Wut! Wait! You had an acid trip in space
Back in my teens.....probably lol
Squadron 42 - Star Citizen : Wing Commander Style Space Sim
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Back in my teens.....probably lol
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Was that not the 20mil reward? Fish for all?
If the cockpit visuals are like that in the finished product.......wow.
I dont know if the visuals will be (third person cockpit view over the pilots left shoulder??) but I hope that theyve got a better flight mechanic worked out than that.
The combat was slow, at those speeds nobody in their right mind will fly in a straight line, you'd be trying to throw off aim by turning hard and jinking every way possible. If thats the case its going to be less skill and more luck based. The Top Gun fly by? Suicide. Where both planes have equal inertia you're depending on getting the enemy right behind you so they haven't got time to react and if they're that close and not lighting up your tailpipe, then you have nothing to fear because they couldn't hit you if you were still... which you will be very shortly. Heres hoping they cant pull back on the throttle too.
I do at least like the fact there seems to be a nod to a wing commander style dogfighting mechanic rather than elite-type inertia based horribly boring skating rink style of fighting.
The combat was slow, at those speeds nobody in their right mind will fly in a straight line, you'd be trying to throw off aim by turning hard and jinking every way possible. If thats the case its going to be less skill and more luck based. The Top Gun fly by? Suicide. Where both planes have equal inertia you're depending on getting the enemy right behind you so they haven't got time to react and if they're that close and not lighting up your tailpipe, then you have nothing to fear because they couldn't hit you if you were still... which you will be very shortly. Heres hoping they cant pull back on the throttle too.
I do at least like the fact there seems to be a nod to a wing commander style dogfighting mechanic rather than elite-type inertia based horribly boring skating rink style of fighting.
Surely you mean "Frontier-type inertia" ? Elite was never like that, and neither will the new one be.
Yeah, the original Elite, through rose tinted glasses, I remember very fondly. Manually docking - zerg... zarg? attacks. Great fun. Never seen a better depicted radar either. No definitely frontier... yeuch.
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Hornet still looks ugly... like my dog's chew-toy!! 
Thargoids - apparently they will be making a comeback too!
Yup liking the Ghost as well. I want to see the Xian first then its going to be decision time for my second ship.
It may not be pretty, but it's the right tool for the job if you want to do some ass-kicking.
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