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Post Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:50 pm

Whoops.. ya, meant 200 not 300... The missile speed might add onto the afterburner speed to make it 280.. but I doubt it. But you can definitely notice a speed difference in the missiles. I rarely miss when I fire a Javalin from behind a target while afterburning.. the thing just zooooooms after them. Where as normally the missile limps along and the other guy just hits his afterburners and the missile never has a chance.

Never tried it with a torp, so I dunno about those...

Post Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:56 pm

OK. This may be a silly question, but here goes. How do you get your missles to fire, without being linked to your guns?

In the weapons menue, you have to click an item so it turns green to enable it. OK. But I don't want a missle firing off every time I fire my guns and when I click on the missle launcher so that it's NOT green, it won't fire at all, even when I use the "Hot Key" for firing that particular weapon. Same thing happens with countermeasures.

I can't believe they would have made it so that you have to click the missle/countermeasure to activate it, then fire it, then click on it again to deactivate it, before being able to return to firing your guns! That would make no sense!

Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.

Post Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:58 pm

hit 'q'. And 'e' is for mines. EDIT: 'c' is for countermeasures (I just call 'em flares or chaff, like what modern planes use)

-Stregone

Edited by - Stregone on 03-03-2003 17:59:16

Post Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:02 pm

I haven't even bothered using any missiles. I would rather have more guns.

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!

Post Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:05 pm

Hehe, I like your signature, Ugnaught, it is quite funny since you said you don't bother using missiles.

I happen to like using missiles, especially when an enemy is coming directly at me, I launch 2 or 3 to severely decimate his defenses and finish him off with guns. Or if there are a lot of enemies and there is a nearly destroyed enemy limping around, i'll fire a missile to quickly finish him off.

Post Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:08 pm

LOL Ug...look at your signature.... missles and all....

Post Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:20 pm

Missiles are the ultimate way to unleash the most destruction in the least amount of time. The price is...well, the price of them It is kinda disappointing though how slow missiles are. they should have made them much faster, at higher speeds they won't be able to turn very well, so will be easyer to dodge. But atleast they would be more useful.

-Stregone

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