I was thinking on buying Hellion because it looks like actually playable and fun equivalent of base SC, and how I imagine space legs in ED. Is it worth getting it if Im only interested in single player expiriance?
Hellion. Anyone still playing?
- Thread starter Mole HD
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Even on the many, many servers..community or official, Hellion is all in all a single player experience in the main. It's very atmospheric and gives a decent experience of life in a vacuum with limited resources.
I prefer the multiplayer side on community servers since I play with a couple of mates cooperatively, sharing resources and building bases in different planetary systems etc, you can also rent a server for £4 per month, should you wish to do so and all the tools are there on the website with help and advice on Steam or the forum to set one up.
There are 2 single player modes on offer now. The standard experience which is exactly like the multiplayer side but solo... or the sandbox mode, which has access to dev commands via the console...you can spawn equipment and have a god mode and various dev tools at your fingertips to test stuff out without the punishing experience of losing it all when you die. A kind of practise mode or test environment if you will...both single player modes also have a save game facility which the multiplayer experience doesn't have.
The experience of EVA exploration of wrecked stations, ships and derelicts or just finding working repairable modules to build your home base, finding and mining resources by hand to maintain it or moving your ship around between custom orbits, docking modules or ships together with RCS thrusters, finding warp cores to enable the inter planetary drives to explore...all with proper Newtonian physics... is quite a steep learning curve and not very forgiving when you get it wrong...you start to get OCD about shutting doors after venting all the air out of your ship or base station a few times
It's certainly worth a look for the price, the development is coming along nicely and seems to be going in the right direction...working game mechanics first, fluff and polish later.
I must admit, I'm loving the experience even with the few teething bugs and sometimes clunky UI. It's not so punishing that it's a frustrating and endless cycle of the search for resources and repairing equipment but the more you build, the more base resources you'll need to run it all...a fabricator module is your best friend in Hellion...and a cargo bay module for all your refining and storage needs....and a Helium 3 reactor power supply module or solar power modules for power...or a bigger ship type with a Helium 3 reactor and a large cargo bay but you have to endure some pretty dangerous environmental situations like debris storms, far flung planets with not enough UV power from the sun to feed your solar power base starter ship as well as lengthy inter planetary travel to source and recover those modules, do some basic repairs like putting out electrical fires and venting air, dock with them in your ship then tow them back to your base...you get the picture I'm sure.
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Thank you for detailed answer Mole, it does souns tempting since what you described is right up my alley. I will give it a try when I'm back from holidays. SP sandbox mode is what was missing for me at first.
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