Nice to see Evochron still being worked on, I'd love an excuse to go back to it.  

So, is this video of upcoming updates to Evochron Mercenary?  Is it for a sequel?  An free expansion, a paid expansion?  I'm seeing some more nice "Evochron Prototype" video, but I'm not completely sure what I'm seeing...

I would really pay a LOT if only EM would have a sort of advanced non-Newtonian flight model that makes maneuvres during combat somewhat easier. At the current state, I find the combat frustratingly difficult, yet realistic of course. Maybe a difficulty level for the flight model (where you could switch off the Newtonian Physics, but still having a decent flight model) would attract many more people to play the game. Actually, I like the Newtonian model for anything else than combat.

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Just for the above not to be taken wrongly: I really like the combat in EM, it's only that if I pause the game for several weeks, then it's the hell of a time to get used to it again 🙂

I think the combat routine is the best in all space games I have experienced yet.

XenonS

I sort of like that the combat in EM is difficult enough to take a few hours to get the hang of again.  Then again, I'm a huge fan of IWar2, so perhaps I just like torturing myself.  Then again, if it takes us 2 hours, it probably takes most people (who aren't obsessed with space sims) pretty much forever.  I couldn't help but laugh at my friends the first time they saw me play Elite Dangerous.  They played it for a few minutes, performed disastrously, then watched me and said in amazement "My god, he can actually keep [the enemy ship] in view".  I wasn't even particularly practiced at the time.

I applaud EM for actually feeling like a spaceship should feel.  That's a big deal to me.  The more arcade-like games (i.e. Elite) can just feel so wrong if you're not psychologically prepared.

I now have the confirm from veterans that some worlds are much 'tougher' and the combat routine (AI) actually changes, oh my...

IWar2 - yeah that's what comes close to impossible combat, at least for me...Very happy that nobody has watched me, I never recovered from that slaughter 🙂

XenonS

 

IWar2 - yeah that's what comes close to impossible combat, at least for me...Very happy that nobody has watched me, I never recovered from that slaughter 🙂

 

So you don't feel bad, I should mention that IWar2 did have a big problem with difficulty "spikes".  Indeed, one of the hardest battles of the whole game was pretty close to the beginning.  In fact, the inconsistent difficulty was certainly the thing I disliked about the game most.  I understand that there may be some mods out there which partially fix this, but it's been a while since I've been back to the game myself.

I'm almost crying right now...