Starlight Tactics™

I had high hopes for this game. Its a nice concept but extremely poorly executed. I would have liked to do a "Pros & Cons" review, but im seriously struggling to find any pros beyond the reasonably nice ship models. So, in no particular order, heres a list of reasons why you should give this game a miss: 1) At the time of writing, Ive completed 20 out of the 50 missions that make up the campaign and have completed them on all 3 difficulty levels, however I have yet to be shot at by an enemy ship yet! Not one single enemy has ever fired a shot, launched a fighter or a missile! 2) The same scenario every time - Warp in with the enemy ships on your right. No objectives, no story line, nothing.... The only thing that changes is the composition of the enemy fleet. 3) No damage models - Every ship just seems to be a bag of hitpoints. You do seem to be able to knock the engine offline sometimes, but there are no subsystems to damage and weapons cannot be take off line. 4) Many of the ga...

This is a bad game. The game concept is clearly not complete. The Devs clearly rushed this game out the door in order to make money. The concept of play is that you warp into a battle field and fight an enemy fleet. However, the starting points are always the same and the initial engagement is also almost always the same. You appear right beside the enemy fleet, so you have two options turn into the enemy fleet and fire or turn away. So, you almost always turn into the enemy fleet. Another major flaw in the game is that you are better off just having one big killer ship as opposed to a fleet. The turn order is dependent on your fleet. So if you show up with a fleet, each ship takes it's turn in a pre-determined order. If you show up with one capital ship, it takes up all the turns in that order (instead of just one turn like one would assume). So, your capital ship can then move and shoot many times in a turn. An interesting twist on this game is that you move and then sh...

Ok now i have had chance to play the game and big thanks to the dev for listening to the feedback on here. I like the Game so far got a few hours in today and i know im going to sink a few more hours into it so well worth the price. My initial problem i think stemed from the tutorial being a bit off (Spoke to the dev and he said he will look into it). The difficulty at the start is fairly easy but ramps up nicely. Graphics are pretty nice and ship designs too. Apart from a few other little bugs ive noticed so far which will hopefully be sorted out soon its a good little game. Also the intro sequence is good, one of the better ones i have seen for a while ----------Old review---------------------------------------- Ok this Just came out but a bit dissapointed so far. you need to buy a ship at the start and wait for delivery 3hrs (Real time). Not knowing this i bought a few ships and used all credits. Next after buying these the game said you can speed up delivery using credits b...

After playing this game for about 7 hours now I feel good about writing a review. First I'll answer some of the points from other reviews: 1. Have to wait hours for ships to be delivered. A. The devs removed this problem fairly quickly, and now the longest wait for a Carrier is about 12 minutes, while a destroyer is about 3 minutes. This adds a different dimension to the game than other similar ones, and makes you think strategy when requesting units and budgeting. Also, while you're waiting you can earn more command points (CP, game currency) playing skirmishes. The skirmishes are a lot of fun because you can set the ships/upgrades however you like. It's a lot of fun to take some revenge after your ships get destroyed in the campaign by setting your ships up with all upgrades, and the enemy up with none =). A major flaw that still is exists is the repair times for ships. Slight damage takes 10-20 minutes to repair, and you can earn some CP while you're waiting. My carrier just got i...

8/10 space combat turn based more fun than you may think step 1 set your move length-direction-angle step 2 try to point all weapons at target with hight-left-right then fine tune your shot....fire there are lots of ships-types and different factions all with there own ships that look different and work different there are things you can add to the ships that will make them better eg damage type armor missiles shields ect nots seen many different types of missions

So far I have only tested this game for four hours (I am now in 18th of the 50 missions) and it seems that I have seen everything it has to offer... The game's premise seems interesting: fight a turn based fleet action in space. In reality this game is just a string of missions where the fleet of your choosing is pitted against enemy fleet. There have been number of games where this worked alright but they had something Starlight Tactic lacked - context (why are we here? Why is the enemy fleet consisting of two freighters and three frigates? You know...fluff..) and certain demand for player skill. When you buy game like Starlight Tactics, you expect that the game demands some sort of tactics on your part. In reallity 50 percent of the time the enemy ships spawn next to you, where the each side turns towards each other and start pounding away. The other 50% of time it spawns right in front of you, at most 300-500 meters, where you can dispense with turning part. Basically it all comes...

Nice idea but has a few problems. The AI does shoot back at you, despite what people say, but it seems bugged. If you avoid shooting the lead ship, it will eventually start shooting. Thats nothing really compared to the fact that half the game that is completely missing. Thats right, check the achievements. There is absolutely no game where you can play the other side despite that being planned and the game being out for well over a year. There has not even been and update in over a year. If you like supporting games that devs dont, go ahaed and buy it. Otherwise there isnt much here to recomend.

I'm NOT a fan of this game. But, that doesn't mean I can't see it's joys for certain people. I love space combat, but like I love my other more visceral types of combat. I've never been a fan of turn-based rpg elements like this. If you really enjoy turn-based (think hexagon/grid squared based RPGS), then apply that thinking to outer space. Bingo, got this game. I'm guessing the name may be based off of Fallout Tactics? similar combat to that game. If you enjoy that, you'll like this. Just not my cup of tea.

this game is good fun and easy to get into. it can be played in skirmish mode which is fun all by itself and a great place to learn the gameplay. campaign offers a nice steady string of missions that can be played in 3 difficulty levels. the battles may become repetitive, however, lining up shots and blowing the other ships out of exsistence never gets old. its worth noting that the complaints that have come up have been fixed already so the game is running just fine so no worries there. i would not suggest this game to someone who is expecting micromanagement type of depth. that being said, i would highly recomend this game to everyone else, especially at the nice price for this title. what we have in this game is good gameplay, addictive progression of your fleet, easy to manage options, nice style and graphics in my opinion, and this is a great game for "jumping in for a quick battle" if you dont have much time. bottom line, go for it and have fun, may your capital ships endure a...

Pretty interesting game. The developers immediately fixed the aforementioned time lag for buying ships. I'm an old gamer who enjoys "you got time to think about it" games--and considering that these are CAPITAL ships--you SHOULD have time to think about it! About time that I had a space based combat game of this caliber.