Deeply bugged game as of today!
I have discovered around 10 bugs in my playthrough of Lightspeed Edition. I managed to finish the game but its state was affected by reloading->state-rewind bug, which caused loosing any chance to help the allies. I have listed all the bugs here in forums "halcyon 6 lightspeed edition forum", some are game-breaking. As of game itself, it is by no way a strategy, it is like Star Control, but Hypermelee is replaced with combination strikes. The gaming field tries to imitate space strategies, like Ascendancy, but its perfectly linear game with little dynamics. Most of dynamics are given through random events, but their effects are much smaller than for example FTL. Diplomacy does NOT exist in this game, you are only given few choices at few moments. As of today I strongly recommend ignoring it, unless gamebreaking reload bug is fixed. The graphics and music are ok, but music gets layered inside the base, which I think is another bug, that I can imagine causes people to set it on mute. Game development seems to have stopped around 2018, I doubt there will be any fixes. Another half-finished abadonware on properietary cemetery, I think.
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