Anyone playing Miner Wars?

[Ryland]

From their website it is in the style of the original Descent http://www.minerwars.com/Index.aspx

 

[FTM0305]

From their website it is in the style of the original Descent http://www.minerwars.com/Index.aspx

Graphics not blocky enough. I'll pass.

 

[Jjoshua2]

I'm checking it out! I would buy it if I were sure they were actually going to finish it and release it. So many other "Descent 4" projects have come and gone. Still might buy it.

~~~~~~~
Check out Miner Wars! http://www.minerwars.com/?aid=2602

 

[Elcs]

Looks promising but extremely ambitious.

 

[Ryland]

Some of the graphics definitely looked a bit blocky but figuring its still pre-alpha I would hope they get better in a later pass.

I loved Descent so Im somewhat tempted to hop on this.

 

[GaryJohnson]

Looks awesome to me. I'm in for $13.15.

 

[fatpat268]

I'm tempted, but there's just not a lot of info on this game.

Sounds intriguing, but I'm not going to plop down $13 for every alpha out there.

 

[lozina]

dang I must be way behind because those graphics look fine to me!

 

[Ryland]

I'm tempted, but there's just not a lot of info on this game.

Sounds intriguing, but I'm not going to plop down $13 for every alpha out there.

But just think about how much more its worth for being PRE-alpha

 

[aka1nas]

The lack of economic simulation and/or crafting is kind of a turn off. From the website, it sounds like you just mine arbitrary minerals from the asteroids and trade them in for cash to unlock ship upgrades. What's the point of finding a rare mineral if you don't actually do anything with it?

 

[GaryJohnson]

Not much to do in the test build. It seems like it's basically proof-of-concept for deformable asteroids at this point - that part of it is awesome. There's a very minimum amount of content, gameplay, & UI. Lighting & physics (including player ship physics) were good I thought. Moving around and shooting had a pretty good "feel" to it.

 

[ZzZGuy]

Miner Wars got $1,484,000 USD in investment funds and is switching to high gear in development in about 2 months. They got a new office and are hiring all the people they'll be needing for the next while.
http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1762
http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1788

The game currently has a demo mode that limits you to one pre-generated "sector" (no editor). This should get updated along with the rest of the game if you want to track it without forking money over for the pre-order. Just download the game from their website. (don't forget to press K)

The game is broken up into "sectors" which are cube shaped chunks of space that take about 16 minutes to fly across. When you fly to the edge of the sector you are loaded into the next one. Press tab to see the boundaries .

Reading up on the game, also found that it will be released in two parts, a MMO and a "single player" campaign.

The campaign comes first and is using all the tech the MMO will be using. This means that it requires an internet connection 100% of the time. Now normally I'd be up in arms over this, but they say the campaign will be co-op AND even if you start by yourself you can invite other players into your campaign to play with you at any time. Being co-op, I bought it to play online with friends. Release date is sometime around November this year, assuming no delays.

The MMO comes some time afterward and in all likely hood will be like the campaign but balanced for the MMO.

Between offering pre-orders that let you play the game as it's being built and making a single player/co-op campaign first, I'm very hopeful it won't follow other MMO's that were forced to release in a alpha state because they ran out of money.

They also have public discussions with players every Sunday, see more info and logs here http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1221

NOTE: This is a pre-alpha. There is very little content available to players so far, so don't expect much right now.
And the pre-order is ONLY FOR THE SINGLE PLAYER/CO-OP CAMPAIGN. It does not cover the MMO. You can play the demo for free to see some of the updates.

-edit- This didn't seem like a wall of text when typing it -_-