Space 4x thread V1: Master Of Orion Returns - Games

That sounds pretty good, especially considering WarGaming started out doing turn based strategy games

[QUOTE=TheTalon;48112161]That sounds pretty good, especially considering WarGaming started out doing turn based strategy games[/QUOTE] Wargaming is the publisher, not dev. However, given staffing choices and the fact that they may well be lending their people to their dev, which has done some strategy work before, it does sound promising.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;48079981]What's the most complex 4X space game right now? Aside from Aurora :v:[/QUOTE] Distant Worlds without a doubt

I didnt really find Distant Worlds that complex, and I left everything on suggestions :v: Just colonize like crazy, Large Starports on everything, bribe all the pirates, mass a 300 ship fleet and then continue to kill everything. #2ez4me

[url]http://worthplaying.com/event/E3_2015/PostE3_2015/96568/[/url] Analysis: -AI has random seed creating different strategies every game -Options for choosing degree of planetary bombardment ranging from minor strikes to full on barrage, similar to MOO:BAA. Choices will have effect on diplomacy -AAA voice talent has been hired, but no names given. -Asteroid mines and surveillance arrays mentioned as spacebound structures, as well as the previously noted Starbases. -All music has been created by the original composer Also, another project that has attracted my eye: [url]http://stars-in-shadow.com/[/url] Interesting little idie game. It's a very MOO influenced type but might be interesting in it's own right. -

[video]https://youtu.be/x-FzmFH1QV8[/video] Dev diary Analysis: - First Ingame footage of Ambassadors - Hints of the Antarans returning - Colonization animation shown [url]http://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/features/gamescom-day-two-2015-fifa-16-mafia-3-and-maser-of-orion-724928[/url] - MOO:CTS will be on Steam Early Access - First Sighting of the New Psilons Images: [img]http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/gadgets/gamescom2015_master_orion.jpg[/img]

[url]http://worthplaying.com/article/2015/8/28/news/97067/[/url] Collector's edition detailed: Analysis: -All three original games included -Digital Art Book -Retro art mode for MOO:CTS exclusive to collectors edition for now -Digital Soundtrack -Collector's only faction - a warlike human empire known as the Terran Khanate.

Any 4X games that start you out at a 1960s tech level with basic space probes and other nations on your homeworld, to planet constructing galactic empire?

You really should update the OP with the X3 games from egosoft. They are less "strategy" games but still 4x.

[QUOTE=maxolina;48790081]You really should update the OP with the X3 games from egosoft. They are less "strategy" games but still 4x.[/QUOTE] I've got to download those. Really short on time since I started school. [url]http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/09/wargaming-wants-to-talk-about-master-of-orion-at-pax-australia/[/url] We can expect some kind of coverage at PAX Australia - October 30th-November 1st. (Anyone who brings gamergate/KiA bullcrap about the source in here will be removed and summarily shot by the Mrrshan Imperial Guard) [url]http://masteroforion.eu/docs/races/psilon[/url] Psilons revealed Analysis: - Implications that the Psilons have engaged in significant self-alteration to their modern state - Most work in Psilon society executed by robots - Psilons very much like their MOO incarnation Images [img]http://masteroforion.eu/uploads/filer_public/03/60/0360f1a5-b8e0-443c-9fc0-1a7114968110/psilon_ship.jpg[/img]

First MOO:CTS gameplay: [video=youtube;4RUz80MUK_s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2&v=4RUz80MUK_s[/video]] Analysis: - There are actual animations to show ships moving about their tasks - Simulated combat is rather boring to watch - Bombers are useful for more than PVP now - Planets/asteroid fields must be examined by scouts individually, rather than whole systems being scouted at once - Space dragons are back. - News tickers are goofy [video=youtube;SmDbv-KZUfM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDbv-KZUfM[/video] Lot of data about the Original MOO, mixed with a bit of art stuff for the new game - Human and Darlok ship art shown - Darlok Emperor shown animated.