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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Amon_Re on June 06, 2006, 08:42:20 am
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What planes besides the Orion class can carry fighters/have a launchbay?
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Typhon, Demon, Lucifer, Arcadia, Faustus.
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Faustus? o.O
I never noticed, that the Faustus has a fighterbay... :nervous:
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Faustus? o.O
I never noticed, that the Faustus has a fighterbay... :nervous:
It uses it to primarily launch escape pods (e.g. Plato, Einstein), but yes, it's still there. Good catch, Goob.
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So no Fenris & Leviathans?
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Not that I would imagine.
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Grmbl grmbl..
So, basicly, the smallest fighter carrying craft in FS1 is the Orion?
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Yes. But you can do whatever you want in your missions, just make up some excuse that half the weapons were ripped out to make room for a few Hercs or something. It's done all the time.
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Yes. But you can do whatever you want in your missions, just make up some excuse that half the weapons were ripped out to make room for a few Hercs or something. It's done all the time.
Yea, but without launchbay, that kinda sucks :wtf:
Guess i've got no choice but to use an orion for my idea then
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You could use one of many user mods
a Small-medium size Ship which fighterbays? (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38893.0.html)
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You still do have the Faustus. That it doesn't carry fighters normally doesn't mean you can't make it, and it gives you the launch bay. You can even use special hitpoints and alter the turret loadout to make a bit more of a warship out of it, and perhaps give it an Alt name to indicate the modifications.
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You still do have the Faustus. That it doesn't carry fighters normally doesn't mean you can't make it, and it gives you the launch bay. You can even use special hitpoints and alter the turret loadout to make a bit more of a warship out of it, and perhaps give it an Alt name to indicate the modifications.
Hmmm... not a terrible idea really, i'd need to take a closer look at it
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You could use one of many user mods
a Small-medium size Ship which fighterbays? (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38893.0.html)
That's also possible ^^
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Could someone post an pic from the fighterbay of the Faustus? :nervous: :D
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What planes besides the Orion class can carry fighters/have a launchbay?
Planes ??? lol, sorry man it caught me unaware thats all.
Which mission has the Faustius launching fighters, its been a few years since i played through FS1...
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I think it's the mission, when the shivans first appear.
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The Faustus never launches fighters. The Faustus launches escape pods in two different instances: Out of the Dark, Into the Night, when the Shivans first appear and the destroy the GTSC Plato; the other is in the second mission of Silent Threat, when the player destroys the GTSC Einstein. The fighterbay seems to be on or around the center of the ship, near the solar panel.
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Naaaaah, the PLato drops an escape pod as it has to ensure the avenger prototypes survival not from a fighter bay either mind you :D, but the fighters (you and alpha wing) are do a standard fs start. The pod is just flagged in In the arrival cue they use arrive near ship, instead of subspace + arrival distance from ship-gtc einstein <100 or omething to that effect. Thats the one with the PVC Taurus right? the only plastic bull in the whole saga :lol:
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Naaaaah, the PLato drops an escape pod as it has to ensure the avenger prototypes survival not from a fighter bay either mind you
Yes, it does launch from a fighterbay.
$Name: Plato Escape ;! Object #23
$Class: GTEP Hermes
$Team: Friendly
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$Arrival Location: Docking Bay
+Arrival Distance: 0
$Arrival Anchor: Plato
$Arrival Cue: ( or
( < ( hits-left "Plato" ) 20 )
( is-destroyed-delay 0 "Plato" )
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The Loki is the only fighter small enough to not look funny coming out of the Faustus. If you think about it it makes sense, a research group aquires a Faustus, and realize it's defenseless in pirate infested space, so they put in a loki to do their bidding, it's kinda like Descent 3. Anyhow, use a Loki, or if your in the mood for humor, use an Ursa.
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:eek2: OMFG, I'm gonna have to replay fs1 all over again.. Apologies nuke. Dave...
Well i hope that the SCP guys can code capships launching from hangars so that
A- The Plato can give birth to a Juggernaut
B- The HW team might find a use for it ;7
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A- The Plato can give birth to a Juggernaut
I think yhey need to use some kind of lubricant :ick:
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Reminds me of an old flame ;7 :lol: :wtf:
Imagine a HW style mothership, or even a new GTA class shipyard/constructor/Mobile repair yard, as a corvette leaves its berths..
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Well, I also think about using a Faustus for my original idea, has to be use the GTSI Einstein, I only need space for two fighters, but the Faustus dont have a Figterbay really...
Someone do ever try a launch from a Faustus? you will apear in space just below them, is more like an Attach than a Fighterbay.
Anyway, hail the GTX Sparta, The experimental first class of terran corbettes :LOL, which an Small fighterbay, developed primary for GTI operations behind enemy lines (is should be hard to infiltratre and hide an Orion in enemy territory :P)... So why none knowns about it??? well all have to wait to see that :P
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Wasn't someone making that fighterbay module for the Triton?
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Maybe... (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,37748.0.html)
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Planes ??? lol, sorry man it caught me unaware thats all.
Which mission has the Faustius launching fighters, its been a few years since i played through FS1...
Don't ask me what i was thinking when i wrote "planes" :nervous:
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Maybe... (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,37748.0.html)
:nervous:
That remains one of the mods we've always needed the most but nobody's ever finished, and yours is the best implementation of the concept I can remember. It'd be a crime for it not to get finished and released.
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Yeah. I know your busy and all Axem, but can you send that to somone so they can finish it?
I suck at modeling and worse at converting, so, not me.
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....It'd be a crime for it not to get finished and released.
Seconded. I hope you're still working on it. If not, release what you have so far.
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Its better that it could be in better hands. So... WIP Released (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,37748.msg818286.html#msg818286)
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Your design seems like a perfect escort carrier for convoys, and even cargo depots (not sure if the crew could live in there with the combat craft, is there enough room?, or a nice light carrier for a post-Capella economic situation- I doubt these things cost much. One potential difficulty is weapons: where are they stored?
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You mean this (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,37748.msg769931.html#msg769931)?
Edit: Whoopsies. I was replying to TrashMan's post on the first page, didn't realise there was a second... :rolleyes:
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No, Axem made the thing, if he says it ain't done, it ain't done, read the thread.
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Mars1: I imported the models and found it could fit 3 squads of fighters or 3 wings of bombers. Now thats packing it to the brim, so get rid of a squad or wing to make room for supplies.
Mars2: Hmm? Its not done, but released so others can finish it.
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Mars2: Hmm? Its not done, but released so others can finish it.
It had to do with Mefustae's edited post... don't worry about it.
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I might take a whack at it :D
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IIRC Madbomber has one as well. It's amongst the files for his Heros For Hire campaign somewhere; if he doesn't mind I could raid them and try and find the right stuff.
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Maybe... (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,37748.0.html)
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Dude, that ship is *sexy!*
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Just for ****s and giggles since you guys wanted to see this...
Here's like a size comparison of an apollo next to a faustus
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/8571/untitled53ca.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And here's the actual launch bay of the faustus
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/7430/untitled60mg.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
My deduction, is you could get an apollo to fit through that, but as opposed to using loki's, stick with something smaller and better like the valkyrie. You could fit like two or three valkyries inside that thing, and they should be small enough for that launch bay.
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I've been messing around with FRED, and I've basically got a Faustus class carrying a few GTF Angels. They fit out of the docking bay, and it looks like room for a wing or so inside the front section.
Also, if you only need two fighters the Fenris and Leviathan both have two dock points...