Recent reviews by Sparky

I adore so much about this game, and I am a very enjoyer of naval gameplay.

For all the faults of this game, I want to cherish it. But the airborne update has single handedly dominated and ruined so many playstyles of the game because air has few viable counters that isnt just also air.

You want to bring out a Large Ship? Better have fighter escorts. Wanna build a facility? Better have fighter QRFs ready to launch to stop bombers every hour of every day. Wanna do tanking/heavy armor on a front? Better have fighters ready to protect you against Dive Bombers and Heavy Bombers.

AA is nigh on useless, Naval AA is pitifull 12.7mm and 20mm that tickles planes with no flak options, and with no AA AI in at least some form backlines require 24/7 fighters on alert to respond to low-pop paratrooper/bomber raids.

AA needs to be expanded and buffed, and naval needs more ways to defend themselves from planes that isnt just 'bring more fighters', if they want Dive and Torpedo bombers to be a thing in the naval regions.

I bought a founders edition of this game a long time ago, in hopes of supporting its development and release. Just about everything about its path after that point was dissapointment after dissapointment. Not only has Codehatch acted immaturely in terms of managing peoples feelings on the matter, they have moved on to making a new title with the money they milked out of everyone from this pile of lies.

If it wasnt clear, dont believe anything you read on this store page. Most if not all the features listed here are either implimented poorly or not even in the game, and never having been put in in the first place. When confronted on the forums about this in one of the few threads they didnt delete or ban they, responded with "StarForge was originally made up of many unique R&D tech demos, some of these meshed well together, others would cause major optimization issues, or issues with design. Unfortunately, some R&D projects could not be incorporated into the game for these reasons."

This is obviously a rather bold admitance to their deciet... seeing as no such thing is either stated here on this store page, and nor was it told to those of us who bought it back in its Early Access days.

Long story short? Save your money, dont make the mistake so many of us did. Because now I am stuck with a worthless game full of nothing but empty promises and no way to get my money back because I am outside the limits of the rather lacking refund system.

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