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

[Marat]

Where is that meme from? I wanna make my own :D

It appears to have been made on Reddit.

 

[anvi]

Is this game good?

 

[lukaszek]

booted old character, solo murder machine(supposedly you can no longer have such strong character).

- 1st encounter - black hand ambush, crushed enemies fine
- went to 'negotiate', decided to kill everyone as usual, got absolutely butchered lol. I assume its not supposed to be winnable then?

 

[jackofshadows]

If you mean Detroit encounter then no, it's just fucking tough. I spent few hours on it.

 

[Vault Dweller]

booted old character, solo murder machine(supposedly you can no longer have such strong character).

- 1st encounter - black hand ambush, crushed enemies fine
- went to 'negotiate', decided to kill everyone as usual, got absolutely butchered lol. I assume its not supposed to be winnable then?

Quite a few people beat it, including Pink Eye

 

[agris]

I've been happily digging into this like that meme and it's cake, but one thing is bothering me: the "armor" stat. Do I understand correctly that this is the system that is reducing the penalties present on armor, to be less than their base values? And the only way to improve the Armor skill is to be shot at (or hit?)? So, if the character isn't being shot at a lot, the armor skill essentially remains flat? I couldn't help myself and a made a hybrid-ish glass cannon mastermind pistelero, with Evans doing tank duty (really should have paid more attention to CHA..) and dude's decent initiative is simply ruined by any armor that isn't a wet sheet of paper.

 

[Pink Eye]

>if you play a mobile character that doesn't get a lot of action, the armor skill essentially remains flat?
Not really. Even a high dodge character is still going to get hit. See:

My girl got hit enough times that was she was able to level up armor skill to decent levels. If the skill was tagged, it'd probably be at five or six.
>dude's decent initiative is simply ruined by any armor that isn't a wet sheet of paper.
Get the feat, "Armored Warfare" - it increases armor handling skill, which advertently lessens the penalties of wearing heavier equipment.

 

[agris]

thanks Pink Eye - it took me looking at that screenshot to realize there's an "armor handling" skill and that it derives from STR & CON, maybe using my one implant on that spine makes sense.

 

[lukaszek]

Pink Eye how did you win detroit fight? Was it solo?

 

[Pink Eye]

>Was it solo?
Nah. I did it with melee Faythe. See:

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I used disruptor on sniper unit - he can shoot you down even through smokie + high evasion. So denying him first turn is important. Panic state also reduces his action points in consequent turns. There are two opportunities in which you can get a disruptor, siding with Jonas or killing a frog at armory. I suppose if you're going to be doing this encounter solo, you'll need both disruptors. Next I threw a stasis nade at one of the enemy, effectively taking them out of the game for a couple of turns. This leaves you with six enemy units to contend with (If you have another statsis, enemy count will be reduced to possibly four). Anyways, it sounds tricky to deal with that many units, but if you find a nice choke point to hold the line. They can be easy to deal with. This is where me and Faythe held the line:

The real challenge is keeping Private Smiles alive - very important she stays alive, else you'll have less friendly units for Black Hand siege. Plus, if she survives. She'll get decent skill experience from the whole ordeal. Which is quite nice for the Black Hand siege.

If you beat the encounter. You get some nice loots out of it:

Though I don't know if there is another way to get that cool rifle. I hope the rifle is exclusive loot for beating the encounter.

 

[Binky]

It's a tough but doable fight. From what've read on Steam it used to be harder.

I did it solo (with Smiles). Had distortion field on. Threw a disruptor grenade on Bart and the two melee goons. Then I threw a medium gas grenade on Bart, his right goon, and a shooter nearby. Fled behind the couch with Smiles. Used a smoke grenade on the left side in front of the couch. Enemies (except the sniper) rushed forward and either got into the smoke or the poison cloud. Bart is beefing up the accuracy of his team so he's gotta go ASAP. Poison shaves his HP and his head is unprotected. After him, melee goons were a priority to dispatch. Sniper was the last to die.

I approve. More tuff fights please.

 

[Pink Eye]

OMG! OMG! I DID IT! I DEFEATED BART SOLO! I am victorious!

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I had to use Private Smiles as bait, but I freaking did it. Woo! Rest in peace Private Smiles. You are definitely NOT sergeant material. No sergeant will force me into a suicidal fight like that. Anyways. That was a test of pure endurance, goodness gracious almighty.

 

[jackofshadows]

Nicely done. All that's left now is to do a proper solo (go to the real negotiations and choose "this gives you a headache" line instead). I'm not even going to try, had enough with "soft" solo with Smiley. Great encounter.

 

[Pink Eye]

Kay. I'm out of everything for the final fight. Well not everything, but I don't have any more smokies, trader at fort is out of smokies too - because I bought them all. Thus the final fight is pretty difficult. It's not my fault! I have to use everything in these encounters. Game is so much harder without my favorite companion carrying me...

 

[Daedalos]

Vault Dweller

Vince, can you give insight into when you will re-iterate/implement more of the final sound design/music etc. in terms of the overall development plan you laid out earlier?

Can you also elaborate on when you might be able to implement NPC routines such as walking back and forth etc. to make the world seems more alive and less static?

Thanks and keep up the good work!

 

[Vault Dweller]

Vince, can you give insight into when you will re-iterate/implement more of the final sound design/music etc. in terms of the overall development plan you laid out earlier?

No idea, since that's not my area (and I have more pressing things to worry about). All I know is that our composer/sound designer is working on it, he has plenty of time and he's never let us down before.

Can you also elaborate on when you might be able to implement NPC routines such as walking back and forth etc. to make the world seems more alive and less static?

It requires animations and programming support, which makes it a relatively low priority item. The animator is working on the creatures, the droid is next. After that he can fully focus on the civilian animations. The programmer is busy with more urgent stuff that's needed right now. So while it's definitely coming, I don't think it will be done in the next 3 months.

Our top (and only) priority is the new content, the rest will have to wait.

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,7961.0.html

We think it's ready, so give it a go when you have time (it's on the beta branch now)

- 3 pre-made characters
- improved visuals and level design
- lots of exploration, skill checks, looting, etc
- more party banter and NPC comments (will be expanded in the future, testing it now)
- a proper stealth run when thrown in jail
- a new energy pistol, upgradable in the future
- key rebinding
- tons of fixes (will leave it for a changelog tomorrow)

Let us know what you think, good or bad.

 

[jackofshadows]

Factory looks so much better now. I've no idea how to get into some areas though, is it tied to specific branches like doublecross Keepers so you can move the boxes aside?

This check is still looks like this, is it intended? I beleive I've seen another one too.

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This looks like it's still part of the dialogue which is kinda awkward

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No idea how to get here, too (didn't finish the stealth run yet though)

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[The Wall]

This happens when you have nothing else going on in your life except playing few particular early access video games

 

[vota DC]

Is solo better for stealth? You couldn't bring your companions without fighting in the final base in Fallout 2. Also what if your impersonate Is a success but your companions ruin your cover?

 

[jackofshadows]

Is solo better for stealth?

Here stealth is always solo - others if any, simply wait until the stealth section ends. Actually I'm curious how the game handle the last section that was just added in case of companions. Like they supposed to be thrown somewhere else in jail or something.

When you fail the new stealth section, Dumont simply allow you to get away, even if you killed dozen of his men which looks ridiculous to me. I beleive the game should recognize that. Moreover, would be really cool if the game would also recognize other casualties after faction-involved fights like Standon would scratch his head over Pyrrhic victory in case of everyone but MC dies etc.

 

[Pink Eye]

In Celebration of my favorite companion - Faythe. Here are some of my favorite builds that I would like to share!
Melee Faythe:

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Ranged Faythe:

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Pretty good companion! Here's some gameplay videos of her being an absolute beast:

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[Ensi]

Is this worth playing right now, or should I wait for the full content release?

 

[Pink Eye]

It's worth playing right now. Compared to many Early Access titles, the game is pretty smooth and doesn't have many issues. There's also enough content for you to have fun with. Just recently the developers added Factory - so that's like another hour or so of excitement.

 

[jackofshadows]

Is this worth playing right now, or should I wait for the full content release?

Depends. If you more interested in the story, dialogues and setting in general then - hardly, too little content yet. If you wanna experiment with combat builds however, then - absolutely.