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Helium Rain

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:41 pm
by cuisinart8
This appears to be an X-esque space trading/exploration/tycoon game. You can buy space stations, build a fleet, or just fly around and explore the galaxy. It also appears to have a decent damage model (mentions of various ship subsystems like radiators or engines that you can take out.) All in all it looks quite interesting, if they actually deliver. Right now the game consists of a dozen flyable ships, an actual Newtonian flight model (No arbitrary speed limit :twisted: ), and a dynamic economy. Looks kinda like X or what I would imagine would be LT-lite at the moment.

Official Website: http://helium-rain.com/

Steam Store Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/681330/Helium_Rain/

Re: Helium Rain

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:16 am
by Ashenraynor
I recently picked up a license on Steam for $15. The game feels a bit light to me in terms of starting difficulty. E.G. In the X series games, getting to the next ship is non-trivial unless you get lucky. Helium Rain gets you into a new ship within the first 45-90 minutes just as a short grind.

As an early access game, I've found it extremely smooth with a strong tutorial - worth picking up for zen space flight or empire building. Be aware that the develop says straight out on their website that they've designed the game for high end systems and Windows only.

Josh: If you happen to read this & if you happen get a chance to try this game - I don't remember if you mentioned you'd be making a tutorial. Helium Rain's optional tutorial is highly effective at encouraging progressive game play in an otherwise "immediate" open-difficulty (high learning curve) environment. A similar type of optional tutorial would probably fit well into a procedurally generated universe, even if only for new players to the genre.

Re: Helium Rain

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:24 am
by Mistycica
So I just got the alert that the game is out of EA. How is its final iteration?

Re: Helium Rain

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:29 am
by Cornflakes_91
Mistycica wrote:
Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:24 am
So I just got the alert that the game is out of EA. How is its final iteration?
ooh, i'll try it out, already have it


edit: urgh stupid game insists on running on the secondary monitor and i dont want to reassemble my desk today. ask me again on saturday...

Re: Helium Rain

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:51 am
by IronDuke
Temporarily have your OS swap which monitor is the secondary one? :V

Re: Helium Rain

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:53 am
by Cornflakes_91
It chooses based on hardware for some reason. The BIOS prefers that screen as well.
I have no idea :V

Re: Helium Rain

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:03 pm
by IronDuke
Weird.
Temporarily unplug second monitor before booting?

Re: Helium Rain

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:12 pm
by Cornflakes_91
IronDuke wrote:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:03 pm
Weird.
Temporarily unplug second monitor before booting?
Yeah, not going to do that. I'll just rearrange my monitors and fix it permanently.
derped at rebuilding after the last LAN

Re: Helium Rain

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:22 pm
by Employee 2-4601
Now available on GOG (and 30% off as a launch deal).

* https://www.gog.com/game/helium_rain
* https://www.gog.com/forum/general/relea ... rain_506c9

There is a Linux version, which clearly wasn't the case earlier (based on previous comments here).

Apparently they have open-sourced the game, which is awesome.

* https://heliumrain.gamepedia.com/Helium ... evelopment
* https://github.com/arbonagw/HeliumRain
* http://helium-rain.com/