Sorry folks, but I'll have to disappoint again. As always when you're desperately trying to finish stuff and make it all polished, lots of unexpected issues are popping up left and right. I'll have to delay the first playable release to January. At least I don't come empty-handed: there's a brand new trailer for your enjoyment...
So yeah... some turrets need better placement, weapon effects need to be fixed and fine-tuned for a bunch of devices, devices need to be balanced and missions need more playtime and bug hunting. It just wasn't supposed to be this year, I guess.
Anyway, January it is now. Heck, even if it's still buggy and unfinished, I'll just release SOMETHING to get you started, I guess. Until then, enjoy the few new screenshots and of course the brand new trailer!
I didn't even intend to make a trailer, but seeing my plans for 2010 vanish I just wanted to give you something... even if just to convince you I'm still working on this mod. No, you nay-sayers out there: it's not dead, I'm not calling it a wrap and leave you with a few shots and crappy gameplay movies. I WILL release a Freespace mod, however bad or awesome it'll be (*fingers-crossed*).
That's it for now, I guess.
Although it's not quite here yet, I wish all of you a happy new year! Hopefully we'll see each other next time in 2011 with a fresh mod release :)
Looking epic, nice work and release it when you are happy with it. We can wait...
Great work so far Arparso. This is looking fantastic!
Looks awesome, cant wait for a release ;)
wow... just wow....
cant wait for the release!
Wow, just WOW. Only just found this but it looks awsome, many people underestimate the power of the Nexus game engine, there are so many possibilities for this game.
really impressive. :)
looks good. How do you get fighters into combat without destroyers carrying them? If I recall correctly, the Nexus engine demands a carrier vessel for all fighting combat craft and that Deimos does not have a fighterbay in Freespace.
I simply warp them in via subspace. Two possibilities here:
a) smaller cap ships like cruisers and corvettes get a "faked" fighterbay - for the game it appears to be just a regular fighterbay with plenty of docking points, but visually it looks as if fighters are jumping in right next to the ship
b) use of an invisible carrier ship as spawn point, using the same technique as above - this way you could spawn fighters everywhere on the map, without the need of a bigger warship
Both methods are already implemented in the mod, giving some flexibility regarding mission design.