[Kie99]

Could someone e-mail the Avi from Silent Threat which shows a Shivan ripping up a Vasudan fighter? Kietotheworld(a)Gmail.com or send it to me via MSN? [email protected]

[Hippo]

I would, if it wasn't 30+Mb... Just FYI, that's too big for gmail to take as one attatchment...

[Blitzerland]

It's on the Silent Threat disk, but I guess you lost it?

Hippo, is that after compressing in into a .zip file or whatnot?

[karajorma]

I forgot I was supposed to look into uploading that! Let me see how big it is or if I can at least recompress it to a smaller size.

[Hippo]

zipping and raring rarely has any signifigant effect on already encoded frames, so no...

[karajorma]

Who said anything about raring or zipping it?

[karajorma]

Okay. Recompressed the file to XVid and drastically reduced the size so I included Headz and Terran-Vasudan fight as well.

Don't download them if you already have Silent Threat. As it is I'm expecting quite a few people will want to see them.

Click me

[MatthewPapa]

Holy crap, I never even realized those things existed... I havent played silent threat in a long time but still, I cant believe I missed these...

*gets out silent threat CD*

[karajorma]

They live in extras\secret\supersecret on the Silent Threat disk.

Didn't you ever wonder where the whole Vasuans like headz thing came from?

There are a couple more in there (including one of a terran pilot running through a corridor which was probably meant to be part of a Wing Commanderish launch sequence that never made it into the final game). Sadly I don't have space to post them all.

[Triple Ace]

I have the silent threat cd. But every time I ran the game, there were no cutscenes.

[Solatar]

They are on the actual CD, not through the game.

[Cobra]

lol, i found that folder by accident. why weren't they implemented into the game, i wanna know.

[karajorma]

The had nothing to do with the plot. Headz is just the animators screwing around having fun with the vasudan and terran models.

The Shivan one is quite possibly something similar.

[aldo_14]

The Shivan one sounds a bit like the descriptions of the attack on Tombaugh, where the Shivans were to have jumped out of the Lucifer and attacked the Terrans in the same way..... it's an interesting animation, maybe at one point they were going to do a Vasudan perspective campaign for the expansion, or maybe this was how they were intending on introducing the Lucifer (Shivans got to come from somewhere, right?)

Incidentally, that Typhon is much more detailed than the game model.  Lots of ridges and bumps on the top-back, and not-entirely clear but visible detailing on the front and sides, too.

TVfite... I guess they got the idea from the barfight cut from FS1.  Maybe someone pointed out that a Vasudan is a wee bit bigger than a human is......

[Cobra]

try 4 feet.

the footage from tombaugh? i thought those were scorpions.

[StratComm]

That one always struck me as a video dump more than anything really bonus.  The only one that related to the game at all that looked finished was the Shivan/Vasudan one, the rest looked like animations made for FS1 that were the start of larger scenes never completed due to space, lack of time, or whatnot.

[Cobra]

like the Terran pilot running down the hallway? (why does he have a gun? )

[karajorma]

Yep. I think it's just [V] trying to fill up some space on the Silent Threat CD. Not that I mind seeing as how it's the source of one of the communities biggest in-jokes but I wouldn't take anything in those vids as canon. (Unless you want to believe that the Shivans have also trained a giant letter C to eat people!).

Cobra : Why shouldn't he have a gun. Most modern fighter pilots carry one in case they get shot down.

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by aldo_14
The Shivan one sounds a bit like the descriptions of the attack on Tombaugh, where the Shivans were to have jumped out of the Lucifer and attacked the Terrans in the same way..... it's an interesting animation, maybe at one point they were going to do a Vasudan perspective campaign for the expansion, or maybe this was how they were intending on introducing the Lucifer (Shivans got to come from somewhere, right?)

I don't remember ever reading in either game that the Shivans physically swarmed out of the Lucifer to attack allied forces.  The command briefing ani in FS1 shows several dozen Scorpions flying out of the Lucifer's fighterbay, but no Shivans on their own.  As far as I know, the Tombaugh attack was pretty much a standard battle, albeit one where the Lucifer pretty much cleaned up.

[karajorma]

FS1 Bible. Not anything that actually made it into the game.