Star Trek Excalibur - Upcoming PC Game

I've never been too interested in Star Trek, but I do love space combat games, and would love to play one that allows me to command a capital ship with this level of detail.

Looks fun.

 

This is going to be one of those games where, if you like simulators and better yet love space simulators, then Trek fan or not, you will most likely love this game.

It's also being designed especially with mod-ability in mind, so seeing the game basically turned into Star Wars or Stargate at some point by other modders within the community is almost a given.

 

This is one game I'm really looking forward to!

 

Here's a video showing more of how the component view will look like.

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The two circle objects inside of Voyager are just place holder Asteroids.

Me too, in fact since it's announcement, I have been looking forward to this game more than any other PC game.

 

Here is a very nice and interesting update.

Update 24/07/11 - Ingame Interiors | Facebook

 

I was recently browsing Memory Alpha and stumbled upon articles about Voyager Elite Force and Klingon Academy. So I looked if there's also an article about Excalibur, but there isn't.
Would anybody please change that?

 

New STE ship update: The Klingon Bloodlust Cruiser.

"The Bloodlust, or 'Il neH in Klingon, is a medium sized battle cruiser. She is designed to replace the centuries old K'tinga class and fill the gap between the K'vort and Vor'Cha classes. As their newest ship, the Bloodlust is fitted with modern Klingon battlefield technology such as ablative armor and heavy disruptors. The under slung cannons that originally debuted on the Negh'Var are excellent for planetary bombardment. A long-range scout variant was also manufactured. This version has lighter defenses and no heavy disruptors."

 

Sorry if the pics are a little grainy, I had to re-size them and they look a bit off. These pics are actually the real models running in the engine, it's not a render.

 

I was already able to tell the images are from the game engine itself.
Renders would probably look even better (not that the current images are not already very nice looking - it's numerous levels above of what came before).

 

Any ideas as to a launch date for this game? Can't find it on the site.

 

The literal word on the launch date is "it'll be ready when it's ready" I personally would guess less than a year, but no one knows for sure.

 

It surely will be released a year later

 

Too bad it's not being developed in a game engine I'm familiar with. I'd offer to help move things along

 

They are always looking for help to speed up the process a bit. They've already got some of the most skilled guys I've seen working on it, but balancing the game with their school, work and personal life makes things take that much longer. You could always register at STExcalibur and offer any services you think they could use, doesn't have to be on the engine. I offered some services in weapons and hard pointing, but they've already got that covered, so I help how I can by spreading the news about STE.

 

Excalibur Wiki is now up (although not entirely complete). You can check it out at the link below.

ST Excalibur Portal | Wiki

 

Still looking forward to this game

 

Same here. Can't wait for this one!

 

Same here, this is my most looked forward to game. It's gonna be a pretty awesome day the day this game is completed.

 

The unfortunate thing is that it's taken so long I keep forgetting it even exists, and I doubt it will release to much fanfare so I might miss it when it does :/

 

New STE ship update: The New Orleans Class




"A few new shots of the New Orleans class, recently updated by Luiz to TS2. The New Orleans is one of the less well known ships of Star Trek and it often gets missed out from games. Including ships like this is important as it helps to create a more authentic experience while also giving the player a very different type of ship to play with."

 

I really wish they'd stick with canon Trek.

 

Technically it is canon.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/New_Orleans_class

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_class_starship

 

Will the galaxy dreadnought out of next gen be making a appearance, me fav ship out the series

 

Most likely it will, maybe not with the game at release but as an installable mod made by someone in the STE modding community for sure. I would expect to see it 100% at some point as it was a mod for Bridge Commander and pretty much every modder from the BCMod community are anxiously waiting for the release of STE so they can start modding for it.

 

Actually quite looking forward to this, sounds like everything STO should of been.

 

this sounds really really cool hopefully it turns out that way

 

A visualization of work being done on Excalibur's engine over the last 9 months.

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Another visualization showing art, ships and other stuff being added to Excalibur over the last 9 months.

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Very intersting! Just curious what happens there at about one minute mark. Looks like something significant is developed then dragged away.

Really cool effect though, good representation of work done. Looks like everyone is touching every part of the code.

What is the final product "tree" supposed to look like though? Is this good progress?

 

It was never a dreadnought, it was simply an "exploration cruiser" (that was also armed to the teeth ).

 

I believe that was the second visualization being created and dragged away. As for the engine itself it looks to be about 75% to 80% completed, and as for the rest of the game, or the "2nd visualization" it looks to only be around 40% complete.

 

I couldn't find this thread, so I did an online search for "star trek excalibur". First listing was Star Trek Online's Excalibur page. Dirty trick. I'm kind of surprised they are moving to free-to-play soon, same with the DC Universe MMO. Any fresh news of Excalibur?

 

wow it looks really good with that engine :O

 

New STE ship update: The Reman Rapier

"As a rising power within the Romulan political landscape the Remans will play an important role in Excalibur. This is the Rapier, a smaller Reman ship designed for long range transport and scouting missions. The Reman design has been textured by Jonny (JB06) to a high level of detail, with every part of the intricate hull pattern painted by hand! The ship was designed by Matt Hooker and modelled by Luiz Cordova."

 

No one's liking the Rapier??? I know it's not canon and all, but it's a fine ship.

 

Precisely because it's NOT canon. Ugh, seriously, why do they have to do this in every friggin' Star Trek game??? It's blasphemy I tell you! Gawd, do they really think us Star Trek fans will get *bored* with the handful of canon ships that exist??? (I know I wouldn't!)

 

A few non canon ships is not a big deal. The show must go on. The game covers the different time lines and ships that are canon but also extends into the "post Nemesis" era a bit, so there will need to be a few new ships to convey this. Besides, the Reman's need a couple more less lethal ships, I would get bored slaughtering everyone in the Scimitar, given it's massive arsenal and with it being able to fire when cloaked.

 

QFT!

I like the federation ships that are canon but not that famous. To name a few (no idea if they are alreadyin the game):
Danube class
Nova class
Apollo class
Steamrunner class
Soyuz & Lantree class
Norway class
Saber class

And last but not least of course:
Yeager type
and Constellation class

 

You're not a fan of the Prometheus class?

 

Looks great, can't wait tell you guys release it =)

 

Not really. It's too powerful.
Ten years ago or so I played a lot of Klingon Academy and I liked to fight dreadnoughts with a group of escort ships or a single one using astronomical phenomena. For example it was possible to beat a whole fleet of Kahless Bathlet ships with a single Wasp attack shuttle if you had a gas giant in your scenario.

 

It's not too powerful when you have to take on multiple ships by yourself which will more than likely be a scenario faced in an STE mission. But I guess if you're going ship vs ship (with the exception of the Scimitar or a Borg vessel) I can see your point.

 

Do you still have KA? Because it's been fixed, and will run on modern hardware now.

@crylo, I liked the prometheus, though it was introduced in Voyager (not a fan of Voyager).

 

Nice, I've been looking to get a hold of STBC and KA (never played KA before want to try it), but I can't seem to find them. I used to have STBC and made some mods for it, I stopped playing it a while back, and lost my game disc in some old boxes I threw out. :/ I'm wanting to get back into it though to hold me over until STE is finished.

 

I see your point too, but the same way as I consider a separated Galaxy class still as one ship I'd consider a separated Prometheus class as a single ship. Of course if you fight against an enemy squadron the tides may turn again. I guess it's just a question of one's point of view.

I know. Technically KA even runs quite well in Wine, even without the fix. But there are graphics problems (unrelated to the fix you refer to) that make certain ships almost invisible in the game which in turn makes it very hard to play. Most notably top and bottom textures of saucer sections and nacelle pylons are invisible so you can see the stars right through the ship.

 

Procedural Lighting




" Over the last few weeks, a lot of technical threads have been brought together, tied off and are now ready to be used. Here we have some of the fine spatial vistas created with procedural asteroid layouts, Charles' God Rays and the first tests of procedural (script based) geometry."

 

@debguy, I know, I researched it heavily and did others at another forum.
@crylo, you could probably find it at ebay, and there are some available at the Amazon marketplace.

 

I just noticed this at ModDB. Although the guys I've talked to at STE remain mum on any release dates I hope this is a good sign. Star Trek Excalibur Windows game - Mod DB

 

Ship update: The Norkova Class Transport




" This week we have some shots of our Norkova Class transport which is seen throughout TNG, DS9 & Voyager and is seemingly used by many species for transporting cargo. The ship was modelled some time ago by Tvrtko (Newman) and was textured by Jonny (JB06)"

 

These are beautifully rendered without a doubt.

 

Agreed, they are certainly doing a stellar job. I just hope that release date on ModDB holds true. If it does get released in Q2 2012 I'll be a happy camper, as I didn't expect it done until Q3 or Q4 2012..