SE:StarFury Screenshots!

[Rambie]

Originally posted by Lemmy:
If it is a game like that, then it will have some competition from Microsoft with Freelancer

They're still working on Freelancer!? That game was supposed to be out Christmas 1999.

I've been dying for a good Privateer type game, so I wish Malfador all the luck. I can't wait for the Demo, that is, if I can't help Beta test.

[pathfinder]

Rambie: Yeah, Freelancer is still churning. Looks like MAYBE late March THIS year It's design has taken a turn...not quite as ambitious as originally designed.

[Rambie]

OT: Freelancer
Pathfinder: I just checked out the site. As long as it's not MMORPG, or whatever, I may try it. It still sounds like it could be a good Privateer type game.
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OK, back on Topic now: I got some questions from the Starfury site

1: "24bit 3D real-time rendered graphics."
Does this mean Starfury will use 3D-acceleration? I would assume it's 3D-accelerated but "24bit 3D" does not guarantee 3D-acceleration.

2: "Freeform structure"
I hope this means some random missions as well as a set storyline. A set in stone storyline would get boring but a totally random mission game would also loose it's interest. Plus, the ability to create a storyline would be great for MODs (see below).

3: "Complete game customization allowed by players”
Great to see this! I hope we get more details soon. Hopefully, the tech-tree and AI files will be easier to modify than with SE4’s. Also the 3D ship format is easy to convert to. I’ve got allot of ships, most of ‘em for the Babylon 5 SE4 MOD, that I’d love to convert for Starfury. Even the name is a little B5-ish.

[Rexxx]

Originally posted by Rollo:
From the looks and from the feature list I think it will be some kind of 'Elite' in the SE universe.

That would be great.

I am looking forward to it. I have always liked Elite and its clones.

Rollo

Me too. It seems that the endless waiting for Elite 4 will be over soon without spending any money for good old David Braben who disappointed the Elite fans for years and years.

[David E. Gervais]

Is it just me or what? When I went to the Starfury site, the menu on the left was kind of big (especially on my meager 14" screen running at 800x600, it took up close to half my screen) I went to the site on my brother's computer (he has a 17" monitor running at 1280x1024) and it still looked kind of big.

What did you people think?

Cheers!

[Fyron]

It is pretty large.

[Ragnarok]

I agree. I am on a 15" LCD screen (Laptop) running at 1024X768, and it is huge. I think they should decrease the size of it by about 100 pixels.
It is currently around 295 pixels and to me that is just at least 75 pixels to wide. But that's my opinion.