The Screenshot Thread

Approaching Nepthys Plains:

Okkar clerical corvette:

They are really going for detail in the ship models.

When I zoomed in on this panel on the hull:

I found a warning notice directed at people boarding the ship:

This made me curious about the details of my own ship, which I discovered is covered in various pieces of text:

I also found that my cockpit textures are currently mirrored:

Prescott Starbase:

Where if you zoom in far enough on the tiny traffic moving through the station, amongst the various space vans and cargo carriers, you can find little guys on space bikes:

Necromunda - Hired Gun: I have been attempting to get some good action screenshots, but Hired Gun is much faster and deadlier than Deathwing and it can be hard to find a good moment for screenshots. Not least since most of them end up as a mess of blood, explosions and with enemy outlines and item outlines messing everything up.

First off, how not to do it:

Well done, shield gone, health low, both barrels empty...

...but that's what Stimms are for.

Ideal conditions for the Long Las.

That's (below) probably somebody going splat from Crush (teleport + AoE) whith Time Slow turned on.

One of the few blood/explosion-shots that came out distinct and sharp.

Takedowns are often pretty slow and not particularly satisfying, but they at least give some time to marvel at all that character detail that one can otherwise never really pay attention to. Eschers use energy weapons way more than the other clans. Lots of Plasma Pistols and Long Las'.

Edit: I noticed that the women are rather overrepresented here, but have no fear it doesn't get any more manly than this:

I think Dune: Spice Wars looks pretty good. Its restricted camera makes for difficult screenshotting, though.

Inquisitor: The art is certainly one of its strong aspects.

There are detailed descriptions for everything and there is usually a lot of lore in addition to the description of the functionality.

There are three character classes to choose from: Paladin, Priest and Thief, though the latter apparently refers to something like a disgraced noble or so. He's basically the ranged character that knows a little more magic than the Paladin.

Personally I went with the Paladin though. The five upper skills are common to all three, whereas the other seven are unique to each character.

It's an attrition game. Mana (to the right) and health don't regen on their own and stamina (middle) only regens when standing still. Stamina also is used up by all kinds of stuff: Attacking, taking damage (like poison that lasts a few minutes ;(), even repairing equipment uses stamina. And equipment also has a tendency to get damaged, especially the weapon. The result is a whole lot of running back to town to repair, identify, sell and get more potions. Early on I was always out of Stamina.

This seemed like a good omen though. Doggo was later joined by a Paladin and everything is way more manageable with two buddies. Even though they never stopp eating my potions.

The way the UI looks is different for Priest and Thief.

Doggo got stuck in the tavern and I noticed way too late. Thankfully this has only happened once or twice so far.

The length of this response is pretty typical and most characters have a lot of dialogue options. Oftentimes additional options show up dependant on the stuff the player character has already learned. The amount of text in here is really quite unbelievable. Apparently the english translation took them three years.

I'm getting word that I haven't posted enough Stellaris screenshots in this thread already? Well, if the people insist.

I have beef with some of the mechanical changes made from the original Homeworld, but visually they did everything right.

Both HW2 and HW2 Remastered are exported to a souped-up version of the HW2 engine, and HW2 already looked spectacular for its time.

In fact, let's compare to some of my old screenshots of the un-remastered HW2:

For a game from 2003 it's extremely pretty. I replayed it not long before the IP went up for sale and the remaster was announced, and I remember thinking all it would really need was a punch-up of the ship textures and higher-res backgrounds. In HW1 everything was a lot lower res and I couldn't even get it to run at modern resolutions at the time, so the remaster makes a bigger difference there.

Anyway, back to HW:Remastered. Sadness.

I stole these enemy destroyers.

And yoinked their carrier.

I forgot you could steal almost any ship when I first started so I replayed the early missions. 2 destroyers, 9 ion array frigates, 4 assault frigates, 1 support frigate and a carrier for good measure. And a bunch of corvettes that I immediately recycled. Why build a fleet when you can just steal everything bigger than a fighter?

Gardens of Kadesh.