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Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition

Released: 8/10/2017

Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition brings together the original Halcyon 6 base game along with all of the additional content (Combat & Customization, Diplomatic Diversions, Loot’em Up, and Morale Booster updates) released since launch in Sept 2016 as well as brand new Lightspeed Edition optimizations and features as follows: STREAMLINED CAMPAIGN Greatly speeds up progression and tightens the campaign to an action and adventure packed 12 hrs depending on your play style and pace STREAMLINED ALL SYSTEMS For faster progression, including economy, starbase, resources, and officer levelling. NEW OFFICER PROGRESSION SYSTEM With 6 subclasses, 3 Prestige classes, new skill tree, and over 20+ new Prestige/Epic powers. NEW SHIP LOADOUT AND CONFIG SCREEN Will let you customize loadouts (and save them) for your ships just before entering combat NEW DIFFICULTY MODE Called Vice Admiral and slightly increased difficulty across the board ENHANCED COMBAT Includes 25+ new alien faction space combat abilities, more combos for both players and enemies, increased faction weaknesses and resistances, and other balancing tweaks NEW UI OVERHAUL Designed for greater readability and usability. Many many UI quality of life enhancements to all areas of the game, too many to list here.

Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition brings together the original Halcyon 6 base game along with all of the additional content (Combat & Customization, Diplomatic Diversions, Loot’em Up, and Morale Booster updates) released since launch in Sept 2016 as well as brand new Lightspeed Edition optimizations and features as follows: STREAMLINED CAMPAIGN Greatly speeds up progression and tightens the campaign to an action and adventure packed 12 hrs depending on your play style and pace STREAMLINED ALL SYSTEMS For faster progression, including economy, starbase, resources, and officer levelling. NEW OFFICER PROGRESSION SYSTEM With 6 subclasses, 3 Prestige classes, new skill tree, and over 20+ new Prestige/Epic powers. NEW SHIP LOADOUT AND CONFIG SCREEN Will let you customize loadouts (and save them) for your ships just before entering combat NEW DIFFICULTY MODE Called Vice Admiral and slightly increased difficulty across the board ENHANCED COMBAT Includes 25+ new alien faction space combat abilities, more combos for both players and enemies, increased faction weaknesses and resistances, and other balancing tweaks NEW UI OVERHAUL Designed for greater readability and usability. Many many UI quality of life enhancements to all areas of the game, too many to list here.

Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition brings together the original Halcyon 6 base game along with all of the additional content (Combat & Customization, Diplomatic Diversions, Loot’em Up, and Morale Booster updates) released since launch in Sept 2016 as well as brand new Lightspeed Edition optimizations and features as follows: STREAMLINED CAMPAIGN Greatly speeds up progression and tightens the campaign to an action and adventure packed 12 hrs depending on your play style and pace STREAMLINED ALL SYSTEMS For faster progression, including economy, starbase, resources, and officer levelling. NEW OFFICER PROGRESSION SYSTEM With 6 subclasses, 3 Prestige classes, new skill tree, and over 20+ new Prestige/Epic powers. NEW SHIP LOADOUT AND CONFIG SCREEN Will let you customize loadouts (and save them) for your ships just before entering combat NEW DIFFICULTY MODE Called Vice Admiral and slightly increased difficulty across the board ENHANCED COMBAT Includes 25+ new alien faction space combat abilities, more combos for both players and enemies, increased faction weaknesses and resistances, and other balancing tweaks NEW UI OVERHAUL Designed for greater readability and usability. Many many UI quality of life enhancements to all areas of the game, too many to list here.

Critics
76

Score Breakdown

75.8

Critic Average

6 reviews

N/A

Steam User Score

Less than 50 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
N/A
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
N/A

Average of both sources

Review Timing

6 launch window (100%)0 late (0%)