[Colonol Dekker]

If you wanna fly a Bravo you need to learn to gold your breath for quite a while though. .

[terran_emperor]

  You mean "Hold your breath"....

If i could "Gold" my breath, i'd have enough money to have bought out a long time agoand made a Foxtrot Sierra Terrathree that would be compatible with campaigns like Derelict, INF SCP + A, Blue Planet and some of the other good ones 

[Colonol Dekker]

Text on my predict'o'phone tends to slip up once every three hundred words or so
Late night or early morning?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I just used the Erinyes on Blue Planet, and I must admit that it is quite a nice ship to fly. However, is it better than flying an Ares in Exodus in the main campaign?

[Akalabeth Angel]

I just used the Erinyes on Blue Planet, and I must admit that it is quite a nice ship to fly. However, is it better than flying an Ares in Exodus in the main campaign?

      The Ares is cool in Apocalypse(?) until the nova hits and you acutally have to move in a hurry. Then you're dead. In my experience anyway . . . just can't move that darn thing fast enough.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

      The Ares is cool in Apocalypse(?) until the nova hits and you acutally have to move in a hurry. Then you're dead. In my experience anyway . . . just can't move that darn thing fast enough.

Yes, it's called Apocalypse. Here's a tip from Interplay that I remember:

At the eleven-minute mark, fly towards the jump node to Vega and wait there. Jump out when Capella goes supernova.

One more thing: When you're in a rush, divert all power to engines. On faster fighters (e.g. stealth fighters), even the Shivans will have problems catching up.

[haloboy100]

In that mission I just sit at the node with time compression set to max and wait till the nova hits. No debriefing means no punishment for making the transports die

[ShadowGorrath]

I use a Perseus. Fastest fighter.

But last time I played that mission, I still died. Because the Shivans drove me farther away from the node than I already was. And the best part was that I reached the node when there were 5 seconds left.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

In that mission I just sit at the node with time compression set to max and wait till the nova hits. No debriefing means no punishment for making the transports die

Yeah. The only thing that makes life uncomfortable is Command's whining. Pity you can't turn him off.

[Snail]

End this slaughter now, pilots!

[Androgeos Exeunt]

End this slaughter now, pilots!

Yes, that. I've never heard it in-game, but I've heard it using VPVIEW32, and it sounds corny.

[haloboy100]

It's almost as if is constantly *****ing at you to get out there for the very reason to get you roasted in the nova.

[General Battuta]

Works, too. I never try to escape -- just keep on defending those transports. It feels like a more heroic way to end the game.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Works, too. I never try to escape -- just keep on defending those transports. It feels like a more heroic way to end the game.

        I do that sometimes too. First time it happened, I ran. 80 Juggernauts around the sun, I knew there must've been a supernova coming. I think I made it the first time. Not sure. Since then there's been plenty of times that I've failed.

       
        But regardless, I never get within 2 or 3 km until the Nova hits. If you're not playing the mission, what's the point of playing at all? If all a person does is parks their fighter and watches what happens, why not just quit freespace and put in a movie instead? You'll be doing the same thing, not participating, but at least it'll be entertaining to watch.

[Excalibur]

Pity you don't have a video camera in your fighter.

At least you can use the one behind it, and zoom way out 'till it's in the battle. Or view from some fighters that aren't "a cowarr..." 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I just got supernova'd in Apocalypse while flying the Ares...

Oh, by the way, Command said, "End this slaughter now, pilots!" However, he said it in a manner that sounds like a guy taking a drink and reading a book while watching some bombers hit a Leviathan with 8 Cyclops and watch its hull fall from 94% to 12%.

[haloboy100]

Isn't that what he sounds like in most of his orders anyway?

[Snail]

Isn't that what he sounds like in most of his orders anyway?

One of the most scary things I remember about command was what he said during King's Gambit. A Deimos is supposed to have something like 7,000 people onboard, right? So when I blew up the Perseverance, 7,000 people just died a fiery, horrible death... And what does Command do? He starts rhyming! ("The Perseverance is no more, that's what you flyboys get paid for!")

[General Battuta]

Isn't that what he sounds like in most of his orders anyway?

...I always thought the voice acting for Command was pretty good...

[haloboy100]

The true motives of command will never be revealed...