Author Topic: Have we been looking at the GTD Hecate wrong all these years? (Read 60720 times)

General Battuta · **Reply #160 on:** October 27, 2010, 09:13:26 am

That's the point. It's now a meaningless token deployed in place of 'I disagree with this'.

jr2 · **Reply #161 on:** October 27, 2010, 09:23:23 am

I always figured "Normal" difficulty was normal?? Easier if you can't handle "real life", harder if you are a freak.

General Battuta · **Reply #162 on:** October 27, 2010, 10:21:52 am

Quote from: jr2 on October 27, 2010, 09:23:23 am

I always figured "Normal" difficulty was normal?? Easier if you can't handle "real life", harder if you are a freak.

If by 'normal' you mean 'representative of reality', then if you accept that the player's ship has special psychic damage buffers, sure.

NGTM-1R · **Reply #163 on:** October 27, 2010, 01:59:50 pm

Quote from: jr2 on October 27, 2010, 09:23:23 am

I always figured "Normal" difficulty was normal?? Easier if you can't handle "real life", harder if you are a freak.

Considering you can effectively play...what? Five? Six different versions?, trying to establish any kind of "this is the way it played out, srsly guys" is silly at best.

Dilmah G · **Reply #164 on:** October 27, 2010, 11:08:02 pm

Going on a tanget, that's one of the great things about the campaign. Whatever difficulty you play it on, you generally experience the same story. Whereas with other campaigns you run the risk of breaking something or just not being able to pass missions if you decide to play it on something other than the designed difficulty level.

General Battuta · **Reply #165 on:** October 27, 2010, 11:09:56 pm

Quote from: Dilmah G on October 27, 2010, 11:08:02 pm

Going on a tanget, that's one of the great things about the campaign. Whatever difficulty you play it on, you generally experience the same story. Whereas with other campaigns you run the risk of breaking something or just not being able to pass missions if you decide to play it on something other than the designed difficulty level.

Which campaign? Retail?

Dilmah G · **Reply #166 on:** October 27, 2010, 11:14:13 pm

Yeah. Probably should've slipped that in somewhere.

Androgeos Exeunt · **Reply #167 on:** October 28, 2010, 05:56:02 am

The Hecate has been used as all of the following during the retail campaign:

* Tank
* Destroyer
* Carrier
* ~~Science cruiser~~ Research vessel
* Flagship
* Explorer

Dilmah G · **Reply #168 on:** October 28, 2010, 05:58:07 am

What'd they used to say about the jack of all trades?

BengalTiger · **Reply #169 on:** October 28, 2010, 11:52:30 am

Quote from: Dilmah G on October 28, 2010, 05:58:07 am

What'd they used to say about the jack of all trades?

Master of none?

Snail · **Reply #170 on:** October 28, 2010, 12:05:52 pm

@Andro: Tank?

Scourge of Ages · **Reply #171 on:** October 28, 2010, 12:34:49 pm

Quote from: Snail on October 28, 2010, 12:05:52 pm

@Andro: Tank?

I presume he means "tank" in the RPG sense, where in the mission Bearbaiting the GTD Phoenicia was deployed to hold and delay the Sathanas.

Dilmah G · **Reply #172 on:** October 29, 2010, 03:17:02 am

Quote from: BengalTiger on October 28, 2010, 11:52:30 am

Quote from: Dilmah G on October 28, 2010, 05:58:07 am
What'd they used to say about the jack of all trades?
Master of none?

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The Hecate isn't particularly good for any one of those as a specialist platform. Even the position of the fighterbay makes it a sub-par carrier (in some respects, a better one in others). Although the amount of fighters it carries makes up for it, kind of.

TrashMan · **Reply #173 on:** October 29, 2010, 05:30:25 am

Quote from: General Battuta on October 27, 2010, 09:07:06 am

Because their guns suck, and they don't respawn when they're dead like you do, and you have magical damage buffers.

Irrelevant. Alpha 1 surviving is canon (you destroyed the Lucy in FS1), ergo, Alpha 1 killed a ****load of shivans.

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The games are all about how the Shivans are freaky. 'Lion at the Door', whatnot.

How freaky..not how amazing pilots.
Technologcly superior..completely alien..creepy..mysterious...industrial powerhouses that can blot out the sun with fighters...yes.

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And they did, because the Shivans turn and shoot faster!

And die in droves. AI setting is irrelevant if in the game they feel mediocre at best. And they do.

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I don't care about them!

Well, they don't care about you. Nyaaaa!

General Battuta · **Reply #174 on:** October 29, 2010, 08:00:30 am

I disagree with your points, sir!

Hades · **Reply #175 on:** October 30, 2010, 03:57:27 pm

What a great, well-thought out reply, Battuta.

Snail · **Reply #176 on:** October 30, 2010, 03:59:28 pm

Quote from: Had-- on October 30, 2010, 03:57:27 pm

What a great, well-thought out reply, Battuta.

NO U

General Battuta · **Reply #177 on:** October 30, 2010, 04:09:04 pm

Quote from: Had-- on October 30, 2010, 03:57:27 pm

What a great, well-thought out reply, Battuta.

It was, in fact. It's an agreement to disagree because neither of us is going to budge. A mature solution, rather than wasting gallons of fingersweat yelling.

You could learn from it.

NGTM-1R · **Reply #178 on:** October 30, 2010, 04:52:13 pm

Battuta, unlike Karaj, does not thave the impulse to see how deep the hole can be dug.

Hades · **Reply #179 on:** October 30, 2010, 04:59:43 pm

Quote from: General Battuta on October 30, 2010, 04:09:04 pm

Quote from: Had-- on October 30, 2010, 03:57:27 pm
What a great, well-thought out reply, Battuta.
It was, in fact. It's an agreement to disagree because neither of us is going to budge. A mature solution, rather than wasting gallons of fingersweat yelling.

I know, that's exactly what I was saying by my reply.

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You could learn from it.

When you have something to teach is when I'll have something to learn.

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