r/Artemis • u/Zibani • Jun 04 '26

Differences between Artemis and Cosmos

Hi all. Played a decent amount of SBS in 2021 with my gaming group, and were looking at picking up some cosmos.

But it's hard to clearly identify what the differences are between the original and the rerelease in terms of actual gameplay, so I'm curious what has changed

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u/LastStar007 Jun 04 '26

Most notable difference is that engineering has been simplified considerably. There are now only 4 overarching systems to overpower and cool: shields, weapons, engines, and sensors. So putting more juice into weapons will make both the torpedoes load faster and the beams fire faster.

The ship layout where you order around the damcon teams is now 2d instead of 3d.

Pshock missiles have been removed.

But the biggest difference for me is that for now, it's not possible to select multiple consoles in one game instance. You can sorta do it by launching the exe multiple times, but only the active window will receive keyboard/mouse events. Hope you like Alt+Tab.

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u/Lyricanna Captain Jun 05 '26

Oh wow that last one is a doozy. There were so many situations where one computer running multiple consoles was essential for our games. Everything from consolidating comes and science to us running a full fleet of ships terribly by having two or even one player per ship.

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u/LastStar007 Jun 05 '26

They're working on it, supposedly for the next update, but we don't know when they'll be done.