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You know the story about the the error message edited to say "Thank you for playing Wing Commander"? That doesn't actually happen in any version of the game. (www.wcnews.com)
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I love when people dig down to get to the bottom of stories like this.

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[–] leggettc18@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

Nah it’s been confirmed that the expansion pack was used from the very beginning for the lighting engine (game does have pretty damn good looking lighting for its age, to be fair).