Development Info Flatspace 2 flat out

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Flatspace 2

<a href="http://www.cornutopia.co.uk/lif/aboutfs2.php">Flatspace 2: The Rise of the Scarrid</a> has been released. You can check out a <A href="http://www.cornutopia.co.uk/lif/downloads.php">12MB demo</a> of the planar space trading game with rogue-like elements. If you like it, the full version is <b>$24.95</b>, which isn't a bad price. Here's a little bit of info about the new game's setting:
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<blockquote>There are two races in Flatspace II, human and scarrid. A state of cold war exists between the races, and although they share technology they cannot communicate and skirmishes between races are common. Both governments pay a bounty for killing and capturing members of the opposite race.
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Like a true civilisation in space, the space stations in Flatspace II include factories, farms, houses, hospitals, schools and cities as well as pirate and alien bases. Any ship in the game can be flown by the player, and high ranking traders can purchase entire bases to get free repairs and medical treatment, and upgrades at cost price.</blockquote>
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I always like space traders that allow me to buy and upgrade ports of call. You know, the ability to buy and own property that actually provides me with something useful in terms of gameplay. That's always great.
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[Psilon]

Shiny. I'll have to check it out this weekend. I hope Cornutopia's made the game a little easier to get into; it took a while to sink into the first game.

 

[Seven]

It's been ridiculously unstable for me. i hope they patch it soon.

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

It's been ridiculously unstable for me. i hope they patch it soon.

Same here. First one runs like a charm on my system though.

 

[Seven]

Yeah it sucks bigtime, I was really looking forward to this one. What's really odd is that initial load times seem to be ridiculously long too (I've got a gig of ram).

 

[Fresh]

"Flatspace"? Man that sounds cool.

Not.

 

[Crnobog]

If it hangs or crashes after starting a new game, try setting 'preferhardwarevp' to 'false' in the config.cfg

 

[Seven]

If it hangs or crashes after starting a new game, try setting 'preferhardwarevp' to 'false' in the config.cfg

Interestingly enough that worked, why?

 

[Crnobog]

Magic?
I don't know what it does, something to do with graphic rendering.

Same here. First one runs like a charm on my system though.

The first one had that set to 'false' by default, so that's probably it.

By the way, if you're having issues with boxes appearing around every sprite, change 'disableadditiveglow' to 'true'