Recent reviews by PigeonFacts

I love this game, but it really needs an endless mode. I feel too crunched for time and I'm often having to choose between making my potions by the competition deadlines, and then going out and doing the social sim aspects of the game.

Let's get some things straight. This game is really fun, it's a nice little spinoff with lots of personality and some fun new mechanics. However, it's so buggy right now. If you want to play right now, go for it just DO NOT play on Ironman mode, there's so many softlocks that you won't be able to recover from.

After playing this game completely, I have a few things to say.

This is a very fun space exploration/combat game, with a somewhat interesting, yet short story. (Most of my time was spent doing side missions.) I found that once I completed the mainstory, I already had all the ships, and loads of money, there wasn't much left to do.

The combat is very fun in the beginning and middle of the game, with genuine challenge and risk assessment involved. Oftentimes I would face choices such as, "Should I risk it and go in, ramming speed, to use my broadsides, or should I just stay at range and pick off fighters before moving in?" But once you get the higher tier Destroyer and even Dreadnought class ships, all that vanished as you became a flying bullet sponge murder machine of death. Not to say that that's a bad thing at first, as it feels awesome to take down two destroyers at once, but gets boring when you realize you're unkillable.

The quests mostly consist of "Go to X location and kill Y because he's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up Z group." There's some other stuff such as fetch quests, smuggling illegal goods into stations, etc, sprinkled in.

There are many different weapon types, that fall into one of four categories. Even within the categories, there is a lot of variation among them.

1) Turrets. Standard, ship to ship weaponry. Fires fast, reloads quickly, and does moderate damage.

2) Lasers. Really fun to use, but not much variation in this type, as you can only choose between mining lasers, combat lasers, and viridian lasers. The Viridian lasers are objectively better than the combat lasers as they do higher DPS than their normal counterpart and do more damage to shields.

3) Rockets. Mostly homing, super high damage weapons that can destroy fighters in one hit, and tear apart the shields or hulls of most capital ships. Only downside is they need to be replenished.

4) Broadsides. The bread and butter of your ship. None of them are exactly alike, except in the fact that they're very high damaging and have no heat-up. Many vary in range, charge-up time, etc.

The game has a faction reputation system going for it, but I feel it wasn't utilized well. Four of the factions (Greel, Murath, Korian, and Lightborne, plus some others I'm probably forgetting.) Are perpetually hostile and there's no way to increase reputation towards them. The remainder is the Citizenry, the Militia, and the Red Devil Cartel. Each have their own benefits for being friendly with and playing as a pirate certainly makes things interesting.

Another thing I liked about this game is the events system. Occasionally, certain space stations will have different events occur in their vicinity, such as a Militia Embargo, Crime Spree, Famine, etc. The markets of this station and the surrounding ones will shift accordingly, allowing you to interact with the galaxy in a meaningful way. Other events that are not bound to space stations also occur, such as Merchants sending out distress signals, hunting down bounties, or being able to raid convoys of goods.

All in all, this is a very fun game, but unless you're super into the looks of the combat and gameplay like me, I don't think the $20 price tag was quite worth it. Wait for a sale, otherwise.

Bought it for the meme, stayed for the good times. Also, I really like pigeons.

Just but Dark Souls 2.

Is this game good, polished or innovative? Nah. Is Ubisoft a decent company? HELL NO. But it's fun as hell, especially with friends. I wouldn't buy at the current price though, wait for the sale.

Very good game. Would reccomend to any one who is a fan of Co-op Vs. Games.

You have no idea how much I love this game. Everything about it is amazing, the Story, Atmosphere, Gameplay, and even the music. I may be guilty of donning the Nostalgia Shades here, but I would definitely recommend this to any Star Wars fan, whether you just watch the movies, or you know every aspect of the EU, this game is for you. This game also includes elements similar to Mass Effect, so if you like those games, check this one out!

I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning, I break my legs, and every afternoon, I break my arms. At night, I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep.

Killed a Dragon. Made a hat out of it's corpse. Ten outta ten.