Sovereignty: Crown of Kings enters Early Access

[bayonetbrant]

we've got an interview with the team coming up in a few weeks :)

[HoodedHorseJoe]

By "unstable", do you mean crashes to desktop, freeze ups...that sort of thing?

Yes, although it's very inconsistent right now - out of all the games writers who got review copies, only a handful experienced bad crashes (including us), but the devs couldn't figure out why. I decided to delay the review a bit to see if this was a widespread thing, and it doesn't appear to be based on what's being reported. Yeah, some people are reporting crashes, but it's not an epidemic.

Very puzzling, and very annoying when your experience isn't representative of the general state of the game. It's unstable, but how much I can't really say. New patch is dropping soon though that's supposed to fix a lot of things.

[mikeck]

There is also quite an annoying issue particularly with laptops. Apparently if you have 2 video cards; an onboard and then an installed card, it will use the onboard card so you must disable it. If not, the map is black. I, and others, have a laptop that only has the onboard card so I cannot play it at all. Apparently it is not easily fixable but is being looked into.

On my desktop however, I have played it for awhile and not had any problems.

[Sir Slash]

There's a review over at the Wargamer that echo's what WargamerJoe says. Still might be great with some little fixes.

[FlickJax]

There's a review over at the Wargamer that echo's what WargamerJoe says. Still might be great with some little fixes.

Was it written by Joe?

[HoodedHorseJoe]

There's a review over at the Wargamer that echo's what WargamerJoe says. Still might be great with some little fixes.

Was it written by Joe?

It wasn't ;) but I've been playing the game a little as well to keep on top of things.

[Tpek]

They seem to have fixed the issue with the AI being freakishly over aggressive (yay!).

I've played Icespire for hours, until I came upon a CTD (was at war with Vessoi, and went to the diplomacy screen to make peace with them).

[Lord Zimoa]

Sovereignty Public Beta patch v1.01 has been updated:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/312430/discussions/0/133256240728311283/

[Lord Zimoa]

Sovereignty - the 1.01 version is here!

http://steamcommunity.com/app/312430/discussions/0/133257324794951345/

[bayonetbrant]

[Sir Slash]

Very interesting. I might give this game a second look indeed.

[RedArgo]

So I'm on vacation inside watching the rain from TS Gordon with my crappy laptop (Intel graphics, not a dedicated GPU) and I thought I'd give this a go, since I never really tried it before.  I made it far enough in two games to get in large tactical battles and both times I had CTD.  From reading on the Steam forums, it seems CTD are still an issue for others too.  Have any of you had luck getting this to be stable long term? Is it worth putting more time on this, or should I just move on?

I may move on to Battlestar Galactica Deadlock if my computer can handle it.

[joram]

I never had CTD issues with Soverignty however with Battlestar I could never get past the intro movie.  So good luck with that!

[MetalDog]

I recently spent ~ 20 hours on this again.  I do not play the tactical battles, so my experience may be atypical.  I did get a CTD playing as the Dwarves after a fair amount of turns.  I do not remember the specifics, but, I seem to remember it happened during battle resolution.  Or right after.  I played Aevinwode for quite some time.  Auto resolved every battle and crushed it.  I stopped playing when it became too much of a slog.

[joram]

Hmm, I can spell but can't seem to type on my phone!