Colony Ship Early Access Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

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[agris]

Yes (if everything goes well).

Cheers mate, we’ll see you in ‘24!

 

[Tony]

was defiant for so long, I didn't want to play it until it is completely done... And no, after two years I gave up and played the demo.

Similar here. I played a little when EA first came out, but not much. I couldn't stop myself from playing the demo. What a fantastic game.

 

[Cyberarmy]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113120/IXION/

I recommend this game to everyone waiting for Colony Ship. Ixion is literally a colony ship sim where we build ships whole interior from scratch, build and upgrade a warp drive and "explore" the space. Superb game on all fronts.
It'll make easier waiting for this gem.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113120/IXION/

I recommend this game to everyone waiting for Colony Ship. Ixion is literally a colony ship sim where we build ships whole interior from scratch, build and upgrade a warp drive and "explore" the space. Superb game on all fronts.
It'll make easier waiting for this gem.

Looks interesting? Does it have a proper single player campaign?

 

[Cyberarmy]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113120/IXION/

I recommend this game to everyone waiting for Colony Ship. Ixion is literally a colony ship sim where we build ships whole interior from scratch, build and upgrade a warp drive and "explore" the space. Superb game on all fronts.
It'll make easier waiting for this gem.

Looks interesting? Does it have a proper single player campaign?

I think it only has single player campaign. No endless or skirmish type of game modes.

Edit: I think it play like Frostpunk but I've never played it, so can't comment on that.

 

[Technomancer]

I think it play like Frostpunk

Pretty much. Its a builder game with some exploration and events.

 

[Egosphere]

Looking forward to the full release

 

[Diggfinger]

I was defiant for so long, I didn't want to play it until it is completely done... And no, after two years I gave up and played the demo.

Ffs, how good it is! I didn't have a ride like this for years, it's like Shadowrun, but done right. Love how the game lets me play quests in different ways, how I can speak myself out of the fights if I want to, hell, even sneaking here is fun!

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...and when you kill Morgan with the hands of Faythe, priceless!

It took me ~10 hours to complete everything (every nook and cranny) and I'm craving for more. And those bastards even made saved compatible between the demo and early access, so I'm done for and there's no hope left for me.

Damn you, devs, you made me love your game, again!

You glorious bastard.

Just made me install it again

 

[Sòren]

Land of the Blind now automatically fails if u leave the Habitat without stealing the eye even posterior? oh come on. that's just stupid. almost all of my playthroughs were built around the fact that u give a new teammember the necessary tags to acquire the eye and bridge chip.

 

[Jaedar]

Started itching for another playthrough...
previous build (somewhere in return to pit, but not at current end of content):

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This build used old balance. As you might assume, mc had 0 combat skills and was just a tank/liability/medic in combat, but I succeeded pretty much every combat/science/stealth/speech encounter/check that I wanted (Imagine picking skill use based on desired outcome instead of whatever you have. Interesting experience!). I suspect this is no longer possible since skill monkey doesn't give bonus to speech checks any more, but I'm not sure.

I also completely failed to replace any of my starting companions with the later game ones.

Idea for current build is 40k techpriest (he has the black blood implant):

Idea would be to get every implant and every overclock (except maybe squad implant lul). Afaik there's no limit to the amount of implant upgrades either. Thinking I might drop some dex for extra int. Not sure if the double skill gain on biotech is enough that I won't have to tag it to reach 10, but I'm hoping (does anyone know?). Considering dropping 2 dex for extra int, since techpriest with no tagged science skill feels bad. At the same time, I already fear combat might be really hard early on. Lategame the idea is to use full auto rifles to maximum effect since I can trivially get 8 strength for the recoil control feat. Also planning to go pretty heavily into armor for survivability.

It's a shame the spine implant to let you use superheavy weaponry got removed, would have fit great into this build.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

This game will be the BG3 killer.

 

[Jaedar]

Elhoim why does hp regen not function outside of combat? Not that medkits are especially scarce with double biotech skill gain, but even so.

 

[Technomancer]

@Elhoim why does hp regen not function outside of combat?

Design decision basically, it did so in AoD but not in CS. Excluding ancient combat beta (where it did).

 

[Jaedar]

Mostly done with chapter 1 on my cyborg. Still need to clear out some of the psychic enemies (hnnng). The build struggled A LOT to get going, but at this point it feels like playing the terminator (10-13 dr in every slot and every type). Enemies frequently fail to do anything against all my armor, and combined with regen I just will not die. At the same time, solo means all the fights take a while, especially with such a defensive PC: the enemies almost always run out of bullets before they run out of hp.
Char screen:

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Not sure what I should take as next feat. Some of the ones I want to take just aren't available until I get overclock going. Considering the +13 evasion feat just to make the defense truly crazy, but also the crit feat so I can try to get some good damage going.

Had to sneak past some encounters to get the bionic train rolling, feels a bit bad to waste those SP. Also did some partial sneaking to make mercy fight easier.

Is there any way to deal with panic or mitigate it? the penalties are kinda crazy.

 

[None]

Is there any way to deal with panic or mitigate it? the penalties are kinda crazy.

IIRC, one of the stims should help. The purple one.

 

[Jaedar]

Is there any way to deal with panic or mitigate it? the penalties are kinda crazy.

IIRC, one of the stims should help. The purple one.

Yeah, I didn't notice because the log doesn't mention it, but the penalties from panic are impacted by neural resist. I managed to do the triple mindworm fight by using the fact that there's a corner where one of the worms can't shoot.

So it turns out the hardest fight in chapter one for this build is the creeper. I just can't get enough damage to outdo its healing (14 hp per turn is a lot!), and it's immune to poison/thermal/optic/neural. Might have to skip it.

 

[Jaedar]

I think the tough bastard feat doesn't really work

Or at least it's not showing up in the logs as I'd expect.
Was probably a bad pick regardless, but with crit mitigation not working it was a terribad feat for this build.
I did all of chapter 2, except for the robot fight. Feel like I don't stand a chance at all for that one, the turrets are really strong and pulse grenades barely do anything (and I only have 2). Might have to leave that fight for later and hope a solution appears from the heavens.
Current stuffs:

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As expected I didn't have enough speech to pass a lot of stuff in the habitat, nor did I have enough sneak to get the eye. Also didn't manage/didn't feel like trying hard for the second smiles fight in factory, so took the frontal assault option instead.

 

[Trash Player]

It means the crit multiplier bonus is halved. If it is 45%(22.5%*2) before mitigation, it is working. Don't tell me you believe the feat can make crit hurt less than a normal hit.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

I need to stop coming to this thread; This is what recovering drug addicts must feel like, the brain going "Hey man, you can just make a character, it will be fine...you know, just one...maybe play a little of the first act...just a little, right? like, one or two level-ups never hurt anyone.....right?"
NO GODDAMNIT NO

 

[Jinn]

You cannot truly play until it's done. From the wise words of a certain man: Stop it, get some help.

 

[Jaedar]

It means the crit multiplier bonus is halved. If it is 45%(22.5%*2) before mitigation, it is working.

I don't know what it was before mitigation, but it is possible.

Don't tell me you believe the feat can make crit hurt less than a normal hit.

The feat text is "Enemy's critical damage is halved". This is slightly ambiguous since it doesn't specify if the halving happens before or after DR, but either way it would be a massive reduction in damage taken. The feat very explicitly does not say "Enemy's critical damage multiplier is reduced according to: new = (original+1)/2"* which is what you are saying it does. This is a very small reduction for most enemies.

*The enemy's critical damage bonus is halved ?

I need to stop coming to this thread; This is what recovering drug addicts must feel like, the brain going "Hey man, you can just make a character, it will be fine...you know, just one...maybe play a little of the first act...just a little, right? like, one or two level-ups never hurt anyone.....right?"
NO GODDAMNIT NO

Tell me about it. I got stuck on the heart fight with my techpriest, so decided to take a short break by rolling a stealth character... now I'm almost to the habitat with it. Game is really addictive. Only thing that annoys me is running around all the starting areas to pick up the free skill boosts and do all the easy skill checks.

 

[Cyberarmy]

I need to stop coming to this thread; This is what recovering drug addicts must feel like, the brain going "Hey man, you can just make a character, it will be fine...you know, just one...maybe play a little of the first act...just a little, right? like, one or two level-ups never hurt anyone.....right?"
NO GODDAMNIT NO

I'm not even downloading the EA because I'll just do the same thing.

 

[Diggfinger]

Watching everyone's comments makes me very excited to play this

 

[Jaedar]

I wish there were a way to favorite items in the inventory so they always show up on top, and that the inventory had a scroll bar instead of needing to use mouse wheel. Don't tell me to stop hoarding stuff, you never know when you'll need an armor with relative -1 ballistic but +2 melee or need to outfit a companion.

Reached current end of content (-2 fights, the one at the end of hydroponics red and the fight where I betray the fleshbags to the monks) with techpriest character.

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Bit sad that I didn't reach computer 10 for the bestest armor set. I guess I missed too many checks (no idea where, except for the spy mission in protectorate hub). Also had to skip ol bub because I stood no chance against it without romeo. I also can't do final fight in hydro red, I squandered all my stasis bombs on earlier fights. I think if I had one I could probably do it but maybe not, it is a really hard fight and all the enemies have massive armor pen.

A bit disappointed by lategame bionics stuff. +6 init for 9 and +20% combat skill gain (but either it wasn't retroactive or 20% wasn't enough to level anything) wasn't very impactful.

The build was pretty strong and fun though, once past the early game. Once the burst fire became operational it started doing pretty good damage, but the lack of an energy rifle with burst fire holds it back a bit (2 shots with energy rifle mostly can't compete with 5 round burst from AR). The build also wastes a lot of SP on armor skill, no armor has penalties above 30 so 41 handling is complete overkill. Not sure how to solve except maybe I could have used evasion gadget instead of shield gadget for some fights? Lone wolf was also an added challenge, I think it would have been better to recruit faythe or evans, especially since it would have allowed for lockpick tag and thus early energy rifle.

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I also did a mostly combatless thief run (no combat = super fast to play when you know where things are)

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Not as much to say about this one. I picked up overloaded squad implant and personal magnetism to try and shore up combat suckyness in act 3. Had a really hard time in act 2 since I didn't bring any pit companions with me (big mistake, but sometimes you don't wanna share xp). The church required more speech to join than I had, and both protector and brotherhood require beating fairly hard fights to join. Could have easily been a run ender, but as it was I spent like 6 high end grenades to beat the storm fight which let me get through it.

I think at least one of the factions should have a way to gain access to their fuhrer by passing some sneak challenge to prevent full thieves from getting stuck.

Garret has crazy high damage output, kinda wanna try a similar build on a PC at some point. I was gonna use the officers pistol on the pc, but in the end he used it for every fight instead. Harbinger was a lot less useful in combat than I anticipated. Energy rifle just doesn't have the dps to compete when she's also so squishy.

Getting all of sneak tag, fast runner and tunnel runner was complete overkill, didn't even need cloaking device for most sneak encounters. Sneaking is kinda weird, I feel it doesn't reward investment so much. Everyone can get 1 turn of undetectability with cloaking device, which is enough for pretty much every pure stealth encounter as long as you have decent dex. But even when you invest maximally in it you probably still won't be able to fully clear "mixed stealth" encounters like fort mercy and outskirts gang with pure stealth.

I failed through a lot of speech encounters on this character (it's a way to fail quests without dying, very useful!), but it made me suspect you could beat basically every speech encounter with(out) a single tag as long as you have a decent disposition bonus.


Lone wolf with speech skills might be a fun thing to try in the future.