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While the servers are down, do you have a demo video you could post?
They're up!
It's still down.
Space Frigates
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#22If you're interested in a free game that has had this core functionality (online multiplayer Asteroids) since 1995 - visit https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum... (edit: replaced with Steam link) There has been a dedicated community of thousands of players, many of which have been playing well over a decade. Plenty of videos on youtube under either "Subspace" or more recently "Continuum". http…
that was a favorite when I was younger and SubSpace was still being published by Virgin Interactive.
It was also the first game I wrote aimbots for -- which got shared among friends.
TrenchWars warbird sniping was a favorite.
p.s. a fond memory : getting ready to flinch when the thunderclap wav plays upon client execution
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#23If you're interested in a free game that has had this core functionality (online multiplayer Asteroids) since 1995 - visit https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum... (edit: replaced with Steam link) There has been a dedicated community of thousands of players, many of which have been playing well over a decade. Plenty of videos on youtube under either "Subspace" or more recently "Continuum". http…
Since www.rshl.org doesn't appear to be loading here, could you give me an ELI5 on how this differs from Trench Wars (which I still play periodically having owned a copy of Subspace itself) ?
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#24Sorry all, wasn't expecting the traffic.... spinning up some more servers now...
Honestly while it was laggy enough I stopped after a couple minutes it was doing pretty damn well for "hugged by HN".
(I've done enough ops work to be impressed everything was still loading even if the backends clearly weren't quite keeping up :)
Shall have to try again later.
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#25Sorry all, wasn't expecting the traffic.... spinning up some more servers now...
Honestly while it was laggy enough I stopped after a couple minutes it was doing pretty damn well for "hugged by HN". (I've done enough ops work to be impressed everything was still loading even if the backends clearly weren't quite keeping up :) Shall have to try again later.
Thanks. I keep resizing to try to keep up. Wasn't expecting to show up on Hacker News. Not complaining though. :-)
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#26Does anyone remember Netrek ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
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#27I'd be more interested in good content about actual space frigates.
The long term vision is to allow players to control much larger ships. True frigate class ships. I'm still in alpha right now but will continue work if there is interest.
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#28Twitter of the dev...
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#29Re: Space Frigates
#30If you're interested in a free game that has had this core functionality (online multiplayer Asteroids) since 1995 - visit https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum... (edit: replaced with Steam link) There has been a dedicated community of thousands of players, many of which have been playing well over a decade. Plenty of videos on youtube under either "Subspace" or more recently "Continuum". http…
I wasted so much of my life on this game around 1999-ish. I think one year I looked at my play time and about a third of my waking hours were spent playing.
Got the CTO of the startup I was working at into this game. One day his wife came in and saw me playing and said "Oh, you play this too." And I told her "Yeah, I was the person who introduced So-and-so to it." She hissed out "That was YOU?!" and walked away real fast. Never spoke to me again.