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Topic: Homing proton torpedoes!

Might make the X-wing a little better. It's surely possible as a lot of missiles in base also lock onto their targets. Why not?

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Re: Homing proton torpedoes!

Suggested 10000000000 times and counting.

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Re: Homing proton torpedoes!

cause then you'd have to incorporate a countermeasure system, second you'd would kill the TIE fighter in 95 out of 100 bouts easy (why would you need to go close in when you could just missle from a kilometer out?), and thirdly the X-wing is pretty solid as a fighter/bomber so why give it something that would make it OMGWTFPWNZER!!!

The X-wing wasn't meant to deal head on with TIE's, thats the A-wing's job, deal with it.

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Re: Homing proton torpedoes!

Lance Haith wrote:

The X-wing wasn't meant to deal head on with TIE's, thats the A-wing's job, deal with it.

Well, it sure bloody well sucks against capital ships. Is it supposed to just fly around and look pretty?

With a fair amount of evasion a TIE should be able to avoid a locked torpedo, and you only get six of them.

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Re: Homing proton torpedoes!

Imagine the swarms of X-wings that spawn every 20 seconds, each one with 6 homing missiles...

*beepbeepbeep beeeeeep* Oh crap I have to evade.... *evades it* *beepbeeepbeeeeeep* oh crap.... *beep beep beeeeep* .....damn... you superior Xwings with your locking missiles and shields of doom and...

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Homing Torpedoes were never used in the movies against TIEs and only after the Xwing games did the idea of a homing anti-fighter torpedo emerge. If this were a game where you were always the rebels fighting the good fight against overwhelming numbers of TIEs then sure allow lock on... the case is not like that and I can see alot of people complaining about the underpowered missileless TIE's if this were to happen. Superior manuverability helps only in fighter on fighter action NOT missile on fighter action.

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Re: Homing proton torpedoes!

Proton torpedos aren't terribly adept at homing, that is for concussion missiles. If we are too add hioming missiles to X-wings the missiles would be incredibly easy to avoid.

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Re: Homing proton torpedoes!

Ahh okay ^_^ see I was assuming since they were able to do a complete 90 degree turn in Ep. IV they would be damn near impossible to avoid...

If you guys do add it in could you give some TIE's hard-points? ^_^;; it'd only be fair.