This 12 months’s FTL-but-with-pirates effort Abandon Ship had ‘Alec’ written throughout it, however unhappily I discovered that me timbers were not especially shivered by it in apply. A mixture of nice repetition and cruel circles of doom meant I drifted away all too quickly. Fireblade Software’s boats’n’cosmic horror recreation did fairly effectively for itself nonetheless, and now they’ve simply loaded up its early entry maintain with its first main replace. The important focus of that is on making the sport much less wantonly merciless.
Foremost of those is altering the system whereby your crew members might get summarily killed by random occasions. Sudden crew demise is a borrowed characteristic from FTL, Abandon Ship’s gleaming inspiration, however that is an altogether longer haul than an FTL journey was, and this type of deadly tomfoolery might work towards long-term funding.
Now, event-blighted crewmembers are incapacitated as an alternative of killed, and should be revived, for a price, by an apothecary. They’ll additionally find yourself with a adverse trait, which may be resolved with filthy lucre. So it’s a decelerate moderately than a full cease now, and crucially the choices about when and if to take care of these points is right down to the participant, moderately than unseen cube of doom.
Another manner of mitigating mass crew losses is a brand new system whereby you may pay a relative pittance to rent a motley crew of prisoners. Such reprobates may be sufficient to get your odyssey again on its ft once more, however they’ve too many adverse traits to be a long-term repair.
Meanwhile, a sporadic guide save system – cutely, hung round discovering particular shipwrecks – additionally means the dread grip of autosave is loosened a little bit. I.e. play your playing cards proper and also you would possibly get a hail mary or two, which may make all of the distinction in a permadeath recreation.
More particulars on these – and some different, smaller adjustments – here, and the replace’s reside on the Steam construct proper now.
These sound like considerate fixes for certain. I’m not fairly certain they’re sufficient to convey me again straight away – extra selection on the principle map display is what I most want – however just a few extra meaty updates might effectively see me un-abandon this specific ship.
