Oolite Bulletins

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)

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

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.

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? )


Cultist out!

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.

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