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About Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition

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LIGHTSPEED EDITION

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

On the edge of Terran space lies Halcyon 6, a derelict starbase left behind by a mysterious precursor race. Your mission is to reclaim the derelict station and rebuild it.
A mysterious alien force is making a beeline towards Earth and this starbase is the best chance for the New Terran Federation to establish new alliances, research new technologies and otherwise figure out a way to stop the impending invasion.

Using only the resources you can salvage from the derelict station and gathered from nearby star systems, it’s up to you to rebuild the starbase to lead the Terran Republic’s scientific research, exploration and diplomatic efforts on the edge of known space.

Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a passion project whose design is inspired by our years spent playing classic games like Star Control, Master of Orion, X-COM, Civilization and new classics like FTL.

Features:

  • Base Building: spend resources to build station facilities (rooms) to enhance your production and technological capabilities, or build ships to help you control more territory
  • Exploration: assign your fleets to nearby star clusters, where they can handle emerging enemy threats, do missions for alien factions or secure bonus resources
  • Crew Management: assign crew to station facilities to greatly improve their output efficiency, or to ships where they can contribute in unique ways to combat, missions and events
  • Deep Tactical Combat: fight tactical ship or ground battles to resolve hostile events, create a foothold in the sector and ultimately defeat the enemy mothership!
  • Story Events: based on game criteria like rooms-built, alien diplomacy scores or officer traits/skills, the game will produce story events (often with multiple choice outcomes) that can lead to combat, time-related applied bonuses/negatives, officer attribute changes or any number of crazy in-game stories.

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
August 09, 2017
Developer:
Massive Damage Inc.
Publisher:
Massive Damage Inc.
Supported Languages:
English
Franchise:
Halcyon 6
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Features:
Steam Achievements
Steam Cloud

Singleplayer

Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 or 10
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 128MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended:

  • OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 or 10
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Mac OS X
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 128MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended:

  • OS: Mac OS X
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Linux Ubuntu
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 128MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended:

  • OS: Linux Ubuntu
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

Critic Reviews

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COGconnected

90 / 100
"Regardless of how well-received their initial product was, Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is an evolution of it."

The Overpowered Noobs

80 / 100
"Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is very much (if not only) a sum of its parts; luckily, Massive Damage made sure that each of those parts is well-executed. Hopefully, the...

Games.cz

80 / 100
"Free (for original game owners) remaster of the brilliant pixel-art star-trecky game brings many cosmetic enhancements. The campaign, among other things, has also a faster...
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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
Minimum:
  • OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 or 10
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 128MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended:
  • OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 or 10
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Minimum:
  • OS: Mac OS X
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 128MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended:
  • OS: Mac OS X
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition was released on August 09, 2017
Yes, Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition supports MacOS.
Yes, Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition supports Linux.
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is published by Massive Damage Inc.
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition was developed by Massive Damage Inc.

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