Finally somebody's making the zero gravity FPS I've wanted for over a decade.

That looks like it could get very disorienting, could be cool though.

Well Crysis experimented with it of course. I think It looks cool..those magnet boots should bring in some good stealth gameplay. 
 
I will be keeping an eye on this. 

Settings looks nice, but as a FPS i'm not sure.

Impressions sound good, it's nice to know it has the strong stealth element I thought it might have after looking at the video. 

So.... I'm aware that there's no sound in space, but does that really sound like it would translate well in a game?
 
 
Also, the jetpack looks like a beast to control.

This looks very interesting, I might preorder it. 
 
"because really your only 3 ways of telling whether an enemy is around is by either a) seeing their jetpack light, b) seeing them on radar (hard to do this sometimes), or c) hearing them approach you." This does make it sound like you can hear everything in space though, which would not be realistic. 
You should be able to hear your gun (the sound wave goes through your body) but not other people in space.  

  @Gargantuan said:

" This looks very interesting, I might preorder it. 
 
"because really your only 3 ways of telling whether an enemy is around is by either a) seeing their jetpack light, b) seeing them on radar (hard to do this sometimes), or c) hearing them approach you." This does make it sound like you can hear everything in space though, which would not be realistic.  You should be able to hear your gun (the sound wave goes through your body) but not other people in space.   "

They probably mean normal sound. I don't think they're so sales-suicidal as to launch a nearly 100% mute game, despite the realism.

@Al3xand3r

" They probably mean normal sound. I don't think they're so sales-suicidal as to launch a nearly 100% mute game, despite the realism. "

It can always be a server option, and I don't think it's so dumb to have a mix of realism and arcade elements anyway considering that's how popular shooters like Modern Warfare and Counter-Strike worked, and worked out fine for pretty much everyone...

Thiswould be lame though, if you couldn't hear weapons fire but could hear footsteps of NPC's, it would be a glaringly obvious and a comical flaw to players.  
 
What makes this game potentially good is using the unique environmental conditions to create a unique shooter. If it diverts from that, I will lose interest. 

Well I'm only speculating but I imagine that if they had sound they'd have it for the weapon fire also regardless of the video lacking those, not just footsteps. What vibrations would you hear anyway if the enemy is not actually on any surface but just jets around to your location? Sound or no, the environment and range of movement remains extremely unique compared to most FPS titles. I think mute should be an option still, I'd prefer the realism you prefer but I understand that it's not something the majority of the PC install base could feel comfortable with and I wouldn't fault them if they accomodate for that. Most space shooters I've played had unrealistic sound conditions anyway, but Freespace 2 was still great. Anyway, I won't be playing it any time soon since it's Direct X 10+ only.

I was in the beta, NDA has been up a while now.  It's not a very good game, and on the closed beta forums most people felt the same.  It's just really simple as a online MP game, too simple.  If anyone has any specific questions I can answer them, but I didn't play the beta in the later phases because literally all the beta players stopped playing.
 
edit - actually 'not very good' isn't appropriate.  It's a boring game that won't hold peoples' interest.  It's a poor quality game.

Looks cool but I think Id rather it be an third person shooter.

Futuremark made this? Weird. 

" @Linkyshinks:
@Al3xand3r: I'm with LinkysShinks. Keep it real. Hearing the pounding vibrations of your gun as it recoils into you and up your body would be cool. Having proximity-triggered dynamic Space Odyssey-esque music would be seriously awesome. But once you introduce even the option of some gunfire or footsteps, even if you don't use it, it still ruins the feel of the game in your mind. "

I have a huge potential boner for this game.
I've taken my belt off and I've typed the URL into the address bar. I'm just waiting for Mom to GTFO so I can go inverted and blow my FPS skills all over some dunce's face + tits.

I said I would prefer that also, but it's not something that hampered my enjoyment of past space games that chose to not keep it real all that much in the end. And I stated I was only speculating, I do not know what they actually did with the game, but since they mentioned hearing in that quote I assumed they have sound. Maybe they don't. So, I'm also "with" Linky in wanting it to be like that, without sound, but not "with" Linky in saying that having sound alone is a sure way to make the game bad as there are many ways it can be good and unique even so (whether it is, or not, I cannot say as I haven't played it). I definitely don't think an option for it would kill it either as it would be as good as nonexistent for players who wanted it so as long as the server can enforce it. Plenty of games have various rulesets to play with and one plays what he enjoys the most without caring about the others if he doesn't find them good. And those new screens are damn gorgeous Linky.

" @FunExplosions said:

" @Linkyshinks:
@Al3xand3r: I'm with LinkysShinks. Keep it real. Hearing the pounding vibrations of your gun as it recoils into you and up your body would be cool. Having proximity-triggered dynamic Space Odyssey-esque music would be seriously awesome. But once you introduce even the option of some gunfire or footsteps, even if you don't use it, it still ruins the feel of the game in your mind. "

 I had hoped someone would find that idea awesome : P "

" I was in the beta, NDA has been up a while now.  It's not a very good game, and on the closed beta forums most people felt the same.  It's just really simple as a online MP game, too simple.  If anyone has any specific questions I can answer them, but I didn't play the beta in the later phases because literally all the beta players stopped playing.  edit - actually 'not very good' isn't appropriate.  It's a boring game that won't hold peoples' interest.  It's a poor quality game. "

Told ya they'd probably have sound to appeal to more people. Hopefully it's a server option to enable and enforce silent mode, but imo it still looks like a fun and not too conventional FPS given the freedom of movement.

That freedom of movement has already been seen in other games, namely Crysis Wars Zero G Maps. 
 
 Audio simulation - lame, my interest in this game has dropped to nil. As if you would be able to simulate a complex soundscape of this nature in real time. The game has no integrity as a unique FPS.

I guess I'll disagree. And wait to see if it is indeed an option. If you think it's so similar to Crysis Wars in so many wayrs then I seriously doubt you'd find it so very unique and special just because it chose to be mute anyway. Too bad. Looks like great fun to me in the vid + impressions while if it's considered bad I'm sure there will have to be plenty more wrong with it than people railing it due to the sound issue.

The beta had no extra sound options, in fact it was very low on options of any sort, gameplay, graphics, or anything.
 
The game doesn't try to be amazing in these ways some people are expecting.  It's a cheap, quick, very simple online MP shooter.  You have 1 gun with a few modes, and you see a guy and shoot him.  There are some objective modes, but that's it.
 
It's far far far simpler in gameplay than Halo, Quake, Unreal, Call of Duty or really anything else, which is my main problem with the game.  Faceball 2000 on SNES?  That had more depth.

" The beta had no extra sound options, in fact it was very low on options of any sort, gameplay, graphics, or anything.  The game doesn't try to be amazing in these ways some people are expecting.  It's a cheap, quick, very simple online MP shooter.  You have 1 gun with a few modes, and you see a guy and shoot him.  There are some objective modes, but that's it.  It's far far far simpler in gameplay than Halo, Quake, Unreal, Call of Duty or really anything else, which is my main problem with the game.  Faceball 2000 on SNES?  That had more depth. "

Simpler gameplay than Halo?  I doubt that is possible.  I think you need to give us your definition of gameplay.  You mean the game modes or what?

"The one thing that left me absolutely astounded was the suit shutdown key. With the press of a button, your suit will shut down and stop responding. You will no longer have the ability to anchor to surfaces, or use jets for propulsion and stabilization (firing your weapon sends you flying in the opposite direction). The benefit of this tremendous vulnerability is stealth. You are invisible on radar when the suit is powered down.

The jaw dropping part of a suit shutdown is the presentation. Once you power down, you lose everything. The HUD dissolves away, the game chat disappears, and the audio drops out (the suit simulates audio since sound waves cannot travel in space). Once you’ve powered down, the only things you can hear are muffled gunfire from your weapon, your breathing, and your heartbeat. Everything else is completely silent. It is a stunning thing to experience in a game. "