it's only been out a few days - give it a chance. I also could never call Freelancer "cheap" - I find its 3D graphics beautiful, the gameplay polished as well as engaging and the environments very immersive.Sure, everyone's welcome to their own opinions, but come on. drawing pages from his own games, many of which predate the whole EV franchise (the Wing Commander series, Privateer, Strike Commander and Starlancer). obviously, as it's Chris Robert's brainchild, if Freelancer is "copying" anything, it's C.R. It's just difficult to see Freelancer being called a "cheap 3D PC copy of EV". From what I've seen of EV it has much more in common with games like Star Control 2 and Solar Winds (except with trading playing a stronger role). I happen to agree.I was mainly objecting to the crap on Freelancer. Quote:Originally posted by DaMantis:I don't think he tracing any lineage. ![]() Hell, I am already ~80% finished with it, the trick will be trying to recall what I was thinking when I was making it. I didn't like the story line when I played it on my mac, but then again, that is what plug-ins are for- View image here: - If there is any backwards compatability with EVO plugs, I might just finish mine and release it. I'm looking foreward for the port to the PC, but am not sure how happy I will be with it. Lol, well, I just had to remeniss for a minute. ![]() I was a mission developer (I have no graphic expertise). We worked a long time on it, but things fell apart at the end. I was also a developer of a new version of the Babylon5 plug-in, but that never finished. I think one of the reasons I didn't finish/release the plug-in is b/c I cannibalized so many other people's mods, I couldn't remember everyone for the read-me- View image here:. I made new outfits, new ships, new governments, etc. I did give it a lot of plot, and I think I was even expanding on many of the other wars. The thing is, it isn't easy beating a dozen UE Cruisers or a half-dozen Voinions Dreadnaughts- View image here:. I expanded on the Voinion War to the extent where, if you were the Voinions, you would begin to decimate the UE, or vice-versa. This reminds me, maybe I SHOULD finish the mods, just for closure. Lol, I personally spent so much time on EV:Override that I don't know where the months went - View image here: - I have developed about a half-dozen, half-made mods. It said unless you are a registered user, you cannot play mods for EV:Nova. I hacked the game with ResEdit and to my disappointment, IT WOULDN'T load. It was very asthetically pleasing, but at the same time, I immediately felt inclined to cheat, get a good ship, and pass it ASAP since I have owned EV and EV Override. I have a PowerMac 6500 upstairs and it can run *barely* EV Nova. ![]() So, anyone else really looking forward to this?-fuzz. I'm guessing a full version is getting closer all the time. According to the Progress Log, Beta 7 was released to testers back on February 20th. However! There is a fully functional beta being tested right now. The graphics are great, for 2D, but it's the gameplay that really, really shines.Several hours later, I was lamenting the fact that if FL had included more EV stuff in it, that it would be nearly perfect, when a little bird whispered in my ear, "Remember? They're porting EV:N to the PC!" So I went out and googled around, found Ambrosia Software's site (damn you Captain Hector, damn you to hell.)Unforunately, no, for those of you thinking this is announcing what we all want to hear - no, EV:N has not yet been released. EV is a 2D, top-down space adventure/rpg that literally stole months of my life back in the late 90s. (I've never owned a mac, and always used an emulator to play EV). FL was a 3D version of the fantastic series of games for the Macintosh - Escape Velocity. After playing for a mere hour or two, I was astounded. Maybe we'll get to meet them / have our faces melted by them later.So, I recently went out and picked up Freelancer, cause I tend to enjoy space-type games. So there's not much to do there.Īlso there are weird alien lifeforms all over deep space. The Polaris are isolationists with technology that surpasses our own. To the "east," past Port Kane, is Polaris space. You can fly there pretty safely in a civilian ship, though they don't tend to respect traders much. In addition to making war on the Federation, the five warrior houses vie for control of the imperial seat. To the "galactic south" is the sweeping Auroran Empire, who are humans who turned to feudalism during the post-collapse dark age. the top of the starmap), law and order slips more and more and pirates and rebels are running the show. In particular, as you go towards the "galactic north" (i.e. It's relatively peaceful and stable, though frayed around the edges. The Federation is what remains of the galactic council. Planetside, Barry lays down the political situation for us:
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