First Strike Forums — Flagship Space Battles

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Slimshiesty) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:23:17 +0000

Make the ground look like space, make buildings that look like a ship when put together.
so basically 2 buildings fighting it out.
Repairable, destructable.
weapons platforms throughout.
Snipers? Shields?
Mon Calamari?
escape pods, to get to and eject before your ship is destroyed?
Swashbuckling in the depths of space !!

Maybe having to toggle shields on and off to use your heavy lasers.
The smaller lasers have to take out smaller targets first in order for a system..i.e. shields, communications, targeting system. to become vulnerable to a heavy laser blast.
repair would be exhaustive, but could be done by teams, or squads.

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Slyfox_Elite) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:25:13 +0000

That's what i meant all along. Read Slimshiesty's post. Two ships firing at specific places and the first ship to have a few pieces destroyed loses. To make the flagships, why can't it be many small sized pieces that we can go in like flyable ships except that they don't move. Together those pieces make a huge ship. To those who don't understand me, just ask on this post.

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Alreech) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:15:10 +0000

After / During the Battle of Endor the Rebs captured some SDs.
Source: Pact of Bacura ( AFIAK )

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Slimshiesty) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:12:24 +0000

would be cool to have something like in SW ep.3 but with original SW ships.
where the 2 ships could jockey side by side with weps firing at each other to take out specific parts of the ships.
Kind of a high seas battle in space.

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Safe-Keeper) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:56:30 +0000

TY is correct. There was GC Tanaab, though, in which Rebels boarded a space platform. Is that what you're talking about?

ETA: other than that, there was Task Force Battle, which is basically just Taloraan over again, and the Cifilorp Asteroid field (think the name of the map was Vanguard?) in which Rebels in an asteroid base fought for control over CP's with respawning cap ships. Good times .

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (TY2D2) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:57:16 +0000

GC never had flagship battles.

GC had an equivalent to Taloraan with asteroids.

Canadiens made a map that had some of the largest ships together in one map, but afaik they were not boardable and were not detroyable. They had lots of pretty lasers and explosions firing off everywhere though.

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Mr.Fork) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:16:26 +0000

Didn't Galactic Conquest have a intermediate class battle? Not the super star destroyers, but just the destroyers against the rebel blockade runners or an rebel escort frigate.

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Gwynzer) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:48:46 +0000

Spaceballs! I can't wait!

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (TY2D2) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:36:45 +0000

Or it could be this:

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (FSDev| TALON) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:36:05 +0000

Heh, watch this space like we said, note the emphasis on the SPACE.

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Slyfox_Elite) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:13:23 +0000

So you're saying it could be like a space titan for Star Wars. If they do it, it would be awesome.

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Athlon) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:33:15 +0000

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON™ The next map updates should be pretty special, I'm really looking forward to them

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Imperial) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:24:18 +0000

Read the last line of this news article.

Maybe not ISD, maybe not anything, but you also could be pretty close there

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Athlon) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:11:31 +0000

An ISD with a mapped out interior would be very interesting. As I posted before Rebels could board via the hanger but instead of take flags their objective would be destroyables within the ISD. I know this is exactly what happens with the Titans in Vanilla but It would sure work well with a Star wars theme. As the ISD is static the lag experianced in vanilla shouldn't happen should it? It would also really bring the troop transport capabillities of Lambda into play.

Re: Flagship Space Battles

null@example.com (Alreech) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:42:22 +0000

IMHO is a First Person Shooter like BF2142 not the right kind of game to feature a battle against a Super Star Destroyer.
Remember, such ships carry hunderts of fighters and operate as flagship of a fleet.
Even a FPS with 64 Players didn't have enough players to simulate such a big battle.
Games like Nexus, Freelancer or Homeworld are better suited for such a szenario.

But: First Strike has the modell of a Star Destroyer that holds a large part of the map (Escape from Hoth).
IMHO this modell can also be used to make a spacebattle map with the objective to destroy / board the SDS by rebell troops.