Jumpgate Evolution E3 2008 Developer Walkthrough videos

Wild_Bill

Hell, I'm just surprised GG isn't gushing everywhere after the appearance of his beloved "turrets" in the second video! HA

Seriously though, it doesn't look too shabby really. At least they have SOMETHING but being told "spring of 2009" was disheartening to say the least. Was that "boost" we were seeing or a version of "zoom" from a 3rd person viewpoint? I'm not going to knacker it too badly without actually playing it regardless. I do wish he'd had it on a MUCH larger monitor (60"?) where I could have had more detail. Then again, I'm viewing it on a crappy 15" monitor. Nevermind.

Wolfkin, thanks for posting the videos!

Tim

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Originally Posted by netburnr

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Who cares what they do to the sim, as long as the stats don't count. If people want to live in pretend land killing some sorta boss thing, so be it.

hahahahAHAHAHAHAHAhaha.. right.. because the folks in the _sim_ are the ones doing something that doesn't count in real life.

irony+++

Tritian

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Originally Posted by netburnr

Welcome to being an oct.

Yeah, hah. I'm having trouble drumming up any sympathy towards biteme's remarks. =D

As long as the BOOST mode is tied into the fuel and doesn't get recharged or recharges very very slow, then it might be a suitable replacement for FF's.

biteme

Oct's so mistreated, I shed tears of MS for you every night=P. I'm just saying that battles without a boost system would be boring and take too long.

Wolfkin

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Originally Posted by Wild_Bill

Wolfkin, thanks for posting the videos!

No problem, you're welcome.

daslog

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Originally Posted by GrimGriz

I was referring the battleground things with equal teams and objectives

MY bet is that they put in rewards for doing it.

Ambrosius

Regarding the "cloud effect" -- these effects effectively replace the "space bricks" to give you a sense of motion and inertial vector. The bad news is that, the last I heard, the coulds would be the ONLY inertial vector indicator -- i.e. we would not have the little HUD arrow (or anything similar) any more.

Regarding the apparent flight physics. I agree that it looked HORRIBLY arcade-ish, but a) he was flying 3rd person; b) he was using dampened mode; and c) he was continually zooming in and out with the camera perspective -- which made the physics looks totally EnB-ish (yuk).

I have grave concerns about dampened flight mode and also about hitbox sizes. You can completely ruin skill basis simply by making the hit boxes too big. He seemed to be blowing up AI ships while hardly looking at the screen.

biteme

well put your glasses on ya old fart the bricks are in the viedo I guess they changed there mind.

Ambrosius

I'm not concerned about the bricks, stooopid

... I'm talking about the vector indicator arrow.

biteme

I know ya are retard but the arrow is unnecessary if the bricks are in and judging from the video they clearly are

Tritian

i found the arrows very handy when speed docking. much more so then the space bricks

netburnr

I personally need the arrows, both for my vector and the target's relative position to me.

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	Wild_Bill Member Pilot Name: Wild_Bill Faction: Octavius Joystick: MS Sidewinder Precision Plus Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Abilene Texas Posts: 800 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: Jumpgate Evolution E3 2008 Developer Walkthrough videos Hell, I'm just surprised GG isn't gushing everywhere after the appearance of his beloved "turrets" in the second video! HA Seriously though, it doesn't look too shabby really. At least they have SOMETHING but being told "spring of 2009" was disheartening to say the least. Was that "boost" we were seeing or a version of "zoom" from a 3rd person viewpoint? I'm not going to knacker it too badly without actually playing it regardless. I do wish he'd had it on a MUCH larger monitor (60"?) where I could have had more detail. Then again, I'm viewing it on a crappy 15" monitor. Nevermind. Wolfkin, thanks for posting the videos!
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	biteme Member Pilot Name: biteme Faction: non-aligned Joystick: TM FF After burner II Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Michigan Posts: 244 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: Jumpgate Evolution E3 2008 Developer Walkthrough videos Oct's so mistreated, I shed tears of MS for you every night=P. I'm just saying that battles without a boost system would be boring and take too long.
		__________________ Dedsquirrl on Human Evolution: Once Evolution produces Bearsquirrels and Sharkbirds, we are screwed. Our only option will be to turn to the Dolphinponies and beg for protection. Half of the population will be destroyed by our new allies when they try to ride the dolphinponies and are beaked to death in a squeaky rage. I just hope my anus laser is developed enough so I can get a job as a gardener for one of our more affluent overlords.


	Ambrosius Member Pilot Name: Ambrosius Faction: Quantar Joystick: MS FF2 Join Date: May 2004 Location: The Stone Temple Posts: 1,860 Nominated 4 Times in 3 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 3	Re: Jumpgate Evolution E3 2008 Developer Walkthrough videos Regarding the "cloud effect" -- these effects effectively replace the "space bricks" to give you a sense of motion and inertial vector. The bad news is that, the last I heard, the coulds would be the ONLY inertial vector indicator -- i.e. we would not have the little HUD arrow (or anything similar) any more. Regarding the apparent flight physics. I agree that it looked HORRIBLY arcade-ish, but a) he was flying 3rd person; b) he was using dampened mode; and c) he was continually zooming in and out with the camera perspective -- which made the physics looks totally EnB-ish (yuk). I have grave concerns about dampened flight mode and also about hitbox sizes. You can completely ruin skill basis simply by making the hit boxes too big. He seemed to be blowing up AI ships while hardly looking at the screen.
		__________________ Many of the things I hear about Jumpgate Evolution disappoint and concern me . . . but I look forward to beta and release to (hopefully) be proven wrong. -- Ambros.


	Tritian Member Pilot Name: Tritian Faction: Pirate Joystick: Mouse Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Behind you. Posts: 881 Nominated 5 Times in 2 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 2	Re: Jumpgate Evolution E3 2008 Developer Walkthrough videos i found the arrows very handy when speed docking. much more so then the space bricks