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07-16-2007, 17:00
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It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly.
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BREAKING NEWS: Arena Manual Available! (July 17, 2007)
EA James Pond has posted the news you've all been waiting for - the Wing Commander Arena manual, Star*Soldier, has been released as a free PDF download! The manual is a 64-page long full color production that's brimming with Arena information and general Wing Commander continuity - we're going to be digging through this one for quite a while, folks... You can download it from EA here (7.7 mb PDF). In addition to being an amazing production in its own right, this is a great indication of the fact that Arena's release is just around the corner...
   -- Original update published on July 17, 2007 |
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07-17-2007, 18:37
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TCS Tarawa (CVE-8) "Plank Owner"
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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07-17-2007, 18:49
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Without doubts the best WC manual ever.
Lot of info, tip, links to other WC games and WC universe. And i'm there too :P
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07-17-2007, 18:53
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Mr. Standoff
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Yep, definitely the best WC manual ever.
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07-17-2007, 18:59
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Drowned Kilrathi
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HELL YES!!!!
Best. News. Ever!
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07-17-2007, 19:08
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L0L That was Great. Man did they pull/steal from a lot of other WC materials I like the adds thought, No Mercy, and Hold the Line. That was great. Quite the extensive timeline too. Time to go through my timeline again and make sure I have it all there. While I don't have high hopes for the game the manual looks good. Thanks Guys.
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07-17-2007, 19:26
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Mr. Standoff
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Wake-class CVEs? Oh, hell yes!
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07-17-2007, 19:30
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TCS Tarawa (CVE-8) "Plank Owner"
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It's seems like a lot of good friends here are in the manual and the attention to detail is pretty great. Peter just mentioned how they even got his love of light fighters into his review of the paktahn
(FYI He's the reviewer of it too)
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07-17-2007, 19:38
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Lieutenant Colonel
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Location: Maryland
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This is so amazing, WING COMMANDER IS BACK, BABY!
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07-17-2007, 19:38
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Cadet
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Montana, United States
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So... much... joy... May the wingods be praised and their messenger "Loaf" lauded forever by all and written into song - for it was he who comest bearing a link for this, this... Star*Soldier.
Hehehe, or maybe just a thanks is in order.
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07-17-2007, 19:40
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Awesome, awesome stuff.
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07-17-2007, 19:47
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2nd Lieutenant
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Nice they named the armada transport classes.
 Havn'y been through this whole thing but so far its very cool.
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07-17-2007, 19:53
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TCS Tarawa (CVE-8) "Plank Owner"
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Come bask in our collective joy in #wingnut...you really can't help but love this.
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07-17-2007, 20:24
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2nd Lieutenant
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Wow! There's so many WC references and information in here that I think my heads going to explode! I'll have to agree with the earlier posts, my favorite of the WC manuals. My eternal gratitude goes to whomever is resposible for this, and for free too!
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07-17-2007, 20:57
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Lieutenant Colonel
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Location: Maryland
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Holy cow, my name is on the second page! A fellow with my name wrote Picking Up The Peace! Of all the WC fans out there, why on Earth would I get a shout out in the Arena manual?
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07-17-2007, 21:29
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Finder of things, Doer of stuff
 
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07-17-2007, 21:34
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2nd Lieutenant
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Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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This is definitly sweet to see the time and effort go in to a wing commander game now a days and still just can't wait to actually play this game.
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07-17-2007, 21:39
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07-17-2007, 21:51
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Cadet
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This is most definitely the best manual ever. I don't think I ever expected to find reading a video game manual to be such an enjoyable experience. so many little details (I was especially happy to see Doomsday and Stingray are still kicking around, the WC2 pilots were always my favourite.) The timeline was great too, though I wish the history of the twenty year Nephilim war had been included (Though EA may be leaving that for a wing commander VI - I can dream.)
Best of all, I came home the other day to find my brother bought a 360 'on a whim', which means i'll be able to get Arena pretty much as soon as it comes out as opposed to months down the track. Things are looking good. |
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07-17-2007, 22:08
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07-17-2007, 22:11
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It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly.
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Yes! That's good advice - run the network settings stuff on the dashboard and make sure your 'NAT' registers as OPEN. Mine hadn't been and it was preventing me from doing multiplayer with certain people... I had to fiddle around and open a bunch of ports on my router. It would have been embarassing if I hadn't found out before Arena time!
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07-17-2007, 22:57
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Cadet
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Am I the only one who absolutely loves the gag about the name of the Tiger's Claw/Tiger Claw on page two?
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07-17-2007, 23:34
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Colonel
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Guys - check out the letter of the month section. It has class names for all the ship symbols for WC3...and the one that corresponds to the Victory is called the Yorktown class. We have it folks - the Victory is a Yorktown class light carrier!
And the 'Sheffield Type' is now officially the Southampton Class Destroyer. This is so cool!
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07-18-2007, 00:58
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Holy sh*t, now that's awesome! Looks like things are coming along nicely for WC: Arena...
What can I say: I finally got myself an XBox 360 Premium two days ago and ordered a WLAN adapter and my first Live Points card yesterday. You can't imagine how excited I am! No, wait - actually I guess you, of all people, can imagine...
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07-18-2007, 02:16
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2nd Lieutenant
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One more nice detail - it shows the colors of the confed flag
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07-18-2007, 02:57
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Mpanty's bane
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Just saw and downloaded it but I will be away for the next couple of hours so I only skimmed throught the first pages.
It is wonderful, just wonderful. And beautiful. And informative. It looks perfect.
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07-18-2007, 05:46
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Super Carrot!
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Awesome... And we now know why movie Kilrathi had no hair.
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