It's been a long time since we had a thread on this i guess. Battlescape is a match based space war game set in a full scale solar system with full 6dof newtonian combat and no (practical) speed limit.
Currently the alpha is nearing beta with some access weekends for beta backers. Recent updates overhauled the UI, added armor and heat, with a further overhaul of capital ship controls mentioned for next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRxO3aX_fTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWehgbxfA-k
Updates are posted on the inovae forums, latest one here:
Weekly Update #130
Wow now i remember when i was keeping an eye on this about a decade ago, was it put on ice for that long?
It wasn't exactly on ice, but progress was slow seeing as it was just one guy working on the engine starting about ~2004-2005. Yhey only put an actual team together to work on a prototype for a kickstarter in 2015, and development where you see it now is basically the result of a small team of people working since then.
The big video everyone remembers is this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7XhaTGDYg
It's sure been awhile i guess.
The weapons make for a pretty light show, but each projectile, besides being different colours, are exactly the same, bar some minor differences, it'd be decent to have them look more distinct rather than just different colours.
it may resolve itself when there are more types of weapons available. Right now the loadout system/menu isnt in yet, and only two flavors of weapons in various size classes: Kinetics and blasters (and missiles/torps) so basically there are small to large yellow and blue projectiles, plus some missiles with smoke trails here and there. When there's more weapon types hopefully visual variety will follow.
what a huge explorable universe like elite dangerous still on their plan?
Elite has a Galaxy though.
Fuck i meant galaxy XD
Q: Can I explore other solar systems and galaxies?
A: The I-Novae Engine is capable of allowing you to explore billions of solar systems as well as other galaxies however Infinity: Battlescape will be restricted to a single solar system. This will allow us to focus our resources on ensuring that it provides the best experience possible. We may offer additional solar systems after the game ships.
On the surface it sounds a lot closer to something like Jumpgate without the jumpgates. But yeah I've been following this since that first playable demo that let you try out a few different ships and had that weird untextured carrier, glad to see it finally shaping into something.
Isn't this the one that was originally called "Infinity: The Quest for Earth"?
If so, I've been hearing about this since maybe 2007 or 2006? Damn, can't believe it is still going.
Yeah
Did anyone else here play the ICP all those years ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EOoQtTghvo
Damn, it's been so long that that's not even really that impressive anymore
Beta has dropped!:
https://youtu.be/CxQ1MrltSn8
Not really feature complete yet, but if you have beta access you can play right now.
Beta is progressing really well. Huge audio updates, explosion shockwave mechanics coupled with an absolutely awesome implementation of minefields, lots of good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeeTbj7IWw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkKBNnDAF18
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