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Anyone know if it's landing bays were damaged?

heh, my memory can be just as bad :D

Really? I've just finished SM1 and have just begun SM2 and I could have sworn it happened in SM2

I was playing this last night, the last mission before you fly Dralthi and was having problems. I'd fight off the Krant, but the Dralthi would destroy the thing before I could shoot the last one down. I replayed the mission and came across a bit of a bug in the game which helps. It seems that...

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Fun>Realism IMHO

Not according to my game. I just finished SM1 at the weekend and in SM2, Iceman was alive again. Kinda wish Knight would have stayed dead though. Would have saved him the trauma the second time around.

The terminology is wrong, but I think by 'on rails' he means the way a lot of Space combat systems err more towards an expanded atmospheric flight model, rather than truer space physics like you see in BSG and B5 I like the idea, but it would be a completely different way of flying.

I've just started replaying SM2 and am thinking that Hhriss, while not as armoured as Gratha, are much more dangerous. Only met them in pairs so far. Not looking forward to wings of 4+ Edit: Just checked out the ships database and that seems to be wrong. Strange, because I always felt it took...

WC1 has to be the Gratha. Tough and well armed make for a bad situation. I never really found Jalthi too formidable. They're only really a problem if you rush them (stupid, stupid, stupid!) or fly straight and level for more then 5 seconds. Most enemy wings are made up multiples of 2 ships who...

For me it was when I first saw WC2 in my local GAME shop. I had an Amiga, so had only played the WC1 Vega campaign and had fallen in love with the whole universe and especially the 'Claw. When I saw the screenshot with Thrakath saying "Sire, my fighters have destroyed the Tiger's Claw", I was...

I had a 486DX4 with 8mb of ram which was pretty swish at the time. I think the problem for the PC was that MIDI will rarely sound great compared to a composition using real samples (if you get my meaning) like what was done on the Amiga. I'm not trying to bash the PC version. I guess it's...

I cut my teeth on the Amiga version and I remember being very disappointed by the PC music. IMO not even WC1 on KS quite ever quite matched it for feeling

Seeing as how at the beginning of this mission, you think you are going out to rescue a confed ship, it is entirely plausible that in order to keep the ship supplied, the Kilrathi regularly destroy an Exeter and then put the Gwenhyvar in place to intercept a confed resupply ship.

I do get that, I like stand-alone games myself, but if WC is going to get a successful relaunch, you have to look at the market trends and in PC gaming it's all about MMO at the moment, so launching a new game that is only MMO may be a wise move. We all know that the space flight sim is pretty...

This might be a nice idea for a new type of multiplayer game. You could have a proper campaign, with 2 to 4 players taking turns to do missions (or maybe in real-time in a mmog) and each persons success impacts on everyone else. Using a familiar mission, lets say (like most people) you could...

I think it would be fun to go back to the WC1 time and do a semi reboot. You could go back to the same time, to the Vega campaign but be a different pilot, flying off of a different carrier. This could give an excellent opportunity to bump into characters like Hawk earlier in their lives and...

I remember in Fleet Action, there was mention of another race (besides the darkness moving from the centre of the galaxy (which I assume was the Nephilum)) who the Kilrathi had had a short war with. Apparently they were also a bigger threat than Confed, but disappeared after a few engagements...

If I remember rightly, the WC2 pilot transfer only works on savegames from the main WC1 campaign (VEGA) and once you transfer your pilot to SM1 or SM2 using the KS transfer program, you can no longer transfer the pilot into WC2. However, Ii remember someone mentioning that there is a WC1...

I think a lot of it is fanboy nonsense. I've been with WC from the beginning, but IMO, Freespace was that little bit better. That doesn't mean I don't still love WC, but it seems you can't choose both when talking to fanboys. I'm glad this place is not populated with them :)