Freespace 2

Frodo@work · 16-01-2001 10:38am #1

i just got a saitek cyborg gold joy stick and ive nothing to play on it.
does anybody have a copy of freespace 2 i can borrow, rent, purchase off them.
im in dublin so let me no.
ive a million and 1 games at home and will swap somthing for it.

TinCool · 16-01-2001 4:45pm

I have a million and 2 games, but I don't have freespace 2, I think I have freespace 1 lying about the place somehwere

Frodo@work · 16-01-2001 5:39pm

i think i might have to rob jm's copy

Monty - the one and only · 17-01-2001 7:51am

Freespace 2 is better with a mouse, for some very odd reason FS1 was better witha joystick

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Blitzkrieger · 18-01-2001 9:45am

Is it me or is it impossible to get the front 4 beam turrets on the beast! You don't carry enough weapons to do it yourself, and can't change your weapon loadout but your wingmen are too fupping stupid to even take out one!

Monty - the one and only · 18-01-2001 8:42pm

It is impossible, the most I ever got was 3, but I got flattened as the ship jumped

Blitzkrieger · 20-01-2001 1:14am

well isn't that a kick in the knickers

and I only just started the last CD

I'm thinking if I help my wingmen with the fighters they might help with the beam cannon but I haven't the time to be fluffing about with it

_CreeD_ · 21-01-2001 12:07am

So you finally got it to work Blitz (remembering a post many moons ago).
I tried that one about 10 times, all sorts of different way - the most I ever managed was 3 (And got out of the way just in time), it's easy to take the other one on the next mission so don't worry about it.

Atomic Pineapple · 21-01-2001 11:57am

I got 3 with loads of time left i just called in the support ship in as soon as i entered the mission and loaded up when i went low on missiles but had to destroy the fighters before i got to take out the 4th beam cannon only had 14% hull integrity

Draffodx
Out of desparition courage is born

Atomic Pineapple · 22-01-2001 12:00am

*SPOILER*
Did anyone get through the last mission where you in capella and the santhanas are circuling the sun and cause it to explode and you have to race to the jump node to clear the explosion?
no matter what i do i always end up getting caught in the shockwave ????

Draffodx
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Frodo@work · 22-01-2001 10:48am

just got the game for £15 in game.
its rather pretty isnt it.
i like it.
i like it alot.

WhiteWashMan · 23-01-2001 12:13am

i think for 20 quid you can get the version with 20 extra missions

Blitzkrieger · 23-01-2001 12:34am

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by _CreeD_:
So you finally got it to work Blitz (remembering a post many moons ago). </font>

lol - yeah, forgot about that. I actually didn't get it to work, I installed in on my new computer and it worked fine. I don't know what the problem with the other one was - same OS, same mouse, etc.

_CreeD_ · 23-01-2001 6:21am

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by draffodx:
*SPOILER*
Did anyone get through the last mission where you in capella and the santhanas are circuling the sun and cause it to explode and you have to race to the jump node to clear the explosion?
no matter what i do i always end up getting caught in the shockwave ????

</font>

Yup. Though you have to be a bit ofa coward to do it, no fun.

So, have you all tried StarLancer yet? I think the flight model is better than FS2, has a much better sense of movement for dogfighting. But the AI is useless, the only way you fail missions is to run out of time - and there are WAY too manu kill-the-torpedoe missions. That said you can get into some great dogfights, and using the stealth fighter is class - decloak in the middle of the enemy, kill one or 2, cloak and run around again.

FS2 is still the king...

Stephen · 23-01-2001 9:17pm

I prefer the X-Wing series of games myself... X-Wing alliance was fairly good, but TIE-Fighter (collectors cd yoke) will always be the king

- Munch

Monty - the one and only · 23-01-2001 10:48pm

Another version of the collectors "yoke" has been realeased... comes with xwing, tie-fighter and allaince, and a couple of x-wing v tie-fher missions

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Stephen · 24-01-2001 12:14am

I hear they remade X-Wing and TIE-Fighter (NOT X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter now) in the XvT engine... ie, half-decent graphics using Windows+DirectX... might re-buy TIE Fighter

Monty - the one and only · 24-01-2001 1:45am

yeah their pretty good, but if you dont have a joystick you, cant play

_CreeD_ · 24-01-2001 1:59pm

Sry, hated XvT with a vengeance (But then I hate using a joystick for anything - GPolice and Starlancer where the only 2 I bothered to use one with).

The updated Xwing, and Tiefighter versions were on the gold edition. They used the D3D patched XvT engine (The original XvT was Direct Draw only, the patch speeds it up a little, but not much)

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