First impressions

Mudshark · #1 September 23rd, 2003, 03:25 PM

Over all the game is good. It rocked on the newer home system (P4 3 gig processor, 128 meg vid card). Played for an hour, loved it

On my work system (P3 833MHZ crumby grahics card, no sound card.)the gameplay was not injoyable. In fact I warped to another system and got caught in a "Warp loop". Just back and forth between the 2 systems. Motion was very choppy.
I suppose that will teach me to play game demo's at work! LOL

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 September 23rd, 2003, 08:08 PM

way to many pirites! i started up a new game, kept getting attacked by a cruiser, 2-5 destroyers and 2 sat's and fighter's in the genisis system. had to take the long way around through amonkrie space. actually pretty safe as long as you don't go near there starbases. after i finished my mission's, i got jumped by two destroyers! and i had it on easy!

DeadZone · #3 September 23rd, 2003, 11:48 PM

Interesting, I rarely get attacked by pirates. In fact I have to go look for them just so I can have a fight

Suicide Junkie · #4 September 24th, 2003, 12:10 AM

When you take on missions and have special cargo aboard, the pirates will be out in greater numbers.

Renegade 13 · #5 September 24th, 2003, 01:04 AM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
When you take on missions and have special cargo aboard, the pirates will be out in greater numbers.

Or, if you're on an escort mission the pirates REALLY start hammering you. I got jumped by 2 cruisers, and about 3-5 destroyers all in one group. I was still in my destroyer, and I (not surprisingly) was bLasted out of the sky. But hey, that just makes the game interesting!!

Phoenix-D · #6 September 24th, 2003, 01:08 AM

Speaking of which, don't be afraid to run and repair- or, if you get jumped at a point, warp right back out. Had to do that on one of the Amonkrie missons..shoot, fall back, return, etc. Fortunately I was obsessive about upgrading my engines, so I was a bit faster than them.