The Wing Commander Saga website has been updated with another set of screenshots. This time, the team is giving us a preview of all the different starfield backgrounds. They're also providing us with some insight into the game's development process. -- Original update published on May 7, 2009
Very pretty. Stunning in some cases. But I have got to be the only person who still yearns for a simple dark-blue background with blue-white stars...with maybe the occasional planet. You know, the classics.
I'm somewhat disappointed. Is this to be the extent of nebula's in the game? Because I really liked the way Freespace 2 did their nebula's. It's so rare in a game to find a nebula where a ship a thousand klicks out is actually shrouded and not visible to you. That was some of the best fighting in FS2, firing a missile and watching it home through a Nebula to blow up a target you couldn't even see...
Well, what you see in the screenshots are nebulas from far, far away. In some cases a few lightyears away. When you're actually in a nebula, you will see much less. (In real space nebulas are so thin that you would hardly notice being in them, but that's another thing )
In response to above concern... no.. this is not the "inside a nebula" view. That will be FS2 style with updated effects though. These are all "outside nebula" examples.
