New teaser trailer is up

[Martok]

Link to download


Nothing substantial really, although I'll admit the water effects are pretty cool. Going by the music, I'd also say someone is a big fan of Battlestar Galactica.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Not a bad thing.

[Mailman653]

Well, I sure feel teased

[rajpoot]

Pretty nice, but, err.....that is not an in-game video......is it?
I mean it has got to be pre rendered, kind of like the one they had in The Witcher intro.

[Martok]

Mark O'Connell (SenseiTW) said a full version of the CGI trailer will be released later on. And no, it's not in-game footage; he said that too will come at a later date.


EDIT: Here's the link to the original thread at the .COM for anyone who's interested.

[rajpoot]

Thanks for the link. I sure will be glad when they give us the min. system requirements for this!

[Zenicetus]

Pretty nice, but, err.....that is not an in-game video......is it?
I mean it has got to be pre rendered, kind of like the one they had in The Witcher intro.

It better not be in-game, unless sailing ships are acting like powerboats. Two square-riggers under sail, meeting each other head-on? Notice the bowsprit on the second ship.

Maybe the graphics team is working in a separate area than the game coders or something, or maybe they farmed this out. But seriously. If they're going to target an audience for sail combat, they shouldn't be showing things like this.

Maybe they don't care that most of the audience wouldn't notice anything wrong, but there's bound to be a few who will raise a stink about this sort of thing. Why bother to go to all that work with modeling waves, weather, and ships, and then get the mechanics of sailing completely wrong?

[rajpoot]

(Somehow, whenever I'm clicking the Post a Reply button, I'm being redirected to the org home page, so I'm using quick reply.)

Truth be told I know no more about an 18th century ships construction than I know about operating a field gun, so, that really didn't make much sense to me, I'm a landlubber, lol what I really want is that they should have enough guns on them to cause an impressive boom when fired togather.
But ofcourse, there's got to be 100% accuracy if they want to please everyone.
If you want to know what the ships ingame are going to be like, check the screenshots we've been given previously, most of them have ships.

[fenir]

ffs

now i have to go watch master and commander..............i hate you all



fenir

[PBI]

now i have to go watch master and commander

That's no bad thing.

Watched it the other day myself to get myself in the mood for Empire. Fantastic stuff.

Huzzah!