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Offline Cabbie

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on: January 03, 2005, 06:36:00 pm
Did a search on the forums and can't find any old topics about it so...

Found this game while doing some random search on space sims:

http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/starwraith4/index.htm

The screenes looks interesting though. I'm now downloading the demo.
 

Offline Corsair

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Reply #1 on: January 03, 2005, 06:47:52 pm
*downloads demo*
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Unknown Target

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Reply #2 on: January 03, 2005, 06:49:39 pm
Pretty effects, but has the ugliest ships ever.


And look! even THEY have a cockpit! :p :D
 

Offline MatthewPapa

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Reply #3 on: January 03, 2005, 06:50:17 pm
Hmm, screenies arent really that impressive, except for the backgrouds which are spectacular.
 

Offline Lynx

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Reply #4 on: January 03, 2005, 06:51:48 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Unknown Target
And look! even THEY have a cockpit! :p :D

:nod:

Freespace and WC4 are the only space games without cockpit,every othergame has it.:nod:


The textures are uglee, but the ship designs themselves are nice.
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Offline MicroPsycho

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Reply #5 on: January 03, 2005, 07:01:14 pm
screenies look pretty nice except for that starfighter. I wuldn't want to be restricted 1 ship either (a couple more isn't much better)....and there is so much blue!
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Offline Cabbie

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Reply #6 on: January 03, 2005, 07:08:20 pm
Just played a few mintues of it. Love their radar system very intuititive but I agree the textures are ugly :P. Seems like good fun on the first few minutes though.
 

Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #7 on: January 03, 2005, 07:21:56 pm
That fighter's got a touch of Arwing about it

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Offline Corsair

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Reply #8 on: January 03, 2005, 07:40:48 pm
It kept stopping every two minutes or so to "reload graphics and gameplay features".
It'd be nice, except for that. So, :no: from me.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Grimloq

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Reply #9 on: January 03, 2005, 10:05:59 pm
fun game. IIRC its a few years old, and its by an INDEPENDANT game developer.

demo was fun-ish, but im not really interested...
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Offline Thorn

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Reply #10 on: January 03, 2005, 10:37:18 pm
Good lord that HUD is hard on the eyes.
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #11 on: January 04, 2005, 04:03:18 am
Ship models are utterly, utterly awful.  I realise it may be an indy developer, but it's not like there's a shortage of people who can make and texture  ship.
 

Offline Unknown Target

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Reply #12 on: January 04, 2005, 10:50:54 am
Not even texture, the ship models themselves suck.
It's ok...but the AI is really annoying, especially when they keep flying in front of you. At least in Freespace 2, it's not deliberate: your buddies actively fly around and behind you. In this, anyway you move they move to stay in front of you.
« Last Edit: January 04, 2005, 10:56:17 am by 368 »
 

Offline Shrike

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Reply #13 on: January 04, 2005, 02:52:50 pm
That HUD looks absolutely full of wasted space and color.  Way too prominent.
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Offline Lynx

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Reply #14 on: January 04, 2005, 03:03:00 pm
multicolored HUDs > monochromatic HUD's

The gauges are too big, but I like the general style a lot.
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Offline Unknown Target

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Reply #15 on: January 04, 2005, 02:22:51 pm
The whole HUD is this massive over-cluttered mess, I don't like it at all.
 

Offline Carl

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Reply #16 on: January 04, 2005, 02:33:52 pm
those models could really use some improvement.
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Offline Carl

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Reply #17 on: January 04, 2005, 02:34:34 pm
why do all my posts keep ending up several posts behind the last post?
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Offline Psychoo

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Reply #18 on: January 04, 2005, 02:56:27 pm
Read the game's story. Replace "Vonari" by "Shivans" , "Federation" by "NTF" and we have Freespace 1 & 2 in short story.

Demo is quite intersting... have a specific atmosphere of garage-made game. But  I agree that ship design is totally ****, as well as the HUD.
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Offline Unknown Target

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Reply #19 on: January 04, 2005, 03:37:12 pm
Psychoo's right, the storyline is pretty much a throwaway.
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