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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Zeronet on December 20, 2001, 04:45:00 pm
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Just wondering which option people take. Doing it the right way and trying to save as many people as possible, the selfish way of sitting at the node or a balanced approach. Personally i died the first time and then just waited at the Node when i completed it the second time "Lamba 3 down, end this massasce now pilots". Chilling line.
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its a game, the point of the game is to have fun, whats the fun in sitting at the node all 15 minnutes of the mission?
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Originally posted by Zeronet:
Just wondering which option people take. Doing it the right way and trying to save as many people as possible, the selfish way of sitting at the node or a balanced approach. Personally i died the first time and then just waited at the Node when i completed it the second time "Lamba 3 down, end this massasce now pilots". Chilling line.
well, i did that too. they will die anyway, so why bother? Plus i hoped something more impressive for the last mission, was kindda disapointed and just wanted to beat the game once and for all.
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I didn't know what was going to happen.
I went out there with full of blood and thunder and I killed Shivans like the hand of Death himself. I fought hard. I know I must have called for a rearm so often the support pilots were sick of me. I protected my ships.
Then, the call came to get my sorry tail to the jumpnode. I ran. I worked my burners like a madman and, in the end, I was enveloped by the expanding shockwave of stellar material.
I sat there and stared at my screen as the credits scrolled and I suffered, knowing that I had failed, but that I had somehow won: the end credits were rolling after all.
If I had just sat in the node and let those ships die, I'd not have been satisfied. I'd have like I had missed some crucial bit of the game. Its a space combat game and I played it for the joy and terror and thrill and agony of the fight. Why skip all that for basic expediency? Its not worth it.
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--Mik
http://www.404error.com
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I stopped the supernova.
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(http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/icons/icon2.gif)
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I did. Want me to dredge up the thread where I described my victory?
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You should demand your money back. You paid for a full supernova, and they didn't deliver. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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--Mik
http://www.404error.com
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Why not do things the story-killing way and put a supernova in the nine-sath mission. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Mwuhahahaha. Where would the story arc be then? It'd be in its grave, that's where.
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It would probably blow away some material from the other star in that system... (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
What happens if you set up mission with multiple stars and a supernova-start event anyway?
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You could Wolf.
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Originally posted by CP5670:
It would probably blow away some material from the other star in that system... (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
What happens if you set up mission with multiple stars and a supernova-start event anyway?
I could see that as being very bright...
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I don't know, think of my reputation as being the only (well publicized) person to save Capella...
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009:
I don't know, think of my reputation as being the only (well publicized) person to save Capella...
Perhaps you should point out to them that you did. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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--Mik
http://www.404error.com
ruhkferret on ICQ/AIM
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I went out there with full of blood and thunder and I killed Shivans like the hand of Death himself. I fought hard. I know I must have called for a rearm so often the support pilots were sick of me. I protected my ships.
I did the same thing when I first played this, but I happened to be chasing a Shivan Dragon near the node when the supernova warning came up, so I was able to escape in time. (and kill the Dragon (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif))
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Originally posted by CP5670:
I did the same thing when I first played this, but I happened to be chasing a Shivan Dragon near the node when the supernova warning came up, so I was able to escape in time. (and kill the Dragon (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif))
Excellent work. *heh* Is there a difference in the ending between escaping and not escaping (we already knows what happens when you don't trigger the supernova)?
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--Mik
http://www.404error.com
ruhkferret on ICQ/AIM
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You die: "Unfortunately Alpha one didn't make it out"
You live: "Although you made it out, many didn't"
Or something similar to that anyway.
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Originally posted by an0n:
You die: "Unfortunately Alpha one didn't make it out"
You live: "Although you made it out, many didn't"
Or something similar to that anyway.
Nah, they give you hero status saying you sacificed your life to help save more people.
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if you die, the second part of the cutscene is seen from the moon, if you live, it's from earth (or the inverse, not sure)
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If you live you see it from Earth.