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Best memories from the Elite series

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 10:56 am
by GlobusDiablo
Off the top of my head:

In Elite 2: Frontier:
Realizing that the planet I was closing in on had gravitational pull that exceeded that of my main thrusters gravitational push... You know what that spelt.... (spinning gravestone)

In Elite 2: Frontier:
Being engaged by Eagles while flying my Puma Clipper. After locking on, I would engage the docking computer and sit back and relax while watching as my Puma slowly but surely navigated closer and closer to the panicking Eagle, until it ended up a smudge on my windscreen. :D

Re: Best memories from the Elite series

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:02 am
by Vikinger
I remember the bug when you had a military mission to nuke a base.

As soon you have marked the target you could fire the nuke, even if you where far away from it, and then toggle the star dreamer. The nuke never missed :)

Re: Best memories from the Elite series

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:04 am
by RogueZephyr
Frontier Elite 2

Completing my first assassination mission in a Puma clipper with a Large Plasma Accelerator and then laughing as the cops bounced off my ship (the ones that didn't blow up inside the docking bay first xD)

Frontier Elite 2
The joy when I finally realised that I could sell the weapons on my Eagle and start trading with the cash it gave me

Frontier Dangerous
Thinking I could recreate the bit in the FE2 intro where the Imperial Courier comes out of warp space and flys through the middle of a ringed space station in a Sidewinder and ending up smeared across a support beam instead

Re: Best memories from the Elite series

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:43 am
by GlobusDiablo
Vikinger wrote:I remember the bug when you had a military mission to nuke a base.

As soon you have marked the target you could fire the nuke, even if you where far away from it, and then toggle the star dreamer. The nuke never missed :)


Toggling the time slider is cheating Vikinger! You know that... :D

You can get away with a lot of things using that thing. :)

Re: Best memories from the Elite series

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:46 am
by GlobusDiablo
RogueZephyr wrote:.....Frontier Dangerous
Thinking I could recreate the bit in the FE2 intro where the Imperial Courier comes out of warp space and flys through the middle of a ringed space station in a Sidewinder and ending up smeared across a support beam instead


:D

CLASSIC! :D

Re: Best memories from the Elite series

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:10 pm
by Philip Coutts
Watching the intro's! I remember watching the spinning cobra open mouthed as a kid, it was just light years ahead of anything else I'd seen. Also the intro to Frontier remains one of the classic intro's of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbegNmKRZUM

Re: Best memories from the Elite series

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:26 pm
by GlobusDiablo
Philip Coutts wrote:Watching the intro's! I remember watching the spinning cobra open mouthed as a kid, it was just light years ahead of anything else I'd seen. Also the intro to Frontier remains one of the classic intro's of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbegNmKRZUM


Absolutely yes! I'm putting it in a youtube tag. Just because! :)

http://youtube.com/v/HbegNmKRZUM

Re: Best memories from the Elite series

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:52 pm
by RogueZephyr
GlobusDiablo wrote:
Philip Coutts wrote:Watching the intro's! I remember watching the spinning cobra open mouthed as a kid, it was just light years ahead of anything else I'd seen. Also the intro to Frontier remains one of the classic intro's of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbegNmKRZUM


Absolutely yes! I'm putting it in a youtube tag. Just because! :)

http://youtube.com/v/HbegNmKRZUM


Once planetary landings come out, I'm doing a side by side video of the original intro vs me doing it. I might also include a credit counter to see how much all the ships I would end up destroying would be worth :P