OTAS M6 Reaper

[Xelonir]

@Boosh:

Or in other words: when we say

All of the XTM ships which weren't included in TC will be featured in the XTC again in the one or other form.

we do mean ALL

[Sam Redstone]

we do mean ALL

Hmmm, and yet... Aragon Speed had this to say in his blog:

The biggest stumbling block here were the Sohnen; They were real balance killers. What should we do with them? If we add them in it would be a real nightmare to balance the mod. We didn't like the idea of a race/set of ships that were so powerful it was an instant 'game over' moment if the player owned one, or alternatively a set of ships that the player could not own.

The only real solution to this was to discard the Sohnen as a race, and as the XTM main plot was centred around them, it had to go as well. The old plot really didn't fit into the new universe and plans we had already made, so letting them go was not as hard as it could have been.

So perhaps their ships will be in the game "in some form or other" but not actually piloted by them? Dunno. All I know is that I've never even SEEN a Sohnen ship, not even in screenshots, and it would be cool if their technology made it into XTC... on the other hand, if I understand -AS- correctly, we don't want XTC to be just "XTM 2.0" ... we want it to be something completely new. So I would be fine with leaving them out. (If I want to see them, I'll just go and play XTM, right? Which in fact I have just started for the first time!)

One question... earlier in this thread, darksanta said that the OTAS Reaper could be "ported" from XTM to TC... can anyone point me to the guide he was talking about? I think I would like to have a Reaper in my TC collection! Pretty please?

[Aragon Speed]

The Sohnen ships were (in?)famous because of their shielding and weaponry, not because of the models themselves. In XTC there is no way in hell we will be adding "Game Over" ships. So while the ships themselves (i.e. the models) will be re-used for XTC, they will not be 'Sohnen' as such.