All Posts by DruAde

Recent anouncment from Codemasters was spring 2009.That said Net Devil will release when they are ready not when Codemasters dictate. Certainly more realistic than the 4th 1/4 predicted as we are not even in Beta yet,

Well they are still aiming for last 1/4 or this year for release. As far as I can tell from what they are saying they are introducing a novel way of starting beta. Instead of opening beta to iron out thousands of bugs and ideas they are actually finishing the game so it all works and all the systems are complete. Once the game is finished they are introducing closed beta to test balance and test for any bugs they have missed.

It looks like ND are trying to get the game working 99.9% before they actually let anyone outside the devs and a very small friends and family come into beta. The quote was "We dont see the point of letting people in beta if things are not pretty much finished because they get bored testing and reporting basic problems and give up."

If this is true then I would imagine ND will have a small closed beta lead in to open beta and then release. Of course thats all QED.  If I was to guess and its purely a guess , I would say closed beta might be around September and open beta end of November realease in Jan , Feb due to unforseen problems ect ect.

Pure guesswork that .

Unfortunatly from talking to the devs they only give us the "When we are ready" answer.

Watch out for the horrible community though we tend to answer all questions and welcome new people a bit too much and that obviously makes us the worst community ever,

Is this self serving thread still running on here . My god who is advertiseing the worst community ever now.?

Originally posted by NovaKayne

I am hoping for what they are promising.  JGC with a better economy and less reliablitiy on Player driven conflict.

JGC was fun but, it got tedious at times with all of the player driven drama.  At times you just could not tell WTF was going on.

JGE will be different Im sure but I hope it will keep the spirit of JGC.

Well JGC used semi neutonian physics. If you used thrust to go forward you continued n that direction but slowed down gradually . This of course ment you could turn your ship to face backwards and fire while still travelling in the origional direction . Depending on the weight of your ship or cargo this affected the slow down and indeed the acceleration.

The new game uses the same physics but has the option to use thrusters to give you a bit more control over your turns. You can turn them off but I didnt notice a lot of difference when i played the alpha.

If you dont PVP you can play on the PVE server where as I understand it the PVP is concentual. So you have no worries.

I will be pushing for a PVE and PVE server while in beta for sure as I dont want pure PVE players on the server I am on as it causes too much agrivation . I believe you have a choise on how you play your games and I dont want to infringe on anyones game deliberatly or accidently.

I played eve for a bit after I finished JGC . I always said EVE model with JG flight physics would be the perfect game. After playing for a while i decided it wouldnt be hahaha.

I hope for a strong economy and skill needed to actually fly well . PVP I hope will  need even more skill to defeat your oponant .

I played the game at connect 08 and it was very polished for an alpha but far too easy . That said the devs explained the game had been toned down for a new player experience and the ships had also been increased in size to make it easy er.

Im sure this will be tweaked a bit but all in all I was quite happy with what they have done so far. And yes I am a nasty veteran hostile JGC player.

I still find it difficult to see how the JG comunity is the most hostile after being on practicaly ever MMo forum that has existed from one time to another.

SWG forums we pathetic and full of idiots WOW forums were worse .  It is the nature of the beast and I have a feeling that some people automaticaly feel threatened by old school players from a previous incarnation.  The very small group of vaciferous players that tend to defend the old ways, and yes there are one or two and only that ,  can be a bit loud . Somewhat like certain others who were new to the forum who decided it was their job to wind them up and shoot them down.

I have seen this on many other gameing forums tbh the worst being the AOC forums where there were a huge ammount of vicious people who refused to listen to any argument. Happens everywhere and if you choose to take offence and feed the trolls then so be it.

The comunity is very good and very helpful and welcomes new people.

Theres idiots on all forums who cant articulate their arguments and these people usualy use the flame rudness. I call them forum zealots and I detest them. 

Taring us all with the same brush is a bit unfair IMHO and by no meens representative of the majority of the comunity who are welcomeing and helpful.

Outside you will run in high quality np at all. In the city we are all running at high performance in the busy areas like the crafting houses because the whole thing grinds to a halt woth FR at about 3-4 fps. If you drop to highest performance you can get 10-15 but it still stutters and hangs .

Not a problem as no one cares when crafting anyway. Great game BTW will be nice to sort the FPS out in town though.

It was as if 7 million kids screamed and were then silenced....................................

My daughter screamed when the expansion fecked the install. Serves her right for playing WoW hehe.

Fair enough , cant please all the people all the time I guess. Differences of opinion are always good.

They arnt even the same type of game either . Disney is no competition to FLS in the adult market.

Really? Do you really think so ?

Im supprised TBH as all of my guild think the graphics are fantastic. Its not WoW graphics for sure but I think WoW is plain cheap looking. POTBS graphics are a little more SWG looking . TBH I much prefer those to WoW type look .As I think the complete oposite to you Im guessing you play WoW .

Your opinions of course are valid but I cant agree at all I think POTBS graphics are fantastic.

For a game that isnt coimg out and will be overshadowed by other games that arnt even like it it looks prety good on the alakazam E3 video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1TZtMgADA