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[AxleMC131]

My first time playing Starsector for YouTube - the first in a bunch of things I have planned with the game! Just thought I'd share this first video as a little shameless self-promotion, see what people think, and to hopefully nab a few new followers direct from the game's community.

Enjoy!



(Channel is my "variety gaming" channel, mostly Minecraft-related, but with other games thrown in regularly. Starsector is the most recent of these.)

[AxleMC131]

Since the first one went down so well, might as well direct people to the next installment. Enjoy episode 2!

[Gothars]

Nicely explained. Looking forward to the later missions

[PCCL]

hope you keep doing these, I'm looking forward to seeing you splash against the HSS Phoenix

[AxleMC131]

hope you keep doing these, I'm looking forward to seeing you splash against the HSS Phoenix

Haha, there'll be more soon, don't worry. And between you and me, I've beaten the Phoenix once before, but it was a nightmare. O.o I think I scored about 37% or something...

[AxleMC131]

Third installment! 

[PCCL]

will now refer to defeated enemies as "defleeted".... thank you

[AxleMC131]

will now refer to defeated enemies as "defleeted".... thank you

  My work is done.

[David]

These are great! (And I'll admit it's stupidly fun for me to hear someone read out all that mission text I wrote )

[AxleMC131]

These are great! (And I'll admit it's stupidly fun for me to hear someone read out all that mission text I wrote )

I just love the world you've created for the game, and how the mission briefing sets the scene so well. You've done a great job of giving the player a purpose, I'll tell you that for sure!

[AxleMC131]

Part four, and my first video of anything since 0.8 was released. 

(Don't worry, we'll do better next time...!)

[Gothars]

Just to make sure: you know you can deploy frigates from the sides in escape scenarios, don't you? It helps in cutting off the enemy retreat.

[AxleMC131]

Just to make sure: you know you can deploy frigates from the sides in escape scenarios, don't you? It helps in cutting off the enemy retreat.

... Oh. The funny thing is, I did know this, I do it all the time to cut of enemies in campaign engagements.

But I'd never even considered using it for missions. *facepalm*

[Philder]

I missed your post here!

Well now that I've found it, some feedback:

1. A good way to figure out how best to equip a ship is to look at its strengths and then pair them with the appropriate weapons. For example the Aurora: Very high flux stats and very fast closing distance, therefor it can afford flux intensive weapons at close range. Ie: Heavy Blasters, Ion Pulsers, Antimatter Blasters. Use 2-3 Ion Pulsers to quickly overwhelm shields and disable your enemy via EMP, then drop a barrage of AMBs to give them a long flux-out and make their armor disappear. Phase Lance isn't really well suited for the Aurora. Its better against armor and with HEF, but even then its measly armor penetration makes Heavy Blaster a much preferable alternative.

2. Get rid of the biggest dangers first, and that would easily be the carriers. Fighters have very long range, very fast speeds, and scary damage against lone frigates. Wolves can handle big slow ships rather well. They can't run out of fighters engagement range, however.

3. Focus Fire; concentrate your fleets firepower against single targets to bring enemies down faster and remove their ability to recover. Using a ship like the Tempest to escort you would increase your ability to finish a target.

4. I realize it's probably an unconscious habit by this point, but try to be aware of and stop yourself from pointlessly repeating sentences. It bothers some people (myself included) to the point where they won't watch your videos even if they otherwise enjoy them.

5. This one is more of a suggestion. Since you're doing missions, which are all about strategies, tactics, and overall just trying to complete them as best you can, it might be worthwhile to review your matches afterwards to figure out where you can improve and to just throw ideas around. Sadly there's no replay button but maybe taking screenshots of the overview at various points in the match would be an acceptable alternative. I've thought about doing the same myself.

Anyway, keep at it! I look forward to the next.

[AxleMC131]

1. A good way to figure out how best to equip a ship is to look at its strengths and then pair them with the appropriate weapons. For example the Aurora: Very high flux stats and very fast closing distance, therefor it can afford flux intensive weapons at close range. Ie: Heavy Blasters, Ion Pulsers, Antimatter Blasters. Use 2-3 Ion Pulsers to quickly overwhelm shields and disable your enemy via EMP, then drop a barrage of AMBs to give them a long flux-out and make their armor disappear. Phase Lance isn't really well suited for the Aurora. Its better against armor and with HEF, but even then its measly armor penetration makes Heavy Blaster a much preferable alternative.

Duly noted - I think my biggest issue is that I haven't used the Aurora in a looooong time. Definitely going to be sticking with the default loadout for the next attempt.

2. Get rid of the biggest dangers first, and that would easily be the carriers. Fighters have very long range, very fast speeds, and scary damage against lone frigates. Wolves can handle big slow ships rather well. They can't run out of fighters engagement range, however.

3. Focus Fire; concentrate your fleets firepower against single targets to bring enemies down faster and remove their ability to recover. Using a ship like the Tempest to escort you would increase your ability to finish a target.

Alright, I'll stick those on the priority list.

4. I realize it's probably an unconscious habit by this point, but try to be aware of and stop yourself from pointlessly repeating sentences. It bothers some people (myself included) to the point where they won't watch your videos even if they otherwise enjoy them.

... Do you mean my closing lines at the end of the video? Yeah, I get confused with them when I'm tired and sometimes repeat them. XD I try not to, in fact sometimes you'll notice a cut where I've actually edited a chunk out where I was repeating myself.

If you meant another point in the video, then I hadn't noticed that - I'll check it and take note. When it comes down to it though, that's a matter of multitasking: Being able to casually talk to an audience while focusing on controlling a battle at the same time.

5. This one is more of a suggestion. Since you're doing missions, which are all about strategies, tactics, and overall just trying to complete them as best you can, it might be worthwhile to review your matches afterwards to figure out where you can improve and to just throw ideas around. Sadly there's no replay button but maybe taking screenshots of the overview at various points in the match would be an acceptable alternative. I've thought about doing the same myself.

Hmm, that's not a bad idea. Don't know about the screenshots, but if I'm going to go back and review combat I might as well just watch the video back - I do all my editing separate from YouTube so I can do that easily enough.

Anyway, keep at it! I look forward to the next.

Glad you enjoyed!