Congratulations and good luck! My wife and I just had our first a few weeks ago (boy). Having a kid is a handful, but it's a real blast! (And in any case, the worst bit is the loss of sleep, which, because of lack of sleep, you don't remember afterwards).

Certainly, feel free to use this in the Standoff Guide (whenever that appears). I made it so people could enjoy the game more.

Just finished reading Fleet Action. Good book. Anyway, it brings to mind a question. The Kilrathi constructed twelve Hakaga-class supercarriers. Only five were involved in the Battle of Earth (the other seven either weren't completed or didn't have enough pilots in time to launch the...

OK, I think I have it just about done. I just e-mailed high res versions to news@wcnews.com as Chris suggested, so hopefully they will get posted soon. I made two versions because I couldn't decide which would be more useful. One is a large, hi res version of the tree, with (very abridged)...

Did you guys ever get around to putting together a full, single package install for Standoff? I remember there was talk of doing that, but on the Standoff website there still are three separate downloads (Secret Ops, Standoff Eps 1-4, and the Ep 5 upgrade). I vaguely remember Pete saying...

Even though that I can't play Arena, I still consider it awesome that it was made simply because of Star*Soldier. It hearkens back to the awesome manuals that gave so much life to the universe that came with WC1 and WC3 (especially Claw Marks).

I remember that at the time WC4 was released for PSX, its reviews were surprisingly (at least to me) poor, especially when compared to the PC version reviews. I just did a quick search, and the disparity between reviews of the two versions on sites such as IGN, Gamespot, and Gamefaqs still...

So, I'm an engineer by training, and as such, I think a lot about how things work. Now I realize that Wing Commander ships were probably designed more by artists than engineers and were more about cool look rather than function, and so this is probably way overanalyzing something that shouldn't...

Heh. I guess I need to update my profile. I lived in Boston for 10 years, but I live in California now. Still, it's always good to meet a friendly ship! :) I hope the snow hasn't been too crazy for you this year (my family and friends all still live back there, so I know how rough a winter...

That's interesting. I have never actually finished "Rearguard Duties" without losing a wingman...so I've always gotten "Rescue Run", and wouldn't know if there was a different mission path you get for not having to fly it (I was just guessing). As to the mission names, I noticed that there...

Speaking of poor translations, the Standoff team is planning on releasing German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean language versions of the game, right? ... echo ... right? :)

And here's a rough draft of the branching description. The (unconfirmed) things are things that I still don't know for sure. For example, what conditions exactly lead from Destroyer Rescue to the Ep 3 winning path versus losing path? Obviously, you have to save the Sao Paulo, but is...

OK, then, here's a (nearly) final version...for now at least. Still, I'm open to corrections.

Does that mean that you also have to fly a Stiletto in "Too Much Company" and "Middle of Nowhere" (which are ordinarily Rapier missions)? Or does the Firekka somehow manage to get a few more Rapiers flight ready in that time? "Too Much Company" would be pretty rough in a Stiletto... It's...

Thanks. I'll get on the fixes when I have a free moment. Our of curiosity, did I get the episode names right? I just filled them from memory, and think I got some of them wrong. Don't have a chance (or a forgiving enough wife) to fire the game up under current circumstances... I played...

After playing through them all to make this tree, I HIGHLY recommend playing through the losing path missions. Several of the best and funnest missions in the games are on the losing paths. The losing path version of "Skinning Cats" is great, and "Backlash", "Rescue Run", "Flight of the...

I thought I'd share this, which I've been working on, with MUCH help from and thanks to Dundradal, who provided his episode specific mission trees for each episode up to 4 (and in fact from the whole Standoff team who have been answering my pestering questions). It's my attempt at making a...

Cleaning out my parent's garage a year or so ago, I actually came across a couple of ~8" floppys (they look like 5.5" floppys, but oversized). Now I wonder is those things could still be read! Not a clue what's on them, though...

Agree. On Standoff missions where you have to fly the bomber (or when I chose it), I find them much easier if I turn the difficulty down (to say, Veteran), whereas on missions where I fly the fighter, the mission usually gets easier if I turn it up to Hero. However, another factor is that...

Privateer: I bought it, and after much work, managed to get it to run. Loved it initially. But it was taking too long for my patience to accumulate enough money to get a decent ship. Then I ventured out in the world before I was ready, as LOAF says, and got creamed. It discouraged me enough...