[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Striker
If anyone has an explanation of this, I'd love to hear it. Otherwise it'll go down (at least in my mind) along with the lack of intertia and other physics in FS2 in the don't ask category.

try "don't care/heard it a thousand times" already category

[Striker]

It seems like you guys took me as bashing FS for having sound. I didn't mean it that way. I'm just seeing if you guys have thought of reasons to explain why its like that. FS wouldnt be FS w/o the sound the way it is.

And on the fire topic, I'm pretty sure it WOULD be possible for a very short time. Air leaking from a hull that was just turned to plasma by a beam impact or bomb probably would catch fire. And the air (on a terran ship at least) would have a large amount of oxygen in it, therefore it could burn until the oxygen is run out.

[JR2000Z]

My guess is that the GTVA/Shivans are using specialized engergy equipment (weapons, engine...)  that deals sound waves in a different way. Just because we can't find stuff like that on Earth that works doesn't mean we won't find it elsewhere.

[NGTM-1R]

I'm sticking with the computer providing audio cues to improve pilot situational awareness.

Realistically speaking, even in atmospheric combat you don't hear the other guy fire, only yourself.

I always figured the ani as either superheated air from a slow leak, or bits of armor from a hit that liquified some of it.


Oh, and the shockwaves: Yes, you do get those in space. Just not very well. But shockwaves from supernovae have a lot to do with the current theory of star formation. Considering the power of the weapons used in FS that produce shockwaves (The Harbinger would make any current atomic weapon look like a firecracker, and the Tsunami would too. Their successors even more so.), they seem reasonably sized and do reasonable amounts of damage.

[Nuke]

remember that fs2 fighters use fusion reactors, , when they loos containment they release the superheated plasma.  this would no doubt mix with the air  creating a brief plasma fire, but you wouldnt notice it through all the superheated plasma.