Out of Pod Experience

I used to remember the days when people upgraded their system as demanding games were just about to get released, granted the last time this happened was in 2007 when crysis 1 was launched, though battlefield 3 deserves an honorable mention as being pretty demading with all settings cranked up and at high resolutions, and we have Crysis 3 to look forward too in a few months.


Basically it still does happen, but not that frequently and most of the time we're playing console ports on our PC's, wich are vastly better than an X360 or PS3 wich are using hardware from 6~7 years ago, so it's an eternity in terms of hardware.


I suppose the game will need one hell of a system to play it with the highest quality settings possible and having playable frame rates, something i have no problem with since i'm ready for it now......



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A pair of Xeon 6 core processors running at 4 Ghz.
4 HD7970's in quad crossfire.
48GB of memory.
SSD's for storage.
Three 27" LCD's with a native resolution of 2560*1440.
All water cooled.

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http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/Superfly101_02/P1030522.jpg <---- picture of the entire setup, all i need is a joystick..

Holy ****! what is this?
Where are you bought it?

The neighbors complaining a lot lately?
if you start up that thing ,their lights fade at night and their television goes blank.

I actually asked a friend of mine who's an electrician to add 2 extra breakers in the breaker box, and seperate the 2 wall outlets closest to the system, with one wall outlet for each 15 amp breaker so even the electrical wiring in the house had to be upgraded...lol


The system basically has some 3600 watts of power to play with when it comes to available power from the house wiring itself, without any breakers triggring.

Hence the reason why the creator wants to do this one directly, without inference from investors, publishers or marketing and studio's interfering with the work itself then add the latest capabilities of the latest hardware into the mix and forget about console ports.


Basically the gloves come off with this game and he pushes the limits of what can be done in realtime, wich is something he couldn't do previously....

i just don't get why people think this will beat eve.

newsflash: eve is 9.5 years old
this game is: is a concept

More to the point, EVE will be, what? 12 years old when this game actually launches? 13? So closing on 20 expansions by then.

It's really difficult to compete with over a decade of active follow on development (even if not all the years of those decade were... equally as productive). By then it's likely that EVE will have added a full-on multiplayer FPS with Dust, maybe some integrated avatar gameplay, and even more spaceships development, polish and features. That's going to be a really tough not to crack for any new kid on the block.

Loved the Wing Commander Privateer Roberts made. Actually I found EvE while searching for a similar game. So I0m really interested what he is doing and watch this closely.

The new game does have a much more advanced game engine that looks far better than eve ever will be though.....I mean there is no ship in eve with the same amount of detail on the carrier or fighters or command deck or the fighter cockpit that was shown on star citizen, and there's also the realistic physics and the use of a joystick to fly the ships too, and not just a mouse and keyboard and seeing ships behave like submarines in space in third person view.


You have a point with features and activities that can be done in eve mainly because of all the expansions over the years that added a lot of variety to the game, but even the little that was shown from star citizen beats it in some aspects right off the gate, at least not until EVE uses a brand new graphics engine, as most of the ships are getting a little old on the tooth visually, specifically those that were avaialable right from the start.


Btw, they've reached the half way mark in pledges already after just 9 days, and there's still 22 days left to the end of the pledge drive, so i think they've not only reach 2 million $, but easily exceed that amount quite easily.

So they will have real physics, and eve doesn't and it doesn't matter?
They'll have way better graphics and that doesn't matter too?
They'll have first person view, and the ability to walk around the larger ships, and that doesn't matter right?
They'll actually have a single player campaign and that doesn't matter either?
Pilots will be able to discover new systems and name them or even sell them for profit, and that doesn't matter?
Pilots will be able to be pirates or engage in marketing activities online and that doesn't matter?
Pilots will be able to engage in 100 ship fights, wich i suspect that's the limit since with the amount of detail the game has, it would kill pretty much every PC out there, FPS wise, but that doesn't matter too right?
Players will be able to set up their own servers if they wish, something that eve doesn't even allow, period.


Frankly i see it as way more than just a twich space sim in first person view....they're trying to make it as realistic as possible in every aspect, so with eve being 10 years old and using a way older graphics engine with no realistic physics and no ability to walk in ships at all, i see at least some aspects for them to worry about.


As far as CCP screwing up, they already have in the 4 years they've teased the walking in stations aspect, and all we got in the end is a single room that adds no gameplay value at all and with ****** FPS when walking around in it, and let's see how dust turns out given that it's on a single console with no PC version or a version on the X360, wich in any case is on it's last year before being replaced by the playstation 4 anyhow....