Seamless And Sprawling Sci Fi Exploration Strategy - Beyond Astra

[@beyondastraofficial]

Wow, thank you so much for showcasing the alpha preview of Beyond Astra! Seeing the game on your channel is an incredible honor, and your feedback and enthusiasm mean so much to me. Your thoughtful approach and knack for highlighting the core gameplay elements really make the game shine, and you played really well! I’m the solo developer behind Beyond Astra, and I completely agree with your remark about ground units. I’m already working on a redesign of the ground combat system, shifting to full RTS with larger individual units, each with specific roles. This will improve clarity during battles and add more depth to the gameplay. Apologies for the jiggling in the ship designer. It’s an issue with the engine that I plan to fix in the upcoming betas. I also have plenty of other improvements planned for the UI and UX, and I’m excited to share all of that in the future, along with the features not included in this alpha preview. Thanks again for giving Beyond Astra such an amazing spotlight!

[@Azureblaze77]

Your game looks promising! Now on n my Steam Wishlist ++

[@herp_derpingson]

Spiritual successor to the Spore's Space age. It has promise.

[@gambar]

Keep at it, guys, and *listen to the community*, please :)

[@kareningram6093]

It's impressive that this is being made by a solo developer. Well done!

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

It looks like someone had a look at the Spore space stage and asked "what if this were not-terrible?"

[@TheKrilliys]

and failed to achieve that dream unfortunately

[@igorthelight]

"Fragile Existence" is also an interesting experiment ;-)

[@John_Conner222]

😆💯

[@tictacterminator]

@@igorthelight That's Hooded Horse so that one will probably be actually good

[@EvidenceFragmentary]

@@tictacterminator Hooded Horse on fire

[@Germania9]

This game and Fragile Existence is really bringing back Sporelike space RTS better.

[@tictacterminator]

Fragile existence is hooded horse I think i'll wait for that one

[@r3dp9]

@@tictacterminator Ditto, more hope for Fragile Existence. It's focused more on core concepts and gameplay, Ad Astra has too much bling that smells faintly of DEI. Only time will tell.

[@ashuggtube]

Yeah, those weapons on the ship hardpoints were definitely jiggling

[@alltat]

Unsurprising. If they can't be bothered to put some actual cannons there, they can't be relied on to tighten all of the hardpoint mounting bolts either.

[@DarrylCross]

the DOA devs would be proud

[@charles_teak]

I like em to jiggle jiggle

[@maddlarkin]

This kinda reminds of the origina, Imperium Galactica where you managed your colonises as a sort of Sim City type game, then fought ground battles round those colonise in a basic Red Alert type setting, then had a seperates space and fleet managment section... I wish more games had the ambition to do somehting like that

[@brianawilk285]

I agree and maybe a way to recruit people from the simmed colonies. Aint too many games with both space and planet battle games thats why I cant wait until fragile existence comes out.

[@TheMrDewil]

A lot of developers are pretty toothless these days. And what's more, not only do they mostly concentrate their efforts on something singular, but they also can't even do that much right. Another negative realization that I had lately, after I was searching for something to play, is that most indies are just garbage made by people looking for a quick buck. They're so basic and generic, they can bore you within two hours or less.

[@udirt]

Nice to hear you have so much fun on this one!

[@PeterParkerspideypicscom]

the finaly made the spor colony building fun XD

[@rhawkas2637]

"All machine guns"? Okay, what have you done with Splat? The Splat I know would much rather have all missiles all day. =P

[@ashuggtube]

Missile reload speed is so slow

[@Tyfyss]

It’s all about the dakka

[@TJ-vo3rv]

Splat goes for dakka, unless there's a drone swarm option, but also unless there's a macross-style missile swarm option. In my experience. Since these missiles are the slow firing variety, I guess he opted for dakka.

[@FrancoAmerican]

My Splat would have all the shotguns in the game

[@mudcrab3420]

21:55 - "... but next time guard your rear end better" A Life Lesson that works on SOOOOOO many levels!

[@osric1730]

As is not rubbing your wang on it. 11:35

[@TreguardD]

Crusader Kings is a very specific game. Nothing is like it, and that's a very good thing. Stellaris is MUCH more approachable - and fun.

[@hbk4570]

if only every new thing weren't expensive than the actual game

[@niakitten2937]

Looks like a cross between spore space stage and Planetary annihilation. And I'm here for it.

[@halbouma6720]

Thanks for this and all the videos Splattercat!

[@fyodorvoloshin568]

Feeling some strong Empyrium Galactica vibes here. Wishlisted it, waiting quite a bit.

[@chloewebb5526]

Commence the jigglin yall! omg im fucking dying i havent watched that in a few years and you just reminded me that it's the best thing to have on in the background while playing video games

[@msolomonii9825]

Holy cacophony of death huh?, come-on!, Splatty should have started singing at that point! The Lu portrait amused me, she has her hand up like "talk to the hand"!

[@BrotherBoot97]

i love these style of games

[@tobiastheblueman]

Hell yeah, Splat! Always ole reliable!

[@danilooliveira6580]

I think the infantry guys don't look like infantry guys because they are in transport vehicles, so they don't have to march all across the planet.

[@l0rf]

Back in my day, the imperial guard didn't have these fancy shmancy mechanised. They had to walk everywhere, even off-planet, and they liked it!

[@raymondrowbottom413]

MoO2 had a cosmetically upgraded gene spliced offspring......

[@thedrunkmonk8386]

Been binging Imperium Galactica 2 again, this looks like it may be a good one in that vein. We'll see if theres enough depth to it

[@rdfairfax]

This game looks great!

[@centraltexasbear9973]

I love the ATHF reference. two videos in a row i think. commence to jiggleing

[@Tentacl]

This game's name soud so cool to me I just WANT to like it.

[@CosmicSage12]

It seems like a very cool game ! It kinda feels like spore to me, just like 100 times better lol

[@kbahrt]

Dakka, flak, and usually zappers are for fighters and other forms of point defense. Missiles and big boi boom sticks are for enemy ships and any rocky spheroid targets that need bombardment/war crimes.

[@Meenie66]

Lasers appear to be well balanced!! haha this looks pretty fun.

[@daniell1483]

Can't wait to see where this goes in the future. I'm keeping a close eye on this one.

[@pancakewizard1533]

Surprised no one has mentioned Star Control (SC:Origins) , this is very similar!

[@sim.frischh9781]

Mankind with alien artefacts are the modern story equivalent to ancient greece´s Zeus and women, i´m telling you. Captain Kirk did it with the alien ladies, and we haven´t really gone away from that damn trope ever since XD

[@gambar]

Can't wait till someone mods in the sounds from BSG :) Imagine hearing the good old "brrrrrt" of Viper guns...

[@theendofconfusion]

Looks like if Spore's galactic stage was done right.

[@dependent-ability8631]

almost

[@Uukrul1]

you had me at "cacophony of death"

[@HiroProtaganist]

This is a cool game, has some promise for sure. Let's see how it checks out in 2025.

[@giarrigi]

" 3:58 I don't know why I got these goggles"

[@TheLivirus]

This looks pretty cool!

[@aoihitori]

I love Starsector and until now I still waiting for it to be released from it's Early Access state. So this game might be alternative for awhile. Seriously I can't find any game that plays like Star Sector.

[@Other-AllOfTheAbove]

Have you tried x4? Its 3d but surprisingly similar. Limited on the weapons side, but fully simulated.

[@l0rf]

​@Other-AllOfTheAbove and with either the Interworlds, Reemergence or VRO mods, there's a lot of replayability to be had.

[@Other-AllOfTheAbove]

@@l0rf still not the same. Vast amount of content for starsector... on vanilla. But I can definitely see myself modding the game. Im particularly interested in accelerating the core game loop. I understand its a sim, but some things are deadrat SLOW.

[@l0rf]

@@Other-AllOfTheAbove But you were the one who suggested X4, why are you making it sound like a bad game now?

[@Other-AllOfTheAbove]

@@l0rf I never said it was a bad game. Its a caveat emptor so as to not create false expectations.

[@Ugnutz]

The ship design screen is straight from Endless space games.

[@armra]

why Lu Cheng holding her hands up like: stop hammer time.

[@Joshua-pr9vg]

why Lu Cheng in the game? lol cant these people make games without some lunar lady narrating gameplay

[@MorteWulfe]

@@Joshua-pr9vg Yeah, notice who the "bad" guy is as well? Turns me off of the game almost immediately nowadays given it has become such a woke trope...

[@Joshua-pr9vg]

@@MorteWulfe Did you download demo? This game is an incoherant disaster. Unplayable. Not sure how this guy made a video.

[@BruceKraftJr]

This looks like it's a new age version of Ascendancy, the old pc game from 20+ years ago

[@plumbthumbs9584]

excellent!

[@charles_teak]

Absolutely deserves a spot in my wishlist. I can see myself getting stoked with that *huge* tech tree, spending hours on it...

[@kylemackinnon5696]

For the SplAlgorythim

[@kylemackinnon5696]

Looks like it will feel like a cross btwn dysonsphere and something like gal civ or sins

[@ATZag135]

ThankYou SirSpa77!

[@Grungydan]

Yeah, but do you have night vision goggles? For night jigglin'?

[@0num4]

Whenever I think of a chunky space machine gun, I think of the PDCs from the Expanse show. The adequate amount of dakka (lots! More!!) and great efficacy, offensively and defensively.

[@jamoecw]

In Expanse they used small ships most of the time, but the few times they talked about the PDC in relation to proper military vessels the big ones had armor and so you needed rail guns or nukes to deal with them. Everything else the PDC were great.

[@bookmanjeb7238]

Its jigglin' time boys!

[@riplee406]

Interesting game. Many of the assets look like they come from Endless Space.

[@michabanasiak2073]

a bit of Space Wolfs vibes !!!

[@badejong]

Looks great! I put it on my wishlist. Thanks for showing.. 👍👍

[@denielalain5701]

Hello! What does Bayomess mean?

[@Cuthawolf]

huh, this looks neat.

[@Leveluplifestyleyt]

This looks cool. I've added it to my wishlist

[@Phobosptt]

This one looks like an absolute diamond of a game

[@dathore]

Someone's been playing a lot of Space Marnie 2 I see, good, we need more zeal for the Emperor! Also we need another Battlefleet game, I want to fire macro cannons at planetary forces.

[@Haematite]

😮 the logi might have been acting as a medical unit. Noticed mild damage was reduced between interactions with the stack

[@jameswatson9338]

Well tarnation! I'm jiggle Billy! Hey ya'll everybody likes to jiggle! Right?

[@fatalfury66]

Ok this looks pretty cool!

[@paulelder9488]

Just for the Jiggling comment name your ship after, Carl.

[@brianlynchehaun7079]

If you want it bad enough, every game is Warhammer. :P

[@thedango6890]

Its not waste, it is byproduct

[@SeekDante]

My guy Crusader Kings II is not a 4x game. :D It's grand strategy family fun times. And Stellaris is nothing like it. You should give both a shot. Crusader Kings II is less about winning and more about the story of your character.

[@tobiastheblueman]

Lol nice Aqua Teen reference

[@arkturhellsing1484]

I like this type of game. When it comes out I will buy it I think.

[@chrisstokoe3169]

Is it 4 x though any way I think this looks great

[@Wolfsheim23]

So what is space for? All the gameplay seems to be on planet.

[@Wafflemarine22]

I wasn't seeing how they land, Unless the landers came in from the other side than their attack ships. I do like the smaller more simple management scale they went with.

[@jamoecw]

It looked like when the enemy fired missiles your science ship shot at the missile with its gun. If true then the guns are point defense and not offensive weaponry.

[@joshn.1672]

As someone who plays 4x games, including HoI4 and Stellaris, and has 40 hours in CK2, I too have no idea wtf I am doing in that game.

[@techkev140]

Seems like an interesting game. Thankfully those weaponised reasearch monkeys didn't show up.

[@ericpeterson5989]

Hey Splat - are you ever going to review Chromosome Evil 2?

[@mbielcik]

🖤

[@PasOdMater]

Spore, is that you?

[@frozztie7511]

i wonder when splat is coming back to twitch ;_;

[@stgyors8540]

Reminds me of Spore's space phase

[@adameaan783]

I can't even tell what happened but I think we won.

[@АъЪнт]

Fro teh Epmerro !!!1!

[@sylvan429]

woo love me some sci fi. just like cyber knights (trese brothers) 😂

[@Nolnocnaes]

Star Ruler 2 vibes.

[@brianawilk285]

I tried this game but couldn't figure it out

[@ghostiulian1]

Might be a bit spoiled on starsector, but the combat feels a bit sub-par, though all the other stuff being detailed is nice.

[@xani666]

Stellaris is FAR easier than CK2. Hell, even CK3 is far better. I bounced off CK2 hard but pretty much hit the ground running with CK3, the builtin tutorials and tooltips are great

[@spatialdistortion223]

17:16 buck*

[@eightchickens]

But in space (void) there is no sound... so no ratatatatata kapow kapow boom boom. It'd be just .....

[@alexkatc59]

Actually your ship has air, so there would be rata-ta-ta-ta and whoosh.

[@AngryKittens]

Everyone knows spaceship gunnery personnel make the sounds themselves as they fire.

[@muzzyman1981]

You shouldn't ask an 18 year old to do anything if you don't want wang involved in some way shape or form.

[@ArksideGames]

Very cool gameplay tbh

[@willferrous8677]

ck isn't 4x

[@pappadopolis84]

I want this SO BAD!!!

[@johnnybgood5008]

I was hoping for an escape velocity successor but this is not quite it.

[@tortfeasor07]

This looks dope

[@andrewbarnard3229]

Def screams spore

[@Cyb3rn3tiX]

Splat its just you seeing those jiggle lol...i wonder whats on your mind =p

[@igorthelight]

;-)

[@alsjdfalkaoeru]

Why do you sound like Josh the RV Nerd?

[@adameaan783]

If the game moddable than I will like it...

[@mrquastenegger6366]

Haha, the ocean of this planet makes it look like a tennis ball 😅

[@BlackGold-fc7tu]

Is this a planet for ants

[@kekipark77]

pretty cool

[@ohnoitisnt666]

Definitely jiggly.

[@brentwyrick3300]

Human spore.

[@shadeling6717]

Stellaris is an awesome game, but the amount of DLC is just omg no just no. Some of the dlc is already rather bad making the game not fun. It is very much a game where you can drop 100s of hours into.

[@HavyrlValdoria]

stellaris is way more easy than the other paradox titles