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The trigger for the movie wouldn't be an issue. Either event would be easy to code. I suspect it's mostly a balancing issue. Armada sidelines capship attacks in favour of fighter dogfights. They basically give the player every possible opportunity to avoid torpedo runs at all. It seems clear...

Freelancer's storyline didn't have sidequests, but it had an understanding with the people who do ;). You could get randomly generated missions pretty much everywhere, but there were no proper sidequests in the sense of pre-designed optional storylines. No expansions, either. It would be...

Oh, yes, yes, yes. I was really getting into the story up to that point. It was such a pleasant change, to have no aliens, just human politics. And then, suddenly, glowing eyes. And it all goes downhill from there. But apart from being silly, Freelancer's story had a much bigger problem. Way...

It seems to be standard procedure these days for me to miss CIC birthday parties - I don't even remember the last time I got to attend. Regardless, happy birthday, and as usual, thanks for all the work you continue to put into keeping this community alive!

The Super Ferret is interesting in and of itself, because it's a clear step towards making the Ferret equal the Epee in terms of armament. I can't help wondering if this isn't a sort of tacit admission on the part of the designers that the Epee didn't turn out to be as fun as they hoped. Once...

No one has ever denied that the Epee is a flying coffin. The only "but" about it is that the Epee works genuinely well in WCP, where shields bounce you off, and horridly badly in WC2... and unfortunately, WC2 is the canonical Epee experience. However, the Epee may be a death trap, but it's by...

Hey, I have lots of love for the Hellcat. To be precise, it's a ship I love to hate ;).

Great stuff! First time in years I've learned something new about how much damage a ship can take in WC2 :).

Hey now, that's an avatar that looks rather familiar ;). You are correct - shields cover their respective halves of the ship. After armour is breached, there is also a ship core which has a set amount of health (IIRC, it's the equivalent of 5 cm of armour, but it might be more than that for...

Looking sharp! I think I'd go for a stronger (more saturated) shade of blue, though. And possibly stronger shade of gold, too. That thing should look like it's literally plated with gold. Oh, and if you really want to go crazy with it, why not make the big glass ceiling transparent, and put a...

That looks nice! The trouble with it is that when you take the Hellcat in that direction, you end up with something oddly similar to the SWC Rapier. I do really love the backward spiky things over and under the wings, though! No idea what purpose they could possibly serve, but they do look cool...

Looking at these images, I find I am not entirely unpleased ;).

That's the thing. I'd heard so many times about the Top Gun sequel, that I'd come to assume it's basically one of those films that's always in development, but never actually comes to fruition.

Holy shit. I can't believe this. When I wrote this a couple of months ago, I was blissfully convinced that any talk of a Top Gun sequel would remain just talk, because, you know, it's just such a stupid idea. And then I see this trailer: So I open the trailer, convinced that it's some...

...Right after you make a Firekkan claw, right? ;)

Now, that's some fine broken glass! :) The player had better be wearing his helmet oxygen mask ;).

Looks great! Add some cracks in the windscreen, too!

Well, I have to say, the hand and the legs add a lot to the Wing Commander "feel".

With regards to shields and collisions, you above all need to allow your engine the flexibility to use the original game solutions regardless of what they are. Spherical shields are, by now, such a common fixture of WC games that they can be considered canon - or, if we insist that gameplay is...

Wow. It's been quite a week here. And it's only Tuesday :D .