[Star Citizen News]Chris Roberts announces Announcement Date for new game!

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Exellent, good words

HeIIoween wrote:
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Exellent, good words

Nice catch! LOL

I really like the fact he has been enthused about what advances people have done with Freelancer - and the constant mention is bringing hope that this may be more Freelancer 2 than WC x.

After reading one topic in particular on that site though, I really hope the few thundering ego’s who have (imo) tragically straddled Freelancer, imposing their self righteousness, don’t damage the perception of the entire fan base.

Other than that, still giving a big WOOOHOOO! Posted about it on the Egosoft forums, as I know a fair number there enjoyed Freelancer as well

Times like these it’s a good job I don’t have the archive membership list… I’d be mass emailing people with a link

I want the graphics of Eve Online, but the gameplay of Freelancer. Nuff said. Oh and being able to walk on the planets. Not the whole planet, that would be too much time spent on development. Just the small part. I also wanted to take a walk in New London or one of the gardens with the panorama windows on one of the Freeports.

About Why’s comment, that pic reminds me of a website I have been roaming in sadness and hope about how a new Freelancer could look like:

http://conceptships.blogspot.com/

(Warning: You might never leave this blog)

We’ve all grown since the release of Freelancer and while I didn’t care about the details back in the day, the first question that came into my mind was the funding. Where will Roberts get the money and how can he convince those publishers to give space shooters one more chance?

The last thing I was really excited about was Jumpgate Evolution which was cancelled. It really looked like a 2011 version of Freelancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hd9KAa1Ty4

Yeah I was really looking forward to that Jumpgate And seeing how close it was to finished … even worse daaammmnnniiiiittt
But oh well, if this turns out as we hope, it’s worth it.

At this point, I’d be happy for anything. Even if his game doesn’t live up to my expectations (highly unlikely because I’ve enjoyed all of his other games immensely) it can only do good for a genre that is more or less dead. Hopefully it is successful enough to inspire other developers to follow suit.

We already have projects like Kinetic Void that are promising great things for space sims in general (provided they pan out, obviously).

What we do not however have is a multiplayer space sim that’s not EVE. This is why I hope it’s multiplayer in one form or another, preferrably following the FL model so that we don’t end up with another Black Prophecy (which is closing down this month, a year and a half after release).

I agree with you completely.

@ Mini_Me good to see your Nomad Hive ships I worked on a mod that used them a while back and they looked great!

This Chris Roberts fella really has injected a lot of enthusiasm back into FL and space sims, over 8000 replies in the poll and over 2000 posts in four days!

Great to see it!

FriendlyFire wrote:
another Black Prophecy (which is closing down this month, a year and a half after release).

What? Black Prophecy is down? What happen then i cloaking? It’s looks a nice game.

Emmanuel wrote:
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http://conceptships.blogspot.com/

(Warning: You might never leave this blog)
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Subscribed not so long time ago!
I recomend to all - very enchanting art.
I think It must be part of modern art - future coming so fast.

NeXoSE wrote:

FriendlyFire wrote:
another Black Prophecy (which is closing down this month, a year and a half after release).

What? Black Prophecy is down? What happen then i cloaking? It’s looks a nice game.

Financial problems. I’m guessing they didn’t get enough people playing for their freemium model to pan out. Bit of a shame, but the little I tried of it was so derivative, boring and laggy that I’m not terribly surprised.

As i see from rumors they used IP Block at the servers
Think is it normal to block half of the planet of players?

Well, it certainly did rather stop me from ever considering paying them, since I couldn’t play it at all due to said IP block.

Wait, what? They have been retarded enough to block certain IP areas totally out of their game, meaning from all servers? Like a bauss.

Tards.

They probably thought it’d help alleviate lag issues. After all, if lag is bad, and players have high pings to the servers, then why play.

May as well cut them out to minimise lag to those who have good pings and may therefore stay.

And upgrading the hardware apparently never crossed their minds.

I think they might just not have had the budget to upgrade the hardware.

Running an MMO is rather expensive.

Totally and utterly STOKED!!!

That is all…

FriendlyFire wrote:
I think they might just not have had the budget to upgrade the hardware.

Running an MMO is rather expensive.

Point taken.