Eclipse

Is there any good news out there these days? Seems like more and more studios are being shuttered.

I play Dawn of War Dark Crusade from time time to time, and I pulled out Heavy Gear two for a couple of minutes last night. Still play the BC games off and on too, but I don't really ever have much time for them with life and all now. Battle Fleet Gothic seems to be a fun starship combat game for now.

Congrats!!!!!!

I went last night and thought it was excellent. We had to run before the credits finished but I suspected there would be something... sad that I missed it though.

hmmm... I'm around, but RL keeps me pretty busy too. Between girlfriend, work, going for a masters, freelance, and painting warhammer 40k/battle fleet gothic minis my days are fairly well packed. But, hey, a good chunk of us have been around here for the last what nine or ten years so I say that we might get quiet from time to time but we are all hiding out somewhere.

Hey Echo, I'm really sorry to hear about the problems you are facing. As ben said, patience is good and in time things tend to unravel themselves of the knot we see today.

If I can interject, I don't think it is any different, but we have been saying gold is worth something a lot longer than a ten dollar note. People tend to fall back on what they believe and gold has been believed to be worth something almost since the beginning of time.

sweet! ship interiors! this brings back memories of the old FP engine from several years ago.

Happy Bday!

I plan on watching this one sometime as well... I still can't believe they used papyrus for the main title.... must... not... say... anything....

That was quite funny. Especially the ending, and the Stargate movie DVD package uses Papyrus....

I remember those days... or talking about how Resnig would cause more trouble than he fixed.

2:15-5pm wold work best for me though there is the off possibility I can make part of the earlier session from around 1pm on.

Ah ok, that makes sense. I was equating breach with my shields being penetrated. I know it's not up for change, but the interface got me thinking about a couple of things... ah well, another day perhaps. I forgot to look when I was playing, but does the guns ring on the right do anything other than change color? eg if the weapons are set to a lower intensity or have a limited amount of ammo does it show by drawing less of the ring? That was probably a muddy explanation.

Well after coming back from a traditional Japanese music concert with a few friends, I finally got time to actually get into combat. I gotta say it was quite different than my usual carrier tactics. For the first half of the fight I used my missiles on a few of the fighters to knock down their shields and then ended up in a knife fight after my stores were depleted. Managed to avoid the missiles shot at me with an application of EMD here and there but got shot up pretty good in the process by the variety of craft spinning around. Never even saw any of the enemy cap ships up close, got too involved with the fighters to notice and the rest of the fleet seemed to be doing alright at killing them since there weren't any around once I killed the last fighter. All in all it seemed pretty intense. AB and RR were my lifesavers to knock loose or cause enemy fighters to mistarget me. The only thing that seemed a bit weird was the shield/armor display on the left since it seemed like when the shields went to yellow or orange mother would announce a breach. I'd have though that perhaps going to red or even black/transparent would indicate shield failure. I guess I also kind of miss the numbers on the shield/armor/weapons displays to tell me the percentages they are at and not just status. I must say I'm very fond of the interface improvements overall though. I think I only killed 2 fighters personally, but it was quite fun and none of the kills seemed overly easy. There was this one guy though I think I must of damaged his flight control systems because he stopped maneuvering completely after one salvo breached his armor and just flew off in a straight line.

Thanks for putting that fix in! Now to head over to the other thread and post my combat experience

Checked it out tonight, looks great with the changes!

Not sure this is a bug, but is you hit alt-s to save the game and cancel out of the screen without saving it takes you to the main menu instead of returning to the game.

It doesn't seem to be on everything so I'll survive Might get to fire up some actual combat tonight and around the time the missiles lock goes off I'll probably forget about things like whether or not my profile entry uses Courier or Ariel.

Fired it up tonight with the new patch (yay for no black boxes!) and had some fun familiarizing myself with the controls and looking things over. I can't comment much on the graphics, but what I can get are nice if a tad dark inside the cockpit. Mostly I was noticing the little things tonight before trying to fire up combat given Sho's experience coming in from the cap ships I really like the mother voice, very nice. The 3d cockpit is nice too, but it doesn't seem to have a back wall when I use the rear looking view. I'm especially fond of the HJ effects blurring and the slight jarring through the jump. The final weighty jolt on entering realspace again was pretty cool and a nice touch. I also like the new implementation of the screens fading in it seems somehow more integrated and doesn't break the immersion. Overall the interface feels more unified and integrated. I guess my graphic designer roots are showing through, but my one complaint was the typefaces used; Courier is up next to Papyrus in fonts I dislike with Trajan about to become third for it's overuse It just made me a little sick seeing it and the compressed HRD on the hyperdrive recharge.

Figures as much. I guess it's time to snag a new one, any suggestions? I've had it do junk like this from time to time before. Do you still want me to send you the screenshots?

I got a chance to fire it up again tonight and I seem to be plagued with alpha map issues. Hud elements, exhaust, lens flares, space debris all are showing black around the textures. I tried reducing all the setting to minimum to see if that helped and patching up my video card to the latest drivers but to no avail. It's been ages since I got into my system profile so I'll post what I can here: Problem: Black boxes around alpha mapped textures Game version: 2.00.21 Video card: ATI Radeon X850 XT Video Card Drivers: Catalyst 8.2 Processor: AMD Athelon 64 X2 dual core 4400+ RAM: 2gb corsair OS: Windows XP pro 32bit SP2 The only thing I haven't done yet is a clean install to see if that fixes it. I've had issues from time to time with the Radeon line (one day I'll shell out the extra money for an NVIDA) so it might just be a card problem and nothing to do with the game.

Well. After a few observant souls noticed I said "we" in a thread a while back, I figured I should most likely sit down some time to actually explain all the various goings on of the preceding months. Short version is I met a girl, we got along, and are now dating. The long version is that I met her in July and we had gotten to know each other through a Bible study my church has every Thursday night which kind of expanded into several of the movie nights I host at my house with some of my friends from time to time. Well things were going alright when some stuff happened in September that put us on hold while she had to deal with some things. We kept in contact and started talking quite a bit through December while she was home for Christmas break. When she got back to SC in January things kinda started up again and we started dating "officially" about a month ago. Her name is Tessha and she will be graduating in May from BJU with a BA in 2d art. After that she's staying in town which will make things quite a git easier. Last weekend I got to meet the rest of her family (all girls, me only child!!! ) Seems they kind of already liked me when she'd mentioned me in august so it wasn't too bad. So anyway the last half year has been a real rollercoaster and now it's just plain awesome. It is a little difficult at times given the school's rules on the whole dating and chaperon thing, but it'll make this summer alt more awesome when we don't have to worry about all that. She is a wonderful gift from God. I do have pics of us, just not on this computer

hmmm.... Looks like I'm gonna have to go do a write up and post the whole "we" thing here soon. Well I must say, the show has kinda got me on the line. Cool in some ways and corny in others. It seems to swing from good writing to flat out stupid.

sorry ya'll, got a call from my girlfriend and ended up talking alot longer than I thought (somehow seems to happen alot these days)