The fact that the developers hinted at a future mobile port some time ago sounded like a virtual nail in the coffin already. The gameplay videos and recent news only confirm the bad feelings unfortunately
It's like when Hollywood reboots the old classics, it's never going to end well.
The fact that the developers hinted at a future mobile port some time ago sounded like a virtual nail in the coffin already. The gameplay videos and recent news only confirm the bad feelings unfortunately
It's like when Hollywood reboots the old classics, it's never going to end well.
Good stuff so far. Have played as Psilons for a bit. Too bad about not having turn based battles but the style and design, voice acting and animations are top notch. Easily a better game than galactic civilizations III.
Three new playable races: Klackon, Meklar and Terran Khanate
Improved Artificial Intelligence
Difficulty levels introduced
Custom Race creation enabled
Improved and rebalanced racial perks
Improved tactical battles
New victory condition: Technological
Revamped combat screen
Support for Mac OS X (Not optimized yet, please take a look at our recommended specs)
Text localization support for: German, French, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese
Over 350 Bug Fixes
Detailed Changes
General
Three new playable races: Klackon, Meklar and Terran Khanate
Klackon Traits (Tireless, Uncreative, Hive-minded)
Homeworld Minerals: Poor
Uber Planet: Cavernous (transforms from Arid)
+50% Food from Population
+25% Production from Population
Starting Tech: Biology
Meklar Traits (Industrious, Erratic, Unpredictable)
-50% Food Consumption
+25% Production from Population
Ship Auto Repair Enabled (instantly repairs after combat)
Starting Tech: Physics
Terran Khanate Traits (Hard, Determined, Violent)
-20% Ship Production Cost
+25% Beam Attack
+20% Command Points
Starting Tech: Engineering
Support for Mac OS X (Not optimized yet, please take a look at our recommended specs)
Custom Race creation enabled
New victory Condition: Technological Victory
Improved ship auto-upgrade
Improved tooltips for morale
Added missing holograms in Breakthrough (research) screen
Gameplay Balance
Racial Perks have been re-assigned and re-balanced
Alkari - New trait: Ship Combat Speed Bonus
Bulrathi - New trait: +25% Ground Combat Rating
Human - New traits: +25% Trade Treaties bonus; Improved Disposition from diplomacy
Psilon - New trait: -25% Ground Combat Rating
Sakkra - -25% Food Consumption trait replaced with +50% Population Growth
Research progression and pacing has been rebalanced, especially for the midgame and endgame
Deep Sea Cooling research bonus changed from +25% to +3 and moved to Advanced Engineering (tier 3)
Moon Laboratory research bonus changed from +4 to +6
Improved galaxy generation to increase differentiation of star colors and planets over different galaxy ages
Ships are now upgradable and repairable when orbiting all owned colonies and outposts, as well as allied colonies
Added difficulty levels: Easy, Average, Hard and Very Hard (Average being the one where the AI is playing with the same economical benefits as the human player)
Improved Jump Gates: now built by Space Factory at Warp Points, moved earlier in the tech tree (from tier 7 to tier 6), and travel speed when using them doubled
Re-balanced Racial Biases
Vast improvements on differentiation of races (bonus/malus, strategy, diplomacy, etc.)
Enabled 8 races for Circular Large galaxy (was 6 because the races restriction for EA1); Spiral currently remains limited to 6
Music and Voice Over has been properly balanced
Artificial Intelligence
Fixed bug in AI asking for invalid technologies
Fixed OffensivePact send WarDeclaration in Client and DespiseBreakPromise check
Improved colonization behavior: Now the AI is able to manage multiple Colony ships at the same time and its colonization schemes are not hindered by its war efforts
Improved war preparation: Defensive and offensive analysis has been improved
vastly improved production
Improved Strategic analysis: AI will make more decisions based on chances of obtaining different victory conditions
Improved Strategic analysis finetuning of potential targets for war
Improved handling of multiple war fronts
Performance optimization in engage task
Improved combat analysis: New formula for estimating relative fleet strength
Defensiveness personality trait now used in defense formula
Tactical Mode
Monsters collision/avoidance boxes fixed
Fixed Space Dragon 3D mesh
New Combat Screen with detailed information on fleets
Pause as a mechanic: Tactical battles start in paused mode in order to make the important initial tactical decisions
Fixed range feedback on tooltip and overlay
Size of pirate ships has been Increased
Added civilian ships to tactical battle: They hold their ground at the back of the battlefield and flee if they get attacked
Added Retreat option: Ships must reach the edge of the battlefield and warp out to successfully retreat
Several fixes for tactical UI
“Tactical” button replaced with “Take Command”
”Simulate” button replaced with “Auto-Resolve”
Added Speed and Range Controls (Implementation, Integration into the game)
Added Tactical Options (Pause on Options, Esc brings Options, Confirm Simulate on Leave, Populate Options Menu accordingly).
Added Persistence to tactical options
Fixed Facing, size and modifiers costs
Intro improvements
User Interface
Changes in arrow icon and jump gates
Animation changes on Main Menu and Single Player
Added buildings list to manage structures
Added UX components for speed and range controls
Updated Invasion/Bombardment UI
Added buttons to specify how many Troop Transports should be used on a given invasion
Tactical
New Icons added
Animated Auto-cast feedback added
GNN
Fixed a bug where the race name would repeat in the headline
Diplomacy
Fixed trading: Player is unable to request Exchange Tech when the player does not have technology for Exchange Tech
Fixed State Machine: Some lines of dialogue where not being triggered as intended
Localization
New localizations: German, French, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese
Updated Localizations
New changes on Game Credits screen
SFX
Improved Audio Manager
Improved Tactical mode sounds
Improved Strategy mode sounds
Several mixer updates, general click sound updated, "upgrade" button sound added and GNN music loop-able
We have the bear race, the cat race, lizard race and now there's a ant race too.
There's also blue smurfs, emo humans and the Geth.
(Apparently there was some much requested all-female species too in a earlier installment, not sure what the two upcoming races will be but maybe those and some other animal race, fish-like perhaps as there's nothing aquatic like in the game yet. )
EDIT: Game itself is fun though, still early alpha and thus a bit rough but I've enjoyed what little I've played so far before getting my empire utterly annihilated by hostile antromorphic races.
(I know bending a animal upright and giving it a voice is popular but some more variety would be nice too sometime.)
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Wargaming's Master of Orion reboot will launch out of Early Access on August 25. Since it hit Steam in February the studio has issued regular updates to the in-progress title, but the game will finally be feature complete by the end of this month.
You can technically buy the game now and play it while it's still in Early Access, but only if you fork out $49.99 for the Collector's Edition. That features "a detailed digital art book, the three original Master of Orion games, a full orchestral soundtrack by the origial Master of Orion composer, retro pixel ships skins, and an exclusive new race for Collector’s Edition holders". The latter goes by the name of Terran Khanate.
Meanwhile, the standard edition will go on sale from August 25 for $29.99. All purchases will receive Total Annihilation, the 1997 RTS, free of charge.
Played it a bit and it's good remaster of classic MOO2 biggies problem i have is micromanagement. I have same problem in MOO2 You have research new factory now you need to build this factory on 20 production planets... manually... it's good game if you like micromanagement... Combat feels weird but i don't know why.
It's like Master of Orion 2 with better interface graphic and worse combat.
I remember when it was released, I could just speed click through the game and beat it, almost without effort lol. And I don't remember ever having played Moo before ...
New enemies, alliances, and betrayals are ready to sweep the galaxy in the first story expansion DLC for Master of Orion: Revenge of Antares. Cross paths with the Elarians who are never one to back down from fight; call on the aid of the Gnolams to recruit lady luck to your side; and unleash the full force of your empire to defeat the warmongering Trilarians.
With new stories to experience and more starlanes to conquest than ever, the future of the galaxy is in your hands/claw/prehensile tail.
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You have research new factory now you need to build this factory on 20 production planets... manually... it's good game if you like micromanagement... Combat feels weird but i don't know why.
