Black Prophecy - (Reakktor Media) debut trailer

[Mrbloodworth]

Unless your under NDA, whats the game play like? Kill 10 ships?

[Ghambit]

There is no NDA for BP, but there is for BSGO 
But yah, it's mostly "kill 10 ships" (from the little bit I played).  Thing is, it's not easy.  It's not like you're playing whack-a-mole, it's more like being asked to shoot 10 MiGs down in Falcon 4.0.  Seems a simple task, but good luck doing it.  There are objects you can interact with in space of course too, like fixing a sensor, etc.  which almost always devolve into "shit, I'm being jumped by 10 pirates while fixing these 10 sensors."

Oddly, the biggest bug in the game (the one people refer to in here) was the main storyline quest bug wherein it wouldnt let you warp to the appropriate location.  So at that point the entire game, beyond grinding general missions, comes grinding to a halt.  This bug was supposedly fixed along with the intro. screen bugs.

Lastly, if you dont keep up with your weaponry, you're dead.  A lot dead.  The one caveat being if you're smart enough to group and build your ship out as a tank, gunship, etc.
Honestly, my main reason for putting the game down testing-wise was the fact it was hard to find groups, 'cause the reality is it sux w/o them.   The game really shines when you've got player-made squadrons fighting together, and the gear choices reflect this.  Also, the missions dont really scale down enough for solo play and take entirely too long to complete solo as well.  (dogfighting with a single ship takes a while let alone dealing with 10)

So if you're wanting to solo all the time, I wouldnt bother with BP unless you're a very skilled pilot and have a lot of patience.

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm sitting on a beta key, so I guess ill have to check it out.

[Ghambit]

I'm sitting on a beta key, so I guess ill have to check it out.

So you're saying you're a very skilled pilot and have a lot of patience?  
If you'd like, we could arrange a time and try grouping.  I really dont want to continue testing w/o some coop play, let alone try to do the pvp sectors solo.

Further stipulations: gotta use a stick and gotta use voip

[Mrbloodworth]

We have our own voip server, If I install, I will contact you ASAP. I don't have a stick. But I'm a plane, I can pilot.

[Stormwaltz]

It launched in Europe today.

[Ghambit]

It launched in Europe today.

All the betas were Euro betas.  I'm not even sure they plan to launch in the U.S. at all, not that it really matters much.   The servers are still in English and it's F2P.  Ping's not that bad.

[Nija]

Does anyone know the server address?

[Mrbloodworth]

Heard it was butt. Confirm?

Also:

This in?


Also, seems NA is coming later. http://blackprophecy.gamigo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11497

[Stormwaltz]

Heard it was butt. Confirm?

I don't know about that, but I can confirm it shipped, unlike poor JGE.

[Mrbloodworth]

Heard it was butt. Confirm?

I don't know about that, but I can confirm it shipped, unlike poor JGE.

Very true.

Guess I can go check it out myself, I just had heard there was some really run of the mill game play ( kill 10 ships ), and bad optimization. Though, I like most of the features. The ability to get our your ship also excites me. Looks like thats not in for launch though.

So, I can't find a store on the site, what is the cash shop like?

[NiX]

Butt would be putting it nice.

[Mrbloodworth]

Ok, the download from the main page is downloading, but I keep getting corrupted data. So, downloading from gamershell.  

[FatuousTwat]

It's wallmart butt.

[tgr]

So, not something to replace an eve addiction with?

I noticed they said something about crafting etc somewhere, but it didn't seem very granular, and from watching the trailers etc, the feeling I'm left with is that it isn't a cold and brutal universe like EVE's universe is, and the only defining feature it has is basically just wing commander online.

[Ghambit]

If it were truly Wing Commander Online wouldnt this thread be 10 times longer?

[Mrbloodworth]

I would have pre-orderd. 

I'm going to assume my download finished last night. I gave up and went out.

[Lucas]

If it were truly Wing Commander Online wouldnt this thread be 10 times longer?

ARGH.

[Stormwaltz]

I got it downloaded and installed last night, but it wouldn't recognize my account login. So I dunno.

[Engels]

In beta I had a problem where my ship got stuck in some log in loop that affected many many players, with a thread on the forums 100 pages long. Devs never addressed this issue for the 3 weeks I checked to see. I gave up.

[Mrbloodworth]

Every single source I have attempted to download from has corrupted files. BPClientSetup-1c.bin is the devil.

[Ghambit]

You're DLing the release client right?

[Mrbloodworth]

Yeah from the main site. Among others.

[Stormwaltz]

I saw the same problem trying to DL from their website. BPClientSetup_EU-1a.bin was corrupted the first two times I tried to DL it.

[Mrbloodworth]

Q: I am from North America region. Why can't i log in?

A: Newly registered accounts from North American players are currently not able to login. However, players who participated in the closed beta will be able to play on the EU servers. Playing on both regions will be possible for all users once the EU and the North American versions are live. However, we are not going to offer any transfer service for the upcoming North American servers. If you decide to start playing on the EU servers you will have to re-roll your characters on the North American servers again.

 

[Stormwaltz]

So you can do it at your own risk, but you can't do it. 

[jakonovski]

There must be some fundamental connection between regional cockblocking and games development. Why else would everybody do it?

fake edit: as an EU citizen I'm going to install the game now.

[Mrbloodworth]

So you can do it at your own risk, but you can't do it.  

Yeah, that little tidbit was not in the original announcement. Found it AFTER I finally got the game to install. Using a link in the launcher window. 

[jakonovski]

Oh jesus, that was a horrible first impression. Nonsensical opening video, then a hamfisted tutorial scenario. Controls and UI are all fucked up and I have no idea what's going on. Tried to calibrate my 360 pad to make it work properly, but I'm too sick to put up with crap like that at the moment. Will try again later though, because I'm stubborn.

[jakonovski]

It's fun when you quote your own post instead of editing it.

[Mrbloodworth]

The login screen was nice.

[Stormwaltz]

The login screen was nice.

One of the top ten login screens of the year, I'd say.

[NiX]

"One of the top ten login screens of the year, I'd say." - IGN.com

[Nija]

Not sure where everyone is having problems. I got into the US beta yesterday. I downloaded the client in 15 minutes. It installed fine.

I fired it up and the server had a low population. I made a character and entered the game. I did have to sit through some video that I couldn't skip, which sucked, but then I was controlling a capital ship turret or something, blasting bad guys. I'm not sure what UI challenges you had - you move the little X cursor over bad guys and you left click. Fuck, that was difficult to figure out.

Then I was able to skip a few more videos and I was in a ship that had WASD controls and mouse aiming plus left click to shoot. Again - I'm having trouble seeing the UI challenges here.

Neat game.

[Mrbloodworth]

US beta

We were trying to hop on the EU one.