laclongquan
Arcane
Please Get it uploaded to several online storage service like Rapidshare, Mediafire.
Or once your HD go puff it will go up in smoke~
Or once your HD go puff it will go up in smoke~
Please Get it uploaded to several online storage service like Rapidshare, Mediafire.
Or once your HD go puff it will go up in smoke~
It's been almost a year since I last posted. No one's been able to contact anyone at Ambrosia in years, as a cursory scan of this subreddit will show:
https://www.reddit.com/r/evnova/
However, I managed to log in to the Ambrosia website (though their software is very broken), I've got the software installers downloaded, I actually found my old license codes in an alternate email of mine (pictured below), and I've reached out to that EV Nova fan who mentioned in the subreddit that he has a crack for the game.
I realize no one else cares about EV Nova anymore, but it's fucking incredible and I'd hate to see it be lost.
To be clear, it's the evn installer with 89MB size, right? I think 75 Mb is the demo file.
Great game, there's a lot to do in it. I had it running not too many years ago on W8.1 but I went through messing with a few ancient versions of QuickTime first.
I just tried this again (on w8.1) with the links above and it seems to work fine but I don't have gsync. I didn't install the widescreen patch either, I'll play with that later.
Still the best of its kind. The technical implementation was horrible though; everything from quicktime dependency to resolution issues to a quirky menu system. And it wasn't even a 90's game.
Yeah, given how storyline-focused the game is, money isn't even that big of a thing in many cases. Think there's even a couple of storylines that don't require it at all once you've started them.
I don't recall hostiles in fed space unless you trip a pirate trap or something.There's no skill involved if something fast enough decides to come after you while you're in a shuttle; your .3 shields and armor just get raped off in an instant, and then you're fucked. It can happen in core Fed space, too.
I always found trading fairly boring, although it is the only way to get enough cash for lategame ships/weapons.The game's biggest flaw (beyond some storyline quirks) is that the economy is almost entirely static, barring temporary price drops/rises and "junks" that don't really change the fact that once you've got a good trade route going, you can whore it out really, really hard an infinite number of times.
I don't recall hostiles in fed space unless you trip a pirate trap or something.
Stray missiles can indeed be deadly, but iirc vipers are so terribad a heavy shuttle with a blaster turret should be able to win?I don't recall hostiles in fed space unless you trip a pirate trap or something.
There can be pirate Vipers and such on the fringes. More to the point though, tiny amounts of stray fire from Fed vs. Auroran fights can cripple or destroy a shuttle in the space of a second; while you can quickly re-map and jump onward upon entering a system, or instantly re-dock if you launch to find bullets flying, shit can still happen. If you happen to be out of fuel upon entering a system, for example, and a single pirate Viper gets after you, get ready to RIP.
Stray missiles can indeed be deadly, but iirc vipers are so terribad a heavy shuttle with a blaster turret should be able to win?
And not instantly swapping to heavy shuttle seems like a fewlish mistake.
The way I remember it, this is pretty much the only way to play, and all the ships that are too big and slow to do this are deathtraps.I'm still surprisingly good at piloting (i.e. not overshooting or undershooting, not over-correcting, anticipating, maneuvering to hit blindsides, etc.) considering I've been away from top-down/twin-stick/shmups for quite a while now. I can kill a lot of things without even taking a hit.
Viper is the tiniest ship in the game right? Looks like an inverted T, can be bet upon in races?In my experience yesterday, even a heavy shuttle is a spread vagina just waiting for a single pirate Viper to come along and fuck it.
Viper is the tiniest ship in the game right? Looks like an inverted T, can be bet upon in races?