Anybody see a Torrent for this? Seems like a perfect fit for Torrents.

Over 3GB of goodness!

Nvrmind, That Gamershell link has a torrent option.

Looks cool, I'll check it out when I get home. I really miss the WC and Freespace franchises.

Thank God for torrents. Downloading now - so glad this made it to release.

So hows the flight mechanics? Arcadey, Newtonian or mixture of both?

What with this project calling attention to itself from EA, and naming other projects going on, probably a good idea to get this while one can.

Wildone wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 15:58:
So hows the flight mechanics? Arcadey, Newtonian or mixture of both?

Its been a while since I played wing commander, but as I recall it was a mix of both. I recall a certain key one could hold to disable thrusters so you could do a slide/strafe type of maneuver.

Now as to what this one is, I don't know.

This comment was edited on Mar 22, 2012, 17:39.

Understanding that it is based on Freespace 2 engine, which didn't use cockpits, I still miss the cockpits from the early Wing Commander games. Yeah, I know, they were actually a way of limiting how much had to be rendered on-screen at one time in the days when processing power was limited, but I just don't feel quite like I'm playing a WC game without them. Even today I am very fond of cockpit views.

Small complaint though - I'm thrilled that this made it to release.

I'm getting like 18k/sec on the torrent even with over a 100 seeders and peers.... *sigh*


=-Rigs-=

DDL through Gamer's Hell is averaging 550KB/sec and I'm at 600MB so far.

Really curious what this is going to be like. Wing Commander 2 is still my all-time favorite game, and I've been dying for a good space sim for years. I'm not getting my hopes up though.

Is this a stand-alone release or do you need Freespace installed to play it?

Slashman wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 18:15:
Is this a stand-alone release or do you need Freespace installed to play it?

It says full game, so pretty sure no need for freespace.

Gayyyyyyyy.

Such a lame series.

I was excited for this, but the first mission involved flying towards a nav marker for 15 minutes without anything happening. I quit and haven't had another look yet.

What an awful way to introduce players to your game

venomhed wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 18:35:
Gayyyyyyyy.

Such a lame series.

I never got into it, but boy did it spark a surge in sound card sales back in the day. I remember there was a separate speech add-on you could buy.

very expensive game when you added it all up.

DaZ wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 18:53:
I was excited for this, but the first mission involved flying towards a nav marker for 15 minutes without anything happening. I quit and haven't had another look yet.

What an awful way to introduce players to your game

Is there a time compress or auto nav key? In wing commander games, there was usually a key to press to auto navigate to next waypoint. That 15 min flight would be a 10 second one. It would bring you out if you ran into something on the way. In wing commander, one rarely flies in empty space with nothing around for more than a minute or two because of the auto nav key.

If they aren't telling players new to the wing commander series this basic stuff in some sorta tutorial, thats bad.

DangerDog wrote on Mar 22, 2012, 19:28:
I never got into it, but boy did it spark a surge in sound card sales back in the day. I remember there was a separate speech add-on you could buy.

very expensive game when you added it all up.

That's nowhere near the price of buying the game and all the map packs for a game like MW2.
Plus, that wasn't for all the wing commader games. Just back when the games were on floppies. The speech pack added a chunk of more floppies and space required in days when people were buying hard drives WAY under 1 gb. So many people wouldn't want that. I don't think I bothered with the speech pack when it came out, but when I picked up the re-release on CD it had all that stuff (including the mission packs) included.

Wing Commander II as I recall was one of the big drivers for gamers to upgrade their computers. It required a faster CPU, and more memory than normal (386 and 1 meg as I recall).

This comment was edited on Mar 22, 2012, 19:56.

IIRC it was "A" for Autopilot. I'm downloading this now, really interested to see how it turns out

Ah good memories...95% of my hard drive at the time to hold WC2 on a 286. Almost done downloading!

Come on EA - where's WC4 and 5 on GOG?

no need to fly forever, press alt-a

F2 brings up options/bindings

Well I am seeding it on my FIOS connection now at 300 kbs so hope to get this out. So far my ratio is 5:1 I am hoping for a 100:1 by tomorrow

Wing Commander was orginally written on an Amiga computer but it never came out on that machine

Hell yes, now thats something I been waitin for baby.

Hawk: "Let the fur fly kid!"

Hawk to Casey 'Wing Commander: Prophecy'

*Lowers my head nodding slightly with my fist raised in the air and whispers*

"Indeed Hawk.......indeed"