The Last Federation, a strategy game about creating an interplanetary federation, has received its second expansion which brings new technologies and a new game mode.
Like the name implies, this expansion heavily focuses on technology. A total of 12 new technologies have been made available to all races and there are 64 racial techs that will make all the races even more unique. Technologies have also been made more important to you, as they have beneficial side effects that will potentially aid you during combat. There are also 7 new flagship abilities you can use to create your dream flagship combination.
In addition to pure tech, there are a couple of content additions. In space combat you might encounter Champions, hostile flagships with similar abilities to your own. This means they could possibly drain you shields, use powerful anti-capital ship weaponry and launch swarm after swarm of nasty interceptors or bombers. There is also a new planet type called Ring World, which has a particularly fragile ecosystem, making it a big target for eco-terrorism. Remember to visit the Acutian waste management CEO if you happen to have a quarrel with the inhabitants of a Ring World. There is also a new mission type that you might run into during your interplanetary adventures.
Possibly the biggest change in this expansion is the Tech Race game mode. Once again you can forget about the original goal of creating a peaceful federation and instead you are directly competing against all of the races in a race for scientific superiority. To win you must research all of the key technologies before any of the other races manage it. You must also make sure that a single race doesn't wipe out everyone else. This means that you will mainly focus on short-term alliances and you will probably want to stir up just enough wars to keep the other races busy. You will also have to make enough money to fund your own scientific efforts, so you can't simply ignore the races.
At the time of the writing there is a nice discount for The Last Federation and its expansions, so I recommend you pick up the whole collection which costs about the same as the base game on its own. If you want more information about the game and its previous expansion, you can read/watch the GOL Cast on it.
Links to the expansion:
GOG: http://www.gog.com/game/the_last_federation_the_lost_technologies
Humble: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/lastfederation_losttechnologies_storefront
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Like the name implies, this expansion heavily focuses on technology. A total of 12 new technologies have been made available to all races and there are 64 racial techs that will make all the races even more unique. Technologies have also been made more important to you, as they have beneficial side effects that will potentially aid you during combat. There are also 7 new flagship abilities you can use to create your dream flagship combination.
In addition to pure tech, there are a couple of content additions. In space combat you might encounter Champions, hostile flagships with similar abilities to your own. This means they could possibly drain you shields, use powerful anti-capital ship weaponry and launch swarm after swarm of nasty interceptors or bombers. There is also a new planet type called Ring World, which has a particularly fragile ecosystem, making it a big target for eco-terrorism. Remember to visit the Acutian waste management CEO if you happen to have a quarrel with the inhabitants of a Ring World. There is also a new mission type that you might run into during your interplanetary adventures.
Possibly the biggest change in this expansion is the Tech Race game mode. Once again you can forget about the original goal of creating a peaceful federation and instead you are directly competing against all of the races in a race for scientific superiority. To win you must research all of the key technologies before any of the other races manage it. You must also make sure that a single race doesn't wipe out everyone else. This means that you will mainly focus on short-term alliances and you will probably want to stir up just enough wars to keep the other races busy. You will also have to make enough money to fund your own scientific efforts, so you can't simply ignore the races.
At the time of the writing there is a nice discount for The Last Federation and its expansions, so I recommend you pick up the whole collection which costs about the same as the base game on its own. If you want more information about the game and its previous expansion, you can read/watch the GOL Cast on it.
Links to the expansion:
GOG: http://www.gog.com/game/the_last_federation_the_lost_technologies
Humble: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/lastfederation_losttechnologies_storefront
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Oh man how many strategy games there are. I honestly don't understand how they all can find a place on that market.
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This one is quite unique, it has a gameplay rarely seen anywhere else, like mostly all Arcen's games.
Last edited by Tchey on 15 November 2015 at 6:37 pm UTC
Last edited by Tchey on 15 November 2015 at 6:37 pm UTC
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Yeah, Arcen games tend to be quite different. It's not a bad game either, from seeing Samsai play it recently.
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Oh, it may be both good and different. But still, it's strategy. And if we lump the strategy genres together, from tower defense to strategic rpg'ish stuff, from turnbased to realtime, from boards to puzzles, we get a bag so full of titles that every other genre becomes exotic in comparison.
I don't really complain, luckily there's still releases for the rest of us, I just gaze at it in wonder. Are we - PC gamers - really that obsessed with strategy games?
Well, I guess we are, since they keep rolling out. "The proof is in the pudding", as they say.
Last edited by Beamboom on 16 November 2015 at 9:09 am UTC
I don't really complain, luckily there's still releases for the rest of us, I just gaze at it in wonder. Are we - PC gamers - really that obsessed with strategy games?
Well, I guess we are, since they keep rolling out. "The proof is in the pudding", as they say.
Last edited by Beamboom on 16 November 2015 at 9:09 am UTC
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