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

[jackofshadows]

So is there going to be a considerable amount more content that is going to be added to the beginning parts of the game in v1.0? Or am I safe to get in there for the first few hours?

This isn't Larian-like. Go test the waters now, if you like.

 

[Vault Dweller]

So is there going to be a considerable amount more content that is going to be added to the beginning parts of the game in v1.0? Or am I safe to get in there for the first few hours?

We're working on the endings only so you can start playing now. The achievements aren't unlocked yet on the default branch though.

 

[Lady Error]

CS being a prequel for AoD isn't even that nonsensical. But my personal tinfoil hat theory is that the Ship is actually an experiment on Earth before they launch the actual ship, that would explain the gravity at the very least.

You can have Earth gravity by constantly accelerating during the first half of the journey and then constantly decelerating during the other half.

 

[motherfucker]

CS being a prequel for AoD isn't even that nonsensical. But my personal tinfoil hat theory is that the Ship is actually an experiment on Earth before they launch the actual ship, that would explain the gravity at the very least.

You can have Earth gravity by constantly accelerating during the first half of the journey and then constantly decelerating during the other half.

Yeah but you'd have to orient the ship a certain way, which changes halfway through. Gotta have the thrusters on both sides

 

[Maxie]

the ship is hypothetical the whole game takes place in a basement

 

[Abu Antar]

The whole game is a game, just accept some things and move on.

 

[Agesilaus]

I remember a youtube review of AoD where the reviewer had a whole section about how Vince is mean and called someone a retard, and that these days it's just not ok to do that. Very touching stuff.

 

[Nm6k]

This guy https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisDavis_Games/

 

[Butter]

This guy https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisDavis_Games/

He also panned Deus Ex because Alex Jones and QAnon or something.

 

[Mauman]

This guy https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisDavis_Games/

He also panned Deus Ex because Alex Jones and QAnon or something.

I watched the video out of curiosity and now I want to punch his soyboi face.

 

[Konjad]

This guy https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisDavis_Games/

He also panned Deus Ex because Alex Jones and QAnon or something.

I watched only snippets but that video in which he was criticizing the game because he considers conspiracy theories to be harmful, illuminati theory to be anti-semitic, and since 2020 conspiracy theories especially dangerous, and Deus Ex gives too uncomfortable feeling as its conspiracy theories turned out to be somewhat true? And the ease of access to information made people browse information and therefore stupidier instead of listening to the media?

Yes, that video was... englightening.

 

[motherfucker]

I watched the video out of curiosity and now I want to punch his soyboi face.

His channel page greets you with Witcher 3 praise, did you really have to watch anything to see how much of a dumb motherfucker you're dealing with?
I hope devs call him a retard preemptively so he refuses to review the game

 

[Jaedar]

CS being a prequel for AoD isn't even that nonsensical. But my personal tinfoil hat theory is that the Ship is actually an experiment on Earth before they launch the actual ship, that would explain the gravity at the very least.

You can have Earth gravity by constantly accelerating during the first half of the journey and then constantly decelerating during the other half.

You can (although the turn in the middle would be a bit rough). But it's also fuel inefficient to thrust like that, even taking human limitations into account.

Then again, the engine in the game seems to not use fuel, just power, so it is probably some sci-fi tech. Or it is not drawing fuel because the ship is already at its destination and the power drain is just some standby current and no one understands it enough to know that's what's going on.

 

[TheDarkUrge]

Will the devs be tying in the ending to starfield? I think that would be really good!

 

[SpaceWizardz]

Achievements just got added.
*Vince is saying the full game is available start to finish now on the Steam forums, itz time!!!

 

[Latro]

Does this game have romance

 

[Agesilaus]

Achievements just got added.
*Vince is saying the full game is available start to finish now on the Steam forums, itz time!!!

I'm going to wait for the ~official~ final release and probably the first patch, but this is tremendous news. Huge congrats on reaching this point. Eternal GOTY.



EDIT: FUCK IT, I"M DOING THIS RIGHT NOW, DOWNLOADING, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[TheDarkUrge]

How buggy is the beta usually? I assume the starter areas are relatively polished at least? I played 3 years ago after buying. Not sure if I should wait.

Anyways congrats on the release. I shall be shilling the game soon

 

[Agesilaus]

Ran into some typos, and it seems that the last 4 or so updates have involved some significant changes to how the implants work and the loot locations, but otherwise it's golden. I wish the map worked like AoD (press M, then an actual map appears and you can click the location, rather than go through a list), but whatever.

Regarding typos/broken quests, in the drain there's a person being beaten up by thugs. Hank or something. Anyway, if you scare the thugs away Hank "looks at the bodies and then looks back at you"; obviously there aren't any bodies because I am not getting into stupid fights. Also, there's no quest entry for him while he waits for you to prepare for the real fight that he wants you to handle. As for other typos... near the end of the intro questions the game has "beliefs and opinion" rather than "beliefs and opinions". The intro slides for the Pit read "Jonas's", with the excess "s". There are others but I wasn't taking notes. I want to say that the initial dialogue with Jonas after you go to Abe's is a little strange/off. I took the speech route and the two thugs got shot outside by Braxton, but Jonas seemed to think I pulled the trigger or at least was next to Braxton when they died, despite there being a crowd of people that would say otherwise and there being no way for Jonas to really know anything given that it happened 5 seconds ago and I ran directly to him.

I haven't finished the first act yet, only left to go to the armory for a little while. I was a little pissy because apparently the sarge upgrade doesn't give you plus 1 companion anymore, but it's okay because I see there's a feat for that now. I'll just grab it next lvl up. Faythe will have to wait.

 

[Jaedar]

How buggy is the beta usually? I assume the starter areas are relatively polished at least? I played 3 years ago after buying. Not sure if I should wait.

Anyways congrats on the release. I shall be shilling the game soon

Iirc, not that buggy, but there will be some fixes.

I will not play before the official release. I will not. I think I will play one of the following two builds

Spoiler

Cyborg mk2.
STR 4
CON 10
Dex 6
Per 8
Int 8
Cha 4
Heroic con feat, get all the augs, eventually pick up armored warfare. With shotguns this time since I was disappointed by energy rifle last time, although pistols are arguably better. Might juggle those stats a bit to be able to get armored warfare earlier. Tag (shotguns,) critical strike, computers and electronics. I expect this build to be quite hard early on, but hopefully become very strong later.
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Cult leader scientist.
Stats: just max cha and int, dump per and str.
Get no combat stats skills on pc, let companions do all the work, while you beat all speech checks and spend all your tags on science/stealth skills. With 10 CHA and the barter feat I suspect the initial disposition boni will make most speech challenges a cakewalk, and 3 companions specced for max combat with some grenade support from pc can deal with most encounters quite well.

 

[None]

The only saving grace to waking up several hours before dawn, sick as a dog, was that I got to finish up my beta save file. Ending was good, but I'd liked to have seen slides for my companions, as well as more in-game reactions to my choices before the slides start rolling.

 

[Vault Dweller]

I was a little pissy because apparently the sarge upgrade doesn't give you plus 1 companion anymore, but it's okay because I see there's a feat for that now.

It never did. Sarge/Captain were always about boosting party members' combat stats.

 

[Trash Player]

He means the squad leader implant.

 

[Agesilaus]

I was a little pissy because apparently the sarge upgrade doesn't give you plus 1 companion anymore, but it's okay because I see there's a feat for that now.

It never did. Sarge/Captain were always about boosting party members' combat stats.

He means the squad leader implant.

The last time I played was about 4 major updates ago, but I thought that there's an implant that can grant you an additional follower, like Trash Player said. For some reason I associated it with that mission you do for the medbay lady.

 

[Vault Dweller]

My bad, I thought you meant the feat.