STARSECTOR SHIPS LIST MOD
STARSECTOR SHIPS LIST MODS

'Right now you fight battles because that's all there is to do. Looking forward, Starsector is ripe for expansion. Or you can try and pick off their weaker ships and expose the.

So you can bunch up your frigates and your fighters, dispatch them quickly, leaving the enemy force without any muscle.

More importantly, you have to ask who kills what? The bigger craft are slow and ponderous but throw out the biggest punch - though they can't chase, and they can't run away. A lot factors into that decision - do you have the armour to take some hits on? Is the incoming damage costing the enemy more flux than it is you?' Targetting enemy ships gives you a beautiful detailed readout. 'Having to trade off firepower for defence is interesting, since there's no obvious right answer, and it depends on the situation. 'The idea is that whether you want shields to be on is a choice you're making moment to moment, rather than shields being just another passive layer for each side to chew through,' Mosolov explains. Your guns and your defences share a common energy pool, so every bullet your shields absorb also means another bullet you can't fire so as not to risk an overload. There's enough depth and variance in the ways you can deal death and protect yourself that everything has to be taken into consideration.Ĭombat revolves around the judicious use of shields. Halfway between an arcade shooter and a tactical strategy game, you hurl orders out to the ships under your command while figuring out the best way to dispatch the enemy fleet. It emphasises where all the work has gone so far the combat and the instanced battles. 'As an example, being able to explicitly adjust the speed of your fleet to get through an asteroid field safely, or turning off all non-critical systems to reduce your profile on enemy sensors - things that would let the campaign go from a way to get from one battle to another to being a game in its own right.' 'First of all I'd like to expand a range of interactions with the campaign to something more involved than just clicking on an entity to interact with it,' says Mosolov. All of which are on the Starsector roadmap. Even still, beyond chasing down enemy fleets and expanding your own, you're left to speculate on how things could go, from expansive trading routes to intricate faction dealings.

STARSECTOR SHIPS LIST MOD

Starsector's Mod forum is already six pages deep, and full of ambitious projects.Įssentially, you want to become a bigger fish in this small pond, so the pirates run from you. Starting a new game drops you unceremoniously in the middle of hostile space with nothing but a frigate to your name, forcing you to flee from blood-thirsty pirates and attempt to scrape yourself a few extra ships and some bigger guns. Which is important when you've got extensive mod tools, and the longevity of your game relies on your players making the most out of them.Īt the moment things are a little on the sparse side, with the combat mechanics welded snugly into place, but the majority of the higher functions have yet to be implemented. It's in early alpha testing at the moment, but they're adopting the Minecraft model and allowing anyone to pay up and get early access. Mosolov is lead designer on Starsector, a top-down space farer where you build up your own fleet and find a place for yourself among the stars.

STARSECTOR SHIPS LIST MODS

Numerous high quality mods are either being worked on, or are more or less finished.' 'That is all of the ships in one of the mod compilations. There are well over a hundred spaceships, all spread across one white plane, all of differing sizes and construction. Alex Mosolov is showing me a picture, and for a good few moments I don't really understand.

Starsector ships list