There are turret mines, although I'm not sure if they have anything other than station keeping thrusters, if that. Fighter screening is generally handled by ships like corvettes and destroyers. They're also shown doing things like launching chaff to break up missile strikes. It's never stated...

By the way, this made me curious to see if the ships in the ship equipment scene were to the same scale. It seems that they are? Also, it seems like I was wrong: the landing pad is not scaled to the ship dealer ships, my importer was rescaling them and they're actually 10x too big. Once...

Are these going to be pilotable or carrier fighter squadrons?

DD_FIGHT, DD_TUG and DD_MERCH and the landing pad is ND-LPAD. I noticed the Galaxy issue after I posted, here's a revised version. And here is the blend file I used to make it:

Sadly not! I found static images for the ships however, which makes me suspect that they simply prerendered them and then composited them on, rather than rendering them as one image. Edit: That said, I had a suspicion that if you put the ships from the dealer into the landing pad, they would...

This is (arguably) true of the main theme but having listened through the soundtrack I can't find any similarities. In the first place Wing Commander is pretty active and jaunty. I'm not well versed in musical terminology but I think it would be called melodic? It has that in common with a lot...

My memory is a bit off; the game text files don't have a separate Military faction but they do have a separate Police one! Of course in the final game there are no separate police, only the Military (CIS). And of course the Guild aren't mere pirates at all, they're s :) It's a shame that...

It looks pretty good. The cockpit is a bit cramped, but that's on point for its origins. If I were scaling it myself I would probably use the ship dealer as the primary source, because it's the only time that we see the three main player ships directly together, with a figure to scale...

It's worth noting that neither Blair nor the Lexington crew seem particularly surprised that the pirates have frigates, though. The novel goes into some detail to describe them as being "common as dirt." To me the Razor from the same game is more interesting because it's the only time we see...

I certainly haven't because I voted for it as Fan Game of the year :) I'm really glad that he open sourced it and I feel people should be making better use of that, including me. I have some experience with Unity but it's not my favorite engine to use, especially when compiling.

The pirate clans in The Darkening aren't really "pirates" in the sense that they are from the other games and the political system is very different. It's also not really clear how they compare as "capital ships" other than being very large (which is true of other ships like freighters)...

Not that I'm aware of, but we do have the scenes from the intro with the Tarsus and Talon to scale. https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/F-38_Talon

If you want to compare the (buyable) ships directly you can also use the ship dealer models. https://download.wcnews.com/files/priv1/3D/DD_DELR1.zip Actually there are two versions but the first is the one that was actually used in game:

The only ship we have hard numbers for are the Dralthi at 28 meters, and that's assuming that's it's the same size as the one from Claw Marks. At least for the player ships you can scale them using the cockpit models: https://download.wcnews.com/files/priv1/3D/CLUNKPIT.zip...

I saw the news post about this from several years ago but completely forgot about it so thanks for reminding me to look into this series. And it's great! Fully 3D gameflow (that no Wing Commander game had!) Dynamic music (that I'm pretty sure is directly from Pacific Strike!) AI that behaves...

Wasn't the last one Keith's? I know that he already wasn't told a number of things like character names or specific dates.

Some of the animation in Academy is rough, especially compared to stuff from the money-flush 80s, but the basic designs and above all the storyboarding and direction are fantastic. I always ended up comparing it to other series from that era and before so it's great that the people working on...

RIP. I hate how often this is happening nowadays. It feels like we're losing someone every other month, even though most of the developers are still in their sixties.

False Colors goes into the repercussions a bit more, where Admiral Richards explains to Bear that the Confederation is treating the Kilrathi delicately, though he also immediately adds that it wasn't genocide, even if it was "pretty close". I always was disappointed that Keith died and left the...

Regarding the Leningrad, I always imagined the name came from the battle, rather than the place name, which would track with the other names we see (Agincourt, Bastille, Gettysburg). The name change happened in mid-1991 which would have given Freedom Flight more than enough time to make the...