[TheLeadSled]

Hey all

I recently replayed the prologue and thought through some things that I think need improvement. I'm not sure if some of these have already been discussed but anyway...

Firstly When you start taking hull damage there should be some sound affect where you start to hear your ship blowing apart. The kind of sound that would make the chief tech cringe.  I find that there are so many things to focus on that I'm often not aware that my hull is taking damage and my hull can lose like 50% status real quickly. A part of your hud should flash (perhaps the hull status rating) when you take damage.

If possible an armor layer should be added to cushion the hull a bit more

Thirdly when you take damage at any point below 25% an emergency alarm should sound for about 4 seconds after the impact.

Thanks

[Wanderer]

Thank you for you input TheLeadSled.


We'll have to see if some these suggestions can be taken into consideration when new features are implemented to the Wing Commander Saga.

[Phenix]

I'e got another suggestion on how to inprove gameplay......give us multiplayer   
 

[Tolwyn]

No multiplayer before 3.6.10 is ready. Although I must say, that the new network code is very stable.

[starlord]

Do you plan to include the "breaking screens" of Wc 1 and 2 in your cockpits? (when you take a critical amount of damage, your instruments screen blow off).

[Vidmaster]

at first, we need cockpits

[Tolwyn]

Rather a different cockpit support that would allow to map gauges directly onto the cockpit model.

[starlord]

What about full missile salvos (WC3 and Wc4)? are those possible in freespace?

[Backslash]

Probably... but how did salvos work in WC3/4?  I must not have done that, I'm very stingy with my missiles.  plus it was 10 years ago so I don't remember 

[gevatter Lars]

Like guns you could link together the missiles so that one missile of each bay was fired in one salvo, except for torpedos IIRC.
I can't remember how the look-on function was used but I think it just took the last missile that you single used and take that lock-on for all the missiles.
So an Arrow, for example, with 4 missile bays would fire 4 missiles at once. A Hellcat with only two bays would fire two missiles.

[Backslash]

Yeah I definitely didn't ever do that!   Wow, I had totally forgotten that some non-bombers had 4 bays instead of two.  Looks like I've been doing the HUD pictures wrong.  'Darn it' now I am 'forced' to go play WC3 again, purely for 'research' purposes

As you may know in Freespace you can switch to 'dual fire' missiles in one bank by pressing shift / ... but that's only one bank at a time.  Still, it's firing from two 'points'.  That sort of makes more sense than firing from all four banks on an Arrow, because how can it fire both image and heat missiles at the same time?  ...if you're carrying a mixed load that is

I have been experimenting with a feature that would allow firing from all banks that contain the same type of missile at once.  However it is not done, and not high on my priority list at the moment.

[KeldorKatarn]

In WC 4 at least, and possibly in wc3 too, you could specifically select which missile hardpoint was to be fired. Not just one or all. You could just fire all torpedoes or all ImRecs, from what I remember.

[gevatter Lars]

I think I only used that "feature" in two missions. The first was when you have to fight Flash in WC3. Its nearly impossible to evade 4 missiles at close range that have locked on so the mission was the shortes one I was ever flying.
The other one was against this electronic warfare ship in WC4. I just used all my dumbfires in one salvo.

This are the only two situations where I would use this feature. Kicking other Aces ass or giving a light fighter a punch against small capships it normaly dosn't have.

[Vidmaster]

anyone remember the big bad badass Dreadnought? 

[gevatter Lars]

Nooo tell me what is it ^_^

[Mancubus]

Ok about the salvos :
you could link any hardpoints together ie 1st and 3rd, 2nd 3rd and 4th etc, or all.
each missile still locked down in it's own time and way, however you saw only the fastest locking missiles's sequence (excluding DF wich have none...) however when you fired, only missiles that were already locked on the target fired (ie if you were charging Flash heads on with all banks, you fired only imreks, and no HS's this is also reason why you didnt fire torps usually)

I actually used it quite a lot in the last missions of WC3, with my excal carrying at least 2 banks of DF's to kill capships fast and nice

@Backlash also note that longbow has 4 missile and 2 torp banks making it a total of SIX banks.. generally:
arrow: 4 missile banks, 2 missiles each (4 total)
hellcat: 2 banks, 3 each
excalibur: 4 banks, 3 each (or 2 banks 3 each + 1 bank with 1 t-bomb)
t-bolt 2missile banks 3 each + 1 torp bank with 1 torp 9, 3 total)
longbow 4 missile banks 4 each + 2 torp banks 2 each, total 6 banks

[Backslash]

Ah, that lock method makes more sense.  Thanks for the explanation.

Well I found my WC3 CDs and have been catching up on old times. Unfortunately I can't find my manual, so what is the control for linking hardpoints?

[starlord]

pressing "B" will link your hard points for simulteanous fire. In case of a mixed load, you will be able to fire a full salvo only when the missiles with the longest lock time are on target.

[Mancubus]

or you can use "[" to move the frame on weapons screen and then "]" to add,remove framed hardpoint