After flight cinematics for mission 19 in Origin's Wing Commander 4 space combat simulator. There is a slight but noticeable desync between subtitles and audio.
@Templarzealot89 Also, the doomsday weapon that the Sivar class dreadnoughts carried did a pretty good job of sterilizing the surface of a planet. (Goddard Colony, WC1: Secret Ops 1)
The Kilrathi had honor, but it wasn't fair-play kind of honor. More a hunter's kind of honor. They appreciated and respected successful tricks and devious means. They did, after all, come up with the sneak-attack cloaking device fighters, cloaked torpedoes, fighters disguised as asteroids...
@Templarzealot89 Actually not true. The Kilrathi used bioweapons on Locanda IV during the war. What they didn't have was the gene-select weapons of the black lance. And knowing the kilrathi, they would have used it.
They were unwilling to do it unless there was no other option. Yet considering we have two species in war for decades, both running low on ressources, both opponents were willing to eradicate the enemy at all costs. They could have done this with their Strakha stealth fighters and you could kiss mother Earth bye-bye.
I was actually talking about real life. This game is from what, 1996. By that time, genome project was still in progress and not concluded. This game had very innovative elements that kept players interested, much different than games nowadays.
the Kilrathi were to honourable a race to use bioweapons, they wouldnt stoop to using them even if they had them. so i guess "its lucky that the Kilrathi never figured this stuff out" is a meaningless statement
Dude, this biotech talk was way before Genome project figures out what's in our genes. Nanotech was just at the very beginning. This was way ahead of it's time and it was on the right direction. Games don't do that anymore :(
The guy who plays the doctor was in various 80s television shows...
joel1975 6 months ago
@dommy531 Yeah... but not to preserve and/or enhance the remaining ten percent of humanity that survived it, like Tolwyn wanted.
Farscryer0 8 months ago
@Templarzealot89 Also, the doomsday weapon that the Sivar class dreadnoughts carried did a pretty good job of sterilizing the surface of a planet. (Goddard Colony, WC1: Secret Ops 1)
Elleroth 1 year ago
The Kilrathi had honor, but it wasn't fair-play kind of honor. More a hunter's kind of honor. They appreciated and respected successful tricks and devious means. They did, after all, come up with the sneak-attack cloaking device fighters, cloaked torpedoes, fighters disguised as asteroids...
smartalec2001 1 year ago
@Templarzealot89 Actually not true. The Kilrathi used bioweapons on Locanda IV during the war. What they didn't have was the gene-select weapons of the black lance. And knowing the kilrathi, they would have used it.
dommy531 1 year ago 2
They were unwilling to do it unless there was no other option. Yet considering we have two species in war for decades, both running low on ressources, both opponents were willing to eradicate the enemy at all costs. They could have done this with their Strakha stealth fighters and you could kiss mother Earth bye-bye.
VariusMayhem 2 years ago
I was actually talking about real life. This game is from what, 1996. By that time, genome project was still in progress and not concluded. This game had very innovative elements that kept players interested, much different than games nowadays.
yanava 2 years ago
the Kilrathi were to honourable a race to use bioweapons, they wouldnt stoop to using them even if they had them. so i guess "its lucky that the Kilrathi never figured this stuff out" is a meaningless statement
Templarzealot89 2 years ago
Dude, this biotech talk was way before Genome project figures out what's in our genes. Nanotech was just at the very beginning. This was way ahead of it's time and it was on the right direction. Games don't do that anymore :(
yanava 2 years ago
Oh my God....!!!
LightStreak567 2 years ago