Is it just me or is this game boring?

[Devilsbane]

Please allow me to inform. Real space is not 3D in fact most of our own solar system is w/i a 2D plane. I think it is called the 'Elliptical Plane'. Even our own galaxy dimensions are 10000 light year spiral and 3000 light year deep at its core.
Yet I would have liked the game to have a floor and ceiling like that of air flight.

[ October 10, 2003, 17:11: Message edited by: Devilsbane ]

[Suicide Junkie]

You know, the 2d vs 3d thing doesn't bother me as much as then endless colisions in battle, (crazy ivan tactics)the lack of trade model, or the boring differences in weapons.

One of the first things I did for my mod was to diversify the weapons.

Meson bLasters have become machine gun type weapons doing 3 damage per hit (at level one, double for heavy mount) They fire 3-5x per second, too
Ripper/incinerator beams suck down your power like crazy in order to do lots of damage fast.
Wave motion guns dish out a few hundred damage points, and reload takes a minimum of 30 seconds or 5000 energy.
Torpedoes give some nice punch for breaching shields and getting kill shots, but do less damage over time than beams.

Endless collisions?
Try bumping up the scale in campaign data.txt, and see if that helps.
Once you figure out the navigation rules, you'll also find it much easier to predict what the other ships will do, and collisions will become extremely rare.

[Pulaski]

OK Junkie I'm convinced. I' m gonna restart with your mod. I had hoped to get through a plain vanilla campaign but it seems more like work at this point than play...

[milo]

Originally posted by Devilsbane:
Please allow me to inform. Real space is not 3D in fact most of our own solar system is w/i a 2D plane. I think it is called the 'Elliptical Plane'.

Well, "space" is three dimensional, but the interesting concentrations of mass are distributed in or near the plane of the ecliptic. On the other hand, real planets would not be distributed the way they are in SE:SF either.

However, all of that is beside the point.

This is a game, not an orbital mechanics class. Many people have trouble navigating true 3D environments on a computer. This is one of the reasons why Descent never caught on - people got space sick trying to figure out where they were in those mines. I think the decision to go 2D instead of 3D for movement was a good one for the kind of game this is meant to be.

[Pulaski]

Ya'know I forgot what game it was that actually got me motion sick... it was Decent. Ugh the memories.

[Phoenix-D]

As a reviewer once said..
"Decent. The first battle was staying oriented. The second was keeping your lunch down."

Didn't bother me at all actually, and I think most of it stemed from the closed in setting and not 3d.

[Baal]

Descent was an awesome game. I got right into it and the 3D never really bothered me, but then one day I was watching my friend play it and he was visibly getting nausous. I guess combat pilot is just in my blood.