Yes, finally a non-WoD Beta post. I wanted something else to do while waiting for the next beta build, and thought of this awesome game that Dan showed a video of.
\nRodina is a unique 1st\/3rd person Space Simulator. The only one of its kind with no loading screens. Soon as you hit the Play button and pick a difficulty level, you’re in the game. It’s that quick.<\/p>\n
The game does have a plot, and a purpose. But the fact this game is in early Alpha, it hasn’t been fully developed yet. Basically, you’re the lone survivor of a great capital ship called the Vanguard. You don’t know what happened or even where you are, but then you see a green dot over the horizon. Your instingt is to walk over to it. You first start by being able to go around an asteroid. You have to locate white +’s to indicate wreckage left over by the Vanguard. To do so, you have to land the ship. The game gives you a tutorial on how to switch gears. Your main ones are Combat Speed, and Landing Speed. To be able to access planets, you need a drive core; aka a crystal to power a special drive. This gives you warp speed. There are four known planets in the game as of now. They’re spotted with a white “?”. All four planets have a shit-ton of enemies swarming around them, but they have a lot more of those wreckage areas.<\/p>\n One of the coolest aspects of this game, is burning through the atmosphere. But the insane camera shaking made my stomach sick. Thankfully, there’s an option to turn off planet re-entry shaking. You got to make sure your angle is perfect. If not, you’ll come in too fast and be unable to slow down once you hit terminal velocity. Or, there will be a fire inside your ship. Discussing about combat now. A word of warning. Enemies have been seen swooping down into the atmosphere and attempting to loot the wreckage areas. They will kill you on sight. And with that number of enemies, you best have some good Descent-style reflexes. Sometimes the ole circle strafe doesn’t always work. Overall, I really like this game. It has a lot of potential and the dev more than knows about it, and will fully take advantage. It’s $15 on Steam, and I say it’s worth it. $15 is the perfect price for this free roaming space simulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, finally a non-WoD Beta post. I wanted something else to do while waiting for the next beta build, and thought of this awesome game that Dan showed a video of. Rodina is a unique 1st\/3rd person Space Simulator. The … Continue reading
\nTracking the green dot to its source, you see a ship. Yes! Your ticket off of… wherever you are!
\nYou enter the ship and go through its airlock, and you see the interior. It’s quite nice. And what’s better? It’s customizable! Yes. You can build your own ship interior! …Yes, I said “ship interior<\/em>” not “ship”. It’s one of the alpha features. But what it’s capable of, impresses me. You don’t have to know things like Blender or whatever to make interiors. All you have to do is just delete everything in this ship, and make your own interior. Note, the shape has to follow the exterior of the ship, which is quite big. Lots of customization options.
\nYou also pilot in 3rd person. This was the same thing with Space Engineers when it came to building a Big Ship before they had better cockpits.<\/p>\n
\nYou get Cruising Speed, which will help you explore all the asteroids orbiting around the star. These may or may not have a red dot on them. These are enemies. They’ll start as pesky but quick fighters. You’ll encounter harder enemies(some with homing missiles, and even a capital ship) that are orbiting around planets.<\/p>\n
\nFires are bad, and need to be taken care of very quickly as they can literally burn your ship health down. You can only deal with them if your ship has landed or is in outer space. To deal with them, you need a fire extinguisher. Yes, a wall-mounted 20th century fire extinguisher. No sprinkler system. You have to use a fire extinguisher.
\nIn a later update, the developer gave the option of starving fires of oxygen, which eventually does extinguish it(as fire cannot burn without oxygen). But in doing so, will suffocate you (or even throw you out the airlock).<\/p>\n
\nUnfortunately, at this time, there’s no way to rid a planet of these annoying red dots. But the dev is working on a patch within a few weeks, to give an option of not having them respawn.<\/p>\n