Star Control Discussion Board

Congrats Trog, and thanks for letting us old timers experience this game again for the first time. I know I finished it for the first time back in 1994 (and many times since), so it's been great reading about how you figured out the puzzles and interacting with aliens, rather than just knowing where...

Honestly, it's not so much the lightning striking upward (which I knew is a natural occurrence), it's more the fact that it is doing so so slowly. To actually be able to distinguish strike direction like in that video, you need to use some very fast motion photography. Seeing it just lazily trail ac...

Looks neat, though it's impossible to judge gameplay based on the screens of course. The cartoony art style is charming, though I would prefer to see the aliens in motion rather than the backgrounds. My only real complaint is that your lightning is striking upside down, which is annoying the crap ou...

Now if he just knew that the defensive systems stopped spawning after the shield goes down... To be fair, it took me a few tries to figure this out on my own when I was first playing the game. Unless you have an Avatar out, it's not likely you are going to be shooting down the defenses much, which ...

Well... I suppose that is a viable way to punch through the defenses. Considering I could count the number of crew losses up until now on my digits, though, it seems out of character. Still, whatever allows you to push through to victory in the end; after all, the fate of the entire galaxy is at sta...

Captain. One would likely find it extremely difficult to write logbook entries post-mortem. Please stop beating around the bush and present the actual conclusion to your report. Thank you. (This is absolutely a mistake that nearly everyone makes once, I know I did. Remember, just because the escape ...

I like that you are planning to make this map feature rich, so my suggestion is that there be a toggle for spoilers vs. spoiler-free. This way players of any experience level (or memory) can use the tools that they want without being spoiled on info they would rather keep secret.

Best of luck in your final battle, Captain. All of us here at the starbase and down on the surface are pulling for you. Make us proud, and set us free! Incidentally, as an aside, this dialog from the Ur-Quan: “There is something wrong here… something which makes my sheath retract and my talons ooze....

Too cruel, D999, too cruel. As for those module slots, here's how I usually set up mine: 2 Hellbores (first 2 slots), 1 PDL, 1 Hi-ef fuel tank, 2 Crew pods With those last 10 slots eaten up, there is no way to turn the Vindicator into an effective warship anymore. However, it still behooves you not ...

*Sigh* ^ Spoiler tags, please? Huh, this might just be ignorance on my part, but I was under the impression that all the voice-acting in the 3DO release was fan recordings. How "official" is the official release? (Though I see in the credits that Paul Reiche III himself did the voices of the Mycon a...