Early Access warning. Do not go further if you are not prepared to suffer the pain. Good soundtrack though.
https://www.playhellion.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddfMdMBTC7Q
And it has dedicated servers.
No arcade kidding around here. Serious stuff.
Fascinating overview of teamwork whilst mining and station building.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trxgo32nGNU (https://www.playhellion.com/media#overlay)
Important, please read:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/588210/discussions/0/133258593392899936/
Also I'm on a server called: ?1Worthy Gaming.Net!? discord.gg/uyH55/ [DEDICATED][EU/UK] 60 slots and a ping of under 30ms.
More advice. When controlling the docking computer on the ship, you enter that view via a small switch on your steering panel.
This guy has done a great job of making videos for every step of the game so far. Entertaining and educational, must watch. His Hellion playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc58oG4eyqM&list=PLyr5C6feammewiFX2AhwF8TAjlhurWjBv
This looks promising. I'm interested
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREVqJisQsQ&index=8&list=PLyr5C6feammewiFX2AhwF8TAjlhurWjBv
This is the muts nuts...
Gimme until payday.
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This is so funny. SausageFingers plays games with his other half and she isn't always that keen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSzQjFLPvU
I can feel the pain from both sides of this interaction!
He still sounds like FatBob to me. :D
I had another go at Hellion this evening and they have come a very long way with their Glossary and Tutorial. I think they've made movement in space smoother a little less hardcore, but it's still tough like it should be.
They have dedicated servers (community not just rentable).
I actually managed to dock a module to my little ship thingy...
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Quote from: albert;425769I had another go at Hellion this evening and they have come a very long way with their Glossary and Tutorial. I think they've made movement in space smoother a little less hardcore, but it's still tough like it should be.
They have dedicated servers (community not just rentable).
I actually managed to dock a module to my little ship thingy...
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I do want to try this, especially with SC taking its sweet time. I've got quite a lot of game on ATM and I'm trying to make time. I'm going to watch the game and see if it comes down in price at all.
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The devs of Hellion have made the server code available for use to the community but do not support it directly themselves in terms of aiding the groups who decide to build a community server. Here are a few server related pages that might be useful.
https://steamdb.info/app/598850/info/ - Dedicated server record in steam. Using https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD#Windows
https://hellion.gamepedia.com/Creating_your_own_server - Wiki page.
Last but definately most useful, server setup howto in full detail including network ports etc. http://ahmadhisyam.com/2017/02/28/how-to-setup-hellion-dedicated-server/
I have to say, I haven't gotten past the spawn, explore my little base, link up an airlock to it, part of the game yet. The fun part will be meeting up with other players and exploring, salvaging and mining to stay alive.
Perhaps if anyone else already has the game they can join me on an EU server, get an idea if there is an audience for this first before committing time and effort to a server of our own.
It certainly has more of a realistic feel than any other space game out there but still is lean able if you are patient and follow the tutorials. Forget it if you have the patience of a gnat.
Quote from: albert;425774... Perhaps if anyone else already has the game they can join me on an EU server, get an idea if there is an audience for this first before committing time and effort to a server of our own ...
I've purchased it so will certainly be looking to do this.
Drop by later today on TS and I can tell you the server I'm on, I can give you the Hellion 101. Maybe I can even spawn you in my base!
Waiting for either a sale price or our own server before I dive in.
Quote from: Liberator;425858Waiting for either a sale price or our own server before I dive in.
Yes both of these would make me curious too!
Well I've waited a few sales and it seems like it always 33% off in all the sales.
And they have a dedicated server available as well via SteamCMD.
So they've filled their end of the deal.
Go on then, it's got a single player mode added to it and there are NPCs planned for the future so why the hell not.
This has caught my attention in the past too!
It's tough, real Newtonian. How has development gone and community feedback? Content?
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The toughness is quite cool but is there any sort of PVE content? besides just plainly surviving the simulation?
No idea mate, not played it in a year. Would have to try it out.
First thoughts after a week or so of playing the single player.
It's not ready yet, massively buggy in single player and I can imagine it's a game killer in multiplayer........
That being said it's actually really good fun, but the bugs just make it a constant pain. Constant freezing and crashing, storyline triggers requiring relogging and poorly optimised code. Luckily the single player game does do autosaves periodically.
The poor optimisation is what has stopped me at the moment, I've got myself a medium sized station built and a couple of ships but the game seems to hate playing with more than 9 or 10 modules in the area. Lots of complaints on the forums about this as well.
So whenever I undock from the base and attempt to align to the next warp point in the storyline the game goes into stop motion and then freezes. Tried it in both ships and it's like 2fps then freeze. CPU, memory and GPU are fine it looks like something in the code is having a fit, in EVA mode you can move around quite smoothly. So I'm trapped at my base at the moment.
Hopefully they will get it all sorted because I'd say it's akin to "Subnautica" in space otherwise. A bit of resource gathering and mining to get basic building items, pilfer a few modules from derelict space stations to build your own base. Use your fabricator to de-construct items to learn the blueprint and then you can replicate them yourself. Oxygen isn't really a problem for too long, there's no food to worry about, so survival wise it's pretty simple. Once you can make carbon filters for your ship and base it purifies and recycles the air for a long time.
Probably the hardest thing to get at the moment is Nitrogen, which you need to create the base atmosphere to pressurise the ships and base modules, although I have started finding objects that require other metals and elements to build, which I assume or on asteroids I've not visited yet.
Cheers for the review. Have to admit this has been looking tempting for a while now. Seems it's still not ready yet. Such a shame.
Really good review, Lib. I was going to jump in when I saw you were regularly playing but looks like it's best to hold off for a bit.
Some pics.
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Both ships anchored to the station.
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Sunburst
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Floating outside the cargo bay of the big ship.
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Main flight deck of the big ship.
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Cargo bay in the big ship, can be de-pressurised to open up the front ramp door.