• From: Birmingham, UK
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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

The switching the shields from front to back may be possible, but cant back it up with anything except with what i have seen.

If you guys have played Titan mode, you will notice the shields for the titan are at the front, and the back is completley open. It might be possible with a little coding to switch the shield as a command, as if it had been destroyed, and respawned.

The Con of this is the possibility of the huge ammount of lag it could cause if u have 2 or 3 X-wings shifting their shields cos they have several TIE's on their pie smile

  • From: Boca Raton Florida, US
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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

Well I suppose the situation might be a little different for fighters. I think instead of a titan style shield, fighters might be better served with a permenant, invisible, walker/tank style shield from 2142. This shield might shifted around, as if it was part of the vehicle itself. The only question is if it would be possible to make that sort of shield take damage, since in 2142 its invunerable until it shuts off.

Now for capital ships, I suppose they should use a modified titan shield. I'm not sure how much you can modify it, but the ability to choose where your shields are focused for capital ships would be really, really nice.

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10 Reply by hQ.Renwood 58th MYTH (edited by hQ.Renwood 58th MYTH 2006-10-13 14:55:47)

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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

Remeber certain FIGHTERS also have sheilds!  X wings have them and the falcon for sure has them.
i pretty sure y wings b wings and fancy shmancy ties have them as well.

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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

I personally think ships could and should have shields. Nothing like Star Trek were sheilds were the primary thing, but something that gives you a few extra hit points to escape.

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  • From: Boca Raton Florida, US
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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

I agree. And I definetly think the shields should be invisible, like they where in the movies.

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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

Give the fighters some extra health that regenerates except if the health drop belows lets say 50%. At this point the shields could be considered destroyed and will not regenerate.

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14 Reply by Canadiens1160 (edited by Canadiens1160 2006-10-13 21:28:52)

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Re: Are ships going to have sheilds? like they did in Tie fighter games?

MK4210 wrote:

Give the fighters some extra health that regenerates except if the health drop belows lets say 50%. At this point the shields could be considered destroyed and will not regenerate.

Yeah you could probably have the vehicle (ship) have a repair object attached to it, which would disappear after a certain amount of damage.

That could be done back in 1942 if I recall.

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