First Strike Forums — V-Wing and more

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (PErF3Ct) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:42:58 +0000

Best forums ever.

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (mechag2) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:50:10 +0000

Lol, truly.

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (Killer3wok) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:32:26 +0000

Yep sure do...its also very enjoyable to read

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (THX-1138) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:52:52 +0000

dontcha love how a friendly thread about including some V-Wings and other EU craft can develop into a stats canonicity argument??

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (THX-1138) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:49:30 +0000

mmmm, pie....

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (mechag2) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:42:27 +0000

THX-1138 wrote:

Well, you'll find that the canonicity of many of the old school games we cling to, depends greatly on your own point of view.
For example - I'll take the canonicity of the X-Wing series over say, Rogue Squadron, or SWBF2 when it comes to fighter combat ANY DAY!!!

Lol So would I, but that's like settling for the leftover crust when you can have the entire pie.

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (THX-1138) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:56:49 +0000

Well, you'll find that the canonicity of many of the old school games we cling to, depends greatly on your own point of view.

For example - I'll take the canonicity of the X-Wing series over say, Rogue Squadron, or SWBF2 when it comes to fighter combat ANY DAY!!!

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (mechag2) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:44:06 +0000

Talon1579 wrote:

I'd like to point out that X-Wing alliance was extremely well balanced, and didn't, to my knowledge, massively contradict the movies - films.

Whaa??!! Awesome game it was, but balanced it wasn't. And I don't want to touch upon the inaccuracies at this point. lol *thinks of all the mismatched specifications and shudders*

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (mechag2) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:39:10 +0000

THX-1138 wrote:

Well, I just unlocked the secrets to playing my TIE Fighter Collector's Edition CD-ROM on Windows XP - so if you'll excuse me, I have some awesomeness to catch up on...

Lol It's funny you mention that. I pulled out my old XVT & XVT:BOP for my PC a few days ago. Fantastic games.

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (Killer3wok) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:11:55 +0000

Tho what im going to do is make it 32 ships of each side and kinda balance it to see how it plays out and see if i can get a score that close to about 1-10 kills of eachother then you guys can get some sort of theroy from it

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (THX-1138) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:52:27 +0000

The old games are fun - but require a bit of work to get running on XP - damn LA and not supporting older games grr argh!

Meanwhile, my friend Killer3wok just did a simulation on his X-Wing Alliance game and found that despite their slower speed and lower manoeuvrability, B-Wings pwn TIE Defenders - but in overall battles, Imperial fighters win the day. He just phoned me on this one. Ah, those custom sims were one of the highlights of X-Wing Alliance...

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (FSDev| TALON) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:44:52 +0000

THX-1138 wrote:

Well, I just unlocked the secrets to playing my TIE Fighter Collector's Edition CD-ROM on Windows XP - so if you'll excuse me, I have some awesomeness to catch up on...

Ahh, yes I have them, but have yet to play them on brand spanking XP. Will have to have a dabble myself sometime.

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (Talon1579) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:47:14 +0000

I'd like to point out that X-Wing alliance was extremely well balanced, and didn't, to my knowledge, massively contradict the movies - films. I'm British, damnit.

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (THX-1138) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:45:28 +0000

Well, I just unlocked the secrets to playing my TIE Fighter Collector's Edition CD-ROM on Windows XP - so if you'll excuse me, I have some awesomeness to catch up on...

Re: V-Wing and more

null@example.com (mechag2) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:09:25 +0000

THX-1138 wrote:

Congrats, TALON! That's how it is! What I love about you guys at First Strike is the fact that you TOTALLY put LucasArts to shame! I remember back in the days of games like Monkey Island and TIE Fighter and Jedi Knight when LucasArts really had my respect - but they've really lost it recently - though I did enjoy EAW not gonna lie...

Lol, Yeah, they really do! LA doesn't even dev their own games anymore.

THX-1138 wrote:

But honestly, the hard thing is that the true balance was made by the Imperials having VASTLY more fighters than the Rebels - which makes sense - when you have the entire galaxy's resources, who cares about building better ships when you can just build more?? But in a high end multiplayer game, you can't really swarm the area with like an enormous amount of TIEs like you could in the old days.
Anyhow, I'm sure it'll come out fine - everything produced regarding First Strike so far has looked awesome.

So true, that's not something that can be easily replicated in a game. Especially a large online multiplayer combat game like FS is. Balancing is a must.