Zaodai posted:

I know. Conceptually, I understand what the sight is doing. I'm sure in time, I'll get used to doing it this way. I'll just have to retrain my brain to work that way. Alternately, if there is an option to turn the lead indicator off entirely and just have to deal with manual aiming, I'd totally be down for that. WW2 in space!

Galaga Galaxian posted:

That works for Legend of the Galactic Heroes (which was mentioned in the stream*), but that is also a very different sort of space combat than what you've got going.

* And a series I'd recommend, though its got a huge arching story across 200ish half-hour episodes and a large cast of characters (it employed practically every male voice actor in Japan when it was made). The story is less about crazy pew pew ship fights as it is a character and political pseduo-historical drama. The Napoleonic line battle-esque ship engagements set to classical music just make an awesome backdrop.

Alehkhs posted:

[url=https://twitter.com/tipul/status/434023285940969472]

Dreadwroth posted:

Basically: Precursors have idyllic civilization, discover Flood, make Arks and put genetic samples of every species in them, build HALOs and set them off killing everything, Arks recreate life in galaxy, something something humans are descended from Precursors or something, oops Flood hanging out on HALOs and reawaken, Precursors are really dumb.
Meanwhile, Covenant think Precursors are holy and want to murder all humans for touching their ruins. Covenant murder the poo poo out of humans for years until Spartans punch them in the collective balls, thus inspiring them to call Master Cheif "Demon".
Elites rebel and join humans, best HALO game happens and all rejoice.
Then HALO 4 comes out and has loving awful story. 343 Studios is bad at HALO games.
The End.
PS: HALO 3 is basically an awesome buddy film, HALO 4 is trying way too hard but does have really good art direction.

Kairo posted:

I did one today! I don't really advertise it unless there's something super new, but sometimes cool poo poo happens (to be fair, Sabotage does that to everything).

http://www.twitch.tv/marauderinteractive/c/3805142

The magenta icons are because some of those dudes have no idea that they're part of the harbinger fleet faction.

illectro posted:

I'm kinda impressed at how fast things are changing, the bounty system is has gone through two iterations.

For those of you with high resolution displays I really want to share this 2560x1440 video of gameplay without me talking over it - in particular aroud 6:30 when my beam frigates start zapping hostiles from the sky is very nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KaTziDMtf8

Ravenfood posted:

One thing I'll say from watching the vids is that I kind of miss how the really big capital ships in FS2 often essentially acted like terrain. Defending that first station in the Pegasus meant you were often flying around or through the station itself, and runs on capital ships heavily relied on getting so close that guns couldn't hit you, not that they couldn't track fast enough (though there was that). The really big ships acted as huge anchors of "safe to retreat to" and "seriously don't go here until you have a plan to do so" as well as having physical barriers. They just don't seem to have that presence in Enemy Starfighter: everything seems more like Into the Lion's Den, which, the intro with the Sathanas aside, features mostly combat around empty space with a few fighters.

Cap ships were huge and took a lot of time to fly across, but the ships I was watching just seem really small. The screenshots from the battleship-spam kind of illustrate what I mean: that many Orion destroyers would a) annihilate a shitton of enemies without difficulty and b) be so massive that flying through/around it would take like a minute, and being far enough away to get that viewpoint would take five.

Fart Car '97 posted:

Awesome, but is FS2 still a pain in the rear end to get running on modern machines?

Kairo posted:

I would like to see this too! I've tried it a couple times but can never get it to look right. I mean, it's just a bunch of cubemap trickery, but for some reason it always looks weird or intrusive with the rest of the art style. The glass will crack when you take damage now, but that's all I have time for at the moment. It's a great idea though.

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

This is kinda what happens in Independance War 2.

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

I didn't play that one

Kairo posted:

You guys got me to finally sit down and fix this. Fighters, turrets, and drones will go for pods if there are no better targets. I'm not even shooting here. Perf seems ok so far.

Edit: This is a war crime, btw. It still makes me feel bad.

Kairo posted:

I've been using SteamVR so theoretically all the headsets should work fine. This is the Unity plugin in case anyone else is interested for their own stuff: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/32647

TychoCelchuuu posted:

Guys, just play TIE Fighter. http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_tie_fighter_special_edition

Tanith posted:

If Microsoft would stop being lovely and let someone sell me a loving functioning digital copy of Freelancer, I could scratch my casual spaceship addiction.

Kairo, could you possibly distract the gibbering hordes (myself included) with more pictures of spaceships? I really like the Foss/Hay/Elson/Moore/Mead vibe you've got going on. If there's any chance you had a few iterations of the same ship over time, that would be even cooler, because the progress from Flotilla-like to drastically more detailed has been fun to watch.

Michaellaneous posted:

Tanith posted:

Already own it, and it doesn't have John Rhys-Davies voice acting.

Aesaar posted:

Freelancer is inferior to Freespace 2 in nearly every way.

Gejnor posted:

The game you like is anime

Kairo posted:

It's not quite linear. The overworld opens up a bit as you go, but it is dropping you off into premade, heavily designed encounters.

I'm sure some of you are gonna be disappointed, but my biggest regret is not cutting that stuff sooner.

Ciaphas posted:

I can't really look it up at work, but didn't Freespace 2 have not much more than a dozen and a bit missions? Granted you mention the map maker but still.

Avulsion posted:

Don't forget scanning containers and shooting rocks.

Shooting rocks is a classic.

MrYenko posted:

Is there any word on whether multiple-controllers will be implemented? I don't own a gamepad, and am bumming pretty hard that I cant use my warthog and pedals.

Kairo posted:

Crazy, can you get me a repro step for this or any other kind of specific info? That would be amazing!