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Know Your Shipmates: Confed Capital Ships - Entry 6: Yorktown
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FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2010.25.10
For this update, we like to show our final variant of the Yorktown-class carrier. This venerable light carrier was first seen in Wing Commander 3, where the main character flew off the TCS Victory. People who have played our prologue would also remember the TCS Wellington, the carrier that played a big part in the main character’s training. The player can expect to see other Yorktown-class carriers throughout the campaign.
Designed more than fifty years before the Kilrathi War, the Yorktown-class light carrier has been modernized and refitted to keep up with rest of the carrier fleet. Its four fighter squadrons offer flexibility and adaptability from serving as support of a larger Confederation carrier or the center of its own battle group. The Kilrathi naval build-up of the past few years and the Confederations losses incurred during the Battle for Earth have shifted these venerable carriers back into front line duty.
-Tolwyn
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Helimane (26.10.2010 (12:53:22))
Cool, will every Konfed and Kilrathi capship have their names on it?
Cool, will every Konfed and Kilrathi capship have their names on it? Quote
Quote : Cool, will every Konfed and Kilrathi capship have their names on it?
Confed carriers, possibly.
Confed non-carrier capships, no.
Kilrathi capships, no (You wouldn't be able to read the name anyway ;) )
Wooohooo!
This is my favourite carrier class - just behind the confederation class - of course :)
This is my favourite carrier class - just behind the confederation class - of course :)
looks a bit poor in detail
Hy dudes :-)
I am very happy to see my favorite carrier with the new textures but i think it looks a little bit poor in detail...
When i saw the latest ships (Tallahassee, Southampton) i thought there would be more details...
Perhaps this is deceptive because of the lighting, we will see later ingame ;-) .
BTW: Is it possible for you to make an in-hangar-screenshot? I am very interrested how it looks there :-)
PS: Sorry for multi-posting but my comment was cut after the inverted comma, sorry :-(
Hy dudes :-)I am very happy to see my favorite carrier with the new textures but i think it looks a little bit poor in detail...
When i saw the latest ships (Tallahassee, Southampton) i thought there would be more details...
Perhaps this is deceptive because of the lighting, we will see later ingame ;-) .
BTW: Is it possible for you to make an in-hangar-screenshot? I am very interrested how it looks there :-)
PS: Sorry for multi-posting but my comment was cut after the inverted comma, sorry :-(
nameplates?
Keldor? why do nameplates cause problems?
don't you think even non carrier ships should feature them? Fenrises and leviathans do in freespace...
Keldor? why do nameplates cause problems?don't you think even non carrier ships should feature them? Fenrises and leviathans do in freespace...
Props to the team once again. The attention to detail is impressive and my only real gripe is about there being two name plates when I'm more accustomed to the ship's name only accompanying the hull number on the plate positioned astern. This is a minor concern however, and the quality overall is quite outstanding!
Looks a little outdated for 2010 tbh
I'm a huge fan of the Wing Commander series, played them all to death back in the day.
I've seen game mods that look better than this, no offence intended, maybe with full AA AF it might look a little better, take a look at Black Prophecy and you'll see what I mean.
There's a lot I don't like about Black Prophecy, story is one of them, so to hear there was a new Wing Commander coming I got excited, but in truth this looks only marginally better in graphics quality than Freelancer, which is nearly 8 years old.
I'm a huge fan of the Wing Commander series, played them all to death back in the day.I've seen game mods that look better than this, no offence intended, maybe with full AA AF it might look a little better, take a look at Black Prophecy and you'll see what I mean.
There's a lot I don't like about Black Prophecy, story is one of them, so to hear there was a new Wing Commander coming I got excited, but in truth this looks only marginally better in graphics quality than Freelancer, which is nearly 8 years old.
since when does graphic make the game
Annoys me to no end when the word outdated comes out.
So what, most of the newer games with shiny graphics are complete junk.
I say good job on it, keep up the good work. Saw the other ships and they look just as good.
And alot of the "outdated" games make alot of the newer one look like their devs were lazy, focusing too much on visuals.
Annoys me to no end when the word outdated comes out.So what, most of the newer games with shiny graphics are complete junk.
I say good job on it, keep up the good work. Saw the other ships and they look just as good.
And alot of the "outdated" games make alot of the newer one look like their devs were lazy, focusing too much on visuals.
Quote : I'm a huge fan of the Wing Commander series, played them all to death back in the day.
I've seen game mods that look better than this, no offence intended, maybe with full AA AF it might look a little better, take a look at Black Prophecy and you'll see what I mean.
There's a lot I don't like about Black Prophecy, story is one of them, so to hear there was a new Wing Commander coming I got excited, but in truth this looks only marginally better in graphics quality than Freelancer, which is nearly 8 years old.
I do not have to answer, do I?
Quote : ..., but in truth this looks only marginally better in graphics quality than Freelancer, which is nearly 8 years old.
I'll take that as a compliment. You are aware we're working with technology that is 11 years old?
I was looking forward to these pics the most. The Victory was my favourite carrier/capship in WC3, since it was Blair's "home base" for the game. Good to see they're looking as impressive as ever. WC Saga and Black Mesa Source are my two most anticipated mods for this year and beyond (hopefully not too much beyond if not this year :p) Keep up the good work fellas.
Comparing Saga and Black Prophecy isn't quite fitting I think.Black Prophecy is a new developed game done by professionals and Saga is a mod build aruond stone-age old tech.
Quote : Comparing Saga and Black Prophecy isn't quite fitting I think.
Black Prophecy is a new developed game done by professionals and Saga is a mod build aruond stone-age old tech.
All said...
Simply put - beautiful.
Ihr seid doch bescheuert 
das sieht einfach nur noch genial aus und durch diese "Verplattun g" wirkt es realistischer.
Einzig was ich etwas schade finde ist, das die Triebwerke etwas zu fremd in meinen Augen wirken.