Recent content by Sharpshooter

Further investigation may be required, but personally I've never actually been able to get Maniac to obey my orders in WC4 no matter how high or low his morale points seemed to be. As for WC3, I believe the only time where Maniac and Flash will obey your orders is during the Kilrah missions...

So I'm still working on that Maniac/Dekker choice, I will be sure to write a full report as soon as I can. So far, I can say that I agree with you, I haven't found any opportunity to make Dekker delay his victory during any mission that's not the weapons factory mission. Which is somewhat odd...

Thank you! I will probably be double-checking the archive (and adding the missing line) before sending it again, just in case. :) Shouldn't take more than a few days. I'll try to take a look at this soon. It's been forever since I last sided with Maniac on a playthrough. While siding with...

Thank you so much! You have my permission and at some point I'd like to work on the Wing Commander 3 morale points as well. Right now I'm happy to report that I found a very old Privateer project of mine on an old computer. 13 years ago I sent you an archive containing nearly all of the...

Hello everyone! So I've been replaying Wing Commander 4 (...again) and I was wondering how the game's programming handles Panther and Hawk's morale. It turns out that in the save files, Panther's morale is stored at 0x600 and Hawk's morale is stored at 0x5fe. After some testing, it appears...

Howdy! Apologies for the late reply, I've been struggling with health issues again. Thank you very much for the fast reply, and also for making a news post about this thread! I've just checked again, and the numbers do match. I believe you meant "heavy photon guns" rather than "heavy mass...

Remember those "du" (damage units?) numbers in the WC4 ship selectors which are supposed to indicate how much damage a ship does with a full gun salvo? I did a quick analysis, and found a few interesting things. Let's start with the Banshee, which is listed as having 72 du. It has 4 Lasers...

I believe your problem is a known issue for mouse users who play the DOS version of Wing Commander 3. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever managed to come up with a good workaround for this (other than using the Kilrathi Saga version of Wing Commander 3 - possibly with a "hack" such as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.)

LOAF mentioned a cancelled add-on for Privateer (Privateer: Secret Operations) in this old forum post.

That makes sense. Thank you for the clarification! And you are absolutely right. I was referring to the Paradigm-class Confederation destroyer.