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    Difficulty levels explained

    Interesting point of view, the gameplay is indeed an abstracted version of the fiction....still it is odd cap-ships became kill-able via guns again in WC3. I suppose Origin was trying to keep the amount of snazzy new 3D objects low, and thus multi-wing missions were out, which meant the...
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    Difficulty levels explained

    Oh yes, point taken.
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    Difficulty levels explained

    Yeah, boosting Wingmen AI and survivability would be great on the higher difficulty levels....but it's not borne out by my recent experiences with WCIII at least.... the thing that bothers me about crazy and nightmare in WC3 is that you feel like you're flying alone - as a result the only...
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    Saving Flint on Crazy Diff

    Yeah, I always set the waypoint for the victory - too much risk in getting the extra kills, by lathering I was referring to the vicious tongue-ing Blair can give Flint later on....I considered 'Tongue Lathing' as in worked over with a bizarre flesh lathe.... Both are plays on lashing...
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    WC4 difficulties

    Just did the 'recon' mission on Tyr on crazy difficulty....when taking pictures of the final installation I actually crashed into a building while doing a close pass.... Got it on my second try though...the missile loving Vindicators were a pain...I can't believe how powerful missiles are...
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    What's your least favorite craft to dogfight with?

    Yeah I'd noticed pressing the 'E' key once out of decoys caused the radar to flicker, but didn't think anything of it, - now I hammer away with the scrambles, thanks for pointing that out llanin.... I've gotten the swing of things on crazy, - against a group of 4 dralthi in a T-Bolt I do...
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    chances of future wing commander game(s)

    Hmm I don't have a GBA or a PSP, so no.... - a new re-release does seem like it could be a good way to lay the technological foundation for a new game...
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    Saving Flint on Crazy Diff

    I'm sure many of you have played through WC3 on nightmare, but I'm getting my legs under me on Crazy due to a prolonged absence from WC. So it took me maybe four attempts in a T-Bolt to save flint and drag her back for a tongue lathering or whatever. In all the walkthroughs I've read about...
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    chances of future wing commander game(s)

    Remastered versions of Wing 3 and/or 4 would be awesome, using the existing footage and voice assets for cinemas and mission events yet implanting an entirely new flight and graphics engine for gameplay... mmm 3d cockpits in both WC3 and 4.....yes. this would be (relatively) cheap and would...
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    Group Reading: Freedom Flight

    What's up guys, I probably shouldn't be posting since my copy of Freedom Flight is long gone - It was the first and only WC novel I read. I read it in 6th grade after playing Wing Commander on my SNES. The biggest impression it made on me as a youngster was with that Firekkan drink that...
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    What's your least favorite craft to dogfight with?

    I'm playing through Wc3 for the first time in years, and Hard is so easy so I bumped it up to crazy .... All of a sudden if I'm in a thunderbolt I...CAN'T....KILL....DRALTHI Vaktoths are cake, but I just can't keep my guns on an afterburnering Dralthi long enough to destroy it, and...
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    Wing Commander III : Excellent Performance, But Joystick Query

    Hey CIC, I've just installed Wing 3 on Dosbox 0.73. I run cinemas at 20,000 cycles, then jump up to 100,000 cycles when flying and I must say, performance and visuals are beautiful - much better than when I originally played the game on my Pentium 90mhz! But lets see, all in all my...