XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing
"Space Race" is not only a historical term describing the technological rivalry between several superpowers, which began in the 1950s and continues to this day with the emergence of new participants in the person of private companies, but also a description of the gameplay of XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing.
And best of all, XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing is a realistic to hardcore project. This is not arcade flights in near-earth space on intergalactic fighters, but a simulator for the construction of rocket modules, thought out from the point of view of physics and ballistics. In general, if Kerbal Space Program met Need For Speed and they had a child, it would be XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing.
He said - "Let's go!" - and waved the manipulator
Reactive inertial motion in three-dimensional space is one of the most difficult mechanics from the point of view of physics. It is rather difficult to predict where and how an object will go if a certain force vector is applied to it. Accidental activation of the wrong engine can lead to the fact that the rocket-propelled drone will be carried away to hell on the middle of nowhere or to the nearest obstacle.
This is why flying a spaceship in a good, well thought out jet flight simulator can be incredibly difficult. For example, we can even take a game that is quite simple in terms of gameplay - Outer Wilds (a story-driven indie action game that was released back in 2018 and still regularly appears in streams and letsplay thanks to its touching setting).
In Outer Wilds, one awkward movement, one incorrectly applied vector sends the character into incredible distances. But I just wanted to get to a planet, an asteroid or a space station dangling in the heavenly heights ... As a result, you have to adjust the movement in a panic, and the fuel is not infinite, throw out oxygen, and as a result ... As a result, the time loop restarts, and you again fly in an unknown direction .
XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing also does not forgive mistakes in jet propulsion control. Did you activate the motors incorrectly when cornering? You fly into the wall. Did you turn on the wrong nozzles that you would like? You fly into another wall. Therefore, you need to control not only accurately, but also as quickly as possible - otherwise, more accurate rivals will come to the finish line first.
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By launching XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing, the player enters the rocket drone test range. The location is a chain of curved corridor tunnels along which this very drone must fly. Jet rocket nozzles are used as the engine, so that the satellite is in flight all the time it passes the route.
The controls seem pretty simple at first glance. You need to turn to the left - no problem, turn off the left motors, turn on the right ones, the laws of physics will do their job and move the drone wherever needed. Likewise, if you need to turn right.
Only on the tracks in XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing there are practically no "normal" turns left and right. Most often, the trajectory is crossed by loops, wells, some crazy spirals and other serpentines. And collisions with walls and obstacles destroy the long-suffering small drone.
The developers themselves have foreseen that the management will make you very nervous. Therefore, they "hung" on the "Arrow up" and "Arrow down" keys to restart the race and load the last checkpoint, respectively. Indeed, these keys are pressed too often.
But with the arrows to the left and right, everything is simple. By pressing them, the left and right jet engines are activated, respectively. Therefore, in order to fly straight, you need to press both buttons at the same time. But, on the other hand, direct flights through pipes and tunnels in XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing are a painfully rare phenomenon.
During the flight, you will need to fight not only with inertia, but also with gravity. Despite the fact that the physics of XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing is sharpened for some kind of weightlessness, some gravity is still there - and it can significantly interfere with the passage of loops or a well.
XTHRUST Multiplayer - Rocket Drone Racing
XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing has a multiplayer mode, but it's added for show. It is impossible to meet two drones on the same track. Each player is given his own track, and at the end it is simply determined who came first and therefore well done.
Therefore, there are no fundamental differences between multiplayer and single-player mode in XTHRUST - Rocket Drone Racing. In any case, at the time of the existence of the game in the pre-alpha version. Perhaps a full multiplayer mode will be added in the future.
