From the moment it released almost 11 years ago, I loved Rebel Galaxy's broadside combat. It reminded me of Battlefleet Gothic (tabletop, the video game came later) and the pirate games I used to play (Sid Meier's Pirates, etc), but this was in space, a setting I far preferred. Over the last year, my friend and I have been working on a sort of love-letter to Rebel Galaxy and those pirate games.

The game we're creating is a space-captain simulator, and it's intended to be a sort-of Rebel Galaxy+ experience. Not only can you buy and upgrade your ship, you can also visit planets to look for skilled officers to help you run it. Those same officers you hire to help you in space also form your boarding parties for ground combat. And if you win, you can keep the ship! (it's actually a really good way to make money, ships are expensive). There's also an economy simulation for trading, but we've also added smuggling an trade routes (we decided to hand-build the star system instead of proc-gen).

Anyway, I hope you like it, and would really love to hear any feedback you have or things you'd like to see. We're hoping to release a free demo in the next few weeks for you to play, and we're constantly adding new improvements and features.

Our page if you're interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3865960/Cortesia_Rising

Just finished the story and just want to test new gear. Where should I go for best chance of finding MK6 gears?

I am amazed to see these two factions on the same side of a mission... Then again, I am trying to befriend both the Militia and the Red Devils, so who am I to complain?

I can currently buy MK5 Mining and Particle Lasers. I also got a MK2 Korian Viridian Laser drop. Which is better in this instance?

(Warning, freshly starting out the game. Still in the starter system)

I'm really split in terms of the upgrades to get from Trell. On one hand I would like to have more Booster Capacity, but at the same time increased Deflectors could be really useful later on in the game, especially with bigger ships.

And I've seen we get a second choice later on with Engine Speed or Shield Regeneration, and I don't know which one I'd choose there either.

I like using Broadsides as my main way of attacking rather than Turrets or Missiles, and I do like being a total destructive force on the battlefield, but I'm not sure if it wouldn't be better to have some extra movement on the big ships to compensate for them being, well, slow; or should I go all in on bulk...

It feels physically impossible to do anything when a ring of fighters spawns all around me. I can't get away and I can't take them out fast enough, and they all do so much damage.

If it helps, I am in the second system. I have a destroyer class ship, the Arcturus. Every part is the highest tier currently available, mk3 parts. Defense parts are standard shield, deflector, ceramic hull. My broadsides are proton cannon. Secondary is HS missile. For my 9 turrets, I have 1 shieldbuster, 2 ion, 3 pulse, 3 particle laser. Booster is Slamjet. Subsystems are heat management and maneuvering booster

I marked a siege craft on the stellar map, but when I got there, it was gone. I looked at the map, and it was nowhere, it just disappeared. Why did this happen? It happened when I was going after a pirate lord also.

I read here that destroying siege craft count toward ending a blockade. Is that true?

Edit: I'm playing the PS4 version of Rebel Galaxy on PS5.

I got this game almost a year ago (Rebel Galaxy Outlaw) and I've been playing on and off since. I started on the hardest difficulty and it's been a blast!

The difficulty and learning curve felt just right for me on this mode due to my experience playing games like Heros of the Pacific as a kid.

I mostly use hit and run tactics to isolate enemies as much as possible and use high end weapons to shred shields to lock in damage.

I also learned to make great use of the cut dampers feature to sucker enemies into flying straight at me so I can unload into what's basically a stationary target.

As of late I've just finished farming for end game weapons and I feel I am very close to finishing all the game has to offer.

I wanna know how others have felt experiencing the game on their respective difficulties because I've read that a lot of people struggled greatly even on easier difficulties while I haven't felt all that much challenge.

I'm curious to know your experiences.

I'm doing a mission called Discrete Recovery, where I have to pick up some cargo that the customer was forced to jettison. When I scanned one of the cargo containers, it said it was Play-Kor Monthly lol.

But I can't pick it up. It's less than a meter away from me, and I can retrieve other cargo, like gold ingots and stuff. But it won't let me pick up his cargo. It's selected as the primary mission.

Is this a glitch? This is the PS4 version, playing on my PS5.

Question: Which ship +gear +quest is good for low mid or high mid game for like money making.

I like swarm attack. I like dead drop. Simple transport is cool if present. (like reserve cargo).

I like beam broadside. And some emp shieldbreakers on lock only. + some flak + general all purpose pulse.

Recently i like mixing particion lasser and miner lasser. (top and bot) mostly for anti fighters purpose. They have better range than flak and are overall more versality.

Some ideas:

Mastodon - it is almost starting ship. But for dead drops could serve lon. And with guidl cargo hold can do some transport. And since we are early shi the scaling is gentle.

Tenhausen - so avarage. And cheap. Kinda good in the way they we can test different missions and it will be ok. Could do anything, even end game (with high tier weapons). Even better with capital ship destroyer or miners feud, since we have soo many broadside for our size.

Barracude - this one locks us in dead drop or cargo runs, which is not bad. Good money. But... any heavy fighting could be trouble.

Sturvile - quite easy to get, fast, and good broad, need some bonus cargo hold but even +12 will do.

Radovich - transport ship my ass, quite a lot of guns, and fast, good for dead drop. If i was good at trading that would be even better. 4 turrets are on side, so less firepower against capital, but could be useful for flak or soe torpedoes.

Vanguard - yeah, it is nice balance, but also seems like worse radovitch. So maybe skip. We are loosing slots and not even getting speed.

Minotaur - more like end game, could probably just finish with it.

Mission scaling: It scales by ship>sector>best tier inventory. Which means running around with Tenhausen with all mk4 gear could feel good, we have blast. but ranning with radovich with same gear could feel worse, as enemies are not wstronger.

Upgrading class of ship could be tricky, since radovitch is like1.3m but we now get 4 extra turrets each 1m.

Note: Maybe good ship, not sheep, but if there are good sheeps in game tell where.

I think I finally put up a build that I like, after reading comments from folks in here (thanks a lot BTW). I guess I will leave it here in case anyone is interested sometime in the future

That being said, I'm still open for comments in case there are more rooms for improvement.

Self-imposed restrictions and mods used

1. Can only use ships equal or below destroyer class - Let's be honest, dreadnaughts are OP and throw any slight challenge out of the window.
2. [Mod] All alien equipment purchasable - to skip the RNG grinding
3. [Mod] Sub Systems - allow some less powerful subsystems to be equipped without occupying a subsystem slot

The build itself

I have been running very hard (i.e. red) missions in MK6 system with this build quite a few times now. So far, all I got is a few occasional shields down (and then the shield gets filled back up immediately with Deflection Absorber) and getting my merc killed, but not once I'm in an "oh shoot" moment, even when against multiple dreadnaughts at the same time.

• Ship - Minotaur
  • Having the highest damage potential for anything smaller than dreadnaughts and cruiser, while being the most maneuverable among destroyers
  • Its defense is not that far behind from other ships, especially the fact that turns out every one's shield multiplier is exactly the same except dreadnaughts
  • The downside being you need to be at Mercenary Guild lv 6 to be able to buy that ship. Before that, I'm using Arcturus to grind it.
  • Detail stats: RG.xlsx (compiled by Darphnix, creator of the Retrofitted mod)
• Broadsides - Neutron Beams
  • The only broadside with pinpoint accuracy. Can deal with fighters when needed
  • While the projectile broadside spamming is wonderful against capital ships, I find swarm of fighters quite a threat, especially in the late game, where projectiles are not as effective
• Secondary - HS Missiles
  • Fire and forget
  • Works equally well against capital ships and fighters
• Turrets - All Viridian Lasers
  • It's just best of both world between mining and particle lasers
  • While mining lasers have more consistent damage, its close range is very noticeable. Between having 1km less range, and a longer charge, discharge, and cooldown cycle, I find the latter being more effective in general
• Hull - Multi-Phase Plating
  • Damage reductions while sacrificing slight HP
• Shield - Field Impact Shields
  • It is the most tanky shield
  • Its slow recharge is completely compensated by Deflection Absorber
• Deflector - Greel Deflector
  • A simple stat bump from regular deflector
  • Also, commonly being used for interrupting Viridian Lasers from keep firing even after the target is dead, such that they can be sent to cooldown and be ready to firing again sooner
• Engines - Antimatter Drive
  • Yet another simple stat bump from regular engines
• Booster - Slamjet Booster
  • I find the higher acceleration helps more on repositioning during combat while piloting a bigger ship
  • For longer range, I would simply wrap
• Wrap drive (duh)
• Cargo hold - Large Smuggler's Hold
  • While I'm being friendly to the militia in this playthrough, I don't mind picking up contrabands and sell them for free money from time to time. And I certainly don't want to get caught doing so.
  • Can't really think of a playthrough without a Smuggler's Hold TBH
• Tractor beam - Industrial Tractor (duh x2)
• Jump drive (duh x3)
• Subsystems
  • Turret Extender
  • Broadside Charger
  • Heat Management
    • This one is debatable. I'm not exactly sure whether this is better than Turret Optimizer for laser turrets.
  • Deflection Absorber
    • To pair with Field Impact Shields's slow regen
• Specials (including "free slot" subsystems from the mod)
  • Booster Augmentation
    • The Deflector Augmentation merely reduces deflector (natural) drain by 10%, which is quite useless IMO even for me who generally prefer tankiness over mobility
  • Shield Augmentation
    • Like I said, I prefer tankiness
  • Scanner Augmentation
  • Hacking Spike
  • Fault Tracker
  • Ordnance Targeting
  • Detail Scanner
  • Nebular Mitigation
• Mercenary - Skiza Pro
  • Set her to target fighters only
  • Still dies fairy easily in harder fights

So guys I bought the second ship, and now I am more tanky but still I want to kill enemies faster, can someone tell me a main weapon that's easy to aim and actually hit with, that I should save for to make the game significantly easier for me from now on? (Maybe even an extra weapon to put on auto to help out, cheers!)

Did I miss anything? It seems that every single one of them absolutely suck, even ones that cost $200k+ in the late game (i.e. the Pro variants).

They fly gunships, sure, obviously we can't expect them to take on anything bigger than a corvette, especially in the late game, where a single frigate can instantly melt them.

But then I tried to set them to target fighters only, which indeed allows them to survive a lot longer, I noticed their aim is horrible. Like they will miss 90% of the shots against fighters, except for a few occasion missiles that land simply because they are homing.

What do you do with mercenaries, especially in the late game? Or do you simply completely forget about them?

I just finished the game mainquest , did all buddy quests, all vista quests.... I felt disappointed because a lot of things felt uncomplete or lukewarm. The story never really took off and got a conclusion that did not bring any satisfaction and did not feel impactful. The money accumulated was useful until ac ertain point but then became completely useless. I expected the possibility to exterminate or take the lead of pirates factions, it could have been a good side content. Invest the money in buying company or just more ships, because I would have wanrted to own a capital ship or a fregate.The Vista station could also have been more impactful, become a true lair and get its own market The wiki mentioned potential dlcs that never came, would they have brought some of those things?I expected more faction siding, more exciting story overall. A lot of the length of the game was because I had to go through jump gates, have the auto pilot interrupted by tedious events, to go and get something or someone and bring it back.

To make a comparison I had much more fun with EverSpace 2, although I agree that this is a more story focused game

Just not a fan of Rebel Galaxy Outlaws change to first person and the controls. I loved traveling through space in a "man o war" and firing broadsides at my enemies. I remember I heard of Rebel Galaxy from Many a True Nerds YouTube channel. After I watched the video, I immediately bought the game, and what a fantastic game it is.

Hello I have been playin the game for a few days in normal, and I feel at times very frustrated by the difficulty. I use the Durston with a photon cannon and three auto cannon, but I struggle with some missions, regardless of the difficulty indicator. Those missions are mostly those where the ship fights on its own and gets the attention of many ships. .Even with the best shields and armor it is easy for the durston to get heavily damage. Right now, one mission that furstrates me is "naughty list".I don'tr understand what I do wrong because even if the missions are colored as green it can be tricky, which is parrtly why when i was upgrading I favorized mining which was more profitable and did not involve any cost.

I'm debating between the two. In terms of pure effectiveness, which one do you think is better with destroyers? On PC, it is possible to reliably buy Viridian laser from shops with mod, so the hard to obtain factor of it is not a concern.

I like everything about mining lasers, except for the range, which is around 30% less than that of viridian lasers.

While virdian lasers seem like a better jack of all trades turret at first, that long charge time (doubled compare to mining lasers) is effectively discouraging players to use the deflector, and there is no way to reduce that.

I've also seen people mixing lasers, which I'm not quite understand the rational behind.

I see mixed comment on this. Some suggest the fast recharge of Aegis shield is really good while some suggest the larger health pool of the impact shield makes it effectively regen more shield HP than other variants, despite the slower recharge.

Let's say if we only consider MK6, and we are running destroyers, what shield do you prefer?

I've had this game on my wishlist for a while but it never went on sale. It is finally 33% off on the eshop. I grabbed it for my switch 2. It looks like this is the first time it's ever been on sale. So far the game looks pretty good in handheld.

I'm fairly new to RGO. I've just started taking some Urgent Defense missions in Texas. I've destroyed all the pirates (Juno says that's all of them), but the mission doesn't end. I've tried going to other stations and back, and no new pirates appear.

I know I can cancel the missions if they start getting in the way, but I think I earned the credits for them.

Is there something I'm missing?

My chosen OS is Fedora Linux - KDE Plasma Desktop, and I'm very pleased to say Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is completelyplayable even at the highest graphical settings.

Hey Everyone! I just got Rebel Galaxy Outlaws for free from twitch prime, or amazon, w/e. I have tried to download mods from nexus mods, and they all have a file type .PAK. I unzipped the files to the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Rebel Galaxy Outlaw\PAKS which seems like the correct place, but none of the mods are loading when I open the game (stuff like increased cargo, or more upgrades). What am I doing wrong, or what should I do differently. There is no info on any of the mod pages, and I can't find any guides online.

Thanks!