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Title: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Titan on March 22, 2007, 02:39:03 pm

i was looking at some of the original screenshots of FS2, released right after the game. almost all of them have, in the primary thingy (in the hud, you know, on the bottom right) something called the SD-4 sidearm. what the heck is it? i dont see it in the tbls, fred, anywere. was it pherhaps fully taken out, unlike the targetting beam?
 :confused:

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Akalamanaia on March 22, 2007, 03:39:30 pm

I'm pretty sure SD-4 Sidearm is Subach HL-7 if i remember right..

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Taristin on March 22, 2007, 04:38:35 pm

Isn't the Akheton the SD-4?

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: IceFire on March 22, 2007, 06:14:41 pm

Subach HL-7.  In the Beta days it had more in common with the ML-16 from Descent: FreeSpace.

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Mr. Vega on March 22, 2007, 09:18:07 pm

Just some ML-16 thingy they were going to show in a FS1 cutscene that got cut due to lack of time.

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Polpolion on March 22, 2007, 09:26:41 pm

Quote from: Taristin on March 22, 2007, 04:38:35 pm

Isn't the Akheton the SD-4?

IIRC Akheton SDG

EDIT: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTW_Akheton_SDG

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Snail on March 23, 2007, 08:28:32 am

It was the Subach. Look at the animation. The Akheton's original name was the Scaplel. (BTW, does SDG stand for Subsystem Disruptor Gun?)

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Wanderer on March 23, 2007, 10:20:00 am

'Alternate' names from FS2 weapons.tbl

Subach/Mekhu: SD or Sidearm (both in comments and in animation name)
Akheton: Scalpel
Morning Star: Flail 2
Maxim: Newton
Lamprey: Lich
Tornado: Bombardier
Harpoon: Crossbow
Cyclops: Belial

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Cobra on March 23, 2007, 12:38:22 pm

Yeah, I found that out a while ago too. I suppose the Volition dudes figured the release names were better than the beta names or something.

Also, Titan, kid, ease up on the exclamations and question marks, will ya? Makes you look stupid. ;)

Title: Re: What was the SD-4?!?!?!?
Post by: Snail on March 23, 2007, 01:54:31 pm

Quote from: Wanderer on March 23, 2007, 10:20:00 am

Subach/Mekhu: SD or Sidearm (both in comments and in animation name)
Akheton: Scalpel
Morning Star: Flail 2
Maxim: Newton
Lamprey: Lich
Tornado: Bombardier
Harpoon: Crossbow
Cyclops: Belial

Alternative alternative names:
Subach HL-7: Subach HL-3
Rockeye: Wasp/MX-64

For FS1 (from really old development screenshots and from the table):

ML-16: Light Laser
Avenger: Phalanx
MX-50: Rockeye (weird that they changed it back in FS2)
Interceptor: Shrike
Hornet: Swarm
Phoenix V: Angelfire
Tsunami: Mag-Pulse