Airships: Conquer the Skies

DO YOU LIKE AIRSHIPS, LANDSHIPS, OR FORTS!? get this game and MAKE MORE. (beware purchase of this game may cause minor to major addiction to suspendium products)

Airships has an appealing premise - building custom airships and conquering a steampunk world. The concept is solid, but the execution has some serious issues. The interface is genuinely painful to use, especially the ship designer. Testing your designs means saving, exiting to another menu, then loading back in - it completely kills any creative momentum. The tutorials don't help much either, throwing tooltips at you without explaining the basic systems you actually need to understand. Combat is where things really fall apart. Despite being a 2D game, it uses some kind of 3D hit detection that makes damage feel completely unpredictable. Components get damaged in ways that don't match what you're seeing visually, and positioning often feels pointless. The AI alliance system punishes you for trying to expand - attack one nation and half the map declares war on you for no apparent reason. The difficulty scaling feels broken too. Even starting with Tier 0 technology, enemies still show up with better Tier 1 equipment. Land units are practically useless. Tracked vehicles get stuck constantly, and the side-view perspective means your landships can't even pass each other. This makes airships the only viable option. The sound design is terrible - your massive war machines sound like tractors. Command delays are supposed to prevent micro-management but just make everything feel sluggish. Even starting a campaign can screw you over based on pure RNG if you spawn next to a powerful empire. Zarkonnen, I can tell this is your passion project and there's something genuinely special at the core here. I hope you can iron out these rough edges in future updates because the foundation you've built has real potential to shine.

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Airships: Conquer the Skies is a fantastic game, it might not look like much from the previews on the store page, but this is an absolute gem of a game. What do you do in Airships? First off there are 3 main game modes, Conquest, Combat, and Mission: -Conquest is the campaign mode of the game (singleplayer and multiplayer), where you manage cities settlements by buying upgrades, constructing buildings, and defending them with you air/land fleets. The management elements are not to in-depth, there's not like 500 upgrades to individual units and intense micromanaging, it's mostly there to provide progression for your fleet, starting with wooden ships, with muskets held up by balloons, to dragonhided laser ships being held up by chunks of the moon. -Combat is the quick play mode where you can pit your vehicles against other players or AI. I mostly use it to test if my ships blow up if someone sneezes on them. -Mission mode has some pre-made scenarios for you to fight, they mostly act as the tutorial for the game but you can make your own and download others from the workshop. I highly recommend this game even if strategy games aren't your thing (they aren't mine). Check it out!

The game experience: spend 10 minutes choosing your faction buff and banner design through the brilliant coat of arms system, spend another 10 minutes carefully setting up your budding empire while carefully selecting what technologies to research, finally gain enough capital and advanced weapons to spend upwards of an hour designing, building and decorating your perfect fighting vessel, declare war on the neighboring tiny kingdom, only to watch your beautiful vessels get absolutely eviscerated by the enemy faction. 10/10, flawless, no notes.

Great game. I wish more people were playing multiplayer, particularly in cooperative mode. But it is pretty fun in singleplayer. Campaign is seriously addictive. There is a lot of depth here to discover as you progress through the ages, many different events that actually lead to battles, and when you do get to those real-time battles, your tactics can make a huge difference. I found the building UI to be a bit tough. I couldn't find more than like one or two hot keys, so it took a long time to build even simple stuff without decorations. But it does feel good to design something new that you felt your fleet was lacking, and watch it perform even better than you expected once you take it to battle. I also could not figure out where to launch expeditions during the age of exploration or send out trading caravans during the age of commerce. I checked the manual and googled around but did not find anything yet. This game doesn't hold your hand at all, the initial tutorials do help but a lot of the satisfaction here will come out of figuring it out all on your own. Full recommendation from me. This is another indie gem which is criminally cheap and occupies a unique space. I hope it gets a sequel because I really want to experience this in multiplayer.

I cannot recommend this game enough. Absolutely love the world building and its and bits of lore here and there. It's fun to play with friends. It's fun to play alone. Designing ships and buildings for use as well as looks elevates the experience imo. The things you can do here man, incredible. The DLC adds A LOT. It's totally worth it. Still not sure I've seen or played with every hero there is. It might not look it but I PROMISE the game is beautiful visually. Excited to see what else is in store for use regarding possible future updates!

[h1] 这三个游戏沾上一个之后能忍住不碰另外两个的家里要请高人了 [/h1] 把highfleet和airships：conquer the skies和cosmoteer互相对比一下：（大家知道有其他同类型游戏的请推荐一下） highfleet： +：世界观最全面，机制相对简单（不需要靠船员满船搬东西，至少目前版本是这样），物理效果最硬核，视觉效果最好 -：目前完成度最低，平衡性一坨，战斗时玩家只能出一艘船（三个里唯一一个没法大舰队互轰的），bug比其他两多出一大截（谜之代码甚至加大了写模组的难度，导致没有靠谱的再平衡模组） airships：conquer the skies： +：战斗方式多（三个都有火炮对轰，highfleet和他都有舰载机，未来版本的cosmoteer和他都有跳帮战），科技树完善，世界观第二完善，有周边游戏：失落舰队 -：物理效果最差，人物立绘丑的和GPS4一样，野怪比敌国主力舰队还难打，介绍里吹的最牛的浮晶系武器屁用没有，特殊的伤害计算机制导致你不能只绕着飞船做一圈装甲，唯一一个明摆着不让你造大船的 cosmoteer： +：战役模式里不用苦心经营一整个势力（既是优点也是缺点），三个游戏里唯一一个俯视角，能挖陨石开工厂当模拟经营玩 -：武器相对匮乏，数值逆天（谁家双联380射程只有240米啊），没有碰撞伤害（不能冲上去板载），完成度也不高，玩家一次只能在一个星系里有部署，世界观逆天（都是40K时代，科技还不如隔壁人类帝国，还得靠船员手动搬电池，未来感十足的船甚至不能自动灭火）

内容量一般，征服玩法没深度，有许多地方处理得比较粗糙。明明都出了快10年了，还跟EA一样。