Lost Empire

aegisx · #1 January 14th, 2008, 12:03 PM

Preview for new 4x game, Lost Empire: Immortals

http://pc.ign.com/articles/844/844984p1.html

Looks interesting. Need more detail about ship building though. Not sure if it is like SE5/Moo or GalCiv.

Dkanre · #2 January 14th, 2008, 07:43 PM

What do you mean regarding ship construction?

Randallw · #3 January 14th, 2008, 10:06 PM

That first screenshot looks a bit starcrafty.

It looks interesting. I have played Hearts of Iron from Paradox and that was good enough for me to make a mod. I know they didn't write it but their choice of games to distribute makes me optimistic.

There is also an Honorverse game coming out. Despite my dislike of the books I am interested in that.

http://www.rulethehonorverse.com/

aegisx · #4 January 14th, 2008, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Dkanre said:
What do you mean regarding ship construction?

SE5 has tactical combat, so ship construction is extremely varied and not linear.

Galciv ship combat is a rock paper scissor model and very linear.

I think thats a good way to describe it...

Dkanre · #5 January 15th, 2008, 12:11 AM

Ship design is very varied

Though ship combat is mostly strategic

Nothing linear about combat, I think

I know a lot, I just can't say a lot

aegisx · #6 January 15th, 2008, 10:32 AM

Well when building a ship, are there different weapons with different characteristics? In SEV there are decisions to make when choosing Meson vs APB vs DUC vs High energy weapons.

Dkanre · #7 January 15th, 2008, 01:31 PM

Yes, there are weapons with different characteristics; for example, there are small-large weapons and point-defense weapons, with small ships using small weapons.