Papi

I suggest you not to buy Voodoo card. Voodoo cards are not supported by anyone, because nVidia bought 3Dfx and no new drivers are going to be released. That means that new games, including BCM which is being released this week, that support directX 8x -> will not work right with Voodoo based cards. So if I was you I would buy some GeForce 2 card, they are not more expensive than Voodoo 5 cards, which is the most likely only new voodoo card you'll find. ...just my 2 cents...

This is a tough one Joel, but I think that "easiest" for the commanders familiar with bc3k would be terran/military, because that's what they are familiar with. I'd suggest that everyone who's not familiar with BC world should start with TA missions, they are missions where you can't get hurt, but can try all kinds of things. Then maybe move to IA missions, one off missions, of which you have already tried a few if you've played the demo. I think after getting the feel of the game one can make a choice of a race/caste/career. I think it's up to your own "taste" which race you choose, I didn't experience one being "easier" than other (speak up if any betatester did) And of course if you want missions, then you have only two choices: terran/military or insurgent/military (but not for long, I suppose that someones already working on extra missions, somewhere in galaxy not very far away... )

I've not been here much lately answering the questions, but there's a reason for this. The questions have been either: 1. about things that have not been on the beta 2. about future patches My idea was, that we, betatesters could answer the questions considering the state of the game before game went gold, so that all BC fans could have a idea of the game. Now it turned out that only SC can answer most of the questions in this thread (and it's maybe taking his time all too much) So it's my suggestion that this thread: a) will be closed will answer only questions that all of us betatesters can answer too c) will go on as it is (because I'm as keen to read SC's answers as you are )

Glad to see Alpha being so popular, that you have to do some work to move incoming to other wings Remo No seriously, we are big family here in Prime and what's good for Prime is good enough for me. It's been too quite here lately anyway So, thanks guys for making some noise.

Here's the same in Finnish: "Viimeisimm├ñn suomalaisen PC Gamer lehden mukana tuli BC3K, joten eik├Âh├ñn se liene ilmestynyt my├Âs siell├ñ, ehk├ñ jo aikaisemmin." O.K. I'll try to brake the code: Jase asked: quote: Are any of these mags going to include a copy of BC3K 2.09??? That would be a better selling advertisement than a review in my opinion. I would love to play it, since it is supposed to run under Win9X, but I have a 56K connection. And I answered: quote: PC Gamer here in Finland included BC3K in their latest number, so I think it must have been in there too, only earlier. Translation Latest Finnish PC Gamer magazine had BC3K included in their cd-rom, so it must have been included in PC Gamer mag cd-rom in U.S. too, maybe in earlier issues It was quite late here when I answered his post. But I can send my Finnish-Finglish-English dictionary to you if you want it for further use. [ 10-23-2001: Message edited by: Papi ]

PC Gamer here in Finland included BC3K in their latest number, so I think it must have been in there too, only earlier.

Alpha Wing pages updated, tell me what you think.

So I'll sue you for being as honest you can be, is that right

True krazor, I'm one of the testers and I liked the game as it was a lot, but I think you guys should wait until you have your own opinion. I KNOW I like it and will send my own email when I have my own full version on my sweaty hands, but no earlier.

That's a good one Hugo

willb, I think the best thing is to try uninstalling and reinstalling the demo if you haven't tried that yet. It might be that the game crashes because you have only 64mb memory. Remember that you should quit all programs, except eplorer and systray. I run memory manager called "Ram Idle" prior to starting any games, so I can get as much memory as possible, then I quit the memory manager too. Hope this helps and welcome to our universe

Welcome Masefield, you just added one more BCM Infomercial: Painkiller

...how about crab mines, aren't they like turrets?

Hi Impact, take a look at BCM product info page, there you'll find some more info about the game. quote: Is the game open so you go do what you want...or is it more along the lines of you get told what to do then do it and move on to the next mission? The game is very open ended, you may choose to take missions (ACM) or not (Free flight mode) in the start. Even if you choose to start with missions you can do what you want, but you may get court martialed and that may be end of the game. After the last mission game will continue in free flight mode. quote: would it be fair to say BCM is simlar in play to the Elite style games but just far far more advanced and in depth? Yes, I would say so, I have played Elite games and there's much of the same feeling but in BCM you're a real starship commander. You have whole crew to bark orders to and so on. I won't go further to the detail because you'll find it all here (and it would take a whole day for me to explain the depth of this game) Last but least, try free Battlecruiser 3000 AD 2.09 and BCM demo 2 and you'll get feeling of this game. Welcome

Take a look at VCF and you'll find that the answer is yes

No, you can't take weapons from killed enemies, all of them are vaporized after killing and disappear with their gear.

Happy birthday! And don't forget the fun factor, in games and in life

And remember it's not only fire power, tactics too smaller assets are faster, so it just might be that they might be better for leading personel

quote: Originally posted by Thomas Siemens: Jaguar, Rm: assets changed.At the moment, I use the following rule of thumb for Assets: Fleet Staff personnel, and Wing Leaders: Battlecruiser MK3. Everyone else: Battlecruiser MK2, or other asset, if asked for. Best regards. Does this mean that we can't select the assets? Sorry, but I can't see any reason for this. I can understand that once you select your asset and it's in the fleet db it's there and that's it.

quote: Originally posted by Korono Lakeela: Ok, here is sort of a silly question, but something I am kinda curious about....So, how nasty are the bases in the shipped version of BCM compared to BC3K?......And does an A.I. fleet, being unsupported or unobstructed by a player, have a chance at successfully knocking one out? In my opinion (and I think it was other betatesters opinion too) starstations are nastier, I didn't try to take out starbases if you mean them though... And I had to change the whole strategy against npc's, they are harder all around. quote: Originally posted by R_wilco: This may have already been asked, but I'm curious, IS there a way to change your caste in-game? Like going renegade, or somehow resigning your commision to become a trader? Probably not, but I thought I'd ask And also, I forgot what it was called, but I read that there's a feature in The Game which let's you recieve AND send messages to NPC ships(and PC ships after the MP patch). Has it been enabled, or is it still in testing, or just removed? You can't change your caste in the created profile. But of course you can go and start rebelling, but you'll get those fighters on your tail that stations sends after your butt No, there's no feature to send messages to npc's. [ 10-13-2001: Message edited by: Papi ]

I'm going to check the HTML code. Only thing that wonders me is that I asked RM to check the page and he didn't see anything wrong. We both use IE 6.0, and I have IE 5.5 at work and it works just right in both of them. I also installed Netscape 6.1. and it works just fine. I made the pages with Frontpage 2000, so it just might be the problem, maybe I just fix it with some HTML editor. But the problem is, that if I can't see the problem, I don't know if it's fixed since I only have a little idea what's wrong

I mean after the last beta patch (v2.3.09.09), and here's my specs: CPU: AMD K6 2/500 RAM: 128mb OPERATING SYSTEM win98 OS ENVIRONMENT 1024*768/16bit BCM ENVIRONMENT 1024*768/Full-screen/16bit/16bit VIDEO CARD INFO Voodoo3 PCI 2000/1.07 I ran bcm release with /NM /LT options in command line.

SC wrote: quote: Notice the texturing, White banding etcfp mode, crouched fp mode, standing fp mode, standing + firing I didn't experience these clitches with my V3 after the latest patch.

Oh sucks! another formatting problem. I'll fix it asap. edit: Do you have Netscape or IE? Works fine with my IE 5.5 Is it in the main bios page or when you click mine or Starbucks name? [ 10-12-2001: Message edited by: Papi ]

We sure do , I just fixed the font problem, so send your bio to me and I'll update the pages asap.