Thorondor Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Gratuitous Space BattlesExpanding your capabilities could be dangerous. Especially if you belong to The Outcasts, the cybernetically enhanced stars of the show in Gratuitous Space Battles' just released new DLC.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Ok_016BPE They have been cast away for it and, in the end, didn't take it too kindly: It had all started so simply, eleven thousand years ago. The odd replacement leg here, the odd augmented eye there, and for a while everyone on the Vla-hurk home-world was quite happy with the trend towards cybernetic augmentation. Then along came the New World Religion, and the obsession with 'biological purity', and before you know it, half the Vla-hurk population is being shunned for having so much as a hip replacement operation... ...and so it went on, until after a thousand years of this, the augmented half the Vla-hurk finally said 'screw this for a game of soldiers', climbed aboard their freshly built fleet of battleships and nuked the whole planet from orbit, never to return, or set foot on a planetary surface again. What they bring to the table: The outcasts have developed a number of innovative technologies not available to other races. Most famous is their holographic 'decoy projector', a cruiser module that projects a holographic copy of the hosting ship used as a decoy to attract enemy fire. They also have access to unusually long ranged sniper-lasers for their frigates, and outcast's frigates are the only vessel able to use the 'multi-target tractor beams' which are highly sophisticated units capable of trapping multiple enemy fighters in their beams simultaneously. Other new modules include the slow-then-fast moving twin-stage missiles which are harder to shoot down, the souped up solar power collector and the deadly and rapid-firing pulse gun, the ideal anti-fighter weapon to use alongside those cunning new tractor modules. All told, expect to find ten new ships, six new ship equipment modules and two new scenarios in the package. Did the above titillate your sensors? Well then, adjust your implants for maximum speed and scurry on over to Steam as there's a launch discount of 20% off lasting until January 18th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 There's a nice, gratuitous interview with Positech Games' Mr.Cliff Harris at Destructoid offering some insights into what he does and how he got around to do it, among other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/344840/header.jpg?t=1428919669 :: Gratuitous Space Battles 2 is being released later today on Steam and GoG. If waiting is not your thing, the game can already purchased as a 'beta' at the official site here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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