Comments on: Jumpgate Evolution, shooty footage

By: CogDissident

CogDissident — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:50:28 +0000

The original Jumpgate: What if you made a MMORPG, and nobody showed up?

I still remember that in Jumpgate, I’d die (and loose my ship/equipment) more often trying to dock with the station, and I’d die to other players.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:31:45 +0000

It looks a bit… floaty. I know it’s in space and all, but yer Freespaces and X-Wings had a good sense of weight to them, which made combat more tactile and punchy.

Still, early game stuff, I guess. Interested, with a dose of skepticism.

By: schizoslayer

schizoslayer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:46:25 +0000

The 1-4 level experience was a bit simplistic, but I wasn’t asking for much… just staying in pace behind bad guys, shooting them up while evading fire from their friends.

This has now completely put me off. Levels? PAH!

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:21:10 +0000

I actually like EVE’s combat system. After all, in space, it’s a better idea to let the computer do the shooting anyway.

AGH! Here’s an idea! Instead of aiming at the ships, you select targets, and then select the error margin just in case the opponent is wiggling around to throw off your computations. Also! Missiles! Timing! Set to seek? Set to detonate in space? YOU DECIDE! It would be like Democracy…IN SPACE! WITH KILLING!

By: KingMob

KingMob — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:32:32 +0000

I played this for fifteen minutes at PAX and had a lot of fun.
The 1-4 level experience was a bit simplistic, but I wasn’t asking for much… just staying in pace behind bad guys, shooting them up while evading fire from their friends.

Oh, and the mouse-and-keyboard controls worked just fine. The mouse wasn’t that sensitive but using WASD for acceleration / deceleration / juke left / juke right felt good after a few minutes.

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:03:06 +0000

Control scheme is like my control scheme for K2. But more polished. And more likely to actually get finished. But with less gesturey stuff.

I’m not completely nuts, then.

By: coyote

coyote — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:53:29 +0000

In the world of the future….

Turrets have been forgotten.
Your enemy has tunnel vision, moves in graceful arcs and secretly likes to be shot at.

By: Nilocy

Nilocy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:09:00 +0000

This looks very nice. Hopefully you’ll have a wider range of ships than freelancer. I’m kinda hoping for a cross between that and Eve-online. Less waiting around to kill and more control over what you do.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:41:50 +0000

Also there better be ship-subsystem micromanagement. I used to play TF with a friend who wasn’t very very good at action games and so he would pilot and i’d watch and fiddle with his shields, weapon powerloadouts as necessary. Not quite as much fun and playing on my own, but still enjoyable in its own way!

Also Freespace was da bomb. Da bomb that blew up da sola system!

By: schizoslayer

schizoslayer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:06:53 +0000

I want Nexus for Capital Ships, I-War 2 for Piracy and Trading and Freespace for Fighter level combat. All in one game please.

By: Guido

Guido — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:01:11 +0000

I do hope there’s more than “move and shoot” in this one. Rockets, different shots, some kind of non-trivial interaction to make things interesting. I’m over the auto-attack kind of combat myself.

The graphics look really nice though, and with good controls and quests it might be just the thing :)

By: Carlo Zottmann

Carlo Zottmann — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:28:15 +0000

@Jochen: just like in the original game, you’ll be able to use a joystick to steer your vessel. Or your mouse/keyboard, whatever you prefer.