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Bit more information on The Secret World (from MMONG.com). Character progression will be level and classless, so presumably a skill-based system. Hopefully this will be more Eve-like, allowing new characters to work with old ones by concentrating on a role before diversifying. They've also stated that they want to do away with grind by making the game more puzzle based and less 'kill x bears and collect their arses'. Promising, but then was AoC. Oh yeah, and it'll use an upgraded version of the AoC engine.

I can't stop getting excited about Secret World!

Dog Pants wrote:Oh yeah, and it'll use an upgraded version of the AoC engine.

Well that's going to need new parts bought to run then.

I like the sound of this classless specialise to your strengths way. Always have really. Time to tweak my hype dial to due north. north is of course the secret world, but if you didn't get that then you're best off staying out the gene pool.

I always liked Due South - great TV show.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AJyb4lMXkg[/media]

Dog Pants wrote:from MMONG.com

You know that's a chinese site selling stuff for pets right?

Baliame wrote:
You know that's a chinese site selling stuff for pets right?

Looks Korean, though.

Hehulk wrote:
Feel the need to jump in here and say that customisable ships are coming to eve in the next expansion. They're probably going to be ungodly expensive, but they are comming.

Will they let you pain a cock on it? If you can't paint a cock on it, it's not customisable.

Jumpgate sounds like one for me, I always wanted joystick control of EVE ships a-la Freelancer.

New PC in the post, can't wait!

bomberesque wrote:Jumpgate sounds like one for me, I always wanted joystick control of EVE ships a-la Freelancer.

I want a freelancer that's truely MMO, JG will do nicely

I used a mouse to fly in Freelancer. It was so effortless I wondered why we'd ever bothered with clumsy joysticks.

FatherJack wrote:I used a mouse to fly in Freelancer. It was so effortless I wondered why we'd ever bothered with clumsy joysticks.

this. Im glad someone else did, I thought it made me a bit of a brain-wronger.

I also used a mouse in Freelancer, but mostly because it was done correctly.

Give it a bit of input and it latched it in that direction until you corrected it, most games keep making you need to give direction input with a mouse which means you'll be sliding and streching all over the place, not fun or conductive to actually playing well imo.

Oddly enough when I fired up X3: Terran Boredom to see the shiny graphics, it had borrowed the mouse input idea from Freelancer. Standard FPS controls work remarkably well in spaceship games, even with perpetual velocity modelling.

Tachyon: The Fringe also had a very good mouse controlled spaceship thing going on. Also, it had voice acting courtesy of Bruce Motherfucking Campbell.

I dont think joystick controls were available in Freelancer? But I do agree that they were done correctly, I would prefer a joystick but if it is easier to play by mouse, and stops 12 year olds giving me an intergalactic tea-bagging, then I will be using mouse.

In an unusual attempt to get back on subject: Champions online is fucking ace, even in its mildly buggy beta version.

Anery wrote:I dont think joystick controls were available in Freelancer?

etc etc etc

unintentional derail there ... you pedants

I just meant direct directional control, which you don't get in Eve (at least not in any really useful way). Can't honestly recall whether I used a joystick or mouse on Freelancer, it was 10-15 years ago (?) and my memory is not improving as I pass through the latter stages of the physiological trainwreck that is my 30s

still, according to Mr Post, my new PC made it out of Stoke and is now somewhere called "international Hub", which I expect is in another part of Stoke, so I should have it by the summer if I'm lucky

/edit damn my rotting brain . looked up FL and realised that it was released in '03, which means the game I'm thinking of (which was joystick-y I'm pretty sure) was around 5-7 years earlier than that. After literally minutes of digging; Privateer 2, which I had thought Freelancer was a follow up of but perhaps not. This also meansd that I may well still own Freelencer and that it might run on my netbook. Woo!

Was Privateer 2 the one with Brian Blessed in? That was ace.

Dog Pants wrote:Was Privateer 2 the one with Brian Blessed in? That was ace.

dunno about Blessed, but it did have Christopher Walken, Clive Owen and John Hurt, which all added up to mountains of win (at the time, I
'm sure it would be quite laughably dated now)

and I found my copy of freelancer in my old games case. go go gadget lodemupintothelappy!

Yep, it was then. He played the pissed up monk.