Article about SEV on Gamespot!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Kana said:
My concern is the floating/ghost status reports on each ship in combat...get a bunch of ships on the screen, its going to be cluttered with ships, and status reports...

Kana

From what I can tell, those "status reports" are more like damage reports, i.e. they show you how much damage has been done to the ship in question. For all we know, those two ships might just have been hit (almost) simultaneously, and the damage reports are growing and fading, as is the custom with certain RPG's or something if I'm not mistaken (i.e. when you hit an Orc, it shows "22" above the orc's head, which then grows and fades away).

[Randallw]

I note that both those ships have no shields and that they are in a storm. Cleraly it's one of those storms that removes shields. What I find interesting is that it appears that the storm disspitates at the edges. So would the storm fill up the entire map or just part of it? As for the race portraits, it's going to be hard to make shipsets with race portraits as good.

[Will]

Well, I don't think it's exactly clear that it's a shield-removing storm. I mean, the two ships *are* only frigates. How many frigates do you make with shields? You can tell both are frigates because it shows the design report for the red-flag one in the third screen shot, and the fourth screen shot shows the brown-and-green flag ship details on the bottom. Both clearly say "frigate"

Something to note, neither of those flags are from the "standard" races shown in the Quick Start screenie. The red-flag one looks like a Starfury Xiati destroyer, and the other one kinda looks like a variant of a Terran destroyer... maybe a neutral?

[Randallw]

You're right, though the frigate doesn't have a lot of anything by the look of it.

[Captain Kwok]

Frigates are small, but not useless small.

[Caduceus]

Say it ain't so... I like the frigates...

Dadgum it.

[Kamog]

The author of the article seemed to mix up some things but the screenshots are great! I was almost about to click on the buttons on the screens, forgetting that they are screenshots.

Very nice system map with the angled hex map. It will be nice if you could change the view angle because the hexes on the far side might be hard to mee clearly. Tactical combat screen looks exciting, though I couldn't figure out what's happening with all those lines and round symbols on the screen. I like the ship design screen and the ability to place components in different locations on the ship.

The Eee look different and more evil now, but I like their new look. In the quick start screen, I guess some races show a ship and some races show the race portrait?

Big mouse cursor? Oh, that thing that looks like a spaceship! Agreed, it's too big.

Anyway, the screenshots look wonderful!

Release date is February next year? OK, I'll wait...