About This Game Delta Quadrant is a sci-fi turn-based strategy game with lite rogue-like elements. Destroy enemies to collect loot, gain experience to level up and use skill points to become stronger. Intended as a fun little sci-fi title, not too hardcore or difficult.Piloting a weak exploration ship, you are in search for a new homeworld for your people - that is, until you are lured into a trap by the Dark Order. This has you end up deep in unknown enemy space, with no allies or friends. Alone.Your attempt to escape will put you in the path of numerous enemies. Fight to survive, gain experience, level up and get improved weapons and equipment. You will die, but you will also get stronger!As you gain experience and level up, your ship gets stronger (improved hull strength, bigger shield capacity and more powerful engines), and you'll get skill points to help improve various aspects of your ship. Rogue-like Tiled Layout and Movement (think Chess) Turn-based Game Play Gain experience, level up, die, get stronger, start again. Rinse and repeat! Customization - choose your play style - defensive / aggressive / adaptive Defensive - Focus your skills on upgrading your shields. Assign power from your engines and weapons to your shields. Even modify your ship's weapon hard points to allow for additional shield generators! Aggressive - Focus on POWER - take out the enemy before they get a chance to damage you! Divert more power to weapons. Modify equipment hard points to mount even more weapons. Adaptive - Focus on energy transfer to easily adapt to the current circumstances. Divert all power to engines to flee if you're in a tight spot OR divert all power to weapons for a quicker kill OR divert all power to shields to outlast your enemi 7aa9394dea Title: Star Chronicles: Delta QuadrantGenre: Indie, StrategyDeveloper:Alister SoftwarePublisher:Back To Basics Gaming, Alister SoftwareRelease Date: 7 Jul, 2015 Star Chronicles: Delta Quadrant Download Computer First game review I've ever written on steam:I reccomend this game. For 50 cents, it is a nice game. The UI isn't great, but for 50 cents I'm impressed if it doesn't crash!A pros vs cons list doesn't seem to fit, but here are some perks.- Cheap- Simple to learn- Decent little story line, similar to Star Trek Voyager- Customizable ship- Simple, yet broad tech treeAll in all, much more value than I was expecting for 50 cents.. Boring game.. I paid $0.15 for $0.21 worth of cards, and was mildly interested because it was a turn-based strategy.It actually turned out to be a decent game. The goal is to find a new homeworld in enemy territory and each level throws a wave of enemies at you. You can choose to complete the objective or just find the exit and escape to the next level. On the way you find equipment for your ship and earn experience to improve your base abilities. Your abilities carry over to future games, so you should do better with each attempt.There are a few things I'd love to see improved:1. The enemies have terrible pathing. They always take the most direct route to you unless blocked by another ship. This means they won't surround you when they should. To be fair, some levels have so many enemies that if you were surrounded, you wouldn't last long.2. When you level up you actually have to quit the game, return to the main menu, and select a new ability, then restart. This is unnecessary. It would be nice if it let me pick a new ability before continuing with the next level.3. The difficulty ramped up quickly, or at least the instructions for the bomber level weren't explicit enough. After having only a mild challenge, I was suddenly killed in one hit.. has potential, but there are just too many problems. the only way it's a roguelike is that there's permadeath.many things are unbalanced. as long as things are outside of cooldown, you can swap whenever you like, which takes away any sense of strategic tradeoffs. likewise for shifting energy use. abilities aren't well thought out, some are clearly massively better than others. if you level too much, the difficulty gets ramped up massively high; you're better off just deleting your save and starting over if you die.I did enjoy some parts of it. Gearing up is kinda fun for a few sectors. Other than that, there's just not enough meat on the bones and too many balance issues to recommend it.. Star Chronicles is a turn based strategy where your spaceship ends up in a remote area ruled by a hostile alien enemy. Fighting your way through them gains you more powerful weapons and equipment, which is fortunate given your activities attract more and more enemies with even more powerful weapons.One of the main strengths here is most of the weapons types are significantly different - some are good at taking down shields, some at taking down hull, some have increased range, some are weaker but fire every turn, some take 3 or even 4 turns per shot but hit hard enough to justify it. The downside of this means you often end up swapping your weaponry around every turn based on the next, which slows down the gameplay and feels a bit weird (imagine Kirk being told Klingons were off the starboard bow, to which he responds by asking Scotty to unbolt those phasers and swap in photon torpedo launchers, and then to swap them back after firing them once).For most of the game the combat is fairly frantic and you are often in trouble and overwhelmed, I did find towards the end - once your movement speed is up to 4 or more and you have the long range mass drivers (PMD and then EMD) you can just peel off one enemy at a time, making the last few levels a bit too straightforward (but long, as the amount of enemies you are fighting is massive), as soon as you can carve out a safe area at the start of the sector to retreat to anyway.Overall this is okay, probably not the sort of game you would replay as once you have the hang of the weapons systems and how the AI reacts it all gets a bit predictable, but the difficulty balance is good enough to keep things interesting until you do.
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