Standoff Enters Calmer Waters

The Standoff website has been updated with the latest progress report. It sounds like a few more bugs have surfaced only recently, so be sure to submit any odd behavior you may have encountered while playing through episodes one through four! Here is Eder:

The good news is, the "shame effect" seems to be starting to work - if you complain enough to the team about having nothing to post, it seems they get the point eventually :-). Quarto reports he's finally ("really, about damn time", he says, and I tend to agree :-P ) gotten back to work on the mission he was doing. Does that mean he'll have something to show us next week? Guess we'll see next friday. Meanwhile, Pierre is also slowly moving forward with his current mission.

In other news, there's been a fair amount of activity in our bugtracking utility this week - a few bugs fixed, a few new ones appearing. So, this is a good time to remind you guys - if, while playing the previous four episodes of Standoff, you have run into anything odd, please report it to us at the forum, and we'll fix it for the Episode 5 release.

Making the Game: Mission A2

Today we see the second cut 'A series' training mission. Here the game puts Casey in a real fighter for the first time... fighting drone Kilrathi Drakhri, of all things! This mission would have introduced the Wasp, although it doesn't seem especially suited to the Wasp's special ability.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Mission A2 Download (29 kb) Date: March 25, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: 3