My Dream

I have chosen a new engine, I will use the Vega Strike Engine, I have looked at flight commander and have reached the conclusion that it will be a great space flight sim game, however it does not allow us the navpoint freedom we will require. I can now tell you that the game will have multiplayer support. it WILL have the full universe map uploaded into it!
 
Originally posted by Raptor

I always got into the game more when I could see the cockpit and everything that was going on it, from the pilot's hands on the stick to blown out panels and sparking wires.

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"You don't have to worry about the hand taking damage" - Actual quote from the Armada team

BTW, although I think the Prophecy cockpit has some good elements, I do prefer the WingII-III style cockpits. Just make it unobstructive, or better yet, make the cockpit a "lookdown" feature with the HUD projecting onto the main screen a la WCIV-P.
 
Originally posted by Bob McDob

BTW, although I think the Prophecy cockpit has some good elements, I do prefer the WingII-III style cockpits. Just make it unobstructive, or better yet, make the cockpit a "lookdown" feature with the HUD projecting onto the main screen a la WCIV-P.
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Right... piloting a Longbow with the cockpit is very near to impossible...

Of course someone will come and say that's what a pilot would normally see...
Well I'm going to be a spoilsport and say that the WC universe does not exist in reality ( :eek: I know...) hence we only have to worry about the player behind his computer and what he, the cockpit option being there just for the sake of realism...
 
Not to mention a real pilot would be able to look up and to the sides a heck of a lot easier than we do in the games.
 
Right... piloting a Longbow with the cockpit is very near to impossible...
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Ah, matter of taste I guess. I always played with the cockpit on, and I didn't have all that much trouble with visibility. The big problem with the Lonbow was that it was a sitting duck for fighters.

Best, Raptor
 
Originally posted by Raptor
The big problem with the Lonbow was that it was a sitting duck for fighters.
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I guess that's what the thick shielding and armour was for, Raptor... ;)
 
Originally posted by mpanty
Right... piloting a Longbow with the cockpit is very near to impossible...

Of course someone will come and say that's what a pilot would normally see...
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I'm not gonna say that... but I am gonna say that I don't recall ever switching the cockpit off in a Longbow.
 
As for being what a pilot would normally see... it's possible that there's an invisible cockpit type HUD in a pilot's helmet...
 
I didnt mind the cockpit views, they didnt really mess with the amount of view IMO, they added a sense of realism. But I didnt go for the movement of some of them, when you turned they sort of "banked" and that was annoying. Much like FS's afterburn shake, a very annoying and unecessary element to what they attempted at "realism".

RFB
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
As for being what a pilot would normally see... it's possible that there's an invisible cockpit type HUD in a pilot's helmet...
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Now that would be a wonder of technology, now wouldn't it? :)
Just like in Airwolf... :) Boy I loved that chopper...
 
I liked the cockpit views -- not necessarily because they added realism, but because they made each ship unique. WCIV had trouble with that...
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
I liked the cockpit views -- not necessarily because they added realism, but because they made each ship unique.
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True... I liked the cockpits, don't get me wrong... they just made piloting the ship harder... :)

WCIV had trouble with that...
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Well I guess programmers thought that the majority of players were *not* using the cockpit view anyway, so why bother designing it... :(
 
The WCIV thing wasn't too bad. It was almost like you were seeing it through an eyepiece or something. I didn't like WCP's though. Those stupid frames with nothing else.
 
Originally posted by Ghost
(...) it is easy to fly the Longbow with the cockpit
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Yah... and if you're blind it's even more easy...

[Edited by mpanty on 04-23-2001 at 20:40]
 
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