First Strike Dev Diary #15 - STEB74 + New Trailer

[Spawndemon]

There is a new dev diary posted today over at the First Strike mod website featuring STEB74. Here's what he had to say:

Following the layout of the other dev diaries, I’ll just tell you briefly about myself. I’m from the north west in the UK but have been living in Madrid for about a year. My age? Well, I’m younger than 34 but older than 32 ( it’s hard to believe Star Wars has been a major factor in my life for 30 years, a long time ago indeed ! ) I was only 3 when I saw Star Wars so I must admit it’s difficult to remember the exact emotions of the experience but I was 6 when I saw The Empire Strikes Back and life has never been quite the same, it was the most magical moment of cinema in my life and I imagine will remain so. I’ve been passionately interested in music/movies/tv and games for as long as I can remember and spent most of my late teens and twenties performing and recording with various rock/blues bands, while at the same time writing orchestral type work for various other projects.

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To check out the rest of this new dev diary, click here.

Along with the new dev diary we've also been given a new gameplay teaser for First Strike that shows off over 4 minutes of in game footage. You can view it or download the high res version of it below. Enjoy!

View Here | Download Here

[imported_Master Shake]

OK this looks great, thank you for this thank you......

[ohsosharp]

yes looks great we need mods:salute:

[Ev!L ErN!E]

this mod is looking better and better everytime I see new media for it... great work guys.

[dDub]

I'm excited about the mod but...

I'm not sure if it was the trailer's directing, the physics, or a mix but i gotta be honest... man, that was difficult to watch. Especially the space sequence where the tracking and zooming were really rough.

[Kradath]

Battlefeild seems to be really a bad base for mods...anyway it seems we get atleast a bit in spetember. :)

[Deesies]

Would have been better if the ground was textured and had more combat in space instead of following a single craft flying about :)

[*FMJ*Power]

I'm excited about the mod but...

I'm not sure if it was the trailer's directing, the physics, or a mix but i gotta be honest... man, that was difficult to watch. Especially the space sequence where the tracking and zooming were really rough.

id almost have to agree, as much as i cant wait for this mod something about that trailer just didn't look or feel reassuring.

i think perhaps there are no lightmaps rendered for the maps during those battles but the space flight physics didnt feel three dimensional at all but i certainly wont knock it, its wonderful progress and i know this engine is a real turd to mod, i cant wait to play it!!!!!

[Markus]

not sure if im alowed to tell this but the making of the trailer wasnt planned correctly and we ended up having to do all the shooting in 1 night and(depending where you live) editing the footage in that same night aswell.

i agree. maybe a bit to much with the zooming, but if you just need to look around those parts :nod:

[[FSDev]Preacher]

The Deal with the trailer is thus.

I wasn't sure if we were going to make a trailer or not so nothing was planned. Then Giga Games contacted us and asked for a Trailer. not only that but they wanted it to be 5 mins long (which is WAAAAy to long for a Trailer) and Not only that but they wanted it in like 3 days lol.

I had to film, Edit and finalise the whole shebang with 0 planning time, pulling shots out my rear end to pad it out to 5 mins. and guess what they did?
the guys at giga on their TV show complained it was too long lol.

I was rather miffed, since instead of a nicely fast paced cut and clean cut edit i had to find ways of padding it out and makeing it last as close to 5 mins as possible as that's what they asked for.

Sorry if you guys don't like the video it's not my best work and is basicaly the best i could do in 3 days (given i work 9-5). Oh and To add to my woes this was of our 2 map demo so i had 5 mins of showing only 2 maps off. #

forgive me

[solodude23]

IMO, trailer was awesome. No idea what you guys could possibly not like about it. The sounds, the blaster lazers, the damage, everything looked awesome (especially for a WIP).

[dDub]

The Deal with the trailer is thus.

I wasn't sure if we were going to make a trailer or not so nothing was planned. Then Giga Games contacted us and asked for a Trailer. not only that but they wanted it to be 5 mins long (which is WAAAAy to long for a Trailer) and Not only that but they wanted it in like 3 days lol.

I had to film, Edit and finalise the whole shebang with 0 planning time, pulling shots out my rear end to pad it out to 5 mins. and guess what they did?
the guys at giga on their TV show complained it was too long lol.

I was rather miffed, since instead of a nicely fast paced cut and clean cut edit i had to find ways of padding it out and makeing it last as close to 5 mins as possible as that's what they asked for.

Sorry if you guys don't like the video it's not my best work and is basicaly the best i could do in 3 days (given i work 9-5). Oh and To add to my woes this was of our 2 map demo so i had 5 mins of showing only 2 maps off. #

forgive me

No worries. Like i said before, i'm still very anxious about the release of the Mod and this trailer really didn't change my anticipation. That is kinda strange to ask for a 5 minute trailer in 3 days.,, and then to complain it was too long?! Thanks for the explaination - i feel for ya =P

[zuiquan1]

The reason why I havent burnied BF2142 at the stake :)


Keep up the good work, and you'll be certain this will be the only thing I'll be playing relating to 2142 when its released!

[B=E=N=C=H]

I had more fun watching the trailer than playing QW:ET beta :)

Thanks for the mod guys! :yay:

[StarkWolf]

Yeah looks like another good SW mod for the BF game franchise.