Topic: Boarding capships. Yes or No?
Well, the main reason why I'm looking forward to FS is the space maps. Flying TIEs, A-Wings, capships, it just has "awesome" written all over it.
I usually play pilot or medic, and I prefer the pilot role. I've always had a love for dogfights. That means I have one-sided opinions about this, so I want to see what everyone thinks about boarding.
I've seen suggestions here that say "allow the ships to be boarded!" Well, here's why it would be a bad idea.
Now, I don't like boarding in space maps, except for the maps where there's an objective that you need to reach on foot, though I'd still prefer space only ones. Imagine if there would be an enterable and captureable Nebulon-B. Basically, the imps would be able to capture it by boarding. This is bad for the Star Wars correctness. First of all, Fighters are expensive. In real life, a jet costs millions. Now, would you abandon your super expensive fighter to get in an enemy capship and get your arse blown to pieces? No. Bad idea. 2: In star wars, cap ships are destroyed from the outside, they are never boarded except for the tractor beam capturing done with star destroyers.
There's a HL2 Sci-Fi mod called Eternal Silence 2. It has drifty space and infantry combat. I don't like that mod much due to rushing boarders. Basically, the space combat's fun, but to make sure you don't lose, you keep on getting forced to disembark and do some super-dull CS clone infantry fighting. So it messes all the fun up for the pilots, mainly cause rushers are hard to stop there.
If you want infantry, PLAY INFANTRY MAPS. There's surely gonna be a remake of that inside a star destroyer map from GC, and that's better than jumping into a ship and wasting your craft.
So, what's your opinion? Should there be boarding in FS?
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