Never thought of it in those terms, but that makes perfect sense. With the ship-selection and everything. Nice post, NstormRider. I like a lot of the other ideas your presented. The combat could remain 1v1, but throw in the occasional "fleet battle", or other special events, just to shake things up.
[quote who="nomotog" reply="3" id="3390822"] I say jettison because it's not that good. The reboot angle just gives a good excuse. I don't think space melee is a critical part of SC definitely not more important then exploration and dialog. Also if we can't fit multiple ships into melee that just sounds like another reason to switch to something else. My two cents.[/quote] The more time you spend with Super Melee, or any UQM combat, the more you see th
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="3389908"]I agree. We are talking to them. Hopefully Activision will let them participate.[/quote] Ok, who at Activision do we have to bombard with emails? We're good at that! :)
Personally I'd be happy continuing the top-down view. (with more than 16 directions) :) One cool improvement would be the ability to have multi-ship battles. Maybe you control your flagship, and choose one wing-man to take into each battle. Or each race has a range of ships, from fighters to cruisers, and you control the flagship, while the other ships around you battle it out. One thing that always bugged me about SCII, was you never felt like a giant fleet of allied races, with
As others have voiced, any of the races that were mentioned casually in SCII would be cool. Some of the Sentient Milieu. Maybe some races that have survived or ran away from the Kohr Ah or Kher Zha (spelling aside). Maybe a race that's invisible to the human eye, or a race that's all platypus's. Platypie?
Forgot to mention, you can also find UQM in the Google Play Market for Android. :-)
Would like to add, Ur-Masters is a fan made, FREE remake of Star Control 2, designed to run on modern computers. It also adds features like voiceovers and improved options from the 3DO version. As SC2 was arguably the best game in the series, definitely check that out first. Be sure to download the voices and remixes, when prompted by the installer. There's also an UQM HD version, that cranks up the graphics and adds other features. It's currently in alpha, but completely play
I hope they consider contacting or hiring the developers of UQM, UQM HD, and/or Project 6014.
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