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Last Line of Defense
now has a new Waterloo. It's an interesting translation of a WC2 design into WC3 styling. One of the most notable changes are the swap from flak cannons to designated gun and missile turrets.
Deathsnakeput together this nifty video of the ship fending off eight Dralthi with its updated weaponry. No problem for a heavy cruiser!
Wing Commander Saga Waterloo under attack
Mar
…*Pilots Federation ALERT*
Safeguard Interstellar has successfully received medical supplies for civilians wounded during the NMLA terrorist attack.
The bombing of nine starports across the Alliance, Empire and Federation left huge numbers of people injured, some with caustic burns due to Thargoid enzymes deployed by the explosives.
Noel Beaumont, the aid organisation's CEO, announced:
"We are immensely grateful to all pilots who brought shipments of basic medicines and advanced medicines. These have been transported directly to the relevant systems, where they will be used to ease the suffering of several hundred thousand civilians."
Safeguard Interstellar confirmed that its partner factions have made rewards available at the three systems used as staging areas for deliveries.
Pilots can collect from the Perez Ring Brewery at Krylov Ring in the He Bo system, Lavigny's Legion at Mackenzie
Sep
…Who says print is dead? In 2669, Major Todd "Maniac" Marshall, eternal teenager, still has a stash of printed pornography in his locker. When you chat with him in the barracks during the Blackmane series he takes a break from reading an issue of 'Playpen' magazine to tease Blair about flirting with Rachel. Is Playpen something created for Wing Commander III or is it the real 1980s magazine it appears to be? (And if the former is the case, why didn't they use the already-established Playboy parody "Plaything (tm)" from Privateer?)
Long story short: it's not real AND it wasn't created by the prop department. There are often legal issues involved with showing real products on television and in film. Take a close look at any popular sitcom and you'll find that what look like real groceries, magazines, books and posters are actually careful knockoffs that resemble (but are legally distinct from) familiar
May
…We've just released a new patch with more than 40 tweaks and bugfixes, quite a number of them are VR related. HOTAS/Joystick players will be pleased to hear that we've added an option that disables any in-game input smoothing.
Here's the complete list of changes:
Tweaks
- Extended the range of the non-VR screen percentage setting to 10-300
- Don't spawn old player wreck after current run was won
- Make sure generic repair mission can only be finished after task was received
- Made the PlayStation controller icons more legible
- HOTAS/Joystick: Added an option to disable smoothing of gamepad input (recommended, set in controls options)
- VR (Oculus): Set the mirror mode to be full-screen
- VR: Pause Menu can now also be entered via the "change camera" button (default: Y on Gamepad). This is due to SteamVR now opening the Steam Overlay when pressing the Start button.
- VR:
Aug
…Hello Travellers!
Today we’re releasing Patch 1.33 on both PS4 and PC. It addresses a number of reported issues – here’s a full run down of what to expect:
- Fixed issue where player bases were given the name “Unknown Base” rather than a generated name
- Fixed S-class ships having incorrect pricing and numbers of slots
- Added rockets to starting ship in creative default save game
- Added new icon for solo difficulty AI ships
- Fixed Albumen Pearl plants using the wrong name on their interaction labels
- Fixed the landing marker being visible in some fighter cockpits
- Fixed texturing issue seen with some combinations of AMD GPU and drivers
- Added and improved audio at the ending of the Atlas path
- Added and improved audio for terrain editing
- Improved audio for missions
- Improvement to vehicle boost timings
- Made marker for rare graves stay up for the same time as other object markers
- Prevented trees in frozen biomes
May
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Oct
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Jul
…Stingerhas released a long-awaited update to his
WCDXpatch for Kilrathi Saga. The program makes a number of critical updates to the game's DirectX implementation in order to improve compatibility on modern computers. WC1 has been the primary focus, but the last couple updates provide initial support for Wing Commander 2. This update refines that and improves stability and smoothness of your WC2 game in Windows. Grab the files
hereand give it a try!
General changes:
WC2:
- Patcher internals have been completely overhauled. Ideally, you won't notice any difference, but you should now get better error messages when things go wrong.
- Due to implementation divergence in the underlying platform, wcdx now handles scaling of the game's graphics internally instead of relying on the operating system.
- Restored mouse cursor positioning for all games.
- Much better multi-monitor support.
- Fixed a couple of
Jun
During a Kernel Update this night there was a malfunction of one of the HDDs on the SWAT Main webserver.
The HDD meanwhile got replaced and no data was lost
The few hours downtime has lead to market problems on the CF server which also should be fixed meanwhile (Freelancer restart is required).
Server statistics and player lists will update tomorrow.
Websites of the SWAT network should be a bit slower than usual at the moment as they require to do daily updates and maintenance now.
In a few hours everything should be normal again.
Dec
Crossfire Screenshots
Aug
Display MoreThis will probably go down as the month of patches... Here's another small one for you:
TweaksBugfixes
- Adjusted sector 2 environment colors
- VR: adjusted the mouse crosshair position to be properly centered
- VR: fixed that the aiming could be offset in gamepad mode after using the mouse
- Berserker enhancement: Do not interrupt jump focus when boosting, reset kill timer when destroying shield generators
- Fixed "Handle with Care" handicap not having any effect
- Fixed player drones having full health after each jump regardless of any perks
- Mac: Fixed German audio not being available during flashback movies
Nov
Display MoreWe've just released a small patch. Here's the list of changes
TweaksBugfixes
- Don't allow energy consumption mod on energy discharger
- Encounters: When dying in the Okkar homeworld, you will not be able to retrieve your wreck
- Fixed some issues with offline play
- Fixed invisible Encounters button being selectable in ingame pause menu
- Add more safety to preventing Okkar Forces from jumping in during cutscenes
- Fix Okkar Gunship MK2 occasionally hitting itself with own projectile
- Encounters: Fixed voice audio not being audible on Linux
- Encounters: Fixed re-engineering removing 3 Viridian Energy instead of 2
- Encounters: Fixed Coalition not attacking the Okkar
Sep
…Popular video blogger
Spoonyrecently dedicated his live stream gaming show to Wing Commander 3. He's dabbled in Wing Commander stuff over the years, so it's interesting to see his take here. Perhaps even more interesting are the live reactions from the audience. It's a credit to WC3's engaging FMV and spaceflight engine that it still holds up remarkably well nearly 25 years later. This also speaks to the pace of advancement in the early '90s. This came just a few years after WC1&2, yet it's often a significantly easier point of entry to the series due to how much more it resembles a modern game.
We can also help clarify one mystery in the vid. At 1:30:30 he encounters a 'bug' where he appears to be zooming away from his target backwards. It looks like what happened was that he accidentally engaged auto slide (with the / key), which temporarily disables the atmospheric flight style and throws
Mar
If you were on the hunt for all of the international copies and translations of Wing Commander, Dennis Mull has an extra twist for the German edition of Wing Commander 4! He's got two different versions with some minor differences. On a later printing, the back side font was cleaned up, the age rating sticker was printed on the box and a couple missing name credits were added. I love tiny things like this. Good luck hunting your copies down!
Release (right) and re-release (left). The differences are a different font on the back of the box and the sticker "USK 12" is printed on the box. Jeffrey "JC" Combs and Frank Roan are also added.
Jan
Example of the new cutscenes. This is the prototypes with subtitles.
Dec
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Sep
Howdy!
Accolade complete: this webserver has killed its 3rd HDD 
Thanks to the people that gave me a notice earlier today via email and moddb.
The damaged HDD meanwhile is replaced and backups seem to be working. It will take some time for the server to rebuild the cache for all the pages so it will be a bit slow in the next few hours.
If any chars got banned due to the failed CF updates I will unban tomorrow in the morning after the daily updates ran through.
Sep
…Hanging upside-down by a bundle of alien mycelium in a subterranean cavern was not Doctor Bashir’s choice of holiday, but he remained philosophical about the predicament. It would not do to panic, even though his EV suit computer showed that integrity had been compromised and some of the spores had somehow made their way into its atmospheric system. It would not do to panic at the thought of those alien spores winnowing into the air cyclers and thence to his lungs. It would not do at all to think about the effect that Elachi spores had upon various humanoids. Even though these were not Elachi, they were probably distant relatives of some sort, and their effect would likely be deleterious. It would not do, so he decided to retain a certain level of bemused detachment instead. “Bashir to Aventine,” he called through his comm system. “Things are becoming a bit more urgent here.” He hoped
Sep
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Aug
Display MoreToday we’re taking a moment to appreciate some of the awesome screenshots you’ve been taking so far in Update 1.3: Atlas Rises, so we’ve pulled together a gallery of some of our favourite shots from Reddit and Twitter.
Take a look, and keep sharing your creations!
slammedek1 – Reddit 
@SimranD1502 – Twitter 
Noderpsy – Reddit 
Kizonachi – Reddit 
ivXtreme – Reddit 
@Crisdaru – Twitter 
@chadwhynot – Twitter 
@BAMbam757Gaming – Twitter 
@AlandalieNMS – Twitter 
abcliveFR – Reddit 
Don’t forget to check out our Atlas Rises Facebook album for more of your screenshots (which we’ll keep updating!).
