Black Prophecy - (Reakktor Media) debut trailer

[Mrbloodworth]

Reakktor Media has released the first trailer for its upcoming next-generation Space Action MMO Black Prophecy. The movie gives you a glimpse of Black Prophecy's fast paced real-time combat action within the dark universe created by the award-winning Sci-Fi author Michael Marrak. Black Prophecy will be published by 10Tacle Studios in Q1 2009

Debut trailer downloads

[IainC]

It looks cool, although it does look a lot like EvE, the guy I was talking to from Reaktor insists it plays completely differently. More like X-Wing v Tie Fighter the MMO apparently. Beta signups are up now too but it will be a while before the beta actually starts.

[Mrbloodworth]

Twitch. 

Now, the issue for me, is Jumpgate, or This. Considering the time frames,  i will play both. However, i know netdevil is net devil, but netdvil has done a space game before, i'm not sure Reakktor  has.

Really to early to compare however. also, IMO it does not look like Eve.

[lesion]

If the collision detection is anywhere close to the video I want to ski on ship hulls. Right now.

[Mrbloodworth]

yeah i caught that too. Looks like Newtonian physics, i wonder if they are going to do what jumpgate is doing and offer both Newtonian and atmospheric.

Its definitely going to have more extreme system requirements than jumpage evo.

[Slayerik]

kk is back?

I liked Neocron unlinke many people so I'll be watching this one.

[Cylus]

It looks cool, although it does look a lot like EvE, the guy I was talking to from Reaktor insists it plays completely differently. More like X-Wing v Tie Fighter the MMO apparently. Beta signups are up now too but it will be a while before the beta actually starts.

That'd be lovely if true; quite a claim, though.  Where's a gameplay trailer when ya need one? 

[IainC]

It looks cool, although it does look a lot like EvE, the guy I was talking to from Reaktor insists it plays completely differently. More like X-Wing v Tie Fighter the MMO apparently. Beta signups are up now too but it will be a while before the beta actually starts.

That'd be lovely if true, although it's quite a claim.  Where's a gameplay trailer when ya need one? 

Yeah, I was all like 'Dude it totally looks like EvE!'
And he was all like 'Nuh uh!'
And I was like 'Woah!'
And he was all 'Yeah baby!'

True story.

[Yegolev]

I need to put my dxdiag on my USB drive.

[HaemishM]

Pretty colors.

[Drugstore Space Cowboy]

Oooooh. I won't get excited till they reveal something more substantive than pretty renders, though.

[Mrbloodworth]

I need to put my dxdiag on my USB drive.

lol, i was thinking the same thing, i keep trying to sign up for such things at work 

[Mrbloodworth]

Oooooh. I won't get excited till they reveal something more substantive than pretty renders, though.

Do we know those were renders?

[Yegolev]

Oooooh. I won't get excited till they reveal something more substantive than pretty renders, though.

Do we know those were renders?

My default assumption is that it's a pre-render unless it has a big GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE stamped on it, and even then I'm suspicious.

[HaemishM]

Or a HUD. Some kind of interface to go with the pretty pretties would at least go a little way to proving it's an in-game render as opposed to cinematics. Cinematics are fun, but they don't really get me interested in a game.

[Mrbloodworth]

I dunno, i'm not seeing anything i would consider not possible real time. *shrug* But i don't know for a fact eather way. I know they are saying "Next gen".

Also, i dont think it looks like eve, the architecture of the ships and stations look very diffrent to me. More, "realistic-human-tech". Also, the stations are in scale. I don't know, i only have 4 screen shots, and a compressed video to go by 

[Draegan]

If I had to guess I would say that movie was made in-game.

[Morfiend]

Ohh, Eve with twitch. Sign me up.

That was my only complaint about Eve, the combat was like dueling spreadsheets.

I will second needing my dxdig on my USB stick.

[Cadaverine]

Looks all kinds of pretty, but it is Reakktor.  Neocron? 

[Venkman]

Neocron had issues, but it was still playable and fun for a bit.

From the linked beta page, I have a question: What's a "Closed Beta Subscription"? Bad choice of words? "Subscribe" as in subscribe to get more info when it's available? Or "subscribe" as in "pay to beta"?

The sizzle video looked pretty good. It does appear to be gameplay footage vignettes. It didn't have the crazy high polish smooth shininess of the canned CGI, nor the level of scripted smoothness and visual depth you usually see in something pre-made. It was really a bunch of stuff we've seen in Freespace 2 upconverted for technology against a backdrop of space inside a SWG-esque cube with texture mapped planets.

It did have an impressive amount of floating objects, but you never really got any sense of "massive" space battles, but nothing I haven't seen in Eve. If they're selling this as an MMO and scripted a true from-scratch sizzle video, you'd see much more hype driven to big battles. This looked like a single player game.

Nice looking, but about as much info as that first (and afaik still only) Project Offset video. Yawn.

[Murgos]

Neocron had issues, but it was still playable and fun for a bit.

From the linked beta page, I have a question: What's a "Closed Beta Subscription"? Bad choice of words? "Subscribe" as in subscribe to get more info when it's available? Or "subscribe" as in "pay to beta"?

Just because you are subscribed to something doesn't mean it costs money.  I am subscribed to several mailing lists, paying them would be absurd.

[Venkman]

Yea I know. I'm just wondering what the term means in this case.

[IainC]

My friend at Reakktor says the video is all ingame footage not rendered.

[Salamok]

I need to put my dxdiag on my USB drive.

lol I was thinking someone needs to make a fakedxdiag web app, you plug in what you seem to recall of your hardware and it kicks you a dxdiag file...

[TripleDES]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I guess I can see why CCP is scrambling to get Ambulation going this year.

As far as graphics go, in the overall picture, Black Prophecy looks better. But we'll see what happens when EVE gets new backdrops and planet renderers.

[Mrbloodworth]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I guess I can see why CCP is scrambling to get Ambulation going this year.

As far as graphics go, in the overall picture, Black Prophecy looks better. But we'll see what happens when EVE gets new backdrops and planet renderers.

They still wont be twitch. Thats what. 

[Alkiera]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I guess I can see why CCP is scrambling to get Ambulation going this year.

As far as graphics go, in the overall picture, Black Prophecy looks better. But we'll see what happens when EVE gets new backdrops and planet renderers.

They still wont be twitch. Thats what. 

Yeah, but you may or may not be surprised at how many people twitch drives away.  I mean, how many people crashed their first attempts to dock in Jumpgate and said "Screw it, uninstalling."

When I played JG I had a great deal of respect for the big ore-hauler pilots.  Thousands of tons of copper or something makes your ship, even with massive engines and speed boosters, maneuver much like a beached whale.  IIRC, the one I knew would come through the gate, use a booster to get up to a set speed, roll it over, and then at a set time, use another speed booster to decelerate fast enough to stop in front of the dock ring.  He also had a few people in combat ships mostly doing the job of the trucks with yellow flashing lights that precede over-sized trucks on the highway.... get the heck out of way, giant ship incoming.

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[LC]

I would like to play a game like eve without some of the annoyances. I could do without the F1 F2 F3, the multiple accounts, and the huge time sinks. I don't really care for the whole time based skill training either. Give me eve without those and more player skill.

[Stormwaltz]

I'm intrigued. Nothing substantive to say, but the interest of this aging TIE Fighter/Wing Commander/FreeSpace jockey is definitely piqued.

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm intrigued. Nothing substantive to say, but the interest of this aging TIE Fighter/Wing Commander/FreeSpace jockey is definitely piqued.

Yep i count three who make this claim coming in the future. Will be interesting to see who makes it.

Jumpgate Evolution, Blackstar and now Black Prophecy.

To be honest, Black Prophecy looks the best even with a huge lack of information, simply going by art style here. I do not like the anime nature of the Blackstar project, and while jumpgate looks incredible for the tech its using, it doesn't have the "ooo shiny" as this.



Now, I would still love to see Eve like flight for capital ships, twitch (newton and atmospheric) for fighters, and mother fucking avatars and ship interiors with stations/terminals/posts for multi-crew workings. I can dream cant i?

[Pennilenko]

If this or Jumpgate evolution really come through well, i will actually go out and get a good joystick after not having one for years.

[LC]

I do not like the anime nature of the Blackstar project

You keep saying that, but I don't see it. As someone that watches a lot of anime, it disturbs me that I can't make the connection. It looks more like the newer western (lets be more like anime but get it wrong) cartoons like "Ben Ten" and "Teen Titans". With a touch of BRATZ thrown in.

[Lantyssa]

I know I'll be laughed at, but I like the stylings of all three...  and I really liked the concept art for Blackstar.

[Drugstore Space Cowboy]

I like the stylings of all three...  and I really liked the concept art for Blackstar.

WAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

*wheeze*

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[TripleDES]

You keep saying that, but I don't see it. As someone that watches a lot of anime, it disturbs me that I can't make the connection. It looks more like the newer western (lets be more like anime but get it wrong) cartoons like "Ben Ten" and "Teen Titans". With a touch of BRATZ thrown in.

With "Anime" he probably means the frantic korean style shown in the video.