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Offline Flipside

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
The link works ok for me :)

 
Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
Yep, seems to have been nothing more htan a hiccup.

Continue rejoicing at the publicity.
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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
Link works here, probably just heavy traffic. Great to see FS_Open get the mention it deserves :)
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Offline Roanoke

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
The article says FS goes for £50 on ebay. Might be time for some dodgy xbox360 style profiteering, me thinks.

 

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
I'm there now.  I submitted a news post, but can't authorize it for some odd reason.
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Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
*applauds*

Well deserved, SCP coders :yes:

....since when is the Galactica the largest vessel ever in FS ?

EDIT: Ok, the whole text is somewhat inaccurate, but what the hell ...any PR is good PR
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Offline Skippy

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
What exactly did they put on their DVD?
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Offline Lt.Cannonfodder

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
As cool as this is, the article is so full of errors I feel a bit apalled. Bump mapping? Galactica the biggest ship in FS_Open?  :wtf:

 

Offline Martinus

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
Can we get the author of the article's contact details? I'm sure he would appreciate a few thank-yous. :nod:

 

Offline BlackDove

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
As cool as this is, the article is so full of errors I feel a bit apalled. Bump mapping? Galactica the biggest ship in FS_Open?  :wtf:

Yeh, well you can't expect everyone to know everything and god knows what the hell they've been saying over at Game Warden.

Anyway, it's good to be in the news, even though if it's a little faulty.

 

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
and god knows what the hell they've been saying over at Game Warden.


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Offline BlackDove

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
Well when you've seen people post that Inferno is FS3, you know that some people are just that insane.

 

Offline Fineus

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
Heh... seems recognition is a two edged sword.

Congratulations of course to the SCP team and any modder who put some work into FreeSpace. You guys are what puts the community on the map.

That said, it's a shame that - as impressive as mods such as the BSG mod are - their particular details are quite incorrect. Still, any exposure is good exposure at this stage.

 
Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
Exposure goodness, despite the inaccuracies. LOL. The BSG is still quite dwarfed by the Colossus and the Sathanas. I dont recall ever claiming that it was the largest ship (scale-wise) in FSO, but it does have 50k polys that have yet to be matched in this engine. :)

 

Offline Dog909

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
That's why I'm here - having just read about it all in pcgamer
:)
Lots of excellent work going on here - the vid of the battlestar
galactica conversion looked spot on so I thought I'd see what
all the fuss is about.
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Offline BlackDove

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
Exposure goodness, despite the inaccuracies. LOL. The BSG is still quite dwarfed by the Colossus and the Sathanas. I dont recall ever claiming that it was the largest ship (scale-wise) in FSO, but it does have 50k polys that have yet to be matched in this engine. :)

Galactica as beautiful as you made it, really doesn't have much to do with the amount of polies making it look awesome in comparison to something else.

Naturally more polies, the better and detailed it looks, but we all know that polies mean **** all when it comes to quality and necessity of the vessel (I can make a 100k poly mass that looks like utter **** and has no efficiency), so having any kind of a "match" towards poly-count is nonsense, considering a contest doesn't exist, neither it is a feature to be measured (like penis size for example, which has its advantages and disadvantages).

...and that kind of boasting was probably what got the guy writing the article to make such omissions - like I said, god knows what you're saying over there at Game Warden.

Non-the-less, BSG project is something everyone should be proud of in the community, especially your work that contributed to it considering the current popularity of the show. Don't think there are any disputes about that.

That's why I'm here - having just read about it all in pcgamer
:)
Lots of excellent work going on here - the vid of the battlestar
galactica conversion looked spot on so I thought I'd see what
all the fuss is about.
FS2 is d/l'ing as we speak  :)

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« Last Edit: January 16, 2006, 02:27:18 pm by BlackDove »

 

Offline karajorma

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
I dont recall ever claiming that it was the largest ship (scale-wise) in FSO, but it does have 50k polys that have yet to be matched in this engine. :)

Actually you said almost exactly the sentence that is mentioned on the page at one point but you were refering to poly count so the phrase has probably been mistakenly taken out of context.
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Offline MetalDestroyer

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
In Canard PC a french News paper, Fs 2 Open was mentionned with the greatest mods ^^ (Inferno, TBP 3.2, Deus ex machina, and so on).

 

Offline Taristin

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Re: Freespace Open gets a mention in PC Gamer (UK)
I was promised bumpmapping. I WANT BUMPMAPPING!!!!
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