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I hope I can remember the original correctly. First of all, when you're not locked onto a target, the system should automatically target any ship that passes close enough to the crosshairs. When you're locked onto a target, manually switching to another target, that should already be locked...

Ok, I've seen Wing Commander casting threads coming up here every now and then, but people seem to have trouble coming up with a suitable actor for my favourite character from WC1: Iceman. My personal favourite would be Dylan McDermott. He looks pretty close, but my biggest point is that when he...

I think damage to the acceleration absorbers makes the ship act more like as it should according to Newtonian physics.

Please enlighten me. Is it burned? Fusioned (is that a word?)? And what exactly is spewing out of the thrusters to make the ship move?

I have a nagging feeling I've read about them ramscoops in some WC game manual. One questions that arises here is what exactly is done with the scooped hydrogen?

For years I've used the callsign Phantom in Wing Commander. Not really silly, but how I came up with it is slightly embarrassing. I tried playing WC1 & 2 with the invincibility cheats on and that's what it felt like: as if the enemy shots just passed right through me without doing any damage.

Mission generating needs some serious tweaking IMHO. Starting up, I sometimes change bases half a dozen times looking for missions in Troy, and then the mission computer is stuffed with over 35 insystem bounties...

I always opened the communications list and checked how that identified the targeted ship.

From Privateer 2: "We've been giving them the mushroom treatment." "The mushroom treatment?" "Yeah. Feed them shit. Keep them in the dark."

I've found another reference to the first Privateer in P2. There is a mission where you have to protect weapons transports. There are a few cargo containers floating around, and one of them is identified as carrying meson blasters. There is no such weapon in Privateer 2.

That seems to help avoid the crash. Could this be somehow related to the slowdown patch? I don't recall this happening when I used a general slowdown utility to play Privateer 2.

Hmm, how exactly do you differentiate between carriers, cruisers and destroyers?

Ok, I'll give it a try. Fortunately I wasn't very far in the game. I did have three missions active simultaneously that I had picked up in space.

One thing I really like about Privateer 2 is that the environment really seems *foreign*. The architecture, clothes, music... Genuinely makes you feel like the culture portrayed is separated from ours by centuries.

Whee, destroyed everything in my path in Hornets at the start of Crusade. I wonder why some of the stuff said in the game contradicts reality. Iceman keeps telling me to use missiles on big targets, but that's never necessary! You can just park behind a Fralthi in a Hornet and nibble the armor...

After playing for a while the game hangs up whenever I try to land on a planet. The following Windows error message appears: Application Error: C:\DARK\DARK.EXE The instruction at 0043e7b6 referenced memory at 00dd96d6 The memory could not be read from Click OK to terminate the application

I have the EA Classics Privateer 2, which is the Windows version. Problem was that the in-flight sections ran way too fast on my computer. I should give it another try now that I have the patch...

Reminds me very much of this: http://www.soulofgothic.4players.de:1065/modding_eng.htm

Valgard 2 is a pain... I tell Iceman to stay on my wing so I can get a max number of kills, but the result is he hammers himself to death against the Claw when I fly close by... Maybe I should let him rip for a change.

After a long time I started playing the first two Wing Commanders, though by now I'm only the first Secret Missions. Thank the deity of your choosing for DOSBox. There are a couple of things that puzzle me. First, who do they say that the Jalthi have six forward-mounted lasers, when in reality...