Space Rangers 2 is now on TotalGaming.net

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Space Rangers 2 is now on TotalGaming.net

No DRM, no fuss, and only $19.95 for this award winning epic space game!

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Stardock is pleased to announce that Space Rangers 2 is now on TotalGaming.net. Space Rangers is one part strategy game, one part adventure game, and one part space simulation. It has received very good reviews (85% overall average making it one of the highest rated PC games of the last couple of years).

As Gaming Trends put it:

There is not a single second wasted in the entirety of the game and there is no mistaking it for a small game. Space Rangers 2 is epic in scope, gargantuan in size, and goes so far beyond fun it borders on ridiculous. I am absolutely drunk in love with this magnificent title and have forced myself to finish this review just so I can get back to saving the universe - with a little pillaging on the side.

The game is truly epic in scale. A great deal of it feels like a role playing game. Other parts feel like a strategy game. It's difficult to describe the genre since it encompasses so many different elements. It's the same difficulty many had explaining Star Control 2. Adventure game? Strategy game? Action game? All of the above?

You can read their full review here.

But now you can get the award-winning Space Rangers 2 digitally via TotalGaming.net. The same convenience (and no DRM) found in Galactic Civilizations II can be had with Space Rangers 2. Just press a button and install it to your machine. Get a new machine 5 years from now? No problem, just re-download it.

With TotalGaming.net you can manage all your games from a single UI -- Stardock Central. No renting, no DRM, it's your game, any time, anywhere.

And what about price? Space Rangers 2 is only $19.99!

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First day of SR2 yesterday - started play about 2pm, did the training missions, carried on for a bit then ended up in a bad part of the galaxy and couldn't escape some powerful pirates. Restarted and ... finally went to bed about 4am.

It's (almost) the sequel to Elite that I've always wanted. With great music.

Now with luck I'll get a couple more hours SR2 before the wife gets home from her business trip

Edit - one of the missions I've been offered, but not yet accepted, is to enter a pizza-making contest. Weird!

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Weidbrewer

Join Date 03/2006

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So here's the question: Anyone know how to remove Starforce? I got a free copy of King Kong with my new GFX card, and didn't realize that craptastic copyprotection was on there. Now, just like someone earlier in the thread, I can't use my DVD burner. I found a few sites that had removal instructions, but they didn't seem to work. Can't find any Starforce in my system, but still no DVD burner.

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Oh man, how annoying. Having to wait for my Paypal account to be unlimited...

and it's the only way I can pay through TG because I have a Switch/Maestro card!

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Great game. Got it when it came out. First game I've played through FOUR times.

I kept good notes on the story-missions, so I can win almost all of them reasonably easily (except mecha combat and pizza).

Only downside is no patch for the original English DVD version.

Russian version has been patched a number of times.

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I don't want to upset you guys, but I actually started playing SR 2 before GalCiv 2 and therefore SR 2 is my favourite game this year (and the best game I've played for a long time).

This is the game I dreamed Elite would evolve to. Well, there's no 3D flying, but the movement system should feel quite familiar to GalCiv 2 players.

There are several sub games in addition to the main space flying part. In my opinion no part of this game is actually perfect, but when you add them all up like they've done in SR 2 the final result is a really special game.

It's a pity there's no patchwork done in english, the russian fans are doing it themselves.

I don't know if this game will somehow be included in this forum (that would be nice), but there are a couple of good forums:
www.elementalgames.com/forum
www.cinemawaremarquee.com/forum2

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I've had this beast for a while and gotta say it's one of my favorites. The translation is pretty horrible overall but has a certain charm after playing long enough. The main focus is gameplay rather than pretty, SR/SR2 was developed by a Russian developer and unlike the majority of the US devs they don't have dumptruck loads of money to work with to take advantage of the latest and greatest shaders or the like.

To keep this short if one likes adventure/rts/rpg type of games you MUST play SR2.

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Well.. Sorry for the Bad News Stardock, but I'm liking Space Ranger 2 a lot more than Galciv 2.

Now, Imagine if Space Ranger 2 and Gal Civ 2 merged. You'll have a game that could win Game of the Year. And if you also port it for say, the Xbox 360 or XBOX (NOT SONY's CRAPSTATION) OMG!!!! I just busted a nut just thinking about it. Haha...

The Free-Form gameplay of SR2 and the Advance AI and customization of Gal Civ, that would make an AWESOME Experience. Will blow Will Wright's Spore away and still don't need to reload. Oh, and add to that the humor and "End of the World" desperation of the Fallout series, OMG!!! I busted a NUT again!!!

Oh, and if your in need of a Game Designer, I'd be happy to help. Not that I'm a game designer, but I am a Gamer with some background in System Analyst and I have a very creative and problem-solving oriented brain.

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Space Rangers 2 is an excellent game and I highly recommend it.

Unfortunately for me, I purchased it from Best Buy a few weeks back without realizing that it used Starforce (or maybe it should be called Starfarce). I haven't noticed any problems yet, but I'm going to be removing it as soon as I can back-up my PC. I just wish that there was some way that I could play SR2 without that accursed "copyright protection" garbage software being on my PC too.

I've heard some talk here to the effect that Starforce can actually "damage" PC hardware by altering it at low software level (driver and/or BIOS). You can rest assured that I'll be filing a criminal complaint against Starforce if that sort of thing happens to my PC.

I already feel like their lack of advertising Starforce's presence/use on the packaging (I don't remember seeing it mentioned), and its stealth installation, constitutes trespassing.

Hmm... Maybe I can return it to the publisher for a full refund and buy it thru Stardock...

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I dont get it. Can anyone help?

I DLed the demo. It is HUGE at 1 gig. And I couldnt even finish the TUTORIAL, the game said my demo expired, it must have been after only 5 or 6 turns. I am furious. What the hell? What is this demo supposed to demonstrate?

To those who have DLed the demo -- how did you manage to see anything? A 5 turn demo? I won't be supporting that company, that's for sure...

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Correct me if I am wrong but wasnt this game originally released in russian by a russian company? I thought there were a lot more patches for the russian edition than for the english edition and somehow that patches never were released for the english edition. Therefore the russian edition was more tweaked, fine-tuned and less buggy. Now stardock seems te be the one that (re)release this game this time, will this mean that the english edition will receive the same patches the russian edition already got? Will there be done any patches at all or is it merely another attempt to sell the same game (with the already available patches) by stardock this time?

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to clear up the patch issue - SR2 1.3 US/English is prefectly playable and practically bug-free. the last russian patch (1.5 or 1.6 or somesuch)has not been translated, but it really only had some minor tweaks, fixed a couple of tiny bugs, and a couple more missions.

so don't let some patch frenzy stop you from buying this excellent game. even my dad loved it.

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Will there be done any patches at all... ?

On the Elemental Games forum the russian patch scene was described:
The fans improve the code and make quests/Rts maps. Best quests etc. make it into the "patch". Some of the original developers are overseeing the work but the "patches" are kind of unofficial. No english patchwork is done (translation).

This is just a piece of info snatched from the chat section of the above mentioned forum. The situation might ofcourse have changed if some group of english speaking coders have a permisssion to do such work, but I haven't heard of anything like that going on.

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I bought the boxed version earlier this year and I only have one thing to say about it:

Sequel! We need a sequel!

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Yarlen

Join Date 01/2005

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Hi all,

Okay, a few wrap up points to questions I saw:

1) The version available from TotalGaming.net does not contain StarForce.

2) If you purchased the retail version you cannot register through Stardock Central. You'll need to re-purchase the game from TotalGaming.net.

3) The demo version will run for 2-years of in-game time. It is not limited by actual "real-life" time, so you can replay it if you want. I've played it several times and got 1-3 hours out of it. Note that zipping around space takes a lot of in-game time.

4) We currently have the latest version available to us from the U.S. publisher. If a new version is released to them, we'll update the version on Stardock Central as well.

5) The downloadable versions of Space Rangers 2 (anywhere online) do not contain Space Rangers 1 (which is why the online version is $10 less than retail). That game is will be offered as a separate purchase at some point in the future, though there may be discounts for those who've already bought Space Rangers 2 from TotalGaming.net (too soon to say for sure). If that ends up being the case, we'll likely let buyers know via email about the offer.

Hope this helps.

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I got about an hour out of the Demo myself. But then I didn't fly around trying stuff too much, was just doing the training quests. I got to the point where I jumped to another system, did 2 quests there and then the demo expired.

I want to finish my current GC2 game before I jump in because I can tell I'll be sucked in big time. It really looks like a great game.

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and i thought the updates up to v1.6 were for space rangers (1), cause i saw different highscore tables for versions up to v1.6 that mentioned "protoplasm" and this stuff can only be collected in SR(1) - not that SR(2) needs any bugfixes in my opinion

best user addons in patch : sounds like theres no other way to integrate custom RTS maps myself ?!

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back to playing "Brigade E5" , also a nice russian-developed-game (<- new word;)

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SR2 is just one of those incredible games that will be called a classic a decade from now.

It manages to meld so many gameplay types, each imperfect yet all coming together perfectly. At one point I liberated a system from the Dominators along with a military expedition, landed on a planet and was offered the chance to take part in the ground war. I accepted, up came a really fun RTS mini-game, and for an hour I was no longer playing a turn-based (simultaneous turn-based) space game (and trust me, turn-based in space sounds crap I know, but it works brilliantly) but a fully fledged RTS game engaging in a four way ground war, designing my own robots to fight it.

Another time I was thrown in prison, and for forty minutes I was in a text adventure, earning money and building muscle.

The most amazing thing is the living universe. The war continues without you, the Dominators conquer systems, the military form counter-attacks and strike back, and your fellow rangers fly about the galaxy doing piracy, fighting dominators, trading, etc. Even the news is real, you read in the news about pirates in a sector, and it's not flavour, and it's not some pirates being spawned there, it's simply that several AI pirates (or ranger pirates) have found it a good hunting ground and flown into and taken it over.

It's simply an absolutely amazing game and was EASILY 2005 GOTY (released 2006 in the States).

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I haven't got thrown to Prison yet.

I like the text adventures though. Except for the Jumper one where you have to Jump on different colored Platforms. I don't know how I pass that, I just got lucky picking it. I like the ski resort one. Damn..

This game owns.. even galactic civilization 2.

and I was a big Galciv2 fanboy. I just feel guilty cause stardock didn't make this game.

So, ya.. how bout a message board dedicated for us Space Ranger fans? Or should I say Space Ranger fans thanks to Stardock.

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I must say I'm enjoying this game. It is kinda nice to load up and make a few runs then maybe fight some Dominators in a system and call it a day. The text adventures are amusing at times and down right frustrating at others. Still they make for a bit of diversion and it is nice that you can restart them if you manage to screw it up. The RTS fights remind me a lot of ... and of course the game name eludes me. I think it was *Z* something or maybe just plain *Z*. Anyway it was robot fighting RTS where you had to capture factories and such. Pretty good though the enemy AI can be trumped pretty fast if you manage to pull its resource buildings out from under it since it tends to just send wave after wave of robots to be slaughtered. Had a mission the other day called Grand Canyon or some such where one AI had one factory and maybe 2 resource buildings and the other had the rest of the map save for your starting base and one other neutral site. Needless to say that was a royal pain until I figured out what to do and managed to have it basically won in the first 2 minutes. The rest was just mopping up.

All in all I'd say if you are looking for a game that can be picked up quickly but still provide many hours of fun then it is certainly worth the $20.

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I bought this game months ago before I knew it had Starforce "protection". After that garbage buggered up my system, I wrote the game off even though I had a tremendously fun time with it while it lasted. I think I might have to end up getting it here since I won't have to put up with invasive copy protections schemes. Thanks for giving an old game new life again.

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2 year game time in the demo?
That can't be. I wasnt even able to finish the tutorial. My demo expired after about 25 "days" of time, during which I traded some medical equipment for cash.
Not nice!

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Does anyone know if this game have proper widescreen support?

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Does anyone know if this game have proper widescreen support?

Sadly, no it doesn't.

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I just finished the game. Ending was okay, but with this game, the old saying is true. "It's not the Destination, its the Journey that matters." I'm gonna play again, this time as a Pirate. Last time, I was more of a Han Solo.

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I can't do the sodding quest where you're in a submarine and you have to retreive something from the ocean floor (I can't even Remember what it is i'm supposed to be retreiving!!), i've encountered this quest on several planets and have come to the conclusion that it's impossible!!

I'll just go back to digging my way out of my prison cell with a spoon then!

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