Making the Game: Mission SS3 (April 27, 2009)

[Bandit LOAF]

Mission SS4 teaches the player to fly the Panther. There are a few interesting references in the dialogue - especially to the Panther's particular role (on escort carriers) and the fact that she carries (or carried at this point in development) a nose-mounted mini-turret. Also interesting, the appearance of a Paktahn bomber from Wing Commander III.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Mission SS3
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Date: May 2, 1997
Project: Wing Commander Prophecy
Donated By: John Guentzel
Pages: 2

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Original update published on April 27, 2009

 

[Lorien]

There's two other tidbits in there that I noticed.

First, it mentions a radar capable of tracking two targets at once. It sounds like there was a plan for an Ace Combat like ability to fire missiles at multiple different targets with the one lock-on. That would have made for some awesome long-range missile engagements.

Second, they mention the increased manueverability over the Vampire but make no mention of the increased yaw rate. Was this added later on in the project?