History VideoGame / Transcendence

* DressingAsTheEnemy: In one of Benedict's missions, you and Benedict use a Penitent gunship to sneak into a Pentient sanctum.

** Weapon optimizer [=ROMs=] can make nearly any weapon fit this trope.

** Some of the friendly NPC''''s have a reputation for friendly fire in the community, to the point that getting killed by a friendly NPC is often called “[[PersonAsVerb getting Nasser’d]]” (after Anton Nasser, the most {{Egregious}} offender). This has resulted in a sort of tongue-in-cheek {{Fanon}} amongst numerous players that Anton Nasser falls into Category A or B as well, and that his generally friendly nature in-game is only a façade. Given that his weapons are [[ForMassiveDamage obscenely powerful]] for when you first encounter him, you won’t likely survive a bout of friendly fire from him unless you’re well into midgame.

** DevelopmentHell: Like the main game itself, the [[SoCoolItsAwesome most ambitous]] mods (particularly the official ones) undergo very long development times.

** A certain class of Auton will also malfunction when used and turn on its owner.

** A device that was added in one of the expansions generates ammo for a specific ammo-based weapon, effectively turning it into one of these as well.

* EquipmentBasedProgression: There is an ExperiencePoints system for using repair items and analyzers, but everything else is based on upgrading your ship's equipment.

** Eternity Port, an official expansion to the game, has factions that use yuan or euros as well.

* StandardSciFiFleet: Played straight with the Ares, including several classes of light ships, a freighter, a missile boat that is essentially a space gun, a destroyer, and even a dreadnought. The Commonwealth and Sung also play this trope straight to a degree. Subverted with several of the other factions, a few of which use only light ships.

* KnightsTemplar: The Syrtian leadership believe they are acting on the words of Domina and will commit any acts in her name (and they apparently believe themselves, though nobody else in-game would think Domina would cause the 80+ year long Syrtian war). The Iocrym use the same reasoning.

* EquipmentBasedProgression

Transcendence is a video game described by its creator, George Moromisato, as the fusion of ''VideoGame/NetHack'' and ''StarControl''. You choose one of three starships to travel between systems, gathering things to upgrade your ships to survive the more and more dangerous enemies, and trying to make it out alive.

* XMeetsY: As mentioned above, the creator calls this game "''[=NetHack=]'' meets ''StarControl 2''".

* GameMod: The game supports making modding a very simple process, easy to do; the developer even goes out of his way to make the game more modifiable! This has resulted in a spectrum of mods exhibiting various tropes (primarily quality-related ones).
** DevelopmentHell: Like the main game itself, the [[SoCoolItsAwesome most ambitious (and rightfully so)]] mods undergo very long development times.
** PurposefullyOverpowered: One mod was made to be this, designed to give the player absolute control over the game's universe. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's called G.O.D.]] ([[FunWithAcronyms Galactic Omni Device]]) and allows the player to do anything ranging from getting infinite cash and having access to every weapon in the game to enhancing installed devices and slaving every ship in the system to their will. It even comes with a [[BigRedButton big red button]] which causes [[HilarityEnsues hilarity to ensue]]. It is, however, worth noting that G.O.D. was designed primarily to facilitate mod-testing, hence it being closer to PurposefullyOverpowered rather than to GameBreaker.

* KnightsTemplar: The Syrtian leadership believe they are acting on the words of Domina and will commit any acts in her name (and they apparently believe themselves, though nobody else in-game would think Domina would cause the 80+ year long Syrtian war). The Iocrym use the same reasoning.
* LightningBruiser: The Ares' Deimos-class destroyer and the Commonwealth's Britannia-class gunship are AI examples. If you set up your ship right and survive all the way to the final system, you are most probably this as well.
* {{Lockdown}}: The Iocrym initially disabled the Sol stargate because they found life on Earth, and made it a nature preserve. After humans reactivated the gate and started exploring space, the Iocrym made first contact with them, studying the cause of the gate's activation, and then locking humans out of the rest of the galaxy "because of an unspecified threat". [[spoiler:Turns out it's the first of Domina's 2-stage plan to exterminate human race to stop Oracus from waking up. Maybe.]]

** Don’t bother using a blinder cannon on enemy ships. It won’t affect their aim.

Can be found [[http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence here]]. The game is partly funded through the sale of expansion packs that tell further stories within the same setting, but the game client and the main scenario are both free downloads.

** A device that was added in one of the expansions that generates ammo for a specific ammo-based weapon, effectively turning it into one of these as well.

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: The game would be very different if the game used realistic physics (invisible lasers, relativity, among other problems).

* BottomlessMagazines: Most of the lower-level kinetic type weapons have no ammunition limits.

* OneHitPolykill: The Katana Star Cannon is probably the most famous example.

* PortalNetwork: Stargates

** One illegal cargo you can find is "Bootleg Franchise/StarWars 3DVs"

** Some of the friendly NPC''''s have a reputation for friendly fire in the community, to the point that getting killed by a friendly NPC is often called “getting Nasser’d” (after Anton Nasser, the most {{Egregious}} offender). This has resulted in a sort of tongue-in-cheek {{Fanon}} amongst numerous players that Anton Nasser falls into Category A or B as well, and that his generally friendly nature in-game is only a façade. Given that his weapons are [[ForMassiveDamage obscenely powerful]] for when you first encounter him, you won’t likely survive a bout of friendly fire from him unless you’re well into midgame.

** Played straight with several stations hostile toward the player, however. They can freely shoot at you without hitting anything from the same faction.

Transcendence is a video game described by its creator, George Moromisato, as the fusion of ''NetHack'' and ''StarControl''. You choose one of three starships to travel between systems, gathering things to upgrade your ships to survive the more and more dangerous enemies, and trying to make it out alive.

* NonStandardGameOver: Aside from being killed by other ships or finishing the game, the player can also be arrested, die in a variety of rather gruesome medical experiments ("anything for science!"), be eaten alive, run out of fuel, or die from radiation exposure. This game is inspired by {{Nethack}}, after all.

* XMeetsY: As mentioned above, the creator calls this game "''{{Nethack}}'' meets ''StarControl 2''".