About the AI: I just played trough on Ace level. I got a few scratches in every mission, but the base mission seemed impossible. LoL I know its just me, im just a bit out of shape. I haven't held a joystick for 2 months now.. But i noticed a few things. the AI has two statuses when in combat: either it attacks the player, or linger around wihtout porpous. That stands for the wingmen also: either they start shooting at one specific target, or they just fly around pointless. This flying around only remains for 1-10 seconds, but thats enough to blow anything apart. Btw, is there friendly fire? I'm just curious. About AB fuel: the problem is with the AI again: they always use afterburners, and only switch em off for turning around. The "normal" speeds of the ships doesnt really matter becasue of this. Ever tried to shoot down a Talon in a Gladius without AB? You can till your armor holds, but then... So, this leads me to another question. How in the hell a Talon, a civilan ship, can have such armor and guns to tear apart a full-time navy spaceship with 3*2 hits? Please don't take this as whiening. If you can throw 50 ships at the player, and you do, you should make em soft targets.The number of em makes it hard enough already. Otherwise it can turn out to be simply annoying, not fun. Think about it, test it out with not so tallented players also. I know there's inv. in the menu, but thats not fun anymore.
You already have enough work on your hands, so i wont tell you to try to patch the AI too
And now its time to say a GREAT THANK YOU to the whole team!! This is an amezing project, and I'm sure that everyone around is looking forward to the next chapters! You caught the real feeling of Wing Commander with the graphics, colors, style... Man, i will surey cheat on this years vteing ofr fan projects to get you as much votes as possible
If you keep kickin the voice actors to make more belivable voices, then you should get a nomiation for the oscars
Note: Bradshews voice when saying the "help me out" messeges is a bit, well, sleepy
He doesn't feel like he's in trouble, more like on a randezvous with a bunny...
LoL He's got a good shouting also, try to make all the "help" messeges like that . But its surely a great work done!