Flight Commander 1.6 Released

New features for players:

• A gorgeous new nebula and starfield background (thanks Standoff)
• A new damage model. If you get shot up, your ship's performance starts to degrade. You lose missiles, you slow down, you can't afterburn. Your trusty repair system helps get you back on your feet.
• Sparks trail behind damaged engines
• An enhanced HUD
• Enhanced missile lock sounds
• Improved missile lock behavior and missile target selection
• Improved automatic target selection for the player
• A new high scores list in the simulator
• A new training mission in the simulator
• A new Nav Point cross: you can now visit nav points in any order
• White rectangles around targets that are talking on the comm system
• Ability to pause the game
• Better captions during communications.

New features for mission designers:

• A new mission, with a graphical Nav Map editor.
• 7 new scripting functions
• Give the player a choice of Nav points to visit
• Set percentages on each mission objective.
• Decide points awarded for the high scores in the simulator.
• More flags for missiles: viewcone, attack enemies only (for IFFs), acquire a new target on missile launch.

Making the Games: Shadow Force Design Document - Chapter 4

This is the final of three 'chapters' of separate Shadow Force Design documents. This one describes improvements the team wants to make to the Secret Ops concept - in particular, to the 'mission movie' feature (telling the story in-engine). It also features a good rundown of the proposed Shadow Force plot... and some insight as to plans for the Nephilim (or, "Junior").

Thanks to Captain Johnny for both archiving and providing this material! The series is winding down, though, so if you're a former Wing Commander developer with a story to tell or a document to share, we'd love to hear from you.

Shadow Force Design Document - Chapter 4 Download (86 kb) Date: Unknown Project: Wing Commander Shadow Force Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: 12