Longbow MkII

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Longbow MkII

Strength: Medium
Armour: Medium
Speed: Average
Cost: N/A

The Longbow MkII VTOL Craft is used amongst the Brotherhood as an experimental airborne weapons testbed. The Longbow MkII is an aging design unit, however this makes it cheap and useful for it's design purpose. It's armament can be literally anything.

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Godofgamers · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:21 am Post subject:

I like it; the cockpit looks a bit blurry, but that might be due to the GIF format.

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Orac · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:08 am Post subject:

If its a VTOL then it isn't a helicopter, but this looks like it is. Is this just a technical oversight (in which case unimportant) or deliberate?

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

There are no helicopters in the game due to the lack of Helicopter Logic. Nod use next generation VTOL Helicopters which use special thruster technology.

(However this is an old-ish voxel and I agree that it does resemble a rotorless helicopter over a VTOL craft, it may be changed Wink

)

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Orac · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

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lack of Helicopter Logic

I thought that you had found a way around that, the promotional shot on the TO web page shows helicopters with rotors.

Titan · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

Yes, Morpher and Jah did a lot of research on helicopters with rotors, for which they eventually found some kind of solution, but they had to sacrifice other parts of gameplay in order to get it to work, so naturally the mere visual addition was deemed impossible. Now all we have are VTOL craft! Very Happy

Besides, that's a promotional shoot... WW photoshopped their promotional shoots... Laughing

EVA-251 · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject:

http://4newbies.planetwolfenstein.gamespy.com/ETQW/images/anansi.jpg

The Anansi VTOL and this share much in common, and personally, I really like both.

I see no reason to change it.

btw, Morpher, nice to see some non-map related updates for TO, it was getting worrying for a little while.

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YR modder/artist, DOOM mapper, aka evanb90
Project Lead Developer, New-Star Strike (2014-)
Former Project Lead Developer Star Strike (2005-2012), Z-Mod (2006-2007), RA1.5 (2008-2013), The Cold War (2006-2007)

Titan · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject:

My god EVA, things are going ridiculously fast here, this month has been the most active month ever for TO, lots of stuff is going on, if you knew what Morpher and I know then you'd be seriously baffled... Wink

Crash · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:

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btw, Morpher, nice to see some non-map related updates for TO, it was getting worrying for a little while.

Yeah, the mapper has worked very hard for a long time Very Happy

I also hope your comment doesn't mean you dislike my maps, I will have to eat you then Razz

And yes, a lot of things are going on.

EVA-251 · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:55 am Post subject:

Oh no, don't get me wrong, the maps are good, but a mod is more about the units.

@Titan- Funny, similar situation here.

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YR modder/artist, DOOM mapper, aka evanb90
Project Lead Developer, New-Star Strike (2014-)
Former Project Lead Developer Star Strike (2005-2012), Z-Mod (2006-2007), RA1.5 (2008-2013), The Cold War (2006-2007)

Eagle 11 · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:03 am Post subject:

Color cockpit pearl-black,not white

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Orac · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject:

But then it wouldn't fit with all the other awesome Nod units, which have only the Remap and Cockpits to contrast the dark exterior.