Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:14:23 -0600
Organization: E. Nygma & Sons, LLC
Lines: 28
Message-ID: <0b1emjdlsbavucs3qq5i1snh4017ifkcji@4ax.com>
References: <18b4f5e884cfbee3882bf93e35ec4957318b32ac@i2pn2.org> <ajndmjpg8i8lddt1q0oof7feuv217cbvoe@4ax.com> <XnsB24F5E8F48CCBmpndisorg@135.181.20.170> <7audmjl546rfj2lritdfde90e7hgufr93e@4ax.com> <vk6us9$59rc$1@dont-email.me>
Reply-To: zaghadka@hotmail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:14:23 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="45db708bba94f7e8f599bc723b6e1f1b";
	logging-data="187523"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18qPGDCTLoWPHdiESa7EdGJRf3GArOF1eQ="
Cancel-Lock: sha1:4IVT4F+/Wn25NTH7I+D5PBU0NVc=
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846
Bytes: 2370

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:45:45 -0000 (UTC), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ross Ridge wrote: 

>Mike S.  <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>I remember one mission I could not do in Wing Commander because the
>>damn guy I needed to protect from the Kilrathi kept dying. I thought
>>that was the second game though but after reading your post I am now
>>wondering if it was the first game and I am thinking of the exact same
>>mission you are.
>
>There was probably an escort mission like that in both games, but I
>also remember having trouble with an escort mission in the original
>Wing Commander.  Fortunately someone posted a strategy for beating that
>mission here on Usenet.  The trick was to break off from dogfighting
>when you heard the ship you're supposed to attack come under fire and
>go to its defence.
>
>It was then I realized I was playing the game in realistic mode as I
>didn't have a sound card then and so couldn't hear anything.  Just like
>you'd expect in the vacuum of space.

This is where coms traffic might come in handy, but you wouldn't have
heard that either. Realistic mode has working coms though.

-- 
Zag

This is csipg.rpg - reality is off topic. ...G. Quinn ('08)