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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Ryan on June 09, 2007, 12:16:56 am
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Is the possible to command the giant GTVA collusus or some other covverate?
I would like to do this during the game, instead of wasteing my time shooting the shivans, just ram into them!
Is there any way i could do this?
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It's certainly possible, but as you take damage to turrets and whatnot your damage box fills up.
There's a hardcoded limit to the number of broken subsystems that can be displayed, and once that limit is reached, the game crashes to desktop.
Small cruisers you can get away with, but the GTVA Colossus is asking for trouble.
Plus, in an action-oriented game like FS2, it's just asking for hours of boredom as it's your turrets shooting things, not you. :)
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Why does everyone want to do this? I mean...Freespace 2 is about fighters, yet everyone always wants to turn it into Freelancer with capital ships.
Anyway, I still stand by my suggestion that someone should mod Bridge Commander and put in Freespace 2 ships.
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Why does everyone want to do this? I mean...Freespace 2 is about fighters, yet everyone always wants to turn it into Freelancer with capital ships.
Because it's a fun game and people like it, but they want to do something new, but with the same thing they love.
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Small cruisers you can get away with, but the GTVA Colossus is asking for trouble
how? what do i change? im using the demo right now, in case that helps
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Demo? Why?
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Demo? Why?
Tryiong to find the installer to install the full version that i dl'ed from hades, if i can't do that, ill go with HUTO(i think the link in the download page on this site is broken though)
Anyway, is it possible to command a small cruiser with just the demo? even if its a shivan one?
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HOTU... Home Of The Underdogs. There's a link to The FAQTM in my signature...go click it. You can find a link to HOTU.
And I don't think you can use a cruiser with the demo. If I remember well, you can use a warship only with hacked tables.
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Why does everyone want to do this? I mean...Freespace 2 is about fighters, yet everyone always wants to turn it into Freelancer with capital ships.
Sometimes I wonder if Bungie get requests from people who want to play the game as the Pillar of Autumn's weapons officer too. :p
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perhaps. why stop at the pillar though, there was the "In Amber Clad" as well.....:P
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HOTU... Home Of The Underdogs. There's a link to The FAQTM in my signature...go click it. You can find a link to HOTU.
And I don't think you can use a cruiser with the demo. If I remember well, you can use a warship only with hacked tables.
.Nope. The link doesen't work
Any where else i can dl the game?
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Any where else i can dl the game?
Try Turey's FreeSpace Open Installer: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.html
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There is a whole bunch of DL links in this stickied thread here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html
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Any where else i can dl the game?
Try Turey's FreeSpace Open Installer: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.html
i did, and i got a bunch of errors
cannot frind fred2 route direectorsy thing
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Any where else i can dl the game?
Try Turey's FreeSpace Open Installer: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.html
i did, and i got a bunch of errors
cannot frind fred2 route direectorsy thing
Where'd you install to?
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c/games
I NEED to kill shivans!
HOTU link is broken, everything has no installer, just please give me a link to the full freespace 2 game and install it
Then ill fufill my desire to PWN something
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There is a whole bunch of DL links in this stickied thread here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html
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There was a mission that allowed you to fly a cap ship, I can't remember what it was though.
EDIT: It was called war.zip, can't seem to find a working link anywhere though.
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See attachment:
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ah yes, that was quite fun. one question though, how the hell can a support ship re-arm a deimos class? try it, it works.
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Magic. In space.
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Kind of makes you fear the day the Shivans develop a support ship.... Perfect Bearbaiting run? Victory in your grasp? I don't think so.
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Kind of makes you fear the day the Shivans develop a support ship.... Perfect Bearbaiting run? Victory in your grasp? I don't think so.
Sort of reminds me of the fact that you can make anything warp in in fs. Cargo containers, the works, everything can warp in. Fs is pretty flexible in the areas you don't think about. And yeah it would be cool to fly the colossus. I'd like to kill some destroyers, but that war.zip thing is cool. Flying around as a deimos was killer.
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handles like a whale though. notice the other ships can pivot on their axis extremly fast, like a fighter, and your stuck in "space goo" for lack of a better phrase. meh, guess it's just ballancing
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ill have to try that, as for fighting,
In freelancer there was a handy thing for modded capitol ships called turret view. You pressed a button and looked around the ship withuot moving it, you could aim guns and fire them, move foward, enter cruise(faster then normal engines).
Is taht thing in fs?
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Techinically it is, but it's a lot more simplistic than that. When you target a fighter, you're guns go a blasting depending on which side of the deimos the fighter is on. After that you can use the pov buttons to switch to whatever region of the deimos you desire. Which would most likely be the side of the deimos that is blasting the guns at the figter you targeted. Of course you can do all of this while in motion, but it's recommended to choose your vector, do some blasting, choose another vector, and do some more blasting. You're flying a ****ing corvette, not a fighter, so you cannot fight the same.
On another note, if the deimos didn't have slashing turrets, you could get surgical on other capships and take out various subsystems and turrets really fast if those damn beams weren't slashers. You'd be able to make your target go retarded taking out all of all of the subsystems in view before you destroy it. Also the beams are really the only weapons you have absolute control over on the deimos anyway.
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There was also a mission around here where you could play as a leviathen. And i thought that would be fun since it would be a more complete weapons platform. Missiles and everything else it has. Plus it's smaller, and it would be fun to play as a leviathen, that'd make the cruiser line effective.
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I have determined that arming a Leviathan with about 40 Maxims per turret on all turrets makes an excellent anti-fighter/bomber platform.
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I have determined that arming a Leviathan with about 40 Maxims per turret on all turrets makes an excellent anti-fighter/bomber platform.
Forget Maxims... go with Morning Stars!!
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Forget Maxims... go with Morning Stars!!
dear god. that would be annoying as hell.
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Now add the <EMP> flag.
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Forget Maxims... go with Morning Stars!!
dear god. that would be annoying as hell.
Annoying but funny as heck! They can't get within a few clicks of the cruiser...
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There was also a mission around here where you could play as a leviathen. And i thought that would be fun since it would be a more complete weapons platform. Missiles and everything else it has. Plus it's smaller, and it would be fun to play as a leviathen, that'd make the cruiser line effective.
I made one mission for my Fenris campaign and packed it with the Merkar demo. Is that what you mean?
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I think so, i just couldn't get it to work.
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ah yes, that was quite fun. one question though, how the hell can a support ship re-arm a deimos class? try it, it works.
Easy, dock and let your fellow slaves do the rest to carry the material to the right weapon slots ;-) ...
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Fabian
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I got the war.zip working but is there anyway to control individual turrets? Whats that PDS (point defense turrent?). Are you supposed to be able to control it? If so, how do I do so?
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All you're supposed to be able to do is to target enemies and let the Deimos's weapons do the dirty work. It currently isn't possible to control individual turrets, although I believe a few people have come up with some scripting ideas which might eventually be used for a similar purpose.
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Someone made a really primitive target the enemy, and use your mouse to point the turrets while they fire.
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Unfortunately, last i heard, the "turrent" will have its aim off a lot once you move.
Oh, and yes I can spell turret correctly--it is just teasing MT.
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to actually do this properly you would have to be able to target multiple ships, which i don't believe is possible using the fs engine