Star Traders: Frontiers - EA Version released

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The Early Access version of Star Traders: Frontiers (formerly known as Star Traders 2) has been released:

Star Traders: Frontiers

Command your ship and crew as a space pirate, merchant, bounty hunter, and more in Star Traders: Frontiers – an epic space RPG from Trese Brothers Games. Venture forth into a massive open universe, rich with adventure and the lore of the Star Traders. Choose your path by assembling and commanding your custom crew and spaceship in a constantly evolving galaxy torn by internal strife, political intrigue, and alien threats. Will you fly as a pirate terrorizing shipping lanes, join the solar wars as a military captain, or track targets across the stars as a fearsome bounty hunter?

Key Features


  • Explore a rich, open universe: Discover endless procedurally-generated galactic maps, meet unique characters, and take on enemies to conquer the galaxy!
  • Become an intergalactic captain: Take on the role of a spy, smuggler, explorer, pirate, merchant, bounty hunter, and more (21 jobs total)!
  • Customize your own spaceship: Choose from more than 300 upgrades and build your very own vessel to venture across the vast reaches of space.
  • Assemble and tailor a loyal crew: Assign talents and equip specialized gear for every spaceship crew member.
  • Experience an ever-changing narrative: Decide to make friends or foes with other factions and influence political, economic, and personal vendettas.
Lore
First there was the Exodus – when survivors of a great war left the ruins of the Galactic Core behind in search of a new home in the stars. Scattered worlds were claimed on the fringe of the galaxy. Each pocket of survivors held on to an isolated set of worlds while trying to rebuild under the great law of Shalun. Three centuries later, technology has brought them back together again. Discovery of the hyperwarp has bridged what was once an unimaginable distance between far-flung colonies, long-lost families, and political factions.

With that reunification has come great economic prosperity. The hyperwarp reestablished the transportation of cargo, goods, and technologies between the quadrants – but it has also brought great strife. Political rivalries have been rekindled, blood has been shed in age-old feuds, and the fires of war have been stoked. Amidst the political infighting, a ruthless revolution is rising – and the fervent explorers of the hyperwarp have awoken something that was better left asleep.

Trese Bros
Our very first game, Star Traders RPG, took hundreds of thousands of gamers on an interstellar adventure. Star Traders’ success and overwhelmingly positive reception helped to launch Trese Brothers Games. It was the adventures of our community’s star-crossed captains that put us on a trajectory to share more of our worlds, ideas, and dreams.

We set out to capture the loneliness, bravery, and camaraderie of people living together in a spaceship sailing across the stars. It is with great pride that after releasing four other games in the Star Traders universe, we’ve created a sequel to the original Star Traders RPG.

Step onto the bridge of your starship, take to the stars, and create your own story in Star Traders: Frontiers.
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I almost bought this the other day but I have bought so many games during the last month that I hesitated. Now, I guess I´m just waiting for some good/bad "word of mouth" to make my decision one way or another....
 
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I bought it when I saw the news, but will let it simmer for a bit longer.
I just hope they dropped the skill system of the other games. At least from the screens it looks different/good.
 
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I backed this but will be waiting for the Android version... My PC time is way too precious to be spent on games that I can play on the phone.
 
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I respect these 2 guys for making games but the two games of their's I've tried in the past felt disjointed in a way that didn't pull me in. It's like they ticked all the boxes of things that should be in the game but they never melded into a particularly good game.
 
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Picked it up on a lark after seeing it in this thread and played a couple hours this morning. Its better than I was expecting. Seems to be fairly complete in mechanics and has some story that is handed out via missions and are interesting enough so far. I'm not usually big on games that rely heavily on spreadsheet trading and obviously that is central.

Easy to rack up costs on refueling, wages, medical and repairs and trading early gives very little payback to justify making trade runs and seem to be very tedious. Will need to toy with it some but missions make far more money. There does seem to be variety in making money but have yet to explorer fully and I love the RPG mechanic of having your own captain avatar with stats.

Looks like its worth $12 based on what I see right now.
 
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bought it and playing it (15hrs right now) it might run on a phone, it might be graphically minimal but the game itself is not bad at all.
 
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Trese Brothers are famous for their super boring games, play like MS Excel, but are excellent to correct the Circadian rhythm/cycle: you'll sleep in no time if you play one of their "games". :]
 
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Trese Brothers are famous for their super boring games, play like MS Excel, but are excellent to correct the Circadian rhythm/cycle: you'll sleep in no time if you play one of their "games". :]

Go back to playing Twitcher 3, your opinion does not count here
 
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Have put 15 hours in the past few days. Game is a winner, and a par excellence effort from Cory & Andrew Trese. UI takes some getting used to, but the game systems are solid. RPG experience is excellent.
 
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Maybe it's fun, but visuals remind me on phone trash too much.
Skippin' it. Sorry.
 
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