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I did a search on "diaspora" and didn't see anything. This frakking shocked and horrified me because it's an awesome game which is FREE to download and play, it's a standalone mod in the Freespace Source Code Project, so you don't need to own Freespace 2 to play it. You get to pilot the MkVII Viper in a story that parallels the modern Galactica series at the time of the Cylons returning.
My personal extremely short review:
Very entertaining. Far too short (apparently they are planning episodic releases, though given how long this has been in the works I don't know how that will work out). Tutorial is long and complicated given you won't use most of it in the actual campaign (which may change if they ever get around to releasing more episodes). Graphics look good, not mind blowing, but it looks good enough and is immersive. Soundtrack is awesome, they really captured the feel of Galactica. Voice acting was good. Menu system is a bit cumbersome and overall the UI is a bit clunky. The standard controls suck, I haven't tried tweaking them yet though. Story is good, as I said, it occurs at the time of the initial Cylon attack and it kept me interested. It is very unforgiving, although the game is short, several of the missions took me a few tries to finish because if you don't keep on your toes you can get demolished pretty easy by accidentally flying into friendly fire, letting a Raider get too close or just blowing yourself up with your own missiles.
Overall I'm mighty impressed with the polish and quality for a free game with the graphics, voice acting, sound and overall feel of the game, some professional studios should take hints from the developers of Diaspora.
If you are a fan of either Galactica and/or space combat games, you need to check this frakking game out or else you're just full of feldercarb.
Their website seems to be down at the moment, but I'll post the link to their forum where you should be able to download it when it comes back up...
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=81859.0
Links to some reviews and such....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR6sTMKGGkA
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/25/diaspora-shattered-armistice-review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrNn4JYo9uA
Here's some images I personally took while playing through, I have the settings maxed but no AA (running a cheapo video card) but haven't played around with all the options and also there may be a bit of compression because the original files were too big to upload.
It's free and it's short, so if you haven't played it, frakking play it already!
My personal extremely short review:
Very entertaining. Far too short (apparently they are planning episodic releases, though given how long this has been in the works I don't know how that will work out). Tutorial is long and complicated given you won't use most of it in the actual campaign (which may change if they ever get around to releasing more episodes). Graphics look good, not mind blowing, but it looks good enough and is immersive. Soundtrack is awesome, they really captured the feel of Galactica. Voice acting was good. Menu system is a bit cumbersome and overall the UI is a bit clunky. The standard controls suck, I haven't tried tweaking them yet though. Story is good, as I said, it occurs at the time of the initial Cylon attack and it kept me interested. It is very unforgiving, although the game is short, several of the missions took me a few tries to finish because if you don't keep on your toes you can get demolished pretty easy by accidentally flying into friendly fire, letting a Raider get too close or just blowing yourself up with your own missiles.
Overall I'm mighty impressed with the polish and quality for a free game with the graphics, voice acting, sound and overall feel of the game, some professional studios should take hints from the developers of Diaspora.
If you are a fan of either Galactica and/or space combat games, you need to check this frakking game out or else you're just full of feldercarb.
Their website seems to be down at the moment, but I'll post the link to their forum where you should be able to download it when it comes back up...
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=81859.0
Links to some reviews and such....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR6sTMKGGkA
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/25/diaspora-shattered-armistice-review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrNn4JYo9uA
Here's some images I personally took while playing through, I have the settings maxed but no AA (running a cheapo video card) but haven't played around with all the options and also there may be a bit of compression because the original files were too big to upload.
It's free and it's short, so if you haven't played it, frakking play it already!
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I don't think it's anything a simple remapping won't fix. The controls just seemed a bit overly complicated to me and spread too far across the keyboard. I found myself having to get away from the WASD keys too often to do simple things during combat which is what I expect with a flight sim, but seemed kind of unnecessary and unintuitive here. The tutorial tries to shove in to your brain a bunch of different ways of controlling the fighter, key combinations to do this and that, but when the actual campaign started I had forgotten almost all of them and didn't actually need them, while a few that I did need seemed inconveniently placed away from WASD/mouse buttons or at odds with what I'm used to for typical FPS games.
