Standoff Fields Mines

The Wing Commander Standoff fan project website has been updated with a report on the status of Episode 4. It sounds like we're getting closer to the release but that it's still well over a month away. There's always hope!

With just over a month since the last update, we've been able to make quite a significant amount of progress. Episode 4 isn't done yet - we still have some mission tweaking to do, a lot of voiceovers still to be added (a small amount needing to be recorded, first), a lot of cutscene music to be done, and a few FMV scenes (but all the complex ones are done, the remaining few are just the usual talking heads convos). In short, it's highly unlikely that we'll release Episode 4 in August - but, fingers crossed, we should at least get to the point where we can announce a release date we can keep.

Super Sabre

... but wait, there are more Sabres! The Wing Commander Saga mod for FreeSpace 2 has released two renderings of Klavs' new Sabre model. They went left where Standoff went right, creating a streamlined reinterpretation rather than a duplicate of the ship as it appeared in Wing Commander II. The F-57 Sabre was a powerful heavy attack fighter available to the player in Wing Commander II and the Special Operations addons. It also played a significant role in several of the Wing Commander novels, and came within a hair's length of being featured in the Wing Commander movie instead of the Rapier.