Birth of the Federation II

[The DOS Machine]

Don't worry, I've been around here more than long enough to know not to get my hopes up whenever a new BotF2 project comes along, but I thought I should let you all know about it anyway:

http://botfii.armadafleetcommand.com/

Apparently, this site was recently launched to support this project. I just discovered it today. Anyone know about this?

-DOSMAN

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Very very cool ... hopefully I'll get this sometime next year, as the original game is one of favourite games ever. Interesting what changes are happening.

 

[Pheon]

I loved the game to. I still play it to this day, and have hoped for a sequel for ages now.

 

[Chang]

I still play BOTF every once and a while.

 

[Doherty]

i first got botf when i was 15, i played it almost everyday it was a very addicitive game, and still is, every once and awhile i take it out of storage to play it, its been a few months since ive played it. after awhile it gets boring, but somehow it gets back to being good when not played in awhile, i jope this sequel will turn out good if it does happen

 

[Holdfast]

Well, of course, my hopes aren't exactly going to be raised by yet another BOTF II project, given the track record of such ventures. But nonetheless a small part of me dares to wish it becomes reality.

The original BOTF remains an awesome multiplayer game, esp. over LAN where lag/out of synch isn't such a problem.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I've actually never played it via multiplayer. I should try that sometime, now that i have dsl...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Looks interesting. I never played the original, but always wanted to, it looks like MOO in the Star Trek universe.

At least it'll help me get over the fact "Stars! Supernova Genesis" may never see the light of day...

 

[Klaitu]

You know, I really liked the concept of BOTF a lot more than I liked the actual game. The idea of a Turn based strategy with actual strategic elements set in the star trek universe and covering a huge time span with technology advances?

I'm there.

It just sucks that the game is so freaking buggy.. even on the computers of today, it crunks up after about 100 turns, and that 3d battle rendering part of it always made me a little nervous that the game was going to explode and cancel out hours of work!

I hope they do come up with one that dosen't suck.

 

[Guest]

Yawn

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Posted by fatboy76:
Yawn

Yeah, there has been a lot of BOTF rumors going around, so i agree with you not to get too excited, but i hope that it is true.

 

[Klaitu]

Yeah, what I usually do to relieve the stress of all those rumor is pretend that I'm waiting for turn number 807 to render.

 

[daedalus5]

Posted by fatboy76:
Yawn

"yawn" what?

- Dull thread
- Or fed up hearing about BOTF Mark XVII rumours?

 

[Guest]

Posted by daedalus5:

Posted by fatboy76:
Yawn

"yawn" what?

- Dull thread
- Or fed up hearing about BOTF Mark XVII rumours?

yes

 

[LeandroTLZ]

I never played the first BotF, but I notice it was made by Microprose. Is it just Civilization with a Star Trek skin? (Which would already make a good game) Or did they really go into detail with the ST universe tech, and making the races different?

 

[kickinitoldschool]

Does anybody know where I can downlaod the BOTF-XP patch?

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

It's a sign of the apocolypse: There will be sequals and rumors of sequals...

 

[Seven of Five]

Posted by kickinitoldschool:
Does anybody know where I can downlaod the BOTF-XP patch?

I can't remember where I got mine, but I have a copy on my hard drive. PM me if you're interested.

I've had a good look around the site and everything they propose sounds very interesting, with some nice updates to the original BOTF. They reckon a Beta will be out by Christmas, cautiously optimistic until then. Though having said that, have any previous versions of BOTF2 managed to make it to a Beta stage?

One last thing, what's this Borg mod I've heard mentioned for the original?

 

[Camren]

Both the Borg mod and XP patch can be found here. I'm not sure if the borg mod can work in conjunction with the XP patch, I couldn't get it to work for some reason...

 

[kv1at3485]

Posted by LeandroTLZ:
I never played the first BotF, but I notice it was made by Microprose. Is it just Civilization with a Star Trek skin? (Which would already make a good game) Or did they really go into detail with the ST universe tech, and making the races different?

In my opinion, BotF was a Master of Orion (also made by MicroProse) with many chunks removed. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed BotF, but coming from a MoO background, it was not at all impressive.