Jumpgate: Evolution Comments by Oli Welsh
Space saving.
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I'm watching this but hoping Black Prophecy can do even better.
No real info on pvp assets like space stations etc, might have to browse on over to take a deeper look at the features. You have to worry about the number of devs though, can they regulate that evironment and respond to threats from exploiters etc? |
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I'm a little worried about the controls. WASD for a space game? I guess it worked okay for Freelancer, but the "feel" of (the original) Jumpgate was quite different, a lot more "realistic". Circle fighting had a lot to do with managing velocity, radius, afterburner fuel, Flashfires (a kind of booster) and, of course, weapons energy. It was rather involved. I hope they manage to bring this intricate system to the new Jumpgate...
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I played the original jumpgate for nearly 4 years. I played this at Connect as well at the weekend and this is looking as though its going to be a very good game and a welcome break from the fantasy mmorpg worlds that are being chruned out.
I'm a little worried about the controls. WASD for a space game? Its not that bad actually. W and S are used to throttle up and down and A and D are used for ship strafing, directional control and aiming is still by joystick or mouse. And its still got the near-newtonian physics that the original had in it with drag and so forth, which is useful as you are strafing past battlestations taking out turrets and reactors :) |
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I loved the original as well, and played recently for a month or two after a massive break, and got right back into it.
Still pony at PvP though. :) I set up a Eurogamer group at http://gamers.eurogamer.net/groups.php?g... Come join! |
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BradMillette
27/03/08 @ 12:31
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If this is what Earth & Beyond should have been, I might just sign up.
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dirigiblebill
27/03/08 @ 12:39
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a game in search of a lost constituency of big kids with flight-sim joysticks who are still chasing the dream of being an X-Wing pilot.
/lip wobbles /salutes framed copy of Colony Wars |
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PearOfAnguish
27/03/08 @ 15:20
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Allegiance is free to play now, ya know, MS open-sourced it: http://www.freeallegiance.org/
"Yet another space game where space, instead of being black, is full of hideous glowing purple plasma. Why does every space-set video game look like less like outer space than a 40-year-old episode of Star Trek?" Erm, maybe because it would otherwise be quite dull to look at? Perhaps they should introduce realistic space travel, too, so it takes years to go between planets, and millions to travel to another galaxy.
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reality_cheque
27/03/08 @ 15:50
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I can see it now PoA... I set off for another system, and eventually my grandchildren will have the joy of arriving at a strange new world!
Unless my kids got bored of making minor adjustments to the flight plan and logged off to play Bioshock 7 that is. |
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AphoticCosmos
27/03/08 @ 20:35
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Reflex-driven space combat MMO?
Awesome! Signed up for a Beta key and hope I get it, because the way it's looking I could easily get hooked on a game like this, being a lover of X, Freelancer and Elite. |
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