[jr2]

"Launching the game." That opening screen with all the lights was sooooo coool

Post a screenie!  Which one are you talking about?

[Hades]

I forgot about this one.
I was flying along net to a HTL Hecate, then it gets killed.
It starts turning toward me after it is killed.
I didn't know it was happening untill it rammed me and killed me.
Then 1 sec later, it exploded.

[Fearless Leader]

I forgot about this one.
I was flying along net to a HTL Hecate, then it gets killed.
It starts turning toward me after it is killed.
I didn't know it was happening untill it rammed me and killed me.
Then 1 sec later, it exploded.

Yeah, I always hated it when a cap ship would explode when I was 0.5m from it and didnt expect it to

[Kie99]

Doomsday.

[Fozzy]

"Launching the game." That opening screen with all the lights was sooooo coool

i have to agree also

when you first encounter the icini "WTF a space ship in an asteroid how cool is that"

and the music all the way through....

[Retsof]

When you don't know you're in between two capships untill they start shooting at each other, also when the actium was destroted.  *BOOM*  What the heck was that!

[Excalibur]

Getting hit by a massive beam directly - you go spinning and blow up. Just like that.

Also, when your 1m behind an enemy bomber and a friendly cap ship starts firing all its flak at it.

[BloodEagle]

Also, when your 1m behind an enemy bomber and a friendly cap ship starts firing all its flak at it.

You know, they do that on purpose.

[jr2]

Getting hit by a massive beam directly - you go spinning and blow up. Just like that.

Also, when your 1m behind an enemy bomber and a friendly cap ship starts firing all its flak at it.

IIRC, I've been insta-vaped before... if you're dead in the center of the beam, you don't keel over and explode, you just go "POW!" and that's that, I don't think there's even any debris.  .. Am I right on this, or do I have an over-active imagination?

[MercFox1]

Getting hit by a massive beam directly - you go spinning and blow up. Just like that.

Also, when your 1m behind an enemy bomber and a friendly cap ship starts firing all its flak at it.

IIRC, I've been insta-vaped before... if you're dead in the center of the beam, you don't keel over and explode, you just go "POW!" and that's that, I don't think there's even any debris.  .. Am I right on this, or do I have an over-active imagination?

No....you're right. I can speak from personal experience on this one...

[colecampbell666]

Another blinker is when Command orders the Phoenicia to stand its ground head-on vs. the Shivan juggernaut in 'Bearbaiting' (a destroyer with 10,000 lives onboard wasted to slow down the juggernaut by 0 seconds, nice going Command...), then the final destruction of that Sathanas in High Noon.

The Phonecia never dies in my games. It always ends up at 1-13% health after the first volley. I never get to see what happens after that but the Sath never fires again. (I should know as I am 300> metres from the main beams.

If I had a copy of freespace 2 and a computer I would replay the campaign rightnow

Can't help you with the computer part but here.

[wdarkk]

Another blinker is when Command orders the Phoenicia to stand its ground head-on vs. the Shivan juggernaut in 'Bearbaiting' (a destroyer with 10,000 lives onboard wasted to slow down the juggernaut by 0 seconds, nice going Command...), then the final destruction of that Sathanas in High Noon.

The Phonecia never dies in my games. It always ends up at 1-13% health after the first volley. I never get to see what happens after that but the Sath never fires again. (I should know as I am 300> metres from the main beams.

If I had a copy of freespace 2 and a computer I would replay the campaign rightnow

Can't help you with the computer part but here.

IIRC if the Phonecia manages to not die it will jump out. I've seen it blown up by the Sathanas a lot in my latest few games, it seems to be taking more beam damage now.

[Mobius]

In Retail FS2, it rarely went down. In FS Open, it goes down too many times. The SCP changed something in the game.

[jr2]

...You sure its not just you playing on a different difficulty now that you have more experience than you had back then?

[BloodEagle]

Whenever I play that mission, the thing dies within seconds. I don't even have time to get within bombing distance of the sathy.

[admiral_wolf]

Escorting the Galatea through the Asteroid field in a Valkyrie, and through bouncing off of the Galatea when she was on subspace drive whilst I was on Afterburner, I was doing 365 UNIT SPEED!  God help me if I hit anything at that speed!

[Mobius]

...You sure its not just you playing on a different difficulty now that you have more experience than you had back then?

What do you mean?

The Phoenicia goes down, I don't have a chance of destroying at least one BFred(unless I'm using Joshua's tables). I play at lower level of difficulty(so your theory wouldn't make sense), I'm using a mousestick.

[Cobra]

Huhuhuhuh. Cobra like funny deaths.

As for me, I... smashed right into a bomber.

...You sure its not just you playing on a different difficulty now that you have more experience than you had back then?

What do you mean?

The Phoenicia goes down, I don't have a chance of destroying at least one BFred(unless I'm using Joshua's tables). I play at lower level of difficulty(so your theory wouldn't make sense), I'm using a mousestick.

You're playing it on very easy. That makes the BFRed LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG.

[Mobius]

Easy, not very easy. Playing at very easy is...horrible.

[redsniper]

I seem to remember the Phoenicia dying every time in retail, and I played Bearbaiting many times.