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[Supreme Cmdr]

A batch of 89 shots have been released on the Web. These were taken from the final build sent off to Turner.

btw, those are 1280x1024 @ 24bit shots. I hope the sites don't resample them.

[ 03-22-2007, 10:57 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

[Darkling]

NICE!!!!

[scrapilot]

Very nice space background and long range laser graphics. Can't wait to see a ton of long range lasers going off from capital ships and space stations. The battles should be spectacular.

[Darien Wolfe]

Lookin' good there SC.

[Supreme Cmdr]

Yeah, the battles are far more spectacular than in our previous games, not only because of the vamped up graphics, but also because you're stuck in a lowly fighter that gets jolted (yeah, we've got that whole shaking the ship violently when hit) each time you take a direct hit. Its quite fun actually, especially if you use an XB360 controller which has vibration to go with the jolting of the ship.

[Darkling]

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:
Yeah, the battles are far more spectacular than in our previous games, not only because of the vamped up graphics, but also because you're stuck in a lowly fighter that gets jolted (yeah, we've got that whole shaking the ship violently when hit) each time you take a direct hit. Its quite fun actually, especially if you use an XB360 controller which has vibration to go with the jolting of the ship.

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[/indent]hehe, I remember YEARS ago, you said, "There isn't force feedback on my games and there never will be", or something to that effect. Never say never.

[Supreme Cmdr]

Actually it was in the FAQ (it probably still is) and is related to support for force feedback joysticks. Tech has come a long way and the XB360 gamepad is totally different.

[Darkling]

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:
Actually it was in the FAQ (it probably still is) and is related to support for force feedback joysticks. Tech has come a long way and the XB360 gamepad is totally different.

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[/indent]I'm just bustin on ya, it sounds fantastic, I can't wait to play it. When is it that they'll have it on GT, next month?

[Supreme Cmdr]

Release some new shots this month. The ones today show the revisions to the planetary terrain engine. Talon Elite uses a brand new terrain engine and looks about 100x better. Just wait'll until the first shots show up; you'll crap your pants.

05-10-07

05-17-07

[Eclipse]

I particularly like photo026, it reminds me of one of those "aw crap now what moments."

[Supreme Cmdr]

From which set of shots?

[Ben Zwycky]

I think he's referring to the EFP floating in space (10-05-07 set of shots) though the reflected sunset in photo26 of the other set is pretty awesome. Does that reflection move with the waves, or is it stationary?

[Supreme Cmdr]

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Originally posted by Ben Zwycky:
I think he's referring to the EFP floating in space (10-05-07 set of shots)

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[/indent]Ah yes. NPC pilots will either eject (before it blows up) or get blown out of their fighters if they're in it when it goes boom.

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though the reflected sunset in photo26 of the other set is pretty awesome. Does that reflection move with the waves, or is it stationary?

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[/indent]Yes, it moves.

[Eclipse]

sorry, yes the 5-10-07 set.

[Supreme Cmdr]

A set of twenty-eight 1080p (1920x1080) shots have been released

Equipment used:

MONITOR:

42" Westinghouse LVM-42W2 1080p display @ 1920x1080 (native resolution @ 16:10 aspect ratio)

SYSTEM:

Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz
2GB Kingston DDR2-666 RAM
PNY nVidia 8800GTS 640MB video card
Creative Labs X-Fi sound card output to DTS receiver via Creative Labs Home Theater DTS-610
Saitek AV8R-01 joystick
XBOX 360 Controller for Windows

[rtoolooze1]

Very nice. Now I have another good background pic! (013)

( My wife is alway's asking me "Why do you alway's have those spaceship backgrounds all the time? I just say, " You would'nt understand" )

[coder_1024]

looks nice looking forward to trying out the new game!

[coder_1024]

those slackers at direct2drive are saying they're not gonna have the download available until 3/7... argh! although I guess that is in time for the weekend

[Supreme Cmdr]

coder_1024, on Mar 1 2008, 03:33 PM, said:

those slackers at direct2drive are saying they're not gonna have the download available until 3/7... argh! although I guess that is in time for the weekend

They're right. We're not going Gold until 03/03

Anyway, where did you see that posted? Did you pre-order and get a notification?

[coder_1024]

Supreme Cmdr, on Mar 1 2008, 11:50 PM, said:

They're right. We're not going Gold until 03/03

Anyway, where did you see that posted? Did you pre-order and get a notification?

They added a note to the pre-order page for the game (link). They added that pretty recently. I checked a week earlier and there was no mention of it. Anyway, time to re-schedule my weekend