Celestial Impact: Free innovative FPS

JKMakowka

http://www.celestialimpact.com/

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Celestial Impact is a team based multiplayer first person shooter (FPS) for PC taking place on various asteroids floating in space. But Celestial Impact is not your average team based multiplayer FPS. Celestial Impact differs from other multiplayer FPS in that the whole landscape is destructible in any direction, each impact on the landscape affecting it differently depending on the weapon used. But it is not limited to destruction; the players will also have the ability to add terrain to the landscape in the middle of combat using a special tool. So as the teams are battling, the landscape receives vast changes opening up for various tactical approaches each team can use.

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Richard Kain

Interesting. Kind of a new take on Red Faction. Only, you know, on asteroids. Using the landscape as a tool, rather than a static element, is very intriguing, and has a lot of potential as a game design convention. Is there any word on the modding potential of this in-development title yet?

JKMakowka

Sadly it looks kind of "closed off" for now (e.g. no moddding potential or source-code), but that might change once it reaches a more mature state, who knows.

aesir

im DLing it.

Richard Kain

Yeah, it's still in beta at the moment. It's understandable that they wouldn't want to be opening it up at this point. On the other hand, it kind of looks like its built off of the Quake 3 engine. (the heads-up reminds me of Quake 3) The environment in this game is largely variable. But the assets would be pretty conducive to some modding. (plug-in player models for the win!)

HonkyPunch

Awww, I thought of a game like this a while ago.
Astronauts on small planets, with like free floating between, and they would float a long and orbit around eachother, and comets would hit and shit...
DLing

aesir

Well, I tried it for a bit until it crashed. Performance is pretty bad. Tons of mouse lag for me.

Looks like it could be interesting once they have it done.

Asthane

Seemed pretty iffy to me. Get some physics in there for detatched geometry and I'll be interested.

sonic

Performance is horrible, it looks bad, it plays worse...