JcDent

Starfield coming out to general praise has me, once more, thinking about how Freelancer is never part of the conversation. The similar free-roam space simulation was unbelievably ambitious for its time, back when Chris Roberts still shipped completed projects. That was then.

Unfortunately, this was before the explosion of attention towards PCs, meaning it never really broke out of a niche. Still, the game just celebrated its 20th anniversary with a small, dedicated community and a beefy amount of mods. A forgotten classic.

No "use lasers to take down shields and guns to destroy HP" system and missiles are actually scary

It would be a decent enough game if not for the FREE ANDROID GAME economy and its influence on the gameplay

Epic is the scale where I'll accept airplanes appearing on the table. And SAux is gonna have access to such greats like:

• Thunderbolt
• Lightning
• Avenger
• Marauder
• THE FUCKING ARVUS LIGHTER

They're also the ones with Leman Russes and Malcadors and hopefully Dracosans.

Points saved by fielding cheap infantry will be spent on tiny fucking knights and titans

Greek A: So we have this unit of gay guys because they'll fight harder to protect their lovers.

Greek B: Right.

Greek A: So why not have units of hetero couples based on the same logic?

Greek B: Well, [misogynistic rant the likes of which linguists agree doesn't translate well into modern languages]!

Greek A: lol, true.

Both: [hearty Hellenic guffaws]