First Strike Forums — Taloraan and Escape from Hoth

Re: Taloraan and Escape from Hoth

null@example.com (Hummel-o-War) — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:36:48 +0000

Good to hear of that issue. We removed those two maps from our server. Hope for a fix soon

Re: Taloraan and Escape from Hoth

null@example.com (FSDev| Woodrow) — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:58:03 +0000

lack of time. Cover geometries for the engines had to be altered, we couldn't get the effects working right, and that is assuming we weren't going to have the geometries represent the destroyed bits but just have lots of smoke cover the broken bits

Re: Taloraan and Escape from Hoth

null@example.com (Imperial) — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:15:31 +0000

I'm sure we'll still look at it someday, not sure what the problem was or why it was scrapped, honestly.

Re: Taloraan and Escape from Hoth

null@example.com (Delta_Fixer) — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:11:11 +0000

Destructible engines sound cool. Is that something that is planned for further updates, or was it scrapped entirely?

Re: Taloraan and Escape from Hoth

null@example.com (Imperial) — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:38:02 +0000

Suriander wrote:

Something about cap ship speeds?

Yep, cap ship speeds on Taloraan got screwed up. We experimented with destructible engines on these, so that you could disable them, but there was some miscommunication and it never got fully restored.

Re: Taloraan and Escape from Hoth

null@example.com (Suriander) — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:35:41 +0000

Something about cap ship speeds?

Taloraan and Escape from Hoth

null@example.com (Imperial) — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:30:31 +0000

Just a heads up to everyone, in the 1.2 release we accidentally broke these two maps. We will be releasing a hotfix this weekend that will restore their standard functionality, but hopefully you can enjoy the new maps as well as the old land maps until that point.

We recommend server admins drop them from their rotation for the time being.