Man, I bought this game way back in 2012 when I was 13, back when it was still called Starfarer. I remember playing it late at night during a thunderstorm the day before the Mayan Calendar ended and at midnight a bunch of thunder and lightning occurred outside my house which made me think the world was ending. I have bought this game for so many of my friends and even family; I'm still surprised that so many people have no idea about this game. It's obviously come such a long way and you can really see the passion that Alex has put into the vision that he has.
@@ricks4348 Alex said he will. When it's done. He considers it too raw to sell for full price on a storefront. Talk about (over)delivering a fully featured product. Game is amazing already.
@@RicWalker You can always salvage capital ships from bounties or find the occasional derelict. I've used almost every ship and have only done a faction commission(hegemony) my first run. I've grown fond of the the Conquest, if you only arm one side of it the broadsides can put out some really impressive fire without charging in.
Star Sector, give up your moral compass and start trading “recreational medicine” on the blackmarket, sell heavy weapons to the Luddic Path, start a food shortage to sell your stockpile at a higher price.
If you can get a fleet of Atlas superfreighters, shipping ore and rare ores from Kanni and Chalcedon respectively from the Kumari Kandam system to Kapteyn Starworks in the Isirah system. You can then grab heavy weapons from them to sell back to Chalcedon and repeat the cycle every month. You may also be the cause for a massive wave of piracy that plagues the western core for the next 5 cycles which in turn causes Kapteyn Starworks to demand even more ore and the systems that mine ores to drop prices and have massive surplus, thus repeating the cycle.
One small correction about the game lore, I see this misunderstanding quite a lot actually. In Starsector our sector is located in the milky-way on perseus arm of the galaxy. The domain of man did not span multiple galaxies, in fact they didn’t rule the entire milky-way, they only controlled a chunk of galaxy, and implied to be a relatively small one compared to the entire galaxy. All this info comes from the ingame description of the cryosleeper.
Mind you, it is an understandable mistake, since the Domain managed to squeeze substancially more out 9f each star, makig it more powerful than many actual sci-fi galactic empire.
That's quite a misunderstanding as well. The domain of men was very vast. Extremely vast, though not vast like the Imperium of Men (M.40) or advance like likes humanity before the Dark Age of Technology. (But about to be) They're powerful but they can't colony every star system as many aren't suit for colonization at all. (Still have ore mining station and Volatiles harvesting) In the Starsector setting, even the Persean Sector alone have countless infrastructure ruins across the entire sector which proves that the entire Sector wasn't nearly colonized but most of the colonies were destroyed or abandoned while the majority of Persean natives still have centralized government body retreated to the core systems of the Sector. Can be said... Countless billions died during the Collapse. And what we saw in Persean Sector is those who survive the chaos and manage to rebuild human civilization to a certain degree.
This is the first time I have heard of Starsector, and you have instantly hooked me. Love these style of games and the devs that craft them into works of art.
Consider checking out Escape Velocity Nova at some point! The EV games are 20+ years old at this point and have less features overall, but they're very accessible and well-executed takes on this genre. They were originally Mac releases and never hit Steam, so people don't seem to remember them as much as they deserve.
You come for the unparalleled exploration experience, you stay for the eldritch nightmare lying in wait behind the gates, singing a song that sounds oh so strangely familiar.
I really appreciate that you touch on the story and writing because my god it is so well done for what it is currently and quite a lot of people seem to just either ignore it or never fully engage with it (which i don't blame them for). I'm a sucker for good writing and I have never dropped anything so much just to be able to read a screen of text thoroughly like i have while i was doing the various story missions you can find and just be absolutely sucked into the immersive and powerful storytelling that they have
I love coming back to Starsector (nearly called it Starfarer then) once every now and again. enjoying the new updates and the continuing fantastic work of modders, especially in the realm of ships and the faction "building" side of the game. Glad to see you're enjoying it!
Bought this game way back when scott manly first played it and you were only able to do battle scenarios, can confirm that it has grown into an epic open world game with unique stories to tell. I absolutely love the colony management aspect too.
It's an incredible game, I just wish it had more in terms of story quests to do. Once I'd made a faction that had destroyed the Diktat and taken over Volturn, monopolizing the lobster trade and also unrelatedly controlling over 50% of the galactic market of all other supplies, pulling in 1,000,000 credits a month, there just... wasn't a whole lot left to challenge.
And that's when you start downloading the mods! The modding community is so extensive you'll pretty much never run out of new things to do because new things are always being made!
I hope eventually they flesh out the reputation and relationship aspect of the game, like being able to do missions for the quartermasters and base commanders, and have events trigger on planets based on your relationship with planet notables. A mod I like is the Mayasuran Navy, i like the idea of a storyline where you can rebuild that system, or a story where i can follow in the footsteps of warlord leonis
I remember when I first played the game I used someone else’s key and I immediately fell in love with the game and I actually bought the game because I wanted to support the devs
you're so RIGHT. how to finish my meanigless tasks at home / work to increase play / experimentation time is what i've been thinking about last week. ..non stop. love the game trying to understand modding etc. wow. a UNIVERSE within a UNIVERSE. what a grand time to be alive!
I used Ssseth's Key he linked in the video, since then I've bought it like 5 times, once for myself and the rest for people who I knew would like it, because I knew they would never do it themselves.
It's nice to see more and more people are coming to understand the appeal of truly in-depth games like starsector and dwarf fortress. You should try CDDA too.
Your commentary was spot on. The list you mentioned are “labor of love” games. I am hooked as well. One thing I would stress is the economics of the game. Basic trade is almost impossible due to the 30% tariff… unless you want to trade on the black market and be hated by everyone. Trying to keep your fleet in fuel and supplies is just as important as keeping every Ghengis Khahn wannabe from jacking up your fleet. The most recent patch has really applied a hard mode to late game play. I guess it’s time to learn new tactics. Burn brightly!
Having put in well over 200+ hours. I was so surprised playing as Luddic path or Pirates wasn’t in the base game. So used to modded gameplay I took it for granted playing as a raiding, smuggling and guns blazing pirate 😅
Its absolutely in the game. You just cant get an officers commission with the pirates, vecause they are not an organized navy, but you can freel, trade at their bases, and provided you pay off Kanta, they wont even raid your colonies.
I've played over 1,000 hours of StarSector (possibly way more), but put it down two years ago after realizing how much time I was spending on it. I am spending a lot of mental effort not going back to check what the new update offers... because I don't know if I'll be able to stop again this time.
@@headrockbeats There's a solid amount of new stuff in 0.97a. I highly recommend throwing your life away to bombard the sector. You can even visit the bottom left portion of the map, and find [REDACTED], which you can use to [REDACTED]. All the while exploring new and unforseen comic horrors and existential dread. It's very [REDACTED].
Just discovered your channel through After the end CK3 Lore videos and I would absolutely love if you did a playthrough of modded Starsector! I've been playing this game for almost a decade and the modding community is what keeps every new campaign fresh and interesting!
Good to see this gem getting more coverage. I know SSeth got a lot of people into the game years ago, but since then the game has developed and expanded further, and there's a lot of cool stuff. Just an awesome space game, it's a shame that so many are turned off by the 2d top-down aspect.
Honestly I almost one but when someone gave me their key to try it, well, I fell in love. It’s a hurdle but it’s worth it - obviously I think so I made the video but you get me haha.
Only a few games have captured total immersibility in my life. Skyrim, The Witcher 3, Halo 3, Rimworld, Rocketleague and Starsector. All of these games have captured something inside of me that first playthrough that took forever to get rid of. Technically speaking, Rocket League is still the only game I've never "quit" or "given a break" too. Consistently for almost a decade now I've played that game once a week at MINIMUM. Starsector must've been around a 600+ hour journey before I finally took my first break. These games are rare, but fuck I love them
The tone is ... strangely similar. While I think John Bain narrating could make it even better, StarSector plays itself more straight than SPAZ, but the comparison really can be made.
For the old folks around here this game has (pen and paper) Car Wars or Mech Warrior vibe to it. It’s the game 13 year old me would have loved to play. Some of the mods do compliment the game well. Buy it, it’s worth it. Independent developers like this amaze me. Great video, I need to reinstall this game!
i'll say this, i might have bin spoiled, since i started playing the game with mods from the start. GOD BLESS THE UAF! Good video man, and awesome game.
Would be great that on the trade screen - if I'm checking best prices I should be able to right click and set nav to the system/planet that has the best price. Right now it just gives a general heading and distance and you have to go to map screen and find it yourself.
Putting it in the same breadbasket as Kenshi is really apt. One of those FAFO-simulator games without hope of ever becoming that popular on a worldly scale. Speaking of Kenshi, I think one of the greatest thing about Starsector is how mod-friendly it is, and how much modders try to be mindful of vanilla balance in general. Exceptions are on the rarer side, and immediately singled out by people when asked about them. Nexerelin is, as far as I'm concerned, a full-on module at this point, same goes for Industrial Evolution and Ashes of the Domain as a sort-of late bloomer on the scene.
Oh and for those wondering it's $15, it's not on steam, and save the email (or code) they send you with the key. The game does not auto update and you may need to enter it again when you re-download the new client. Also even if you suck with piloting you can always let the AI take over until you figure it out.
I have been playing starsector and this is now what, my 6th run? AND IM STILL FINDING OUT NEW SHIT ABOUT THE GAME its unreal It took me all that time to now realize.. if you double tap your frigates during a pursuit battle you can deploy them to the sides And then the secret encounters and missions that you just have to sorta find by yourself and theres no indication that they exist or how to get to them, have fun knowing your not 100%ing the game :)
When Sseth made his review years ago and shared his gamekey, I tried it out and played a ton of hours. My first character ended up smuggling AI cores en masse to tri-tachyon to make millions, then using the millions to acquire some of the finest ships in the galaxy, and using those ships to fight the government because my captain, being a libertarian, must destroy all who attempt to tax him. I then got bigger and better ships from fighting massive fleet battles, and refitted those ships with newer guns and systems, up and up the great line goes, so on and so forth. Eventually, I caused perhaps too much chaos, made too much money, and made too many powerful enemies that every day was a struggle to travel without ending up in some cataclysmic fleet battle. Such an awesome game, and comparing it to Mount and Blade feels very true to the core idea of both games: doing whatever you want in this wartorn landscape.
One correction: Of course you can join the pirates. A pirate playthrough is pretty amazing, tbh. Or you can even be a religious fanatic if you choose. Just have to befriend the faction first.
@@Soul_Tomato True. It's much more fun being a pirate with the Nexerelin and Underworld MODs. If you want to try it, you'd lose another social life though. ;)
The best way I made money is by scrapping old stations at the edge of the sector. Multiple AI cores, tons of weapon data, and several large hi-tech components. If you can kit your fleet out to be speedy asf and have no issue with savescumming, it’s a great way to make cash!
Nexerelin, HMI, industrial evolution and various QOL mods are amazing for the next playthrough. It basically quadruples the amount of content of an already content dense game.
Strong recommendation on nexerelin and Luna lib mods you can then set the game up to have random sectors so not everything is in the same place every game and with Luna lib you can configure the game to prevent invasions and colonization until you found your first colony otherwise while your enjoying the game often times the war for the sector can more or less be finished by the time you start your own world
Hello, so during the intro you were stuck in a slipstream, the only way to get out of it during most of the playthrough is to emergency burn and manualy controll your fleet. You are welcome.
@@Soul_Tomato Your destination arrow showed you were riding it past your destination, which is probably what he was referring to and so he assumed you were "stuck" in the slipstream as opposed to deliberately riding it to its terminus.
Man this needs to release on steam, it would bring so many new eyes to the game and finally get Alex the payday he deserves after working on this game for years
I giggle like a schoolgirl each time I pull off a successful ramming maneuver and send a burning pile of twisted scrap from a capital hurling towards the enemy at 400 su/s
If you love ramming I HIGHLY recommend the Knights of Ludd mod. They have a huge ship made basically to ram and then launch an ungodly amount of middles directly at what you just rammed. It was too fun.
@Soul Tomato , I fear I have bad news to you. This game has a large, thriving, active modding community. I literally cannot play Starsector anymore... without like 30 mods installed.
Oh god star sector I feel I like many got introduced to this by Szethzeench, only game I played for weeks. Incredible writing and love a post-apocalyptic sci-fi story
for me it was SplaterCatGaming a few years ago. took me a while to not get constantly frustrated. The learning curve was high. but than it become a lot of fun, for the most part. Looking at you colony crises....
@@RicWalker SplatterCat has been an incredible source for some really good kinda obscure games, I think I first started watching him when he made the video on Reus.
This is kind of what Ark Survival Evolved did to me way back when it first come out. I even quit a job to defend the server when I got a discord text from a tribe mate letting me know our server was being raided by a rival tribe from another server. The fight for the server went on day and night for over a week. I was putting in 18-20 hours a day. Finally, on the 9th day of the war we emerged victorious. .... And jobless and my wife was mad as hell.
@@Soul_Tomato Yes. Same woman too. I don't know if you played Ark back then, but it was stress. You never knew if you were going to log on and find thousands of hours destroyed. I stay away from those types of games now lol. I just play EFT and Overwatch.
I had it since it was called Starfarer. Every few months or when there is a big release, I install it again to listen to the music of the Janus Device while I sell drugs and bombs to terrorists while striking deals with the [REDACTED]. And the mods, oh the mods. Just... just buy this game.
Damn......I remember hearing about this game like 10 years ago, but I always thought that it was kind of jank and shallow, but you've really sold me on this. I'm getting this.
Humanity did not extend accross glaxies. It colonised the entirity of the Orion arm of our galaxy and began to extand to the Persean arm. Then it began to go to *censored*.
I know the feeling. This week i lose about an hour of sleep every night because of this game - "just one last thing to do before i go to bed" uh-huh. It was even worse last weekend when i set up the alpha core farm and couldn't get myself to save and exit until ~2AM because i was having too much fun blowing up wave after wave after wave of drone ships and raking in all that sweet loot. P.S. You can in fact get a comission from Luddic Path or Pirates. But without mods there is literally no reason to do so except to make everyone hate you for some kind of twisted challenge.
I really enjoy using the knights of Ludd mod and flying around delivering holy fire. Also I don’t think you can join them without mods but I could be wrong.
@@Soul_TomatoI have just tested things and it seems you're right - it is indeed impossible to sign up with pirates or pathers without a nexerelin mod. Knights of Ludd is my jam, even if reputation gain is still very buggy. Lunaria class battleship set up for infinite dakka as my flagship, at the head of a bunch of Larkspurs, Tamarisks and Eagle XIV in "your shields are forfiet" configuration.
I love that one that has the (I think) redemption launch propulsion as it’s special. Shaped like a bubble letter d. Can’t remember the name. Absolutely owns tho. I have two in my fleet called the left and right Hand of Ludd. I just crash into enemies and unleash a missle barrage
I keep losing my key and buying another one. I think I've bought the game like 4 times now, even though a simple email will get them to send you what your key is.
Starsector: Spend the late game raiding all the factions as payback for what they did to your colonies! Grab the phantoms, have your marines pry their nanoforges off their corpses, and take their DRM blueprints for yourself!!
Bought this a long time ago and should play it again soon. At the moment I'm trying to get back into Avorion, but while it was one of my favorite games, I am having issues getting hooked again. Sad when that happens.
It's always nice to see Starsector getting some attention. Also, it's still just $15, that is lot a LOT of value considering how much time you'll likely spend playing it.
The new update is working fine with Nex these days, I've just finished a game putting the entire sector under the heel of the League. Normally wouldn't side with them but 5% tax for unlimited AI usage thru the entire sector is pretty fair. No issues on the Nex side incorporating additional factions either, have fun on the next trip.@@screamingseal4805
Promise worth the buy ppl. Finally built my on gaming rig at the end of last year and this was one of the games I had my eyes on. It's not that expensive either like 15 bucks. And I'm addicted to the game as well and I'm not best either. And already put so many hrs in it. Lol great game 10/10.
Starsector will be the best 15 bucks you ever spend on a game. I got it for free at first, but then I spent the money on it because it's honestly worth it.
You don't want to give your key, but Sseth had no problem doing that in his review (*wink wink* others who are watching). I also bought the game, its great.
Welp, you might have just restarted my descent into madness with starsector again. Have you given battle brothers a try yet, its another cool combat, exploring the world, and never seeing your friends kinda game.
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Starsector is that kind of game when you can blink twice-
And suddenly it is already a morning behind the window
A bird chirper if you will
oh so godamn true
real
Man, I bought this game way back in 2012 when I was 13, back when it was still called Starfarer. I remember playing it late at night during a thunderstorm the day before the Mayan Calendar ended and at midnight a bunch of thunder and lightning occurred outside my house which made me think the world was ending. I have bought this game for so many of my friends and even family; I'm still surprised that so many people have no idea about this game. It's obviously come such a long way and you can really see the passion that Alex has put into the vision that he has.
One of the greatest passion projects in gaming for sure
Bruh, thats just sky getting the new update
All they need to do is put it on steam. I don't know why they are resisting
@@ricks4348 Alex said he will. When it's done. He considers it too raw to sell for full price on a storefront. Talk about (over)delivering a fully featured product.
Game is amazing already.
What is the factorio approach? :o
A Starsector player with morals?
Unheard of! Finally I’m not alone
I mean I DID join Tri-Tachyon but other than that
@@Soul_Tomato Well, its either Tri-Tach for the Paragon or Hegemony for the Legion and Onslaught. if you want to get the big ones legally that is.
You can get them legally in other ways, you just have to make your own faction and build them yourself when you get those BP's :D.
@@RicWalker Wait, you can get them legally.....😜😅🏴☠
@@RicWalker You can always salvage capital ships from bounties or find the occasional derelict. I've used almost every ship and have only done a faction commission(hegemony) my first run. I've grown fond of the the Conquest, if you only arm one side of it the broadsides can put out some really impressive fire without charging in.
Star Sector, give up your moral compass and start trading “recreational medicine” on the blackmarket, sell heavy weapons to the Luddic Path, start a food shortage to sell your stockpile at a higher price.
It’s a beautiful market after all
@@Soul_Tomato The biggest problem with Star Sector is waiting for your mods to update when a new version has been uploaded.
Yeah I can imagine
The Sindrian Diktat annoyed me and my colonies enough to the point that now theyre only known as the Diktat
If you can get a fleet of Atlas superfreighters, shipping ore and rare ores from Kanni and Chalcedon respectively from the Kumari Kandam system to Kapteyn Starworks in the Isirah system. You can then grab heavy weapons from them to sell back to Chalcedon and repeat the cycle every month.
You may also be the cause for a massive wave of piracy that plagues the western core for the next 5 cycles which in turn causes Kapteyn Starworks to demand even more ore and the systems that mine ores to drop prices and have massive surplus, thus repeating the cycle.
One small correction about the game lore, I see this misunderstanding quite a lot actually. In Starsector our sector is located in the milky-way on perseus arm of the galaxy. The domain of man did not span multiple galaxies, in fact they didn’t rule the entire milky-way, they only controlled a chunk of galaxy, and implied to be a relatively small one compared to the entire galaxy. All this info comes from the ingame description of the cryosleeper.
I think someone else pointed this out too. My mistake!
Mind you, it is an understandable mistake, since the Domain managed to squeeze substancially more out 9f each star, makig it more powerful than many actual sci-fi galactic empire.
That's quite a misunderstanding as well.
The domain of men was very vast.
Extremely vast, though not vast like the Imperium of Men (M.40) or advance like likes humanity before the Dark Age of Technology. (But about to be)
They're powerful but they can't colony every star system as many aren't suit for colonization at all. (Still have ore mining station and Volatiles harvesting)
In the Starsector setting, even the Persean Sector alone have countless infrastructure ruins across the entire sector which proves that the entire Sector wasn't nearly colonized but most of the colonies were destroyed or abandoned while the majority of Persean natives still have centralized government body retreated to the core systems of the Sector.
Can be said...
Countless billions died during the Collapse.
And what we saw in Persean Sector is those who survive the chaos and manage to rebuild human civilization to a certain degree.
There are a few games that i am genuinely scared to play... but because i know i would get lost in them, this is one example.
Dew it
@@Soul_TomatoNoooo!..
This is the first time I have heard of Starsector, and you have instantly hooked me. Love these style of games and the devs that craft them into works of art.
Welcome, I hope you enjoy not sleeping or seeing your loved ones
@@Soul_Tomato Sorry, got distracted playing Starsector. I blame you for this.
Consider checking out Escape Velocity Nova at some point! The EV games are 20+ years old at this point and have less features overall, but they're very accessible and well-executed takes on this genre. They were originally Mac releases and never hit Steam, so people don't seem to remember them as much as they deserve.
Burn bright
Check out some mods, like nexerlin that make the world a lot more alive
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You come for the unparalleled exploration experience, you stay for the eldritch nightmare lying in wait behind the gates, singing a song that sounds oh so strangely familiar.
The song of home
You've heard this music before, you know it. You just don't quite know when that was... or who you were when you heard it.
I really appreciate that you touch on the story and writing because my god it is so well done for what it is currently and quite a lot of people seem to just either ignore it or never fully engage with it (which i don't blame them for). I'm a sucker for good writing and I have never dropped anything so much just to be able to read a screen of text thoroughly like i have while i was doing the various story missions you can find and just be absolutely sucked into the immersive and powerful storytelling that they have
Imma sucker for a good text based story
I love coming back to Starsector (nearly called it Starfarer then) once every now and again. enjoying the new updates and the continuing fantastic work of modders, especially in the realm of ships and the faction "building" side of the game.
Glad to see you're enjoying it!
Bought this game way back when scott manly first played it and you were only able to do battle scenarios, can confirm that it has grown into an epic open world game with unique stories to tell. I absolutely love the colony management aspect too.
It's an incredible game, I just wish it had more in terms of story quests to do. Once I'd made a faction that had destroyed the Diktat and taken over Volturn, monopolizing the lobster trade and also unrelatedly controlling over 50% of the galactic market of all other supplies, pulling in 1,000,000 credits a month, there just... wasn't a whole lot left to challenge.
I think that’s probably going to be the last bits added from what I could tell.
And that's when you start downloading the mods! The modding community is so extensive you'll pretty much never run out of new things to do because new things are always being made!
Put an Alpha core in charge of Chicomoztoc
Start over and do it again, different goals each time.
I hope eventually they flesh out the reputation and relationship aspect of the game, like being able to do missions for the quartermasters and base commanders, and have events trigger on planets based on your relationship with planet notables. A mod I like is the Mayasuran Navy, i like the idea of a storyline where you can rebuild that system, or a story where i can follow in the footsteps of warlord leonis
Yeah I agree
I remember when I first played the game I used someone else’s key and I immediately fell in love with the game and I actually bought the game because I wanted to support the devs
you're so RIGHT. how to finish my meanigless tasks at home / work to increase play / experimentation time is what i've been thinking about last week. ..non stop. love the game trying to understand modding etc. wow. a UNIVERSE within a UNIVERSE. what a grand time to be alive!
Safe travels spacer
I used Ssseth's Key he linked in the video, since then I've bought it like 5 times, once for myself and the rest for people who I knew would like it, because I knew they would never do it themselves.
Good lad
The good man
It's nice to see more and more people are coming to understand the appeal of truly in-depth games like starsector and dwarf fortress. You should try CDDA too.
Your commentary was spot on. The list you mentioned are “labor of love” games. I am hooked as well. One thing I would stress is the economics of the game. Basic trade is almost impossible due to the 30% tariff… unless you want to trade on the black market and be hated by everyone. Trying to keep your fleet in fuel and supplies is just as important as keeping every Ghengis Khahn wannabe from jacking up your fleet. The most recent patch has really applied a hard mode to late game play. I guess it’s time to learn new tactics. Burn brightly!
Having put in well over 200+ hours. I was so surprised playing as Luddic path or Pirates wasn’t in the base game. So used to modded gameplay I took it for granted playing as a raiding, smuggling and guns blazing pirate 😅
Its absolutely in the game. You just cant get an officers commission with the pirates, vecause they are not an organized navy, but you can freel, trade at their bases, and provided you pay off Kanta, they wont even raid your colonies.
Has vibes of the Escape Velocity series from the 90s
That's what I was thinking too. Looks cool.
Ok, less then 20 euro.. Social life is way more expensive. I did this for financial reasons 😁😁😁
You’ve done the right thing
Yoooooooooo Starsector vid, its been my jam ever since it was Starfarer.
It has an absolute stranglehold on me, LK.
Wow I just looked up my preorder, it was Sep 30, 2012.. can't believe it's been that long. Love this game.
@@dnoordink 11/17/12 for me! Did you find it after the Total Biscuit video too? 🤣
@@LonelyKnightess I honestly can't remember, it's been so long. Possibly, I was watching him back then!
This looks just like space rangers, and space rangers 2 rise of the dominators. Love those games. Would love to see a reboot.
Gonna try this out.
Ah yes! I was totally hooked on this a year ago.
Ok, time for a reinstall.
(oh, also bought it back then)
I always just love being a low-tech mishmash fleet and just using burndrives with mass gun emplacements to win the day.
I wanna do a run like this some time
I've played over 1,000 hours of StarSector (possibly way more), but put it down two years ago after realizing how much time I was spending on it. I am spending a lot of mental effort not going back to check what the new update offers... because I don't know if I'll be able to stop again this time.
Succumb. You know you want it in your heart of hearts.
@@Soul_Tomato Oh, I totally want it, there's no argument there. The problem is I can't play StarSector if I've died of starvation.
@@headrockbeats There's a solid amount of new stuff in 0.97a.
I highly recommend throwing your life away to bombard the sector. You can even visit the bottom left portion of the map, and find [REDACTED], which you can use to [REDACTED]. All the while exploring new and unforseen comic horrors and existential dread. It's very [REDACTED].
Ahhh yes... Starsector My Beloved
Mine too TBH (we are expecting [REDACTED])
Just discovered your channel through After the end CK3 Lore videos and I would absolutely love if you did a playthrough of modded Starsector! I've been playing this game for almost a decade and the modding community is what keeps every new campaign fresh and interesting!
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3192256710 AtE released on Steam today btw
Ludd has truly blessed discerning captains with D-Mods and Derelict Operations.
As it was written
Im playing Starsector and needed more Starsector in my Starsector, so i ended up here. Nice vid man.
I felt that
Good to see this gem getting more coverage. I know SSeth got a lot of people into the game years ago, but since then the game has developed and expanded further, and there's a lot of cool stuff. Just an awesome space game, it's a shame that so many are turned off by the 2d top-down aspect.
Honestly I almost one but when someone gave me their key to try it, well, I fell in love. It’s a hurdle but it’s worth it - obviously I think so I made the video but you get me haha.
Only a few games have captured total immersibility in my life.
Skyrim, The Witcher 3, Halo 3, Rimworld, Rocketleague and Starsector.
All of these games have captured something inside of me that first playthrough that took forever to get rid of. Technically speaking, Rocket League is still the only game I've never "quit" or "given a break" too. Consistently for almost a decade now I've played that game once a week at MINIMUM.
Starsector must've been around a 600+ hour journey before I finally took my first break. These games are rare, but fuck I love them
Reminds me a lot of Escape Velocity, the old shareware game from the 90s.
Haven’t heard that name in a hot minute
Good you mentionned it I think I did not played but heard of.
The Persean League is actually my favourite faction to join, I wish there would be more quests with their sub-factions. One day maybe.
I've had tons of fun with this one. My go to builds usually involve safety overrides and assault chainguns! Pure mayhem xD
The more dakka the better
This looks like Space Pirates and Zombies but with sober artwork.
The tone is ... strangely similar. While I think John Bain narrating could make it even better, StarSector plays itself more straight than SPAZ, but the comparison really can be made.
It's like spaz but 10x better
For the old folks around here this game has (pen and paper) Car Wars or Mech Warrior vibe to it. It’s the game 13 year old me would have loved to play. Some of the mods do compliment the game well. Buy it, it’s worth it. Independent developers like this amaze me. Great video, I need to reinstall this game!
The combat really is just straight up battletech, with the addition that you can take incoming damage as heat, if you put up the shields.
i'll say this, i might have bin spoiled, since i started playing the game with mods from the start. GOD BLESS THE UAF!
Good video man, and awesome game.
It’s a fantastic game. And mods do spoilt you haha. Thats why I caution playing vanilla first for a bit.
The Syndrians tried to invade Lunamun yesterday. It was a good time.
Glad you are bringing more attention to this game! It’s amazing and the developers deserve all the success in the world
Happy to contribute, no matter how small
Songs of Syx is doing this to me right now the game has been running 24/7 for 2 weeks even when I sleep lol
Looks a little like dwarf fortress meets factorio
Would be great that on the trade screen - if I'm checking best prices I should be able to right click and set nav to the system/planet that has the best price. Right now it just gives a general heading and distance and you have to go to map screen and find it yourself.
It gives distance as well
Find omens, buy omens, put reaper and whatever energy on omens, Fill omens with officers, Wolfpack tactics. Enjoy
Gg wp
TRI-TACH-Y-ON
No (jk, but I thought that’s how I said it)
TA-
KYON
TA TA-
KYON
(TAAaaAAAkY-Y-Y-YON)
@@annabellerice839 cultured reference!
@@Soul_TomatoIt's a reference to the Starsector review by Sseth, I think.
@@annabellerice839Hey-hey people
Putting it in the same breadbasket as Kenshi is really apt. One of those FAFO-simulator games without hope of ever becoming that popular on a worldly scale.
Speaking of Kenshi, I think one of the greatest thing about Starsector is how mod-friendly it is, and how much modders try to be mindful of vanilla balance in general. Exceptions are on the rarer side, and immediately singled out by people when asked about them. Nexerelin is, as far as I'm concerned, a full-on module at this point, same goes for Industrial Evolution and Ashes of the Domain as a sort-of late bloomer on the scene.
I’d recommend the knights of ludd as well the ships it adds are awesome.
Brother Cotton saying "We can't expect Ludd to do all the work" is peak meming. You, sir, have deserved my subscribtion.
Oh and for those wondering it's $15, it's not on steam, and save the email (or code) they send you with the key. The game does not auto update and you may need to enter it again when you re-download the new client. Also even if you suck with piloting you can always let the AI take over until you figure it out.
I have been playing starsector and this is now what, my 6th run? AND IM STILL FINDING OUT NEW SHIT ABOUT THE GAME its unreal
It took me all that time to now realize.. if you double tap your frigates during a pursuit battle you can deploy them to the sides
And then the secret encounters and missions that you just have to sorta find by yourself and theres no indication that they exist or how to get to them, have fun knowing your not 100%ing the game :)
It’s truly incredible
I rp as a galactic "Aid" agency, delivering "vaccines", "donor organs", and "agricultural equipment" across the sector!!
A true humanitarian
When Sseth made his review years ago and shared his gamekey, I tried it out and played a ton of hours. My first character ended up smuggling AI cores en masse to tri-tachyon to make millions, then using the millions to acquire some of the finest ships in the galaxy, and using those ships to fight the government because my captain, being a libertarian, must destroy all who attempt to tax him. I then got bigger and better ships from fighting massive fleet battles, and refitted those ships with newer guns and systems, up and up the great line goes, so on and so forth. Eventually, I caused perhaps too much chaos, made too much money, and made too many powerful enemies that every day was a struggle to travel without ending up in some cataclysmic fleet battle. Such an awesome game, and comparing it to Mount and Blade feels very true to the core idea of both games: doing whatever you want in this wartorn landscape.
Sseth’s review very obviously inspired this one but it really is a great game I hope more people try
One correction: Of course you can join the pirates. A pirate playthrough is pretty amazing, tbh.
Or you can even be a religious fanatic if you choose. Just have to befriend the faction first.
Befriend isn’t exactly the same as join but I see your point. Idt you can commission with either in vanilla
@@Soul_Tomato True. It's much more fun being a pirate with the Nexerelin and Underworld MODs. If you want to try it, you'd lose another social life though. ;)
The best way I made money is by scrapping old stations at the edge of the sector.
Multiple AI cores, tons of weapon data, and several large hi-tech components.
If you can kit your fleet out to be speedy asf and have no issue with savescumming, it’s a great way to make cash!
I could join the luddic path by joining the luddic church first, putting me at peace with them. Afterwards I could do a few quests and join them
0:57 Considering state of some plantes the "30h a day" line may very well be reasonable for a work shift in some systems
Nexerelin, HMI, industrial evolution and various QOL mods are amazing for the next playthrough. It basically quadruples the amount of content of an already content dense game.
tri tachyion is not evil, they are perfect, they are managed.. they are.. great.
may ludd grant you mercy for i will not.
Blink twice if a corporate loyalty assurance enforcer is making you type that at gunpoint.
Strong recommendation on nexerelin and Luna lib mods you can then set the game up to have random sectors so not everything is in the same place every game and with Luna lib you can configure the game to prevent invasions and colonization until you found your first colony otherwise while your enjoying the game often times the war for the sector can more or less be finished by the time you start your own world
The fact that this game is in my top 10 while still being in early access is insane on top of me playing games for 23ish years.
Honestly fair. It deserves it
Hello, so during the intro you were stuck in a slipstream, the only way to get out of it during most of the playthrough is to emergency burn and manualy controll your fleet. You are welcome.
I wasn’t stuck? I was riding through it
@@Soul_Tomato Your destination arrow showed you were riding it past your destination, which is probably what he was referring to and so he assumed you were "stuck" in the slipstream as opposed to deliberately riding it to its terminus.
"As always the numbers must go up" prophetic words
A carry over from my OSRS days
Bought this one in 2014, thanks for reminding me of its existence. I'll install iy again.
Man this needs to release on steam, it would bring so many new eyes to the game and finally get Alex the payday he deserves after working on this game for years
I do agree Alex deserves the pay day
Heard of it Today, bought it the same day - insane that I did not know about its existence until now!
I've grown to hate the Persean League and their directed energy missiles.
I giggle like a schoolgirl each time I pull off a successful ramming maneuver and send a burning pile of twisted scrap from a capital hurling towards the enemy at 400 su/s
If you love ramming I HIGHLY recommend the Knights of Ludd mod. They have a huge ship made basically to ram and then launch an ungodly amount of middles directly at what you just rammed. It was too fun.
@Soul Tomato , I fear I have bad news to you. This game has a large, thriving, active modding community. I literally cannot play Starsector anymore... without like 30 mods installed.
Oh I lost a solid 200 more hours of
My life after this to mods. If I didn’t have this TH-cam id have never made it out alive.
Oh god star sector I feel I like many got introduced to this by Szethzeench, only game I played for weeks. Incredible writing and love a post-apocalyptic sci-fi story
Hey hey people
for me it was SplaterCatGaming a few years ago. took me a while to not get constantly frustrated. The learning curve was high. but than it become a lot of fun, for the most part. Looking at you colony crises....
@@RicWalker SplatterCat has been an incredible source for some really good kinda obscure games, I think I first started watching him when he made the video on Reus.
Godbless that free key in the vid
I still use his code at the end of his video. If/when it comes to steam, I'm going to buy it for me and a bunch of friends to compensate.
This is kind of what Ark Survival Evolved did to me way back when it first come out. I even quit a job to defend the server when I got a discord text from a tribe mate letting me know our server was being raided by a rival tribe from another server. The fight for the server went on day and night for over a week. I was putting in 18-20 hours a day. Finally, on the 9th day of the war we emerged victorious. .... And jobless and my wife was mad as hell.
That’s literally insane levels of dedication. Are you still married?
@@Soul_Tomato Yes. Same woman too. I don't know if you played Ark back then, but it was stress. You never knew if you were going to log on and find thousands of hours destroyed. I stay away from those types of games now lol. I just play EFT and Overwatch.
I had it since it was called Starfarer. Every few months or when there is a big release, I install it again to listen to the music of the Janus Device while I sell drugs and bombs to terrorists while striking deals with the [REDACTED]. And the mods, oh the mods. Just... just buy this game.
Damn......I remember hearing about this game like 10 years ago, but I always thought that it was kind of jank and shallow, but you've really sold me on this. I'm getting this.
Solid vid. Loved the overall pacing, concise explanations, and sense of humor!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
So, you really want to become my favourite youtube channel. Best CK3 mods, now Starsector. Can't wait for classical smuggler walkthrough!
You’re too kind
Humanity did not extend accross glaxies. It colonised the entirity of the Orion arm of our galaxy and began to extand to the Persean arm. Then it began to go to *censored*.
Ah I see
@@Soul_TomatoYeah, the Domain was advanced, but not to THAT extend.
Makes me happy to see this game get some love and views
It deserves all its flowers
Such an amazing game. I've been playing it off-and-on for over a decade and it still manages to stay on my mind.
Live where there's actually winter. Play this game. Itll be spring before you know it.
That’s essentially been my life
Really entertaining chill review. Subscribed.
Thank you. I'd like to do more stuff like this on the channel going forward. Any suggestions?
Forgot about this game til someone mentioned it on reddit. Great video, just bought the game and installed a ton of mods lol. Hyped to try it out!
Have a blast!
I know the feeling. This week i lose about an hour of sleep every night because of this game - "just one last thing to do before i go to bed" uh-huh.
It was even worse last weekend when i set up the alpha core farm and couldn't get myself to save and exit until ~2AM because i was having too much fun blowing up wave after wave after wave of drone ships and raking in all that sweet loot.
P.S. You can in fact get a comission from Luddic Path or Pirates. But without mods there is literally no reason to do so except to make everyone hate you for some kind of twisted challenge.
I really enjoy using the knights of Ludd mod and flying around delivering holy fire. Also I don’t think you can join them without mods but I could be wrong.
@@Soul_TomatoI have just tested things and it seems you're right - it is indeed impossible to sign up with pirates or pathers without a nexerelin mod.
Knights of Ludd is my jam, even if reputation gain is still very buggy. Lunaria class battleship set up for infinite dakka as my flagship, at the head of a bunch of Larkspurs, Tamarisks and Eagle XIV in "your shields are forfiet" configuration.
I love that one that has the (I think) redemption launch propulsion as it’s special. Shaped like a bubble letter d. Can’t remember the name. Absolutely owns tho. I have two in my fleet called the left and right Hand of Ludd. I just crash into enemies and unleash a missle barrage
@@Soul_TomatoThat'd be Alysse, the other KoL battleship.
I keep losing my key and buying another one. I think I've bought the game like 4 times now, even though a simple email will get them to send you what your key is.
For the sector it’s worth it
Starsector:
Spend the late game raiding all the factions as payback for what they did to your colonies! Grab the phantoms, have your marines pry their nanoforges off their corpses, and take their DRM blueprints for yourself!!
@@ezra3028 exactly 😎
Bought this a long time ago and should play it again soon. At the moment I'm trying to get back into Avorion, but while it was one of my favorite games, I am having issues getting hooked again. Sad when that happens.
Been playing this game for over 10 years, such a hidden gem, can't wait until the world discovers Starsector
hopefully sooner than later to give them more money to make us more stuff :)
It's always nice to see Starsector getting some attention.
Also, it's still just $15, that is lot a LOT of value considering how much time you'll likely spend playing it.
It’s beyond worth the price
Starsector my beloved I love this game.sadly I haven’t gotten to get the nexelin mod to work for it so haven’t played in awhile 😢
Come back. Hyperspace misses you
@@Soul_Tomato I’m not that interested in the game without the 4k elements sadly
The new update is working fine with Nex these days, I've just finished a game putting the entire sector under the heel of the League. Normally wouldn't side with them but 5% tax for unlimited AI usage thru the entire sector is pretty fair. No issues on the Nex side incorporating additional factions either, have fun on the next trip.@@screamingseal4805
@@screamingseal4805play stellaris instead.
The idea of giving away an Alpha Core hurts my soul
I’m sorry
I legit spent an entire month playing this game every waking moment to the point I lost connection with family and friends.
Same exact thing. well I live with my partner so I had them.
well for easier battles you can hold shift and the ship will turn to your mouse
Promise worth the buy ppl. Finally built my on gaming rig at the end of last year and this was one of the games I had my eyes on. It's not that expensive either like 15 bucks. And I'm addicted to the game as well and I'm not best either. And already put so many hrs in it. Lol great game 10/10.
The lore of starsector has a lot of similarities to the x4 story
The day before it hits 1.0/there's a price increase, I'm buying everyone who likes games a copy. I'm also buying myself a copy all over again.
Good lad
Starsector will be the best 15 bucks you ever spend on a game.
I got it for free at first, but then I spent the money on it because it's honestly worth it.
Exact same scenario and agreed
"Social life?" You mean... like things were before 2020? Unpossible.
I’ve held on to mine for dear life
Welcome to the party my man.
Ty my friend
You don't want to give your key, but Sseth had no problem doing that in his review (*wink wink* others who are watching). I also bought the game, its great.
That’s perhaps what I was alluding to haha
Just what I needed, to be reminded that I have this game.
You owe me all the sleep I’m gonna miss in the next weeks!
I def concur. Ppl should buy this
i regret and apologize for nothing
Ohhh I can see myself sinking a lot of time into this like I did for mount and blade. Thanks for the excellent mini review/preview!
Good luck and have fun!
You can join the luddic path just find ai cores sneak into their planets and hand them over till your nuetral
Welp, you might have just restarted my descent into madness with starsector again. Have you given battle brothers a try yet, its another cool combat, exploring the world, and never seeing your friends kinda game.
I’ve never tried it but I know of it
remembers kids, 2 ships for every [redacted], good rule of thumb. also installing this bad boy again, 100+ mods, 800 battle size, 4k tv, lets go.
Probably 3 depending on what the ship is but best of luck out there captain’