Hellion "space survival game"

[Burning Bridges]

Do we already have a thread about this?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/588210/HELLION/

I'm close to buying this until I read a bit and about despawning mechanism and that everything you did dissapears after 48hours or so. Thought that I could possibly regret it.

Otherwise this pretty much sounds like a dream, you can fly to, then dock / undock modules floating in space, manage your air / energy and other systems, and it has realistic gravity.

explore a persistent solar system where all in-game objects from planets and moons to ships and stations abide by Newtonian Physics and full Orbital Mechanics. A seamless world you can immerse yourself in without interruptions. No instances or loading screens.

• Realistic scale solar system (completed)

• Newtonian Physics (completed)

• Orbital mechanics (completed)

• Seamless transitions (completed)

• Persistent universe (completed)

Not hyped about the PvP but it can probably be better played in coop on private server.

Gameplay videos are much closer in athmosphere to Alien or 2001, not hyperactive action shit but really slow and very close to realism.



If anyone has experience, I'd like to know if they regret the game or not.

 

[Runciter]

Yes, there is this thread: http://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.ph...space-engineers-dayz-and-star-citizen.115927/
I wouldn't buy it just yet, the price is a bit high and although the devs' ambitions are right, not sure if they can deliver.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

Unfortunately, this game is now officially abandoned. Too bad, I thought it might end up better than Space Engineers.

 

[Burning Bridges]

There was quite a shitstorm over this one, which forced the developer to completely pull the game from Steam.

 

[DraQ]

WTF happened?

 

[Burning Bridges]

They were releasing updates, a new UI and announcing bugfixes but then suddenly a post:

"We decided it was not worth it and development on Hellion ended. This is the last post, the team is already disbanded. Thanks for the support guys!"

But the kicker was that they left the buggy unfinished junksoftware on Steam for 12$, a lot of people reported the dev to Steam and eventually Hellion was pulled.

They also did not release the source code because "open source release is ruled out by the Unity's TOS"

What a fucking disaster and an automatic lifetime ticket among the "dirty devs" list.

The name of the developer is Zero Gravity Games remember it!

 

[DraQ]

What a fucking disaster and an automatic lifetime ticket among the "dirty devs" list.

The name of the developer is Zero Gravity Games remember it!

Names of individual people would be more interesting. Name of the team/company doesn't really refer to anything.

 

[Burning Bridges]

No, just no

they had Yugoslavian sounding names that's all I'm gonna say.

 

[DraQ]

You could say they have burned some bridges alright.

 

[Burning Bridges]

No. Rather that's what you get when a clueless investor outsources all development to some East European sweatshop. In the end everone feels cheated: the investor, the developer and the customers.

There was even a review by one of the lead devepers in which he said he wanted to continue, but others preferred to take the remaining funds for their next projects. In an E/A game! The last days of Hellion development must have been a total clusterfuck.

 

[urmom]

Wow, they must have spent a ton of money on cutscene/trailer!

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

I really had high hopes for this game. Zero-G flight and EVA was fun, better single player, a way to compress jump times (in single player), and mod support to make it bit less grindy and it would have been lovely. Crap like this makes me really wary of any EA games.