Brian The Dog on 26/5/2010 at 15:29
How hard is it to convert your thinking to Newtonian Mechanics rather than the flying-in-atmosphere-style of Elite and Freespace etc? If it's not too hard then I'll buy it.
Renzatic on 26/5/2010 at 16:50
You want to know why I love GoG? Because they give me free games for no apparent reason whatsoever. All I have to do is sit around, wait for an email saying my order is complete, then look on my gog-shelf and see what brand new game I didn't buy but now own shows up.
This happened just the other day. I hadn't visited the site in a week, didn't have any new orders processed on my credit card, but somehow I ended up being the proud recipient of Two Worlds. I've sent out an email asking them what's going on, but have yet to receive a reply. I'll send out one more, and if I don't get a reply yet again....hey, free game.
Jason Moyer on 26/5/2010 at 18:50
Oh man. I-war. Sold.
Zerker on 26/5/2010 at 22:34
Quote Posted by Renzatic
You want to know why I love GoG? Because they give me free games for no apparent reason whatsoever. All I have to do is sit around, wait for an email saying my order is complete, then look on my gog-shelf and see what brand new game I didn't buy but now own shows up.
Weird. That's never happened to me except for the one time that they were giving away Tex Murphy Episodes 1 & 2.
Renzatic on 26/5/2010 at 23:21
But unlike the free game giveaways GoG sometimes does, I didn't have to log on and add the game to my account. It literally just popped up out of thin air.
Not that I'm complaining or anything. Well...I wish it was something I wanted besides Two Worlds, but...yeah.
Banksie on 26/5/2010 at 23:31
Quote Posted by Brian The Dog
How hard is it to convert your thinking to Newtonian Mechanics rather than the flying-in-atmosphere-style of Elite and Freespace etc? If it's not too hard then I'll buy it.
By default the pilot interface works in 'assist' mode which makes the ship attempt to handle like Elite. It still is running the full simulation underneath but a lot of the busywork is taken away. One keypress then turns the assist off and you can do full motion. This becomes important in combat because you can rotate while maintaining a general vector to keep the main guns bearing on a target for longer - or to do up the engine kill shots as they pass by. The most important trick was using the unassisted mode to roll the ship to allow both the upper and lower shield arrays to function.
For combat the shield array on each hemisphere can only track and deflect the shots from one target at a time and there is a lag when switching between targets. This means two ships firing on you in one shield hemisphere would allow one ships fire straight through to the hull. So part of the zen of combat is rolling the ship to get the best shield array coverage for the fire you are receiving.
Better yet there is a suite of auto-pilot options including dock, formation fly, maintain distance and like to pick from. Often for combat I'd select a target, hit approach and then flip to the gunnery console to line up the first few missile shots (only at the gunnery console can the rear gun be fired and multiple targets simultaneously be engaged with missiles without having to shift the targetting reticle about.) then come back to the pilot station to dogfight an individual ship to its death before then selecting the next target.
So yeah, not hideously difficult to fly at all.
Brian The Dog on 27/5/2010 at 09:12
Thanks, have just bought it. A quick test before work shows it seems great!
mothra on 2/6/2010 at 10:38
KINGS BOUNTY ON GOG.COM !!!!!
gonna buy it AGAIN !!!!!
Koki on 1/7/2010 at 13:44
I'll like them when they finally do something. They remove DRM, except their games never had any noticeable DRM to begin with, and make them XP/Vista compatible, except nearly all games on their list don't have any problem with either.
