Infinity: Battlescape - Attacks and defenses with capital ships

Have a look at how every ship in the fleet affects battles, how to strike at different objectives, as well as defend them, and most importantly - why defending at the objective is a bad idea.
First is attack on Neuwirth base - two cruisers slipped under shields, took orbital cannons and the central reactor down, n one managed to stop them.
Next is defense of Exether base - Destroyer destroyed some small ships, cruiser killed a carrier, other hostiles died to orbital cannons.
Next is attack on Xanthar station - After interceptors and bombers wiped station defenses, one cruiser, and then another one, quickly destroyed shield generators, and then reactor.
Last one is defense of Eupraxia station - Despite prolonged destruction of small ships attacking defenses and shields, more and more pour in, until station loses all its defenses, and defending forces get overwhelmed, losing the battle at the station.
Credit to PeppermintBatty, nickdude549, and RichardVI for participation in the battles.
The game is Infinity: Battlescape by I-Novae Studios, version 0.9.2.0, server is EU.

[@timothypryor7952]

Being in a capital ship compared to a fighter feels like being a god. You have so much destructive power.

[@bufkin2011]

Love your space battle videos, glad youtube recommended your channel to me. Please keep em coming 👍🙂💥💥

[@random_passerby4672]

Gladly! :D I'm not too productive yet, though. The editing is none-effort for now, will address it in a while too, but what is most required for current ones, is some idea to showcase.

[@bufkin2011]

Understood, I have been watching some of the previous ones. Excellent.👍😊

[@tyty8484]

So like, how customizable is this game? I saw one vid where it looked like you scrolled through a dozen or so load-outs. And what are the limits? Like are there different sized turret hardpoints? And are there peripheral modules like engine power, rate of fire, heatsink, etc etc? Also, the alert "Low Damage Output," what does that mean? Does it have to do with your turret placement and alignment on the target?

[@random_passerby4672]

Both the ships, and the game itself are pretty customizable. The game has ok graphics settings selection, but awesome controls setup, and the ships themselves have deeper customization to them too. There are indeed several turret hardpoint sizes, and also peripheral modules, all of them are listed in the list on the right in Ships tab. The turrets respect both the classes and socket sizes iirc, modules do the same. Their selection is more arbitrarily chosen for now, rather than with a defined pattern, but this is to be expected at this stage. There are indeed ones for engine power, heatsink, ammo, energy capacity, most of them with tradeoffs too. The alert "Low Damage Output" means that compared to the total health pool of the target, the hit is dealing to low of a damage. It has nothing to do with turret placement and alignment, it has more to do with that individual hits of smaller weapons on bigger ships deal insignificant damage, like 6 out of 40000 on an accidental Mk4 Railgun Turret hit on a Cruiser, or if Mk5 Blaster Gun deals its 16 kinetic damage instead of dealing energy damage to the shields. So like that.

[@Islow86.]

What system are you running with, if you dont mind me asking?

[@random_passerby4672]

Win 10 on Intel Core i3, 8GB DDR3 RAM (often half in use to begin with), NVidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, game is on separate SSD, and connection is through ethernet. I'll leave some parts out, main point is that the game is playable with these, maybe apart from FPS being around 40, and carrier sometimes lagging the rendering, requiring Win-TAB away and back.

[@Islow86.]

@@random_passerby4672 how many players do you encounter and what server? can you play alone?

[@random_passerby4672]

There was a spike of interest for a while, but it calmed down again. For now it is about one or two players on average, but sometimes it's up to nine, either on one server, or spread over three current servers. It is possible to play alone, as sometimes there are no players, or they can be on your team, and all these ships without a name beside them are AI-piloted, taking players' places. These are not too clever, but relentless, and pack a punch. They even differ in skill level slightly, with some AIs doing boosts and rolls. Even alone, it is an entertaining enough experience.

[@Islow86.]

@@random_passerby4672 good to know that, thank you. Might get it on sale, since $34 is not worth the cash blown to it.

[@geoffshelton2662]

Does the dramatic music drown out other sound in the actual game too, or has it been added in this video for effect? Why is there no commentary? Are you just assuming everyone knows how Infinity: Battlescape works? Looks interesting, but this video tells me virtually nothing about it. I can't even tell whether or not you did well in the battles you showcased...

[@random_passerby4672]

This is the unedited play session, uploaded nearly straight away. It's low effort, as things for bigger effort have not been set up yet. That is why there is no commentary, there is no assumption that everyone knows the game and how it works either. For now, it's indeed just to look interesting, as well as for some issues and moments seen while recording to be left for a review later on, or just for memories. That said, improving quality is one of my wishes too, just not certain to achieve it anytime soon yet. And I don't think that hearing the strange voice without a well set up character, all through a badly configured microphone would be much better, better spend time to set things up first :D To learn more about the game from someone who has this all in order, check the review by Fuzy, "The Best Space Combat Game of 2022 - Infinity Battlescape Review": kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnfEkHqEfNd8ras

[@matzenino]

Is the game still worth geting in 2022?

[@random_passerby4672]

Yes, since it is better than it was one or two years ago. Its flight is already solid, some new features and bug fixes are coming, as well as official 1.0 release in 2023 will be. There is Discord server to hang out in in the meantime. As in-game server population is low - many have bought the game and are waiting for final release altogether - you can get a role and organize playtime with those who already fly. The game is pure combat though, it has no mining/trading/questing/on-foot-gameplay/etc., it has PvP and PvE at once. If you enjoy it like that, then certainly go get it :D

[@hammerhead914]

Do the developers still work on infinity? I was so sad to see only 5 players, ended up refunding. The engine itself looks really solid.

[@random_passerby4672]

The work is still going on, of course it is! there is a new update coming, quite big for a small dev team. Low player count is partially the result of holding off on advertisement, partially on issues that are being worked on, which is making the game be worth its cost in general.

[@fabucla]

This happened to me too sadly. I bought it in the latest steam sale, but when i came online and only 9 players were active across the game(EU TZ), i decided to refund. Its' a multiplayer title without any single player campaign after all. Makes me a bit sad, since it seems to have potential. Maybe it released way too early and lost all its player base?

[@LavaDa1shi]

@@fabucla no they are just not advertising or hyping the game at all until they believe the game is ready.

[@jasonking1284]

From what I have seen from various videos, the game is kind of boring, jumping from planet to planet and blowing things up, but... the graphics are fantastic.....

[@SneakyLikeASnek]

It's only boring if you don't like combat :)

[@MrSmartman23]

From what I have seen from various videos, the game is kind of cool, jumping from planet to planet and blowing things up! No offense man, just people are different and like different games :)