Tachyon is still very much ALIVE, ONLINE, and MULTIPLAYER!
Base Wars and Arena are the multiplayer type games offered.
Arena is just that: head to head Deathmatch where the winner has the most kills. great for learning how to fly, and learn weapons outside of the more serious strategic variant of multiplay, called BASE WARS.
In Base Wars, you mine crystals through 10 "Tech" levels.
At each tech level, you gain access to bigger and better weapons, ultimately ending up at tech 10 where you get the heavy nukes called "HELIOS".
tTo win, simply fly repeated missions to your enemy's life suppport plant located at the heart of their base, and drop 24 Helios bombs.
flight speed is a tradeoff of weapons and slots for each weapon.
so the Faster ships carry less weapons, slower ships are more heavily armored and are loaded to the teeth.
Base Wars games can last anywhere from 16 minutes to well over 2 hours dending on how hard each team is playing to win.
Tachyon has hands down the best flight model of any game on the market.
stop on a dime braking, and full afterburner thrust in reverse, as well as lateral thrusting makes the flight engine in Tachyon very unique flight experience.
if you crave fragging go for ARENA
if you like a little more strategy in your game, then BASE WARS is just right for you.