First Strike Forums — Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (Twigs) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:14:34 +0000

Indeed. Bar the damned server crashes (again!) we had some good games towards the end.

I believe it was me that answered with "Stay on Target" wrong guy. Got to love those trench run quotes that always crop up on Yavin.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (FSDev| TALON) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:39:47 +0000

Aye, the Battle of Yavin is one of our best maps for nailing the feel of the sequence from the movies, you'll always be quoting the dialogue like it is going out of fashion on that map.

With the Freighter on Taloraan the noise you're referring to will be the ship's shield booster, tapping the right and left mouse button will activate your ventral or dorsal deflector shield boosters which can really save your bacon when you have a cluster of enemy torpedoes heading your way.

Endor Clearing was also a lot of fun tonight, not one of my favorite maps, but against the bots tonight it was really quite a lot of fun, became less of the sniper fest that it usually becomes when played against live players, and there was some real good team work on our part, keeping the Walker in one piece against the onslaught of just about every Rebel bot on the map amongst other things. really good games.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (Wrong Guy) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:29:47 +0000

Sorry about the repair ship, I had no idea what I was flying.
After you mentioned it, I remembered something about it in the game guide I read. Way to late for me to get it back to our side however. What do the left & right mouse buttons do on that ship? When I pressed them, it made a noise (nothing visual) and it would expend something on my indicators.

One good moment I remember was attacking the Death Star. I entered the trench for my attack run and someone on VOIP yelled something about enemy fighters behind me. I thought of the movie and yelled back "I can't maneuver!" To which they replied "Stay on target" - too good.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (FSDev| TALON) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:59:29 +0000

Again some good games tonight, though the server seemed a little unstable giving us a few crashes, but people stuck with it and hung around to get back into the game. Had a fairly consistant 6 to 8 players that came and went as the night progressed, not bad for a Monday night, but lets try and get some more, just pop on the server and people will turn up. Give people a heads up on the forums that you're about to go on-line and that might help drum up a few more bodies to play with.

We had a full squad vs bots which was pretty good fun, and had enough players to get out a few old classics and played Ryloth and Taloraan again. Good games all, new faces and old alike, thanks for coming.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (Slyfox_Elite) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:32:09 +0000

Man, that was an excellent round. You were very annoying with that A-Wing shooting the side, plus you killed TWO capships in ONE round doing that!

Yeah, yesterday was one of the better days in recent history.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (Twigs) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:03:06 +0000

RSF Angel wrote:

One of these days you'll have to tell me the button for the A-wing dorsal mag locks.
In other news, that round of taloraan was fun- did a few successful tie bombing runs without dying once- no kills (other than the occasional Awing who tried to get fresh).
I don't know how I'd tweak the bombers while remaining true to the lore. The bombers were so useful that I'm rethinking my opinions of imperial fighter/bomber attacks on rebel capital ships- though perhaps the other team just had a bad night.

I could tell you, but then people might figure out how to counter it. For now, its my favourite attack move, since it tends to annoy the guys flying the ship. A couple of times I've seen the pilot rant over chat to "get that fighter off the side!".

Yeah Taloraan was fun. Sure TB's aren't as hot as some of the other ships, but they have their uses. If I was to tweak them in any way I'd want to see their laser damage upped a little more.

One of the factors helping us last night was, I believe, that we tended to attack the same target more, rather than just one or two ship's making attack runs.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (RSF Angel) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:49:18 +0000

Twigs wrote:

Must make sure to capture a few shots of my A-Wing hanging on the side of those Impy cruisers and getting the kill credits Sorry Angel! Though I did let you take out the Death Star

With an X-wing, like a boss. Thanks for that

One of these days you'll have to tell me the button for the A-wing dorsal mag locks.

In other news, that round of taloraan was fun- did a few successful tie bombing runs without dying once- no kills (other than the occasional Awing who tried to get fresh).
I don't know how I'd tweak the bombers while remaining true to the lore. The bombers were so useful that I'm rethinking my opinions of imperial fighter/bomber attacks on rebel capital ships- though perhaps the other team just had a bad night.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (Twigs) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:48:50 +0000

Yeah we're constantly picking up new issues with some of the co-op (and by relation SP) maps.

As Talon says though, some good games last night. Co-Op was ok, but it really improved for me once we moved off in to the conquest maps. Some VERY good games there, particularly Taloraan. Been a while since I've had a good game of that one. More numbers would have been nice as always, but was still a blast

Going to try and go over the BR footage from it tonight and see if I can come up with a little CG promo and get it up towards the end of the week. Maybe tie it in to publicising the campaign as well. Must make sure to capture a few shots of my A-Wing hanging on the side of those Impy cruisers and getting the kill credits Sorry Angel! Though I did let you take out the Death Star

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (FSDev| TALON) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:07 +0000

Yeah, have no idea where that bug has suddenly sprung from, seems to have happened since 1.51, so we'll have to look into it to see if the code for the map has accidently been changed, or if this is a direct 1.51 related issue.

On another note, we had some good games out there tonight, good to see a lot of new faces.

See you again for more scraps soon.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (RSF Angel) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:39:23 +0000

Yavin co-op can be finished by killing ties- imps lose tickets for ties as well as deflector towers/exhaust port

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (FSDev| TALON) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:05:45 +0000

That's a shame as Yavin co-op is a great map, but if it is causing people issues I guess it has to go, though I've always found it pretty stable myself.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (Twigs) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:30:16 +0000

Done. All conquest maps added (with many altered to 32p to give access to all vehicles and map assets). Still playing some co-op maps, but I have removed Yavin as that seems to be the one causing most crashes.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (Blackhawk0012) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:24:49 +0000

it would be cool to have all maps m8 , would u please make it that way ??

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (Twigs) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:05:20 +0000

No I can't update it to 32p, at this moment in time I am not willing to justify the extra expense for a rarely used server.

I can add all maps, but it may be more prone to crashing playing a mix of co-op and conquest.

Re: Finnaly its saturday...Game today?

null@example.com (FSDev| TALON) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:20:23 +0000

I'd rather see Rebel Defiance stick with a mix of co-op and conquest myself, it makes it unique in that you have the opportunity to play either, plus with it being a 16 slot server it gives the chance for you to experience large scale battles despite the server size. The BI and =SBB= servers are larger and can give you that purely conquest experience with larger live player numbers.