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Re: Frontier, Elite 2
« on: January 11, 2006, 11:59:47 AM »
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sinver wrote:
"Borrowed" the save file from the Frontierverse website, that gives you a tricked out Eagle Class fighter, (class 7 hyperdrive!!)


Man, I need that ship!

Frontier is one of my favourite games and is well and truly overdue for a 21st century rewrite IMHO.  I still come back to play it 12 years on from release.

There are a few irritating little things though, while the in-game physics engine is realistic, combat is akin to duelling with someone on the end of a bungee rope.  The first thing I'd change would be to bring back the original Elite's combat AI, which seems to have taken several steps backward in Frontier.  

Seeing "Haha!" as a response to "Surrender or Die" when you decide you're bored with the Gecko which attacks your Panther clipper begins to grate too.  Oh and while I'm at it, why do smaller ships queue up to attack you one at a time?  The original Elite was far more exciting in this respect.

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