Annie Get Your Gun Chart (November 28, 2004)

[Bandit LOAF]

One of our more popular articles has been updated -- the Wing Commander Gun Chart. The gun chart collects all known specifications for the energy weapons throughout the series in a single spreadsheet -- allowing for easy comparisons between different makes and models of guns. The new version now lists both the 'in game' and 'manual' stats for Wing Commander: Privateer. Several of the guns which appear in Privateer were altered between the printing of the Gemini Sector manual and the final release of the game... accurate "in-game" specifications were later printed in The Playtester's Guide to Privateer. Four alternate sets of 'manual' specifications have been added, for the Mass Driver Cannon, Particle Cannon, Plasma Gun and Tachyon Gun. The chart is an excellent resource for both Wing Commander historians and for mod teams hoping to port accurate Wing Commander weapons to other games! You can find it here.

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Original update published on November 28, 2004

 

[Duckman]

Handy info a few years to late

Well I havent played Wing Commander 1 or 2 for some time now, but I never would have guessed the Mass Driver Cannon did more damage than a Neutron Gun. If I had known that it used more power and had shorter range but did less damage I would have most likley switched them off.

 

[MamiyaOtaru]

I'm still not sure about the Tachyon stats from Priv. Manual states 5, playtester's guide states 3.7 (that's what's used in the chart, and what I amusing). However the guy who started this thread seems pretty sure it is 5.0, based on stats he extracted from the game. He got the other guns right, might that 5.0 be correct too? 3.7 seems more balanced to me, but it's weird having two values like that both of them with backers.