Space Rngers 2 - Wowza

[Balor]

10000?!
Give it a few years - and you'll be getting more for one FedEx mission .
You were playing it for a few hours only, I think?

 

[Screaming_life]

just wondering... does anyone uses rocket launchers? I just thought it was a big expense to reload them and the payoff wasn't that good, so i wonder what the big advantages are.

Well, for one they have great range so if you've got a fast ship you can be flying away from dominators out of their range and still be causing them damage.

And i do think that repairing is too expensive. i never get too amass that much money (more than 10000) to buy a new hull. I think that's the only problem of the game

yeah it can seem a bit steep early on but as Balor said you get loads of cash later on. At the moment, asking for harder missions i'm getting around 45 000 for very simple missions. Also if you watch the news channel thing they'll often report big price cuts on stuff. It's not something i bothered with too much but i did make 40 000 from a single transaction once.

 

[Balor]

Also, some micromodules have VERY decent bonus to missile damage, and since you'll be launching three rockets at once, you'll be getting 3x damage bonus! Of course, nothing beats Vertics, yet it's very good for the start of the game.

 

[RuySan]

but now i have 2 artifacts that give bonus to energy weapons, so i gave up rockets for now.

One thing that annoys me (it happened twice already) is when you have a mission of destroying a ship, and after chasing the ship, it lands on a planet where is arrested

Anyway, i don't remember having so much fun with a game the amiga (or with the first 3 HOMM games)

 

[Balor]

Well, don't you think that's it's rather smart of him?
Better be imprisoned (expecially since judges in SR universe are really forgiving, heh) then dead .
I recommend you to use either slowing weapons, or artifact that gives your cannots slowing ability, or simply outfit yourself with so powerful guns that you'll be able to defeat the opponent in a few turns.
If you don't have above requirements - better stay away from 'search & destroy' missions for now.

 

[RuySan]

i've got this artifact that turns down my defenses and raise the power of my energy weapons in equal measure. Even with that the guy managed to escape. But yeah, i think i will avoid those missions for a little while.

Another thing that happened was that i was supposed to make a delivery to a planet, and that planet was hostile towards me, and i really don't know why. That's probably because it was a Peleng planet, and i'm an human fighter, but even so its too harsh

 

[Screaming_life]

I recommend you to use either slowing weapons, or artifact that gives your cannots slowing ability, or simply outfit yourself with so powerful guns that you'll be able to defeat the opponent in a few turns.

yeah... once i had a pirate that would keep landing everytime i got near to destroying him so i attacked him with just a single weapon while flying away from any planets, luring him away... then when i was far enough out, blasted him with full weaponry! (i did have good defence though)

 

[Halenthal]

Early in the game-like right at the beginning-if you pick the missile launcher you'll have a big advantage. They are fairly expensive to reload, but they rock as far as weaponry is concerned. Later-much later-you'll find that you and everyone else can outrun rockets, so they're not that great at that point, but early on they're spectacular. Their advantage is to fire and forget with incredible range-quite often you'll send two or three salvos before the other fellow has closed to knife fighting distance for his weapons to work. Rockets also damage other ships they run into, so if you've got a pack of aliens on your tail and three launchers spewing missiles as you run away (or in a big circle) the missiles will start connecting with a lot of ships. If you run out of ammo in the middle of a fight, switch the empty launcher out for another weapon and go after'em.

It IS difficult to get enough money for a new hull, especially considering that the basic hull you start with (no matter what race) it's one of the best in the game. Just having all the equipment slots is a big plus for a hull.

 

[biggame]

Is this game on shelves in the us?

 

[Jed]

I just started playing tonight. Pretty awesome, so far I love every aspect, even the ground battles. One snag I've run into so far... I can't seem to figure out how to sell equipment. There doesn't seem to be anything about it in the manual. Oh well, I guess I'll have to check into the in-game manual next time I play...

PS- What classes are people playing? I've started with merchant twice, but I'm thinking about starting again with either a Merc or a Fighter for my "real" game... any opinions on what the optimal experience is?

 

[EEVIAC]

You can sell items from your ship screen (keyboard shortcut "s".) Just pick up the item from the bottom and drag it over to the sell button on the left of screen. You can also store equipment by opening the "storage" button - you'll get a note listing all the equipment you have in storage and on which planets they're stored on the main screen. (Note that bases can be destroyed and if you've stored loot there, it's gone for good.)

As for the "optimal play experience," there isn't one. You play how you like, that's why the game is so good. Some of the classes give you better or poorer relations with races at the start of the game but they don't limit what skills you can take and you can change your initial skills to your preference anyway.

 

[Balor]

Well, actually, the best of getting cool loot and lotsa exp is, logically, fighting dominators.
However, you must be stocked with pretty good weaponry (and, preferably, artifacts) for this - so it's reserved for mid-late game.

 

[RuySan]

Does anyone uses probes? I got tired of using them since the expenses of repairing them and the ship after landing on these planets exceded the gains. I wonder if its possible to get cool artifacts this way. The best i got was 2 units of drugs

 

[Balor]

It's possible.
Also it's possible to get cool (up to the best) micromodules this way.
So, it's worth the effort.

 

[Kizmiaz]

Is this game on shelves in the us?

GoGamer has it.

 

[bryce777]

Does anyone uses probes? I got tired of using them since the expenses of repairing them and the ship after landing on these planets exceded the gains. I wonder if its possible to get cool artifacts this way. The best i got was 2 units of drugs

The only problem with them is you need a really good tech skill to get any large number of probes. You can find good artifacts this way, but I prefer to just use the wormhols to get artifacts.

I seldom seem to get good micromodules by any means, and some of the ones like strongster are pretty amazing.That and a universe ultraplasmstic and you can get 37 armor + 60% shields. Add a decent droid and nanitoids and you can wistand any fleet in the game withe ase. Add some UHMO 9000s and you can liberate systems in a dozen turns.

 

[Screaming_life]

PS- What classes are people playing? I've started with merchant twice, but I'm thinking about starting again with either a Merc or a Fighter for my "real" game... any opinions on what the optimal experience is?

I started as merchant but during the game my class changed to merc and then fighter... not exactly sure why but i put it down to my gaining more kills? (or maybe it's down to the ship type you have?)

 

[biggame]

Thanks, it's on it's way overnight yeah

 

[Balor]

I seldom seem to get good micromodules by any means, and some of the ones like strongster are pretty amazing.That and a universe ultraplasmstic and you can get 37 armor + 60% shields. Add a decent droid and nanitoids and you can wistand any fleet in the game withe ase. Add some UHMO 9000s and you can liberate systems in a dozen turns.

Well, yea, I've killed Blazer all by myself using similar setup, heh.

 

[Jed]

I started as merchant but during the game my class changed to merc and then fighter... not exactly sure why but i put it down to my gaining more kills? (or maybe it's down to the ship type you have?)

I started another character as a Fighter, but oddly enough I ended up with identical equipment to my Merchant character. Strange...

 

[AnalogKid]

I started as merchant but during the game my class changed to merc and then fighter... not exactly sure why but i put it down to my gaining more kills? (or maybe it's down to the ship type you have?)

The title you have depends on the actions you take. If you kill merchents you'll start towards Corsair and then Pirate. If you kill Dominators your title will move towards Hero. If you trade a lot of goods, your title will move towards Merchant. You get the idea. There are a lot of titles and I'm not sure about all the intermediate "mixed" titles (e.g. a Fighter is someone that mixes Dominators and civilian ships as targets). The point is that the title doesn't determine anything, but rather tracks whatever actions you take. The entire game is very cool like that.

As for starting gear, each race/class has a starting setup that are different from each other, but sometimes in very minor ways (like how much cash you start with, or if you have some extra trade goods in storage at the beginning, or your race relations) it's not always your ship that's different.

 

[Sheriff05]

Fired it up and played about 5 hours last night

Started a Human Pirate figuring it be a fast track to getting cash and maybe a new ship
I took a weapon and scanner bonuses only to find putting them in my ship
left me no room for cargo, so I had to sell the biggest weapon


tired a planetary mission early on a didn't really dig the RTS ground portion
glad to see you can completely avoid it by asking not to be offered those mission, I may revisit later in a new game.

I abandoned that plantary mission and was totally suprised I was immediately sent to jail for 75 days, and played the whole daily prison mini game which took me a good 30 mins to complete for 75 days. it was hilarious and I made about 3k while in Jail

Failed alot of missions due to my engine not being powerful enough to get where I needed to be within 60 days, eventually I picked up a sweet engine spd 480, range 22
size 20, added a micromodule. Using the speed boost I can outrun most people I encounter if I get in a jam with a fuel cell in the hold my travel time is greatly improved.
Killed a few other pirates, completed some quests, won medal from the Malogs
probably going to start over again as I think I tried to do too much to soon.

Scanner is coming real handy, havent figured out how to make use of probes / droids or these nodes things yet. Dominators just slaughter immediately, So I have been staying away. depsite my score being around 3k for 5 hours still in the bottom five of the Rangers. guess that ok as I'm a Pirate.

Good Stuff.

 

[RuySan]

Damn! i can't believe that i lost the rock concert to Alluminica!!

 

[Balor]

Your rock(s) is(are) not heavy enough, young padavan :D.

 

[RuySan]

i'm in a really bad plae now in the game. For some reason, some time ago, a peleng battleship attacked me, and of course i had to defend myself. Over time there were more and more peleng battleships attacking me, and i destroyed some more. Now i'm a pirate, and i have bad relationships in most planets, and Maloq battleships also attack me. If i pay for the offences, only in that planet the opinion about me is better....so i don't know what to do.

It's not easy to fight pirates if i have a battleship shooting at my back.