 2cms ahead of them in the direction they're traveling. That's all I can really add and apologies if it was patronising or obvious. Just keep adjusting your speed as you fly and never "joust" with them at the beginning of combat.
I decided to wait for a auto button and adapted difficulty before buying the game. Button smashing on a material controller or a virtual button are 2 different experiences and even in the former it can become tedious. The challenge of a game shouldn't lie in physical difficulties. The many reactions to the actual difficulty of the game don't encourage me either to buy the game at this point in time because they express more frustration then fun.
Just lost another 2k of my hard-earned cash. The current difficulty is way too frustrating, this goes on the backburner until an Easy Mode - hopefully - becomes available, and this ridiculous "lose extra money on top of your cargo when you die" mechanic is gone. Would really like to know what your playtesters thought about this...
I can't believe some of you guys have already made it to the Spoiler asteroid mission! Jheez, good job guys! I'm compiling a combat strategy check list, so hang tight those who are having difficulty. Please remember that we're a tiny team and we've done our best to create challenging but fair gameplay. I hope you can stick with us.
I agree to a point but saying the difficulty of the game lies in the physical isn't true; the game wouldn't be easier with auto-fire it would simply be more convenient. There are a lot of mentions of the difficulty but they're far outweighed by the number of positive comments that don't even raise it as an issue. It really depends on your opinion on challenging games and whether it's something you find enjoyment in. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen threads in forums complaining how easy games are and how old school titles had it right. I'm not a huge fan of difficult games myself as I play games to take my mind of life's difficulties and so mainly just want to chill out. However, I'm also not having any trouble with Rogue Star; I died once in testing the game and haven't died since, I'd say it's a much easier game than say Dark Souls or many of the hardcore platformers on iOS. To Nullzone's comment; I play tested the game and had no trouble unfortunately. As I only died once in several of hours play I didn't find it to be a problem and therefore didn't raise it, sorry.
Haha I čan't believe I already have nearly 8 hours logged into the game! It's the auction metagame that really keeps me hooked. Also, only two ship losses in that entire run.
Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere As soon as the difficulty is fixed I'm back on it again. And to you other guys, I can't believe you have absolutely no problem with the difficulty. When I play for an hour I'm VERY lucky if there are 2 fights where I don't die. If find it absolutely impossible to advance And you play 8 hours and die once?!
Anyone else having crashing issues? I can't start it up anymore - whenever I hit return to game it crashes to my home screen. Maybe I just need to wait it out, Im using an iPod 5 too incase anyone is wondering. Hope I don't have to start a new game I got enough money to buy a raven and have a good number of kills and rank!
