[Woomeister]

Most of the staff are still missing...

[mr.WHO]

I'll soon upgrade my PC to:
758 DDDRAM (already)
Athlon 64 2800+
GeForce FX5500 256mb DDR/128 bit

Will I be able to play with everything on full ?

[Woomeister]

I'd assume so, I'm not that familiar with GeForce cards.

[Darius]

Quick question: are capship torpedoes targettable by fighters/turrets in R2? I was thinking of something like the Dilgar "Deathwalker" missile from TBP.

[Woomeister]

non targetable as in R1 we found that having many targetable bombs caused problems in missions.

[Murderous Species]

When you say "torpedoes" you mean the Assassin bombs launched from capships, right?
Perhaps larger ships (i.e. Superdestroyers) can launch Helios bombs.

[SadisticSid]

No, capital ships actually have their own special torpedo weapons - for example, the Lenaeus carrier can launch a broadside of light torpedoes at large targets at long range.

[Murderous Species]

Speaking of that:

How do Jotuns escape from Executioners' blasts?, I mean, Executioner bombs are the Juggernaut killers, right?.
Then they must have greater power (and shockwave) than Helios bombs, for example.

[SuperCoolAl]

Shields.

That and the Jotuns probably aren't receiving direct hits

[Murderous Species]

Last questions (after this I'll be less curious, I swear) :

I've read somewhere that the Notus (or similar) is heavier than the Jotun, is that correct?
If it is,and remembering the Jotun is the anti Juggernaut bomber, what is it (the Notus) for? SuperJuggernaut buster? Hive killer?

[Woomeister]

The Notus was designed to take down a Sathanas in 2 or 3 bombs, it can be used on larger vessels as well.

The executioner is more of a destroyer killer bomb, as long as it doesn't detonate point blank you'll either escape or receive shield damage. It depends on how good of a bomber pilot you are.

[CaptJosh]

And by good, he means how quick on the afterburners you are. Dive in, fire, pull away at least at a 90 degree angle to previous course and hit your boosters. You might also want to consider having most of your energy set for your engines when you do that, too. Maybe even transferring weapons energy to burners as you boost out, depending on the shockwave, your shield strength, and your hull strength.  *grimaces wryly recalling more than a few times getting toasted by explosions due to not paying attention to damage taken earlier in a mission...*

[Woomeister]

The Jotuns speed doubles using afterburners, the Notus goes up by a factor of four...

Quite useful for avoiding specific things.

[CaptJosh]

Nice. I can tell I'm going to have a blast playing the revised Inferno capaign. R1 seemed to rather leave one hanging, but I guess it was really a teaser.

[Woomeister]

Well R1 isn't much like the current mod anymore. Cruisers are scary, beams are less used since we have alt weapons, the Shivans have some really nasty stuff, including a weapon to counter heavier bombers. lots of new SCP specific weapons like balistics, player flak and fighterbeams. Fighters are better suited for specific tasks (light fighter against a cruiser is usually a bad idea) Bomber PAC systems allow them to damage capships if they run out of bombs. It's quite a different thing to play now.

[Murderous Species]

Then the remake will be far more entertaining and difficult...
Excellent
*prepares for the war of his life*

[Goober5000]

The Jotuns speed doubles using afterburners, the Notus goes up by a factor of four...

Quite useful for avoiding specific things.

Then I hope the afterburner is slow to recharge, so you have to conserve it until you really need it?

If not, that would work out to be rather unrealistic.  Bombers are supposed to be big, slow, and unmaneuverable.

[Darius]

If the afterburner power is as huge as to give that amount of boost, most likely it'll also use up all of it's fuel very quickly. Although I'm guessing the Notus' speed can be roughly compared to that of a cruiser, in which case 4x may not amount to much.

Well R1 isn't much like the current mod anymore. Cruisers are scary, beams are less used since we have alt weapons, the Shivans have some really nasty stuff, including a weapon to counter heavier bombers. lots of new SCP specific weapons like balistics, player flak and fighterbeams. Fighters are better suited for specific tasks (light fighter against a cruiser is usually a bad idea) Bomber PAC systems allow them to damage capships if they run out of bombs. It's quite a different thing to play now.

Interesting to observe the specialisation of ship roles in Inferno when compared to, say, the changing roles of capships in FS2 from FS1.

[NGTM-1R]

Whenever you people decide to release R2, I have something written for you.

If it takes another few weeks, possibly several somethings.

[Woomeister]

Then I hope the afterburner is slow to recharge, so you have to conserve it until you really need it?

If not, that would work out to be rather unrealistic.  Bombers are supposed to be big, slow, and unmaneuverable.

I'd say the recharge is average, the boost is very short as it's supposed to be used to escape bomb shockwaves not for dogfighting or evading missiles.