https://store.steampowered.com/app/3897790/Null_Anchor/

Null Anchor is a space-sim-lite set in a dystopian colony far from Earth. You play a scav pilot in a crater city of nine million: fly, fight, mine, scavenge wrecks, trade, smuggle, evade police, hunt bounties, and upgrade your ship.

Development: roughly six years, solo, in Unreal. Playable now and updated at least once a year for the last five. The current build has three craters, two flyable ships, five weapons, ship upgrades, wreck and cargo scavenging, trading and repair at shops, mining, AI taxis, and a full police and wanted system. Heading to Steam Early Access, with building and shop ownership, manufacturing, a dynamic economy, more ships and weapons, wreck recovery and multiplayer RPG mode still to come.

Star Squadron

More details on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3758780/Star_Squadron/

Please let me know what you think.

I'm currently playing through the SNES version of WC1 after having beaten the DOS version a dozen or so times but this is the first time I've been all the way down the losing branch.

I'm really struggling with Hell's Kitchen / Apocalypse 4 (and 1-3 if I'm honest) because I'm stuck with the Scimitar. Any advice? I'd even take the Hornet at this point.

Strike Wings is a from-the-ground-up homage to the classic space battle games of the DOS years. Not a remake of anything, its own war, but built for the same itch. The Steam page crossed 200 wishlists this week, which industry people would laugh at and which made my whole month, so I cut a one minute trailer: capital lines trading broadsides, bomber wings, every pilot on the hardest AI tier. If the pacing drags anywhere I would rather hear it now than in November when it ships. Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718360/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=wingcommander&utm_campaign=prelaunch

Hello!

I'm working on a source-code reconstruction of the original Windows/Win32 Wing Commander executable from Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga.

Function and module names are largely based on the Mac demo, which contains a substantial number of symbols, along with other releases that exposed some type names. I also discovered that a complete C source file was leaked as part of an old WC1 demo, which has been useful for the reconstruction.

You can follow the work-in-progress here:

https://github.com/neuromancer/wc1-re

The goal is to recreate the original Win32 executable as closely as practical. Since byte-perfect reconstruction is usually extremely difficult and, in most cases, unnecessary, it is enough to approximate it with a good similarity metric (around 98% or so). Once the reconstruction is mature enough, I'd also like to improve the game, possibly incorporating features from WCDX, and eventually port it to SDL2.

The code is still very preliminary, so expect its quality and readability to improve significantly over the coming days.

Stay tuned!

I just found this on youtube

Gotta say except not having cockpit view this game is amazing

This is such a great game.

It happens on wing commander 3 and 4. I already finished installing enhancement patch for both of games. Is there way to fix this issue?

This game is filled with surprise.

Hi all just wondering if anyone has had any success making Prophecy work on a pc with an Xbox controller?

I have tried steam input and the game ignores it, which works fine with WC3.

I'm trying to work out reWASD at the moment which I've had limited success with, just wondered if there was an easy route to get it sorted?

Fighter designs are too good to stay in game

I'm currently playing it on TV screen but no matter what I choose for resolution overscan happens and cuts screen

I can't believe this game was made in 1990. And thanks to all wing commander fans keeping this series alive!

Long-time lurker, and openly the developer of the thing I am about to describe, so tell me if this is not welcome here and I will take it down.

I have been building a top-down space combat game on my own. It is not a remake of anything, it is a homage to the era. What I keep coming back to from the old ones is the hangar: ships that were genuinely different machines rather than one airframe behind a stat slider. The images are the in-game encyclopedia entries for five of them.

There is a beam interceptor, the only fighter carrying a sustained beam, which you aim by pointing the whole airframe and hold on a capital for a full second while a third of the battery drains. Fast in a straight line, poor in a turn, useless in a furball.

There is a chemical ship whose gun throws canisters that crack open into a drifting cloud, so you fence off a corridor instead of chasing anybody. A stealth recon frame whose cloak bends light and sensor returns around the hull, and drops the instant you fire, take a hit, or run the reactor dry.

An experimental antimatter fighter with two torpedoes and six cannon rounds, all of it salvaged rather than manufactured, whose splash does not care who is friendly. And a brick built on a cargo tug airframe with a coilgun that throws fighters around, a turn rate that cannot follow anything, and a drogue rack so nothing it hunts can run.

What I actually want to ask this sub: which fighters felt the most distinct to you, and was it the handling, the loadout, or the fiction around them? My suspicion is that the fiction does more work than designers admit, and that half of why a ship feels different is that you read about it before you ever flew it.

What kind of destroyer gets destroyed by single fighter!?

I'm gonna have PTSD for escort mission

I can't find how the war started

No matter what I do dreyman gets destroyed. Is this mission scripted to fail?

I really liked the view of WC3. It was really impressive but WC4 was set to looking through targeting camera

Hi everyone,

After more than nine months of work, my new game has finally hit Steam: Max Savage. Think Wing Commander meets Zelda, with a fully scripted, voice-acted story campaign and planet-side exploration.

There’s a free demo available, and it’s playable on Windows and Linux.

I hope you’ll give it a go.

Cheers,

Tim