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

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.

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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!!!

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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.

Forsaken wrote:
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.

http://robertsspaceindustries.com/forums/topic/will-this-be-a-freelancer-2/

Based on the interviews that he gave shortly before this came up, it would sound like he wants to do a more Wing Commander style game. If that’s true then it will have more in common with Freespace than it would Freelancer.

However all the news bits and universe building stuff don’t really sound like a mission-based game. They sound like something you would see or care about in a game with a more open world.

I don’t know. Like I said before the game could be anything at this point. Hell, I’m not even convinced there is a game yet. Primarily because I have no idea where the funding for this is coming from or going to be coming from. For all I know this is just Roberts testing the waters to see how much interest there might be in a potential space sim.

It’s two years down the road whatever it is, so can’t say i much care. Whatever is said there right now is worthless, gaming is mobile, cross platform, mmo and free to play from now on, joysticks can go to hell and the desktop pc is near it’s end as we know it. Intel and microsoft are as good as saying that.