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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: shiv on May 15, 2009, 06:07:48 am
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I was looking at FS1 CD covers and I realized that they can be "connected" together so we'll get a full shape of weird ship. It looks like connection of Lucifer and Typhon. I'm attatching "connected" image and separate covers: (first image lvlshoted)
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8383/typ.jpg)
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6581/98085154100.jpg)
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9382/106342559000.jpg)
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6992/106342559300.jpg)
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7084/106342559600.jpg)
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Why luciferized? Does it glow in dark?
I mean I have always considered that as what the HTL Typhon should be.
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Look at this part:
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7084/106342559600.jpg)
It's Lucifer's part.
Entire thing look very... weird...
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If you look at it in the opposite manner (back = front and vice-versa), it does look a bit like the Lucifer's front.
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That must become the HTL Typhon.
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"Engage in space combat against massive capital ships with moving, reacting gun turrets that not only fire at you but can be blown off creating new obstacles."
:wtf:
False advertising, anyone?
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Well no... They have a destroyed turret texture, and occasionally you get debris?
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Just about the entire section with the "You are here..." is BS.
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Just about the entire section with the "You are here..." is BS.
What does mean BS?
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Just about the entire section with the "You are here..." is BS.
What does mean BS?
bs = bullsh1t
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Just about the entire section with the "You are here..." is BS.
What?
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Probably because that's not the actual model in the game.
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Just about the entire section with the "You are here..." is BS.
Why? The scales are correct.
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The model is a lot more high-detail of course.
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Then it says "this is the actual model" or something.
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Yeah it's saying 'this is the actual model in the game', which is a lies.
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It is a lies, indeed.
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Actually, it *is* the in-game model, view a Typhon side-on. It is, however, rendered and has some cleaned up lighting effects not done in-game.
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Erm no, it has a lot more detail than the retail one.
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Just about the entire section with the "You are here..." is BS.
Why? The scales are correct.
Not really, 20 ships do not fill up a single window that the image displays.
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Actually, it *is* the in-game model, view a Typhon side-on. It is, however, rendered and has some cleaned up lighting effects not done in-game.
They've done some weird stuff to the tower, and that's just at a cursory glance.
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Also there're some antenas near the fighterbay. Fighterbay look like "double-fighterbay" too.
Anyway, it's perfect reference for those who'd like to do HTL Typhon.
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It makes the Vasudans seem really alien, which is how they should be.
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Yeah, but they should only be alien in a different sense from the Shivan one.
It just dawned on me that there might be quite a lot of fake advertising going on in the boxart. You're supposedly in a war with the Vasudans, but you get hints of the Shivans the moment you run the game for the first time. Then there's that possible size discrepancy, the fact that the Typhon shown is not the actual model, and the fact that turrets can't be blown off, only blown up.
...unless, of course, if :v: was attempting to show the Typhon on the front and Lucifer on the back... :nervous:
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Yeah, but they should only be alien in a different sense from the Shivan one.
They are. In FS1, the Vasudans are alien in a kinda "rusty" sense. But the Shivans always seemed far more threatening.
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Yeah, but they should only be alien in a different sense from the Shivan one.
They're not Starfish Aliens, mind you, they're similar enough for fairly common ground. The Vasudans should not be as alien as the Shivans, particularly after fourteen plus years of contact, no matter how unfriendly.