First Strike Forums — Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-19T18:26:41Z

Here is an idea, instead of flares, make anti-missle missles. It's futuristic, why not? There of course is always bug droids.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-19T18:08:31Z

yea your right screw crap like flares to loose missles! ....Chaff is better!
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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-15T10:21:46Z

yea periouds.... should learn to control those
any way really a the bf series flight part cant be considered a flight sim. its to liniour (Sp?) to be considered one in my oppinion really.its more of a fpf (first person flyer).
any way yea shielding is cool. as long as i dont have to spam flares and such to lose homing missiles i'm happy.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-15T09:15:34Z

Hmmm Pie must be having his period

Apart from that, the shield idea is totally cool. Kinda like the titan shield would be fun, first the shield gets destroyed, then the aircraft itself. Yeah, that'd be neat

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-15T06:05:12Z

Ummm...

No worrys?

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-15T04:47:09Z

Np, don't jump to conclusions next time.:)

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-15T00:09:31Z

Wow BlueTang, you really showed us.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-14T22:37:42Z

Zulu wrote:

I suggest reading the topic "Implementing Basic Y-Wing Fighter Tactics". BlueTang, you could have been much nicer. There is no need to bite his head off.

First off I wasn't harsh at all. There were so many questions I didn't know where to start. So I said read the forums which most of his questions were in the first couple threads. If you think any of that was harsh in any way then sorry, grow up. Almost all his questions and more will be answered in the first couple threads. Anything else would be answered by the devs as they know more then we do about what is and what isn't going to be implemented. K thx!

FSDev| piewalker wrote:

also bluetang, it is impossible to be better than the x-wing vs tie fighter games. as there a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GENRE TO FS. FS = first person shooter. X-wing vs tie fighter = flight simulator jeesh.

[sarcasm on]Thank you for that enlightenment as to I had no clue what the difference between a first person shooter and a flight sim.[sarcasm off]

No where in his post was there anything about the first person shooter aspect of First Strike. He was talking about the flight sim part. And yes, ya'll (dev team) have the ability to be better then the x-wing series games (in certain aspects). My apologies in trying to promote your work and being positive towards this mod.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-14T01:28:28Z

MK4210 wrote:

Give the fighters some extra health that regenerates except if the health drop belows lets say 50%. At this point the shields could be considered destroyed and will not regenerate.

Yeah you could probably have the vehicle (ship) have a repair object attached to it, which would disappear after a certain amount of damage.

That could be done back in 1942 if I recall.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-13T21:44:47Z

Give the fighters some extra health that regenerates except if the health drop belows lets say 50%. At this point the shields could be considered destroyed and will not regenerate.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-13T21:41:25Z

I agree. And I definetly think the shields should be invisible, like they where in the movies.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-13T21:21:22Z

I personally think ships could and should have shields. Nothing like Star Trek were sheilds were the primary thing, but something that gives you a few extra hit points to escape.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-13T18:54:43Z

Remeber certain FIGHTERS also have sheilds! X wings have them and the falcon for sure has them.
i pretty sure y wings b wings and fancy shmancy ties have them as well.

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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-13T18:38:36Z

Well I suppose the situation might be a little different for fighters. I think instead of a titan style shield, fighters might be better served with a permenant, invisible, walker/tank style shield from 2142. This shield might shifted around, as if it was part of the vehicle itself. The only question is if it would be possible to make that sort of shield take damage, since in 2142 its invunerable until it shuts off.

Now for capital ships, I suppose they should use a modified titan shield. I'm not sure how much you can modify it, but the ability to choose where your shields are focused for capital ships would be really, really nice.

Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

2006-10-13T18:28:06Z

The switching the shields from front to back may be possible, but cant back it up with anything except with what i have seen.

If you guys have played Titan mode, you will notice the shields for the titan are at the front, and the back is completley open. It might be possible with a little coding to switch the shield as a command, as if it had been destroyed, and respawned.

The Con of this is the possibility of the huge ammount of lag it could cause if u have 2 or 3 X-wings shifting their shields cos they have several TIE's on their pie