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    About Secret Ops

    I believe the point behind giving the players the Scimitar and the Epee was to see how long one could survive (against overwhelming odds, might I add) in those fighters. There's even a mission where you fly a Scimitar that's already damaged! I actually really love Unknown Enemy - and just to be...
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    About Secret Ops

    That's a fair point. But you've got to admit, destroying a whole fleet with a Hornet and getting yelled at by Halcyon for it was pretty funny. Then when you do it a second time and destroy the Snakeir-class carriers in a Dralthi, he just comments that it wasn't your mission and tells you that...
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    About Secret Ops

    I suppose the planning part is part of why I like Secret Ops so much. It is! I actually tried to replay it a few months ago and I found it to be a bit frustrating. I think part of the reason behind it being so difficult is that 1) The game keeps track of the number of ships on your...
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    About Secret Ops

    That's an interesting point of view! Personally, I wouldn't go that far. Out of the "main" games (WC1, SM1, SM2, WC2, SO1, SO2, WC3, WC4, WC Prophecy, WCSO, and I'll include Privateer and Righteous Fire just for the sake of it), I believe that I found WC1 and its expansion packs to be the...
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    Myst parody for Mac (that is NOT Pyst)

    I believe this may be what you're looking for : https://archive.org/details/mysty (For a moment I actually wondered if I should ask for the admins' permission before posting this, but this CIC news post makes me think that nobody will mind.)
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    Privateer Mission Series Gap Explained! (June 5, 2023)

    LOAF mentioned a cancelled add-on for Privateer (Privateer: Secret Operations) in this old forum post.
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    Privateer Mission Series Gap Explained! (June 5, 2023)

    That makes sense. Thank you for the clarification! And you are absolutely right. I was referring to the Paradigm-class Confederation destroyer.
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    Privateer Mission Series Gap Explained! (June 5, 2023)

    English is not my first language, but hey, I'll take a guess. One of the possible definitions for the word "better" is "someone who bets", so I'm willing to guess that this is just a literary way of saying "I bet that this is what the final Drayman asset was initially designed to be". You...
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    Old (1995) Chris Roberts interview

    I almost forgot about that! Now that you mention it, I guess I did miss the afterburner slide in WC3 and WC4, as I found it to be a lifesaver at times, especially in WC2 (and especially against Gothris).
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    Old (1995) Chris Roberts interview

    While WC4 is rather unbalanced on the highest difficulty levels... In my opinion, on Ace, the game difficulty is balanced rather well, to the point that WC4 has my favorite gameplay alongside Privateer (excluding Righteous Fire, which for the most part I felt was too easy). WC1 had those...
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    I won WC4 on Nightmare difficulty

    The Bearcat is one of my favorite WC ships ever and I think it's a shame that the player didn't get more opportunities to use it. I also like how it's not ridiculously overpowered, you do need to be careful when flying it. However, once you get good enough with it, it's a very, very good ship...
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    How to play Wing Commander Secret Missions?

    If you own the Kilrathi Saga, you can download the Secret Missions here : http://download.wcnews.com/files/ks/wckssm12.zip Otherwise, you can purchase Wing Commander 1 on Good Old Games, where you will get the Secret Missions along with the original game ...
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    I won WC4 on Nightmare difficulty

    Banshees, and especially Banshee Aces, are extremely dangerous when flying a Hellcat on Nightmare mode. I usually choose to fight the two Banshees in Recon Photos, but the Banshee Aces in Hostage Rescue are just too dangerous to be worth fighting, if you ask me. Especially the *four* Banshee...
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    I won WC4 on Nightmare difficulty

    Thanks guys! I'm currently doing some more Nightmare playthroughs to write more detailed, mission-specific tips. I think you may very well have been the one who taught me the Nav Map trick I mentioned in my previous post. ;) I have to say, I disagree with you there. Once I had a good...
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    I won WC4 on Nightmare difficulty

    So I've just won Wing Commander 4 (original DOS, 6 CDs version) on Nightmare with the mouse, and it was quite an experience. I used every dirty trick in the book in order to win (without outright cheating), and managed to win every single mission I played through. I haven't played all of the...
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