Comments on: June For Jumpgate

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:06:57 +0000

Reminds me of I-War 2 (still one of the best spacey-flying-shooty games ever, and despite being very old now, it has barely aged at all – graphics are even pretty good by modern standards), where you used a fairly X-Wingish flight model by default, but it was all an illusion. That wasn’t drag you were feeling – it was your thrusters making you FEEL like it, and if you switched the camera to outside your ship, you could see them firing.

You could turn off this ‘assisted flying’ model and suddenly you were floating completely free, with nothing to stop you. It became a dizzing, nightmarish system in a single buton press, and it was BRILLIANT.

By: Surgeon

Surgeon — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:30:11 +0000

You can switch between two ‘modes’ of flight in JGE.
Dampeners either on or off.

‘Dampeners off’ uses a near newtonian flight model called DANCER, which is used in the original Jumpgate.

With ‘Dampeners on’ it is more akin to Freelancer or X-Wing.
Dampeners on was introduced to make JGE more accessible.

For anyone wanting to know more about Jumpgate Evolution, the Wiki is a good place to start.

http://jumpgateevo.wikia.com/wiki/Jumpgate_Evolution_Wiki

By: phuzz

phuzz — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:49:50 +0000

Orbiter is a win, if only for running the saved demo of a Sputnik launch in real time on a huge screen on a loop.
Trying to control any part of it yourself is a nono though.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:03:46 +0000

The graphics look pretty fine to me. It’s hard to criticize texture detail on a YouTube video! Check out the screenies on the website.

Tei, there’s a game out there made just for you called Orbiter (http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/) which models space flight to exacting detail. It’s boring as hell but that’s the price you pay for slavish dedication to realism.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:07:56 +0000

Ryan: JG Evolution is an update/remake/sequel to the original Jumpgate, released ages ago, which was – to all extents and purposes – Elite Online.

You fly around space, shoot stuff, trade, shoot more, buy, sell, shoot, fly and shoot again, and it worked brilliantly. The only real problem was that it came out in the era of 56k/ISDN connections, and looked pretty aged even when it first came out.

So long as they fix the problems, this could be a real hit.

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:53:03 +0000

Hmm, I guess I have to read more about it, this is the first time seeing the game in action and I’m simply not impressed with the action, textures, animation.

I’ll have to read more on what actual game play this game has but this just seems like an arcade style space sim (see freespace) that they shoved into an MMO package.

I’ll reserve final judgement till I read more about the game.

By: Tagert

Tagert — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:41:05 +0000

Doesn’t list Australia, or even Asia/Asia-Pacific. How disappointing!

By: Gorgeras

Gorgeras — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:18:27 +0000

Hurrah! The website lists UK and EU as *seperate*!

Sound the giant obnoxious trumpet of Blighty!

By: ThearmyofNone

ThearmyofNone — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:52:41 +0000

Looks a LOT like Eternal Silence, mod for HL2 that’s been consuming all my free time lately.

By: cjc

cjc — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:07:51 +0000

… and now I can’t go back and edit my random use of the possessive apostrophe. Bah.

By: cjc

cjc — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:03:11 +0000

I loved the original Jumpgate, and have high hopes for this. Glad that RPS are covering it, too, as Jumpgate was before it’s (always on broadband) time and suffered from low population. Hopefully it’ll do something to balance the online gap for playable fun space-shooter that Eve has highlighted by being deep, impenetrable and vast.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:57:30 +0000

Tei I bet you’re the life and soul of all the parties you don’t go to.

Looks pretty swish, and yeah the trailer looked very BSGish.