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What sort of ending do you think the GTVA Colossus should have?

Getting beamed to death by the SJ Sathanas while standing still? (Volition canon)
8 (8.8%)
Getting beamed to death by the SJ Sathanas while still attacking it and inflicting some damage?
43 (47.3%)
Getting beamed by the SJ Sathanas but surviving, but still getting scrapped because it took too much damage?
4 (4.4%)
Getting beamed by the SJ Sathanas and surviving, but getting destroyed by the Capella supernova?
12 (13.2%)
Getting beamed by the SJ Sathanas and surviving, as well as assisting in Apocalypse and successfully making the jump to Vega before the supernova?
13 (14.3%)
Getting beamed by the SJ Sathanas and surviving, but getting bombed to death by bombers?
1 (1.1%)
Getting beamed by the SJ Sathanas and surviving, but experiencing death from above in the form of a Shivan warship's beams (including another Sathanas?
5 (5.5%)
Something else?
5 (5.5%)

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Offline Snail

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
There are all sorts of win on WMC's DevArt site BTW.

 

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
Ah yes, the classic Baseball Bat of DoomTM attatck.
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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
I originally wanted to add an Orion that would deploy escape pods to fly to the Colossus, but the juggernaut swung so quickly around the waypoint turns that it smoked all four of them,

*crunch*

 

Offline Snail

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
Wouldn't it be more like smack?

 

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
IMO, the Colossus should have said it's heroic phrase, set all systems to overload and just charge into the Sathanas.
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Offline Snail

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
On my first play through I found absolutely nothing wrong with the mission. In fact it was my favorite mission of the whole campaign at the time. Erinyes with Maxim/Kayser combo against a fleet of evil cruisers. Win!

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
Yeah.

I liked the fact that the Colossus, the GTVA's enormous phallic symbol of overweening arrogance, sputtered out miserably. Not to say that I hate the Colossus, but it's nothing in the face of the Shivans.

 

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
Not even fireing ONCE on the Sath?

You can't tell me that is not wrong.
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
Oh, no, I agree, it should definitely go down shooting. Give it at least that measure of dignity.

Funny thing is, sometimes I do see it fire...why would that be? Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

 

Offline Snail

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
I see it fire all the time...?

 

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
I think it's the distance...The Sath is right out of beam cannon range.

the only thing one need to do is move the Sath a bit closer to the Colossuss and it will open up with all of it's weapons.
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Offline Snail

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
The Colossus' beam range is 4000 meters I think.

 

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
The Colossus' beam range is 4000 meters I think.

I thought it was 8000 meters... :nervous:

...but TrashMan's right. The Sathanas jumps in and stops just out of beam range so it can bombard the Colossus with impunity. When you think of it, that's kind of like a retribution, because Sathanas 01 was forced to engage the Colossus in a rigged dogfight.
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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
I must be mistaken then, probably mixing my experiences of the Ravana vaping with the Sath killing.

 

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
Sadly, I've saved the Colossus at least once, but it does nothing :P
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Offline Snail

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
Sadly, I've saved the Colossus at least once, but it does nothing :P
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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
There are all sorts of win on WMC's DevArt site BTW.

* WMCoolmon feels warm and fuzzy inside

Looking at you Warpcore site, it looks like you have a Perseus fetish.

Hey, me too.
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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
hey, this got me thinking: why hasn't anybody redone the FS2 campaign so it goes the way we want it? (completely optimized, different ending, new missions to replace the ones that are just meh...)
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: About the End of the GTVA Colossus...
hey, this got me thinking: why hasn't anybody redone the FS2 campaign so it goes the way we want it? (completely optimized, different ending, new missions to replace the ones that are just meh...)
Someone could also rewrite the Bible. Granted, certain people (though not me) would be offended by such blasphemy.
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