Whoa, a new fan-made Wing Commander game?

[ichy]

IMO EA would be extremely foolish to kill this game. The amount of bad publicity they'd get for trying to kill five years of volunteer programming work would be huge. There's also a chance it'll help EA get some more value out of the Wing Commander franchise.

 

[Topweasel]

Not sure if EA really owns it. I am pretty sure that Roberts owns the IP, but Origins developed the game. The only issue is if EA/Origins had an non-expiring contract to distribute games related to that IP.

Edit: Missed that last link while writing it. Looks like EA still and probably means forever, the rights to distribute, WC computer games. They also have to be careful. Roberts can fight for those rights back if he really really wants to. Best not to make a big deal about non-monitized fan work.

 

[Atreus21]

Hobbes... you're with me on this one.

Maniac, you're gonna be my wingman. Don't make me regret it.

I miss Tom Wilson.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Much less mission and Story based, and AI is kinda ... not the brightest ... but have you guys played X, X2, X3 Reunion, X3 Terran Conflict, and/or X3 Albion Prelude?

The fleet combat is awesome... I recently got myself a capital ship which can hold 60 fighters, (Colossus) and I loaded it up with 50 M3 and M4 fighters that I had ... Went to battle in a Xenon sector and took out a bunch of Q's and Ps and Ls and Ms ... lost a handfull of my fighters ... but most of em pulled through ....

 

[Albatross]

Could have been a campaign for FS open.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Much less mission and Story based, and AI is kinda ... not the brightest ... but have you guys played X, X2, X3 Reunion, X3 Terran Conflict, and/or X3 Albion Prelude?

The fleet combat is awesome... I recently got myself a capital ship which can hold 60 fighters, (Colossus) and I loaded it up with 50 M3 and M4 fighters that I had ... Went to battle in a Xenon sector and took out a bunch of Q's and Ps and Ls and Ms ... lost a handfull of my fighters ... but most of em pulled through ....

I tried a bit to get into it and I'm sure it is great once you get into it, but it was too much slow going like Eve. I just want a "hey go out and blast those bastards" game at this point. Don't have the time to explore and build an army.

 

[blastingcap]

on a related note.
http://privateer.sourceforge.net/

:thumbsup: I'm proud to say that I was one of the very early beta testers for VegaStrike and the Privateer Remake variant. (See here for the differences b/w Remake and GG: http://privateer.sourceforge.net/faq-compare.shtml )

 

[uhohs]

less than 2 hours before release/launch.

 

[SunnyD]

IMO EA would be extremely foolish to kill this game. The amount of bad publicity they'd get for trying to kill five years of volunteer programming work would be huge. There's also a chance it'll help EA get some more value out of the Wing Commander franchise.

TBH: EA is not quite the same company it was 5-10 years ago. Amazingly enough, their culture has changed and have become a bit more accepting of things like this... which is a good move because it potentially opens up new markets that they don't have to spend a dime doing demographic/R&D work for. If this gets really popular, expect EA to cash in somehow.

 

[Zargon]

daaaaaaaaaamn

 

[Martimus]

Much less mission and Story based, and AI is kinda ... not the brightest ... but have you guys played X, X2, X3 Reunion, X3 Terran Conflict, and/or X3 Albion Prelude?

The fleet combat is awesome... I recently got myself a capital ship which can hold 60 fighters, (Colossus) and I loaded it up with 50 M3 and M4 fighters that I had ... Went to battle in a Xenon sector and took out a bunch of Q's and Ps and Ls and Ms ... lost a handfull of my fighters ... but most of em pulled through ....

I am addicted to Albion Prelude right now. The Xenon I is my favorite ship at the moment. I have two of them, and I think I will board a third. It is by far the best destroyer in the game.

That said, I am excited about this Wing Commander game.

 

[Father Torque]

26 seconds

 

[Pheran]

Looks like their web site is hammered.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Yea..can't get to it. Hopefully someone throws it up on torrents. (You know..that thing everyone says is only used for evil).

 

[thedarkwolf]

Their page seems to be working now kind of. Downloading it but won't get a chance to play with it till tomorrow.

 

[adlep]

MFL.

How is the game so far? Anyone?

 

[Worthington]

still downloading.

 

[SunnyD]

843kb/sec... hopefully it will be downloaded by the time I'm ready to leave work.

 

[ichy]

About half downloaded so far. Looks like I won't be playing tonight.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

They had multiple download links... I downloaded it from Shacknews at maximum connection speed.

 

[georgec84]

I'll wait to see what people say before I try this game out. Was a fan back in the day.

 

[Pheran]

Installing now, but I won't have much time to try it tonight, going to bed soon. I won't be playing much in any case until I'm done with ME3, but I wanted to give it a quick look.

 

[JTsyo]

bah was hoping for a review before I downloaded. Guess I can grab it and check back before I install.

 

[Pheran]

bah was hoping for a review before I downloaded. Guess I can grab it and check back before I install.

I played the flight training mission. It has a very retro feel and a few warts, but otherwise, it's extremely impressive for a fan effort. I can't say much more without playing the actual game missions, but it certainly looks promising. However, I have to get a joystick before playing any more of this (and I have to finish ME3 anyway). If you only have a mouse, you have to go into the options and manually enable it, otherwise flying is keyboard only.

 

[Worthington]

downloaded and ready to go. I'll get it installed in the morning and give it a run through.