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Offline Dilmah G

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
I'd introduce more realism and newtonian flight model.


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I don't object to realism if it means ships are slightly faster, but TBH, I think :v: got the balance quite well with what they've got at the moment. They wanted it to play a bit like a WWII dogfight with all the good bits, and I can't say they missed the mark. :)

 

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
I would like to be able to change weapons and / or fighter during a mission. For example in  carriers.
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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...


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2. Make FS2 ships tougher, stronger, and/or faster to establish an actual 20 years gap in technology. Ie. The Hecate should actually fit its tech room description
I agree with this one. Look at the Seth and the Herc II for example. The Seth is how many years old by the time of FS2? The Herc II only outperforms it slightely
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Well, I would claim there is a very low marginal utility of R&D on spacecraft quality. Most "big improvements" might have been found out and implemented in the craft. What is left might be only very marginal improvements, and you need to do a lots of research to find them.

 

Offline Enigmatic Entity

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Fix the ugly line progression during explosions and have a more powerful explosion, but with more ships pieces left over.

Change the weapon effects so it actually looks like they are doing some damage and aren't just a blob of colour (like some of the new flak effects). Faster speeds of weapons may help with this.

Perhaps a FS2 intro style beam effect for the large ships, so it makes the beam look difficult to control. An increasing size of "fireball" as beam burns through ships.
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Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Reduce debris damage, goddamnit! :mod:
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Perhaps a FS2 intro style beam effect for the large ships, so it makes the beam look difficult to control. An increasing size of "fireball" as beam burns through ships.

That can be done.

 

Offline IronForge

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
It would be an open world MMORPG working exactly like EvE, but with less caps and twitch based combat.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
It would be an open world MMORPG working exactly like EvE, but with less caps and twitch based combat.

Wouldn't that be a totally new game, and not really FreeSpace at all?

 

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
And also not really good, either?

 

Offline Dilmah G

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
It would be an open world MMORPG working exactly like EvE, but with less caps and twitch based combat.

Wouldn't that be a totally new game, and not really FreeSpace at all?
And also not really good, either?
Amen to all of that.

 

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Haven't we discussed this somewhere else already? :nervous:
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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Hmm......... FS MMO..... screw eve though.
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Offline Shivan Hunter

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Squadwar!


let's see... if I could remake FS... reasonable, organized and documented code so the SCP could spend less time fixing inane [v] bugs!

Also more dakka... This may have a lot to do with limitations of the time, but faster weapons and faster (not necessarily more maneuverable) ships (especially capships) can make FS incredibly fun. I've been fiddling with some tables- not necessarily a complete mod per se- and faster ships certainly make for better gameplay. The play area seems much smaller, and the range of weapons such as beams and trebuchets becomes very relevant to gameplay and mission timing.

Also, much more variance in weapons. Autoaim defined on a per-weapon basis- more interesting secondaries- more interesting flak! Flak at the moment is really pure dakka- rapid-fire weapons in general present some really interesting potential that is really not explored in FS.

Although it seems like BP is going to be improving on some of this, from what I've seen of the WiH videos. :drevil:

 
Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Squadwar seconded!

Eh, I would have liked drifting myself. And faster movement.

 

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
I forgot about SquadWar... :nervous:
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Offline Narwhal

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Also, I would make it so collision actually kills you if you have no shield (at a normal speed), or fairly damage you otherwise. Of course, I would ALSO improve the IA so that it does not collide every single time.

 

Offline Enigmatic Entity

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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Damage modeling on ships. That would be fun, but hard to do right...
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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Damage modelling? Isn't that what Esarai was trying to do two months ago?
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Re: If you could remake FreeSpace from scratch...
Damage modelling? Isn't that what Esarai was trying to do two months ago?

yeah, and he made something that crashes FSO.
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