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Title: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Goober5000 on November 16, 2009, 10:51:45 pm
In celebration of our return from hiatus, I've snapped another mystery picture for y'all. :)

(http://scroll.hard-light.net/images/mystery03.jpg)
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: carbine7 on November 16, 2009, 11:06:33 pm
A shivan freighter towing asteroids....that's new.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Droid803 on November 17, 2009, 12:38:20 am
A Mephisto with even easier to shoot off cargo! Yay!
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Dragon on November 17, 2009, 09:36:04 am
I think it would be too easy to destroy those asteroids, so we will most likely have to disable Mefisto without destroying asteroids.
Also, it's neutral on that pic, so it looks really interesting.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on November 17, 2009, 09:56:55 am
Hmm, that looks suspiciously non-MVPs. And, could they be camouflaged cargo containers?
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Droid803 on November 17, 2009, 12:33:00 pm
I guess the sarcasm didn't work out very well.
Disabling (or just killing) a normal mephisto without blowing up its cargo is difficult enough (because the AI likes to kill the cargo, you have to tell them to ignore the freighter and do everything yourself)...I hope we won't have to do that to this.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Snail on November 17, 2009, 12:50:51 pm
:wtf:


I hope this makes more sense when we get to play it. :P
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Goober5000 on November 17, 2009, 01:29:11 pm
It will. :)
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Mongoose on November 17, 2009, 04:21:32 pm
Got Rock?
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: carbine7 on November 17, 2009, 06:42:53 pm
It will. :)
Good!  :nod:
I thought when I first saw the pic that the Knossos had huge asteroids inside of it, but that was just the angle. Unless the asteroids are really Mimics attached to the freighter, I have no idea why they're there.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Aardwolf on November 18, 2009, 12:54:54 am
I think it would be too easy to destroy those asteroids, so we will most likely have to disable Mefisto without destroying asteroids.
Also, it's neutral on that pic, so it looks really interesting.

Actually, it's "Unknown". The "Neutral" IFF appears as hostile in-game. Most NTF ships are actually Neutral.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Dragon on November 18, 2009, 11:28:45 am
Yes, sorry, I got used to IFF system I'm using in my mod, there I have real "neutral" (I have 9 different codes, so this system is really different than FS one).
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Cobra on December 16, 2009, 05:55:11 pm
Got Rock?

Got paper. You lose.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Mobius on June 27, 2010, 04:33:31 am
Got scissors. :p

Glad to see SA back to life. :) Are the Vasudans studying that Mephisto? Are those camouflaged cargo containers? Also, why were you using FSO without the MVPs? As far as I remember retail freighters were uncapable of carrying 4 containers...
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Goober5000 on June 27, 2010, 04:47:47 am
Glad to see SA back to life. :)
Thanks. :)

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Are the Vasudans studying that Mephisto? Are those camouflaged cargo containers?
Wouldn't you like to know. :p

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Also, why were you using FSO without the MVPs?
The FPS counter and diagnostic information should tip you off that I was running a debug build.  I generally don't run debug builds with the mediaVPs activated.

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As far as I remember retail freighters were uncapable of carrying 4 containers...
Unofficially, they could carry multiple containers, but you had to use dangerous hacks.  But officially, no.  Multiple ship docking is a SCP feature.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Mobius on June 27, 2010, 05:15:23 am
The lack of directives about the freighter is intentional? All I see is "Protect the Narandum".

Maybe the presence of that Mephisto is not relevant? :eek:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Goober5000 on June 28, 2010, 11:59:09 am
:rolleyes:  It's a debug build.  I was testing some FSO functionality.  That screenshot is a picture of a work-in-progress incomplete mission.  (The mission has since been completed.)

The very point of mystery pictures is that they don't tell you the whole story.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Mobius on June 29, 2010, 11:32:58 am
...but they still give hints. ;)
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Goober5000 on June 29, 2010, 01:14:14 pm
Yup. :nod:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #3
Post by: Mobius on June 29, 2010, 01:34:51 pm
Waiting for pic #4, with more hints. ;)