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We have exciting news! Captains on PC will be able to enjoy a bonus on purchased ZEN! Is there a ship in the C-Store that is tempting you? Now is the perfect opportunity to grab ships, keys, and whatever else has caught your eye. From February 14th at 8am PT to February 20th at 10am PT, Captains will earn an extra bonus on purchased ZEN when you charge through Direct Credit Card, PayPal, Skrill, BoaCompra, Xsolla, Paysafecard, or Steam. *Please note that this Charge Bonus offer is ONLY available for the following payment processors: Direct Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover) PayPal Skrill BoaCompra Xsolla Paysafecard Steam Packs in the store on the Arc website will be 20% off from 9AM PT on February 14th to 9am PST on February 20th. The following packs will be a part of the sale. Click the links to be taken to the purchase page! Temporal Special

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DefianceIndustries

has shared some exciting news about another amazing graphical upgrade developed by the community.

Pedro

and

PopsiclePete

have helped implement emit maps that will allow for proper glow effects in Prophecy and Secret Ops. This is a huge win for a game that's highlighted by dark spaceships adorned with eerie lights. There's also some great benefits for regular spaceships too. Coming soon to a Secret Ops

Model Upgrade Pack

near you!

So...it isn't often we jaded MUP-pers get really excited over something, but this is one of those times. The dynamic graphical duo of Pedro and PopsiclePete have been hard at work performing dark magics and alchemy on the Open/GL patch and have given us a gift long sought after: Emit maps!

Up to this point we've had to be creative in how we do things like glowing windows and engines in the MUP. Kevin Caccamo 's awesome Wing Blender tools for Blender allow

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• Information concerning Faction Rallies will be made available on 5/31 in the “This Week at Bungie” blog article.

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Hooray, we have a teenager!

13 years ago a dream was born, a dream about a Community full of great people and lots of fun.
Together we went through ups and downs, worked hard to create something impressive that people always will remember and enjoyed the fruits of this hard work.
This community evolved into something great and after 13 years we are in a situation where we have so many options that its hard to decide.
Whatever that future decisions will be, we keep moving forward, knowing that this is a place by the players for the players.

In the past years I often released impressive numbers about Portal visitors, mod downloads... etc.
I'll skip that today.
While these numbers are about the same as last year (slightly better) I consider them relative unimportant.
You cant measure joy in numbers.
People had the chance to discover all the new stuff in CF2.0 during the past year and also helped to make this mod even better.
People also were active on the forum.
This shows me that this is a

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We've just released a new patch with some smaller tweaks and a number of bugfixes. We've also added a special "retro graphics" graphics mode that you can unlock as a reward for finishing a hardcore mode run! Have fun!

New Features

• Added special "retro graphics" option that is unlocked after finishing a hardcore mode run

Tweaks

• Encounters: Nerfed Engine Booster MK2 and MK3 efficiency
• Increased camera range in action freeze

Bugfixes

• Fixed blueprint drop probability for higher tiers being too low if no more tier one blueprints are available
• Potential fix for Okkar Corvettes and Outlaw Drone Carriers occasionally bouncing away when destroyed
• Fixed Grey Goo damaging player from greater distance if player has a tractor beam installed
• Fixed hardcore mode "Anti Consumerism" handicap carrying over from sector 6 to sector 7
• Fixed that the "Unarmed" challenge could be exploited by using Headstart

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As many of you will be aware, hardware vulnerabilities have been discovered in many brands and types of CPUs that were manufactured in the last 20 years, affecting computers across the globe.

Here at CCP, we are in the process of patching and performance testing our infrastructure with the aim of making the impact on game performance and player experience as minimal as possible, so that you guys can continue to enjoy blowing up each other’s internet spaceships.

Security patches for macOS, Window 7/8/10 and Linux are all in the process being rolled out from their operating system vendors (from Microsoft, Apple, and the Linux community) to address the issue. Both latest macOS and Windows 10 have already received updates that resolve the issue, and Windows 7 and 8 will receive updates tomorrow (2018/01/08). For many of our pilots, your systems will have either already received an update, if you’re running

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General: Resolved an issue that was causing the Discovery Klingons to not use modern torpedoes. Resolved an issue that was causing the Type 7 Shuttle to not appear in the reclaim store. The Borg engine attachment is now properly seated on the nacelle for the Dinaes Warbird Destroyer (T6) Resolved an issue that was causing the Male Caitian Ears to clip through the Vedek Hood. Resolved an issue that was causing the Duty Officer weekend to display on the Calendar. Content: Captains can now access and begin playing the first episode in any story arc. The Crystalline Entity TFO has been updated with various changes to match the Event version: There is now a 30 second Mission Briefing time before the TFO begins. This allows players time to join the TFO and read the briefing if necessary, before taking on the Entity. The Entity shards that it deploys are now immune to

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It's been an excellent week for Excalibur models! The Wing Commander community has its own version of the twin movie phenomenon where it seems like fans develop similar items in totally separate bubbles. As is often the case, the result here is that we have double the amazing eye candy to enjoy! In his latest masterpiece, Defiance_Industries designed a slightly beefed up Excalibur based on the Secret Ops version as a bridge to the concept version meant for Wing Commander Arena. There are some very handsome shots of it parked in the Victory's flight deck - plus pics alongside a classic Excalibur and Midway megacarrier. Last, but certainly not least, Defiance has mocked up an entire virtual history of this variant in an ICIS style recap. You can read up on that in a PDF here.

While Pedro is providing quality digital entertainment to the masses, I needed something to keep my skills sharp. So I

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Hello!

Thanks for your continued feedback following the release of Atlas Rises! Today we’re releasing Patch 1.32 on PS4 and PC, which addresses the following issues:

• Fixed an issue that could cause cargo slots not to unlock after purchase
• Players who had previously learned all alien words are now able to progress through the story
• Players who’ve unlocked all general exosuit slots can now unlock tech and cargo slots as intended
• We’ve fixed an issue that caused base NPCs to stop responding after claiming a new base location. This will prevent new occurrences of the issue, a fix for those who have already experienced it is under investigation
• Fixed an issue preventing players from being able to finish farmer and exocraft missions
• The base terminus teleporter will now display mission objectives, allowing you to select the correct system. It will also no longer ‘forget’ mission critical systems. This will prevent

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This ship spotlight with focus on one of two hulls from the Servant Sisters of EVE that are featured in this series – this time it’s the Stratios class cruiser.

A formidable drone platform with an armoured hull to match, the Stratios is perfectly suited to exploring and surviving the perils of deep space, and shines when flown in situations where exploring an unknown or hostile area of space is a key part of deployment.

While Alpha pilots will not benefit from the Covert Ops bonuses of the Stratios, this well-built cruiser still provides ample firepower, drone versatility and capability for non-covert exploration and astrometry that can be utilized by those flying with Alpha clones.

In Detail:

Class: Cruiser

Weapons: 4 Turrets

Slot Layout:

• 5 High Power Slots
• 5 Medium Power Slots
• 5 Low Power

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We're happy to announce that the Firewatch SKIN for the Marshal class battleship is now available.

For those pilots who've purchased this SKIN in the past for the Enforcer and Pacifier, now is your chance to complete the set!

The Firewatch SKIN for the Marshal is available in the New Eden Store for 250 PLEX.

In addition to this, a bundle of all three Firewatch SKINs is available too with a 10% discount on regular prices, for 423 PLEX.

Purchasing SKINs is easy:

• Log into EVE Online
• Have sufficient PLEX
• Go to the New Eden Store (press ALT+4 or use the Neocom to access the store)
• Purchase the SKIN(s)
• The SKINs are then available in your redeeming system

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Just about a week ago I announced another update that I want to release end of December 2016 or beginning Janurary 2017 (depending on how fast I can finish the development and how much extra content I decide to put in). This new update will introduce the "Dynamic Universe" feature to Crossfire 2.0. Some people might remember that we had a similar feature in Crossfire 1.83, long time ago. Due to the complexity of such a feature and due to other priorities, the "Dyniamic Universe" didn't make it

Like every year Id like to loose a few words about the year which is reaching its end today.

Well, it was a relative calm year when i look back. No major catastrophes, relative small troubles over the entire year. Thats good.

The community held together and helped each other and of course new players. Thank you for that.

2013 also was the year where Crossfire got its 7th Mod of the Year nomination which is certainly a milestone for us. No other Freelancer mod and I also believe no other mod in general managed to get to this point. Thank you for all your votes.

Speaking of Crossfire the year 2013 was also an incredible time and work intense year.

I think only Huor really knew how much I was trying to push the development of Crossfire 2.0 since May/June in order to reach a state where we can discuss about a "release" and he also has spent such an incredible amount of work on the mod that I just want to say thank you. Thank you also to the other people which helped... on the mod and on

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Lost Fleet is going to continue the Crossfire bonus missions and will open a new world for the players to explore. Main focus will be the Sol sector and its past secrets. With this new update we will introduce new systems (additional to Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti), new natural solar objects, new stations, new ships, new equipment and even (a) new faction(s) aswell as new story content related to it.

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Arne from

Android Arts

has been bitten by the Wing Commander bug lately and the result has been a wide ranging gallery of WC sketches. He put together some interesting

mockups

about a year ago that focused heavily on the WC1/2 timeframe, and now his new work spans virtually the entire series. This time he's got aliens in addition to ships, and this lineup includes Confed soldiers, Kilrathi, Firekkans, Steltek and even the Mopoks! His fighter sketches also have grown to include works from

both

Privateers, and there's a Tri-System Melissa Banks-inspired outfit! The Tarsus first person cockpit also makes an appearance. These are super fun, and I'm anxious to see what else he makes in the future. You can read more about his specific inspiration

here

and follow the creative process on

Twitter

.

I have some fond memories playing Wing Commander 1 on the Amiga. A sticker on my box says it works on the

Twelve years ago this community went live.
Since that we have achieved much and today it is time to look back, remember great times but also look forward to new tasks, to a new and even better future.
The past year was incredible hard for us as developers and website staff members.
This place has changed alot over the past year and we have done an incredible amount of work to bring it to this state.

Not only that we have a shiny new Portal with awesome performance and awesome functionalities... no... we also have Crossfire 2.0 running on our server, reached the highest possible rank in our Star Trek Online Fleet and have been voted into the Top100 of the Mod Awards for the 8th time.
Thousands of working hours went both into the Portal and into the Mod.
The new year will bring further improvements and of course a great time for our members.

But today... we all should lean back and enjoy the day.... celebrate another great year in this community.

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A cool Wing Commander II preview in Spanish! Posted by La Abadía del Juego.

This is first news I'd seen about Wing Commander. Here they talked about part 2, and in Spain the first had not even come out. One of the sagas that has affected me the most in all my life.