Should I buy SE5? - Page 2

Baron Munchausen · #1 February 11th, 2007, 04:02 PM

With some long-standing annoyances finally being fixed in recent betas, I'd say it will finally be playable with the next official patch. Especially with the 'Balance Mod'. So it was released about six months early.

If you are considering buying it, I'd say any time now.

Dizzy · #2 February 11th, 2007, 06:23 PM

I'd buy it now. No game stoppers with the 1.25 patch and corresponding Balance Mod by Kwok. There are a few unpatched problems, all minor, you can look around for the list, but all in all, it's worth to play it now to learn it and have fun.

By the time you get to know what you are doing, I'll bet the AI scripts will be beefed up and give more of a challenge. As it is, AI isn't all that tough to kill off...

Renegade 13 · #3 February 12th, 2007, 11:30 PM

Alright, thanks a lot for all the answers guys.

One more question: How's the AI? Any good mods for it yet, if it sucks as much as the SEIV AI did?

President_Elect_Shang · #4 February 13th, 2007, 12:17 AM

The Good: The SE5 AI is more moddable and theoretically should be able to give a much greater challenge. In fact it should be able to give a custom feel per species with custom this and that and so forth.

The Bad: Stock AI sucks; worse than SE4 Stock AI in fact!

The Ugly: Other than it being a pink colored font? Which is pretty darn ugly! Only Kwok, myself, and one other person whom I am not too familiar with is working on the AI at this time and given the shock factor [of looking at the files for the first time] it will be only us three for a while.

Suicide Junkie · #5 February 13th, 2007, 12:35 AM

Don't forget this key fact:
PBW supports SE5 games, so you can conveniently play against competent opponents.

Fyron · #6 February 14th, 2007, 05:46 AM

President_Elect_Shang said:
"Only Kwok, myself, and one other person whom I am not too familiar with is working on the AI at this time and given the shock factor [of looking at the files for the first time] it will be only us three for a while."

There are quite a few over on spaceempires5.com... even a IRM mod beta that is available for play, with improved AI.

President_Elect_Shang · #7 February 14th, 2007, 11:06 AM

Ahhh... spaceempire5.com? I see that is the site I don't go to. Maybe I should check it [again] after all.