[Zeronet]

Just wondering which option people take. Doing it the right way and trying to save as many people as possible, the selfish way of sitting at the node or a balanced approach. Personally i died the first time and then just waited at the Node when i completed it the second time "Lamba 3 down, end this massasce now pilots". Chilling line.

[vadar_1]

its a game, the point of the game is to have fun, whats the fun in sitting at the node all 15 minnutes of the mission?

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Zeronet:
Just wondering which option people take. Doing it the right way and trying to save as many people as possible, the selfish way of sitting at the node or a balanced approach. Personally i died the first time and then just waited at the Node when i completed it the second time "Lamba 3 down, end this massasce now pilots". Chilling line.

well, i did that too. they will die anyway, so why bother? Plus i hoped something more impressive for the last mission, was kindda disapointed and just wanted to beat the game once and for all.

[mikhael]

I didn't know what was going to happen.

I went out there with full of blood and thunder and I killed Shivans like the hand of Death himself. I fought hard. I know I must have called for a rearm so often the support pilots were sick of me. I protected my ships.

Then, the call came to get my sorry tail to the jumpnode. I ran. I worked my burners like a madman and, in the end, I was enveloped by the expanding shockwave of stellar material.

I sat there and stared at my screen as the credits scrolled and I suffered, knowing that I had failed, but that I had somehow won: the end credits were rolling after all.

If I had just sat in the node and let those ships die, I'd not have been satisfied. I'd have like I had missed some crucial bit of the game. Its a space combat game and I played it for the joy and terror and thrill and agony of the fight. Why skip all that for basic expediency? Its not worth it.



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--Mik
http://www.404error.com

[Grey Wolf]

I stopped the supernova.

[Carl]

 

[Grey Wolf]

I did. Want me to dredge up the thread where I described my victory?

[mikhael]

You should demand your money back. You paid for a full supernova, and they didn't deliver.  

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--Mik
http://www.404error.com

[an0n]

Why not do things the story-killing way and put a supernova in the nine-sath mission.  

Mwuhahahaha. Where would the story arc be then? It'd be in its grave, that's where.

[CP5670]

It would probably blow away some material from the other star in that system...

What happens if you set up mission with multiple stars and a supernova-start event anyway?

[Zeronet]

You could Wolf.

[Thorn]

 

Originally posted by CP5670:
It would probably blow away some material from the other star in that system...  

What happens if you set up mission with multiple stars and a supernova-start event anyway?

I could see that as being very bright...

[Grey Wolf]

I don't know, think of my reputation as being the only (well publicized) person to save Capella...

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009:
I don't know, think of my reputation as being the only (well publicized) person to save Capella...

Perhaps you should point out to them that you did.  

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--Mik
http://www.404error.com
ruhkferret on ICQ/AIM

[CP5670]

 

I went out there with full of blood and thunder and I killed Shivans like the hand of Death himself. I fought hard. I know I must have called for a rearm so often the support pilots were sick of me. I protected my ships.

I did the same thing when I first played this, but I happened to be chasing a Shivan Dragon near the node when the supernova warning came up, so I was able to escape in time. (and kill the Dragon )

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by CP5670:
I did the same thing when I first played this, but I happened to be chasing a Shivan Dragon near the node when the supernova warning came up, so I was able to escape in time. (and kill the Dragon  )

Excellent work. *heh* Is there a difference in the ending between escaping and not escaping (we already knows what happens when you don't trigger the supernova)?

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--Mik
http://www.404error.com
ruhkferret on ICQ/AIM

[an0n]

You die: "Unfortunately Alpha one didn't make it out"
You live: "Although you made it out, many didn't"

Or something similar to that anyway.

[Zeronet]

 

Originally posted by an0n:
You die: "Unfortunately Alpha one didn't make it out"
You live: "Although you made it out, many didn't"

Or something similar to that anyway.

Nah, they give you hero status saying you sacificed your life to help save more people.

[Nico]

if you die, the second part of the cutscene is seen from the moon, if you live, it's from earth (or the inverse, not sure)

[Zeronet]

If you live you see it from Earth.