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3 wishes

Mar 11, 2010 mdaniel link
Any chance we get

1) a 3D option, I think depth perception would be greatly increased and this game would be one of those where it would really make sense and it would help aiming.

2) Can we get some random Wormholes in many sectors that have random and unknown exit points around the universe?

3) Tractor beam for pulling pirates out of a sector and to throw them into 2)
Mar 11, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
) a 3D option, I think depth perception would be greatly increased and this game would be one of those where it would really make sense and it would help aiming

I'm not sure what the fuck you're smoking tonight, but you'd better Goddamn motherfucking well share.
Mar 12, 2010 toshiro link
3D might be interesting. But even though the amount of people who might look at it is probably disproportionately large in the VO community, I'd still say it's too small a slice to warrant such a thing.

Maybe this would work.
Mar 12, 2010 Chaosis link
"3) Tractor beam for pulling pirates out of a sector and to throw them into 2)"

Unfortunately, bad things do not happen to bad people that way. Try again.
Mar 12, 2010 Nihm link
-1 or -10000000000000000000000000000

hmm
Mar 19, 2010 incarnate link
Oddly, the 3D thing may actually happen before long. Nvidia is all excited about it, and may be sending us some development hardware for that. It's a pretty trivial thing to drop in. Everyone and their uncle was demoing 3D at GDC.

You will need a 60hz or (preferably) 120hz monitor, though, and shutter glasses. And I don't even know if this implementation is nvidia/windows-specific or not. Actually, I'm not real clear on the hardware requirements yet, so don't run out any buy anything for VO until we implement it and post about it.
Mar 19, 2010 peytros link
I doubt 3d is going to give anyone a gameplay edge and will probably end up being more of a gimmick. But if they can make those visors 3d that would be awesome and probably be much more immersive then having your monitor spit stuff out at you.
Mar 19, 2010 incarnate link
I don't think it'll give anyone a gameplay edge, but it does look kind of neat. We'll see how it works for VO.

I did actually talk to a company that makes visor-type head mount displays, and we may get some development kits from them. That would be interesting, and allow you to "look around" while flying.
Mar 19, 2010 igrok link
Can you provide a link to their product, Inc? Everything I've ever seen maxed out at ~640x480 and wasn't impressive.