The Fleets of Sol

Neat idea, poor execution. The battles are repetative. Jump in, lauch salvos at the same enemies, rinse, repeat. Ship control is excrutiating. Must select each individual ship to set target. And for some reason my flagship will move in the opposite direction as to where I want it to go. Annoying staticy sound effects.

To start positive: I love the concept. As a fan of BSG, and especially the tension of "33", I'm happy this game is here. That said, as things stand, it's very clear it's still in Alpha. Tooltips say things like "We can put text here in a smaller font". Ships have command buttons (like fire turrets/fire missiles) which are duplicated in x & y axis, and yet pushing on either of them does nothing. Which is the basic problem it has as things stand, the only button which obviously does anything is 'jump'. That does jump you to a new sector. But when you get there, there may or may not be friendly ships there. If there are, there's no obvious way to tell (if you hang in battle for a while, you may suddenly read '1611 civilians killed'). The first couple of systems, you're likely to find civilians, take them back home, they unload, then.... there's no running count of how many you have, how many you need. When you jump to a new sector, there's no sense of progression, either that you have to ...

ok as it stands i would say wait untill the game has had more developement progress before buying it i was looking for a fleet battle capital ship game and this certainly ticks all thoseboxes .. im not going to say anything negative about this game except that as it stands the buttons dont work when you press them you get no briefing or mission goals as to what you are supposed to be doing ..but i guess at this is a Very early access game its to be expected ... once again wait untill its a little more polished before buying

Right now the game is unfinished and not really stable. But the idea behind is good. I like the graphics. It needs work on how to give ships special orders and the resources you get in a mission are not enough. It is far from finished but if the devs fix all the problems it could be quite a good game Thats why i recommend it.

“The Fleets of Sol” is an action-filled RTS/RTT set of course in some far flung galaxy, a long, long time ago (perhaps). From what was initially an interesting take on “BSG”’s episode “33” (the first episode of Season One), where you must enter a sector of space and rescue transports and/or engage enemy supply stations/fleets. The player has 90 seconds before the FTL drives spool up and in that time the player has to survive what can be an onslaught of enemy craft. Survive that, attend your fleet and jump. But don’t leave it too long to jump, as more enemies are on their way. As I said, ‘initially’ this was about it. The Devs aren’t happy to sit on their laurels, though and the game has grown, and keeps growing with asteroid fields to contend with, attacks on your home base to defend against and now commanders and pilot attributes added. Next, full-fledged missions are being implemented. With each patch/build, and they are fast and furiously with these, the Devs n...

Great idea but very poorly executed - I feel robbed! Battle Camera is broken in many ways and doesn't respond to you. Some missions are broken and doesn't work. HUD & Interface is horrible. If you have a fleet of more then 10 ships it is almost impossible to pick the one you want. Sometimes the graphics on certain ships disappear after a sector jump. Battles are very very very repetitive - nothing exciting happens, and it is impossible to try new strategies in new battles, cause the same exact thing happens in all battles. You ask you capital ship to fire a volley of rockets at an enemy ship. The enemy ship explodes. You wait five seconds and repeat.... Do not buy this game!

Sadly there is no maybe or tentative option to these things, only yes or no. With that in mind I say Yes but with reservations. Having played around with this a little while I always keep coming back to the idea that this is a tablet game. Maybe it actually it is, maybe it isn't, honestly didn't care enough to look that up. The game looks decent enough but controls like.. [Insert appropriate metaphor here]. Not hotkeys than I can find for ship selection, clicking in the list focuses the camera when I don't want it to, trying to find an individual ship to select to activate any special abilities in the middle of a clusterfuck is next to impossible, especially smaller ships. A huge opportunity for something amazing was missed here, the description gives the impression of some vast universe and everyone in it is out to get you. Not true, you jump from small arena box to small arena box with no choice except Unknown or Homebase (Probes and research eventually open this to 3 choices or h...

This is a game that reminds me a lot like Battlestar Galactica, where you get to command the fleet yourself. While in early access, the game has a lot of nice features, which I recommend you try out for yourself. Bear in mind that currently the game engine falters late-game, and too many ships on screen may crash your game. Hopefully this gets fixed later on.

Right off the bat, I can say that while its not objectively terrible, its not really fun. There's glimmers of potential here and there, but have been sorely wasted. The gameplay loop is very... Limited, with the player directing around handfuls of ships at a time to try and either complete an objective, or last a minute. Many objectives don't clearly state which is your end goal, unfortunately. One of the common encounters, a scouting party, simply says your under attack. If you wipe out the initial forces, and wait around, some more will show up. If you leave, there's no indication that you've failed, or that it was expecting you to leave. The scale is also unfortunately limited. while I can understand putting a cap on capital ships, the game will also cap your fighters, and automatically decommission some, without player input on which, if you jump with what it deems to be too many. This limit isn't accurately indicated, as you can have more fighters than the build menu permits you...

Well, it's not really that good. The conept seems neat, but the UI is very.. sloppy. Buttons don't really react when you click them, and the feed back isn't good on them, no beeping, and its not intuitive. And I don't mean like, intuitive as its advanced, its really NOT advanced, like "Repair" .. but does it repair? I don't know, nothing happens.. no feed back when I click it. You tell fighters to attack, and... do they? sometimes... mostly not, no beeping, clicking, no combat chatter, nothing. You really just kinda watch the battles. And they are really bad battles, mostly with icons fighting instead of actual ships. I'll be honest, its a bad game. Sure its early access, but they said they are planning to leave early access in a month and this game is NO WHERE NEAR close to a 'game'. More like a sloppy tech demo.