Anyone play Space empires V?

It has multiplayer, and Frogboy has been promoting it a bit, but the general consensus I've read from the forums has been it's not a match for GC2.

However, some have liked it, so it may be worth a try for you.

Yea. The Stardock guys have been promoting it a bit but the general consensus is that it's a buggy disaster right now. If you can wait for the bug fixes and for modders to put something together and multiplayer is your thing then it's worth looking at.

I had planned on getting it upon release, but with all the bugs, I will wait until they are fixed. I can only imagine that about the time to the bugs are finally fixed the price will be $19.99.

i have it,i like it,but it crashes alot for me  .
Not sure if the crashes are due to Steam or me modding it too much. Try the Demo see if it works ok on your computer.

Im not sure about Space Empires IV cause i havent gotten the retail version of it yet but the Demo worked great.

I also brought Space Empires 3 Looong time ago wich was good for its time but now i just cant get used to playing it cause its so old.

I've tried to get the demo going, cause it is MP, but it is a buggy mess, so much so that I cannot even get it to work which is BS. Speaking of Space Empires 5, or V, which I am of course, the demo, downloads and installs but there is supposedly an mp3 file that plays in the beginning and makes the screen go blank and just sit there blank, so you have to turn off some stupid sound setting from true to false, just to get it to not sit at the blank screen, then you don't even get to the splash screen on my system cause it causes some access violation. This is the demo, not sure if the actual version doesn't suck. But this is BS anyway, their demo is supposed to be indicative of what the gameplay is actually like and if u can't even get it to work there is no way I'm shelling out any money to play. That's just a given.

The concept and screen shots look alright thought. I've always been more about gameplay and depth, and a renewable exprience then flashy graphics, great AI, lol as if, and clean interface. But if you guys on here try it and get it to work, that is the demo, let me know how I'd greatly appreciate that. Thanks.

It is pretty bad tbh, it has a feel of being developed at mum's basement. Gfx are bad, every single task requires so much clicking i am glad my mice is a rechargable one (Logitech g7).

Music score is Bad but it doesn't compare to the click sound effect which unfortunately you can not turn off.

It has great amount of depth and complexity built in mostly connected to the tech tree. And you can do some amazing and original stuff like building ringworlds or dyson spheres, there are carriers, mines, drones planetary defences, system wide structures. But the bugs are incredible. They are not little quirks but actual crippling coding errors on data files which you can fix most of yourself tbh.

As an overall result, It is not worth the 45 usd they are asking for imho. SE IV is a lot more stable refined and in effect the same game.

Flame on...

I bought it and it won't even run on my computer! How could it pass the game test???

You should have tried the demo first...I'm running Chinese OS here and the demo doesn't run either, so it's a easy decision - no buy from me...

*It is not uncommon that Western developers overlook the importance of compatibility issue...

Steam

Heh

I'm not buying it

The game will be the king of 4X,but sadly not until three or four patches down the line.

I was a big fan of Space Empires 4 but just can't bring myself to play 5 (bought through Steam - I like Steam). It's a godawful mess. The move to 3D has been a disaster. Most of the development time has gone into the real time space and ground combat. By late game this could involve hundreds (thousands?) of ships and units and will become so unwieldy that I'm sure most people will skip the tactical combat entirely and use the strategic combat option exclusively. But even the strategic combat takes a ridiculous amount of time to resolve as the combat engine runs through the encounter but without the display on. It's accurate but still frustrating.

As somebody already said - getting anything done involves a left click frenzy opening options and then, bizarrely, closing them back down again.

There's also been a lot made of the modding options possible with the game but this really isn't much more than you'd see with any modern game, including GalCiv2.

There's a good game in there somewhere but the UI does a stunning job of hiding it. I've not had too many problems with bugs and any I did have were mainly caused by modding options I didn't understand (mainly trying to make the interface usable).

King of 4X? I think SE4 still holds that title. It's not gone away.


EDIT: The last 3 games I've bought: Space Empires 5, The Guild 2 and Gothic 3 have all been chock full of bugs and failed to live up to their predecessors.

It seems all to often now that companies have the attitude of "Get it out on the release date at all cost, we'll patch later." That's why most my game purchases are usually about 6 months after they're released.

BTW, Ark, I think you still can run SEV if you change your system language to Englsih from the advanced section of 地區和語言選項 in your control panel.

It's too much hassle to switch it back and forth just to play a game though. But since you have already paid for it, you may want to at least be able to see it in action.