About This Game Derelict is a top down, sandbox shooter set in the far distant future. You have woken up from stasis long after the fall of humanity and must try to survive in this hostile galaxy. Luckily, thousands of years of human colonization have left countless derelict space craft, abandoned space stations and the crumbling remains of human settlements ripe for looting. Unfortunately the galaxy is not quite dead yet. Genetically modified organisms, hardened for hostile environments, ancient mechanoids with corrupt A.I, rival scavengers, and countless hordes of humans who succumbed to a genocidal nanite plague, infest the dark corners of mankind's broken legacy.Features:Derelict will not hold your hand. Nor will it take you to A&E and call your mum when you've raided a derelict full of millennia old, raging androids, armed only with a knife. (Okay it will a bit, but only because my testers made me put a tutorial in).- A wide range of hand crafted and randomly generated environments to explore.- Dozens of weapons, ships and equipment pieces to loot. - Multiple difficulties. From rogue light to rogueaaaAAAGH.- Hordes of enemies to gib.- NPC's to aid or end. - Grim Epitaphs. Seek out shrines lamenting your death for phat lewts.- State of the art 2D graphics with a customisable player character.Redux overhaul:The past year has been spent over-hauling the whole game. The Redux update brings the game closer to the original vision for the game.- Rebuilt from the ground up in game maker studio 2.- Full pad support and rebinding.- New derelicts, planets and a completely remade space environment.- New enemy types.- New weapon and inventory systems.- More grim Epitaphs.Totally non-biased quotes from people who've played during development:"It's allright." - Developers nephew."Pretty sure I had fun." - Part time QA Tester Arpz."Looks like mario." - Developers mum.420/10 wpuld epitaph again. - Dr Tester, PhDMessage from the Dev...The game has been a labor of love over the past 4 years since I drunkenly decided to try and make a game, it's been coded and designed in my spare time, and tested by my hardcore group of friends. The aim was to make a top down shooter where you weren't constrained to loading up arena's and just fighting waves, one where you actually felt a part of the world. I hope you like it. a09c17d780 Title: Derelict ReduxGenre: Action, IndieDeveloper:Floor59GamesPublisher:Floor59GamesRelease Date: 22 Jul, 2016 Derelict Redux Hacked derelict redux Once I figured it out, I don't seem to be having much fun. Flying is irrating, and my curiosity doesn't seem to stimulated when exploring these dark ships.. The sales pitch is so much better than the actual game.. I usually play games I'm unsure about for at least two hours so that I can get a good idea of how they work before the refund deadline, but it only took me half an hour to see most of what this game has to offer - and what it offers is a dull, repetitive and positively ugly attempt at a top-down shooter.Built on a roguelike-style framework that features procedural generation, character progression and permadeath, Derelict is a game that clearly prides itself on throwing the player in at the deep end - a fact that shows very well on the first level, where you're required to escape a self-destructing spaceship without a tutorial or even so much as a map. Randomly-spawning, godawfully-ugly explosions take significant chunks from your health as you stumble through the corridors, and though you catch glimpses of what could be enemies or friendly NPCs, they tend to get gibbed by the RNG pretty fast. It's only when you bump into an escape pod and launch yourself free of the doomed ship that the game 'opens up'. for want of a less promising term.In reality, although you're now free to visit space stations, abandoned planets, wormholes to newly-generated map sectors and discarded chunks of former space liners, the promise of freedom rapidly withers when you find out that there's absolutely nothing to actually do out there. All of the destinations you can visit, though different in appearance, play out identically - you land your ship, shoot the mindless zombie-like enemies rushing towards you in single file, pick up poorly-sprited items and weapons that the game never really tells you the purpose of, then take off and try to find a use for all the indistinct junk you accrued. I'd like to be able to write a paragraph for each different type of destination you can land at, but unfortunately, they're so similar in how they play out that there's just nothing unique to be said.Though the game does boast an impressive array of different collectible weapons to find in your travels, the anaemic levels of enemy variety make the point moot - an automatic pistol carves through a brainless line of whatever those sprites are meant to be just as well as a plasma rifle, so what's the point? The only time I actually managed to die to these foes was when a huge mob of them sprung onto me out of what must've been a spawn point as I approached. My other deaths - getting shot in the back repeatedly by a companion who I never asked to join me, getting hit by an asteroid that I had no way of predicting, and failing to luck my way to the exit during the starting level - were similarly unenthusing. There's also different spaceships to grab off space stations and derelicts to replace your initial ship, but there's even less point to it than getting a new weapon - besides their admittedly-decent sprites, all the ships are totally identical.In all, between a music playlist that varies between 'generic' and 'actively unpleasant', a near-total lack of any artwork that could be called 'good', and mechanics so bare-bones that they almost don't need that tutorial that the game fails to provide anyway, Derelict feels far more like a tech demo than a bona-fide game. The 'open world' the game puts you in is laughably bare, the exploration aspect falls flat once you realise you're not doing anything new after the first couple of landings, and frankly, I don't even think the area maps that you land on are procedural. Just spend the $10 on a cheap movie or a takeout or something, since both would keep you entertained for longer.. I like this game I really do, it hits a lot of boxes and I love the random world it is set in. A dead universe and you are picking through the bones and remains. But the problem remains as there are several massive bugs and glitches in this game, and it does not seem to be getting anymore support from the developer. The shotgun seems to do 0 damage, if you shift tab in game you walk slower and only speed back up upon getting in your ship or switching screens and coming back. If you take a quest from a person you have to left click, which makes you swing your sword which kills the quest giver. I like this game, the ideas, it is interesting the problem is, it needs more work done on it to polish it up to make it a solid title.. EDIT: The dude's remaking the game, so definitely keep a watch on this.This game has a lot of promise. I'm a big fan of the graphics, weapons, combat and general feel of it. It's pretty awesome to dock with an abandoned ship to search for supplies, only to have a hoard of aliens and nano-zombies try kick your balls up through your mouth. However, it's got a decent amount of glitches and really not all that much to do. You kill and search a ship, planet or space station for, hacking tools, medkits, explosives and ammo so you can kill more. There seem to be missions in, but I'm not sure if they even work. It seems like it should be in early access. It's definitely not worth the $10 price tag, but would be if there were more additions to it.I really, really wanna give this game a thumbs up.. It's pretty dang fun. Not easy either. Getting the hang of it takes a few minutes and usually dying a time or two. It's got a lot of potential, and it's improving. I look forward to seeing where this goes. Throwing grenades, and using some of the automatic weapons rock. Loot and mow down hoards of creatures, fly around a find things to loot and fight? I'll have more please.It has it's bugs that need fixing. Some minor improvments as well, but over all it's fun. I'm looking forward to some updates.. 10\/10, price is a bit high but its a low budget HeatSignature (the game Tom Francis is working on, i recommend you check it out as well)anyway, like SPAZ (NUMBER 1, NOT 2, ugh 2 is ... not my bag, Really weird SPAZ 2 that is.) it offers frree space exploration, and choice to do what you would like in a free roam environment.Pros:1. GTA 2 like gameplay in the dark future2. Space exploration3. free roam narrative (although lacking)Cons: 1. barely any story2. price....9.99? for this? cmon. (that seems to be a bad trend among indie developers, but I'm sure Valve recommended the price.. surely)3. not enough tutorial, not enough guidance, and there really needs to be a better sector map in these kinds of games. 10\/10 because we dont have enough games like it, wish SPAZ 1 would have more games.EDIT: games is still good. but man does it still need love. The concept is solid as \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665. We really need more games like this. I swear Im addicted to SPAZ 1 type games..... if you like this game check out games like CRYPTARK, Space Pirates and Zombies.. It's pretty dang fun. Not easy either. Getting the hang of it takes a few minutes and usually dying a time or two. It's got a lot of potential, and it's improving. I look forward to seeing where this goes. Throwing grenades, and using some of the automatic weapons rock. Loot and mow down hoards of creatures, fly around a find things to loot and fight? I'll have more please.It has it's bugs that need fixing. Some minor improvments as well, but over all it's fun. I'm looking forward to some updates.. I usually play games I'm unsure about for at least two hours so that I can get a good idea of how they work before the refund deadline, but it only took me half an hour to see most of what this game has to offer - and what it offers is a dull, repetitive and positively ugly attempt at a top-down shooter.Built on a roguelike-style framework that features procedural generation, character progression and permadeath, Derelict is a game that clearly prides itself on throwing the player in at the deep end - a fact that shows very well on the first level, where you're required to escape a self-destructing spaceship without a tutorial or even so much as a map. Randomly-spawning, godawfully-ugly explosions take significant chunks from your health as you stumble through the corridors, and though you catch glimpses of what could be enemies or friendly NPCs, they tend to get gibbed by the RNG pretty fast. It's only when you bump into an escape pod and launch yourself free of the doomed ship that the game 'opens up'. for want of a less promising term.In reality, although you're now free to visit space stations, abandoned planets, wormholes to newly-generated map sectors and discarded chunks of former space liners, the promise of freedom rapidly withers when you find out that there's absolutely nothing to actually do out there. All of the destinations you can visit, though different in appearance, play out identically - you land your ship, shoot the mindless zombie-like enemies rushing towards you in single file, pick up poorly-sprited items and weapons that the game never really tells you the purpose of, then take off and try to find a use for all the indistinct junk you accrued. I'd like to be able to write a paragraph for each different type of destination you can land at, but unfortunately, they're so similar in how they play out that there's just nothing unique to be said.Though the game does boast an impressive array of different collectible weapons to find in your travels, the anaemic levels of enemy variety make the point moot - an automatic pistol carves through a brainless line of whatever those sprites are meant to be just as well as a plasma rifle, so what's the point? The only time I actually managed to die to these foes was when a huge mob of them sprung onto me out of what must've been a spawn point as I approached. My other deaths - getting shot in the back repeatedly by a companion who I never asked to join me, getting hit by an asteroid that I had no way of predicting, and failing to luck my way to the exit during the starting level - were similarly unenthusing. There's also different spaceships to grab off space stations and derelicts to replace your initial ship, but there's even less point to it than getting a new weapon - besides their admittedly-decent sprites, all the ships are totally identical.In all, between a music playlist that varies between 'generic' and 'actively unpleasant', a near-total lack of any artwork that could be called 'good', and mechanics so bare-bones that they almost don't need that tutorial that the game fails to provide anyway, Derelict feels far more like a tech demo than a bona-fide game. The 'open world' the game puts you in is laughably bare, the exploration aspect falls flat once you realise you're not doing anything new after the first couple of landings, and frankly, I don't even think the area maps that you land on are procedural. Just spend the $10 on a cheap movie or a takeout or something, since both would keep you entertained for longer.. So I tried this game out, hoping for the best. TLDR: It was very impresive in scope but as a player I felt detatched from the game.The npc's sometimes shot me and sometimes didn't, the ships I found I could not customise or learn to make.Basically I just felt like the whole game was a repetative loop of "Now go here, now do this, no go there, now do that" steps.I found it fun for the first few deaths, but I got bored once I started to see the game sections repeat themselves.It feels kind of half finished, the content and vision are here but the player needs more personal elements.In a very funny way, Duskers has what this game lacks BUT duskers lacks what this game has .... if these two Devs could combine Duskers and Derelict.... we may have a masterpiece
Derelict Redux Hacked
Updated: Mar 15, 2020
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