Official SE5 release date announced - September 12

[Q]

That is good to hear.
Why introduce maintenance for units, if almost everybody is complaining in SE IV that fighters are too weak in later game, dones are almost useless and satellites offer only limited protection for planets. The lack of maintenance was the only real advantage of these units.
If you pay maintenance anyway, why not building only ships??
And if I don't care about one thing in a game like SE it is realism ! It is only the question what makes the game more interesting.

[Captain Kwok]

Although that is assuming that things have remained the same from SE:IV...

[AMF]

Ok, so...all the hype for SEV indicates that it is much more 'mod-friendly' than SEIV. My question then is this: those of you who were playtesters, have y'all made mods yet, and is the hype true?



And...who's gonna have the first mod? is there gonna be one right out of the gate?

Just wondering.

AMF

[Captain Kwok]

As you can expect, SJ has a Gritty Galaxy mod of sorts and a few other people have works in progress.

[StarShadow]

Out of curiosity, and if permitted by the NDA, I have a couple questions about armor/shields and modding.

Reportedly, armor is being changed to work on facings. Will it be possible to mod armor to work the way it does in SEIV?

Shields, will shields work the same way as armor does (ie. by facing), and will it be possible to mod that back to SEIV norms.

[Baron Munchausen]

Sorry, no facings for either armor or shields. It's too much calculation when there are possibly hundreds of ships in combat. So your questions don't matter.

[Yimboli]

So................ is this thing coming out tuesday or what?