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

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/

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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/

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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.

I you guys want a game that more resembles Freelancer you gotta be more vocal. The “wing-nuts” are a very vocal group and upon inspection of the forums… it shows.

I know right?

I doubt Roberts watches the forums much though. They’ve already been in development for a bit and must have a pretty good idea of what they want to do. What we and the WC people disagree on are fairly fundamental points which are likely to be already set in stone.

I’m waiting on the official reveal before deciding whether I want to get involved or not.

I signed up too, got a golden ticket.
I just hope that it is as good as previous games and inspires some of the larger names out there to take an interest in space games again.