Stardrive came out in 2013 with a ton of potential that was sadly squandered by the dev abandoning the project. However, a team of modders have come to the rescue to create & revive the dead game with an exceptional game overhaul.
• Stardrive on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/220660/StarDrive/ (please don’t spend $30 on this, find it elsewhere cheaper and give your money to the mod team)
• BlackBox mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/deveks-mod
• Combined Arms mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/combined-arms
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Glad you tried this mod. I enjoyed it a lot!
Stardrive was never a good game. It has a 42% rating on Steam because it was buggy, unfinished and then abandoned for Stardrive 2 (which was also left unfinished, buggy and abandoned).
While I support you going back to revisit older games with newer mods, giving any kind of support to this product and developer is a poor choice given how Zero screwed his customers. There are so many games that deserve attention. This one deserves to remain in the dung heap from whence it came.
Stardrive 2 is such an underrated game when it's so awesome. Especially damage model on ships is so interesting and well done.
AH YES!! I loved Stardrive! Gonne try this!
I LOVED this game.
Developers was scumers as i remember. Abandoned both games after taking fast money
Ahhh, Stardrive, what a wonderful concept and ALMOST good execution. The dev wasted such potential. It's like Stellaris but with ship designer and combat mechanics above and beyond…
And heaps of bugs and unfinished features. If only Zero supported his little rough gem and polished it into diamond. If only :/
MORE PLEASE! 🙏🐙🐙 It's really fun watching you play this one, never heard of it and I usually enjoy just about anything space related although they are kind of hit or miss in my experience…
Thanks for another great show and yeah more of this game please!🐙🔭🚀🚀
For me, star drive 1 was always better than star drive 2
Star drive 1was fun, I have fond memories of it.
This is similar to Stellaris, I think.
Wow, I forgot I had this game in my Steam library from back in the day.
Oh damn I completely forgot about this game, lol.
It kinda looks like Distant Worlds: Universe, except I can actually understand it! Maybe this will be the gateway I've always needed.
Nice to see love for stardrive! Even though the developer doesn't seem to have any….
This was a REALLY excellent take on a space 4x, a genre that has a decent number of games in it, but surprisingly very few that meet the bar set by master of orion 2 back in 1996!
Many of them are just clones of already-done mechanics with hastily slapped together graphics.
A rare number introduce some new and interesting mechanics.
And some combine beautiful art with some of the existing array of mechanics in such a way to make a truly enjoyable game!
Stardrive II in particular is one of my favorites, but unfortunately the shipyards expansion kind of ruins it with grossly unbalanced ships (why would you ever use the stock ships?), the game was left buggy, and the weapons are horrifically unbalanced.
I know there's mods available, but if anyone's interested in a more base-game level rebalance, I've been working on my own mod to spruce up the game and steer it away from "FUSION BEAM BEATS EVERYTHING"
This looks really good. But can the font size be increased? Much of the text is too small for me!
oh hey! I know these guys!
Thank you Nook for spotlighting those under the radar mods making this fun game playable again. Hope to see more episodes of it
Don’t support these games at all the owners completely left this game to rot while they made stardrive 2 to con more money out of us! Really wish these games come off steam so people stop being ripped off!
If only we could have the same polish overhaul done for Sword of the Stars as well
Thanks for doing a video on Stardrive with Black Box and Combined Arms.
I would like very much to see you doing more vids, but I am also one of the devs of BB and CA, and these vid help us identify bugs and fix them, and it is fun to watch them. 🙂
We are working hard on the game and we update it quite often. In fact, there were more than 20 commits to the code since 10632 (the BB build you used for this vid).
We do this out of passion to the game, and as a hobby.
We worked around the memory issue that the original game had. The leak is deep within the ancient graphic engine of the game, along with its 32bit architecture, which limits memory usage. Instead of the game crashing, some ships will be invisible (but tab will expose their modules) with our workaround. The future plan is to replace the graphic engine. But it is a major effort.
Some notes regarding the video:
1. You can sort the planet list by clicking on the headlines. Not sure if you know that.
2. Ship design has symmetric design ability (i think you turned it off, since you were designing small ships) and Bulk replacement feature, which let you replace all the copies of the same module with something else. Very useful when upgrading bigger ships.
Hope to see more videos!
A lot of unkindness towards Zero in these comments. Stardrive is possibly one of the most advanced games I have ever seen a solo novice dev try to put out. He didn't manage to pull off a Stardew Valley but he still built the foundations of a fantastic game. The Blackbox & Combined Arms devs have really polished Stardrive into a true gem. Despite it's flaws I played hundreds of hours of the vanilla stardrive back in 2013, & since finding the BB+CA community I have played hundreds more. I have never been able to find a game quite like Stardrive where you have such freedom to design your own ships & throw them into combat.
I would strongly encourage anyone to revisit Stardrive with the BB+CA mods & give it a shot. It is much better now. Don't be put off by Zero failing to finish the game himself, we all have our limits & ultimately when you are working on a passion project if you feel like you can't take it further then that is fair enough. I think he wanted a fresh start with Stardrive 2 to try to build a better codebase with what he had learnt building the original.
The video here doesn't show it yet but the best part of Stardrive is the ridiculous amount of freedom you have with designing ships & stations. Unlocking a new tech can be exciting because you then get to integrate it into new designs.
All are welcome on the BB+CA discord where you would find support & discussion on the game 🙂 https://discord.gg/erbsQXD
yes more of this please!! sd 1 is one of the best 4x out there wen played with bb and ca mods fixes 99% of the problems people had with it originally and the bb team is still working flat out on it you can get games with 20K+ ships now and loads of work to balance and performance
the ship design is second to none – there are loads of options hulls and components to use from tiny 10 slot fighter to 4K slot super titans that can take out whole systems space stations and orbital defence and real time combat is second to none in this genera with point of impact damage model meaning your ship designs and how you place modals and weapons relay matter!!!
ship to ship boarding parts salvaging crashed ships from planets trade freighters + more
yes zero might seem like he abandoned it but in reality he passed the torch for this amazing game to the black box team who are as passionate about finishing it and making it perfect as any i have ever come across!!!!! in 20 years of pc gaming
Why do wannabe nerds sound like valley girls (with uptalk) these days?
How do I download this mod the links are not taking me to the files or to links are closed
I bought this game when it first cam out. I'm glad to see that the community has made much needed improvements to the game, as it very needed it. I would definitely like to see you play some more of it on your channel.
I would never know there is such mod for this game if it wasn't for this channel. Thx for both making this mod and for making this video.