Emmett.hendrick

I have never had a reason to post a review about a game before but I felt I had to in this case. Never before has a game taken so much of my life as this one has. I have to admit I was a bit sceptical when I joined this form about a year ago, but I'm really glad I did. Great work SC and all the team. Glowing review posted.

A few hours later the Andromeda arrived in the Tau Ceti system, repairs were going well and their had been no more 'surprises' enroute. Jackson sat in his command chair on the bridge as the ship returned to normal space,"Report!" "We have reached our destination, Sir", Smyth replied,"Scans show two trader registered vehicles heading towards the jump anomoly but otherwise the system seems deserted." Even as he spoke Smyth was uneasy, Insurgent traffic had been increasing recently so the fact that the only ships visible in the system were traders was a bit unusual. Jackson looked at the tacops screen on his console confirming what his first officer was telling him,"Ok....Good, Set course for the planet and establish a high orbit, engage the cloak just before we enter detection range from the planet. Sound general quarters." Jackson stared back at his display flicking through he assigned half the on board marine compliment to search duties and sent Sargeant Adams and his team to the transporter also moving the 'cargo' to the transporter. Flicking the tacops display he checked the defence status of the base, disturbed by what he saw he then prepared the interceptors for launch and assigned some marines to 2 atv's manning the launch shuttles as required. As personnel moved to their assigned locations Jackson also quickly changed the missile loadout for the Andromeda loading a few OTS missiles, 'Just in case'. "Sir, we have a slight problem", Smyth interupted the commander as he was finishing,"we only have enough supplies for 5 minutes of cloak left." finishin his job Jackson looked up at Smyth,"Don't worry LT we only need cloak for about that long anyway." Smyth turned back to his station and continued his duties, checking Perscan he could see the crew moving to their assigned locations, flight engineers prepared the various interceptors and shuttles for launch and marines started their search patterns. A couple of minutes latter as Andromeda approached the planet the cloak engaged and Smyth took a deep breath. Assuming a high orbit around the planet, the Andromeda hung and prepared her assault. Jackson sat concentrating on his console punching waypoints and orders to the fighter and shuttle crews that were now ready to launch. Once all was prepared and he received confirmation that the orders had been received he gave the launch clearance for the 4 IC's. The fighters shot forward from the Andromeda Streaking through the night sky like a shooting star, achieving planet fall in just a couple of seconds, generating red burning trails behind them as they hurtled through the planet atmosphere, the atmosphere was fairly thin on Tau Ceti so with another couple of seconds they were at high altitude decending rapidly the cold air, cooling the skin of the fighters as they dove. Diving to just above sea level they leveled out and set direct course for their target. Back on the Andromeda Jackson watch the images on Tacops unfold in front of him, he watched 4 dots repersenting the IC's streak towards their target, when they were 10 miles out he called up his command pallet and set three strike points for the OTS missiles. Choosing his targets carefully he targeted 2 of the defence platforms and the marine barricks, glancing quickly at the clock he noted that they only had about a minute or so of cloak left, he knew he had to make these missiles count. Setting the targets for the missiles he flicked the launch control and launched the two shuttles with their ATV cargo with waypoints just short of the base and orders to deploy the ATV's. As The shuttles cleared the ionsphere he once again returned to the tacops view and, hesitating for a second, fired the OTS missiles. Almost at the exact same moment Smyth started the countdown to beam the marine squad and their 'cargo' to the surface, taking a quick moment he said a quick prayer for luck for Sargeant Adams and his team. The missile screamed downwards as they streaked on their course, passing the shuttles enroute. their onboard systems making minor modifications to their course as they were buffeted by the planetry winds that rose to meet them. Jackson watched on the Tacops as the missiles struck home the view camera showed the devestation as their targets were obliterated in a fireball. As explsions rocked the compond the fighters steaked in over head missiles streaking from them as they went. As the IC's missiles struck home causing complete panic on the ground the Shuttles dropped their cargo, the Atv's raced into the compond picking off targets as they went. Smyth watched as the carnage unfolded, smiling to himeself he hit the deploy but and Sargeant Adams and his team materialised on the ground

I have to say I have a Biased opinion, I think the Nightstar carrier is the best, not based on stats or anything like that(although if I remember right she has 8 PTA turrets) but because it is a cool looking ship. OK I admit it, I'm shallow, but I can't wait to fly the galaxy in one of those babies. [ 05-22-2001: Message edited by: Emmett.hendrick ]

I'm noticing a pattern here, some(I'm not going to say most or all) of the people who are saying they don't like the series are comparing it to Hercules, I know Herc was a fairly dire series(some of it was good) I think Andromeda is a lot better, but I think it should be evaluated on its own merit not based on Sorbo's past adventures. Andromeda is nothing (or at least very little) like the Hercules series and shows a fair bit of promise.

I've been reading this thread and as I said earlier I have a V3 and will be looking for an upgrade soon (ASAP really) the consencous seems to be a G3 is the way to go. So will go looking for one when I get paid next.

Great to hear about the server solution being found, as far a posting my quarters and office at Wraith HQ I'm going to wait and see what else goes up from others(as I'm kinda unsure what to put up) as my web design is crap(big time). So I'll wait and see others contributions and see what I can do!

TAC you did read my report on that 'cargo' when I delivered it right? It hasn't been tested for quality/foreign substances yet. But aslong as it doesn't kill you I'll keep my eye out for more once I've re-armed.

quote:Originally posted by Menchise: I just hope that Chris Roberts is still in the foreground of development. Unfortunatly as stated earlier Chris is not in control anymore but is being kept on in a consultant role. If I remember right the reason he quoted for leaving originally was that he recognised that Freelancer could not be the game that he wanted it to be due to current technological limitations.......

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: My favorite has and always will be the trouble with Tribbles, I enjoyed it, it was just good fun!! Hey Jaguar what did you see the DS9 that connected to trouble with Tribbles, what did you think of it, I thought it was pretty good.

Hmmm formation flying, Kewl. great work SC those shots just keep causing me to drool, I'm going to have to wear a bib in future.

I like the show, although some of the story lines in the first series where complete pants, or just carried badly (I can't work out which), although their were one or two good ones too. the ship seems ok and Alexia Dagg is a nice pick me up.

Its sad to think things like that go on. I have posted in a few places but my most freqent posts go here, Its nice to share view points and ideas with others and good to get advice when needed. but thats just a little weird.

Hi Paddy I'm in the same situation although their is a EB close enough to me they have absolutely no idea about BCM being released it appears its just BCM in the US(so far anyway, I think the SC is investigating options for international), hopefully this will change and if it does send me a personal mail and I'll help out if I can!

quote:Originally posted by Kush: How about Dos Games? Haven't tried to many dos games but the ones I have tried seem ok, including some classics like carrier command and flashback(DOS I'm not sure on that one) but they are fairly old and run ok..

Welcome to the (Secret) front line Ghost!

HA HA 27 thats old (checks birth cert) OH shit! Happy Birthday.

I have watched the first series of Andromeda( I think we're a bit ahead over here ) and I like the series, the humour adds to the series, the acting is good, I agree Harper is a great carachter I think he is hilarious at times. Can't wait for the next series.....

Shots pounded the hull as the Andromeda leveled out, shields were failing and on the bridge smoke billowed as one of the power relays gave out from the strain. Smyth Grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran to put out the flames. The tactical officer turned from his station,"Sir, sargearnt Adams reports the intruders are Insurgents." Jackson's heart sank, "Tell the sargeant to try and capture at least one of the intruders." Jackson paused a second and barked more orders."Tactical, arm the missiles and recalibrate the scanners to scan for atmospheric disturbance," Jackson stood up from his chair as he spoke his concentration fixed on the view screen,"Pipe the display to my station." The display on Jackson's desk flashed into life Jackson scanned what he saw and then seemed to fix on one area on the screen,"Prepare to fire," his voice was calm and clear. "Missiles ready sir!" Jackson feed targetting instructions to his panel the sargeant at tactical looked at the information bewildered, but he followed orders. Jackson waited, Smyth held his breath the seconds seemed to drag on forever........"FIRE!", Jackson yelled the Sargeant at tacops punched the fire button still unsure were the missile was going, everbody turned to the viewscreen and watched the missile trailed away from the Andromeda leaving a white streaking trail behind as she went, making her easy to track. everybody watched as the missile streak towards it designated target but nothing was there, Suddenly a flash and an explosion as the missile struck home. An insurgent crusier light up as the missile struck head on, Jackson turned to the Tacops station,"Target that explosion, and Fire!" Another 4 missiles leapt from the Andromeda in quick succession Three stuck their target one flying off wildly after an attacking fighter, but the job had been done the Insurgents cloak failed as the ship became totally visible sitting less than 5 NM from the Andromeda's nose. "Commander to all weapon stations new target all firepower." Within seconds the tides had turned the insurgent ship was taking heavy fire from the Andromeda's weapons even the IOD system now had a bear on her, but with her cloak down she was free to return fire and fire she was. Shots hit home as the Andromeda felt the brunt of the insurgent retaliation, explosions rocked the bridge but even damaged as she was the Andromeda was gaining the upper hand. The insurgent ship turned and made course to leave her fighters following in her wake. checking the Perscan Jackson saw the intruders had been withdrawn also and the marines were in the process of cleaning up one or two straglers that were unfortuante enough to miss the beam out. Relieved Jackson slumped back in his chair he sighed heavily,"Give me a damage report," Smyth returning to his station checked the damage report coming in....."PTA station 2 is damaged, as is launch bay 1 and shields are at 10%",Jackson sighed again anymore delays and they would miss their mission windows, thumbing the comlink he was connected to engineering,"Engineering this is the bridge, get the Hyperdrive working asap other repairs to be completed en-route." "Resume course to target we'll engage the hyperdrive when it becomes available again." The Andromeda raised her battered hull and resumed course with a little luck their should be no more surprises. [ 05-21-2001: Message edited by: Emmett.hendrick ]

Talk about take my breath away, those shots are georgeus(spelling?) SC and the team are doing a GREAT job.

I think the SC was saying that currently only EB in the US have the offer but he/they were looking into doing the offer elsewhere aswell. I know I went into EB over the weekend and they had no idea what I was on about they didn't even have a release date.

MS have announced a release date for Windows XP I quote from PC Zone "Microsoft has announced a date for its long-awaited, next-gen OS which could finally put the boot in to the current crop of ever-crashing operating systems, plaguing PC gamers. October 25th is the date for your diary, but what exactly does it mean for us?" find more info at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/ enjoy

[/rp] The Andromeda dived like a hawk diving for its next meal, having broken through the atmosphere she was now a prey for standard weathar conditions she was buffeted and rocked by the wind shearing by outside. Jackson held fast in his command chair unshaken by the violent motion of the ship around him. "Altitude", he barked accross the bridge. "50,000 feet and descending sir!", came the reply,"stay on course, we need to be lower, Helm bring us down over a body of water please." Just as Jackson finished his sentence the Andromeda rocked sharply and an explosion was heard,"REPORT". Smyth check the systems on his post,"were under fire sir!, shields are holding," Jackson turned to check the Perscan it showed the intruders onboard, a firefight was ensuing on the engineering deck, two medics and an engineer were already lost but marines were converging on the area, he noted Sargeant Adams was in engineering and allowed himself a wiry smile. This was out of carachter for standard raiders usually, they would board and head for the cargo bay to steal some cargo, then they'd try and steal a shuttle to escape, something was not right! As he finished his thoughts another shot struck home pounding the Andromeda's shields but they held. "Increase speed to maximum LT," Jackson calmly noted to Smyth, "Helm take us to 50 above sea level and assume level flight" "Sir, we're detecting fighters....", Lt shields had been monitoring external transmissions to try and get a track on their attacker. "Are they ours?" "Negative Sir, they're closing for attack" "Activate the PTA system and continue descent", Jackson re-settled himself in his chair as the PTA system opened fire. As the Andromeda hurtled towards the surface one of the PTA turrets found its target as one of the attacking interceptors exploded in a ball of fire. The others however were still a threat. [/rp off] Bumpy enough for you marine?

quote:Originally posted by Soback: What would be the best card right now for no more than $150. What about Hercules Prophet? Also, if voodoo 3 with 1.7 drivers works with DX 8 but doesn't support all of the DX 8 functions, will it play BC:M or not? I'm not going to advise on a new vid card because I could do with some advice myself(have a V3 and will need to upgrade soon) but yes it should run BCM I have had no problems with the demo with my V3 so you should be safe..

I played the ST v's SW mod for homeworld fun for a while a BC mod would be interesting alright....

have a look here its a general discussion on the non-fleet castes http://www.3000ad.com/cgibin/ultimatebb.cg...ic&f=2&t=000609 Alternatively you can search the forums for previous threads on the subject...