Freelancer Suggestion

[Jinx]

the realistic explosions are easily possible - but disco has chosen to use a simpler effect, - and even that causes problems to fluency and framerates in larger battles.

the capital ship movement is nice, but as long as snubs are arcade style, we don t want to make capital ships simulation style - thats near impossible to balance.

the beam weapons - from what i remember - was three turrets stacked on one place. one playing the sound and freespace 2 chargeup effect, the other 2 were creating the beam. - this kind of beam would kill the server though, because it consists of numerous elements at high speeds. - and while it is nice to look at and a neat little "what you can do" - demo... it is impractical for disco.

we are introducing beams in 87 - but we use a different method. - not continous beams ( cause impractical ) but flash beams.


the footage from the unity engine is really beautiful - but a few ships flying in space is not even close to a game. - 10% of the game is graphics and stuff - the rest is coding and internal mechanics and interconnected events. - porting models to a new engine - unity, unreal 3 or wahtever is useless if you cannot port the game mechanics, too. - but yea - looks pretty for a you tube demo.

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