Ensign-1 Soundtrack: Soar Among the Stars
Apr 23, 2012 Music 0 commentsFree download of Soar Among the Stars from the Ensign-1 Soundtrack!
Ensign-1
Only Human Studios | Released Apr 8, 2012
In Ensign-1 you play the role of a space fighter pilot returning from a deep space colonization mission. On arrival back to our own solar system, you find Earth has been colonized by a hostile alien force. It's now up to you, with the help of your mothership, the Ensign-1, to take it back.
Ensign-1 allows allows for complete freedom in approaching objectives. You can fight from the safety of your spacecraft, or land and exit to explore space stations and carriers on foot. You can commandeer any spacecraft in the game, no matter how big or how small. Defend an asteroid base, or take the fight to the enemy with a huge mothership, friends manning turrets, it's your choice.
The game also features a multiplayer mode where players can explore a randomly generated galaxy, either fighting co-operatively to clean out enemy fighters, or battling each other for supremacy.
SPECIAL NOTE: 2 Free keys to anyone that agrees to make a youtube video of the game!
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Latest News: New Sounds, HUD, Afterburners, Enemy Missiles
7 comments by onionman on Dec 28th, 2012
Ensign-1 has had a few updates lately: a few sound engine and cosmetic upgrades, and a few minor gameplay changes.
New HUD
On the cosmetic side, the HUD has been improved to provide players with information on their speed, pitch and heading. It's made of of scroll wheels that adjust in real time. In the future, I might add information on markers to nearby friendly and enemy capital ships.
New Sounds
Let me know what you guys think of this one. I've changed the sounds used for homing lock on slightly. Let me know if you prefer the change or would like it to be reverted. Here, give this a listen and be the judge...
I've also added a drone sound as ships are nearby, and you may also hear the occasional laser whiz by as well.
Gameplay Changes
Now to the good stuff. You'll now have a limited afterburner, or turbo, that you can use in game. This will give you a temporary speed advantage over your enemies making it much easier to catch them and shoot them down with your lasers. It also helps greatly when dodging missiles, which brings me to my next point....
If you sit around too long, you may find yourself the target of enemy missiles. That's right! It's not just you that are the predator now. Both allied wingmen and enemies alike have added homing missiles to their repertoire. Enjoy!
New Mission
There's also a new mission in the game involving the player stealing an alien ship to acquire some intel.
And another where you attack the pirate base.
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Ensign Wallpaper 1
Mar 13, 2012 Wallpapers 4 commentsCreated a wallpaper using one of our screenshots. Put it up for dl so you can decorate your OS with your fave space game.
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Highest Rated (11 agree) 10/10
Most indie games focus on simple concepts that can be fully exploited with a small budget. This has led to some great classics, but I feel the possiblity of truly grand-scale indies has been left untapped. Ensign 1 is the sort of game that I wish had 10 million dollars behind it. I knew from the summary that the game allows an FPS portion when your ship is docked, but I didn't realize that you can actually move around your own ship while it is traversing through space. This feature is already implemented…
Apr 21 2012, 8:41pm by Lemmywinks
Lowest Rated (3 agree) 4/10
Laggy, sluggish and terrible ship design.
Jun 15 2012, 2:21am by ikethepike
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Hello, I'd love to play your game right away it looks fantastic but I can't install Desura because of install issues. I know it's sort of out of your reach to deal with something like that but maybe you could create a windows stand-alone? Or maybe i'm an idiot and you already have the answer.... but even if you can't help I appreciate your time.
Have you tried contacting Desura support?
I like the game a lot, but the cockpit view makes me motion sick. It would help me (and others) out to be able to turn off the cockpit and just have a HUD (a la Freespace).
Yea that's not a bad idea, thanks man.
Will the graphics improve over time?
We've got some new artists on board, so that should help the visuals. I doubt the rendering engine behind it will change much though.
See your fearless wingman play Max Payned 3 drunk at Youtube.com !
Considering doing videos for this game once I buy it in a few seconds...(Co-owner of a Dutch youtube channel)
Just send them my way once you make them, and if they are good quality I can link to them in our next news update! In the future if anyone out there does youtube playthroughs and plans to make videos of this game, send me a PM of your channel and I can probably get you a copy to use.
Hey guys, next update is going to bring in a much larger world for players to explore! A network of linked gravity wells players can warp to, with varying levels of enemies inside them.