[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Singh
yes- there is a substitute for FS1.
FS2 with Trek ships

I absolutely refuse to play a Star Trek mission, campaign, anything. I prefer flying ships that take less than 10 seconds to turn around and don't rely on a stupid fire-control computer to aim at targets.

Besides, all Star Trek after TOS sucks.

[magatsu1]

I'm curious how StarTrek ships would act in the Freespace Universe. In the films/TV series they're quite dynamic (the ships circling and attacking the cube in First Contact spring to mind) but FS Cap. Ships are slow, lumbering affairs.

I imagine there would haved to be some compromise somewhere.

What's TOS anyway ?

[Flaser]

Am I the only one who has the Crest of the Stars space battle in mind?

That's the future IMHO.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by magatsu1
What's TOS anyway ?

Trek Original Series (or Trek Old Series depending on who you ask).

[Akalabeth Angel]

What's TOS anyway ?

  "The original series" as with Captain Kirk, Spock, etcetera

also TNG = the next generation
VOY = voyager
DS9 = deep space 9

etcetera

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Flaser
....or TVWP if all things come together (stay tuned...we're on fire!).

*giggles*

[Shiva Archon]

I did love FS1, but FS2 far surpasses it in my opinion.  Properly armed cruisers in FS2 are extremely deadly (I don't even think of bombing Aeolous cruisers...RUN AWAY!)  The storyline is more intricate and the voice acting is much improved.  And I might be the only one, but I really liked the Myrmidon's six guns.

TNG ruled, BTW.

[Solatar]

I like fs1 in the fs2 engine. Port is my favorite MOD, and I'm constantly doing stuff for my own little world to make it more like fs1 was.

[bbobb]

I felt that FS1's story was more focused and involving, but I thought FS2 was superior in respect of gameplay.

[Lynx]

FS1 felt more 'realistic' (heh. I use the word realistic in connection with science fiction!) and challenging because of the lack of shielding, at least at the beginning. It also had those 'OH ****!' moments like when you first encountered the shivans and found out that you couldn't kill them with conventional weapons, or when the Taranis warps in. Fs2 had those too, like when you discover the Sathanas fleet, but those moments were few; most of the time it just happened as you were told in the briefing. Technically, FS2 is superior, but at least to me, it felt like a darned big ship w@nkfest. Collossus! Sathanas!!! OMFG!111. I had the feeling every time some faction had a bigger ship than the other they got some sort of penis envy and popped out a bigger ship.

And the beam weapons were somehow cool too, though I didn't like their appearence, they were too fat to me, I prefer thin beams like in Babylon5. But they weren't spectacular or groundbreaking. As mentioned, one good thing was that in FS2 capships could defend themselves against fighters halfway properly.

TVWP go! Make playing FS challenging again!:cool:

[Woolie Wool]

The Taranis made my stomach tie itself up in knots. With the shields on a Valkyrie, I might as well have had no shields at all. Every turret hit easily pierced my shields.

[Hippo]

[Janos]

^ ^ ^
Inferno >>>> FS2 in terms of OMFG huge ships w@nkfest. lol

(Still fun to play though.)

[SP2000]

I think FS1 had a much better feeling that you are really fighting a brutal war against an unknown race. I felt that the NTF in FS2 took away that feeling a little. I have to say that I also like FS1 better than FS2.

Originally posted by Woolie Wool    
The Herc was great, and that's one reason why I also loved the Ares. The Ares, not the Herc II, was the true successor to the Hercules--it is designed to be as big and tough and deadly as a fighter can be without losing the ability to dogfight. I wish the Apollo had returned in FS2 in some incarnation, though. The Myrmidon makes for a poor replacement. It has a HUGE target profile (it is much, much, much easier to hit than an Apollo from the front or rear because of its height), the six primary guns are poorly placed (I prefer my guns below the cockpit, with some closer together and some farther apart--the Apollo has excellent gun placement, and my Apollo II has even better gun placement, with two extra guns in the nose), there is less missile capacity (the Apollo can hold 20 Rockeyes but the Myrmidon can only carry 15), and it's rather ugly (the Apollo, by contrast, is one of the best-looking ships in the history of sci-fi).

I also felt that the Herc II felt sort of...wimpy. The Ares really looks big and tough. And yes, the Apollo was a excellent design.  

BTW I am new here, awesome stuff with the SCP.
Also ask CP5670 about me.  

[aldo_14]

meh  I think the Apollo is hideous.  Now the Valkyrie - there's a ship!

[comic]

The cut scenes are definately better, specialy the one with the marines on the shivan ship. Also FS1's look and feel are more dirty and down and out fighting.

The mainb hall is better especialy in the first part with the warn and battled look, and much less "comuter generated perfectness" like the FS2 hall.

Overall the fighting in FS2 is better but the shields should be weekend as you had a real life and death feel when going into combat with just hull to protect you.

IMO shields where the worst bit of FS2 its just to esy to take some punishment, run away recharge shields and then return virtualy unhardmed!

Rock on any campain not using shields (if there isnt one there should be !!!!!)

[Akalabeth Angel]

I'm surprised a lot of people prefer the Galatea's mainhall to the Aquitaine's. The Galatea mainhall is such a small space, it looks like a garage or something not a large hangar. The Bastion is fairly good though. I do like the Psamtik's best of all probably, except that the fighter launch bit is pretty stupid (platform levitates up, launches one fighter, and goes back down the hole?)

FS1 had as much shields as FS2 unfortunately. It may interest you to know that the Terran Vasudan War Project is in the works, which focuses on the war before FS1 so there wont be any shields.

[Andreas]

Well, the reason why I prefer Galatea´s mainhall over the Aquitaine's is because Galatea´s looks a LOT more realistical, rather then being so clean and sterile like the Aquitaines mainhall.

[Janos]

Bastion is the best. It's a fine combo between the hi-techs of Aquitane and dirty drawn-out looks of Galatea.

[Setekh]

SP2000, CP5670?

Welcome to HLP. CP, who is he?