SE5 release is only 3 weeks away!

Kamog · #1 May 14th, 2006, 04:02 AM

The screenshots look really shiny! Much shinier than SEIV.

Uh-oh, I'm getting the impression from people's comments here that it's not going to be out in June. Considering how much SEIV was repeatedly delayed several years ago, it wouldn't be totally unexpected if SEV was repeatedly delayed as well. It's all right, I'll wait, it's better to get it late but with great features and bugs fixed than having it come out earlier with problems and incomplete features.

Louist · #2 May 14th, 2006, 01:09 PM

I have mixed feelings about the screenshots. True, the game is graphicly much better than SEIV, and there seems to have been another layer of depth added (Ordinance and the like) but at the same time I fear the almost streamlined and caual look to the interface. The UI seems less serious, and I hope its not dumbed down.

Caduceus · #3 May 14th, 2006, 04:24 PM

I think it is possible that I get dumber every year, so that might play in my favor.

Captain Kwok · #4 May 14th, 2006, 06:13 PM

Don't worry, there is more info/depth available in SE:V.

Caduceus · #5 May 14th, 2006, 10:48 PM

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Captain Kwok said:
Don't worry, there is more info/depth available in SE:V.

Crud. PBW hands it to me again.

Puke · #6 May 14th, 2006, 11:57 PM

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Caduceus said:
I think it is possible that I get dumber every year, so that might play in my favor.

in my case, i'm pretty sure that its a documentable fact.

AAshbery76 · #7 May 15th, 2006, 09:49 AM

I'm wondering if the ground combat plays as terrible as it looks.Maybe the ground stuff was a waste of development time.

RonGianti · #8 May 15th, 2006, 12:48 PM

http://www.strategyfirst.com/en/games/SpaceEmpiresV/

Says

Release date: Winter 2006

Oh poo.

Puke · #9 May 15th, 2006, 01:01 PM

i have to admit, the ground combat does look pretty bad. im sure its nice being able to have different troop types, and fighters, and possibly orbital bombardment all playing a factor.

But I think that I would have much prefered it in a non-interactive axis-and-alies style interface. much like se4, where you line up the us-vs-them and the various assest plunk away at each other.

even if facilities were going to come into play -- for defense, destruction, and capturing -- they could have been represented iconically on a summary page, instead of out of scale and in mid 90's 3D.

Hunpecked · #10 May 15th, 2006, 02:48 PM

Given the history of SE IV, I think it's likely that SE V will be:

(1) "delayed", i.e. winter '06 sounds more reasonable than summer;

(2) a good, playable game on release, but much improved by numerous post-release patches and innumerable player mods.