Hands of Justice
The Lounge => General Gaming => Topic started by: Taith on December 02, 2008, 06:58:07 PM
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Came across some concept art (http://jumpgateevolution.com/concepts.php) for what looks like a patch/expansion to Jumpgate.
Jumpgate was the first MMO I actually ever really wanted to play. I was a Privateer addict back in the day, must have played that game through three or four times, and then I played Tie Fighter and fantasised about the Privateer game on the Tie Fighter engine. Yes, really. It would have been awesome. I had a 386, what can I say?
Anyway, I was within Oz's then primitive internet back then and was a poor uni student, so I merely got to stare wistfully at Jumpgate's website via dial-up at uni. Anyone play it? Or heard anything about this patch/expansion?
A bit cheeky of me to ask, perhaps, given all the EVE threads I see here lately. Nevertheless.
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Cons: Consensual pvp. Level based for skills and such. Cant fly huge ships, mainly stay in smaller frigate type things. Sharded universe (Multiple servers, unlike EVE's single cluster world); Twitch gameplay in an MMO is very tricky to handle, just look at how much ping STILL matters in FPS games online and then extrapolate...
Pro's: Joystick flight. Space is very shiny. Procedurally generated pve content, rather than "fetch me 20 space boar livers". Player run economy - make it like eves and it'll be good. Base it in the game as part of a no death losses thing and the economy will really become the AH in space.
I applied to the Beta. New waves get invited in every so often, I am waiting. Just to see for myself if the cons list is something I can reduce for myself personally :)
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I think that the lack of joystick support is what makes eve run smooth. Think calculations on positions are much easier that way -> less load on server.
But me knowing nothing of programming whatsoever, i could be terribly wrong.
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anyone else get an invite to the alpha of this.
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anyone else get an invite to the alpha of this.
No :(
Did you? Is it ok or is it wow in space with joysticks?
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its a bit like eve, the nda is a bit heavy so I cant say much. I only got the invite on wednesday, then had to download a 3.5gb client. I applyed to be in it in november last year.
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If you want to know what this currently looks like, look at the E3 gameplay video's. there a bunch of links in the codemasters jumpgate general forum to these.
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So i heard this has been shelved?
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no idae but if it is id imagine netdevil dying as that would be 2 MMOs that failed with Auto Assault not lasting very long for them.
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Nevermind:
"A sequel to the space combat MMO Jumpgate, seems ominously troubled. In beta and due to be released June 2009, it was suddenly pulled. "It is clear that the product needs more time to meet its objectives" said ND President Scott Brown."
Just pushed release back - either way I wont be in country when it releases in the suggested Spring 2010 in the new PC Gamer...
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Nevermind:
"A sequel to the space combat MMO Jumpgate, seems ominously troubled. In beta and due to be released June 2009, it was suddenly pulled. "It is clear that the product needs more time to meet its objectives" said ND President Scott Brown."
Just pushed release back - either way I wont be in country when it releases in the suggested Spring 2010 in the new PC Gamer...
PCGamers guesswork way off as usual ;)
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Still uncertain about this - its level based with "quests" for want of a better term, twitch combat, pvp zones rather than pure ffa (or even pure factional war), they have seemingly moved towards the wow economy model rather than the real-worldesque of eve (which they touted originally) and generally the graphics wind me up (way to shiny and yes I know eves are shiny, but not THAT shiny :D). I know the levelling gets you bigger ships apparently, but I'd rather build (or get my shit built).
Codemasters involvement as publisher scares me, even though they havent annoyed me with LOTRO :)
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twitch based shooter must get a Freelancer fix at some point soon :) shame microsoft didnt make freelancer bigger and better than it is :) spent much LAN time on that game.
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twitch based shooter must get a Freelancer fix at some point soon :) shame microsoft didnt make freelancer bigger and better than it is :) spent much LAN time on that game.
Was it good on LAN/MP then, never really did that side of it.
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Aye i used to drive a fat hauler and my mates would be my fighter escort :) well fun
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Tenton Hammer video from PAX:
http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/74260
Game still looks like its trying hard to be allt hings to all people - the one thing that catches my eye is different systems for pve/pvp, so potential less balance issues than other mixed games normally have. However the limited PVP mechanics an the rumoured npc driven market still puts me way off this game.
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E3:
http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6266433/we-just-played-jumpgate-evolution-at-e3-2010
Game has been changed MASSIVELY by the devs.