My new game engine inspired by Freelancer and Discovery.

[Tytanis]

Hello all,

Most of you may not know me or have forgotten me, but I have been playing Freelancer and Discovery for as long as I can remember. My friend and I, way back then, decided to help Discovery by making ships and systems. About two years ago, he was in a car accident and was left brain damaged. A couple of months after the accident, I've decided to continue the project which has lead me to something greater.

For the past two years, I have been coding an entirely new engine for Freelancer. The alpha stage of the engine should be complete by Q3 2013. It will feel like Freelancer but have a whole new look to it.

A few features that I will announce:

100,000-200,000 triangles per ship under DirextX10 & 11 (optional) with detailed animations available.

MORE equipment types.

Ability to have a custom character which you can run around with inside bases and perform actions. You can also run around your own ship and control it from the bridge.

Call your squadron - you can hire NPC's to act as your squadron (if paid well enough and other factors). There will be a cool-down on how many times you can use it but if you're ever in need of extra support, they'll arrive ready to fight.

Run single player type missions with friends, essentially having missions with cinematic events and what-not.

^ Those are some BASIC stuff but there's a whole lot more to the engine and game play. Everything from Discovery can be imported into it and then remastered for DX10-11 goodness.

This will be FREE to play.

Anyways, have to pick up my son from school soon, so take care for now!

Additional teasers (9/16/2011):

1,200-1,500 player slots
Hireable crew members with specific and unique tasks/jobs
Interior and exterior damage
Hitbox detection and ship damage related dysfunctions
Threat generation
Achievements
Faction Stock Markets
Player skills
Tri-monthly Olympics (races, class specific duels etc.)
Ship boarding fights

Additional teasers (9/18/2011):

Joystick Support
Auction System
Minigames