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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: SSC-ADMRL on August 18, 2002, 02:54:53 pm

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: SSC-ADMRL on August 18, 2002, 02:54:53 pm

I was playing a friendly tvt mission on pxo when suddenly i was out of respawns.  Then i started toying around following people and i realized that it is much easier to follow people using the slide buttons when u are in observer mode ( +/- and 1/3) I think that these buttons should be usuable on cirten ships.  I think that some ships should have it, and just like an after burner when a cirten direction is pressed fuel is released in that specific direction.  You could make a ship that instead of having an afterburner, having the sliders? or a ship that has the afterburns and sliders but once the slider fuel is used it doesnt regenerate?
:drevil:  well these are just my thoughts

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: Solatar on August 18, 2002, 03:02:36 pm

Try flying the Shivan ships, most of them have sliding control.

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: vyper on August 18, 2002, 06:38:49 pm

All this information is based on the table files in fs2. All you need do is add a velocity for all three axis in the max velocity entry.

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: Stealth on August 18, 2002, 09:37:56 pm

yeah if i remember correctly the 'slide' was never used in the game, only in observer mode...

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: Anaz on August 18, 2002, 09:43:41 pm

fly a mara, its fun to slide around...its great for strafing capships if you can get decent velocity....

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: Stealth on August 19, 2002, 10:50:17 am

i was talking about FS1... i don't know if they used slide in FS2

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: vyper on August 19, 2002, 12:56:25 pm

Its in fs2, yes.

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 19, 2002, 01:43:49 pm

What are the controls for this sliding of which you speak.

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: vyper on August 19, 2002, 02:55:42 pm

1 & 3 for left and right
+ or - for up and down (I think)

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: Stealth on August 19, 2002, 04:01:37 pm

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Originally posted by vyper
1 & 3 for left and right
+ or - for up and down (I think)

you're right

note that the '1 and 3' and the '+ and -' are on the numberpad to the far right of the keyboard, not in the middle above the characters.


someone mentioned the MARA could slide?  cool, i'll have to try it out

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: SSC-ADMRL on August 19, 2002, 10:35:46 pm

I never knew the Mara could slide with those controls.  I knew it slid if you did sharp turns and such.

Title: The Slider ?
Post by: Anaz on August 19, 2002, 11:10:20 pm

its either the mara or the dragon (or both), but havent you ever noticed when you were fighting one, and it suddenly jumped 100 meters left?

Title: Dragons!
Post by: Star Dragon on August 20, 2002, 01:02:55 am

Ooooo I hate Dragons..... (Tick), (Tick)

I mean,  I really HATE Dragons....:mad:

Wait a minute (looks at nick name) :wtf:

Nevermind...