Before I dive into this article, I wanted to thank all our fans and followers for voting us into the top 100 upcoming mods of the year. Without your continued support and appreciation, we wouldn't be where we are today. Hopefully, if you like what you have seen in the last year, you'll take the time to vote for us again in the upcoming mod of the year section. (Just click the image above to bring you to the place to vote for us)
Now, to show you some awesome eye candy! I wanted to showcase the work of our lead effect designer, FriendlyFire. He has been toiling away for the past several months improving all effects of the game and adding many new ones of his own. The first video I will show illustrates the new engine glow effects he's painstakingly crafted. Each ship requires several hours of work to get the effect just right. Fortunately, FriendlyFire's attention to detail is uncanny and it really shows in this work:
For all of you explosion junkies out there, this video will surely be a treat for you! FF's mission over the past several months has to improve the explosions in every aspect of the mod. He's spent dozens of hours to achieve this by crafting new .ALEs (the code which allows effects to work in Freelancer), new textures and timing of sequences. For the player, this means you'll see some amazing explosions while you play the mod. Because it's the MOTY awards we wanted to release his current masterpiece of the Imperial Star Destroyer Death Sequence.
Enjoy!
Once again if you like what you see we'd really appreciate the vote in this years MOTY in the upcoming section.
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Brilliant work, FriendlyFire, these lighting effects are spectacular! I cannot wait for this to be released... +1 vote for Mod of the Year!
Thank you!!
Amazing stuff!
May I ask, how will these new effects affect performance online during large events like ME's and TE's where there are large numbers of players in close proximity to each other?
Otherwise, looking great!
Effects are a client side concern so it depends a lot on the individuals computer specs. Furthermore, we don't plan to have events like ME and TEs in FW:ToW. Remember, we're not making 18.xx ;) we're making something completely different where we focus on day-to-day gameplay rather than two event weekly gameplay.
Ah, thank you. Look forward to hearing more about the new gameplay.
Not a problem. Will release more about that when we have all the small details worked out.
Any ideas when you are going to release?
Hoping for a beta release on April 2nd 2011. But we'll be posting news in the next few days which may delay things...for good reason, too. What W0d has done will change the way Freelancer is played forever :) And yes, I'm being cryptic :D
Thanks for info i'll keep tracking! What would be game changing is if we can walk around hanger bays of capital ships and ****!
lol. Yes, that would be. No, this is more in the graphics department :)
Could you please upload the videos on moddb for the german fans?
Already have:
The Engine Effects: Facebook.com
The ISD explosion: Moddb.com
I just love the way the afterburn triggers 2 other exhausts next to the main one, nicely done guys :D
This is looking really awesome will you be adding wide screen support on your mod?
since vanilla freelancer doesn't support it
Yes, we have widescreen support already :)
Spectacular! Great work once again.
Impressive, most impressive. Great work as always guys.
this is awesome... makes me want to play freelancer again. your work is great. keep it up. dont let i die. plz
Thats freakin tight dude.
but the explosions look somewhat..blurry? around the edges and somewhat when they start to disappear.
@ :20 that was awesome.