Gratuitous Space Battles Beta Preview

This game has lazorz.

Omni likes lazorz.

And haxxorz?!

this is the first ive heard of this game, but it seems like it could be really good..
im looking forward to it now :D

Pew pew pew!

Looks and sounds awesome but I could see the trial and error aspect getting rather tedious.

no open beta?

That sounds pretty awesome to me. :D

Already have it due to pre-ordering, they let you in the beta.

It's fricking excellent.

Originally Posted by Veles
Looks and sounds awesome but I could see the trial and error aspect getting rather tedious.

as the review states, it's beta, they may help with that before it's released.

I have to hand it to them, the name describes EXACTLY what the game is.

The cover title and one of the menu items in the article navigation erroneously say "gratitious" BTW.

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That sold me on the game

You spelled gratuitous wrong like 7 times. Do a find and replace "gratitious"->"gratuitous" for your front page, links, and title headers.

"gratitious" describes Mankz's wallpapers.

It definitely sounds promising but yeah I agree with less trial and error.

I love how this article is top of the Google search list for "gratitious" :)

Pedant stars for you all, and a whack with the edit stick for all of who missed my glaring spelling mistakes!

I pre-ordered yesterday almost as soon as I had finished reading this, and I have to say that it's awesome =).

I was looking at this game before, but wasnt really sure what it was, but this review explained it to me, so I bought it in the end. Not really had much time to play it yet.
Things I like about it is the way I can tweek the ships and they do their thing like little autonomous ships, and there's no messing about with turn based stuff like GalCiv, I really liked the ship design in that game, but not keen on turn based games any more, I prefer things happening in "real time", a little like watching grass grow or sim city type.

Had this on pre-order for a while now cant wait!

Aargh! Now I have to watch Battlestar Galactica's end battle again! Or Star Trek TNG's final episode where the future Enterprise owns the Klingon battlecruiser, that was pretty cool too.

Having played this game a bit more, its got a lot more depth, but, would like to see more ship hulls to build stuff on. And only 3 classes of hulls? I would have to guess that is because its beta... would like to see a death star or something.

Originally Posted by Baz
Pedant stars for you all, and a whack with the edit stick for all of you who missed my glaring spelling mistakes!

On porpoise?

Mulling over this one, it looks fantastic and should be right up my alley if it's anything like Homeworld battles.

Do the battles resemble those in Homeworld? I.e. are they in 3d space or on a 2d plane?

Originally Posted by smc8788
I love how this article is top of the Google search list for "gratitious" :)

Not any more.

The second link is now, after following a further link, going straight through to the same article on "gizmo gamer"

linky"

Who is gizmogamer. I they linked to bit tech in some way as the images on their website are linked directly back to here.

Just thought I'd point it out

Originally Posted by 8-BALL
Not any more.

The second link is now, after following a further link, going straight through to the same article on "gizmo gamer"

linky"

Who is gizmogamer. I they linked to bit tech in some way as the images on their website are linked directly back to here.

Just thought I'd point it out

Thanks for the heads up, we'll use the smackdown button.