B* Spoilers and Easter eggs!

[Frenzyn]

PLEASE TAKE NOTE THESE IMAGES/ANIMATIONS WERE TAKEN OF THE PC CLIENT
2 YEARS AGO IN 2008. THESE SPOILERS COULD HAVE CHANGED OR BEEN REMOVED COMPLETELY. ALSO SINCE IT IS A PC CLIENT, AND HAS BETTER GRAPHICS, DO NOT EXPECT THESE GRAPHICS ON THE MOBILE CLIENT.


NOTE: PLEASE GIVE THE PAGE ATLEAST 2 MINUTES TO FULLY LOAD THE ANIMATIONS IN REALTIME SPEED. AFTER THAT, IT WILL RUN IN WELL SPEED.

I have done a bit of hard looking, here is some things i found...

Some characters




ALSO: Indifferent species spotted? Possibly ghosts/aliens/minotaurs.



Dynamic Specular explosions are confirmed on blackstar.



Monsters? What do they look like?
WELL - THEY ARE HUGE!!!!!
This is good for gameplay, makes everything spectacularly realistic with a high
resolution!



QUESTS = CONFIRMED.



SPACESHIPS AND SPACE STATIONS?

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Below is a space STATION. which means there might be places or ways to upgrade or get new vehicles.



Jumping animations?!?




I have 2/3... I have the operative and engineer jumping.

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SO WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THIS?

-There are quests
-Large canvases and vast majority of good campaign.
-Very detailed campaign.
-un-official quest count. (i don't know.)
-Vehicles are confirmed
-There could be more characters upcoming in the game
-Many enemies also.
-There MIGHT not be towns or objects, it might be an awesome free-roam like runescape. (i do not have any proof, but as for this, it sort of looks like a free-roam)
-Operative has faster walking than engineer.




AND SINCE YOU HAVE STUCK WITH ME AND READ THE WHOLE THING!!!!
A SURPRISE SPECIAL ATTACK POSSIBLY?????

Below is an animation. it depicts an engineer performing a unique and special attack
in the game of blackstarr. please allow it 3 minutes or more to load.

[Kossi]

EDIT: whoops

[Arterra]

i like how there is a powering up kind of power in this game...

[razerfingers]

thats pretty sick

[Frenzyn]

The ipod version is 1000x different, sowee

its not different that much, actually.
its not like they redid the game.

and also i put this at the first sentance of the thread... if u didn't read.


"PLEASE TAKE NOTE THESE IMAGES/ANIMATIONS WERE TAKEN OF THE PC CLIENT
2 YEARS AGO IN 2008. THESE SPOILERS COULD HAVE CHANGED OR BEEN REMOVED COMPLETELY. ALSO SINCE IT IS A PC CLIENT, AND HAS BETTER GRAPHICS, DO NOT EXPECT THESE GRAPHICS ON THE MOBILE CLIENT."

[Rebel]

There are a few videos on Youtube with this stuff. Yah, the game looks pretty nice. I'll definitely be trying it.

[ratava]

Hmm, good work OP.

Agree with all points except the Towns one... think there will be a similar non-roaming structure between "towns-levels" as think it was mentioned there will up to 25 levels at release with 3 town like bits???

But it seems it could be full 3D as you say and explosions and projectiles and vehicles somehow thrown in?

...

[KingFu]

Aren't all these images from ONE YouTube video that was already posted?

[ratava]

^I think there are a few of those old preproduction blackstar PC videos knocking about?

It's definitely not going to be as fully 3D and spacious as those vids on the mobile, for sure. Much closer to PLs but how about that full 3D, explosions and projectiles??

[Survivorfan]

I cant wait until blackstar!

[Frenzyn]

Yeah, they were. but no one stopped to really look into depth into it.

[Bgandyful]

I too have been doing extensive research on this topic I cant wait but anyway with what the spacetime engine is capable of, and their already extensive design of B*( 2 years of just concept design ) it will be epic. Theres even a video of what I belive is a MOD morphing into a vehicle, essentially realtime ground to space combat. but again all videos from 2008.Theres alot more info ill post later..let me compile my research

[maddogcharlie]

Great stuff Frenzyn thx for taking the time to find the shots

Bgandyful, feed us man we need the hype, even if its not 100% accurate cause of the change of platforms everyone is watching you !

Kinda wish the Devs would release more but so long as they are doing their dev things and making the game awesome we can wait ......maybe.....a little longer......or not Bgandyful PLEASE !

[Frenzyn]

Great stuff Frenzyn thx for taking the time to find the shots

Finally.... *opens up a coke

[Bgandyful]

Frenzyn im really impressed with you 3d pl shield modeling! A Friend and myself have decided to start designing and developing a turned based rpg (MMO ARE EXPENSIVE TO MAINTAIN PEOPLE ,SEVERD BANDWIDTH UPKEEP.....BE GRATFUL PPL.)anyways sry....and I have been using 3ds max 2011 and udk to start my friends beutiful designs.I KNOW this is no small feat.


@maddog I wish I knew more technical stuff but all I really know is my own observations and common sense that said..
This link tells you all about their Engine. http://www.spacetimestudios.com/cont...me-Game-Engine . To my understanding pocket legends has essentially been a perfect guinea pig. Blackstar WILL be like no game seen o mobile. I believe in black star we will see a higher resolution poly mesh then we have seen in pocket legends. since the engine is capable of projectile based combat I believe will see that as well. we are ready know about the vehicles. I'm pretty sure we will have the ground to space combat. we will have integrated puzzles that we will have to do certain things to get through levels. I believe we will see more animations. since they personally built their engine from the ground up and have a integrated particle system we will see some wicked effects... and this will b a massively extensive game over a year of content already developed

[maddogcharlie]

Great stuff bgandyful TY the blackstar genre will be a hit im sure and hopefully spacetime will fill those vacant positions and give some more dev feedback. Its a growing community and the people need to know they are heard, until then y'all are the guru's.

Any potential fansites/guilds warming up out there? Post and let us all know.

[Bgandyful]

Thank you maddog I try.Like I said before B* Will be Epic.B* is Spacetimes baby,they will do nothing but whats Awesome.As for the Devs listening to us?They DO. AS for PL Guilds......heard from STS Ceo Gary Gattis (on android web interview) own voice......PL will see Guilds before B*¡!!! Meaning B* will not release with Guilds and PL will see them first! I encourage ppl to take B* serious. I personally will not neglect my Pl. But I hope to make a name for my self with B*. I started Later for Pl and ppl like Royce Ellyidol Yanis Redryder and many more(sry cant think of names)all beat me to the punch when it come to critical player driven data for Pl. My Graditude goes out to them all I will keep my ign of Bgandyful for B*.

[ratava]

I prefer a new avatar to rise out of the ashes of the old one personally. I'm not too interested in power-gaming stats but it's definitely cool to be one of the early players in an mmo

I hope B* pushes mobile mmos fwds. I think pvp, story and spaceships would really help achieve that result.

[Bgandyful]

I agree.And STS will/have achieved this.Not many are aware of what has been done.They took an engine built for pc mmorpgs and rewrote it to fit SDK requirments for IOS and ANDROID! This engine built from the ground up took $10 million dollars to develop. No one has reproduce there results.And I hope they never will.I chalkenge anyone to show me an equal game. There are none.LONG LIVE SPACETIMESTUDIOS

[maddogcharlie]

Ratava, looks good from the Game Developers Conference earlier this month,

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/03...n-pocket-mmos/

Good reading, particulary 'It helped that the entire Spacetime team was composed of gamers who genuinely wanted to create something that they, too, would play'
despite the critics it looks to be something to get excited about and so close to launch too . . ... (ideal time for a Dev to jump in with hot coffee....ackk I mean Intel)