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noneo
03-03-2011, 12:26 PM
Here are a few pictures (taken from of the Hands on preview (http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/blackstar-hands-on-preview) that was posted earlier).
NEW!
http://www.gry-online.pl/Galeria/Gry12/341628703.jpg
This image is from a website talking about the release of Blackstar in June of 2011 (perfect timing since I'm done with school :))

NEW!
http://www.gamezebo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/games/4450/Commando_Warm_Reception.jpg
I love the fact that you have to face fire breathing turrets!

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/6780/blackstar2.jpg
Just finishing killing a mob

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2084/blackstar3.jpg
In action fighting. Seems to have the same style auto-fire/lock on technique.

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6207/blackstar4.jpg
This one seems like it is part of a quest.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5153/blackstar5.jpg
Class selection. The same as PL just with different styling basically.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2667/blackstar6.jpg
World (Universe?) map. I definitely like the look of the map. Super futuristic :)
I would love to see the different locations wrapped around the back sphere, and when you click on one it comes to the front. This would make it much more interesting and visually stunning than the current, highlight a square method.

NEW!
http://www.148apps.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/191256_10150123091301785_705191784_6544168_7276551 _o.jpg
I found this image browsing reviews of the game. I'm sure much of this is for the early version of the game (the 2008 pc version), but nonetheless, pretty cool.

here are some more Great Artworks from STS's site - http://www.spacetimestudios.com/content.php?113-Games-Blackstar
Go there, there are a ton of great images.

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/images/articles/blackstar/pages_06_07_lg.jpg

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/images/articles/blackstar/pages_04_05_lg.jpg

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/images/articles/blackstar/pages_02_03_lg.jpg

What do you guys think?

These are all taken from Ratava's [posts. Thanks!

"Here's some concept (http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/882/882492p1.html)artwork with a little description to go with it:"



http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061801a_1213809187.jpg



http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061802a_1213762669.jpg



http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061803a_1213762675.jpg

Disclaimer: More for the spaceship part of the preproduction design for PC than the mobile mmo so may not be included, but stunning art work and lore

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/05/countdown_small.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/05/godfight_final_small.jpg

http://www.touchgen.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/097.jpg

Sanatorium
03-03-2011, 01:01 PM
It looks like a future remodel of Pocket Legends, BUT I'm fine with it :).
It looks like the same builds, a tank, some sort of mage, and your average backup person.
Looks great :D.

hawkei
03-03-2011, 01:03 PM
anyone know if this game will be mmo?

ratava
03-04-2011, 02:27 AM
Thanks OP, looks freakin nice.

^This will be a mobile mmo prob with same instancing dungeon-esque runs as PL (same tech). But different structure with the story... I rly hope they include space combat... >.>

noneo
03-04-2011, 09:51 AM
They Said space will follow later :/

Junside
03-04-2011, 09:55 AM
Nice find! I'm feelin a reel towards engineer.

KingFu
03-04-2011, 10:15 AM
Looks a lot like PL:p the hp and mana, and leveling, even the class selection order! (Tank, A girl, and a scrawny guy. I'm guessing similar to Mage and archer) I am happy to see it'll be a format we are used to though.

Major
03-04-2011, 10:18 AM
This game is gonna be awesome, can't wait till it's out!

ratava
03-04-2011, 05:04 PM
Here are a few pictures (taken from of the Hands on preview (http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/blackstar-hands-on-preview) that was posted earlier).

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2667/blackstar6.jpg
World (Universe?) map. I definitely like the look of the map. Super futuristic :)
I would love to see the different locations wrapped around the back sphere, and when you click on one it comes to the front. This would make it much more interesting and visually stunning than the current, highlight a square method.

What do you guys think?

Like the world map a lot. Hopefully it will b fully cohesive from the beginning...

I REALLY REALLY hope they include space combat.

Will the PvP be better than PL also??

hawkei
03-04-2011, 05:25 PM
I HAVE A THEORY!!
The reason the devs won't make a human race is because somewhere during the campaign pl and blackstar meet!
I'm so smart :rolleyes:

noneo
03-04-2011, 05:35 PM
I HAVE A THEORY!!
The reason the devs won't make a human race is because somewhere during the campaign pl and blackstar meet!
I'm so smart :rolleyes:

Where do you think all of the aliens from Alien Oasis, and their guns/lasers came from? :P

romgar1
03-04-2011, 05:37 PM
I have one thing to say. For my first class, IM GOING COMMANDO!!!!

icantgetkills
03-04-2011, 06:11 PM
this game will be full of commands :'( i may need to be unique and be something else :D

Rebel
03-04-2011, 07:45 PM
I'm going Commando/Engineer. Or better known as a Comandeer! This is going to be fun!

Thedexeagle
03-11-2011, 03:26 AM
I don't think so Blackstar will have a pvp... Blackstar is just like PL so whats the difference, its just the world, characters and skill moves to me.

Fatpigwarrior
03-11-2011, 04:59 AM
doesnt seem itll be as good as pl but ill give it a try

Ricey
03-11-2011, 05:06 AM
This already looks better than PL, I want to play as that chick. :p

noneo
03-11-2011, 10:21 AM
lol. I updated with a new picture. The fire turret looks like so much fun!

DarkMio
03-21-2011, 07:34 PM
It looks like a future remodel of Pocket Legends, BUT I'm fine with it :).
It looks like the same builds, a tank, some sort of mage, and your average backup person.
Looks great :D.

Okay, following lines aren't here to blame SGS:
I think it is the same server / client engine. Only with other maps, mobs and design.
Same (ol' ol' ol') drop/loot system, same levelsystem.
Lemme say 'PL-system only with other graphics'...
This isn't that kind of MMO what I like to play - because ... I have already a MMO like that.

You won't play WoW2 when it is nearly the same like WoW...
Okay, new plot. Okay, new graphics. Okay, new (old) skills ...

I hope the mechanics behind server aren't so stiff like on PL... :<

Pharcyde
03-21-2011, 07:44 PM
:( Now I am gonna have to be addicted to two games, two forums and 2 rare item collectors.... Oh joy, I got my hands full ;)

Inching
03-21-2011, 07:49 PM
:( Now I am gonna have to be addicted to two games, two forums and 2 rare item collectors.... Oh joy, I got my hands full ;)

gameloft also coming out with one called "chaos something..." and so there is 3

noneo
03-21-2011, 10:40 PM
I think it's called order and chaos.

ratava
03-22-2011, 01:31 AM
Okay, following lines aren't here to blame SGS:
I think it is the same server / client engine. Only with other maps, mobs and design.
Same (ol' ol' ol') drop/loot system, same levelsystem.
Lemme say 'PL-system only with other graphics'...
This isn't that kind of MMO what I like to play - because ... I have already a MMO like that.

You won't play WoW2 when it is nearly the same like WoW...
Okay, new plot. Okay, new graphics. Okay, new (old) skills ...

I hope the mechanics behind server aren't so stiff like on PL... :<

Good points... and probably accurate.

They did so in an interview recently that there will be a step up in "how much more they intend to leverage the Spacetime Engine than they did in PL" so I just hope that materializes and this will be a significant "step-up" in anything seen on mobile mmos to date.

Fancy words for now, but let's hope they deliver. I also really want to see Space-Combat in this game ie blasting the hell out of things and players!

Back to the thread topic, those pics are cool but a vid would go along way to showing what B* will be like!!!!

StompArtist
03-22-2011, 11:48 AM
I HAVE A THEORY!!
The reason the devs won't make a human race is because somewhere during the campaign pl and blackstar meet!
I'm so smart :rolleyes:

THAT would be awesome. Quantum tunneling to PL and step out where? Plasma Pyramids of course!

noneo
03-30-2011, 09:21 AM
Hey guys, I added another picture the bottom of my initial post. Check it out!

ratava
03-30-2011, 09:33 AM
I think a good number of those concept pics will be in the game: They've been used in press for mobile version.

The vehicle is the one that has me anticipating/hoping.

Wonder if the char classes will still have those flight things on their shoulders?!

Also the enemy is that Scorn (Crusader) ;)

edit: I'll stick this in-game shot here: Bit raw (but still nice)!

http://image.onlinegamer.jp/img/news/o/21/21552/1.jpg

UniitsHD
04-04-2011, 04:27 AM
I reckon that I would like Blackstar better than PL...

ratava
04-05-2011, 06:12 AM
Here's some concept (http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/882/882492p1.html)artwork with a little description to go with it:


Dread Prime
What was once called Vega Colony is now Dread Prime, a burning, dead world crushed by the Scorn's Star Reaver in the earliest days of the invasion. Millions died in nuclear fire as the aliens launched a cleansing bombardment from space without warning; the first strike in the crusade against humanity. The system is heavily populated by the Scorn rearguard, who are busy reinforcing the front lines at Fallen Eden and Ravaged Star.

http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061801a_1213809187.jpg


Stygia
Fragmented planetoids bristling with spiked outcroppings drift ponderously between burning lakes of fire and steaming rivers of lava that stretch across the void. Here we find the front line of the demonic Bael's defense of their shattered universe: a line of crumbling military bases that seem to be wrought from brimstone. Hundreds of Scorn soldiers hang pinned to pikes that line the massive hellfire cannons directed at the invaders' gathering warfleets. This is an aggressive region of space, visually brutally violent, and far more hellish than the Scorn's grandiose military styling.

http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061802a_1213762669.jpg


Skyre
Skyre is a pillowy, marbled gas giant in orbit around a cold and distant dwarf star. An unimaginably huge facility called Kydan hangs above the planet, siphoning off twirling plumes of the world's atmosphere. The Kydan Starbase is based on technology similar to Aan's defensive Warblades, clearly the result of a highly advanced science. Kydan utilizes Skyre as a natural fuel supply for its many factories, Scorn industry irreparably consuming the source of its natural beauty.

http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061803a_1213762675.jpg

Disclaimer: More for the spaceship part of the preproduction design for PC than the mobile mmo so may not be included, but stunning art work and lore

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/05/countdown_small.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/05/godfight_final_small.jpg

maddogcharlie
04-05-2011, 05:51 PM
Great pics Ratava thx, looks like they thought this through hopefully a lot of good stuff in the final game

ratava
04-06-2011, 03:23 AM
Great pics Ratava thx, looks like they thought this through hopefully a lot of good stuff in the final game

Coolio.

Here's a pic of some more (http://www.touchgen.net/gdc-blackstar-hands-on)

http://www.touchgen.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/097.jpg

Acyer
04-06-2011, 09:36 AM
Here's some old info http://feature.mmosite.com/content/2008-04-11/20080411021546933,1.shtml
Also a cool video
http://video.mmosite.com/default.php?controller=resource&action=play&id=8350&vid=8350

noneo
04-06-2011, 12:23 PM
I updated the main post with Ratava's picture finds. Thanks!

ratava
04-06-2011, 01:28 PM
I updated the main post with Ratava's picture finds. Thanks!

Top stuff Noneo ;)

above link I posted the B* STORY in Unofficial FAQ thread. In above link explains Blackstar :)

love this pic: http://images.mmosite.com/feature/news/2008_04_11/blackstar/screenshot/blackstar_04.jpg


Very early screen of a Mode Operative and Commando aboard the UCC Blackstar.


287

(btw: those early screenshots: The char design in-game are freakin' awesome and will only be touched-up... ;) )

Just to add the transition of the PC-op to the mobile-op: DEAD IMPRESSED !!!

http://www.touchgen.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/vular_battle.jpg

MindBuddah
04-10-2011, 02:00 PM
So looking forword this!!!!!

iOSJake
04-19-2011, 10:50 PM
This is exactly what I wished Pocket Legends was! Yay for a Sci Fi MMO!!!! Can't wait!

ratava
04-29-2011, 08:44 AM
Can someone tell me why this screenshot gets compared to Phantasy Star Online?:

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=287

I google-imaged and cannot find any likeness, at all?

Btw: Added a few more images to the wikia in the sig ;)

Fortress
12-18-2011, 03:06 PM
Here are a few pictures (taken from of the Hands on preview (http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/blackstar-hands-on-preview) that was posted earlier).
NEW!
http://www.gry-online.pl/Galeria/Gry12/341628703.jpg
This image is from a website talking about the release of Blackstar in June of 2011 (perfect timing since I'm done with school :))

NEW!
http://www.gamezebo.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/medium/games/4450/Commando_Warm_Reception.jpg
I love the fact that you have to face fire breathing turrets!

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/6780/blackstar2.jpg
Just finishing killing a mob

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2084/blackstar3.jpg
In action fighting. Seems to have the same style auto-fire/lock on technique.

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6207/blackstar4.jpg
This one seems like it is part of a quest.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5153/blackstar5.jpg
Class selection. The same as PL just with different styling basically.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2667/blackstar6.jpg
World (Universe?) map. I definitely like the look of the map. Super futuristic :)
I would love to see the different locations wrapped around the back sphere, and when you click on one it comes to the front. This would make it much more interesting and visually stunning than the current, highlight a square method.

NEW!
http://www.148apps.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/191256_10150123091301785_705191784_6544168_7276551 _o.jpg
I found this image browsing reviews of the game. I'm sure much of this is for the early version of the game (the 2008 pc version), but nonetheless, pretty cool.

here are some more Great Artworks from STS's site - http://www.spacetimestudios.com/content.php?113-Games-Blackstar
Go there, there are a ton of great images.

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/images/articles/blackstar/pages_06_07_lg.jpg

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/images/articles/blackstar/pages_04_05_lg.jpg

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/images/articles/blackstar/pages_02_03_lg.jpg

What do you guys think?

These are all taken from Ratava's [posts. Thanks!

"Here's some concept (http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/882/882492p1.html)artwork with a little description to go with it:"



http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061801a_1213809187.jpg



http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061802a_1213762669.jpg



http://vaultmedia.ign.com/rpgvault/image/article/882/882492/blackstar08061803a_1213762675.jpg

Disclaimer: More for the spaceship part of the preproduction design for PC than the mobile mmo so may not be included, but stunning art work and lore

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/05/countdown_small.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/05/godfight_final_small.jpg

http://www.touchgen.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/097.jpg

I miss THIS kind of Star Legends...

Fac3bon3s
12-18-2011, 03:56 PM
Holy Fortress. No need to quote every pic. Took me half an hour to scroll down the page. A link to first page would have been sufficient.

Fortress
12-18-2011, 04:29 PM
Holy Fortress. No need to quote every pic. Took me half an hour to scroll down the page. A link to first page would have been sufficient.

Hehe sorry! Still new to the forums! I guess you can say I did that to get my point across. ;)

Lazaras
12-18-2011, 05:21 PM
What magazines were these from (because some of the more OMFGGONZO shots look like they're for articles. That or an RPG sourcebook.

Come to think of it we haven't seen the Scourge yet, just the Vular and some random bot revolt at Slouch-O. (have not seen the lvl 37 - 41 content yet so do not know what it's like.)

I am sorely tempted to write story. I was before, this stuff does not help.

Aculeas
12-18-2011, 06:20 PM
all the brilliant artwork seems to be a waste. As the mobile graphics are nowhere near that EPIC.

Lazaras
12-18-2011, 06:43 PM
They could take a page out of Artix's playbook and offer to sell the sketch/art book of all the game concept material and in each one having a code for stuff in game.