Omniverse Revieuw

[Sumpson]

Summary:
Easy to play yet hard to master flagging zone with nice graphics and fast-paced gameplay encouraging good teamwork. Some people might not appreciate the invisible mines, though...

What is Omniverse?
Some people may remember Omniverse from a year or so back when it was hosted by T3, had regular populations of 20-30 and was on the verge of getting SSC billing. Well, for various reasons the zone faded away, but now Omni is back featuring the same fast 'n' furious action as before!

Omniverse is a fast-paced flagging zone with a straightforward map and no-nonsense fun gameplay. The pub arena is a fixed 2-freq arrangement where both sides struggle to gain control of the five flags and take the jackpot. The map is small, but this suits the style of gameplay well, and allows plenty of chance for individual heroics whilst at the same time encouraging stong teamplay.

Ship settings are split into 4 groups of 4 ships with each team having access to one group. While generally not a one-hit-kill zone, the ships are powerful, and a bomb from ship 1 / 5 will usually kill instantly; bullets are still very useful though and indeed preferable on some of the ships. Interestingly, mines are invisible on screen (but are shown on radar).

Right now the population is still small - the zone has only just got itself up and running again - but we hope that we can soon get back to our old population levels and start up a league or two. For those who like a background to a zone, Omniverse even has a full storyline to set the scene!

The Pros
* Nice LVZ graphics based on Cosmic Rift
* Custom ship graphics
* Well-balanced settings
* Addictive flagging gameplay
* Leagues planned to start soon

The Cons
* Small population
* Invisible mines! (only a con until you get used to it though)

- Valley Ant


I found this revieuw of Omniverse somewhere in my e-mail inbox, It's from back when I used to own this as a zone. Made by Valiant which was one of the sysops at that time.

Thougt it might be nice to post it in here to give ?go Omniverse some more attention than it has right now, I'm still thinking of bringing up this league for it. all rules etc. have already been made a long time ago.

Greets,

Sumpson

[Rudy]

Yeah, I've seen it hosted once or twice. Though it seems difficult for many Trench players to grasp the concept of warzones. ("Argh! There's a flag on me! Get it off! Get it off!")

[Sumpson]

Omniverse The Story

Might as well post the story made for omniverse in here -Sumpson


A long, long, long time ago... in a subspace galaxy far, far, far away...

In the cosmic mess of the great galactic cluster, stars drift close to
one another, and by a one in a million chance two stars, Centauri and
Aldebaran, came too close. The two young white dwarf stars begun to
spin in a unstoppable spiral and, through another one in a million
chance, their orbits matched perfectly. A binomial system was formed;
the two stars would continue spinning round each other for the next ten
million years, undisturbed.

However, it was not so peaceful for the two inhabited planets of the stars.
The massive gravitic fluctuations caused in the formation of this system
caused all the planets to be flung from their orbits, into the dark, cold
emptiness of space. The thousand-billion Centauri and Aldebaran peoples
who inhabited the planets died within days. However, the Centauri people
were not willing to sit back and die, and in their final years they had
painstakingly constructed a series of space-stations, upon which their
race could live on. Aldebaran had also forseen the impending danger, and
through vast spacial telescopes had observed the Centauri's efforts to
build the enormous colony-stations. However, the Aldebarans had other
ideas, and constructed a vast fleet of ships with which they planned to
take the Centauri's space-stations, and live on themselves. Using their
most advanced technologies both races had pushed gravitic and weapon
technologies to the limit and when the massive stellar collision took
place both races had survived.

The Aldebaran immediately launched a vast wave of attacks on the Centauri,
and overwhelmed three of the five spacestations. The Centauri however,
were a clever and resourceful race, and held off the Aldebaran, capturing
their ships with troop pods and seizing back their lost stations. The
Aldebaran were not finished, they fought hard and long and gained control
of the two largest spacestations, defending them vigilantly against the
Centauri.

And so, the races fought. On and on, for decades, centuries and millennia.
There was no real point to it, they hated each other vehemently. There was
no reason not to, and it gave the people something to do, some point in life,
and they both prospered and fought and killed and lived short, but exciting
and relatively happy and peaceful lives.

The races continue fighting to this day. Forever capturing, losing, and
recapturing the five gigantic spacestations which are their homes. They
fight for their honour, and they fight because they have done for as long
as they can remember. These people do not know the meaning of peace, only
revenge, hatred and suffering. The only way to make peace, is to annihilate
one race, once and for all.

You, as a starship pilot can make all the difference.

Story by: Xu

[Nockm]

The thought of having a league sounds pretty optimistic.

[PrOnEsSim]

So the zone omniverse is back?..

[Suh]

Yeah, I've seen it hosted once or twice. Though it seems difficult for many Trench players to grasp the concept of warzones. ("Argh! There's a flag on me! Get it off! Get it off!")

bahahahahahahah

im just like that

[Edify]

omniverse is cool.

[Dameon Angell]

I just know omniverse from the tw arena. And if it is at all like it seems. It was pretty easy to play over here. You like... run and grab the flag and then warp back into your base for a free drop. Thats how it works in TW, at least. Kinda lame.

[Sumpson]

The battles you get and teamplay you need while defending your own flags while having to attack the other base for the other flags is nice. The thing is you can't just pick up all flags on your own. Don't see how that's lame.

Anyway, Omniverse won't be uploaded as a zone on its own anymore, it has been in ?go omniverse for a while now and it will stay that way. Just wanted to give it some more attention since its rarely hosted and I dont see much interest in it while it used to be a pretty populair zone on its own.

[duel pasta]

YOu just want it to get hosted because YOU helped with the ARENA but, yeah. It's a fun game with a lot of nice gfx, I like it.

host ?go bouncing in the meanwhile

[Sydi]

The great Valley Ant introduced me to it about 18 months back, I guess, great fun.

Host it more. That is all.

[Edify]

how come i cant find omniverse on my zone list?