[TrashMan]

D-Missile. It roxorz your sockorz

[Iranon]

Occasionally spawn missiles, and cluster missiles quite frequently. Well-aimed Infyrnos are a quick way to take down mid-sized ships, and they can also blow up entire wings of fighters. Needing to get the aim and timing right to avoid blowing yourself up just makes them more appealing.

[Droid803]

Every now and then Infyrnos for blowing up bomber formations as they jump in, blowing up freighters, blowing up wingmen without being called a traitor, and blowing up myself when I feel like committing suicide.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I thought the Cluster Missile was fun, but impractical. It turns and moves a bit too slowly for it to be very practical, otherwise it would have been a much better missile than the Infyrno.

[SpardaSon21]

If the D-Missile is such a useful weapon, able to completely shut down all of a cruiser's weapons, why did Volition not add an analog of it to FS2?  Pretty much every other weapon got a new version.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Avenger didn't.

[SpardaSon21]

What would the Prometheus R be then?  Because it certainly isn't a remake of the original Prometheus.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It is a downscaled version of the original Prometheus. It is not like the Avenger in any way, because the Avenger could still be put to good use even after the introduction of the Prometheus. The R, however, can hardly be put to any use, even before the production of the Prometheus S.

According to Intelligence in FS2's tech database, the Prometheus needed argon, a gas found only in Sol, in order to work. Because the Lucifer's destruction collapsed the Delta Serpentis-Sol jump node, the Alliance had to improvise. They made the Prometheus R using some of the technology that powers the Banshee, but they didn't do it very well. The Alliance eventually found enough argon in the nebula beyond Gamma Draconis to create a proper version of the Prometheus, distributed as the Prometheus S.

If you need statistical evidence, the most damning one is the refire rate of both weapons. While the Avenger and Prometheus R do around the same damage per shot, the Avenger has twice the refire rate of the Prometheus R, meaning that it does about twice the same amount of damage as the Prometheus R should all your shots hit.

The Prometheus R is not a newer version of the Avenger. It never will be. Anyone who says otherwise is calling me a liar.

[Snail]

Harpoon and Trebuchet is all you need.

And a Cyclops or two if the mission calls.

[Mongoose]

And a Helios if it calls collect.

[ChronoReverse]

Only the D-missile.  It really needs a FS2 counterpart.

[paul1290]

I really liked some of the cluster missiles in the game, but sacrificing a secondary slot to carry them can be a turn off.

I kind of end up wishing there was an easily usable "fire X missile here" command for wingmen in formation so special missiles could get more use. I could see some of the clusters becoming really useful if there was.

[QuantumDelta]

Andro, Avenger -> Maxim, it's not a direct port but that's how I read it :<

[asyikarea51]

I tried a D-Missile like weapon in FSO in some random empty mod.

Depending on how the missile is portrayed and tabled... I think it could practically screw up enough missions (excluding repeated "Forced Entry" nightmare spectaculars anyway )... there would have to be quite a bit of balance things to work out... unless... I don't know, unless more options to really control and limit the disruption effect in some way are made available to the modder...

Probably possible in current SCP builds already but I haven't touched tables in a long while.

[General Battuta]

Forced Entry is eeeeasy. Go play it more, it's fun.

[asyikarea51]

It's just an example I thought out of my head at random with regards to the D-missile and here comes this. Sorry, but I'm offended.

Well, whatever.

[General Battuta]

Why are you offended?

[Colonol Dekker]

Well, that was wierd.
 
I misread that as 'i'm an offender' thought, 'yeah I found forced entry hard too at first' then read Battmans reply and took a second look at the post above. 
 
 
I don't know where the offensive post was implied.
 
 
But we loove joo.
 

[General Battuta]

Yeah, not sure what he's on about. The mission was pretty extensively tweaked and is hardly a nightmare spectacular any more.

[Colonol Dekker]

Am I able to extract an earlier version of forced entry aka Ravanna rape from an earlier version of blue planet and put it in the directors cut? Are there any major table changes in that respect?