Cerberus Pilots...

[frostytheplebe]

Ok, we all remember flying the secret ops missions with the cool music and the pilots and all, but since replaying it there are things I'm left questioning...

Were there only six pilots on the Cerberus at that point?

Also, we know who Casey, Zero, Stiletto, and Maestro were being the lead characters. It took me some time, but I also managed to put together who Spyder was. I was kinda surprised to see that it was the guy sitting next to Hawk most of the time(you know, the guy who played the ghost in that horrible Pet Cemetery movie).

But what about Amazon? Do we ever get a visual on her? Was she the Asian pilot you see Casey chatting with a couple of times, or perhaps someone else behind the scenes?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

We don't see her in FMV, in so far as we know. The Asian pilot's name was Lisa (Maestro says it when he pours her a drink).

 

[Bar-None]

Six young pilots, testing a prototype space cruiser, encounter an advanced alien race's massive invasion fleet in the deep reaches of space.
The six young pilots save the entire human race from certain annihilation!
And all six live happily ever after!




Now read it over in your head again, this time using the voice of that guy who does all the movie previews. (He's in that trailer, sporadically...)

 

[frostytheplebe]

Six young pilots, testing a prototype space cruiser, encounter an advanced alien race's massive invasion fleet in the deep reaches of space.
The six young pilots save the entire human race from certain annihilation!
And all six live happily ever after!

How epic....

 

[Bar-None]

As much as I loved playing those missions, it always kinda bugged me that the Cerberus only had 6 pilots. Said 6 pilots would almost always fly on the same missions together. This left no CAP for the cruiser, nor anyone to fly out and fetch anyone that ejected. Yet magically at the start of the next mission everyone was back at base, safe and sound and having tea & biscuits.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

The Cerberus wasn't supposed to be going into combat -- y'all were there to test-pilot the various Black fighters and happened to get stuck fighting a war.

Presumably a normal Hades-class ship would have thirty pilots (I guess it'd make sense to have even more, but everywhere else indicates it's a one-pilot-per-plane situation in WC).

 

[Iceblade]

I was left to presume actually that none of those 6 pilots was supposed to ever have to eject during those missions....at least not story-wise.

 

[Vinman]

I was left to presume actually that none of those 6 pilots was supposed to ever have to eject during those missions....at least not story-wise.

Ha. I ended up beefing up all the Confed fighters in Secret Ops, not because the game was too hard but because my wingmen's constant ejections were straining my ability to believe the story.

Then again, my Raymond Collishaw-style clobber the bad guys and let my wingmen claim the kill-playstyle probably contributed to their inability to survive past two nav points since the game expected me to kill everything before it could kill my wingmen.

It's so lonely being hundreds of kills ahead of #2 on the killboard...