Evochron Legends 1.288
May 19, 2010 Patch 3 commentsExpanded Ship-to-Ship trading and new control mapping options are featured in this latest update for Evochron Legends.
Evochron Legends is a free-form mercenary space-sim that focuses on 'lone-wolf' survival gameplay. You can play the game in a variety of ways and complete many activities including buying, trading, negotiating, bribing, spying, racing, escorting, transporting, mining, exploring, cleaning equipment, clearing paths through asteroid fields, recruiting, protecting, hiring crew members, fuel harvesting, and designing your ship.
EL is a technical simulation, not a character based simulator, so you are not limited by pre-selected character roles, skills, or attributes. Your decisions and actions define your role in the game and establish your reputations, wealth, progress, and ranking. The emphasis is on real-time tactical gameplay strategy for both combat and non-combat objectives. You are in control of your ship virtually all of the time in open space, including player controlled combat and planetary descents.
Your ability to successfully pilot around or through dangerous objects in space, develop trade strategies, evade detection, harvest resources, efficiently explore for hidden benefits, and transport people and items can be just as important as your skill in combat. The game also rewards players who devise their own gameplay strategies and 'think outside the box'. With diverse optional objectives and many paths to choose from, EL offers an amazing level of freeform gameplay.
EL features unified gameplay profiles for both single player and multiplayer. The upgrades, ships, equipment, money, and commodities you earn in the game can be used in both the single player and multiplayer modes. You don't have to give up your progress in these areas when switching between single player and multiplayer, nor do you have to give up what you earn when you join different multiplayer sessions.
Everything you do in the game takes place in a seamless universe without system 'walls' or 'rooms' that require a jumpgate 'door' to access. There are no required warp gates or trade lanes to restrict your travel and hold you back. You can travel anywhere you want, with or without jump drives and gates, as long as you have the fuel and time to get there. You can descend into planet atmospheres (without loading screens or sudden environment flipping) to land at city trade stations, mine valuable materials, or explore for hidden items. You can escape to nebula clouds for sensor cover or hide in a massive asteroid cave for protection.
Design your ship for the role you want to play and customize the appearance by adjusting the position/scaling of the various parts of your ship. Whether it's combat, exploration, mining, trading, racing, or a variety of other activities, you'll find many ways to play and advance in the game.
5 comments by SFSW on May 20th, 2010
The update can also be downloaded from the game's website here: Starwraith.com
The installer provides the entire game and also works as a patch to update older versions. This update adds the following:
- Improved update version compatibility checking system.
- Ship-to-ship multiplayer trading system expanded to support more simultaneous players.
- Players can now map the 1-9, 0, -, +, and Back Space keys to other functions.
- Excalibur missile pack no longer disappears after a save during recharge.
- MDTS retains its setting better when switching views.
- Missile hardpoint limits for AI ships recalibrated.
- Oxygen prices reduced significantly.
The updated server program is also available at the game's website here: Starwraith.com
Expanded Ship-to-Ship trading and new control mapping options are featured in this latest update for Evochron Legends.
Improved flight and weapon system functionality highlight the improvements in this latest update.
Improvements to jump point navigation and mission specs for contracts are some of the improvements in this latest update.
Latest update for Evochron Legends. The main improvements for this update include physics, modding, flight control, and gameplay options.
Latest build for Evochron Legends, version 1.128. Installer doubles to update older builds of the game.
Latest build for Evochron Legends, version 1.108.
HELP ME !!!! I get the message:
System Error: ERROR 165 D3D Devices do not support backbuffer bit-depth and HW Acceleration
What should i do plz ? I have a GTX 260 and the latest driver
That error means Direct3D isn't yet enabled on your system. So your drivers are may not be installed properly or your installed version of DirectX is not up to date. If you're on XP, you can use DXDIAG to check the 'Test Direct3D' buttons. If they are grayed out, then D3D is not yet enabled. If you're running Vista or 7, then you probably just need to update DirectX 9.0C to the latest version as the version that comes with Vista and 7 is a bit outdated and lacks several important DirectX files. Use the Microsoft web updater for DirectX available here: Microsoft.com
PLEASE HELP RUNTIME ERROR 37!!!!!!!!
'thevegimobil' - Error 37 is a result of resources being blocked on your system, usually caused by some other program running in the background interfering with the game, preventing it from loading media it needs. Visit this forum thread for details on solutions: Starwraith.com
For those of you that love space-sims, PLAY THIS. RIGHT NOW. Don't ask any questions, just stop what you're doing and play this NOW. This is an amazing game, with a galaxy's worth of stuff to see. You can act any way you want. You can a mercenary, pirate, peaceful trader, help the navy, and much more. It can be a calm, relaxing exploration of secret systems, or a fast paced space battle with lasers and missiles. Unlike other space-sims, you can seamlessly fly down to a planet without any loading screens or "gates". This game has so many secrets and hidden objects (planets, stations, etc.) that I have yet to meet anyone who has found them all. You can play alone, or MMO style online (I personally recommend the Babylon 5 server) and use the same save profile for both. The community is small, but the plus side is that everyone knows each other and are usually very friendly and helpful. In short, the best modern space sim out there. Believe it or not, the game was made by a single guy (known as Vice on the forums) who frequently updates it and handles customer support, as well as helping out players on the forums. He also does a much better job than most (possibly all) "professional" game companies, and works much faster too. ONE. FREAKING. GUY. See that "Download Evochron Legends" link? Click it. NOW. Then, once you have seen the work of art known as Evochron Legends, get your credit card and pay for the full version. I expect to see you out there.
what are the system requirments for the game?
this game looks alot like Freelancer, my favourite game.
Must try it.
Even with low budget some people manage to make reall good games, such as this one. I kinda wish a big-wig from the game industry saw the potential of this one
pretty cool. i think...
wow this looks really cool space games are awsome :) I think you guys did a good job on this :)