Re: Elite: Dangerous - and the return

[drew]

Yup, I'd say all of it apart from the initial image.

Love the notes at the end.

Cheers,

Drew.

[ClymAngus]

Keeping it Kubrick. Nice.

[Selezen]

It's a damn fine trailer. Makes me want to pledge all over again. I wonder if I can embed that into my blog...

[drew]

I had a bit of fun with the trailer and remixed my own version...

http://youtu.be/fMSfxz6Yd28

Enjoy.

Cheers,

Drew.

[Cody]

<applauds> Nice one, Drew!

[Shipbuilder]

Very nicely done Drew.

[Geraldine]

... but I'm certainly not sure which one was most true to Newtonian Physics.

<summons the Pioneer rep> Geraldine would know that, I reckon.

Mmmmm... ....just noticed this. El Viejo needs to brush up on his summoning skills

Anyways better late than never, In FE2, flight modes had to be changed manually, while in FFE, it would auto switch to manual flight mode, but (annoyingly, at least for me) it would auto fire the retro thrusters. This was a "flight aid" that was added to the flight model. John Jorden (now lead programmer of Pioneer) later modded the game so that the thrusters dotted around the hull were mapped to the numeric key pad, which allowed the use of fancy moves in Newtie dogfights. He also kindly provided a number of other useful tweaks to the game. Personally, I always preferred FE2s flight model. It was a simpler version of Newtonian and I didn't need any damned "flight aids".

So which is truer to Newtonian Physics? Both I guess, although (JJ modded) FFE would be more refined, so I will give FFE the nod but only just

[drew]

New trailer up - Scavenger Hunt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44K9bnjcUSc

Cheers,

Drew.

ps. Thanks for the pledge, Geraldine!

[Selezen]

Lovely trailer it is too. I hope it's all actual gameplay footage and stuff that you'll be able to do in the game. Maybe not the dialog though, I can tell that's been added on.

Something escaped my attention recently and I'm shocked that it did - the appearance of an option on frontier.co.uk to pledge via paypal. The other shoe has dropped for my theory that FD would find a way to ensure that this drive gets funded. I think I'm 98% positive now that ED will achieve its targets by whatever means necessary...

[Geraldine]

ps. Thanks for the pledge, Geraldine!

Your welcome Drew, even if your going to kill me

EDIT: Niiice vid Drew

[Geraldine]

Hey guys, I dont know if you know about this site already, but recently (to promote Elite Dangerous) synchromesh set it up with all the original Elite games including the re-makes Oolite, Pioneer and FFE3D. Here is a link http://www.eliteforever.co.uk/games.html

[Cody]

Yeah... synchro is a member here.

[Geraldine]

Yeah... synchro is a member here.

Ah, thats fine then, a really nice site by the way

[Telengo]

Only just come across Elite: Dangerous!, man have I been hiding out in the sticks. Sent in my pledge, been waiting for so many years for this.

And the Elite Forever site looks great as well, more stuff to look at while I am at home all week now.

[Tricky]

Update #19 - New Pledge Tiers

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/146 ... sts/374118