Wingmen are essential in Valkyrie, and if you find yourself without one, you'll quickly be picked off by enemy pilots. No, the reason you'll want to play with friends so that you have someone to watch your back when it all goes south, which is pretty much all of the time in the 8 v 8 skirmishes. Not because you need to have a specific team composition between the three aforementioned ship classes, or even that you need a particularly taxing plan in the three game modes. Valkyrie is a game you'll want to play with friends. The big draw is getting your hands on these ships and taking them into the multiplayer. I had the most trouble with heavy fighters, as their main gun is aimed with your eyes, which ends up feeling kind of exhausting – although this won't be the case for everyone. Later on, some of them will unlock tiny robots that also support or sabotage, depending on whether you and the ship that passes by them are on your side. The support fighter is a big departure, with an auto-aiming laser that'll help or hinder people depending on whether they're friends or foes. The best of the single-player content is the wave-based survival mode, which I found myself dipping into repeatedly to test out new ship configurations before taking them into the multiplayer. There's a "scout" mode in which players fly around maps looking for extra details, but after going in once to admire the scenery I promptly forgot about it, and am not likely to revisit. There are a few story missions, easy enough to clear in a few sessions and so simple they don't ever come close to representing the harsh realities of space-warfare you'll find jumping into the multiplayer. The single-player content is fairly thin on the ground. Every ship looks beautiful, and the story about cloned pilots signing up to be mercenaries – despite not really gripping me – is a great example of pulp sci-fi. They've been running MMO EVE Online for 13 years now, and although it's an entirely different beast to team-based shooter Valkyrie, it's clear that a lot of the lessons and lore they've built up working with spaceships shows here.
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The arcade physics may put off the hardcore, but for many it means that navigating the starfields full of space debris and asteroids is more manageable: especially as you're often having to contend with gunfire, pursuing attackers and the constant flash of missile lock warnings.ĭevelopers CCP Games know what it takes to make a space game.