I know it's only an alpha but I like most of what I've seen of it, and it's good that the old Elite "3d" radar is back
Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Background: In 1982 some boffins at Cambridge University worked out how to make a sandbox universe where you could fly your spacecraft and fight/trade/explore/pirate the galaxies. 8 galaxies of 256 stars, each with individual stats and info. In 3D. In 32Kb. That's 38068 bytes, people - about an email.Watch it Here.
The big publishing companies at the time said 'Hell, no' to this sandboxing malarky. At the time everything had 3 lives and a high score. Yet it got published by an offshoot of the BBC and the numbers sold were massive.
Years later, the authors, Braben and Bell, made 2newerversions, they allegedly fell out, last game was buggy etc everyone got prissy (allegedly, of course) and then acted like dicks over rights whenOOlitegot released for free to play and download. The dicks are alleged.
Nowadays, thekickstarterfor a new, 21st centuryElite: Dangerous, raised a lot more than they expected. Looking to go live in March/April.
I have attached a few videos to see if anyone else on FoH has any interest in this. Is this another has-been with a vision? If this is a game on your radar, post thoughts below.
Gorrfink.
Declaration: I'm inAlpha - but its looking bloody good so far.
The big publishing companies at the time said 'Hell, no' to this sandboxing malarky. At the time everything had 3 lives and a high score. Yet it got published by an offshoot of the BBC and the numbers sold were massive.
Years later, the authors, Braben and Bell, made 2newerversions, they allegedly fell out, last game was buggy etc everyone got prissy (allegedly, of course) and then acted like dicks over rights whenOOlitegot released for free to play and download. The dicks are alleged.
Nowadays, thekickstarterfor a new, 21st centuryElite: Dangerous, raised a lot more than they expected. Looking to go live in March/April.
I have attached a few videos to see if anyone else on FoH has any interest in this. Is this another has-been with a vision? If this is a game on your radar, post thoughts below.
Gorrfink.
Declaration: I'm inAlpha - but its looking bloody good so far.
Tuco
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I'll be playing this when it comes out. I've got no real interest in playing the alpha or the beta version though. In most games I have a pretty high tolerance to bugs, but in space flight sims where there might be a half hour between save points a bug can be extremely frustrating, especially since the first half of a mission or flight sequence might just be flying to the interaction point with only scripted voices or the low hum of the engine to keep you company.
Gorestabb
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Frontier 2 was great. It was Frontier: First Encounters that was the problem. When I first got it the game wouldn't even start and the configuration program wouldn't work with soundblaster cards. As it was before the days of the internet being in common usage they advertised in PC gaming magazines, and you had to send in a coupon/letter to request a floppy disk with a patch on. Even then there were masses of problems, and the storyline involving the aliens never worked properly.
Krag
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It's an in-house engine they call Cobra. While the Kickstarter only began in late 2012, the engine's been around for years and is in it's fourth evolution. It certainly feels solid.
https://frontier.co.uk/our_technology
Tuco
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Tuco
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Just a real life question for everybody.... do people's FOV change when they press the accelerator on their car's gas pedals?
"Cockpit movement is currently under discussion in the alpha forum. As the movement is very likely to cause motion sickness, it is turned off by default for users of Oculus Rift"
- posted today on the Frontier forums
Tuco
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That's good. I'm so tired of racing 'simulators' shifting my fov by 20 degrees when I accelerate. The people who like that shit probably love shaky cam and motion blur.