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Light of Altair for Windows

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Light of Altair is a sophisticated sci-fi colony builder featuring deep faction diplomacy and orbital combat. Players manage industrial growth across the solar system while navigating a detailed future-history storyline through a custom 3D engine.
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  • Pros

    • Custom 3D engine enables seamless zooming from galaxies to asteroids
    • Advanced shader technology delivers rich surface details and realistic lighting
    • Detailed tech tree includes over thirty unique weapons and buildings
    • Modular ship design system allows for custom equipment and hardware
    • Cinematic camera views provide immersive perspectives of orbital space battles

  • Cons

    • Narrative focus is strictly limited to single player campaign modes
    • Combat mechanics do not include ground based planetary warfare
    • Tech tree expansion is limited to thirty discoverable items
    • Diplomatic interactions are restricted to eight predefined factions
    • Shipbuilding options are constrained by specific schematic hardpoints
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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.0
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows 7
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
506
Downloads Last Week
7
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Developer’s Description

By Saintxi
Build colony in outer space and other worlds.
Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building game with a deep plot. Grow colonies from landing pod to metropolis, while sending off new spaceships to expand your territory to other worlds. You are not alone in space, 8 factions from different parts of the world are all following their own agendas in the solar system; diplomacy and orbital-combat are essential to learn.Light of Altair is based on a custom built 3D engine that enables easy zooming from galaxies all the way down to individual moons and asteroids covered in the colonies with their glass domes, mines and launch pads. Advanced shader technology is used to add rich details and lighting to surfaces.

Colony building on planets and asteroids throughout a system.Manage industries and colonists to grow from a tiny landing unit into a towering city.Detailed storyline based on a future-history of Earth.Rich single player campaign traced across the galaxy.Play out important plot events from different sides taking on the role of one of 8 different factions.Detailed tech-tree with over 30 weapons, buildings, and ship-mods to discover.Design ships: Pick a ship schematic and equip weapons, armour and mods to hardpoints. Then command shipyards to build a fleet from the design.Cinematic camera views of space battles in planet orbit.

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