Gratuitous Space Battles 1.26 + Challenges

Posted on December 04th, 2009 in Action & Adventure

Gratuitous Space Battles is a unique strategy game where you play the role of supreme commander of a vast fleets of spaceships, battling against AI controlled or player-designed enemy fleets.

GSB is not a conventional strategy game, but more of an RTS/Tower Defense hybrid, where you design the ships, position the fleet, issue pre-battle orders and then sit back and watch the explosive galactic mayhem take place. Did you include enough fusion beams on your capital ships? Maybe you should have assigned some fighters to escort those ships in the middle ofthe fleet ? GSB also allows you to challenge other players by uploading your best fleets to serve as their opposition, in a massively single-player galactic smorgasbord of laser-death!

Gratuitous Space Battles aims to bring the over-the-top explodiness back into space games. The game is for everyone who has watched big space armadas battle it out on TV and thought to themselves ‘I could have done a much better job as admiral’. This is not a game of real-time arcade twitch reflexes. GSB is about what ships you design, and what you tell them to do. Your individual ship commanders have total autonomy during the chaotic battle that unfolds. This is not a tactical game, it is a strategic one. These gratuitous spacebattles are not won by plucky heroes with perfect teeth, but by the geeky starship builders who know exactly what ratio of plasma-cannons to engines each ship inthe fleet will need.

Game features:

Design your spaceships from a large range of interchangeable weapons, defenses and other components
Some of the most gratuitous visual effects you will have seen in a 2D game
Unique online challenge system lets you prove who is a better admiral, you or your friends…
Sprawling battles with hundreds of ships let you slow down time and freeze frame to work out exactly why the SS Indestructible failed to live up to its name!

Changes:

Added support for totally separate mod folders.
Fixed alt+tab black screen hang.
Fixed bug where some rebel missile turrets would not render correctly.
Fixed the rare but dreaded ‘turret mapping not found’ bug.
Added a trio of new mini buttons to the deployment screen to let you filter the list of deployable ships by class.
Added confirmation dialog for when you quit the deployment screen after making some changes.
Fixed the display bug for larger than 2048 width monitors.
Fixed crash bug in survival mode.

System requirements: