Satellite Reign - Syndicate Wars "Spiritual Successor"?

Lone Stone · 30-08-2015 10:56pm

sooooooo anyone left the game running unpaused over night to become a billionaire ?

Lone Stone · 30-08-2015 11:20pm

also i was just screwing around in downtown before i start the army area missions, and you can hack any guard from behind with out alerting the patrole if they are facing away and you can walk around undected with one in any red area on a map ! i had no idea about that oh well should come in handy also upgraded my clones with some decent patrole guy ones.

Generic Dreadhead · 31-08-2015 10:54am

I'm about 3 hours in maybe.

Gunfights all the way :pac:

Cravez · 31-08-2015 12:35pm

Gave this a good go over the weekend, I'm pretty much finished downtown but one more Pass to go (I think for Grid District).

I'm really enjoying it and loving how you can either rob banks directly or Siphon money from them overtime, and also doing the same for ATMs. The music is very reminiscent of Syndicate Wars, I miss hearing the " Move along " that gets played randomly across the area like it did in Syndicate Wars.

However I do find I'm mostly going solo for alot of the missions using the hacker. I gave him the Stealth Generator Mk I and pretty much doing the missions with him only. Using the cloaking and then silently executing guards with silenced pistol, hijacking the drones if they are in the way. I feel like they've made one or two classes too overly important over the others, unless they change that up in the later areas.

Cravez · 31-08-2015 12:38pm

Lone Stone wrote: »

patrole if they are facing away and you can walk around undected with one in any red area on a map ! i had no idea about that oh well should come in handy also upgraded my clones with some decent patrole guy ones.

I thought I found the answer to my woes by hacking a guard and then getting him to disable security terminals (e.g like trying to get into the Armory via disabling 3 terminals), unfortunately when you try using terminals with hacked soldiers they start getting shocked half way through the action and can die. I find they're only useful for getting more clones or as an extra soldier, they don't provide much in the way of a stealth option except for shooting out cameras without getting your guys involved.

Lone Stone · 31-08-2015 12:56pm

its fun also finding i tend to go in with either the hacker or infiltrator, and leave the rest outside, unless i just run in and shoot **** up but i still have the default guns im low money all the time, can you rob that bank in downtown more than once ?

Cravez · 31-08-2015 1:13pm

Lone Stone wrote: »

Im low money all the time, can you rob that bank in downtown more than once ?

Yep you can, I don't know the rate of which the money replenishes but you can definitely re-rob the same banks, I think if you siphon money out of the ATM's the rate of which the money replenishes in the bank is also less. You might have to wait a while to get any decent payouts from it again. Bring the infiltrator's Master Thief skill up when you rob the bank you'll get more money.

31-08-2015 4:20pm

I feel like this game is too open ended. There doesn't seem to much variety to the missions unless you make it difficult for yourself.

31-08-2015 7:24pm

HOw does respawning work? Does it cost me money every time?

Lone Stone · 31-08-2015 10:17pm

that armory mission was bloody hard, took so many attempts ended up going in with silencer equipped machine guns hijacked a guard to open the doors so i could just run and gun my way through and then legged it out.

Cravez · 01-09-2015 10:14am

Deleted User wrote: »

HOw does respawning work? Does it cost me money every time?

Yeah I think it costs you money everytime. I think Lone Stone said earlier in the thread that your clone also starts to degrade stats like health/energy etc. It's way you should hijack a few citizens/guards and send them for cloning to have a better batch just in case.

Lone Stone wrote: »

that armory mission was bloody hard, took so many attempts ended up going in with silencer equipped machine guns hijacked a guard to open the doors so i could just run and gun my way through and then legged it out.

I solo'd Armory with hacker & silenced pistol. Gave him the MkI Stealth Generator and was doable, but requires a ton of patience. Slipping up the slightest in this game while doing stealth can undo a whole bunch of work! Took me a good few tries.

Lone Stone · 01-09-2015 11:17am

I don't have a stealth generator and I've done all the missions in downtown, have to get back into thst poxy armory for a pass to a new district ughh

Cravez · 01-09-2015 11:55am

Lone Stone wrote: »

I don't have a stealth generator and I've done all the missions in downtown, have to get back into thst poxy armory for a pass to a new district ughh

Hmm you definitely should have gotten it from one of the buildings. It may have been the storage and docking area in the same compound as the Armory. Maybe the game randomises the prototypes you get per game? Or I've noticed that if you purchase information in regards the missions, they sometimes tell you which Agent to use when entering the building. I think you get more/better rewards if you use the right agent.

pixelburp · 01-09-2015 2:44pm

So what's the consensus here? I'd honestly forgotten about this game after the initial giddy excitement over a 'proper' new Syndicate game. After all the hubbub, is Satellite Reign any good, whether or not you take its heritage into account?

01-09-2015 2:55pm

pixelburp wrote: »

So what's the consensus here? I'd honestly forgotten about this game after the initial giddy excitement over a 'proper' new Syndicate game. After all the hubbub, is Satellite Reign any good, whether or not you take its heritage into account?

It's interesting enough. I love the sci-fi setting with upgradeable cyborgs. I don't like the open nature of the game. I would have preferred linear missions on completely new maps (that's my general opinion on sandbox games though). The missions seem somewhat repetitive. You have so much choice yet I end up doing same approach every time. Getting caught while trying to do a mission stealthily doesn't matter, you can just kill everyone nearby and hide for a while. I am not engaged by the plot so far after finishing the first "zone". The music is grating on me to be honest. Some aspects of the gameplay aren't fully explained, which is okay, I don't like for my hand to held.

Its a bit of fun but I am not blown away by it.

KilOit · 01-09-2015 3:00pm

If you die on a mission is it better just to reload a save file or ressurect? i see that it doesn't cost you anything but heard you lose some items, like fancy weapons

01-09-2015 3:13pm

KilOit wrote: »

If you die on a mission is it better just to reload a save file or ressurect? i see that it doesn't cost you anything but heard you lose some items, like fancy weapons

This is something that wasn't explained properly or passed me by. I still am not sure. Nor am I sure what the red spawn counter means. I know you lose whatever prototype you were carrying.

Lone Stone · 01-09-2015 4:21pm

Ah right so each part of the city has the same objectives to to slow down cctv and guard back up etc, and everything else is like story missions you can try do which ever way you like, you get different story info when you go to a new part of the city, but i thought i would have gotten some story dialog or some thing when i finished everything in downtown, in the industrial estate area now its fairly big.

Cravez · 05-09-2015 11:04am

New update is out that includes Iron man mode!

There's also a new ultra damage mode where you give and receive tons more damage. And also a new Slow down time ability.

1.03v changelog:

Bug Fixes

Various navigation improvements
Various mission fixes including VIP respawning
Various fixes to buggy vehicles and traffic
Fixes for ziplines dropping agents out of the world
Fixes for looping sounds persisting after game loads, fixed various sounds not being affected by volume controls and sounds which should be localized but were infinite.
Fixes for billboards not breaking correctly
Various other minor fixes

Additions

Iron Man Mode
Ultra Damage Mode
Slow Down Time Ability Unlocked
Added achievements for hacking data terminals and ATMs
Added option to invert mouse panning, panning speed also decreases when zoomed in.

Generic Dreadhead · 14-09-2015 2:11pm

Anyone else turn this off and just.... not feel like turning it back on?

Cravez · 14-09-2015 2:59pm

I haven't played it in a while as I've been stuck on the Witcher 3 for a good while now (amongst other games). Definitely going to get back to it once the backlog clears a little.

Lone Stone · 14-09-2015 3:46pm

yea i did like 3 areas of the city and just felt like i was repeating myself and not even getting any story info or seeing any change in the world after apparently taking down big corp gangs or what ever the feck they are, just felt a bit pointless.

KilOit · 14-09-2015 11:24pm

Near the end of it now, i'm enjoying it but its very repetitive and once you got your infiltrator geared there's no need to use another character.

It's looks and sounds like syndicate but feels nothing like it if that makes sense. The story is pants, i still remember aspects of the story of the original it was that good.

If they make another sequel i think they should cut out the open world and make each level

Nody · 01-10-2015 1:27pm

Finished it just now; great little game. Personally I found the infiltrator the one I used the least for killing (but scouted around to hack terminals etc.) but used the full team to have general massacres. I agree it got a big repetitive in what to do etc. but overall I enjoyed it quite a bit. The ending stage was annoying until you figured out a decent set up and I simply steamrolled it.

Satellite Reign - Syndicate Wars "Spiritual Successor"?

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