Разработчик: Crowdwork Studios
Описание
In this sci-fi adventure sandbox game, you have the opportunity to explore and influence the universe around you and make your own path. Take on open ended missions that will have a lasting effect on your surroundings, and embark on an adventure to discover the mysteries of Lightspeed Frontier.
Faster than light travel has recently been made available for the common middle-class galaxy dweller, and you’ve just saved up enough money to purchase your first standard command pod. This pod can have it’s functionality and size extended with additional modular building blocks, such as engines, cannons, lasers, scanners, software, and more.
As you acquire more modules for your ship, your ship class will also increment unlocking more missions and special actions. While you start out as just a tiny fighter-class ship, you can eventually reach the pinnacle of modular ship development and be upgraded to the final Infinity class! Each class has its own pros and cons, as far as firepower, speed, maneuverability, etc, but slowly acquiring more modules through whatever means necessary will open up more opportunities for you.
While exploring the universe, you may encounter memorable NPCs, corporations, scavengers, programmers, asteroid belts, space stations, and more. Every encounter with an NPC will either make you enemies or allies with them, depending on if you choose to help them or stab them in the back. This could result on a bounty being put on your head, or more challenging (but rewarding) work from them in the future. There are also many different ways for you to make your mark in the universe. You can invest in mining equipment if you want to be a raw materials salesman, or BFGs if you’re more the bounty hunter type.
Battling other ships is a key part of the game, and also one of the challenges of traversing the frontier. You will need to utilize a multitude of different weapons, maneuvering techniques, and even physics to destroy your opponents (like ramming, or hurling asteroids for instance). And it goes without saying, the brochure from the command pod salesman did not mention anything about the constant and ceaseless life-threatening encounters you would face in the outer reaches of the universe.
Most the parts you can come across are made according to faction orders and designs. In the outer rim, old pre-warp tech has been modified by rogue gangs and refit to still work in this day and age, albeit with questionable durability. The industrial belt of the galaxy is controlled by the Industrial Conglomerate - with everything designed for sheer strength. And tensile strength too. In the very core of the galaxy resides the United Research Alliance always has the most high tech gear known to man.
Space is a massive opportunity for investment and profit which brings interstellar corporations to the frontier's outposts and space stations. These corporations can provide you with shipping contracts, protection work (or even more shady jobs once you earn their trust) or you can just simply invest into their stocks.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 6000 / AMD Radeon HD 7700
- Storage: 300 MB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 760 / Nvidia GTX 960M / AMD R9 280
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Sound Card: Very much yes.
Mac
- OS: OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 6000 / AMD Radeon HD 7700
- Storage: 300 MB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
- OS: macOS 10.12 Sierra
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 760 / Nvidia GTX 960M / AMD R9 280
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Sound Card: Very much yes.
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 6000 / AMD Radeon HD 7700
- Storage: 300 MB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 760 / Nvidia GTX 960M / AMD R9 280
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Sound Card: Very much yes.
Отзывы пользователей
putting this in Recommended as the game is functional with only a few very minor issue and the main gameplay loop is kinda fun with finding abandoned ships and fighting enemy ships to add parts onto your own ship,with enemies becoming more difficult as you get closer to the galaxy.
NOW here's the kicker(bad part) I do not recommend buying at full price as the last few communications from the devs were very flaky, mainly them admitting that the development of the game is not their primary focus at the moment and that it is unknown when they will continue the furthered development the game to then move out of early access and that was said in 2021.
I myself now consider this game as a dead game and at this point and time is not receiving updates.
What can i say about this game, simple it is fun. I've logged over 100 hours at the time of this review and still not even beat the game.
This is due to me not even trying to beat it I just fly around trying to make the best ship i can get destroyed rinse and repeat.
It' a nice easy game to loose a few hours on when you need to relax .
Build your own ship, build a base, mine (or fight) for resources and make yourself rich. Explore space and have fun... Just watch out for the black holes.
the game is really fun with the building aspect and the fuel etc but the fighting is near impossible with more loss then gain along with shields being practically useless... please fix
Bought this a year or so ago and have recently came back to the game.
Alot of old bugs gone, gameplay is smooth, changes made for the better. A few changes need to be made to make ship building easier, but all round, a good solid game.
Developers are open minded and quick to respond also.
In it's current state it's painful to play. Everything rams you, knocking off your guns and blocks though most of the guns are useless in a circle strafe dog fight because only lasers (much later in game) and machine gun (starting wep) are the only 2 weps with projectile speed fast enough to strafe-aim with. If you don't strafe you get rammed, repeat. The ship building portion is kind of ok but Avorion is miles ahead. You'll ram ship parts an destroy them if your cargo bay is full because the pickup range is set too near, needs to be extended. The hover over tooltips could use less flavor text an more stats. The stats menu can use some polish with additional stats like power usage vs power gen, etc. Plenty of Bugs, glitches, not game breaking but pretty annoying, a reload save usually fixes. The last update was 5 months ago ... Spend the extra 2$ an get Avorion. Maybe one day this will be enjoyable but as it stands, it needs more work.
As promised, I am changing recommendation from no to yes, if there was some work done on the game. It has been a little slow in coming. Hopefully now some of the obviously unfinished pieces can be worked on a little. They had taken out the quest system promising to update and this definitely needed.
This is kind of open world space game is my favorite kind of game. But though this one has a few interesting aspects to it, there is still a lot of work to be done. So if you like that kind of game keep your eyes on this one as it develops.
Warning slight spoilers
I bought this game a year or two ago on sale and forgot about it. Tonight I saw it had an update and decided to take it out for a spin. I think I spent 10 hours on it in a row, very adicting. Worked my way up from a small fighter to a large capital ship, expanding as I went. It's pretty straightforward progression, but was thrown a curve ball by looting some "unknown substances" I'm still not quite sure how they work, but I found out they're very volatile. RIP the poor station I sold them too. My only gripe is that the missions aren't implemented and most late game vessels just want to ram you. 4 layers of the heavy armor beams, they still ram through them.
very boring game, the npcs in starter areas are overpowered and do too much damage to your ship waaaayyy too fast to have even a chance. the stock market system takes even more fun out of the game as one can go from 0.0025 wex to hundreds of thousands in just a few minutes of starting a new game. all in all the whole game needs some major re-balancing.
This game is like Avorion, except that there's barely any content, the gameplay is frustrating, and its generally terrible.
Some examples:
- The first two hours of the game consists solely of warping to "?" markers in space, dragging modules from their wreck to your ship (one by one! ), then warping to a station to reset your ship and thereby sell the modules for money ("wex"). Early combat is impossible as you can't afford any decent ship and don't have any good weapons unlocked.
- Even after you get a few weapons, you can't use 90% of the ship designs as you have to wander the galaxy unlocking every single part they use before you can use them. Finding the parts is random. So you're stuck on low-tier designs. I had 20 Wex but couldn't pilot anything larger than a destroyer (that costs ~2 Wex) as I was not having any luck getting modules to drop. Why on earth would stations refuse to sell you their merchandise until you already have one? The entire point of a shop is to sell you what you DON'T have. The game does not seem to understand this.
- Combat in this game is not fun. The first ship I encountered was called 'Knife' and its strategy was to ram me with its armored hull. Seriously? In a game with all kinds of weapons, your best strategy, and the one NPCs use, is ramming you with an armored hull? That's really dumb. It doesn't say much for the weapons in your game when the first NPC players see thinks ramming you is a better strategy than using any weapon.
- The game has almost no content. Compared to avorion (which has quests, many tiers of ship components, trading, etc)... this game has none of that. The wiki talks about 'quests' but they're disabled. There are only three areas in the galaxy and three basic materials for ships (junk, industrial and alliance). There is no friendly AI to play with. There is no trading system beyond stocks. I haven't seen any multiplayer support and almost nothing in terms of community features. The best resource for the game is the wiki, but even that is often disappointing. Basic, basic questions, like "how do I quickly loot all modules from a derelict ship?" aren't answered. Instead, it seems to be a catalogue of ship modules, which is rather useless information as you can't actually USE any of these modules until you manually hunt them down yourself, and good luck getting them.
- The dialogue in the game is a waste of time. Sometimes, when warping to an "?" in space you will encounter neutral ships. This is a waste of time, as you can't get anything from them except poorly-written dialogue. Some of them say inane things like quoting sentences you can read both forward and backwards. Really? There's nothing interesting enough in this game for the NPCs to comment on? That's what it seems like.
I could go on and on, but suffice it to say: this game is not worth your money. If you want to play a game like this, but that is actually good, I suggest Endless Sky, or Avorion. Endless Sky is free. Avorion is $15 to $20, but its miles better than this.
This seems to me to be the best of breed of the 3rd person ship builder games.
It's raw, and in progress but the devs are lively and the game is a lot of fun.
Awesome game already, but massive potential for the future still. One of the few games that has me blowing off my girlfriend whenever there's a new patch and makes me run and play it.
Great work, when the multiplayer hits, trust me this game will blow up.
Im starting to get into to LF and can see huge potential right away. Initially I had some minor (see orig review at bottom)problems that were quickly resolved and am enjoying the newer version much more. Im glad to support the development of this type of game, especially since there aren't many decent ones available for Mac users.
Sometimes there are strange graphical glitches that seem to occure after playing for a little while (20-30 minutes appx) and making a few jumos to other sectors. Its hard to explain, but if I save and quit, then re-open the game all is well. It doesnt always happen, in fact much less now than previous game versions. I beleive this indicates that the development is continually impproving the quality and stability of this game.
Mostly I play for the ship building aspects and much less for combat. Ship building is great for the most part and quite fun. The new modules and weapons might be cool? I cant seem to find any yet. Searching for floating abandoned ships to scavange has yet to reveal and new fruit but im sure ill stumble upon them as I continue to explore. Exploring is much of the fun so im not really complaining. Though it would be nice if stations sold the parts I want even though I havent yet been lucky enough to find them.
Combat however is a real low point. Attacking ships regardless of size are far too nimble and exceedingly proficient at staying in my blind spots. This makes for a very dizzying battle. Even locked on, (with incredibly weak missle batteries that do almost no damage) you still end up in a desperate battle of securing even a brief view of your attacker. More often than not I just leave them or jump away. Its just not worth the effort of trying to get any decent battle position, which takes a ton of circling around and around and around and around....ugh. Its like trying to aim at a hummingbird on speed SLOW DOWN DAMN IT! lol. Have a look at Rebel Galaxy for how ship to ship combat should be done.
Anyway, terrible ship to ship combat aside, this game is always getting better and I do not regret the purchase. Cant wait for a playable combat system and all the new additions.
OLD REVIEW - No longer applies to current version.
My only issue so far is that my MBPro uses a touch pad for a mouse. 1 touch pad press = left MB click and 2 finger touch pad press = right click and everything else is gesture based such as scrolling by light touches etc. My point is that in this game the "Target Lock" is seemingly locked to MMB with no controls or binding reassigning where this MMB action is done?
I could be mistaken but cannot seem to bind the MMB to another key or anything? Thus making combat extremely painful.
Anyway aside from that early and likely rookie mistake (any reply with solutions welcome) I find this game to be heading in the right direction.
When it comes down to small ship combat it feels fast and fun, how ever it feels more like a game where giant ships shine more when it comes to gameplay. It is missing some parts that make it feel like a living galaxy but in regards it does feel as if there is so much that can be created for the game, the game is in Early Access so keep that in mind.
What could make it more enjoyable:
-Customisable pieces to make a ship look more unique (such as paint jobs and different models of same components).
-Ability to change ship speed like a slider to go 10%30%/90% speed.
-Different thrusters to cause the ship to go either faster forward/backwards/sideways that just many thrusters at the rear of the ship.
-More satisfying ramming, I mean yeah... ramming a ship is risky and expensive but damn right fun as hell and ramming stuff with a giant ship is always going to happen in any game where we can use giant vehicles.
-Making planets able to be landed on or have a purpose (BUT we kinda just zoom through them as of right now possibly because EARLY ACCESS so we may see this in the future).
-Making the galaxy a more lively place.
So far as a early access game i have spent 46 hours of constantly building ships only to make them far better due to an update the developers released and cannot wait to see more updates to witness where the game leads, I see alot of potential for this and have a feeling that some of the reccomendations i said just before are already being planned for the galaxy in this game.
Good Graphics! Very fun to Play.
A bit of a learning curve.
I recomend it just for the Eye Candy, if nothing else.
Lego's in space... With guns... what more could you ask for? Your childhood dreams become a reality with this game.
The gameplay is very well made and will only improve. The camera mechanic's are great for dogfighting/brodsiding other ships and enemies.
This game keeps you entertained by trying to constantly make your ship better, faster, and stronger.
You go from a small trade/fighter vessel to a dreadnought and you can feel the power flowing through it And that's not the end if it.
You can be a trader,merc,transport you decide. Go from being a small freighter to the deathstar... the choice is yours.
Just don't die.
Also, the dev's are extremely active with this games small community helping people out and just being awesome. They take idea's and make them into a reality. Fixing bugs as fast as they can. Even adding your creations to the game as AI. And yes... lots of memes...
10/10 IGN
Although early access, Lightspeed Frontier has great potential. The new update streamlined an array of content, all in the best way possible. Can hardly wait for more.
Very good and addicting, there's plenty of stuff to do, it's very simple yet very fun!
The devs are constantly working to build this game, and they answer very quickly when you report a bug or a suggestion!
Cool game in the future, what prevents it from being a black game at the moment are its controls, the controls are horrible, the camera is very bad, as a player I should not worry about turning my ship, just going to the sides up And down and shoot, the game is too expensive to have these confusing controls, and descontroled ship on space, and the bad camera, I waiting developer fix it.
Interesting game, love the building elements and how you purchase items then drag them over to your ship, very neat idea. Not sure about the missions, every time I follow up on a mission I get killed and have to start over. The interface and how you view your ship and use the mouse to fix view at the sides for broadside shooting is a great feature, very fluid and works so well. Only played for a short time but had fun indeed. Its not the same as the building in Space engineers or other games that use blocks that stick together, it seems a lot faster to build ships and very very simple, again works very well indeed.
Looking forward to seeing what they come up with next, this is a nice little game
*** Note: Early access review, game was just released. I will continue to update this.
Am I really the first person to review this? Wow, what an honor and a responsability and a nice oppertunity for dev interaction!
Initial Impressions: I really like this game. The building system is already quite tight and I really enjoy this sort of thing. It reminds me of a cross between Shores of Hazeron's building system, Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program in terms of construction with some Space Engineers thrown in and Privateer or Freelancer in the gameplay.
The controls are pretty intuitive, though the camera angle stuff vexes me on occasion but that is something *I* need to learn. The module system is great, I was able to make a nice ship design right from the start. If you begin with the tutorial it's pretty important to scavenge the heck out of the pile around you.
Controls: Decent
Graphics: Decent
Music: ... I feel like I've heard it before, but I can't tell.
Humor: I enjoy the game's sense of humor. 'An entire enemy fleet and their mom seems to be here' was entertaining to pop up among other things.
Constructive Suggestions: I will edit this as I find them, but:
* An all stop hotkey. I realize that the ship will bring itself to a stop but sometimes you want to stop drifting left /now/ and it's less confusing just to have a 'helm, STOP' button.
* A nice module idea would be ramming shields.
Keep up the good work. I've got my eye on this game and will be playing it a fair bit as we go. It's a very, very good start, especially for early access.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Crowdwork Studios |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 75% положительных (28) |