Evochron Mercenary

Kosmiche · 26 Jan 2012 at 11:23

So how is the learning curve compared with X3?

Found X3 fine, will I think this is fine?

Jongo · 26 Jan 2012 at 13:08

Eames said:
So how is the learning curve compared with X3?

Found X3 fine, will I think this is fine?

Learning curve is a lot easier than x3

hardest thing i found was the navigation system but once you work that out its all good.

Treebiter · 26 Jan 2012 at 15:58

Rroff said:
Looks like infinity engine got beaten to the punch. Tho the planets are fairly low scale and appear to be mostly devoid of much detail.

It was beaten to the punch in 1993 by Frontier: Elite II.

Does this have newtonian physics? If I can't slingshot myself around a gas giant like in Frontier I'm not interested :cool:

TehJumpingJawa · 26 Jan 2012 at 16:06

Treebiter said:
It was beaten to the punch in 1993 by Frontier: Elite II.

Does this have newtonian physics? If I can't slingshot myself around a gas giant like in Frontier I'm not interested

Pseud-newtonian; more newtonian than Wing Commander, but less than I-War.

Game is good, for what it is. However it's very obviously an indy title and as such doesn't warranty it's current price tag.
It'd be a recommended buy @ ~£5 though.

The face tracking support via webcam(+FaceTrackNoIR) is interesting though; I'd like to see that supported in more games.

Playing it just makes me wish for Elite IV.....fingers crossed we see it.... this decade. :confused:

Another option would be a free-form universe game using the I-War 2 engine....

Treebiter · 26 Jan 2012 at 16:11

Well as it's on Steam it'll doubtless be on for a fiver at some point. I'll probably take a pun then.

But yeah, Elite 4 is long overdue. Funny really, UFO, TTD and F:E2 all came out around the same time and are the only old games I still play. A golden age.

I've read about the techie side of how Braben made FE:2 and often wonder what he could manage on a modern system! The man managed to fit the whole milky way on one floppy disk!!!

malthus · 26 Jan 2012 at 16:18

This game looks cool will have to test it out

mortals · 21 Jul 2012 at 18:15

Treebiter said:
Well as it's on Steam it'll doubtless be on for a fiver at some point.

This game seems to be on steam sale now for £4.99

http://store.steampowered.com/app/71000/

Has anyone played this and X3?
Just trying to decide which one to get between the two

This one looks like it has multiplayer support

CaptainRAVE · 21 Jul 2012 at 21:15

Is this any good?

X3 looks much better tbh.

Frenzy · 21 Jul 2012 at 21:25

Multiplayer looks like it could be fun...

Jongo · 21 Jul 2012 at 21:58

Multiplayer is rather ace on this, if you have people to play with its worth a punt at £5.

mortals · 21 Jul 2012 at 22:42

I just downloaded a demo of this to try it out, think x3 looks better but the multiplayer of this might be worth it

Jongo · 21 Jul 2012 at 23:00

mortals said:
I just downloaded a demo of this to try it out, think x3 looks better but the multiplayer of this might be worth it

x3 has a lot more depth to it and is more about building up your own empire and economy also has a sort of mission structure(although ive never done any story missions).

Evochron is more a free roaming sandbox there are contracts which you can take but they are very basic such as kill this/mine this bring it back. Its mainly about exploration and combat with friends.

IIDeathCubeKII · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:44

I am undecided on wether to get this game or not. I don't have anyone to play it with. Think I'll decide when I see todays deals.