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The Space Sims Megathread (NSF56k/Aliens/Enemy Convoys)
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Now it's just the simple matter of failing all my classes and dropping out of college. Thanks, jerk.
If they made an interface based on turning around a 3D piece of poo, it would be an improvement over the original.
I wish there were enough players to be able to fill servers though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfRXJFrPubs
Asgardian Gods, carnivorous animals, astrophysical phenomenons
what's yours
personally I use obscure biblical figures, like Onan and Nimrod
Like The Fandango, The Sea Cucumber.
Thank you for trying to help, that mission really was a headache. I actually managed to "brute force" the mission yesterday night by trying like 10 times in a row.
When I got two or more fighters behind me I usually tried to skim around the Ravana's hull a few times to lose them. This almost helped me win the mission several times until I accidentally flew out over the ships flak cannons, and being in outer space getting shot several times every second I could never figure out in which direction to fly to get out of the firing line.
I never considered giving proper orders to the other ships or hiding with the Khemru. I still have much to learn it seems!
Man that's not even a major spoiler. Trust me, things get "The human race is really
I won't fellate Freespace 2 since everyone here has done a good job of that already, but just in case, I submit to you this video for the one reason why it's the greatest fucking game ever made. Anyone who disagrees can kindly walk the plank.
ARRR!
Stuff like Diplomatic Immunity, The Biggest Stick, etc.
The "escort the ambulance shuttles to the hospital frigate" one. NEVER made it. They eased it a little on the graphic updated version, so I could finally do it.
At least Wing Commander has alternate mission branches, so that when you fuck up, you can keep playing. Like the impossible "Save the Ralari" mission. I love Wing Commander so much.
so alone
so very alone
It's quiet in here too
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's Stephen Baldwin.
Speaking of Gal Civ II, I just picked up the Ultimate Edition and am playing this game for the first time ever. I'm pretty terrible at it. Terrible might be too soft of a word. I'm mega awful.
Since I've gotten into the Culture books, I've found myself doing this too. So, not alone.
Opening Trade Negotions
Political Difference
IMO
Pen (as in "mightier than")
The Best Defense
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Man fuck you too. In fact fuck you even more because this guy no idea but you just basically replied to my post with,
"heh screw your personal preferences, thats not a spoiler, SHIT GETS WAY MORE SPOILED LATER ON LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT IT" Cmon man, you could easily infer I didn't want to know jack-shit from my post. Even though I already knew about what you are telling me it's still pissing me off.
People like you are going to hell.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
PSN - CardboardNine
Why would he spoiler it? There never once was a Beta 2 that went missing. Ever. Not once in the game did any part of any Beta Wing ANYWHERE EVER disappear.
Ever.
Well I knew what he meant by it. either way that's not why I'm mad. I was pretend getting mad at that spoiler because it's stupid to expect someone to be spoil tagging a game that old. It should be my responsibility to stay out of the thread. But then sub just reads the post and then responds with a pretty large untagged spoiler just to do it.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
You can look around in 3rd person, sure.
Just don't try to enter combat in 3rd person though. It's strictly to show the beauties.
Overlord.
You start the game with a single Super Star Destroyer sized warship that you get to customize. The FIRST mission has you sortie into the middle of a battle with thousands of capital ships, fighters and bombers killing everything in system, and it only gets crazier from there. Your goal is to conquer the ENTIRE galaxy. Basically, it just adds one more level of size, to the fighter < capital ships < command ship formula.
You slowly upgrade the "core" of you battlecruiser along three different paths, anti-ship, anti-planetary, and invasion platform. Anti-ship involves you getting huge banks of hundreds of MASSIVE beam or projectile cannons, and you can literally jump into the middle of an enemy fleet and carve it to bits. Strongest direct power, but it's the slowest ship to grow. Anti-planetary you can burn worlds or super space stations to ash easily with death beams, rail guns, or gravity beams for chucking asteroids but you need to have good fleet protection as you're vulnerable in a close range fight. If you go invasion platform, you can easily conquer systems instead of destroying them, letting you upgrade your ship faster, but it's the weakest 'direct combat' ship type. Boarding actions are very important, even with ships of this scale, and your behemoth starship has several million immortal cyborg killing machines on board for capturing Death Star size installations in bloody purges.
Of course, the enemy has ancient ships of similar MASSIVE deadliness and you have to slug it out with them.
You have to place your gun batteries right with a different mix of weapons to make sure you can defend your ship properly. Your ship might be called upon to turn the tide of a ten thousand to one odd space battle, or defend an entire world or solar system per sortie... and also burning them down.
Eventually you grow your battleship through the centuries to PLANET sized, and the final campaign in the game has you taking on a DYSON SPHERE of death and destruction that has rendered whole galaxies to ash.
Yeah, that's my dream space game.
Awesome. That's pretty much the reason I wanted 3rd person, to look at my ship, and the surrounding environment. I planned on doing combat in 1st person though.
PSN - CardboardNine
Man... Stars! is a fabulous game. If you aren't turned off by the lack of graphics, then you will never find a deeper, more customizable 4x game anywhere. I've still got my manuals and install CD (in great condition too!).
From a little googling it seems like Stars! is in some kind of publishing Limbo.
OK, enough 4x geeking. Back to the pewpew.
Man, if I thought "Yeah, things get epic later on" was a spoiler I would have spoilered it. I didn't even say anything about what may or may not happen. o_O
Believe me, even when you do get to whatever events that I'm talking about, you'll still be surprised and into it, largely because I didn't tell you anything about them. I honestly can't think how much you can actually infer from what I said there, unless you're a Bene Gesserit witch and can read the minutiae from a sentence as if were dripping from every syllable.
Next time I'll just avoid saying anything, grief.
EDIT: I mean for crying out loud, I could say "The human race is really screwed this time." about almost every other space combat game, action game and FPS around and it'd still apply.
K, good. I'm glad you learned something from this.
edit: god damnit. Here is me right before your post " Ohh man this is awesome this kickass gauntlet battle to the death with the NTF this must be the end of the game" *immediately following your post* " Well fuck t-minus whatever until a giant Shivan deathship jumps in and kills everything." Then about 5 seconds after I thought that a giant Shivan death ship jumped in and killed everything. The surprise was totally gone.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Heres hoping its fun!
Rich Cook.
PSN ID - WildSpoon
You should totally bust out X-Wing and TIE Fighter. May is Star Wars Month.
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I'm actually playing it on an MBP right now as I type this. I tried a bunch of different approaches to get it to run in OSX but constantly crashed and couldn't get the media VP's to work.
So I installed windows in bootcamp and used this extremely helpful thread to install all the FS2 open content. Just follow the instructions in the OP and you should be alright.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
So did I.
Spent the first 20 minutes trying to figure out how to dock to a station. First mission, SETA on, autopilot crashes me into another ship and I die instantly. Second mission, easy single ship kill mission, a Xenon K destroyer and a dozen fighters jump in at 5 km range, survived about 10 seconds after that.
Same old X. :P