I purchased this game about a year ago but couldn't make any progress or save the game. The graphics where good and it ran smoothly on my rig but gave up on it.

It's a tough first start. The key is to stay around that first system and mine asteriods to outfit your ship with better equipment and build you bank. Then just hire some mercenaries to give you a hand.

I would definitely check the download area and get the patches for your release because the fixed a few issues with save games and joystick and of course game issues. They really needed to make another patch and finish the mod editor but that didn't happen 🙁

It was hard at first and frustrating lol. But it is a great game! I love it so much. but they don't like to talk on the forums anymore do they? lol. That is a let down but all in all it is a great game and i hope someday they make more and more mods for it! 😀

I actually have it on my PC now and was playing it yesterday it is very much a shame that they didn't finish the mod tools and get involved with the community. Because at first there was a good amount of people wanting to mod the game but that died off after the JoWood didn't support the game much.

Game companies don't understand if you are going to put out a Single Player game you must either ad some nice mod tools or come out with a multi-player client/server addon to keep the game going.

I have liked the game and maybe I will post some of more screenshots once I get further in the levels because the visuals are quite nice.

Only played this game for about two weeks,the one thing I don't like about the game is having

crawl around the systems to see whats there.I really hate that,I could put up with it if it was an

unexplored region but not having to do it for all the systems of the game.It's also one of the things I

hate about the x games as well.

But having said that it not a bad Elite clone,couple of nice touches with the meteors storms and the

hacking.

I could see that as being a fault I think discovery of each sector would have been better personally. What was weird I thought is that they give you a sector map that is only uncovered as you travel. But it serves on real purpose since you have reference points to the machine spots. And you get those when you enter the sector.

The mapping could have been better. I do like the hacking, which they could have made a bit more in depth and I have been killed by a few meteor showers. I know now I hear that voice prompt I run 🙂

I picked this game up about a year ago. Tried the first mission but I had issues with my controller so I never touched it again but that was before I discovered software online for profiling your controller. Now I could make my own control scheme but I never thought to try this game again. What do you think? Is this game worth it? What would you rate it 1-10? Maybe I'll try it again after I finish I-war 2.

I need to get this back on my PC and play it all the way through I was close when I played last time and had some fun with the game. Overall game ran fin for me and controls at times were not responsive as I wanted them and SFRU could have had more elements to the game to make it very good. But the devs just ignored the community so the game never really took off.

You do start off slow in this game to benefit yourself later to create all your ship mods.

Nothing like bumping old threads. I just recently got the game and so want to play it. Have played a little of it, but some weird save bug prevents me from advancing very far and has totaly ruined it for me. Other then the weird controls, it was pretty good from what I could see.

Are you running the 1.2 patch?

Yep I am. Fully patched in all. I think its just Windows 7.. it doesn't like things made before 2009. So no matter what compatibilities I set, it just doesn't play nice. 😛

Bought the game when it came out. I was really excited about it since I was hoping for something like Freelancer or X; which I wish I hadn't done because this way it was even more disappointing for me. I love the graphics and would love to see other games (besides SF Captains) that use this engine (maybe even an MMO 🙂 ), but apart from the eye-candy, it became one of the biggest disappointments in my life. The voices caused my ear to bleed in pain, trading and diplomacy is dumbed down, too little space for too many races IMO, etc. etc. Anomalies and the fights were really cool, but still.

This was at first.

I dug it up last month (I was bored), and tried too look at it in another way. If I lower (and lower...and lower...) my expectations, then it's a decent game. Not as complicated as other games, but could be fun for an hour or two -> especially if it wouldn't crash on me 👿

I have never completed the game I made it about 50% through it but lost my save game when updating my PC (yeah I know I forgot to back it up). Just haven't loaded it back on the machine again. I haven't tried it on Win7 but I will. How far are you getting in the game before you run into issues Mogymog?

I remember trying the game a few years ago but, like many others, I bumped into bugs and stuff and that totally ruined my experience. I may give it some try again since there are some patches available now.

I know this is a game that screams mod me... but the devs really never released anything for people to work with or guidelines on what files to edit.

The last save is after Mission 2, killiung the lone pirate in Ursa Major to learn where mission 3 is. I landed on the space station. My game restarts from there no matter what else I do. I know it happened cause the first time I did a bunch of crap, mined a ton of roids, got a bunch of minerals, saved the profile, docked and launched to 'save' the game. Then I quit and when I came back, it started me off back before I did any of that.

Hmm, I have gone past that point several times on WinXP. I will try on Win7 and see what my result is sometime this weekend and report back 🙂

any news? I was keen to this buy this and give it a go but was wondering how playable it is on win7 and how bug free v1.2 is 🙂

Thanks

Luca

I haven't tried playing it since Vista. But I can load it on my system tonight and play it for a few minutes and see how it reacts. I'm sure it is playable on Win7 just because it is a better OS than Vista and the WinXP compatibility mode works pretty good as well.

never mind darkone,

I bumped into Pioneer and it seems to be the answer to my prayers 🙂

I dont know what is wrong with my setting but my graphic is looking all blurry on this game. I bought it on Steam and so it will have the patch 1.2 applied. Could you let me know what setting do you have? From far away, everything looks very blurry to me, even the ship's texture looks all washed out. I wish I can upload a screenshot right now but I'm at work. Anyone knows?

I'll load this up this weekend and post some screenshots of my gameplay.

I played this game a bit a while ago, but didn't get too far into it. Been meaning to revisit it, but I did enjoy it. I just have a short attention span. 😉

For some reason I keep coming back and playing this game despite its lack of major features. Theres something about the feel and character they put into it that is charming to me in a silly playful way. I think I like the intimacy of the combat too, where you have to get close and personal with the enemy ships and can enjoy their colors and shapes. Reminds me of the first Wing Commander in that sense.

With that said, I've recently been tearing through the files for Spaceforce and learning what can be edited and what can't. I think theres enough there to get a rebalance mod together and a redesign of the systems. I've been making strides in that direction. So far I've gotten the system map redesigned and have changed some of the systems names. I eventually will likely redesign each system with different "stuff" in it but that will be off and on, and probably one system at a time. I've also added a few helpful things, like added the words TRADE and DOCK to their icons and changed the distance you can dock at stations so its more forgiving. I changed where ships are sold as well to be more logical. I'm in the middle of trying to rebalance ship stats and weapons and seeing what can and can't be done there but it does look promising. Atleast I should be able to try something different with that. I also am looking at revamping items to trade so they are more interesting and even want to add some big space monster items to trade, heh. Should be fun.

Anyway, thought I would say something about it, since it might take a while for anyone to notice since the Spaceforce community is rather dead at the moment. Either way though I'm just doing this for my enjoyment and trying to see of this charming little space sim can get a little more closer to its potential.

Cheers!