Ok, I told myself I would do this today. But I hate being a topic starter(just check my forum stats).
Anyway there is a HL2 mod on steam called Eternal Silence. (
http://www.eternal-silence.net/)
Anybody play Star Wars Battlefront 2? Remember the space battles? It's like that.
Anybody play Freespace? Space combat is like that, except you can strafe or cut your engines to turn your ship while flying straight.
Anywho it is an awesome game. It looks quite good, and has huge maps, larger than you can usually make in hammer. It's also free. Of course it's a mod so you'll need (EDIT:a source game) to play.
The only problem with the game at the moment is a small playerbase. Currently there's only enough players playing at any one time to fill one server at a time. There isn't much greifing yet fortunately. So there isn't much worry about that, and it is rather hard to effectively greif in the system anyway.
If you have a joystick plug it in. It will significantly improve yer control, there are tutorial videos on youtube as well which can be helpful for learning to play. You will usually find somebody ingame as well that would be willing to answer any questions they can help with. If your looking for me I go by [DFC]Alpha One in ES.
Linkies:
Tutorials: Pro's doing what they do and recording it. Might be good to play the game a little bit first to have a general Idea what they are talking about. But you should watch these fairly early to learn some tricks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGBplCdZWY Tutorial by the old extinct Skull clan. Mr Waffles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDQ5ilrG2LAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8zy_xmiHyU Another 2 Tutorials by Mattman also Skull
Gameplay: The gameplay videos mostly show the space flights in 3rd person view. Default is 1st person and I prefer it that way, but just know that you can set which view ya want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXO9ullzHgs Showing off different ships and some space combat as he attacks corvettes. Doesn't show much actual dogfighting though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpKHZat5sdQ A good video that shows dogfighting and ground combat, he replaced all sounds with his own music though.
Any Comments? Criticism? Praise? General Disinterest?
EDIT: Thanks for the correction.