Standoff Leaves No One Behind

The Standoff team continues to make progress in designing its final missions. The winning story arc is somewhat predictable for fans who've read Fleet Action, but the losing arc is a little more dynamic. Eder has posted more details below along with three new accompanying screenshots.

And another mission...

Excellent. A mission a week, that's good progress. Quarto reports that the mission he started last week is now completely finished, and he's moved onto the next. We really may finally get there :-).

Meanwhile, I've uploaded three new screenshots from the missions Pierre is working on. This mission is a rather interesting one. As we've mentioned a few times along the way, it's been a part of our design philosophy to throw really oddball missions onto the losing path. The winning path more or less follows the book, so that restricts us quite a bit in mission design. But on the losing path - anything goes :-). So, during Episode 5, we were finally able to answer a question that probably nagged some of you from at least Episode 3. What happens, if the Firekka fights its way to a jump point and jumps out... leaving behind an ejected pilot? Obviously, somebody has to go back and get him. Well, in Episode 5, Captain Bradshaw decides to fly such a mission personally (if there are any ejectees to rescue, that is - this mission is optional). Just you, your Crossbow, and a bunch of cats. Sounds fun to me... :-)

What about progress in the other parts of the project, like music and voiceovers? Unfortunately, there is none this week...

Making the Game: Mission F2

F2 is the SWACS scan of Dula VII, a necessary plot mission -- but not overly exciting. Most interesting here is probably the fact that Hawk dies off-screen if you didn't choose to attack the Kilrathi -- which is a little odd, considering that the moral point should be that you don't slaughter cats rather than that you're rewarded with a more complex plot if you do.

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 F2 Download (75 kb) Date: November 25, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: 6