anyone playing Vega Strike?

cultist · Post by **cultist** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:17 pm

Anyone playing it?
what do you think of this game? is it better than FFE? (haha oolite still rulz for me,i`ve tried playing FFE yesterday and i got scared)

Davemak · Post by **Davemak** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:21 pm

Yeah tried it - looked really good but keeps crashing so haven't been able to get any subjective opinion on it.

magamo · Post by **magamo** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:16 am

I used to be the Slackware packager for vegastrike. It's a wonderful game, a lot more in the style of Wing Commander: Privateer than Elite. However for me, trying to keep up with it on a PIII/600 as my development machine became a bit of a bear. However, if you make the system size pretty big (so everything is spread out) it was pretty playable, even on my old system.

FFE, and Frontier... They're fun at times, but mostly I find myself frustrated with the flight system more than anything. I prefer to have fun with my games, not spend my time pulling my hair out.

cultist · Post by **cultist** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:27 am

never played privateer myself so whats the differences between elite and privateer?
also dear aegidian

can we make a thread about what games we`ve played the past years that you will stickify? (isnt that a good ideea?

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Cultist out!

magamo · Post by **magamo** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:11 pm

cultist wrote:
never played privateer myself so whats the differences between elite and privateer?
also dear aegidian Very Happy can we make a thread about what games we`ve played the past years that you will stickify? (isnt that a good ideea? Twisted Evil )

The differences between Elite and Wing Commander: Privateer are numerous. They mostly stem from the differences between the Elite and Wing Commander Universes.

For one, gunfire in Privateer/Wing Commander is less in the idea of 'lasers' in my opinion, and more in the idea of photonic/particle 'bullets'. They are slow, and there's a lead time.

Another big difference is the inter-system FTL travel system. Elite is a lot more free about it. Wing Commander, the inter-system travel operates on a sort of Wormhole theory, where there are points in space that are week, and a quick burst of the right sort of energy will open a wormhole that will 'Jump' you to another point in the Universe. The device which activates these 'Jump Points' is simply called a 'Jump Drive'.

Privateer has a pretty coherent story path that the player can choose to go on. Honestly, if you like Vegastrike, I'd recommend the Wing Commander: Privateer Gemini Gold, which is a remake of the game, using the Vegastrike engine.

http://priv.solsector.net/

It's a lot easier for you to simply see the differences in the universe, and the games, than to try and describe them.

Davemak · Post by **Davemak** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:27 pm

Thanks for the link - another great blast from the past. Loved all the Wing Commander/Privateer games but as technology advanced, they are sitting in the garage.
Thought the privateer: gemini gold seemed a lot better than vega strike, but maybe thats cos I was used to privateer? Only flaw I have found is the resolution - 800*600 is the max I can get and its awful on a big screen. Does anyone know how to increase it - obviously off topic for oolite