[Nico]

Originally posted by Hippo


Havent you clicked Grew Wolf 2009's title?

nah, I mean the jump out bug, not the no nova bug.

[Lightspeed]

i made it

[TopAce]

Originally posted by TrashMan

My jump drives were powering up, I was just about to enter the jump node (the blue tunnel was just begining to open) when it hit and....BOOOOOM

Ohhh .... it is called as 'If I could make a jump as quickly as the Ai does, I would have made it'.

[Starks]

Wait a sec... CAPELLA GROWS BIGGER? I've never noticed that, I never have time to use rearview.

[TopAce]

That's not Capella, that's its sun.

[Flipside]

I was actually on the Warp-Out scene, when it hit me and killed me, that REALLY confused the Engine!

Flipside

[Su-tehp]

I was blasting Shivans left and right about 8 klicks from the node when the warning came in. I boosted max power to engines, but only got 4 klicks when the shockwave hit.

That´s what i get for flying the Ares. Good fighting ship, but not so good for fleeing colossal, force-of-nature-size walls of fire moving at close to the speed of light. :devil:

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Su-tehp
That´s what i get for flying the Ares. Good fighting ship, but not so good for fleeing colossal, force-of-nature-size walls of fire moving at close to the speed of light. :devil:

The tech description did warn you, you know...

[q]As a result, the Ares handles like a potato.[/q]

[Descenterace]

I had the sense to fly the Erinyes.  I can't stand ships that handle worse than the Magnum-AHT from Descent 3...

When the supernova warning popped up I was about 5 klicks out, and the first thing to cross my mind was, 'Thought so'.  After all, if eighty massive warships have converged on a star and are pumping a lot of power into it, something dramatic is gonna happen.  I'd predicted the supernova about 3 missions previously...
So I ramped my engine power to the stops, hit my burners, and made a bee-line for the node.  At one point, a Shivan got in my way and I shot it to pieces without even changing course.  Got to the node with about 15 seconds to spare, and jumped out successfully.

Outro movie was pretty cool.

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Venom


nah, I mean the jump out bug, not the no nova bug.

IIRC, (fs1 is immune ) its that when you press alt-J, your jump drives power up, but immediately as your speed hits 40M/s, it says "jump drive de-activated"... It sometimes tke 20ish minutes to get out of the mission... (without pressing Esc or Shift-Esc)

[Lutz]

Although I've only played FS2 once I got out first time fine, quite easily too. Although I was in a fast ship, not a heavy fighter or some such.

Stupidly I'm gonna say that I can't remember what the ships name was! It was the Pegasus I think. What ever replaced the Valkyrie.

[FoxHound]

I must be the only person who chose to fly the perseus intercept fighter. After all, it was mostly bomb intercept, and what fighter does it better?

Needless to say, the perseus got me to the node with tons of time to spare. Though, I do sometimes question the gravity factor that must be put on the pilot when flying a perseus with engines at full and afterburners going on and off

but, capital ships survive going in and out of subspace at those speeds that they do...

[Akalabeth Angel]

I must be the only person who chose to fly the perseus intercept fighter. After all, it was mostly bomb intercept, and what fighter does it better?

   I typically choose the default fighter or something similar for the sake of playing the mission in the way that the designer had intended. Which isn't to say its wrong to fly anything else of course. I'm not the greatest fan of the Perseus, its got nice speed but when my back's against the wall like in those last few missions I'd like a big loadout and thats something the Herc and brethren can provide. Just fire and forget because there's more on the way.

[Setekh]

I just never turn down the Erinyes whenever I have the choice. I mean, 8 Kaysers... come on, they say "power" in any language.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Akalabeth Angel
I typically choose the default fighter or something similar for the sake of playing the mission in the way that the designer had intended.

Beware of that. I frequently choose a non-optimal default loadout for my missions just to make things harder for people not paying attention to the mission briefing
 Nothing major but little things like not including trebs for a bomber intercept mission

[Descenterace]

come on, they say "power" in any language.

Especially Braille...

[Gloriano]

i did escape