Thanks for the review, i have only just discovered this for PS4, but gutted Ubisoft pulled the plug. Doesn't save my progress, and options seem little limited. Had great fun playing this.
EXCELLENT review-this should be used as a model for how to review a game. Clear, concise, comprehensive, and focused. I GREATLY appreciate your talent and professionalism.
And we greatly appreciate feedback and interaction like this 🚀 I think we have improved our audio a lot since this review! Some great reviews coming this month 🙂
I'm buying this rn, thanks for the review. It really helped sell it for me, I might even shoot you a friend request so we could play it together some time!
I've notplayed Star Trek but I do like Pulsar. The graphics are mostly garbage (though there's some pretty space-vistas) and the missions are fairly simplistic but the space battles are chaotic and fun. I play with my daughter and then we fill the other two roles with bots (engineer and weapons). I take science and she takes captain - then I manage the science console, scanning ships, dealing with viruses (and deploying them), boosting the shields, killing intruders that beam aboard, running off to the second gunner position and putting out fires (literally!) while she pilots. It's probably even better with more human players but we don't bother. If you get the enemy shields down enough, and they are a crewed ship (you also get drones) - you can beam aboard and do hand to hand combat. Often times that's great fun because their ship becomes a sitting duck if you're good. You can upgrade your character with weapons and biscuits (yes, powerful biscuits from the Fluffy Biscuit Company my friends), and if you find biology to research on an away mission you can use that to upgrade your character's skills. Although the away missions are simplistic, they are varied. There are standard fetch quests, kill the enemy quests, Sylvassi Cypher puzzles, find the object on the spooky crashed ship quests, an arena mission, one where you have to teleport to an infected ship and kill everything, etc. The science officer has a scanner (like a minimap which shows enemies and pickups) so can guide the other players. There are some weird and wonderful weapons, and they are upgradeable. The ships are also varied and very upgradeable. It's tough to switch to a different ship once you've started though because that usually involves abandoning what you've upgraded so far. I think there are ways to transfer some of your upgrades, depending on the ship but we've never succeeded at that. The music is pretty great in my opinion, it really gives a Star Trek vibe. There's the typical orchestral bits and the super happy joyful Fluffy Biscuit music, if you play as them. Though it doesn't reference Star Trek, you really get that feeling and it's obvious that's what they were going for. There's no voice acting and all the interaction with NPC's is via lots of text. The writing isn't amazing but I think we're too impatient to sit and read much of it anyway. We just scoop up those missions and get cracking. The controls are fine but don't count on being able to play with a joystick. For whatever reason I couldn't get the mapping to work properly. Perhaps that's a Linux issue though. Apparently you can play in VR but we've not tried that yet. All in all, though it has its foibles and it's by a small indy developer (don't expect AAA anything) - I'd recommend it, especially if you can get it on sale.
Star trek bridge crew is really good idea of this game to feel star trek experience in real life, just need more attention to add more content.
Thanks for the review, i have only just discovered this for PS4, but gutted Ubisoft pulled the plug. Doesn't save my progress, and options seem little limited. Had great fun playing this.
EXCELLENT review-this should be used as a model for how to review a game. Clear, concise, comprehensive, and focused. I GREATLY appreciate your talent and professionalism.
And we greatly appreciate feedback and interaction like this 🚀 I think we have improved our audio a lot since this review! Some great reviews coming this month 🙂
This game need more content,campaigns,missions,skirmish,ships and crews,etc.
It would be awesome but I doubt that will ever happen now. But still a blast for what it is!
I'm buying this rn, thanks for the review. It really helped sell it for me, I might even shoot you a friend request so we could play it together some time!
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah its defo worth it for the price you can pick it up for these days. Yeah always be up for that :)
@CounterLink I'll play with ya! Look me up. UncleSquit42
What do you think of Pulsar Lost Colony?
I have not played it but have it on my Steam Wishlist....looks great! Any feedback?
@@LTGamingRUclips Sadly no, not from me. My gaming group has no interest in playing it.
@@soulofastro Im keen to try it!
So would i
I've notplayed Star Trek but I do like Pulsar. The graphics are mostly garbage (though there's some pretty space-vistas) and the missions are fairly simplistic but the space battles are chaotic and fun. I play with my daughter and then we fill the other two roles with bots (engineer and weapons). I take science and she takes captain - then I manage the science console, scanning ships, dealing with viruses (and deploying them), boosting the shields, killing intruders that beam aboard, running off to the second gunner position and putting out fires (literally!) while she pilots. It's probably even better with more human players but we don't bother.
If you get the enemy shields down enough, and they are a crewed ship (you also get drones) - you can beam aboard and do hand to hand combat. Often times that's great fun because their ship becomes a sitting duck if you're good. You can upgrade your character with weapons and biscuits (yes, powerful biscuits from the Fluffy Biscuit Company my friends), and if you find biology to research on an away mission you can use that to upgrade your character's skills.
Although the away missions are simplistic, they are varied. There are standard fetch quests, kill the enemy quests, Sylvassi Cypher puzzles, find the object on the spooky crashed ship quests, an arena mission, one where you have to teleport to an infected ship and kill everything, etc. The science officer has a scanner (like a minimap which shows enemies and pickups) so can guide the other players. There are some weird and wonderful weapons, and they are upgradeable. The ships are also varied and very upgradeable. It's tough to switch to a different ship once you've started though because that usually involves abandoning what you've upgraded so far. I think there are ways to transfer some of your upgrades, depending on the ship but we've never succeeded at that.
The music is pretty great in my opinion, it really gives a Star Trek vibe. There's the typical orchestral bits and the super happy joyful Fluffy Biscuit music, if you play as them. Though it doesn't reference Star Trek, you really get that feeling and it's obvious that's what they were going for.
There's no voice acting and all the interaction with NPC's is via lots of text. The writing isn't amazing but I think we're too impatient to sit and read much of it anyway. We just scoop up those missions and get cracking.
The controls are fine but don't count on being able to play with a joystick. For whatever reason I couldn't get the mapping to work properly. Perhaps that's a Linux issue though. Apparently you can play in VR but we've not tried that yet.
All in all, though it has its foibles and it's by a small indy developer (don't expect AAA anything) - I'd recommend it, especially if you can get it on sale.
do you think finding a lobby nowadays will be difficult im thinking about buying ?
Honestly yes it can be a struggle!
I played alone so..It work on sg player!
Sure does just way more work! Was easier when they had implemented voice commands but now removed.
if you havent yet, check out the new show Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Its a return to what ST should be.
I have heard this. Might have to check it out! 🤔
Or the Orville
I struggled to find lobbys and I want to play it more
We are going to set up some games soon. The playerbase can be a bit random!
I have not played in ages!!! Count me in! I'll be a bit rusty!!! I think my Name is UncleSquit.
@@DrMarten sounds good. I actually am planning a new video for this, so if you want to be part of it..let me know!