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Some of you may have been wondering why I left out one of the concept images in the previous update. You were probably wondering where that nifty carrier from the 'enlist' page was. In actuality, it was all for a purpose for I am using it as an excuse to talk more specifically about the images themselves!
This carrier concept seems nicely detailed and reminicent of the early Wing Commander carriers. Considering the Privateerish concept we highlighted yesterday, does this weight the chances in favor of a Wing Commander style game?
Also, something was nagging me about the image after I had stared at it for a while and my focus seemed to drift over little "carrier" title block on the bottom right. The writing is so blurry but the shape seems so familiar. I was reminded of my time scouring the web for Outlander information.
One of the concept artists that worked on Outlander was recently featured on Kotaku and is probably why my memmory made the connection, but is it possible Chris Roberts went all out and got Ryan Church - of Star Wars episodes 2, and 3 fame to sketch up these amaizing images? I'm just throwing this out there so judge for yourself and let us know what you think in the comments.
Now let's look a little closer at the rest of the images... The majority of these images seem to be elements of a ship. In fact the file name from the RSI website on the bridge image actually had "Wing Commander" in the filename - for a while anyway.
Personally I think that bridge image reminds me alot of the bridge of the Concordia in Wing Commander 2 as well as the TCS Victory's bridge in Wing Commander 3. The hallway is generic enough, but still in line with the Wing Commander style. Both images have the ship orbiting a planet, and oddly the bridge seems to have an altitude gauge on the one of the large screens.
The deck image shows what looks like a detailed layout of some kind of capital ship or starbase... the various decks look like they're connected by a vertical tube that I would guess is an elevator. Again, I'm reminded of the way the player hunted around the TCS Victory in WC3 in search of the next story videos.
The following images could be interpreted a number of ways but it's interesting that the map image lists Sol for earth and has a hexagon patern around what looks like a jump-line between it and the "Croshaw System." Are the temporary names? Or hints at something more?
The pod could be anything... Is it a bomber's turret? The nose of a wierd fighter? An escape pod? A futuristic latrine?
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Original update published on September 10, 2012
This carrier concept seems nicely detailed and reminicent of the early Wing Commander carriers. Considering the Privateerish concept we highlighted yesterday, does this weight the chances in favor of a Wing Commander style game?
Also, something was nagging me about the image after I had stared at it for a while and my focus seemed to drift over little "carrier" title block on the bottom right. The writing is so blurry but the shape seems so familiar. I was reminded of my time scouring the web for Outlander information.
One of the concept artists that worked on Outlander was recently featured on Kotaku and is probably why my memmory made the connection, but is it possible Chris Roberts went all out and got Ryan Church - of Star Wars episodes 2, and 3 fame to sketch up these amaizing images? I'm just throwing this out there so judge for yourself and let us know what you think in the comments.
Now let's look a little closer at the rest of the images... The majority of these images seem to be elements of a ship. In fact the file name from the RSI website on the bridge image actually had "Wing Commander" in the filename - for a while anyway.
Personally I think that bridge image reminds me alot of the bridge of the Concordia in Wing Commander 2 as well as the TCS Victory's bridge in Wing Commander 3. The hallway is generic enough, but still in line with the Wing Commander style. Both images have the ship orbiting a planet, and oddly the bridge seems to have an altitude gauge on the one of the large screens.
The deck image shows what looks like a detailed layout of some kind of capital ship or starbase... the various decks look like they're connected by a vertical tube that I would guess is an elevator. Again, I'm reminded of the way the player hunted around the TCS Victory in WC3 in search of the next story videos.
The following images could be interpreted a number of ways but it's interesting that the map image lists Sol for earth and has a hexagon patern around what looks like a jump-line between it and the "Croshaw System." Are the temporary names? Or hints at something more?
The pod could be anything... Is it a bomber's turret? The nose of a wierd fighter? An escape pod? A futuristic latrine?
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Original update published on September 10, 2012
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