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[ Jumpgate Evolution News and Rumours ]

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:54:04 +0000

I've posted the news, but here it is again. Looks like NetDevil really listened to the 'family and friends' beta feedback.. and there's been some major shifts in the design of the game (not the graphics engine or physics model as such, more how you progress and interact with other players).

I think it's great news - but what do you think?

Details:

It's all subject to change, but here's an outline of the 'new' game design;

-"Battlespace" returning to more of its simulator roots from Classic, really a place to practice not advance. I know this will make some of you happy in that advancing will only happen in "real" space not instant action type playing. I still hope to have some achievements/leader board materials form here but not likely to have any equipment or pilot advancing type effects.

- Lots of work on missions. With the new design team map layouts, mission stories, the types of things you do in missions, etc is all MUCH more interesting and varied than ever before. The kinds of things we can now do is very advanced.

- Better faction definition. The stories in the game really tell all about your faction and why you are at war with the others. The story is also darker than before with many of the missions you fly feeling more gray than the typical black and white always doing the good thing type story.

- PvP. Lots and lots of work on systems for PvP, new maps, new game play, new forms of advancement, player built battle stations, capturing sectors, etc. The scope and feel of the massive space battles you will be taking part in against other players will be, IMHO, what really sets us apart.

- AI functionality. Tons of work on making the AI both the right difficulty (it was way to easy before) and also varied in behavior.

Codemaster's DNOTE has also added;

Battlestations are part of the NvNvN combat, a squad can claim a sector on behalf of a nation and build a battlestation within it to defend it and provide other benefits (if the particular sector allows it). This isn't a build one where ever you want type of thing, its an intricate part of the Nation PvP system.

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[ Squads are us! ]

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:35:04 +0000

4S SQUAD, our clan, intend to play Jumpgate Evolution, we have signed up for guild beta testing, too. Clan has been established three years ago when we actually began to play Freelancer on the Void server.

We have over 30 active players who even had an opportunity to get to know each other in real life, on 2nd clan meeting on December the 26th in Novi Sad, Serbia.

According to Jumpgate Evolution features, we still have no decision what kind of race we should choose, so you can put it as "undecided". 4S_SQUAD is an army clan not navy nor pirate. We like to make it on our own way. However, we'll give a strong contribution with our gameplay to the game.

We accept gamers from former Yugoslav republics to join our clan at the moment. However, we are working to make possibilities for other players from other part of the world to join our clan too. Official languages are Serbian and English.

We have made similar post to official JGE forum but not sure if it was seen, so, we have decided to post here too. We have also sent a private message to Jazzy on [url=http://community.codemasters.com/forum/jumpgate-evolution-squads-1084/326638-squadron-list.html]official forum[/url]

[url=http://www.4s-squad.com/index.php]We have clan site[/url], please visit us for any further details you may wish to know...

All the best,
cya in the space!

4S SQUAD representative
BabaRoga

[ Jumpgate Evolution News and Rumours ]

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:31:57 +0000

[quote][b]krispy wrote:[/b]
. . . lets hope this isn't a game that's going through many spin cycles, until there's only a mess left... *fingers crossed*.[/quote]
I thought we already had that.

[ Jumpgate Evolution News and Rumours ]

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:05:27 +0000

I was surprised to to find out that Hermann (ND Producer of JGE) is leaving NetDevil (see the news article!) - with that and the very experienced Lance Robertson joining the team (in I think a more senior role), things may being shaken up in the JGE world.

Who knows, the delay after initial friends and family testing and feedback may be a good thing, and now new blood has been brought in, things might get going again.

My only concern is too many cooks spoil the broth - and lets hope this isn't a game that's going through many spin cycles, until there's only a mess left... *fingers crossed*.

[ Jumpgate Evolution News and Rumours ]

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:56:03 +0000

Better yet, just play Jumpgate Classic.

[ Jumpgate Evolution News and Rumours ]

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:41:32 +0000

Similar info to that posted by Krispy but all I could find was this from the PAX interview @

[url]http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/102/1021846p1.html[/url]

[i]PAX 09: Jumpgate Evolution Demo
You only get one chance to launch a game.
by Marissa Monera[/i]

[quote]they are just about ready to take the game into phase two of Friends and Family beta. Scott hesitated to give an estimate of when they plan on launching the game or even when closed beta will start but he later conceded that it may be sometime in 2010 but definitely not this year. [/quote]

Gonna be a while then. :|
Star Trek Online will hopefully fill the gap.

[ Jumpgate Evolution News and Rumours ]

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:34:21 +0000

Have there been any news/updates on a possible Beta yet?
There's no new info on the official site, so i'm presuming it's still under development and hasn't moved into the Beta phase.
Last I saw was back in July when they announced the 250k beta signups.

Cheers :)

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