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  1. Sylvester

    Strike Commander Intro Recreated in DCS

    This was a neat find:
  2. Sylvester

    Intrepid's role at the end of WC4

    At the end of the game, we see Intrepid becoming a training carrier. In the final scene, Blair's back with Confederation patches on his flight suit, which Maniac and the rookies also have. But it also appears that *Panther* is wearing Confed patches as well on her flight suit. Was the UBW Navy...
  3. Sylvester

    Rachel's Rank

    Is it ever officially established that Rachel is a Chief Petty Officer? I know she's referred to as "Chief" but that could be just a slang term for the chief of the deck or the maintenance chief. I say this having never read the Wing Commander 3 novelization so I don't know if it was in there or...
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    Excalibur in Tamayo ejection.

    So Mac's Excalibur video inspired me to do another replay of WC3. I'm in the Tamayo system and I took Rachel's offer to let me fly the Excalibur for Tamayo II. Early on in the mission I get badly damaged by the Vaktoths so I decided to eject so I could restart. This is where I discovered that...
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    The return of MicroProse!

    Fellow Wingnuts, I know we were all saddened all those years ago when Origin left us. But I recently discovered some good news - one of the other giants of 80s/90s Software development seems to be back - MicroProse - who was founded by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey and who developed amongst other...
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    GOG Wing Commander 1 Character Transfer Made Easy

    Fellow Wingnuts! I've decided to give a small slice back to the CIC Tech Support world after benefiting from it so much over the last 12 (12!?) years. I've noticed people having some difficulty in transferring their WC1 characters between SM1 and or SM2. To that end, I have modified the autoexec...
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    Escapist Article on Star Citizen

    As many of you may be aware, the Escapist published an article in which several former and current CIG employees assert that Cloud Imperium is in deep trouble regarding Star Citizen's budget, workplace climate and feature development. I have read it, and Chris Roberts' response to those claims...
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    Chronicles of the Claw - Deluxe Edition

    Hello, fellow Wingnuts. So...almost nine years ago (15 July 2006), I started a fan fiction called "Chronicles of the Claw". Part of it is posted in the Fan Fiction Chat forum, but there hasn't been a post in there for over a year. I've recently revised and added a bit to the story, so I figured...
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    Last Starfighter Inspiration for Wing Commander

    I saw "The Last Starfighter" for the first time in a while recently and I started noticing some things that reminded me of Wing Commander. The Gunstars remind me of Raptors a bit, as did the launch tube sequence when they head out to fight. But the thing that most drew my eye was the insignia on...
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    Star Citizen Matchmaker thread

    Fellow Wingnuts, start your engines! With the release of version 0.9 of Arena Commander, we can now search for our friends to create specific matches. The feature is currently down while they iron out some bugs but this is a really cool way to help us wingnuts fly together, especially those who...
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    Wing Commander no longer on PCG's "Top 100 PC Games" List

    So I was reading this list put out by PC Gamer of their top 100 PC games of all time and I was at least a little shocked to discover that not one of the Wing Commander games was on it anymore. This is the first time I can recall that not one WC game made the list - if I remember right WCIII...
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    Concordia Hull # a homage to Enterprise?

    Hey all, I've wondered this for years but I've never actually asked anyone who could have the answer. Concordia's hull number is 65, which matches the hull number of USS Enterprise (CVN-65). Was this a homage to the carrier, perhaps signifying that Concordia was as important to the Wing...
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    RSI Raises $10 Million

    The pledge tally on the RSI site just passed the $10,000,000 mark about an hour ago. Its awesome to see new people are coming onboard to support the game. The higher I see the number rise, the more optimistic I become about what this game will be able to do.
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    Old Callsigns with a modern touch

    So I just started a new playthru of the Wing Commander games, as I am known to do from time to time. I just finished a fresh Mass Effect playthru - 1 thru 3 with the DLC. Sometimes I like to link my video game universes together if possible. So when I was presented with the option tonight of...
  15. Sylvester

    LucasArts is no more

    Well, my friends, it looks like we get to see the same sad story about the death of a storied game developer. Disney just announced that they have cancelled all of LucasArts' internal projects and laid off its entire staff. Apparently, any future games will just use the LucasArts name as a...
  16. Sylvester

    Kerbal Space Program

    Hey fellow Wingnuts. For all of you out there who ocassionally like to get their Newtonian physics groove on, I highly recommend this great indie game called Kerbal Space Program: https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/ You can design, build, and launch your own rockets. The rockets can carry...
  17. Sylvester

    A Real Wildcat...N

    It just occurred to me the other day that I am currently living the Strike Commander life. Now granted, I haven't flown mercenary missions in South America or dueled with MiGs over Egypt yet, but I do have one connection. My Student Naval Flight Officer training squadron is the US Navy's...
  18. Sylvester

    Wing Commander: Eagle Rising - A Game Idea

    With the recent release of Saga and the upcoming release of an SDK which incorporates some of the things they have developed, it got me to thinking about new campaigns that could be developed using that engine. To that end, I created a rough draft of a game idea that has floated around my head...
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    Aaron Allston

    I can't believe after all these years that I just made the connection that the Aaron Allston who is the writer of Claw Marks and the Aaron Allston who helped write the Star Wars: X-Wing series are the same guy. Yet another famous sci-fi author in the Wing Commander pantheon.
  20. Sylvester

    Richard Garriott's Horror Film.....in SPACE!

    So Lord British apparently created an eight minute long horror film with assistance from the astronauts and cosmonauts who were aboard the ISS when he did his space tourist flight. NASA originally wouldn't give him permission to release it but they seem to have changed their minds...
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