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Title: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: BengalTiger on May 19, 2008, 07:37:54 am
http://heresywar.com/index.html

(http://www.dreambuilderstudios.net/screenshots/ss36.jpg)

(http://www.dreambuilderstudios.net/screenshots/ss40.jpg)
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: ShadowGorrath on May 19, 2008, 07:54:57 am
OVER MY DEAD BODY !!!

Looks good though.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Wobble73 on May 19, 2008, 10:51:49 am
Nah! The FSSCP looks way better! Could be an interesting diversion for a while though!
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: ShadowGorrath on May 19, 2008, 11:25:11 am
Too bad that I can't run it on my PC. Because the longer I look at those screenies, the more I want to play it. I might try to run that game, that needs 512 MB RAM minimum when I have 128MB RAM.

I always wanted to have a game where I can be in such a low orbit. In FreeSpace, even the best skybox planets look far. Are there any good games that don't need a super strong PC, and you can be in such a low orbit of a planet?
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Ransom on May 19, 2008, 12:28:05 pm
Another disappointment. The gameplay just doesn't feel solid, and the combat has no impact. It's very arcadey.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: haloboy100 on May 19, 2008, 12:45:54 pm
They don't make space sims like they used too..
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Herra Tohtori on May 19, 2008, 01:04:18 pm
The asteroids look like clumps of excrement. Or perhaps potatoes.


And where did they get that bastard child of a Colonial Raptor and a Cylon Raider...? :wtf:

Eh. As far as looks alone go, I am not very convinced. Gameplay-wise, could be another matter altogether, but I dare say that FS2_Open with MediaVP's looks better... and it would be damn hard to beat FreeSpace on gameplay, so I remain rather skeptic.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: SeanP on May 19, 2008, 01:32:27 pm
No.  And furthermore, hell no.

Did not play the flaking demo (can't be arsed to reboot to Windows), but damn that looks ugly as sin.  The HUD looks like pure fiction and the art direction is questionable at best (are those AC vents for a guy in a full vacuum suit?).
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Ransom on May 19, 2008, 01:40:30 pm
They don't make space sims like they used too..
The Tomorrow War looks hopeful at least. Cautiously hopeful, but still.

The HUD looks like pure fiction
Yes I for one would like some HUDs that look like fact
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on May 19, 2008, 01:47:08 pm
Hey? A space sim? Cool.

Maybe it sucks, but at least someone's making 'em . . . maybe it's the beginning of a resurgence ;)
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: SeanP on May 19, 2008, 01:47:36 pm
The HUD looks like pure fiction
Yes I for one would like some HUDs that look like fact

Let me rephrase that: half of the HUD looks like it's there for the sake of looking futuristic and cool, not for funcionality.  While I'm all for cool HUDs, everything there better do something useful while looking cool.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: haloboy100 on May 19, 2008, 01:51:12 pm
Hey? A space sim? Cool.

Maybe it sucks, but at least someone's making 'em . . . maybe it's the beginning of a resurgence ;)
Not if it's like Freelancer.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Flipside on May 19, 2008, 07:02:16 pm
First time I've seen any vehicle with a crotch vanity mirror...
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Unknown Target on May 19, 2008, 07:37:56 pm
I played it, wasn't very impressed, but posted on their forums and the devs took a lot of my comments to heart, so I'm pretty happy. It has potential, just has a lot to get through before it's realized.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Mars on May 20, 2008, 01:41:31 am
Don't go stealing all their fans with your sexy BTRL pictures  :p

Honestly though their English scares me a little, I'm hoping it's because it's not their native and not because they just don't care.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: BengalTiger on May 20, 2008, 12:47:01 pm
I played it, wasn't very impressed, but posted on their forums....
Did the same...
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and the devs took a lot of my comments to heart, so I'm pretty happy.
Lets see if they do the same with mine...
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It has potential, just has a lot to get through before it's realized.
That's why I posted my comment, I'd like to see this game come out, but it still has a few things that need to be changed.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Polpolion on May 21, 2008, 03:15:22 pm
I played it, wasn't very impressed, but posted on their forums and the devs took a lot of my comments to heart, so I'm pretty happy. It has potential, just has a lot to get through before it's realized.

The Devs listen to suggestions? Is this game really commercial? :eek:

I feel obligated to play it and comment now. Anything that'll help make the game more successful.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: haloboy100 on May 21, 2008, 05:33:14 pm
Think maybe you should tell them to compare it to a more authentic space sim like Freespace?
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Polpolion on May 21, 2008, 09:08:32 pm
Yes, let's all tell them to imitate a 10 year old space sim with a fan base of barely 10,000. :p

TBH, I can grow tired of the combat gameplay of FS quite quickly. If it weren't for the story and the diversity of mission types and beam cannons and modding and general atmosphere and beam cannons and HLP and diversity of ships, I would've given it up a few years ago. Hence why I made fast mod, not only as something fun to develop in itself, but it provides me with a bit more exciting gameplay.

It's just that this "heresy" gameplay makes me appreciate vanilla FS all the more. :p
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: BengalTiger on May 22, 2008, 01:50:48 pm
Think maybe you should tell them to compare it to a more authentic space sim like Freespace?

I think the physics in Heresy are better than those in FS...
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Polpolion on May 22, 2008, 03:58:01 pm
They are to an extent, but IMHO everything else is... well... horrible. Performance is sub-par regardless of settings, HUD is garbage, the mouse thing is stupid, the missiles are wonky, the interface is bad, the gameplay is medieocre, the voice acting is dull, the plot is epileptic, the combat is tedious.

It's better than Freelancer, but it's by no means good, or thankfully done. :p
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Rodo on May 22, 2008, 07:19:47 pm
been playing freespace for what.... 6 years now???

And i got to say... I`ve been playing freespace simply because it´s BETTER!!!, I dont know why but software companies tend to NOT making good space-sim games... and I`ve been searching a lot... and I always came back to fs.

And this one looks crapy. (specialy the screen with the pilot´s body on it... what about that??? is that some kind of rear mirror or is it just that the pilot is really "pritty" XD)
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on May 22, 2008, 08:08:28 pm
And this one looks crapy. (specialy the screen with the pilot´s body on it... what about that??? is that some kind of rear mirror or is it just that the pilot is really "pritty" XD)

       I assumed that was the communications screen myself.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Wobble73 on May 23, 2008, 03:37:48 am
And this one looks crapy. (specialy the screen with the pilot´s body on it... what about that??? is that some kind of rear mirror or is it just that the pilot is really "pritty" XD)

       I assumed that was the communications screen myself.

Same here, would be the logical conclusion, yet everyone else here seems to think that it's a mirror?? :wtf:
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Unknown Target on May 23, 2008, 09:06:43 am
Well that's because it's always on, regardless if anyone's talking or not.
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on May 23, 2008, 09:10:44 am
Heresy looks more FL-based. It looks like it uses the Agency FB font which Freelancer uses. :wtf:
Title: Re: Space shooter- worthy successor of FS?
Post by: Polpolion on May 23, 2008, 11:22:19 am
Not to mention the same flight-control system as FL...