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Simply the best ship, ever!

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Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:23 pm

Simply the best ship, ever!

Yes, this is another best ship thread! :þ

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With enough maneuverability to make the Eagle looks like a sitting duck.

Auto tracking guns! no need to aim!

twin Plasma and Tachyon guns with insane speed and reload time of 1200/1600 and 350/500 ms respectively

Armor of a Very Heavy Fighter with the speed and maneuverability that rival any light fighter in Freelancer.

Near unlimited afterburner. It can go on at an accelerated speed for over a continuous 15 minutes. After which, it can fully recharge its thruster in a matter of minutes.

Fusion energy guns! These babies pack enough damage to kill a cap ship in one single shot.

Can carry flashpack! Drop one of these on a nomad ship, and it’s as good as gone. Damage: = 9999999999 i.e. infinity

Can carry as many missiles as a full-size bomber.

See through cloaked fighters.

And last, but not least.... it’s capable of that dirty, unspeakable, horrendous, nightmarish trick you people call cloak! Runnnnnn!!!

Truly it was the finest ship of its time, and perhaps ever. There was none like it before, nor will there ever be after... unless someone here is willing to awake this sleeping legend and let it roam the heavens once again.

Mod?

Nostalgic memories, anyone?

Or is there someone here foolish enough to think that any ship in Freelancer can outgun, outmaneuver, outkill this... this... perfect killing machine.

Discuss


Edited by - Visconti on 3/11/2004 7:59:32 PM

Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:32 pm

I like the look of it too. And it sounds... excessive, lol -- the ship designers ever hear the phrase OTT :p?

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Post Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:01 pm

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Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:09 am

Why a Hellcat? WHY?!!

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:18 am

phht, who needs to discuss this, the cloak is crap so it will always win!!
if u take away that cloak.....

Wolfy when he's happy...........................wolfy when he's mad

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:20 am

Hmmm I don't see how cloak always wins. Coz seriously there're limitation to the cloak i.e. cloaking time and etc. Not being able to fire while cloaked. They're powerful, but not invincible. The fission gun takes time to charge and can't be charged while cloaked.

Of course that leaves missiles and torps. Which would make a ship like this a worthy opponent. You can always fire those two as you get off from cloak.

No I'm not asking for cloak so don't go off on a tangent on me now. Of course certain things are not implementable in FL. Auto-tracking guns!? So the point is mute. May be instead of cloak, stealth may be used. Make it so that the ship is really hard to spot. I believe you can tweak, how far away before a ship may be shown on the radar or etc.

Yet the ship as it was in the original was the best ship I ever flew in space combat sim, ever. Which's why I believe it deserves some mention.

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:45 am

no u cant tweak how far a certain ship is, u can only tweak how for the radar range is for everything

Wolfy when he's happy...........................wolfy when he's mad

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:59 am

Cloaks can be fun so i dont mind them, but auto tracting guns! that just boring, you need at least some challenge.
This ship is built around having to do anything, auto tracking guns, hell do you even aim? cloak get close and randomly fire.
Cloaks can be very fun, seeing your prey get all confused, and getting through enemy teritory, would be good if people good fire a missle and unlcloak you like a cruise disruptor.
This ship might be the best but it takes no skill no fly and kill, ot do a trade run, you no going to get attacked when you have cloak on.
All this ship is good for is going on a ramage.

-Therefore i am

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:30 pm

The Dragon has to be one of my favorite ships ever because it looks cool and its wicked powerful. Plus its got a great name I wonder if anyone has made a custom ship mod for it? I'll have to look sometime.

As for it being overly powerful and good for nothing but a killing rampage? I think thats what was in mind when it was built. It was suppose to be the most advanced heavy fighter ever built by the confederation was it not?

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:44 pm

Yup nothing else even comes close just imagine flying one of these babies in FL

Post Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:53 pm

I looked but I couldn't find a custom ship mod for Freelancer. Found one for StarLancer though. Maybe someone knows something I don't?

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