New spacesim game by Wing Commander creator

[Eraser]

Chris Roberts, creator of the Wing Commander series, is back with a new space sim game. He describes it as a combination of Wing Commander, Privateer and Freelancer.

There's a trailer for it up:


There's an article about it with quotes from Chris Robers available here.

Sounds good to me!

[Nightshade]

Needs more Kerbals (I haven't watched it yet).

[fKd]

STEED! heh. (nice little touch since he did some fine models for wc back in the day) but seriously, this game looks boss

[Ryoki]

God that looks fucking fantastic, i've always like this genre

It also looks like it'll absolutely destroy my PC... guess it's going to be upgrade time by the time this comes out

[obsidian]

Wow... can't wait. It's been over a decade since I've played a decent space sim.

http://starcitizen.robertsspaceindustries.com/



In addition to crowdfunding this project, I'd like more information on how they intend to sell the game. Will it be available on Steam? Will it use microtransactions? It sounds like they want to continuously expand the universe, for that they need a constant stream of cash. How would they balance things out for a beginning player with a basic ship facing against someone else with a fully loaded ship?

[Eraser]

Well, it has a single player mode, so maybe you can take your SP craft online.

[Κracus]

I love space sims, I may have to get a PC for this.

[SoM]

i would like to see Trade Wars 2002 from BBS days as a remake in 3D glory, but they'll fudge it up who ever takes on the project.

[Κracus]

Anyone ever play Jumpgate? So underrated.

[4days]

Anyone ever play Jumpgate? So underrated.

awesome game

stumbled across it a few weeks before they shut down the european server and my demo account was turned into a full account along with everyone else's. so that the game could go out with a bang, they staged a massive war with the NPCs. knowing nothing about this, i'd been wandering about with another couple of noobs talking about how eerily quiet everywhere seemed to be when some random popped out of a nearby gate, gave us an absolute shitload of cash, pointed us at the nearest base to get refitted and told us to meet him outside ahead of the battle - which once you'd gotten past the lag and old school graphics, was fucking epic. damn shame codemasters canned the sequel, they should've handled netdevil better.

anyway - looking forward to this one, loved wing commander.

[Κracus]

Yeah I was actually invited to the closed beta of the sequel. I was wondering why it never got released... It was truly an epic game. I had a full account for a few months back in it's day and had built an incredibly fast scout ship to carry small cargo from port to port. Made the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.

Seriously it was fast, had the biggest engines strapped to the smallest body with the boost on top of it which was good ususally from gate to gate if needed. I once got jumped by 4 raiders, they weren't able to keep up.

[MKJ]

i thought you didnt have a computer at that time, hence no q3.

[Κracus]

I actually did have a PC when Q3 came out. Jumpgate came out shortly after so I played that a bit too. My PC became outdated around 2004 and I haven't bought a PC since then. I've cobbled together old PC's since then but they aren't really gaming rigs. Kids and all seem to keep getting in the way of gaming, go figure.

Lately though I've been meaning to get a decent PC or Laptop as my job is fixing computers and I really need to keep up. I'm going to write my MCITP in November and it wouldn't hurt to get some practice...

[losCHUNK]

please, tell me moar

Game looks epic too, wasn't so much into Wing Commander but been looking for a decent Freelancer alternative/remake for time !