Hey, it's 2022, man, like, be urself, or someone else, who cares, just be.
There may be slight nods to you being human, but if you skip the tutorial, you can just roll out in any direction you want and go pretend you're not. Then go join that faction and use their ships. ambiguous feel of the game, it allows you to use your imagination a bit more than in other games. But the open endedness, that lack of a player portrait, the kind of. Something the game is gonna lack compared to Starsector aswell, I guess. They don't seem to tie into anything particular. Don't expect some next level story here, although there are some little stories within quests dotted about that are pretty interesting. There's a lot of procedural and random generation going on. Bystanders are the Syndicate traders, and the miners, the latter is at war with the Pirates, so you always have a fight you can get stuck into, and your allies will offer you many rewards, even behaviour based - such as miner fleets going out of their way to heal you or help you if you're attacked. An ongoing faction war never seems to cease between the rebels of earth, the Children of Terra, and the aliens who attacked, The Venghi. You can set ships as dedicated repair ships this way, too, with repair beams, going around as the healers of your fleet.īut of course there is more than just rocks to destroy. You set their behaviour to mining and they will see every chunk of rock on the screen as a sworn enemy. The game's weapon crafting system lets you make extremely strong mining lasers and attach them to ships in your fleet. You can even set up a fleet of actual ships to warp in to mine asteroids for you. The loot is displayed in a soft font that is pleasing to the eyes, with all the colours of rarity / quality you'd expect from an RPG.
And then, as you fly through, your collector beams reach out and snatch the loot, bringing it back to you. They spread through the field, you can just take a sip of your tea / coffee and watch it all happen. It's immensely satisfying to sit in the center of an asteroid field and tell your fleet of mining droids to go in different directions with different hotkeys. But, as you level up, you start finding things like mining drones and collector beams, which essentially automate the whole process. Annihilating a single asteroid feels pretty laborious when you start, as you'll be fighting against your first ship's poor handling to collect all of the ores and such, and simple lasers take a while to bring asteroids down. While Starsector feels like a Mount and Blade in space kind of experience, Star Valor feels like a Diablo in space, and I am surprised at how challenging it is, and feature rich, even offering a Streamer Friendly mode with less grinding and no copyrighted music. While Star Valor certainly is not as deep, and mechanically feels a bit clunky compared to Starsector, I don't feel that it's fair to compare them directly, as after playing Star Valor, I can see it goes in quite a different direction. I was sceptical about this game because I have been playing Starfarer/Starsector for years already, and that game offers so much in terms of detailed customisation, that I didn't think it was worth even trying another game like it.
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