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Ditto. If I'm flying the Morningstar in the gauntlet, I usually save the Mace for one of the last waves before rearming. I aim it just a shade away from the incoming enemy wave, and let go at about 12,000 meters. I usually get three quick kills; one time I got five.

Yes, the new cockpits and starfields seem to add a level of realism to the game. One half of me wants to ask if the turrets are going to get similar treatment. The other half remembers how limited the field of view was in those things. In WC2, it almost made one claustrophobic...

Well, if I just keep practicing my flying skills for sixty or so years, I should be ready to take the Cats on. At first I thought LOAF made a typo; then I clicked the link and found the press release had the same thing. I remember reading somewhere that Arena was set in the 2700s, however...

After looking at LOAF's link, I think that he's correct. The February article mentions concepts such as episodic content that would be constantly updated with new missions and multiplayer maps. That option was never mentioned in the July article; if I were selling the game, that would be my...

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Star Control 2 yet.

With the Raptor in Standoff, I just turned off the two outer guns. I could hardly hit anything with them. The problem with that was the two inner guns (mass drivers? It's been a while since I played it...) weren't very powerful. It made quick kills very difficult for me; I would usually only try...

This looks absolutely wonderful. I can't believe you were able to get so much done in such a short period of time. I was kind of hoping back on April 1st that one of the CIC joke headlines would be that you announced the operating requirements for the game to be an Intel Core 2 processor with...

I've got a solution: Just don't vote. That's what I'm doing, since there's a pretty good chance that I won't be able to play Arena - although I am crossing my fingers that Microsoft and EA will pull a rabbit out of their collective hat and make Arena available as part of Games for Windows Live...

My two cents I've arrived a bit late into this discussion, but I still wanted to add some thoughts. I think that it would be much more rewarding in the long run to come up with your own missions, rather than rehash an existing game. Issues with EA aside, there are several examples where a...

They don't appear to interfere with each other on my computer. Hmmm...this post gives me an urge to brush up on my bug hunting skills...

I think it's here. http://www.actiontattoos.com/wclegacy/wclegacy.html

Personally, I liked the shout out to Mario "HCl" Brito in the ad for the Arrow Eclipse. Congrats Mario, you're famous.

Hmmm...sounds like someone should come up with a "random Kilrathi name generator"...

Apart from the location issue, I'm in the same boat. If they only distribute this to consoles, it would be bittersweet and, quite frankly, I would be dissapointed. But despite that, I'm still excited about the game. For example, I just finished looking at the new movies this morning...even...

I didn't find Academy quite to my taste, but Armada was great. Someone made an Armada clone, called "PiArmada", that was a pretty decent imitation. Unfortunately, I haven't heard of any updates in a while. Only one map came with the game, but I found it pretty easy to mod them. I created a...

While most of the commentary on another thread seems negative, I don't see any reason to write "the Vista thing" off. Heck, a quick look at the "News" section on the XBox website shows that the top story is the cross-platform play, written a couple of weeks ago. It sounds like the features would...

I don't see any in the screenshots, but that sounds like a perfect starting point for an expansion right there. Or better yet, I wonder if there would be some set of secret codes which unlock ships beyond just the 18 that they mention. Nephilim ships? Vampires? Hornets and Scimitars?

Overall, I'm fairly positive about the events of the last few days. EA is producing a new WC game, and that's something to be excited about. While I wasn't thrilled with the news, this is what I totally expected the next iteration of WC to be if it ever came out. I knew that EA would want a...

Ah, yes...the animation where the Broadsword does the 180 is almost comical.

After going through a couple of websites, it looks like the "Core System" retails for $299, and the "Premium System", is $399. The XBox website indicates that a Gold account runs about $50 a year. That's about the limit of my knowledge on the console.