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Christopher Blair, William Eisen (probably more importantly, since Blair only defected because Eisen did) and Khasra Redclaw are the most obvious omissions from this list. Ralgha nar Hhallas arguably deserves to be on it twice. It's going to be pretty hard to beat out Jamison though; I guess you...

Aha. This is a joystick problem - your stick isn't calibrated properly, so the game things you've constantly got the stick swung up and to the left which is why you can't move the cursor away from there. What you need to do is recalibrate your joystick. The way you do this in WC3 is to run the...

Interesting that you've gone for the Sirius/Earth campaign as the WC parallel for Midway - I had always regarded Midway as being Vukar Tag (I once explained the plot of End Run to someone as "the Terrans get the bright idea to try the Dootlittle raid and the Battle of Midway at the same time").

We can safely assume that fighters are either not travelling at hundreds of kilometres per second (despite what the speed readouts show) or alternatively none of the games display ships to scale, since it generally takes 1-2 seconds to fly the length of a Terran carrier, and they aren't several...

Yeah, I think a full list of canon Wing Commander characters appearing in Standoff would be Admiral Terrell (by e-mail only), Commodore Reismann, Admiral Tolwyn, Dirk "Stingray" Wright, Christopher "Maverick" Blair, Etienne "Doomsday" Monclair, and Jacob "Hawk" Manley (uncredited, as "Sierra 2")...

That theoretically ought to work. Primary and secondary fire buttons together on a joystick is one of the ways to fire missiles using one. The problem with this is that holding the secondary fire button down and moving the stick changes your throttle settings. Accidentally setting your throttle...

And the first through-deck cruiser was even given a battlecruiser name - Invincible - to add to the charade (after the Falklands when carriers were suddenly in vogue again the second and third ships of the class got carrier names). Of course, every time anybody uses the abbreviation CV they're...

I feel this thread needs one of my favourite images I put together when trying to make the point not to take relative sizes of things in the Wing Commander universe too seriously:

Both are canonical - the Confederation has lots of carrier designs despite having fairly few actual carriers. This makes a certain amount of sense given that the pre-war TCN was a battleship navy, not believing that fighter-based weapons systems that could penetrate capship phase shielding were...

Ships in WC3/4 can't really slide though, because of the relative rates of acceleration and turning in those games, if you try to perform an afterburner slide your ship always flies more or less in the direction it's pointing. In the Vision engine you can slide (at least, I'm pretty certain you...

I think, Aginor, what your brain (and mine, I do it too), has done is to merge the WC2 manual's comment on the ITTS ("only available on the newer fighters like the Epee and Sabre") into the WC3 manual's comment on the autoslide feature. That said, it doesn't make a huge amount of sense that...

It makes sense that, post-war the fact that these fighters would have had Confed designations doesn't mean that the Border Worlds would have used them; especially if Confed only tried the fighter out and didn't commission it for a production run. Separatist sentiment in the Border Worlds militia...

Captain Bondarevsky? I believe you mean Lieutenant Commander Bondarevsky (p.67 of End Run), though what on earth the CAG of a carrier's flight group is doing with a Navy rank is anybody's guess. He probably ought to be Major Bondarevksy, but it just wouldn't be a Wing Commander product if it...

Well, if you were going to be *really* pedantic, you might mention the covert ops team in the introductory sequence...

Spoken like somebody who has clearly not spent anywhere near enough time intercepting Paktahns on Nightmare. Paired HS missiles do enough damage to one-hit kill a Paktahn (assuming one of them doesn't decide to take a different flight path and thus strike a different shield, which is really...

WC3's story, inasmuch as it has an "about", is about how war affects us - as people and as a nation/race/species (this goes nicely in a pair with WC4, which is about how peace affects us). The whole point of the plot is that during 30 years of warfare, Kilrathi honour and Terran compassion -...

Some of the stuff you're talking about is caused by technical limitations. Ground and Space components of missions are actually separate missions as far as the game is concerned, so it resets your power allocation and restarts you on the entrance to the atmosphere for that reason. And, yeah...

Why thankyou. (I'm Adarisa on Youtube. I think Ilanin was taken or something, can't remember precisely.) And just for you, I've updated the Standoff Guide for that mission, so it now actually contains useful (and accurate!) information. The relevant Guide page is...

Much of the guide is still based on Dundradal's playtester's notes which were created (I assume) as each episode took form. I suspect, even if it doesn't exist now, it did once. The only parts of the Guide which I definitely rate as reliable based on the final part of the game are the Episode 5...

Are you set to use keyboard controls in the options screen (alt-o in flight)? The arrow keys won't respond if you're on mouse or joystick control.