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On the C64 version of Elite there were two invisible-to-radar ships. One was the Constrictor, the special military mission craft which you had to track down and blow up. Everyone knew about this and had fun blowing it up.
But then there was an ultra-rare invisi as well. In all my years of playing the game I only ever saw two of them and that was only by luck. You were sucked out of warp into a seemingly empty region of space. If you scanned the starfield closely you could see a single moving white dot on the background. Get closer to it and it turned into one of the most horribly armored and beweaponed ships ever seen, even though it was only about the same size as a Cobra Mk 3. Looked a bit like one, as well, but with a whacky double W configuration to the hull.
Was this a hallucination brought on by far too much deep-space jpoystick waggling or did any of you guys encounter it too?
Invisible Ships - Elite, that is
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I don't remember ever seeing that but, going off ona bit of a tangent, can anyone confirm whether it was ever possible to get the huge thargoid ship as a 'fly-able' ship in Frontier on the Amiga? I know you could get it via a cheat but there was a rumour you could actually find the ship to buy way out on the edge of the galaxy or something...
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There are assorted references to cloaked and radar invisible ships in the Elite FAQ, not certain which one might be the case here:
http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/doc/games/EliteFAQ.htm
Note: the external links on the page don't work, simply search out or scroll down to the required section.
http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/doc/games/EliteFAQ.htm
Note: the external links on the page don't work, simply search out or scroll down to the required section.
Re: Invisible Ships - Elite, that is
I'm pretty sure that's a real thing. Not seen it my myself, but it's been discussed in alt.fan.elite several times.Fox wrote:But then there was an ultra-rare invisi as well. In all my years of playing the game I only ever saw two of them and that was only by luck. You were sucked out of warp into a seemingly empty region of space. If you scanned the starfield closely you could see a single moving white dot on the background. Get closer to it and it turned into one of the most horribly armored and beweaponed ships ever seen, even though it was only about the same size as a Cobra Mk 3. Looked a bit like one, as well, but with a whacky double W configuration to the hull.
Was this a hallucination brought on by far too much deep-space jpoystick waggling or did any of you guys encounter it too?
Buggered if I can remember what they're called though... I'm have a think.
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