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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: DeepSpace9er on April 27, 2008, 10:51:13 am
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Yesterday I was getting a car oil change and I decided to look through some of the magazines sitting in the pile. The one I decided to flip through was none other than Popular Science, the latest issue. So in this magazine of technological innovations, science fiction, and whatnot, there was a segment on cute little things you can build yourself, a slight explanation of how to do it, and the overall cost. This one guy built this flight simulator cockpit complete with NO STAND stickers in all the right places and a huge 32" screen or so in front of him for all his flight siming glory.
The GAME he was demonstrating was a completely different story. It WAS Freespace 2 with slight UI changes.. the 2 angled bars in the middle were vertical and the radar had a different background, but other than that, it was the same Font, same Wing status indicators on the right, same energy management on the bottom, same text format even! Popular Science was calling this game Battlestar Galactica though. Perhaps I'm missing something, maybe he built his own mod for Freespace 2, but what looked like the briefing stage on one of the pictures appeared to be alot different.
EDIT: GOODNESS.. Here is it!
http://www.popsci.com/you-built-what/article/2008-03/better-way-play-battlestar-galactica (http://www.popsci.com/you-built-what/article/2008-03/better-way-play-battlestar-galactica)
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Popular Science was calling this game Battlestar Galactica though. Perhaps I'm missing something, maybe he built his own mod for Freespace 2, but what looked like the briefing stage on one of the pictures appeared to be alot different.
Man... you're in for a treat (http://game-warden.com/bsg/)...
:drevil:
I'm a bit confused as to how you've managed to evade it this long. :p
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:eek2:
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Popular Science was calling this game Battlestar Galactica though. Perhaps I'm missing something, maybe he built his own mod for Freespace 2, but what looked like the briefing stage on one of the pictures appeared to be alot different.
Man... you're in for a treat (http://game-warden.com/bsg/)...
:drevil:
I'm a bit confused as to how you've managed to evade it this long. :p
QFT. It's amazing that he could.
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DeepSpace9er should get out from under his rock more often. :D
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And here comes a title change.
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Oh, oh DS9'er, you must be stuck in a space-time distortion of some sorts ;)
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Well.. besides my lack of knowledge of this o-so-cool FS2 adaptation, its STILL worth noting that its been almost a decade since its release yet it shows up in Popular Science somehow...
(And yes, a title change would be great.. I hate my name and I hate my title)
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BSG Reimagined is probably one of the few reasons people outside of HLP/Game Warden/SG know what FS2 is.
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Popular Science was calling this game Battlestar Galactica though. Perhaps I'm missing something, maybe he built his own mod for Freespace 2, but what looked like the briefing stage on one of the pictures appeared to be alot different.
It looks like it is the BSG:BTRL demo (THE BSG mod for FS2), based on the picture.
BSG Reimagined is probably one of the few reasons people outside of HLP/Game Warden/SG know what FS2 is.
Yeah, that and the Babylon 5 mod that has also shown up in several magazines. I think those two are the "killer apps" of the FSO engine.
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It looks like it is the BSG:BTRL demo (THE BSG mod for FS2), based on the picture.
That's cause it is.
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This isn't even the latest issue. I happen to have a subscription and it was reported several months ago. I guess I never got around to mentioning it. I'm surprised it got a mention, but it would have been nice if he'd mentioned HLP or even FS2. I wonder if whoever the guy is posts here.
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He's a member over on GW but he doesn't post much.
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Wasn't this article noticed a while back?
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I do remember seeing it before, at least the whole cockpit setup if not the article itself.
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No, someone posted the whole article.
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Looks like it was about a month and a half ago.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,52586.0.html