So what happens???

Manboy

Manboy

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I just went through a few of my old demo cd's when i came across one from the now defunct Australian PC Gamer (PCPower play rules ) which had the first episode of Secret ops on it. Anyway , i quickly installed it and played it immediately.....to see it over all to soon. Since its nearly impossible to find Prophecy Gold , i was just wondering if anyone could tell me what happens in the following episodes?

Nice site you have here , keep it coming . WC isnt dead yet....
 
*SPOILER*... although if you're here, you should know already

Do you really want to know, Manboy?

There's another wormhole, this time in the Proxima system, where the Nephilim are taking another shot at our corner of the galaxy. Instead of blowing it up, Confed orders you to take control of it, because this particular wormhole harnesses the energy of the local stars. Apparently, the next WC game was to be called Strike Team, where I assume Confed takes the fight to the enemy for a change.

Anyway, along the way you fight through several systems full of bugs, defend civilians, and learn about a deadly virus which is spread in the carcasses of dead alien ships. If you want to read more, there's a link to the pages of SO fiction around somewhere. I don't want to confirm it from my slow connection at home, but I think it's at https://www.wcnews.com/sofiction.shtml
 
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Thanks for the info....
In regards to "Strike Team" , is there any chance that Origin will get their ass' into gear and make it?
Surely they can see that WC has a HUGE fan-base. Look at all the TC's going around (Homeworld , ST:armada , FS ect. ), not to mention fan made projects like Vega strike and Universe. There's obviously demand for it.
I know youve all probably heard this topic before but goddamn! I want another WC game!
 
You are lucky! All I ever found on old demo CDs was a report about Origin.:)
Hey and thanks for the link. I could ownload it. If I knew how the heck I get it on my PC.:(
 
I had found a website sometime ago that has Prophecy SO for download...If the link works or not, I dunno, but the site has a crap load of old school demos...even Bullfrog's Syndicate! :D

Wing Commander 4 Demo: http://www.electricgames.com/pc-games/w/pc-wingcommander4.html
Wing Commander Prophecy Demo: http://www.electricgames.com/pc-games/w/pc-wingcommander5.html
Wing Commander Prophecy SO: http://www.electricgames.com/pc-games/w/pc-wingcommandersecretops.html

Mind you, the site labels the SO files as Freeware!

Have fun, and kill some bugs for me, 'k? ;)
 
Originally posted by Manboy
In regards to "Strike Team", is there any chance that Origin will... make it?
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Cancelled. :( I hope than if... I mean, when, the next WC comes out, it'll be a continuation of the Nephilim story, namely sending a Strike Team into the Proxima (or wherever, there's supposed to be three more wormholes according the last bit of SO fiction), it would make sense, IMO, to carry on with something you've already started, even if it was originally cancelled.

Unfortunately, I think most, if not all, of the original team which made the WC series at Origin have either left, been reassigned, or given the sack.
 
Yeah thanks heaps for that link LeHah , im downloading the rest of the episodes as i speak. Just one other thing , for some reason on my "new" computer , a P3 500 with RivaTNT AGP 8mb (well ,that explains it) Prophecy and SO look like absoulute crap , low res models, no lens flare ect. It used to run fine and look a hell of alot better with my old (very old) Pure3D. Is there any way this can be fixed?? Ive tried looking for updates to the video card but i cant find anything useful.
 
Prophecy has direct support for the TNT, doesn't it? Have you tried running in Direct3D? It looks equally good on my TNT (I'm in the antiques club myself - video card-wise) as it did on my Voodoo 2 minus fogging (after applying that patch thing that adds flares to Direct3D mode (though I have the distinct feeling I'm mixing up flares and fog)).
 
I was running it in direct3d , thats the only option thats there besides software mode. But it looks nowhere what it should look like. The HUD (gun info , sheilds display) looks extremely low res and on the options screen i cant turn the lens flare and fog on. Are there any patches avalible?
 
Nothing?! You sure you overwrote the old DLL file in your WCP directory? Apparently, the lens flare was always available in WCP, it was just turned off 'cause of some deal with the now-dead 3Dfx company, or something like that.
 
No... the stuff that wasn't there through Directx wasn't written for WCP. However, one of the engine changes for SO was adding those effects through D3D. So basically, that 'patch' is just the DLLs that contain the information for those effects in D3D. They didn't create the effects for D3D and then not enable them... that would have been stupid :)

TC
 
Originally posted by Manboy
I tried it and it did nothing. Oh well , guess i have to put up with it...
thanks anyway.
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Look for the Creative Unified Drivers, with it you should be able to play it in glide mode :) ...the comm videos in SO look a little messed up though...havent tryed in WCP, so i dont know about the between mission videos...

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I can turn the lens flare on in SO but it looks like shite ( lines through them ) , but i dont have an option to turn them on in Prophecy. Im pretty sure i did everything correctly regarding the DLL file , it just dosent make any difference.
Oh yeah , i tried downloading the Creative unified drivers but typically ive lost my serial number so they cant be downloaded.
 
The lines are because of bad texel alignment of your video drivers. If you can manipulate the texel alignment on your video card, then move the value to the "upper left corner" setting. The lines will disappear.

I don't know how many video cards out there have such a setting to manipulate, but mine does and it's a Riva TNT2 M64.
 
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