Well, today I did some serious playing time on Vendetta Online. As I was getting started, I figured I’d put it into windowed mode. If I’ve been blogging about the game, why not post pictures of me playing it, too? So… here we go!

Here’s me looking at the selection of ships at my disposal while docked at my home station. At this time, I had acquired enough money to have a fighting ship and a ship that I had designated for strictly asteroid mining. At the top of the screen is the IRC chat window, where you can talk to other players around the world.

This pic is a first-person view from the cockpit of the ship. I’m cruising through open space, steering clear of the asteroids, and making good distance from the gravity center of this space to make a hyperspace jump. You can see the ship I settled on using in the tactical diagram on the right side of the screen.

Mining asteroids is a decent way to make money in Vendetta. There are other ways, but this is the safest bet, especially when you’re building yourself up to better ships and weapons.

This in-flight screen is showing me just what kinds of ores I got out of mining that asteroid.

Ion storms can happen randomly during a jump, pulling you out of the jump into affected space. These are very dangerous to be in, especially since rogue ‘bots hide in the storm. Being ambushed by these ships can be worse than dealing with “pirates”, the rogue players in the game.

Here, I’m on an approach vector to dock at this station. I turned off the HUD just to have a unobstructed shot of the station itself.

Here, I’m selecting another ship. This time, it’s not for mining rocks… hehe! I felt the itch to do some ‘bot hunting.

In-flight, you can see the front and back sensory indicators on the left and right bottom screen. The one on the left shows enemy AI’s dead ahead… ‘Bots!

Here, you can see that the targeting reticule is active and tracking the targeted ‘bot which is framed in a red target box. The more advanced assault ‘bots in the game are good practice for eventual human-based dogfighting later on, if you’re so daring.

Well, I hope this post helps anyone who may be interested in playing this kind of space-based MMORPG. Like I said in an earlier posting, it will be interesting to see how Eve Online compares to Vendetta Online. This game is very easy to get addicted to, and you can easily spend hours exploring every sector and interacting with the other players. Time will just whiz by… and it’ll be an afterthought by late-night into morning!

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