I was looking at the VO screenshots, and wondered what system this picture:

http://vendetta-online.com/h/image_display.html?http://images.vendetta-online.com/screenshots/dump0092.jpg

Was taken from. Can anybody help?

Looks like maybe Sector 2 from the earlier universe - the old Serco home. Are you drooling over the xi-rite?

Sector 18 from the old universe! It was a pirate sector, home to what is now Corvus faction and protected by hoardes of what are now DenTek Assaults.

Sector 18. Baaaaaad FM.

Oh right...um..... I'm new?

Man, that would've been a nice mine. Except I'm itani.

I keep forgetting that a lot of these pics are from the earlier versions of the game (which I would kill (literrally) to be able to have known about at the time it was out)

Celkan...you must remember, back then, FM was more involved with in-game fire-fighting duties than sight-seeing.

These were Sector 2... some similarity between planets but that's where it ended.

http://images.vendetta-online.com/screenshots/red.station.jpg
http://images.vendetta-online.com/screenshots/dump0057.jpg

And smittens... mining in 18 would not have been pleasent.

me faints! sector 2, wow!

yeah thats the old sector 18. and no mining sector 18 would not have been plesant at all. It was hard enough to get to thru sector 17 with usually 3 (what i always called) over-kill bots chasing you. mining sector 18 would have been next to impossible. but the one thing that was really fn about S18 was the fact that you could mine the entrance to the staition, go and piss off some over-kill bots, then just lead them back to the staition and get some free kills.

Or sit inside the dock shooting flares at said pissed off bots, heh...

OMG, I sooo wish the devs had the old test version online,... Space Quake Rules!

yoda, you mean they can package the old 18 sector universe into a multiplayer FPS?

Dunno harvest mouse, i dont know if they still have the old 18 sector universe, but it would be great (or maybe it could even be added into the full thing as a mini game, ya know, like the game shows in the back story CTF, races, that kind of thing)

After looking at those pics, I have to conclude that they are fake. They are just too good to be gameplay pics. They must be drawings, promo art, right?

They're real, you prolly just don't have rglow or shaders, they really boost the graphics up a couple notches. The game engine scales to a pretty large range of hardware.

No, Shadowfury, they're actual screenshots from the old universe. Those sectors were all hand done... unlike now, where a program generates the skybox.

"No, Shadowfury, they're actual screenshots from the old universe. Those sectors were all hand done... unlike now, where a program generates the skybox."

Well, I was half right, they were drawings. And yes, I don't have rglow or shaders, I'm using a G3 400Mhz with 320MB RAM and an ATI RADEON 7000 (32 MB VRAM), and VO runs without a hitch at medium-ish settings.

EDIT: I tried putting everything at it's highest in the Graphics(not Video) menu, and the game ran better, at least, from the splash screen point of view.