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I'm pretty sure we have no idea.

Isn't that the same ship that appeared in ads?

By the way, if you want to read the Privateer section in text format (and without pictures) you can do so here: https://www.wcnews.com/articles/art64.shtml

Happy 142nd birthday!

I remember when I was working on the old Reckoning mod for Freelancer (which turned 20 years old this month!) I modded the cruise engines to go twice as fast, like how in the novels the ships would shut their hydrogen scoops off and accelerate Newtonianly. Not quite 14000 KPS though. It would...

Yeah, it seems like the kind of thing that's more interesting technically than practically. There comes a point where something is so tiny that it really isn't usable. Something I'd really like to see run is the clockworkPi uConsole. This thing has a 74-key keypad and a mini-trackball so...

These are really nice. We never got to see the underside and back in the film, wish that we had. Do you know if the other ships of the fleet in the final cut were Concordia models?

I wouldn't recommend it, they're not designed for it. This was at the very beginning of 3D design and they were intended for very small prerendered images. I don't think it's even technically possible, a lot of them are essentially collections of basic shapes rather than single meshes.

Interesting, do we know when it was released?

What's your process for creating textures? I could never grasp the artistic side of it, with the greebles and details. The really hard ones for me were capital ships, since they weren't based on aircraft with panel lines but big ship hull sections and I could never figure out how to make it look...

What credits do we have?

Yeah, P2 has the best mouse control of the series. Playing it with a mouse felt close enough to Freelancer that playing it after I would instinctively use my scroll wheel to adjust throttle before remembering that I was in the wrong game. I don't know if the Freelancer team ever talked about it...

Actually looking at the images I noticed something else - the yellow hangar tubes (fuel lines?) on the Intrepid are arranged slightly differently. That doesn't strictly seem necessary; they probably could have rendered it with the hangar and then overlaid the ships on top, and even if they did...

I'm guessing that they never finished the porpoise art on time. Too bad, a Duress would have stayed useful the whole game.

Or is it a case of "we did this up to the spec of the others because we didn't know how often we'd be using it"?

Hey, I had that! That was actually how I got into Wing Commander, and also my first joystick, though for some reason I was never able to actually get it to work with the game. I think there was a bundle that came with the first game? At least that's what I remember. It might also have been a...

Was the car post ever made?

As much as I like his Kickstarter work my favorite Oldziey composition is still the arrangements he did for the original game music. It's too bad he hasn't been able to go back to that, but at least we have the Swedish orchestras to fill the gap. Has there ever been a post tracking down all the...

The Skull is absolutely the scariest ship, not because it's amazingly good but because unless you have Stream Mk. IIs / missiles you will never be able to shoot it down and be trapped at the nav point forever.

Looks like lighting. If anything production didn't do that enough ― didn't they build a full-scale shuttle that appears only in one scene? I mean, Axius is a Confed starbase so it makes sense that they would look the same inside.