A review for Hellion
Hellion is a first person multiplayer only Space Survival game, and it's a unique one. First, Hellion is an Early access game just released in steam on the 24th of february ( 25th in asia ).
I took a good 10 hour test drive on the game and what hellion offer compare to other space game is the "Space Sim Physics" aka Newtonian physics with full orbital mechanics for all celestial bodies, ships and stations , In which is hard to master. This game reminds me how brutal outer space is and the learning curve is akin to the early days of EVE online but only focus on the EVA "space movement" part of the game.
Hellion offers a few things to do at the moment on patch 0.1.3, from a solo play perspective, you can start in 2 different location. First is of course the intended starting story of hellion, woke up in a cryo tube stranded in space or waking up in an abandon station.
let's start off with the Fresh start, where you woke up in a small lifeboat/station/module , get everything power on and sorted out. exit the lifeboat to find a spaceship and another module. The first instinct to do for me is get to the space ship, but oh my flying is tough. On my first try i got nowhere and ran out of oxygen, basically i was making head or tails on the EVA controls, which ended up by tapping the direction of the keys rather than holding down.
Then later on i was trying to dock my ship into my lifeboat and found out that i was docking wrongly, in which this case i hope that the developer put some indication on if i can dock, just an indication or a more apparent visual cue, the current existing one is just a orange hexagon and since there are multiple docking points i was hoping that there were a image pasted on the walls or maybe a data pad telling what module can dock into what modules. other then that the docking procedure remids me and i can reenact the docking sequence like in interstellar which is superb.
Next once you get everything up and running, dock all the necessary stuff. The next bit will be exploring the system. You can only use your spaceship to travel around system either by flying or FTL. Currently there are 3 different things you can do:
1 - find an asteroid and start mining to refine into oxygen, fuel for spaceship and jet pack ( currently there is a bug where if you collide with the asteroid in a certain direction you get launch into deep space, aka death )
2 - finding junk ( derelict ) that might contain space suit, parts , components and or weapons.
3 - Outpost ( which if you select spawn in random outpost, this is the one ) which contains or sort of showcase on how and what your future base could look like, modules are unsalvageable but you can scavenge all the suits weapon parts and components.
That is what i have encounter so far in hellion. Note that there are more things the developer could and want to add, but i will reserve that until then when they announce what extra stuff you could do and find. Hellion is still an Early Access game, there are bugs that needs to iron out first like the asteroid bug thingy ( died a few times trying to mine ).
Hellion is an easy pick up for me, if you like a harder or sim like space game, you should check it out. Until then have fun playing with gravity and keep on hoarding space stuff.
I took a good 10 hour test drive on the game and what hellion offer compare to other space game is the "Space Sim Physics" aka Newtonian physics with full orbital mechanics for all celestial bodies, ships and stations , In which is hard to master. This game reminds me how brutal outer space is and the learning curve is akin to the early days of EVE online but only focus on the EVA "space movement" part of the game.
Hellion offers a few things to do at the moment on patch 0.1.3, from a solo play perspective, you can start in 2 different location. First is of course the intended starting story of hellion, woke up in a cryo tube stranded in space or waking up in an abandon station.
let's start off with the Fresh start, where you woke up in a small lifeboat/station/module , get everything power on and sorted out. exit the lifeboat to find a spaceship and another module. The first instinct to do for me is get to the space ship, but oh my flying is tough. On my first try i got nowhere and ran out of oxygen, basically i was making head or tails on the EVA controls, which ended up by tapping the direction of the keys rather than holding down.
Then later on i was trying to dock my ship into my lifeboat and found out that i was docking wrongly, in which this case i hope that the developer put some indication on if i can dock, just an indication or a more apparent visual cue, the current existing one is just a orange hexagon and since there are multiple docking points i was hoping that there were a image pasted on the walls or maybe a data pad telling what module can dock into what modules. other then that the docking procedure remids me and i can reenact the docking sequence like in interstellar which is superb.
Next once you get everything up and running, dock all the necessary stuff. The next bit will be exploring the system. You can only use your spaceship to travel around system either by flying or FTL. Currently there are 3 different things you can do:
1 - find an asteroid and start mining to refine into oxygen, fuel for spaceship and jet pack ( currently there is a bug where if you collide with the asteroid in a certain direction you get launch into deep space, aka death )
2 - finding junk ( derelict ) that might contain space suit, parts , components and or weapons.
3 - Outpost ( which if you select spawn in random outpost, this is the one ) which contains or sort of showcase on how and what your future base could look like, modules are unsalvageable but you can scavenge all the suits weapon parts and components.
That is what i have encounter so far in hellion. Note that there are more things the developer could and want to add, but i will reserve that until then when they announce what extra stuff you could do and find. Hellion is still an Early Access game, there are bugs that needs to iron out first like the asteroid bug thingy ( died a few times trying to mine ).
Hellion is an easy pick up for me, if you like a harder or sim like space game, you should check it out. Until then have fun playing with gravity and keep on hoarding space stuff.
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