Comments on: Space Week: Bonus Battlestars

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:51:57 +0000

Oh awesome. I’ve been dying for a BSG mod for Sins since it came out, but I didn’t realise there was already a HW2 one. I’ll be reinstalling it right away. Beyond The Red Line is technically impressive, but I just don’t find that style of gameplay all that fun, outside of a bigger picture context like Elite.

Sal, work on a BSG mod is underway, but it’s probably going to be a long while before anything playable emerges. In the meantime, you could do what I did and replace the sound files with BSG audio clips. It works very well for things like phase jumps and battle alerts.

By: Sal

Sal — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:37:18 +0000

can someone MOD Sins of a Solar Empire with BSG?

By: AbyssUK

AbyssUK — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:03:08 +0000

FRAK!

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:49:16 +0000

@Ravenger

I seem to remember Star Lancer let you do something similar, it was also surprisingly BattleStarry and hard sci-fi with opposing capital ships smashing the bejesus out of each other as you nimbly picked off enemy torpedoes and bomber wings, life pods and spacy debris was left in your wake.

By: Ging

Ging — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:41:59 +0000

X3 also uses Newtonian physics to maintain ship momentum.

In BSG it seems some of that effect comes from the use of the maneuvering thrusters to help maintain the speed /control during the strafe.

By: Ravenger

Ravenger — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:35:11 +0000

The Independence War games on the PC are just about the only space games that allow you to pull off the physics based moves you see in the dogfights in BSG.

For instance, in the Resurrection Ship episode the Vipers strafe a big target by turning sideways while keeping their same direction of motion. You can do that in I-War, in fact it’s one of the main combat techniques in the game.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:16:56 +0000

That recap has actually made me more confused. I guess I really ought to buy the dvds or something. I lack the patience for torrenting any more.

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:35:42 +0000

Well, after watching that recap I am both slightly sad that I didn’t watch the new serieses before; and I now know enough to start watching them when they come back. Yay!

Oh yeah, and the new series of Dr. Who is going to have yet more Daleks.

By: ran93r

ran93r — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:59:56 +0000

Can’t wait till friday, wooo!

(well, torrentday)

By: Faraday

Faraday — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:52:19 +0000

Oh good lord. I’ve never followed Battlestar Galactica, but decided to watch the recap anyway. Way too many Boomers, Deaths/Rebirths and President switches for my tiny mind to comprehend.

Also as far as I can tell, everyone’s a Cylon.

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:26:40 +0000

The amount of win in this thread is threatening to collapse into a wingularity which will remove all suck from the internet and condense it into a pile of matter no larger than a pinhead. Keep it up RPS!

By: wcaypahwat

wcaypahwat — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:33:05 +0000

Ahh, I wonder what I ever did with my toy of that robot bear/dog thing. And my Cylon ship. Damn not realising the value of toys as a child!