No SE5 news ?

PDF · #1 April 21st, 2006, 10:18 AM

I'm rather amazed that for this game, awaited since 2 yeras and now announced for June I can fiond absolutely no news since end of 2006, except some Capt Kwok's kind but vague answers to posts on the SFI forum.
The game isn't even present in SFI "soon to be released" page, and Malfador site wasn't updated since 3 months except for a SE4Deluxe patch !
And the SFI SE4/5 forum is even less active than this one...

Well, let's wait...

Alneyan · #2 April 21st, 2006, 11:12 AM

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PDF said:
{....] I can fiond absolutely no news since end of 2006 [...]

Heh. Could you please tell me how to win a lot of bucks in the lottery that is to take place on 17/11/06? Thanks!

That aside, I wouldn't know.

Fyron · #3 April 21st, 2006, 11:29 AM

You must have missed the addition of "Some of the improvements over SE4" to the SE5 site relatively recently.

http://www.malfador.com/Se5.html

Will · #4 April 21st, 2006, 03:34 PM

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You must have missed the addition of "Some of the improvements over SE4" to the SE5 site relatively recently.

http://www.malfador.com/Se5.html

The "SE5 Demo Download Page" link on that page gets me every time...

RonGianti · #5 April 21st, 2006, 04:14 PM

My guess:
The next news we are likely to get is that the release has been delayed until early fall.

Then, it will be released just in time for the Christmas season.

If there was any competition in the 4x crowd, SE5 wouldn't stand a chance by the time its released. But there isn't, not really, so we wait for the release.

Its really just one guy writing the whole thing, so his time is better spent on the product then marketing it...

Ed Kolis · #6 April 21st, 2006, 04:52 PM

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RonGianti said:
If there was any competition in the 4x crowd, SE5 wouldn't stand a chance by the time its released. But there isn't, not really, so we wait for the release.

You think SE5 is going to suck???

Uncle_Joe · #7 April 21st, 2006, 04:59 PM

Perhaps not direct competition, but its a 4x game of sorts due to be released June 1st.

http://www.wargamer.com/news/news.asp?nid=3269

Noble713 · #8 April 21st, 2006, 04:59 PM

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RonGianti said:
If there was any competition in the 4x crowd, SE5 wouldn't stand a chance by the time its released. But there isn't, not really, so we wait for the release.

I guess you've never heard of Galactic Civilizations II, huh? I get the impression it is doing reasonably well....

thorfrog · #9 April 21st, 2006, 05:00 PM

Yeah, I agree that the lack of news sux. This is my biggest beef with SEV. How about play tester notes. That would be cool.

RonGianti · #10 April 21st, 2006, 05:05 PM

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Noble713 said:

I guess you've never heard of Galactic Civilizations II, huh? I get the impression it is doing reasonably well....

Ya, I saw that. But there are too many things they left out that I want, like a lot more control over ships during combat and a whole lot more choice in weapons. They called their rock/paper/scissors - lasers/missles/guns. I want a bit more than that.

If SEV was not coming out, I'll look at Galciv. But SEV will come out, so I'll wait until then.