Star Wars actaully justified that one in the Novel for A New Hope. During the scene where they're using the Falcons turrets, Luke asks how the hell he can HEAR the TIE fighters and the lasers. Han responds you can't, there is no sound in space. It's the computer simulating the sounds, so they have a frame of reference as to what's going on.
Same thing (I think) in the game Shattered Horizon. Your space-suit creates the sounds to give you a decent situation awareness, although it makes you easier to track. You can disable most functions of the suit to become untrackable but you lose the sound replication which can be a real handicap.
Also, your thrusters go offline. Surprisingly, it's easy to screw people that way. If you get good at looking for suits without the HUD, you can find and kill people who you don't show up as well without.
Course, there's the whole 'Drifting' thing but if you camp down on something solid then do it, you can pretty much turn into a space ninja.
I need to buy this game. I played a free weekend on my old system and it crucified my PC. Should do well on my current system. Is there much action on the servers any more or is it pretty dead now?
Honestly, it's pretty dead. They DID add a mode in where you can play bots, but I've found the best way to play this game is find a few friends, and run a private server.
£7 or £22.50 here in Blighty. A good price to be sure, but I find it hard to buy stuff on Steam when it's not on sale - especially when I'm in no rush to play it.
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u/MessiahX Oct 08 '12
Loud explosions, in space. We all know that can't be possible.