Title: Space Empires V
Genre: Strategy
Developer:
Malfador Machinations
Publisher:
Strategy First
Release Date: 16 Oct, 2006
English
A near perfect 4x game. Ship designs, upgrades, rich research tree. Diplomacy lacks a bit of depth and it feels like the computer cheats a bit. You can automate many tasks by usung governor AI script, and focus on different aspect of the game. Custom creation of in game races with unique perks and abilities.
Ultimate tech in Ringworld and Sphere construction. Deffinitely worth a try.
My score 8/10
PS. If you like, there are several mods to increase complexity, difficulty and overal playability.
I use Captain Kwok's SE mod.. I've been a fan of Space Empires for two decades, but this one has kind of landed with a thud. Despite some promise at the improvements, the technical issues are far too furstrating for me to make the necessary time investment.
Pros:
- Richer, larger star systems.
- Much better ship design.
Cons:
- Unstable and sluggish performance on modern OSes. I spent a lot of time fiddling with settings and I could barely get okay performance running in a window with a bunch of graphical details turned down. Most of the guides seem to be stabs in the dark as well. As much as I'd love to deep dive into this game, running like garbage on hardware a decade newer than it isn't something I can deal with.
- You apparently need the 3rd party Balance Mod so that things don't get out of whack in later stages of the game, but I can't muster the patience to make it that far.
If you're willing to sort through the technical issues dogging this 10-year-old release, you might find some enjoyment at the end. Personally, I'm going back to SE4.. awesome game. Compatability problems aside, As Im sure many people have started reviews with that as their core focus they fail to actually see the game for what it is behind the crashes that litter their modern computers (That this game has not been patched for)
This game is amazing, In essence, Design and execution, It has good depth and just that little thing that keeps you coming back, Its a long burn of a game, No quick explosion and then over, Games take 10s of hours at least but thats what makes them so memorable, and it makes small things that much bigger.
If youre a stratagy fan looking for something complex, Challenging and fun, Youre in the right place. Run's amazing, 50+ FPS on Windows 8 in windowed mode; go to SE5 folder/data/HUDSettings and edit Width and Height. When you run SE5, click Setup and change Display Drive to your graphics cards, Video mode to Windowed, Video memory usage to Safe. (Graphics and Background left on High ;)).
Nvidia Settings for SE5 executable Manage 3D settings, Program Settings:
Maximum pre-rendered frames: 1
Power management mode: Prefer Maximum Performance
Triple buffering: On
Vertical sync: On
Dunno how much of the above is necissary or if it actually did anything, but the above is what I cobbled together from over the interwebs to get good fps.
AND DO NOT FORGET TO D/L BALANCE MOD!
Also, toss in some shipsets and spice it up.. Works perfect in fullscreen mode on Windows 7 64-Bit with Intel HD 3000 graphics card, after I played a bit around with the settings. I love this game, great athmosphere, good tutorials and always worth playing a night long.
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