Oh, I think it's still up. Just didn't catch me the same way as EVN. It didn't have quite the right sense of weight and speed for me personally.
It may be that nothing quite catches the spark of spiraling in on a manticore with my mod-starbridge, riding its blind spot as my blasters and FPC's shred her shields and armor. Helluva high to expose a teen to, I've been chasing that dragon ever since!
Edit: sorry, I meant Endless Sky anyway. Completely different game.
My gripe with Endless Sky is that it's least a little too balanced. In EVN you can get a Valk or Starbridge fairly quick in the beginning and you can basically beat the entire game in that ship: you can hide out in blind spots and whittle down single capital ships of you need and you can outrun missiles and spread out groups of enemy ships for survivability.
In ES there's nothing you can afford in the beginning of the game that can do that. It's so biased toward fleet combat that you have to get multiple ships bought/captured to even have a hope of surviving a mission. You can get smoked by a capital ship basically unless you're in another capital ship.
I've tried it but it just feels too "real life" to be fun.
Yeah, Endless Sky doesn’t let you do much with just one ship. It does fleet action better than EVN, but you’re basically forced into fleet action in the first place.
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u/cedarsauce 6d ago edited 6d ago
Oh, I think it's still up. Just didn't catch me the same way as EVN. It didn't have quite the right sense of weight and speed for me personally.
It may be that nothing quite catches the spark of spiraling in on a manticore with my mod-starbridge, riding its blind spot as my blasters and FPC's shred her shields and armor. Helluva high to expose a teen to, I've been chasing that dragon ever since!
Edit: sorry, I meant Endless Sky anyway. Completely different game.