Well yes and no.
Earlier this year Niels bauer released a new version of Smugglers 5, called
smugglers 5 invasion. It is set after the smugglers 5 cessession war was won
by the federation and involves a new conflict with only two factions, the
Federation and an alien race called the Jaukath.
It plays slightly differently to s5 cesession, and has different background
stories on the planets as well as other differences like different ships to
encounter.
It also has dlc, downloadable content, which are extra encounters and
stories you can download for the game at a very small extra charge, sort of
like miniature addons.
If you enjoy s5 I'd definitely recommend it, indeed if you enjoy s5 I'd very
much recommend updating to the latest version which introduces several new
elements.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A truly epic space battle
Silly question, but is this smugglers 5 you're on about?
Lindsay Cowell
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Subject: [Audyssey] A truly epic space battle
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
Date: 04/06/2014 12:18 am
Well that has to qualify as probably the most epic space battle ive been
through in a long time.
I was in the Westwind system carrying out special forces missions in my
small shadow cat corvette, when what should hove into view but a Shark
class destroyer piloted by the dread pirate Black Morgan, ---- no that's
what he called himself on the scanner.
I wasn't really sure whether engaging this massive ship was a good idea,
sinse while the bounty was amazingly huge, so was the risk, and taking out
larger ships is a very dicey proposition.
Nevertheless I thought I'd give it a try. unfortunately, as the battle
started it seemed that the sun of Westwind was disapproving, sinse
repeated solar flares threatened to stun both my ship and black Morgans'
with an Emp pulse, forcing me to take lots of extra time (ie two extra
action points each turn), to calculate correctly to avoid.
The battle therefore didn't go well, my particle cannons weren't
scratching Black Morgan's hull, and despite all my best maneuvers he'd got
in some lucky hits and my shields were at %50, and I had to really get
lucky to Avoid Morgan's big and nasty missiles, one hit from which
would've destroyed my ship in one go.
Then it came to me, to use my skill as a duelist to Suppress Morgan's
ability to dodge the solar flares, thus resulting in his ship being hit by
Emp. This let a couple of my own missiles strike hope, and let me rain in
hits with my particle cannons, ---- but Morgan's shield was so huge, that
the fight seemed to go on forever, even when his shield was registering
zero he was able to launche a missile.
But with one last lucky shut morgan's shield finally collapsed!
I have to say that is one of the most awsome rpg battles I've had for some
considderable time, it even sounds like something out of startrek.
I was not initially too sure about the s5 invasion combat system, because
though the random hand of skills was a good idea, at the same time it
seemed nearly impossible to take out a bigger ship than yours, and not
infrequently, one the same class as yours as well.
Well the balance has been fixed by improving some of the skills and
powering down others, and also the duelist skill is just awsome!
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