#Wing commander privateer hull repair plus

There are a variety of ship models that cover fighting, hauling, and a reasonable middle-ground between the two. Normal/Generous works well with a mouse if you don't feel like breaking out a flightstick. If you want the Privateer experience, go with Old School difficulty. Decreasing the difficulty level turns on flight assist, then aim assist and enables the third person view. At the most difficult level, there's no aim assist (guns will automatically fire at the ideal aim point within a radius around the reticule) and no flight assist (automatically track a target and match speeds, albeit with a slower maximum yaw rate then if you did it yourself). There's a difficulty adjustment which impacts how easy it is to hit what you're aiming at.

You can adjust your energy to guns, shields, or engines, as well as dump a reserve of energy into one of the above. Some ships have turrets are useful for punishing hostiles that get too close, but aren't effective enough kill the way they would on a Wing Commander 2 Broadsword.

#Wing commander privateer hull repair plus

Which is great! It's just like Privateer! Missiles are your usual dumbfires, heatseekers, image recognition, and swarm image recognition missiles, plus another missile type that pops up later on following one of the plot threads, but which isn't actually all that useful. Guns have vastly differing speeds, which means you'll need to lead your target differently depending on which kind of guns you have equipped, and can complicate the firing solution for high-deflection shots. Speeds aren't too fast, accelerations are low (though nowhere close to IWar low), and the roll/pitch/yaw accelerations are equal in all directions, unlike some of the later games. The flight model is very Wing Commander 1. Stations are also where you can buy new ships, repair or replace components on your existing one, purchase cargo, take missions. In those stations you can go to the bar, which is where you'll advance plotlines, get intel on shipping convoys (if you're going pirate) or bounties (if you're hunting them), or play any one of half a dozen minigames like pool, dice poker, or Asteroids StarVenger. You explore the 40 systems connected via warp points (just like Privateer!) populated with 70-odd stations you can visit (just like Privateer!). There are also a Merchant's Guild and a Mercenary Guild which require money to enter that will provide additional missions with higher payouts (just like Privateer!). You can haul cargo, salvage cargo from points of interest, hunt bounties, run missions, or mine. To build up your ship requires money, and lots of it. The game starts with you on the hunt for the man that killed your husband, which is such a huge and welcome change from universe-ending threats. In contrast to Wing Commander series, everything is relationship-driven. It's a western-themed space sim with vaguely WW2-inspired ships where you're building up from a garbage scow to a deathbringer or space semi as you advance the plot. I've been playing some Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, and if you've been waiting for a worthy successor to Wing Commander: Privateer, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is it! Space Sim thread! I'd forgotten about you!