I have still only watched parts of it but it is great fun...and it made me immediately want to play WC
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Though I was a bit "shocked" how Chris Roberts played the game...not locking on targets, not switching to full guns immediately and not accelerating to full speed. Even LOAF seems not to accelerate above cruise speed. I always - except when in the Rapier or when fighting Jalthis or Grathas - accelerate to full speed.
Same, I went back and downloaded it off gog, I couldn't
not play a mission or two before going to bed, even though we were all a little tired after 8 1/2 hours of streaming.
According to Chris, as you probably noticed, he hadn't played WC1 since finishing it, so remember that during all of that time, he'd made all the other games and some of the commands were unfamiliar to him after not having had to remember them in 25 years. On top of that, he's now 3 years running in developing Star Citizen every day, and the demands of that game really changed up the keyboard mappings from WC. Since I was there, I'll note a few things that were pretty telling - he hadn't forgotten you could do some things, but he
had perhaps confused some of the commands that were available in later games but not in WC1, or slight variations in the control mappings.
For example he did lock a target. He forgot how to switch missiles - It's "W" in WC1 and WC2, but it's "M" in WC3 and WC4. I can say that just a two or three years ago, the last time I downloaded Privateer to play, I made the same mistake and it took me a few minutes to remember how to cycle those weapons. (Furthermore, in Star Citizen, in the default keyboard mapping, "W" means "increase throttle", giving him yet another reason not to associate that key with cycling munitions anymore). He also tried to hit "F" to activate full guns - again, something that was made available in WC3 and onward, but not around for WC1. That's one of the reasons he was on neutrons only for a while at the beginning.
You probably know offhand that "Tab" is the key for afterburners in every WC game, but in Star Citizen, boost is the Left Shift key; the Tab key is either the interactive mode switch or the flight mode cycle, depending on which of the default control layouts you're mapping to, so from the looks of it, Chris hit Left Shift a couple of times expecting an afterburner boost and not getting one. At least from my perspective, looking over his shoulder while he was playing, there were some things it seemed clear he was trying to do but was getting a little dissonance from the ship not doing what he was expecting it to do. (Perhaps if he'd been flying an Aegis Gladius or a Douglas Thunderbolt instead of a YF-44A Rapier, the ship would've seemed more cooperative!)
Playing is a little harder when part of your mindspace is occupied with remapping your own motor memory inputs in real time, and especially when your current mental control mapping is for a game with a different keyboard mapping, mixed in with more recent memories of more 'advanced' versions of the game you're presently playing
I wouldn't blame him for being a little confused at impromptu play, it's not like he sat down to practice WC1 before dropping by to visit the stream. Just something to keep in mind
