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Title: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Cadet6454 on January 25, 2009, 08:09:46 pm
Hee, im looking for a Wing Commander game, but I just can't remember the game name. All I remember are these things and if you can help me out i'd really appreciate it.

1: If you were by some chance destroyed it would show a scene of your capsule. It would be picked up by either the humans or aliens.

2: your comrades had white helmets that looked like stormtroopers. And when in the cockpit it looked like black and white static.

3: Alien ships had had green diamonds at the end of them.

4: the game had cinematics, but none of them contained actual actors in them.

oh and the aliens look more like insects the kilrathi
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Recluse on January 25, 2009, 08:43:41 pm
Most likely Wing Commander Prophecy or the Free Special Ops 1  and 2  standalone campaigns that were set in the Prophecy universe. Bad guys were the Nephilim.

Their ships looked kind of like fish, but the aliens were insectoid. Colloquially, the Allied pilots called them 'BUGS'.
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Commander Zane on January 25, 2009, 08:48:01 pm
Hee, im looking for a Wing Commander game, but I just can't remember the game name. All I remember are these things and if you can help me out i'd really appreciate it.

1: If you were by some chance destroyed it would show a scene of your capsule. It would be picked up by either the humans or aliens.

2: your comrades had white helmets that looked like stormtroopers. And when in the cockpit it looked like black and white static.

3: Alien ships had had green diamonds at the end of them.

4: the game had cinematics, but none of them contained actual actors in them.

oh and the aliens look more like insects the kilrathi

You're looking at too many different WC games at the same time.
1: Makes me think of WC2 with the Sabre pick-up scenes.

2: Makes me think of WC3 and WC4.

3: Prophecy and Secret Ops.

4: WC1 and WC2 are the only ones I remember that didn't have actors. (Not to count spinoffs like Privateer.)
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Cadet6454 on January 25, 2009, 08:49:19 pm
thx been trying to find this game. Can it still be bought somewhere? or is it discontinued that i have to find it online?
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Commander Zane on January 25, 2009, 09:03:43 pm
It's dead to the point that you have like a 15% chance of getting them to work on a modern OS.
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 25, 2009, 10:25:51 pm
DosBox should help
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Commander Zane on January 25, 2009, 10:47:07 pm
DosBox should help
Didn't help me with anything other than the Kilrathi Saga which works under Windows anyway...
Except for WC3 of course... :doubt:
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 25, 2009, 10:57:57 pm
DosBox should help
Didn't help me with anything other than the Kilrathi Saga which works under Windows anyway...
Except for WC3 of course... :doubt:
WC1 and 2 should work under dosbox. I had wc1 running, although it ended up giving me a bad headache (probably graphics & framerate combo)
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Commander Zane on January 25, 2009, 11:45:31 pm
Kilrathi Saga is WC1 to WC3, ported to run under Windows OS.
WC3 refused to work with either DoS or Windows itself.
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Talon 1024 on January 26, 2009, 12:15:07 am
Hee, im looking for a Wing Commander game, but I just can't remember the game name. All I remember are these things and if you can help me out i'd really appreciate it.

1: If you were by some chance destroyed it would show a scene of your capsule. It would be picked up by either the humans or aliens.

2: your comrades had white helmets that looked like stormtroopers. And when in the cockpit it looked like black and white static.

3: Alien ships had had green diamonds at the end of them.

4: the game had cinematics, but none of them contained actual actors in them.

oh and the aliens look more like insects the kilrathi

That sounds like Wing Commander: Prophecy. :p

There's also Wing Commander: Secret Ops, which is a free, standalone continuation to WCP.
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 26, 2009, 01:51:00 am
Hee, im looking for a Wing Commander game, but I just can't remember the game name. All I remember are these things and if you can help me out i'd really appreciate it.

1: If you were by some chance destroyed it would show a scene of your capsule. It would be picked up by either the humans or aliens.

2: your comrades had white helmets that looked like stormtroopers. And when in the cockpit it looked like black and white static.

3: Alien ships had had green diamonds at the end of them.

4: the game had cinematics, but none of them contained actual actors in them.

oh and the aliens look more like insects the kilrathi

That sounds like Wing Commander: Prophecy. :p

There's also Wing Commander: Secret Ops, which is a free, standalone continuation to WCP.

#1 is definetely Prophecy.  Theres an unkillable Mantra thats heading for the pilot.  If you attack it fast enough it jumps out without the pilot.
#2 no clue
#3 again the bugs
#4 that sounds like either wc1 or 2 or one of the side games (armada, privateer 1)
Title: Re: Wing Commander. Need some help
Post by: Vidmaster on January 26, 2009, 09:16:41 am
IT IS PROPHECY SECRET OPS. No discussion.


Best of all, it's available for free and it's legal. Check www.wcnews.com