Taking the Game-play Trailer Apart

[RabbiFang]

The bar is shown in Shealladh's screenshots!

[dudemanjac]

I love all this mad speculation! Been a while since I've been this excited about a game.

It's a oven timer! Ding! Pizza's done.

I'm gonna say it wasn't a jump timer only because it was also shown on another part while you are controlling a turret. I went back and watched again and saw it in a lot of places. I really think it is linked to killing something somehow.

As for the jump engine, I remember in Wing Commander, you weren't allowed to jump if there were other ships in the area, if I remember correctly. You also came to a complete stop. I like the way Freelancer handled it: weapon inactive while you warped with a couple of seconds of spin-up.

[Lomsor]

I dont think the bar is for the jump drive cooldown
It can be a bar special for the mission.
Or its a bar for a shieldrecharge like in EndWar when the shield comes back at 100% after a time the enemy didnt hit you.

[Snowcrash]

Originally Posted by dudemanjac

...It's a oven timer! Ding! Pizza's done...

Damn you! Now it's no secret anymore! We wanted to suprise you with the build-in pizza oven in the cockpit...

[Lomsor]

Yey! I have to fill my basement with frozen pizza! THANK YOU KK you solve the Earth food Problem

Buy Black Prophecy ... when you order now you dont only get the build in Italian Stone oven you also get a blender!

[lildeviant]

Originally Posted by Fascination

Exactly, stops you arriving into a system and firing off a pile of missles chaotically. I do hope that the moment after you arrive you still at least have shields active though, otherwise its going to be a very abrupt jump:

"Hai guys, whats goin' on this syst-" *boom*

I presumed the bar was a cooldown for firing weapons though, like a reload time or energy recharge time.

Most sci-fi shows/movies dictate that there is a period of time immediately after arriving where stealth/shields/weapons/etc are offline

[Shealladh]

Originally Posted by rXp

Where is the bar ? I don't see it ! And I prefer non-cooldown for jumping but instead it takes times to jump and to "arrive" from a jump.

Those links I posted have them at the bottom;



The other link is a trimmed Mov file of the section mentioned;

5.04_moving

[lildeviant]

Could be weapons load? When bar = full, weapons cut out from overheating? (I haven't watched the video/been playing too much mass effect recently)

I should watch the video and then have another guess

[CMaster]

Missile lock?
Not weapon heat - you see the heat bars on the weapon icons, top right.

[Ulli]

So I tried to pay attention to the trailer when I watched it again and I did notice something. I encourage others to watch and try to confirm what I say.

The bar seems to appear after the player we're watching kills an opponent. So I wonder if it has to do with loot or xp. One thing that perplexes me though, is the is moves from right to left most times with the exception of when they're piloting a human ship where it moves left to right, but again after a ship is destroyed. There were a couple other instances where something was destroyed by the player but the bar didn't appears. I wonder if those weren't ships, but instead some kind of drone. Just a thought for now, perhaps I'll watch it again this afternoon.