[starbug]

So i take it that you wouldn't want to be up agianst 2 af cruiser's  with only 1 squad? (like in some missions of FS2).

The Bombers in inferno, i think i read some where that they were pretty much useless at dogfighting, are all the species bombers like that or do Vasudans perform differently to Terrans?

[Woomeister]

So i take it that you wouldn't want to be up agianst 2 af cruiser's  with only 1 squad? (like in some missions of FS2).

The Bombers in inferno, i think i read some where that they were pretty much useless at dogfighting, are all the species bombers like that or do Vasudans perform differently to Terrans?

You don't want to go up against any cruiser unless your flying a heavy fighter like the Herc 3. The Mihos is ripped apart by cruisers. If your flying a medium fighter like the Ezechiel two wings per cruiser would be recommended.

Terran bombers are less useful at dogfighting as if they have 2 primary banks the seconds is always a PAC gun, so that leaves 1 bank for the player to customise. You can't really switch to a cannon that's good on fighters unless you want to sacrifice your main gun. The other races don't need to use their bomber specific weapons, but have less choice of weapons overall.

[Goober5000]

Ooh... bank-specific loadout.

[Woomeister]

Ooh... bank-specific loadout.

[Qwer]

Is GTDn Solaris one-of-a-kind GTVA Flagship, or there are more of them?

[SadisticSid]

It should be noted that cruisers are still mainly anti-fighter ships, which can have secondary roles. I think the Eclipse is the most specialised anti-fighter platform, and it can literally waste a fully functional light fighter in under 5 seconds if it gets trapped between two of its lethal gattling cannons and the cluster flak screen. That's one cloud of death a light fighter won't be getting out of.

[Woomeister]

t can literally waste a fully functional light fighter in under 5 seconds if it gets trapped between two of its lethal gattling cannons and the cluster flak screen.

Less than 2 seconds when I attacked one on insane.
Those gattlers need toning down a bit...

[Qwer]

Is GTDn Solaris one-of-a-kind GTVA Flagship, or there are more of them?

[Woomeister]

There's only one.

[Tyrian]

It can literally waste a fully functional light fighter in under 5 seconds if it gets trapped between two of its lethal gattling cannons and the cluster flak screen.

That is one thing I really don't want to hear...I am known amongst my RL friends for making suicide runs against cruisers.
But those gatling cannons sound awesome.  Can we see some screens of them in action?

And a picture of the GTDn Solaris...?

[Woomeister]

The Solaris is in the fleet pics in the eye candy thread.

Screenshots of the gattlers doesn't really show how fast they are.

[Mefustae]

Then how about several screenshots of the gattlers in action... 

[Woomeister]

Because though it looks like there's lots of them on screen you only get a few in the shots, and it doesn't capture the power of the guns. Same happens to the Shivan rapid fire cannon.

[mr.WHO]

then maybe a short trailer with both EA and shivan cruiser anti fighter cannons 

[Woomeister]

I wouldn't do such a trailer until I'm happy with their balance, after the recent table changes I think they are too uber.

[Qwer]

What needs to be done before you'll release Inferno?

[Woomeister]

Off the top of my head:

1. Fix armour.tbl balance, and fire rate issues
2. Fix Shivan beams
3. Fix Syphon music entry
4. Finalise end of EA war mission, and build anything required for it
5. Complete other missions
6. Finish tech entries for remaining ships
7. Lots of testing and fixes, well most likely
8. Documentation
9. Final INF and FRED Build choosing
10. Trailer and other preview content I suppose
11. Find a host I can use for distribution since we don't have fileplanet anymore

[Rand al Thor]

New distrib host? What happened to fileplanet?

[Woomeister]

We're not hosted under Gamespy anymore.

[Rand al Thor]

Good point, but does file planet only provide file hosting for sites that are hosted? Thats pretty elitist.