Any decent space combat sims made recently?

[Caydr]

I played through Freespace 1/2 a few weeks ago, left me wanting more. Does anyone know of a similar game that's been made more recently?

Only ones I know of are the X series, which is incomprehensible and would take me too long to learn, and "DarkStar One" which just couldn't hold my interest for more than a couple hours.

Normally I'd just look up the genre somewhere, but lately I've become more and more aware that there's a lot of good games that just don't get any press. For instance this really neat game called Space Rangers 2... Anyways, any ideas?

[[Krogoth86]]

Well besides classics like Freelancer or I-War 2 this genre is somewhat dead (I still pray that they really are working on Freespace 3). There also is Space Force Rogue Universe but that game is just bad. I mean it got somewhat good critics but I stopped playing it after an hour or so - sooo boring and sooo many stupid design decisions (I still lol at weapons having like 6 different damage values - one for every race in the game or something like that)...

If you're into something "completely different" and especially if you're a fan of Babylon 5 you should try I've found her or what the recent campaign is. As Freeware it's worth a try anyway...

[Muzic]

Freespace 2 is the only good one which looks decent.

Beyond the Red Line is probably the best. Ever. And Its free too. Unfortuneatly the campaign is 2 missions long. But just playing whats there you can definately say that if the game was completed, it'd naturally probably be the best.

Its a huge shame the gaming industry has abandoned space shooters.

[REVENGE]

It's called X3: Reunion.

[Muzic]

It's called X3: Reunion.

I love you. I will help you blow your Kha'aak

[Argh]

If somebody would give me about 3 million dollars for a production budget, and another 2 for marketing, I would happily produce Freelancer II...

Er, I meant, "no, other than X3, which was OK but not wonderful, there hasn't been much of anything in this genre lately"...

[Forboding Angel]

check out http://vendetta-online.com

it's really good.

[KDR_11k]

He's asking for a combat sim, not a trade sim. X, Freelancer and Darkstar One are primarily about trading and economy (like Elite). Freespace is a straight-up combat sim, you're a soldier, you got your capital ship and you blow aliens into bits.

[PicassoCT]

BC 3000 AD shurely had a recent release...


PS: i know this is in some boards a forbidden word, because it can someone a smartl Firedeamon..

[[Krogoth86]]

Oh - I completely forgot about Starlancer which is another very good game and also a Freespace and not Privateer style game...

[rattle]

PS: i know this is in some boards a forbidden word, because it can someone a smartl

Hands off the crack!

[KDR_11k]

Oh - I completely forgot about Starlancer which is another very good game and also a Freespace and not Privateer style game...

Starlancer is meh, the character shields are WAY too obvious and it has too much movie physics (OMG 4 torps sink our flagship! OMG one of the 16 torpedos didn't hit an enemy standard capital ship, it's getting away!)

[Caydr]

I'm not necessarily against games that aren't directly about space combat, the main thing I like is sci-fi with a good story. Emphasis on story. FS1/2 were great that way, the last missions of both games made you actually feel like you were in a grim situation.

[Zoombie]

"Beyond the Red Line" kicks ass, just so you know. It felt as grim and as gritty as the new BSG series, and had that great sound effect for shooting.

[Caydr]

Apparently Derek Smart posted on AVault asking if he should get the rights to FS3. I can't decide if this is good or horrible. His games have a nasty reputation.

[Muzic]

MMO's bad to my health D:

[werdo]

EVE trinity
its immense
once youve played for about 10 hours alltogether it really picks up speed :)

[Zoombie]

Apparently Derek Smart posted on AVault asking if he should get the rights to FS3. I can't decide if this is good or horrible. His games have a nasty reputation.

Ugh, god! NO!

Derek Smart games are painfully horrible. They're great, amazing ideas with horrible, horrible implementation.

[PicassoCT]

PS: i know this is in some boards a forbidden word, because it can someone a smartl

Hands off the crack!

.. ups... summon a Smart Derek Firedeamon...
and it is not crack. There are other Crystallclear Methodds to get high...

[rattle]

There's Vega Strike and there were quite a few mods for it in production. Vega Strike itself became boring after an hour against the AI but it might be fun against human opponents.