Mon Mar 03, 2003 1:23 pm
Anyone remember first encounters?
It was a game very similiar to what it seems a lot of people want Freelancer to be. A totally open ended space sim. This game is at least 10 years old....the cd doesn't even work for me anymore. But the baiscs is as follows:
You start on a "safe planet" with a fighter, weak weapons and some cash. THats as far as the game leads you. From that point on you can do what you want. It is an infinite universe that generates planets moons and stars as you go further away from the core. THere are factions and governernments around the planets. You can "join" the respective navy's of these governments and earn ranks and awards, you can be a privateer, a bounty hunter a trader whatever.
Star systems have police problems and all jump points are usually far away from stations so there is a no mans land you have to cross. There is massive difference between loadouts and classes of ships. If you want to be a trader, cool get a big ship, but you can run a big ship solo, you have to find and hire crew.....and pay them weekly.
THere is some storyline with an alien incursion you can explore if you want (some aliens have been invading the rim but no one has seen them and lived or something like that. You can join an armada to seek out and engage them. THe only problem with the game was jumps were not free. You had to have jump fuel to make the jump. so you were limited in range unless you had a fuel scoop. THe fuel scoop would let you recharge your fuel for free by flying REALLLY close to a star and peeling off some hydrogen.
Just curious if anyone remembers this game becasue it would be really great if freelnacer developed some of the openess First Encounters had.
You start on a "safe planet" with a fighter, weak weapons and some cash. THats as far as the game leads you. From that point on you can do what you want. It is an infinite universe that generates planets moons and stars as you go further away from the core. THere are factions and governernments around the planets. You can "join" the respective navy's of these governments and earn ranks and awards, you can be a privateer, a bounty hunter a trader whatever.
Star systems have police problems and all jump points are usually far away from stations so there is a no mans land you have to cross. There is massive difference between loadouts and classes of ships. If you want to be a trader, cool get a big ship, but you can run a big ship solo, you have to find and hire crew.....and pay them weekly.
THere is some storyline with an alien incursion you can explore if you want (some aliens have been invading the rim but no one has seen them and lived or something like that. You can join an armada to seek out and engage them. THe only problem with the game was jumps were not free. You had to have jump fuel to make the jump. so you were limited in range unless you had a fuel scoop. THe fuel scoop would let you recharge your fuel for free by flying REALLLY close to a star and peeling off some hydrogen.
Just curious if anyone remembers this game becasue it would be really great if freelnacer developed some of the openess First Encounters had.
