I voted for Jamison. Spoilers below. Haven't watched Academy yet (or played the game), nor have I got my hands on Freedom Flight, and the WCM traitor was essentially taken out of the as-shown movie, right? Among the others, I think it's Jamison hands down. Jazz's treachery caused the loss...

Some spoilers here. Speaking of the GOG WCIV, I noticed something interesting when I played through. The scene where Seether kills Paulsen seemed to be edited...or rather censored. I don't remember what it was like on my original play through on the CD dos version, but on YouTube the videos...

Agree with your general thought, but your analogy is flawed. The Manhattan project was not fundamentally designed to rain mass destruction down on Japan, as the Behemoth and T-bomb were designed to do on Kilrah. The Manhattan project was intended to keep us abreast with Germany's attempts to...

Haven't read Freedom Flight yet, but I had always thought the bit in SO2 where Thrakhath escapes and the *knocks Hobbes out* instead of killing him was a bit odd...until I heard about the personality overlay. Then it made sense. Until then I had wondered, if Hobbes had really betrayed the...

Just finished my GOG WCIV, and Saga is my next game-playing project planned. I'm excited! One question, though. I notice there's a patch out for it (1.1.0.7822). If I'm just downloading the game install file now, does it include the fixes that are in the patch already, or do I need to...

I think the "official" explanation is that technology keeps evolving... in pre-Action Stations, they have phase shields, in AS they figure out how to make torpedoes penetrate through PS, they extend that technology to guns and fighter missiles in WC1, then in WC2 there's an advance in PS that...

There's a great quote in a C.S. Lewis novel about an explorer who visits and alien world, and is lost in how different everything is. Then he is reassured when encountering a boat, because the boat is shaped much like a terrestrial one. Then he realizes "what else COULD a boat be shaped like"...

I think it's in the WC4 game guide. But just try it. I fiddled with it a little. Slide in WC4 seems to work a little differently from WC3, where CAPS toggled slide on and off...in WC4 pressing and holding CAPS puts you in slide, and releasing CAPS turns off the slide. I'm 95% certain that...

Perhaps there's engineering reasons why the Hellcat (or the Thunderbolt, or any other fighter prior to WC3) can't slide. We don't know how autoslide works...it may well have something to do with suppressing acceleration absorption or something that would place enormous stresses on the fighter's...

Although I would imagine EA (or any IP holder, for that matter) would go after/shut down a fan project that they viewed as somehow damaging the quality or reputation of their product. An extreme example might be if someone was making a Wing Commander fan project that involved Grand Theft...

Which is really awesome of them. Not all companies do that. Whenever anyone gripes about the big, bad, corporate EA, they should remember this.

On the Hellcat in WC3: It *was* a little underpowered compared to the other fighters you could access (the Arrow and the 'Thud). However, there are a few points in the 'Cat's favor: * Vaktoths - The 'Cat was the best option (pre-Excalibur) for tangling with them. The Arrow's guns were too...

Yeah but "it's a war. People die all the time".

Almost, but not quite. Off the top of my head: * Shadow's death in WC2 is scripted. * Jazz's rescue in SO 2 (or was it 1?) was scripted. * The loss of the transport/communications ship in WC2 (where you're flying a broadsword and have to jump out to meet it) is scripted. And even if you...

Kind of. The one time I won this mission, I had used my two torpedoes on the Snakeir's bridge and one engine, and was babysitting my wingman so he could get the other. My wingman launches his last torpedo and then eats a dumbfire and dies. Stingray calls FUBAR while the torpedo is still in...

You don't even want to know the hours I spent trying to get to that mythical mission to verify the criteria for getting it. The mission before it, with the two Kamekhs, is simply IMPOSSIBLE to lose (and not die). Seriously, I challenge anyone who thinks they're good at Standoff to try to lose...

I don't know where they're linked off the main site, but I can still find the finished versions by searching the old news archives. But here are the direct links of the hi res versions that CIC hosts: PDF of the high res flowchart...

Ummm... where's the file? I'm told that I'm talking about a page that never existed... If there is every any hope of a WCIV ship comparerer like I made for WC1 and WC3, I need that file...

Heh. I made this same mistake once. Durandal would actually be a pretty neat handle, too (Durandal was some kind of famous mythological sword, if I recall correctly...)

Haven't played Saga yet (I'm on travel for a bit, and can't try it out till I get home and get some free time from the baby), but I wanted to comment on some of Quarto's points. First off, it's somewhat ironic to hear him (as someone who was involved in Stanoff's development) complain about...