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Title: Concordia revisited
Post by: Sphynx on October 22, 2007, 07:56:17 pm
For this week's Saga update, Klavs is showcasing his new take on a Wing Commander classic: the TCS Condcordia.  Klav's reports, "I've been hard at work off the radar creating all new, never before seen content for WC: Saga. Some familiar stuff, some new stuff, but all with Saga's devotion to high quality. I tried to put my own spin on the old Concordia, bringing the old ship a little more into the real world. Hope everyone enjoys it, and gets warm fuzzy memories of WC2 without getting TOO upset at the changes!"

(http://www.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/klavs-bigct.jpg) (http://www.wcnews.com/newestshots/full/klavs-bigc.jpg)


We would also like to share two other images. One was created by Lars, showing a bridge-eye view of two Rapiers taking off from the Concordia. In the other, Klavs shows us a peek inside the Concordia's cavernous fighter bay.

(http://www.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/concordia-frontt.jpg) (http://www.wcnews.com/newestshots/full/concordia-front.jpg)

(http://www.wcnews.com/newestshots/thumb/concordia-insidet.jpg) (http://www.wcnews.com/newestshots/full/concordia-inside.jpg)

Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Cobra on October 22, 2007, 08:28:17 pm
Fix the links, the http://"<url>" makes Mozilla cry.

That said, nice model. :yes:
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Sphynx on October 22, 2007, 09:08:02 pm
Try this, and check out our homepage at wcsaga.com. If you can't see the images here, you should be able to see them there. I'll see if I can have a more tech savvy member of the team post some better pictures. :)

Also, Klavs has posted them here: http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-gallery/36469-tcs-concordia.html

Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Stone48420 on October 24, 2007, 04:17:43 pm
any chance of getting a shot of it doing somthing like this.

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Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Tolwyn on October 27, 2007, 10:23:27 am
any chance of getting a shot of it doing somthing like this.

not yet.

By the way: links fixed. :)
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: maje on November 04, 2007, 10:21:44 pm
Sadly, my Wing Commander experience has been restricted to Super Wing Commander for the Super Nintendo, and Wing Commander Prophecy and Secret Ops, so I'm not as familiar with the Concordia as I'd like to be.  Based on what I see though, it looks to be one bad-ass mother.  The texturing is well executed as is the modeling.  I look forward to seeing it in action. :yes:
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: headdie on November 17, 2007, 06:14:21 pm
very impressive, any chance of a download of it to replace the logo entry in Prologue?  would love to base some missions off it.  also any chance of a Bengal class?
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: IceFire on November 18, 2007, 08:08:13 am
Sadly, my Wing Commander experience has been restricted to Super Wing Commander for the Super Nintendo, and Wing Commander Prophecy and Secret Ops, so I'm not as familiar with the Concordia as I'd like to be.  Based on what I see though, it looks to be one bad-ass mother.  The texturing is well executed as is the modeling.  I look forward to seeing it in action. :yes:
Concordia was only in WC2 (and the two expansion packs).  And yes she was definitely a tough customer indeed!  In the first capital ship to capital ship battle of the Wing Commander series around mission 2 or 3 the Concordia is attacked by a Kilrathi cruiser which is dispatched courtesy of the keel mounted Phase Transit cannon.  One hit from that and bye bye cruiser.  It was great :)
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Ace on November 21, 2007, 02:32:20 pm
She was also in the WC3 intro ;)
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: headdie on November 25, 2007, 04:09:31 am
She was also in the WC3 intro ;)

When he says this all you see is the front 1/3 of the ship sticking out the sea during the opening sequence after she is shot down during battle earth as a continuity for the player's story from WC2, I.E. why is he transferring to the victory
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: gevatter Lars on November 25, 2007, 04:22:46 am
If I remember it correctly the Concordia wasn't shot down during the batte of earth but at a later battle.
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: IceFire on December 06, 2007, 07:48:52 pm
She was also in the WC3 intro ;)

When he says this all you see is the front 1/3 of the ship sticking out the sea during the opening sequence after she is shot down during battle earth as a continuity for the player's story from WC2, I.E. why is he transferring to the victory
Not the Battle of Earth.  The Concordia survived that battle.  As I remember it was a planet called Vespus and it was during a rear guard action trying to save other Confederation ships.  The Concordia was eventually forced into low orbit and crashed.
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Cobra on December 06, 2007, 09:06:16 pm
The one crashed on Earth was like... Wellington-class or something. I don't have WCS anymore and I can't be bother to look it up right now.
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Tolwyn on December 07, 2007, 01:53:12 am
No carrier ever crashed on Earth :) And surely it was not Wellington-class. :D
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Cobra on December 07, 2007, 11:04:34 am
Play Wingcommander 2 again. :P
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Tolwyn on December 07, 2007, 11:41:05 am
Go play it yourself. :lol:
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Cobra on December 07, 2007, 02:24:34 pm
Bah, you're both right. The Concordia crashed on Vespus. I didn't think it was Vespus, because when i played WC3 I couldn't understand what the hell they were saying.
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: IceFire on December 08, 2007, 12:12:19 am
Open your ears? :)
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Cobra on December 08, 2007, 01:49:39 am
:P

Seriously though, when I played it, the dialog was... muffled.
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: gevatter Lars on December 08, 2007, 05:42:44 am
I can't remember haveing any problems...but then I have played the geman version. Maybe they spoke more clearly in that version or my meories are blured because I have heard that dialog so much that I can repeate it without hearing what they say ^_^
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: headdie on December 16, 2007, 06:23:22 am
i retract my statement that it was earth, that was based on playing a borrowed copy from a friend over 7 years ago and at age 14-16 i wasn't to bothered about what they were saying just annoyed that it was felt fitting to destroy such a kick ass ship.

on another note how did the admiral survive? throughout WC2 and the Spec Ops missions he was using the ship as his flag, Blair i can understand because as wing commander it was his duty to fly in defense of the ship but we have all seen how quickly a ship blows up when hit by that last torpedo and you never see a shuttle of the ships command staff try to sneak away
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: nowd on December 16, 2007, 07:59:53 am
 
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on another note how did the admiral survive? throughout WC2 and the Spec Ops missions he was using the ship as his flag, Blair i can understand because as wing commander it was his duty to fly in defense of the ship but we have all seen how quickly a ship blows up when hit by that last torpedo and you never see a shuttle of the ships command staff try to sneak away
He probably was at sector HQ in Torgo. The Concordia was badly damaged in the battle of earth and he probably didn't want to command his forces from a ship that is one torpedo away from destruction.
Blair wasn't onboard either. He was injured in the battle of earth and grounded for six months.
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: gevatter Lars on December 16, 2007, 02:48:20 pm
I think I remember that Tolwyn also wasn't in the best shape and was held back to coordinate the rebuild and other efforts after the battle for earth.
Title: Re: Concordia revisited
Post by: Tolwyn on December 17, 2007, 08:38:55 am
Tolwyn was transfered to special weapons division (operation Behemoth) before the Concordia went down.