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Hosted Projects - Standalone => Wing Commander Saga => Topic started by: Tolwyn on March 04, 2012, 10:32:36 am
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You are cleared to launch, Wing Commander.
Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn has been in development for a decade. You have all been waiting for a long time, and so have we. The wait is finally over. The Wing Commander Saga team is happy to present you with the final Wing Commander Saga trailer! The trailer gives a preview of many of Saga's features, including a few that we have kept secret, but it also finally answers our most frequently asked question of "when is Saga's release date?" Check out the trailer and start the count down to launch!
(http://www.wcsaga.com/images/stories/20120304/2012030401.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N1w9Xw0j0I)
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Yeeeessss. :D
The wait shall finally be over. So far this is the biggest thing to look forward to this year.
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Very good :)
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Good trailer, looks very professional. Looking forward to the release.
BTW, are you going to include the trailer soundtrack? It's very good.
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oooh yeahhh this will be a glory day at 3 22 12
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BTW, are you going to include the trailer soundtrack? It's very good.
We will release our soundtrack, but this particular track won't be part of it. It's called "Call for Heroes", composed by Pierre Gerwig Langer, and can be purchased for 60 USD at shockwave-sound.com
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OOOOH SWEEEEEEEEEET! Messaged everyone I know about this.
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I know nothing about WC, but that trailer sends shivers all over my body.
Cant Wait :yes:
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Really looking forward to this.
What will the download size be?
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3.3GB (and the installation size 7.2GB.)
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Out of curiosity, why did you decide on this particular date? And why did you announce it two weeks prior to it?
You wanted some fans to die form anticipation to ease the server load? :)
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March 22nd marks a very special anniversary for us - Saga was founded 10 years ago... on March 22nd.
Other than that: our inability to meet a deadline has led to a number of jokes over the years. We decided not to announce the release date unless we were absolutely certain.
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I'm getting a bit nervous myself.
Having watched this all those years and having contributed a lot of stuff myself (I wonder what is left from my work in the game though, since most of it was done some years ago) I really hope that the players will like the game.
All the years a lot of people said "it is vaporware" and I told them "No, we are working on it, we WILL release" and sometimes I wondered if I was lying to them because of course there were times when the development was slower and we had sooo much to do and it looked grim because everybody had to to studies or work a lot.
I feel a little bad that I hardly could help the rest of the team anymore during the last few months, but I'm glad that others could continue.
It also really hurt that (Tolwyn just mentioned it) we couldn't meet sooo many of our deadlines. But that's life I guess.
And now we are finally there. And although I spent only a few hundred hours doing Saga stuff (compared to thousands of hours others worked) I am proud that I have contributed to the game.
I am really really nervous. I haven't seen most of the game, just a few parts and not how they fit together. I will download it just like the fans do and play it for the first time from start to end.
This is going to be great. And I am happy that I could be a part of it. Thanks Tolwyn, for recruiting me back in 2005 (or 2006!) :)
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You guys are ****ing awesome. I've never played Wing Commander nor really followed much of WCS' progress but I'm going to play your game because you guys kept your heads down and spent ten years of your lives finishing what must've felt like an impossible task.
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Great trailer guys!
And its even greater what you guys have accomplished :yes:
Looking foward to get my hands on WCS finally...
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That's damn good news right there! :yes:
Great work guys and thank for my ( a bit delayed ) birthday present! :D
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You guys are ****ing awesome. I've never played Wing Commander nor really followed much of WCS' progress but I'm going to play your game because you guys kept your heads down and spent ten years of your lives finishing what must've felt like an impossible task.
Never played Wing Commander? Wow. Go get it on GoG, it's a must play for shootem up fanatics. :) (albeit easy as far as 1 and 2 are concerned... Wing Commander 3 on Crazy or Nightmare difficulty... _THAT_ is another story)
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is this stand-alone or do you need FS2?
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Standalone.
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You need that guy from the movie trailers to say the text inserts in a totally dramatic trailer voice.
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Two days to go. Is this really happening? :eek2:
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Two days to go. Is this really happening? :eek2:
Think of it as a bad dream.
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I wish all my bad dreams were like that. At least this one doesn't involve monkeys. :)
I only hope I'll be able to download it on the first day. You'd better set up a capable host server and mirror it in several places, since the load is going to be huge.
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I only hope I'll be able to download it on the first day. You'd better set up a capable host server and mirror it in several places, since the load is going to be huge.
I wouldn't worry. We have partnered up with several sites on the internet, including www.demonews.de.
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You realize that only 10 days later you could have announced a release for April 1st.... and then could have actually released the game on April 1st. :)
But yeah.... no reason to spoil a major release like this with unnecessary drama. Still... you don't get many chances to troll on such an epic scale! haha.
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You do realize that on the 22nd it will be ten years to the day that the Wing Commander Saga project was officially founded? :lol:
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Besides, I doubt anybody would endure 10 more days of this torture. :)
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Besides, I doubt anybody would endure 10 more days of this torture. :)
I agree 100% :yes:
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Sooooo close!! :shaking:
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You realize that only 10 days later you could have announced a release for April 1st.... and then could have actually released the game on April 1st. :)
BtRL already did that. :p
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1 day to go, depending on where you are.
BTW, which time zone are you counting from, Tolwyn? I thought it's GMT, but I don't know where you live (though I wish I did :)).
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Well, judging from the release countdown timer on http://www.wcsaga.com/ it is still 21h33minutes away, so I'm guessing they are waiting for
1) everyone to be well into 22nd march before releasing
2) the end of their workday in order to be able to monitor the download and prevent stuff from going wrong
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20+ hrs left? That's the 23rd here :(
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1 day to go, depending on where you are.
BTW, which time zone are you counting from, Tolwyn? I thought it's GMT, but I don't know where you live (though I wish I did :)).
GMT+1, which makes it 7 p.m. here. As it stands, everything is ready on our end, we are just waiting for the coutdown to hit zero. ;)
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Seventeen Hours and forty minutes left!!!! :D Ten of which I'll spend sleeping, another five of which I'll spend at work, and the last two and change I'll spend driving and eating!
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I'm going to be relatively busy Thursday-Saturday, so unfortunately I won't be able to seriously play it until Sunday evening. I'm really looking forward to it though.
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3 hours to go. Do you believe it? Three freakin' hours!
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Is there a key to enable strafing in WC Saga, i.e. inertial disconnect like you could do in the Arrow V and Excalibur in WC 3?
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If you are referring to gliding (a.k.a. shelton slide), then yes. ;)
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Let me get this straight. You bumped a thread that announces the release of a trailer that announces the release of a long-awaited game, all to announce the release the day of?
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Let me get this straight. You bumped a thread that announces the release of a trailer that announces the release of a long-awaited game, all to announce the release the day of?
Let me get this straight. You are called G(l)0atmastr for a reason? ;)
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Just 45 minutes on the counter. I just can't wait.
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T-5 minutes. *holds breath*
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...now what?
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Try downloading it while the domain is bricked after the first five seconds of launch? :P
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Well, there goes the server. I should of known this was going to happen :P
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*strong bad voice* "404'ed!"
Edit: yeah, that's the risk with countdowns. People WATCH them. Fans particularly. Fans who wants the download. Obsessive fans.
Me.
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We've been scammed! Tricked and deceived! Victims of the Ten Year Troll! :lol:
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Just give us the release post, pleaseee. :D
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If you are referring to gliding (a.k.a. shelton slide), then yes. ;)
Right, the shelton slide. Bad ass! Congrats dudes! You did it! *tilts imaginary hat* Such an amazing accomplishment! Thank you all!