Wing Commander Universe! Page + Stuff

Ok here's the deal, the planet pics are RENDERS from caligari Truespace 4.2 they aren't from any games. they are in 1024 x 768 resolution. I hope to put them in Vega strike and have the game use them pretty much like privateer did only with higher detail levels / resolution.
click refresh everytime you go to the site, I keep updating the pages but it doesn't change on your browser until you hit refresh.

[Edited by Darkmage on 04-18-2001 at 17:37]
 
Wow... that looks like something serious too, unlike the majority of fans projects started! :)

Keep us posted, Darkmage! :cool:
 
WOW!

Boy..this game looks bette revery time I back here. ME LOVE GRAVY! :) Thanks, Darkmage...

Plot? What plot? :) Seriously, you're a Privateer in the Wing Commander Universe during the Kilrathi War. What more plot do you need?

I'm a little curious on how you'll be doing the economic elements. Is it going to be "fly from Point A to Point B while killing Retros", then land and launch into a Smugglers-type interface?

This project is in its infancy...we need to nurture it and bring it up slowly and carefully. Or something like that. :)
 
Ever played Privateer? think that only bigger, MUCH BIGGER!
I thought you'd like Gravy, I even added it to the website's commodities list.
the interfaces will be much like Privateer's with some new ones, and maybe some of the old ones returning.
The game will give YOU total freedom, you can go anywhere in the Wing commander universe, you can choose choose to accept cargo / bounty hunter missions, or you can smuggle, pirate, etc, I may even make it so that Confed pays you for every Kilrathi you kill (your little contribution to the war)


[Edited by Darkmage on 04-19-2001 at 00:21]
 
Originally posted by Darkmage
Plot ideas would be helpful, remeber though, it's set during the Terran - Kilrathi War.
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Plot ideas:

Confed Special Ops pilot working under cover to learn who's funneling military grade hardware on to the black market. Along the way, he discovers that the problem goes all the way to the top...

Disgraced Kilrathi looking to survive outside the bounds of clan and empire, neither at home amoung the humans (who see him as at best an alien and at worst a spy) or his own peopple, who see him as a coward and a traitor.

Best, Raptor
 
I was thinking more along the lines of you are a privateer nothing more nothing less, I wanted to know character ideas and a plot like Steltek drone or church of man , something only the Private sector could deal with, actually we could make it so that in the year 2668 you get offered to join a group of privateers in scouting out a "suspected Kilrathi fleet on the other side of the empire using captured stealth technology."
We could Tie that in as part of the story If we have a story, what'dya think?
 
Great Idea.
There are a few problems the major one being that if start it at the start of the kilrathi war your character will be dead or incapable to fly by the end. A possible plot idea is to do it in instalments in the seance that each realease contains a continuation of an overall plot but linked together by a series of smaller plots that way it will be epic without geting wierd. Just thinking about it you could kill the main character at the start of an epicode then bring in his grandson or such ala privateer so as to continue the plot, not cause the player to loss the gear they've already collected and mean that the player stays alive through the war via several bodies ;)

Kepp up the good work.

PS It would be extremly funny to infiltrate kilrathi space and follow the tarawa attack, which brings in the question of pre-scripted sequences in your choicen engine will remaining player interaction.

[Edited by Dark Tower on 04-19-2001 at 07:21]
 
allow me to explain this, I do not want to create a campaign. I want to do a few missions which are given to you by characters. the rest of the game will just be Classic privateer style. Installments if any will come in the form of new characters appearing at different bases around the galaxy.
 
Oooooohhhhhhhhhh.
I thought when there was a plot mentioned that ...
Oh well we'll just have to be satisfied with blowing things up because there trying to kill us and because we can. ;) No loss realy just makes it more Eliteish.
 
Here's a consolation prize, it WILL be fully multiplayer compatible, that's right you will be able to fly together or against each other. The game will have Kilrathi ships so you can fly confed vs terran if you want to.
 
Couple Questions:

How will running contraband affect you in the game? Will the Confeds be able to "scan" your ship? Will your relations with Confed and other smugglers be saved?

Will there be something like the Mission system in Privateer so you can select search and destroy missions and such? Will there be guilds?

Will there be factors for trading such as Agri planets pay more for metals, etc.?

Will there be character interaction with CG characters?

What type of music will you be using? Music is a very important element of WC games.

Use the jump point vortex from WC3. It was the best.

This is the most exciting WC project I have seen in a long time! Best of luck to you and your team!!!
 
I think a good opening mission for this game would be the title credits would roll, and it's just some ship flying through space, no dialouge, etc...goes through jump point, blah blah blah...And it dumps the player into the in-flight game as a battle is waging between Confed and Kilrathi forces...all the poor Privateer wants to do is land on the planet for crissakes! The mission is usual bullshit: survive, don't shoot Confed ships, blah blah blah.

Oh, and there should be some Capital ships like Destroyers or Missile Frigates.

-J
 
Eep, leave the man alone! It will be hard enough to pull fo what he already has planned, before taking into acount all the requests. Don't you think we should give him some time [probably several years] to get his own vision formed as an actual game to some degree before bombarding him with requests?
 
Privateer

Just a thought.

In real life, privateers were little more than legalized pirates, who prowled the lanes ambushing enemy ships and stealing their booty. Sir Francis Drake is a good example: hero to his people, bandit to the Spanish.

How about letting Confed give you a Letter of Marque, giving you full roam on Kilrathi ships? You'd be able to raid them, and...er, my thought train stops at this point, but you get the idea. :D Sorry, it just popped into my head last night, and I thought I should post it, even though I've never played Privateer (though I've made it a point to try one of those games).

BTW Darkmage, how are those galaxy maps working?
 
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