Cryptic seems to be struggling to get the Galaxy class fixed up to meet with our expectations.... but i wonder... what on earth happened to THIS Galaxy? Seen from the first gameplay trailer Cryptic released.
I mean it actually already shows a lot of how we want it, and even has some of the windows properly lined up!!!
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Besides, models themselves arent as taxing anymore as they used to be.
But it does seem to pre-date Atari's takeover of Cryptic.
And here you go, the original trailer and in HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6Q6_ENh6E
Just look at the EvE trailers, and show me one single ship in the game that looks like the ships in the trailers.
And how on earth could they claim the Galaxy model was stolen? from that size its virtually impossible to judge something like that.
I agree with ya!
Even Mad Doc software actually had the right idea in hiring MODDERS from the Bridge Commander community to do some of their ship models for Star Trek Legacy.
The same way that the artist whose star destroyer was used without permission in the original Forces Unleashed trailer.
Basically, when an artist builds a ship, they can generally tell it's theirs by the way it was made. Everyone's techniques are different, textures are slightly different or drawn a certain way, certain parts of a ship may be custom modified on the "official" design. It's complicated to explain it in detail to someone who doesn't really do the CG scene much.
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:
Presumptions arent you. :rolleyes:
Point is, its really too dark and obscure a pic to be able to clearly identify such level of detail.
Actually, no, my username is count23, not presumptions.
But while I don't know about this model, which is why i said "supposedly" in my first post. I do know for a fact that lucasarts borrowed a model without permission and later apologised/paid the artist who created it down the road. From what i head on these 3d art forums, the galaxy from the original gameplay was stolen, whether it was verified, i dont know.
The Borg look diffrent somehow (more armor plating and stuff), there are at least 2 federation Ships that are not even in the game, the Sovereign Variant has something like a Torp Launcher between the Necelles (like in the Artwork),
The Galaxy Class Bridge has the CORRECT SCALE !!!
The Sun in the last shot looks better then anything in the game...
The Soveregin Variant that fires 3 Torps at the Borg, that is NOT "high yield torp 2" ... that thing is shooting way faster.
The Phaser Rifles at 1:13 have mounted FLASHLIGHTS !? AAAHHH!!! ME WANTS THAT!!!
Every exploding Ship has a lot of debree flying away, not just a small explosion.
either this is all *faked* CGI Stuff or the game has changed a friggen lot since they made this Video (and not all to the better).
and yeah that Galaxy Class looks a whole lot better.
uhmm if you have a bad computer graphic card then you cant see the massive detail in eve online ships. I know eve online ships are excellent in color and depth, so dont go their. Star trek online has been a lie from head start. They rushed it out the gate without getting much interested feedback from the headstart peolpe as well as the closed beta people. From the movie to the game their are alot of things missing such as the ship variants that are actually good looking. The ship to ship boarding party battles. I see plenty of ship variants and yet perhaps 2 of them made it to the actual game. if we as the players where given access to the ship yards i think we could create ships better then the designers. dont give us skins but actualy design schematics to build ships off of. modules on a ship that allow us to make a ship different from the inside even though it can look the same on the outside.
The Irony is that the Galaxy Class Bridge actually was the correct scale some time way back in closed beta, but the word is people complained to much about the camera and instead the bridges became gigantic.
My guess is that some of this stuff is before they decided to implement the ship customization since the bar between the naccelles on the sovy variant would not have been compatible with that.
Still its no excuse to replace them with sub-par models.
The borg though were also completely re-designed to the new look they have now later on.
I hear you.
I want to know what happened to *that* game...