Revenant said:
don't try to understand it. Just fly your ship, kill cats, and rake in the medals.... If I try to make sense of things like this they're not fun anymore... I'm just a pilot, not a confed engineer.
heh heh
For the longest time, I always loved WC inspite of myself. I'm a hardcore reaslism fan. The more realistic the better. Many people never understood how I could like WC, and even I just accepted it as an arcade shooter. But(!).....
In this latest (the umpteen-odd millionth for me lol) I noticed the sliding a lot more than I ever did before for some reason. And, out of nowhere, it just clicked - presence of shield technology hand in hand with artificial gravity. Plus each fighter is equipped with "accleration absorbers". Add that to the method of limitless propulsion (the fighters don't use fuel when not using the burners - that is, they can go at max speed forever on an empty tank), and the FMs of the fighters is not "arcadey" necessarily.
Every sci-fi universe that has FTL, and artificial gravity, seems to have atmospheric looking space flight (and usually shield as well). It could be "magic level" tech, but, I think the key is the manipulation of fields. If you can create a rechargable shield, and artificial gravity, you can most likley create some sort of inertial damping. If you can do that, you can eliminate that annoying vectoring encountered in space and artificially create flight characterisitics more akin to atmospheres, and more intuitive for pilots.
If you watch closely, it WC seems to do just that. Exceed the speed setting even just a little bit and you begin to slide. Even while going at set speed on certain fighters like the rapier, there seems to be a little bit of sliding going on in real hard turns. And, heavy fighters are slower than lighter ones generally - can be explained as the inertial damping system being less effective so the fighter is constricted to a slower max speed.
IDK if it was intended this way or not, but, it really does work amazing well. At least for me.
It's actually added a whole new dimention to WC for me. Which just makes me love it even more (not an easy feat lol).