Originally posted by Napoleon
Hi all, I have recently been playing WC4 and it made me think "Where are the Flash Packs and Cloaking devices and no fuel afterburners in Prophesy?" Could somebody answer me because it makes absolutly no sense to me that Confed would forget about all these technologies that worked so well.
It makes sense, considering that Prophecy is almost ten years after WC4, so obviously those great *improvements* weren't so great anymore.
First, the Flash Packs. Already in WC4, the Vesuvius's armor and shielding made the FP's useless, so you'd think that by the Prophecy time Confed would be using the same technology that made them useless.
Second, cloaking. Even before WC4 there were ways of detecting cloaked ships, and in WC4 cloaked Lances (Dragons) could see other cloaked ships. Besides, in the Prophecy manual 7 Excaliburs which were to find out what exactly happened in Kilrah are mentioned. All of them carried cloaking devices, only one of them made it back home... makes you think doesn't it?
Third, no fuel AB's. Those aren't present because they never existed... The only reason why the Lances had semingly unlimited afterburner fuel, was because they had matter/antimatter power plants, like the ones on capships, therefore making the Lances horribly expensive. The peace time fleet is never to happy about spending credits on high tech toys.
Also does anybody know how many Vesuvius class super carriers were made since they seem like they are on par if not better than midways.
We know of only four Vesuvius class ships. The Vesuvius and St Hellens from WC4, the Eisen, which is mentioned in Prophecy, and the McKinley which is mentioned in SO. Both the Vesuvius and St Hellens were of course destroyed.
Think about it in WC4 inorder to take out the Vesuvius one cannot just fire a Torpedo into the ship, no one must either use a flash pack or launch Torps from within the hangar. Whereas with the Midway, all the Nephilim had to do was take out the shield gen, then the engines and the bridge, once just for fun I took her out myself in an Avenger. I just couldn't figure that one out.
Eh, first of all, the Midway doesn't have any shield generators that have to be destroyed before taking out the bridge/engines. Second, Midway was build a decade after the Vesuvius, it uses simillar if not the same armor/shielding, but weapons tech has improved, making it easier to destroy the Midway. Notice though, how easy it was to destroy the St. Hellens in SO.
Also one last thing, in Wc4 and Wc3 the weapons were fired as streaks where as in Prophesy the weapons were sometimes spherical and sometimes eliptical in shape, the way they are simulated in Wc4 and Wc3 is much more realistic than the way they are simulated in WCP. So why with a more advanced engine are weapons less realistic instead of more so?
First, some weapons in Prophecy still loked like the ones from WC3/WC4, but now looked much better because of the new engine. Second, why did they suposedly look more realistic in WC3/WC4? The Mass Drivers, for one, looked more like what they're suposed to be in Prophecy.