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> lever and spacetime goes brrr but then you have WW2 bombing runs in space, spaceships with gravity fed bomb hatches! dogfights with guns that miss all the ti
by rasz 4y ago
> lever and spacetime goes brrr
but then you have WW2 bombing runs in space, spaceships with gravity fed bomb hatches! dogfights with guns that miss all the time and are unable to autoaim, hilarious chase scenes ...
- Eddy_Viscosity2 4y agoWhy doesn't the rebellion build missiles out of small hyperspace-capable ships. Just point them at capital ships and hit go. According to the last jedi, this would be crazy effective.
- krapp 4y agoAnd Star Trek is basically naval combat in space, with ships flying ridiculously close to one another, dogfights with weapons that miss all the time and are unable to autoaim, etc. Star Trek ships bank in space just like planes, same as in Star Wars. One of the most beloved episodes of the original series had the crew of the Enterprise keeping quiet so they didn't trip Romulan space sonar, because they literally just filed the serial numbers off a submarine movie. Neither is more realistic than the other when it comes to portraying space combat, but at least in Star Wars it doesn't look like wargamers chipping away at each another's HP until a ship explodes.
- korse 4y agoObligatory plug for space combat in the Expanse.
- Insanity 4y agoHave not seen the series yet, but looking forward to it! Currently reading through the books (book 6 atm) and want to finish the book series prior to starting the Prime series. :)
- nathants 4y agoread the books, skip the series. instead watch youtube compilations of vfx shots from the series. there is some good stuff there.
- runnerup 4y agoIt’s better but far from perfect. The Expanse also totally missed that there’s no such thing as stealth in space due to IR emissions from any life support.
- generalizations 4y agoAnd battlestar galactica.