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Title: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: foolfromhell on August 30, 2007, 08:02:58 pm
I mean... wtf? Whats it for??

You create a fighter then change the ship to the last one on the list...

Also, I can FRED myself as any capital ship or shivan fighter. Is that a bug??
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: Ghostavo on August 30, 2007, 08:04:09 pm
It's sort of an easter egg by Volition. If you look closely you can see the faces of the developers.
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: Kie99 on August 30, 2007, 08:41:06 pm
I mean... wtf? Whats it for??

You create a fighter then change the ship to the last one on the list...

Volition Bravos is something :v: created, faces of the creators are on the pirates.  You can call it into any mission by typing arrrrwalktheplank

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Also, I can FRED myself as any capital ship or shivan fighter. Is that a bug??

No, you'll just find flying difficult and get a few errors.
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: Fang_Taichou on August 30, 2007, 09:02:49 pm
Ghostavo is correct.  It's Volition's little Easter Egg, though it'll take a Sathanas juggernaut quite a bit of time to crack its shell  :lol:

I think the Volition team wanted to make old-school pirates the #1 power of the Freespace Universe, but alas their bosses thought otherwise  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: IceFire on August 30, 2007, 09:35:23 pm
Lots of the development team like/liked pirates.  In the old FreeSpace 2 multiplayer beta there were plenty of pirate references if you started reading the tech room information that had been written at that point (obviously it was placeholder).  So this translated ultimately into the Volition Bravos which is the pirate ship you're talking about with some/most/all of the development teams faces plastered all over the "people" (more like blobs) on the ship.
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: Dark Hunter on August 30, 2007, 10:08:53 pm
When I first saw it I was sure it was custom model (I first saw it in the famous Derelict dream sequence).

Then I heard about "arrrwalktheplank"... :)
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: foolfromhell on August 30, 2007, 11:09:02 pm
how does "arrwalktheplank" work?
I tried typing it in-game and it doesnt work.
Neither does typing www.freespace2.com before typing in arrwalktheplank...
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: CP5670 on August 30, 2007, 11:19:13 pm
You need four r's in it.
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: Fang_Taichou on August 30, 2007, 11:20:13 pm
Yeah, codes don't work unless you input the EXACT keys.  One wrong letter and you have to restart typing from the beginning  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: Goober5000 on August 31, 2007, 08:58:34 am
Lots of the development team like/liked pirates.  In the old FreeSpace 2 multiplayer beta there were plenty of pirate references if you started reading the tech room information that had been written at that point (obviously it was placeholder).
Do you have a copy? :D
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: Game_Master64 on August 31, 2007, 11:04:34 am
Ghostavo is correct.  It's Volition's little Easter Egg, though it'll take a Sathanas juggernaut quite a bit of time to crack its shell  :lol:

damn straight. it took  anSJ, and myself with in an erinyies with weapons forced to BFRed, with x64 time compression about 30 min or so to kill it (i didn't actually time it, i'm guessing).
Title: Re: Does anyone else know about that weird pirate ship?
Post by: Snail on August 31, 2007, 11:13:15 am
I would estimate longer.