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Strange Adventures in Infinite Space on $0 a Day
KiTA
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So... they apparently made Strange Adventures in Infinite Space free.
Anyone played it? It's apparently a pretty good little lunchtime game.
(Better OP incoming, please stand by.)
Anyone played it? It's apparently a pretty good little lunchtime game.
(Better OP incoming, please stand by.)
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I've always wanted to play this, but I never got around to buying it.
Sometimes procrastination pays off in the sweetest ways.
Yessss. I played the demo as a procrastination device for like 3 days straight a few years ago. Lovely.
Does NOT like Windows 7 however. Gonna try turning off Aero next. Wonder if there's aw ay to make it run in Windowed mode...
The sequel "Weird Worlds: Return to Infinate Space" has a permanent place on my desktop.
The combat in the original was a lot better, in my opinion, since you could see the state of ships' shields and armor instead of having to mouseover. Maybe they eventually fixed that, though? But from the original demo, I couldn't really do anything other than "full speed ahead and hope our shields and guns are better than the other guy's."
Ok. Running windows 7 now - not in windowed mode but the colors look normal at least. Here's what I did.
Properties
Run Program in Compatibility Mode for Windows xp - service pack 2
Check all settings like 256 colors etc. except for the last one (scaling one)
I think that should do it.
It is a little hard to read but it is at least playable.
I agree with you on the combat being a little better in the original. I liked being able to keep track of the health of my entire squad. I think one of the draws of these types of games is that you will die. Its just when you do it you don't lose a whole afternoon of playtime.
I kinda like how in the sequel the diplomatic route was even easier with the right items. In the higher difficulties it gets a little tough with even with the Frigate and 2 Particle Vortex Cannons.
if i remember correctly, it was insanely overpowered in this one
A game later, I explored the entire map in only four years after recruiting the guys from the launcher icon as an ally. They had a fold drive!
On a side note, the Babylon artifact apparently makes all races friendly to you. Too bad I had it stolen in an earlier game right after I got it. In my most recent game, everyone loved me, I found the thrusters that let me fly throgh nebulae, and I racked up 5,000 credits and a job as an executive. I found this one weapon that could also be quite hideously powerful. It launched balls of energ that'd zap anything that got near. It made short work of an enemy light carrier. The evil, dickish slaver race.
Have a bunch of short-range weapons, cloak up right behind a enemy ship, and KABOOM, and then cloak away.
It's like playing a Spy.
So, when are we going to get a leaderboard going?
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This is true. In fact, random numbers and chance seem to play a far greater role in this game than in roguelikes, simply because you've got many fewer options and less flexibility.
Really, this game just makes me want to play a sweet turn based strategy game and set up a trading network with the aliens while defending my trading routes and colonized planets from hostiles. Epic space conquest in 20 minutes! I don't really know of any games like that, though.
Once you edit the data files to show how many points everything is worth, it's not hard to quickly hit the top of the curve. I've never managed to get the instant-kill item together with the starkiller event, though.
There is actually a 4x on Steam that can be played in 20 minutes. Can't remember the name though.
If you unequip your Hyperdrive and head for the nearest system with just your sub-light thruster, you'll waste a lot of time getting there but you'll escape before the Nova.
I'm using OSX 10.6 and the colours are hell of wonky.
That said, best score so far: 6717
I'm interested to see how that measures up against the rest of you.
On this Windows XP desktop the colors go wonky after a few play-throughs, it has an Nvidia Geforce card. Doesn't matter what compatibility options I select. A quick restart of the game fixes it though, so no biggie. On my laptop with an older ATI card, no such problems at all.
> turn on light
Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.