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Article #93561Re: Wing Commander 3 commands - HELP
From: Xocyll
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:34
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:34
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Karl Frank <ka...@karl.frank.name> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >Xocyll wrote: > >> Well I don't have WC3, but I just looked at the old commands for WC2, >> and it didn't have speed matching or strafe, so it's quite possible WC3 >> doesn't either. > >WC3 does have speed matching IIRC (I never use that feature), WC2 indeed >doesn't. Yeah, I went to that docs site someone posted and snagged the wc3 docs. Speed match is 'Y'. >Strafing isn't there in any WC game. But "Sliding". Here you continue >flying on the old path at the old speed (even at burner speed), but can >turn at will. Your ship basically becomes a turret. I don't recall that from WC:Prophecy (the only one i played since wc2), but I know that it was in Tachyon. Quite the exploitable bug too, since you could hit the burners to get to max speed, then hold the slide button to continue at that speed indefinitely. Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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