I believed until one or two days ago that the ion cannons on the Y-Wing didn't work. In a rather massive dogfight on Battle of Yavin, I was shooting a few ties with laser and ion fire, and a few seconds later I hear TiePilot (the BI one) complain that he almost killed this dude until his screen got DEMPed and his craft started falling (his words more or less).

This is true, some fatherless child emp'd me while I was chasing down Rebel scum in the Death Star's trench. I actually hit something but managed to get back up and out before getting shot.

The Y-Wing is a good ion cannon ship as with a gunner as it can hit chasing fighters with ion cannon fire and then easily pick them off too.

So in short, tricky to use, but get a good hit and it is a really effective weapon.

TIEpilot234 wrote:

1)  The Rebel Sniper Rifle also seems a bit less accurate (Thought I dunno the hard stats).

Funny though, even if it is less accurate, it is still much easier for me to snipe as a rebel because the Stormtroopers have such big heads.

Or you're just getting 1-hit body shots (Which the Rebel Sniper has a greater chance of doing, since it does more damage).

1)  The Rebel Sniper Rifle also seems a bit less accurate (Thought I dunno the hard stats).

Funny though, even if it is less accurate, it is still much easier for me to snipe as a rebel because the Stormtroopers have such big heads.

1) I don't know what it is, I may be using it wrong, or it may be a glitch, but how come the sniper rifle is absolutely horrendous? I couldn't hit anything with it and all I do in the BF series is snipe (and fly but that's besides the point). Could you guys tweak it? Or does it not need tweaking? Is there something I need to know about the sniper in this mod?

After prone, wait about 5 seconds before shooting.  Use shift to access stablilier, but if you shoot within that period you'll still miss with it on.  FS snipers are not like the other BF snipers where you can hit prone, zoom and immediately be 95% accurate.

Spawn Beacon.  Requires a squad of 4.

As tie said, shields.  The shields stay for about 3 seconds or something, and block light laserfire and I *think* direct-hit missile/heavy lasers, but the splash damage still applies.  I think.

2) Not sure what you mean here.

3) Left click = top shields, Right click = Bottom shields.

2) What is the 8th weapon slot for the Officer and how come I cannot select it?

3) what is the secondary and primary fires for the space transports?