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Well, I agree that it was unimaginative to keep the Concordia and Yorktown classes so visually similar, but modern U.S. carriers don't look all that different from each other externally even though they are generations apart. The Kitty Hawk's outward configuration wasn't too different from a...

I'd have gone with the F4F as our Scimitar analogue. Not really fast, not really maneuverable, but reliable, adequately armed and really durable. (And it needed it. It took a pounding) I mean, the Wildcat was roundly outperformed but she still did the job at Midway and held out until the...

Well, yes and no, depending on how closely you tie the experience of the games to the reality of the WC universe. WC1 and 2 played differently from WC3 and 4. Missiles are often instant kills in WC4, whereas in all the other games they do a set amount of damage. Collisions in WC1 and 2 are...

Masterful model and render of one ugly ship! And of course, I mean that in the fondest way possible. Sucker looks solid, and the details do a great job of conveying scale. Oh - and maybe it's a trick of the scale but... it looks like the landing gear might not be sufficiently tall to allow...

I haven't seen both winning endings yet myself, but I was reading in other threads that the flight history terminal lists the missions by name, and there are at least two winning Epilogues. I think they're called: Epilogue: Next year in Kilrah Epilogue: It's a long way to Kilrah Just from...

You can dig through some of the old threads for tactics on this one, but I'll summarize one very reliable method - park yourself near the Sao Paolo's remaining engine and stand guard. Don't get distracted - the Sao Paolo is badly damaged and will fall to one hit, so you must stay there and stop...

Here's a request for tactics applicable to the losing path mission, Flight of the Arrow. Anyone able to offer a more effective mission strategy?

seems to work ;)

Hm. Well, I'm no master tactician. But here's a basic one that I think many of us learned to really use in Ep4 and it's equally useful here: Taunt everything. Keep the comms menu up and spam 't'-'1'-'t'-'1'-'t'-'1'-'t'-'1'-'t'-'1' whenever you're not actively shooting something. This...

First off - I just finished Ep5's win path and it was incredible - but if anything, a little easier than Ep4 (or maybe I got lucky). And the graphical updates - didn't you guys once describe these graphical updates as 'minor'? Astounding, even if I have to turn them off to maintain a decent...

holy crap it's intense! My entire right arm is twitching after four missions. Have to take a break - can't shoot straight anymore!

I figure it's the rate of fire. Good ol' damage per unit time. If you don't flinch away after the first hit, all guns do roughly the same damage per second, with the particle cannon doing only slightly more and the neutron gun doing only slightly less. Also, the Drakhri's guns are so...

Agreed. Some fighters do a lot better than others after conversion to Vision engine. Drakhri are not particularly maneuverable and fairly flimsy, but frontal attack is risky, and it's a little more important to make your armor and core strength last when you're outnumbered 50 to 1. Gothri...

I thought the Major Edmond cameo was great. Another nice little touch - I request status from most of the capital ships just because I find the voice acting entertaining (yay for varied accents!) and seeing Major Edmond again for the first time in about 15 years = awesome.

My vote's also for the Raptor's Neutrons and Mass Driver combo, but of course a lot of it also has to do with the platform from which you're firing. The Crossbow has similar guns, but the Raptor also had enough speed to bring its weapons to bear on just about any target. The most scary...

Uh... heheh. great. "Did that thing just shoot neutron guns at me?" "Oh. Those weren't neutron guns..."

Maybe. I can't even remember what kinds of joysticks were on the market when WC1 arrived. Thrustmasters and Sidewinders were all the rage by the time WC3 hit - but in 1990, all I can remember were those crappy little square box things sporting the crappy little sticks that were smaller than...

Double pfft. Real veterans know that WC was meant to be played with a keyboard! :D

re: new screenshots "30 seconds remaining? Remain in range until scan ends?" In a Stiletto? Near flak guns? I suppose as long as the mission objectives don't include stripping out turrets while you're at it...

:) You had me at "Dralthi"