StarDrive is a 4X Action-Strategy game where the goal is to build a space empire. Starting with a single planet and a small number of space-worthy vessels, you forge out into the galaxy, exploring new worlds, building new colonies, and discovering the StarDrive universe. The heart of StarDrive is its ship design and combat engine. StarDrive takes a module-based approach to ship design, allowing the player to create custom ship designs where the composition and placement of ship modules really matters to the performance of a ship in combat. In combat, if your portside armor is taking a beating, then rotate around and show them the starboard side! Hide behind a friendly capital ship's shields, warp into and out of the fray, launch fighters, lay mines, and so much more.
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Stardrive Mars release is finally here!
You can find it here
Installation instructions here
Overview of early Mars:
Major changes:
- Vanilla content is now replaced with Blackbox plus (BB+) content, when deliver a better and more balanced experience than Vanilla while still not overwhelming to new players.
- Serialization which reduces errors
- Save Games no longer crash with OutOfMemory
- Reduced OutOfMemory crashes, it is now very rare
- Threat Clusters - huge speedup during lategame for sensor scans
- Fleet Designer - minor improvements to usability and lots of bugfixes
- New Space Roads logic - road management is now stable and efficient, with budget based scrapping
- Colonizable Volcanic planets - rare rich planets which can be colonized for huge production output
- New Camera Movement - Middle mouse to pan, fast adaptive camera zoom
- A lot of stats balancing - early game should be considerably more fun
- Combined Arms mod is supported in Mars and latest build can be found here
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I had a crash for lack of memory. I have 16gb ram, I guess the game is locked for 4gb ram? Any way to unlock it?
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Unofficial patches can be found in the blackbox mod. Resolves memory issues and a lot of perf problems.
The list is too enormous and poorly documented to give but there are many many additions to the game seriously game changing stuff is relegated to mod options and there area few mods out there that use there such as dialtones techlevel mod and mcshooterz star trek: shattered alliance mod.
troops sent to invade will auto land or orbit based on a shift click.
troop ships will suck up troops from planets to resupply.
a lot of UI stuff.
Way better targeting.
New experience model.
more effects from difficulty level.
new spy code.
just a ton of stuff.
Moddb.com
also check out McShooterz shattered alliance mod that utilizes many of the mod only changes. Its got D-7's... awesome.
Moddb.com
Eugh, Steam only now? Glad I didn't back.
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I keep getting sever late game slow down in fights with beam weapons.
my dreads packed with 25-28 fusion beams just crash the game if there is a large engagement which by the end of most arms races is inevitable
is this a problem or is it something I can fix?
report all issues to www.stardrivegame.com
you'll get quick answers there.
I did a Let's Play of this game a while back, if you'd like to check it out heres a link.
Yeah, this was released on steam as a finished product a couple months ago and it got bad scores. I don't quite get how this is saying they are in beta.
Gona Track the game... mayby a demo will come out soon, im not going to buy it if theres not a demo want to try it first
I bought this game from Desura on the 22nd of May and what did i get??? I get a version 1.07b game and on the Stardrive website they already on version 1.12. Tried Desura support - no response, no update for game. I messaged Zero on Stardrive website, guess what, no reply, no update etc. So now i sit here with a broken game because of bugs and none are interested to provide me with the update. This is the first and last game i will buy from Desura since there is just no support. Its Monday morning and i bought the game on Wednesday and still no update for game after i was told by Stardrive support (Daniel - which i think is Zero) that he will upload an update for the Desura site on Thursday. Did not happen. Desura support also not assisting me. I will not buy any games again from Desura or any games made by same people who made Stardrive. So Steam users on v1,12 and i am stuck on v1.07b on Desura site. Do not buy this game since full of bugs and no support for a game you paid for. If you really still want it go buy it from Steam since they on version 1.12. No wonder why people download pirated games from torrents because you do not need Steam or Desura and since there is no support then it will not matter will it. Cheers
Actually get up and update it, its a very good game ;)
yeah it ain't the most stable but it is FUN. and more or less made solo. Ther creator has acknowledged it ain't that stable but tbh, that's not his fault.
That's odd. I contacted Desura support and got my Steam key in 24 hours.
It was then displayed here:
Secure.desura.com
Haven't gotten my key yet either. [rage]