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Alas…
Posted by Data in Cortex Command - December 18th, 2006

Sorry folks, the build has been slightly delayed again. I really need to be more careful with promising timeframes for these things. My sincere apologies.

The current status is that things are really, really close, but there’s still several polish and implementation issues which would get in the way of you enjoying the build. So instead of throwing somehting half-baked up here and wasting your and our time, we’re going to make sure the new additions shine first.

Again, sorry to get your anticipation set and then not delivering on time. Just a day or so more… ( I think ;) )

Boom Goes the Engine

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86 Responses to “Alas…”

  1. Red Jester - # December 18th, 2006 at 3:52 am

    This makes sense. Really no reason releasing a poor build and alienating the more elitist members but, hold on a day or two, release something that’s awesomeness can only be described as an affront to God and BOOM! Instant larger fanbase!

    Just add 2Mb of Cool

    - Red Jester

  2. Juggz - # December 18th, 2006 at 4:41 am

    Love the screenie, Hope the extra day or two is worth it :D

  3. ToonyMan - # December 18th, 2006 at 5:41 am

    I must WAIT.

  4. Lorne Whiting - # December 18th, 2006 at 5:42 am

    Eh, I’m used to delays.

  5. Striker26 - # December 18th, 2006 at 5:46 am

    WOW!
    im lovin the gibs and drop ship!

  6. Party Pancakes - # December 18th, 2006 at 5:53 am

    Aww man I was excited all night about this and there’s ANOTHER delay!

  7. Ye - # December 18th, 2006 at 6:56 am

    ^Me too… Waiting for PS3 in europe :D

  8. Onaka - # December 18th, 2006 at 7:24 am

    Can you actually gib the individual engines on the fly?
    Holy hell, shooting one of the engines off and watching the craft frantically attempt to correct its course with only one engine would be seriously cool.

  9. BlackNecro - # December 18th, 2006 at 8:09 am

    Bah don’t wait for the PS3 it sucks … just a piece of overpriced shit …
    I hope it will be a release before xmas

  10. The Punisher - # December 18th, 2006 at 8:14 am

    WOAH!! That new cargo ship looks awsome!! Now I just need to wait one (or two..) day(s) then I can take my hands on it…

  11. Luke-15 - # December 18th, 2006 at 8:51 am

    I wanna play it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. Pippin50 - # December 18th, 2006 at 9:36 am

    My god… tears of joy fall from my eyes when I see what’s to come… Hope it’s controllable though..

  13. anonymous - # December 18th, 2006 at 9:58 am

    and my hopes were so high, *sigh* oh well ,I’m British I know how to wait

  14. Ye - # December 18th, 2006 at 10:00 am

    We can wait few days, just make it good, will ya? ;D

  15. I am Drunkman - # December 18th, 2006 at 10:32 am

    will we be able to pilot the dropship?

  16. Weasel - # December 18th, 2006 at 10:49 am

    Wow… That picture looks great, and not for the graphics. For the implication that you can blow off one engine and have the thing start cartwheeling around! I can’t wait to wreck havoc on the AI’s “keep this boat afloat” algorithms!

  17. Ltcookie - # December 18th, 2006 at 11:24 am

    Don’t join a gang and don’t drink carbonated beverages!

    This message approved by Walker Texas Ranger :)

  18. Fat Zombie - # December 18th, 2006 at 12:10 pm

    That flying thingy (and the prospect of destroying that thingy) makes a day or two of waiting fine. If it means awesomeness at the end, don’t rush. :D

  19. Naka - # December 18th, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    Oh please please please have a working scroll bar :D

  20. Dj Stick - # December 18th, 2006 at 1:19 pm

    Oh i beg you to let it have a hover mode so its easy to burn enemys.

  21. Demetrius - # December 18th, 2006 at 2:19 pm

    A working scroll bar would be great, especially when there’s so many neat mods out there. That dropship thingy is gonna add some more spice to the Brain vs Computer mode, which i never liked, until now. (maybe)

  22. Shinkirou Densetsu - # December 18th, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    Are you going to make it when one of the dropships engines are destroyed, the other one gets too mutch power and begins to make it flip… then Ai catches this and resumes to normal power and trys to keep the ship upright.

  23. weasel - # December 18th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but that is the AI’s dropship, not the brains! There should be no human-controllable form of that bigass boat.

  24. Data - # December 18th, 2006 at 3:57 pm

    You can buy it and fly it, too.

    And yes, they spin out of control when an engine goes out, often flipping or cartwheeling on top of whomever shot at it. When both engines are ok, it will do everything it can to stabilize itself and always stay upright, even if you’re manually controlling it. Little retro thrusters automatically puff to stop rotation, and failing that, the appropriate engine will momentarily shut off to right the ship.

  25. Joe Mikkel - # December 18th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

    This is all i’m gonna play until Spore comes out. Anyone who worked on this game deserves a medal.

  26. Uranium2_10 - # December 18th, 2006 at 4:20 pm

    ooooooooooooh…..=] i like self righting aircraft that are pilotable ^-^

  27. JLrep - # December 18th, 2006 at 4:44 pm

    I am drooling to mod this thing…

  28. tom - # December 18th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

    dude all im saying is *shouts* PLZ DEAR GOD HAVE A SCROLL BAR

  29. some pirate - # December 18th, 2006 at 5:26 pm

    AWESOME TO THE MAX

  30. iwillcontrolyou - # December 18th, 2006 at 5:34 pm

    pleeeeeeease release this soon, don’t rush, but please release it soon, and with a modding tut, PLEASE!

  31. Zcool31 - # December 18th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

    Hello, am loving the new dropship
    I understand that it will automatically try to stay upright by itself, which is really cool.
    A cool option would be:
    let the user control each engine independantly with the respective thumbsticks on the xbox360 controller.
    Left thumbstick left/right rotates left engine, up/down changes the power. Right thumbstick same for right engine. However, when you let go of both thumbsticks and let them snap to center, the engines automatically snap to their default vertical position and power, and ship resumes automatic leveling.
    Just a suggestion, would be kinda cool to see.

    Keep up the good work, looking forward to next version.
    (please make it possible to throw grenades off the bottom of the screen and make them fall from the top.)

  32. gnat - # December 18th, 2006 at 6:47 pm

    Holy pimp candy! Looks fantastic man, I love that dropship!

  33. kokits - # December 18th, 2006 at 7:44 pm

    ok, i know that it takes time to develop games and stuff, and that if more time is spent on it then the better it is, AND that if u rush the developer it can cause problems but…seriously…

    THAT LOOKS SO, SO, COOOOOLIOOOO.

    please release soon, thanks

  34. kokits - # December 18th, 2006 at 7:51 pm

    sorry about the double post but…

    i just realized that the cool thing about waiting for this (and other things as well) is that you get to speculate about whats to come and it improves your “imagination”.

    so… seriously… take your time, but know that we are waiting…

    ok that sounded stupid…

  35. ToonyMan - # December 18th, 2006 at 8:54 pm

    Smart Guy.

  36. dan_e - # December 18th, 2006 at 9:28 pm

    its ok, take our time, dont rush, we can live without it for a day or two.

  37. koniferus - # December 19th, 2006 at 2:04 am

    Please tell me theres going to be stationary turrets and enemy bases in the full version…

  38. Data - # December 19th, 2006 at 2:09 am

    There will be that, and a great deal more.
    See the official forums for some hints, although please be aware there’s lots of spoilers in there.
    http://www.datarealms.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=6

  39. Ye - # December 19th, 2006 at 7:13 am

    Can we see turrets on some January builds?

  40. Persh - # December 19th, 2006 at 12:59 pm

    Make sure that when you gib a gun and a Robot 1 Chest at the same time, the game doesn’t crash, mmkay Data?

  41. Data - # December 19th, 2006 at 2:10 pm

    Yeah most crashes related to gibbing are fixed. Thre’s one obscure one left, but we’re working on it.

  42. Joe Mikkel - # December 19th, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    You shouldn’t have said so much. I have final exams this week and all I can think about is the new realease! I hate you. :-D

  43. Shinkirou Densetsu - # December 19th, 2006 at 2:33 pm

    The anticipation is Killing me!!

  44. JLrep - # December 19th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

    I wish.

    (Not really.)

  45. Shinkirou Densetsu - # December 19th, 2006 at 3:01 pm

    Ouch, Ice cold.. Get a heater or something (j/k)

  46. Foogooman - # December 19th, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    I’m really excited for this. Looks great. Kepp up the good work :D

  47. ToonyMan - # December 19th, 2006 at 4:41 pm

    I want a ship you can walk in!! :D

  48. Bliverman Helmstronortigy the 3rd and 4th - # December 19th, 2006 at 5:20 pm

    Hopefully there will be additional levels in the future, although the one being used is pretty cool I guess…

  49. Party Pancakes - # December 19th, 2006 at 7:02 pm

    Ignore the comment I put up there, you guys can just take your time and relax because I guess I can wait a day or so more *feels ashamed of self for earlier comment*

  50. kokits - # December 19th, 2006 at 7:12 pm

    You shouldn’t be ashamed of yourself for wanting sumthin’ a whole lot. Heck, I think we ALL want this really bad.

  51. Joe Mikkel - # December 19th, 2006 at 7:56 pm

    Yea. Really bad. Really really really bad. Not to put pressure on anyone : -) (I swear, i’m here every hour stalking the next build)

  52. dan_e - # December 19th, 2006 at 9:17 pm

    Im with joe. every single painstaking hour…

  53. kokits - # December 19th, 2006 at 9:30 pm

    not that we’re pressing the refresh button every 5 minutess or anything, but…

  54. Shinkirou Densetsu - # December 19th, 2006 at 9:39 pm

    PSSH! Not every 5 minutes.. every 15.. :P

  55. kokits - # December 19th, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    …is 2 bad…?

  56. Shinkirou Densetsu - # December 19th, 2006 at 9:58 pm

    Yes. 2 is obsessive.. 15 is small child at christmas.

  57. kokits - # December 19th, 2006 at 10:00 pm

    …but i like the 2…

  58. JLrep - # December 19th, 2006 at 10:12 pm

    Heh, heh. I’m reminded of all the excited discussion of the Energy Sword during the hype for Halo 2. Occasionally someone would point out, “It’s just a new weapon in a game, and anyway, it’s not like there’s never been a melee weapon in an FPS before.” And people went _livid_. ;)

    I hate to think what this group (myself included) will be like when the game is released in ‘07.

  59. kokits - # December 19th, 2006 at 10:16 pm

    I guess it’s just the problem of waiting so long. We all expected it on sunday, but now it’s tuesday so we are all giddy with anticipation. lol

  60. Data - # December 19th, 2006 at 10:40 pm

    Well… yeah people don’t go nuts. ;) It’s a new (admittedly cool) ship and a bunch of improvements, but it’s not like a whole new game. Please set your expectations accordingly.

    That said, I’m fairly certain tonight we’ll push it out.

  61. kokits - # December 19th, 2006 at 10:52 pm

    YIPEE! it will (note the word probably) probably be out tonight!

  62. Joe Mikkel - # December 19th, 2006 at 11:01 pm

    i’m gonna stay up :-D

  63. JLrep - # December 19th, 2006 at 11:30 pm

    I think it’s funny that someone optimistically observed the possibility of additional levels in the future. Additional levels! Clearly if such were true, Data, your benevolence would know no bounds.

  64. makeshifter - # December 20th, 2006 at 12:03 am

    wait quick question if you shoot the engine close to you it would start to cartwheel at you wouldn’t it. i wouldn’t want to shoot it just to be crushed

  65. lazermaniac - # December 20th, 2006 at 12:05 am

    Gonna stay up too :D

  66. kokits - # December 20th, 2006 at 12:24 am

    ugh… it’s past midnight where i’m at… I just finished watching a movie…

  67. kokits - # December 20th, 2006 at 12:27 am

    (sry for the double post)

    hey what time is it at everybodies place. if we tell each other we will know the time difference. right now its 12:27 where im at

  68. Joe Mikkel - # December 20th, 2006 at 12:36 am

    i’m gonna turn on monitoring and go to sleep (btw it’s 11:35 here)

  69. lazermaniac - # December 20th, 2006 at 12:53 am

    2253 hours here.

  70. kokits - # December 20th, 2006 at 12:57 am

    awww… man yall are lucky! its almost 1 AM! (good thing i dont have school tomorrow!)

  71. Data - # December 20th, 2006 at 1:10 am

    sheesh you guys.. making me code under pressure here ;p

    Working on the final item now. Then have to test it, package the build, and go.

    GO TO BED

  72. kokits - # December 20th, 2006 at 1:14 am

    lol XD take your time..e fgalf nj buaSJDH…. oh?? wa?? oh sorry i fell asleep and my head hit the keyboard!

    (just kidding, just kidding, take your time…)

  73. kokits - # December 20th, 2006 at 1:58 am

    2 am…

  74. Kelas - # December 20th, 2006 at 2:28 am

    2:30 am….

    I’m not refreshing every minute, no of course not. *twitch* *twitch*

    Oh well, I have my rave music to keep me up. And the delicious taste of Monster energy drink! [/shameless plug]

  75. Zoodle - # December 20th, 2006 at 3:26 am

    Data, let me say this: You rock, and therefor are able to put this off as long as you want, and since you are able to make us wait as long as you need us to, you can control us all. Tell us to “Wait five days”, and our reaction will be “Okee dokee!”, so try making us do something crazy for a change, such as “Bounce on your head, then I’ll realease this update.” our reaction will undoubtably be “Okee dokee!”. And once you can control us like that, get us to help you.

    If that made no sense, you’re a very normal and healthy human. I am running on pure crazy right now, as it is 1:21 am, and I have gotten about 15 hours of sleep in the past four days. Myes. Quite. Indeed. Ahem. Yes. If you hear a slight buzzing in your ears, you have just cought the crazy.

    I hope this gets you a bit of laughter, Data, wether it be a light “Heh.” or a large “What the heck was that? Hahahaha!” or at least a “Wow, I think I have a fan.”.

    This message will self destruct in: 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

  76. Party Pancakes - # December 20th, 2006 at 4:21 am

    I couldn’t sleep *yawns* it’s 5:21 over here in ontario.

  77. anonymous - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:01 am

    If it was going to be out last night, what happened?

  78. Party Pancakes - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:14 am

    He never said last night he said in a day or so. Also he probably isn’t even awake to put the game on the website.

  79. Kazuki - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:15 am

    Oh well :D

    I have been playing CC for awhile now, and I can tell you it is excellent already. (Although the build looks KICK ASS :D)

  80. Kazuki - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:17 am

    Damn.. I didn’t realize most of you people are staying awake all night. :D It’s 5:16 where I live, but I’m not tired. *drools*

  81. anonymous - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:19 am

    ok then

  82. Data - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:24 am

    It’s done. Packing it up now.
    Told you to go to bed ;)

  83. Kazuki - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:31 am

    Oh but I didn’t. :D

  84. Kazuki - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:35 am

    (I wish I could edit my comments) Where will you be posting it? On the forums, or the main page?

  85. Party Pancakes - # December 20th, 2006 at 5:41 am

    IT’S DONE WOOHOO! Too bad it’s not downloadable yet.

  86. Chriscc123 - # January 16th, 2007 at 7:54 pm

    i think you need to be able to blow off the right or left engin…. just for thoes people who like destruction…

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