![]() ![]() ![]() Empires that you aren’t allied with will look for any excuse to get in a scrap, and they’ll take offence at the slightest provocation. Rather quickly, relationships between alien species either end in an alliance or war. The only nuances are the existence of some bars that denote the other leader’s attitudes towards you, such as how much they fear you, and one’s ability to alter the tone of requests and demands, allowing players to tailor them to each particular race. Diplomacy amounts to making trade pacts, alliances, and declaring war. Unfortunately, interaction with the other races is extremely limited. The rulers all have exaggerated, sometimes comical personalities, and their design is one of StarDrive‘s highlights. From hideous Cthulhu-like megalomaniacs and narcissistic owl slavers to the aforementioned bear folk, it’s a menagerie of peculiar species. The various races, though a bit few in number, are delightfully irreverent and bizarre. Which of them are appropriate for a burgeoning colony is easy to see, and simply by clicking “colonize” a colony vessel will immediately be queued up in the build list of the homeworld.Įventually, if your scout bumps into an alien ship or world - or if alien scouts enter your territory - diplomatic relations will begin with that alien race. Generally, the best worlds to colonize are able to hold large populations, fertile, and mineral rich. Once these planets have been discovered, their stats are revealed. There’s a diverse set of worlds ripe for exploring, from giant barren desert planets, toxic worlds, fertile edens primed for colonization, and worlds hiding ancient artifacts. In the tradition of all 4X games, one of the first orders of business is to set a scout ship to automatically explore the galaxy. StarDrive‘s galaxies are beautiful celestial canvases, filled with unexplored stars and untapped potential. The 4X genre is not a prolific one, and StarDrive is clearly a labour of love an ambitious title with some genuinely interesting elements. So StarDrive has its fair share of problems, and yet I desperately want to like it. It’s a period where the game still has potential, and one has yet to be browbeaten by bugs, dreary combat, and the serious lack of an endgame. The beautiful art - exemplified by imaginative alien ambassadors in the diplomacy screens and the vast expanse of space with its twinkling stars and slowly revolving worlds - relaxing electronic soundtrack, and the promise of conquest and expansion are all fresh at the game’s start. ![]() While most 4X games don’t start getting really interesting until one has gotten to grips with complex systems and settled into a rhythm where they aren’t constantly baffled, StarDrive is at its best in the beginning. Rig: Intel i5-3570K GHz, 8 GB of RAM, GeForce GTX 670, and Windows 7 64-bit While a game just about our ursine friends would be wonderful, StarDrive has a wee bit more to it.Ī real-time 4X space strategy title, StarDrive seems to have drawn plenty from the long history of the genre, with elements of Masters of Orion, Galactic Civilizations, and Sins of a Solar Empirecoming together to make an occasionally intriguing strategy game, though one that slips up quite a lot. They don’t require oxygen, can travel faster than the speed of light, and they build really rad spaceships.ĭaniel DiCicco, the man behind StarDrive, knows this to be true, which is why he made a game with space bears. Bears are natural spacefarers, and that is a known fact. No wonder why people download pirated games from torrents because you do not need Steam or Desura and since there is no support then it will not matter will it.When I look up at the sky at night, one thought eclipses all others: I really hope there are badass bears in space. If you really still want it go buy it from Steam since they on version 1.12. Do not buy this game since full of bugs and no support for a game you paid for. So Steam users on v1,12 and i am stuck on v1.07b on Desura site. I will not buy any games again from Desura or any games made by same people who made Stardrive. Its Monday morning and i bought the game on Wednesday and still no update for game after i was told by Stardrive support (Daniel - which i think is Zero) that he will upload an update for the Desura site on Thursday. This is the first and last game i will buy from Desura since there is just no support. So now i sit here with a broken game because of bugs and none are interested to provide me with the update. I messaged Zero on Stardrive website, guess what, no reply, no update etc. Tried Desura support - no response, no update for game. I bought this game from Desura on the 22nd of May and what did i get? I get a version 1.07b game and on the Stardrive website they already on version 1.12. ![]()
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