SE V Video on 3dGamers

[Phoenix-D]

Ed Kolis said:

OMG... did I just see the bolts fired by a Jraenar ship hit a CueCappa base and cause its rotation to alter in a REALISTIC way as it blew up???

That looked like the standard Starfury-style death to me..

[TheDeadlyShoe]

It looked like there were a lot of explosions being caused by non-visible projectiles (at least non-visible int he video). Perhaps the visible projectiles were actually missiles?

[Colonel]

ok, this has been buggin me for awhile since I saw that first screenie with the big sun, will there be sphereworlds and what will they look like, or ring worlds for that matter.

[Randallw]

I thought the Australian mirror would be quicker, but it kept pausing and then a third of the way through it asked for a password (granted I was using my download program to restart it when it stopped). Just some information for other Australians.

The video is quite informative, however I have a question, when it shows the system maps there are sections on the outer fringes that are red. Later on you see shared systems with the areas around each races planets in a different colour, but does the red mean you can't scan that area?. Would be interesting to sneak a ship into an enemy system to spy.

[Captain Kwok]

Red is the default colour for areas that have never been unexplored.

[Randallw]

unexplored

"Lets unexplore this sytem, that way we can forget where everything is"

So you're saying you have to explore the whole system to find every planet. I thought when that was mentioned in the review they meant searching each warp point for new systems, not hexes in the system. Interesting. I just finished "The Shiva Option" Where they have to explore each system to find all the wormholes. Now if only there was closed wormholes you only find once someone comes out.

Edit: and another thing I just noticed. It has a vehicle design screen and it says

Select Vehicle type,
Base
Drone
Fighter
Planet

...Planet!

[Captain Kwok]

It depends on the level of sight you choose in the game setup, but you can make so that you need to explore a system to find its planets. And no you don't have to explore each hex individually, your sensors have a range. But now I've probably said too much.

[Renegade 13]

http://www.gamershell.com/infosheets/244235.html

Not at all related to the SE5 video, but here's a little infosheet put up about SE5 by gamershell.com Has system requirements for those of you who'd like to know...but I wouldn't count on those if I were you.

[Randallw]

Interesting, I was sure but good to know I can handle the specs. Assuming they havn't got things wrong, what makes freighters different from normal ships?. I played Hearts of Iron and you had the option of using freighters either as troop transports, or putting them into a pool for moving resources eg the more resources from a location the more freighters yopu needed to devote to that route.

Edit: assuming anyone can tell me without breaking the NDA.

[Suicide Junkie]

Take a look at the history of freighters in SE3 and SE4:

- Minimum requirement of lots of cargo bays of some type or another.
- More hull space than warships of similar tech level.
- Maximum speed -1 compared to warships.