Wing
Commander
RTX

Ships and space

• Direct3D 12 renderer
• 3D ship models in flight: CrustyBread's HD Rapier, Scimitar, Raptor, Drayman, Tiger's Claw, Dralthi, Krant, Jalthi and Snakeir; Origin's own Super Wing Commander models for every other ship and the missiles
• Engine flames on the ships' exhausts; lit windows and lights on the Tiger's Claw, the Dralthi and the Snakeir
• Each ship sized to match the original game's sprites, so ranges and targeting feel the same
• Space in high dynamic range with bloom: glowing lasers, explosions and engines
• A richer sky: the galaxy's band and far nebulae
• WC1's planets, nebulae, galaxy and suns redrawn in high definition
• Nebula clouds you fly through; ships inside take on their colour
• Asteroids, mines, missiles and wreckage as 3D models, the asteroids and wreckage with 8K textures
• Explosions as volumes of fire and smoke
• The intro in real 3D across the whole screen

Cockpit, HUD and screens

• A photoreal cockpit for the Hornet, Rapier, Scimitar and Raptor
• Every view: front, left, right and rear
• The game's own instruments live on the cockpit's screens
• The pilot's hand moving with the stick
• The HUD at full resolution: the displays' text, the gun sight, target brackets, lock marker and radar contacts redrawn sharp
• Any screen shape: 4:3, 16:9 and ultra-wide up to 32:9, the cockpit and the 3D view carrying on past the old 4:3 frame
• Window or full screen (Alt+Enter), any window size
• Smooth flight at your display's refresh rate, 60 fps and up, with the game's original speed kept

Story, voices and music

• The whole Vega campaign fully voiced by the Sega CD version's cast: 3,800 recordings, line by line, in the bar, the briefings and the debriefings
• You're Blair, callsign Hotshot, as the actors say it
• The bar as a live-action scene: Shotglass and the pilots lip-synced, the seats taken by whoever is really aboard
• Briefings as live-action scenes with Colonel Halcyon; the map shots stay the game's own mission maps
• Debriefings, Halcyon's office and the medal ceremony as live-action scenes
• The barracks with a sleeping pilot in every bunk that holds a saved game
• The medal case as a photograph of your jacket at your rank, with your ribbons and medals on it
• The scramble as live-action video for each fighter
• The cutscenes as films: the return to the Claw and the landing (your fighter clean or shot up), your death, the ejection, stranded, the funeral, the victory ending and the losing ending
• New songs for the title, cruising and dogfights, with the original score everywhere else

Controls and install

• PS5 and Xbox controllers with a full twin-stick layout, working as soon as they're plugged in
• HOTAS, rudder pedals and any joystick, with defaults that just work
• An in-game controls menu (F10): two controls per action, axes inverted, dead zones set, devices shown live
• The 1990 two-button joystick mode, if you want it
• Keyboard and mouse as in the original
• Installs from your own Kilrathi Saga disc 1 image: every file checked, nothing mounted, no administrator rights, saved games kept

Not yet

• DLSS
• Voices for the Secret Missions (the Sega CD never had them)