Goodness, that's quite the list. Let's see what I can pull out of it:

Gameplay Suggestions:
1) Yes, this would be useful. There are currently little white lines, but they don't indicate which direction is up or down so much as tell you that you're not level. In vanilla, this is good enough - it doesn't really work for space fights so well.

2) Yeah, might be an idea, if it's possible. I don't know just how powerful the mod tools are... if it was easily possible, then it would have been done already. Still would be nice.

3) I don't like this one. There's no reason to not deploy the foils, seeing as the mod does its best to cut down on travel time. There are better things that our hotkeys could be linked to, and better things for the mods to be doing. At the very least, this should be under Lore suggestions.

4) I admit that I rarely use free look. Personally, I find many of the outside cameras to be a bit cheap - if the TIE doesn't have a rear-view mirror, why should you? Then again, as I say, I don't know how free look differs from normal cameras, so I'll try to shut up on this one. Hard for me to do, though

5) Yes! It's kind of hard to tell some vehicles apart, and knowing what vehicle you're looking at would be great. If it doesn't take too much artist time, then great.

6) This would be useful, but not crucial - just look at the orientation of your body on the minimap, relative to your line-of-sight cone. Still, a HUD indicator would be nice... we can make do until the art team can do it, though, and we'll survive if it doesn't happen at all.

7) Yeah, I'd really like to know what exactly I'm selecting. Would definately help out us new recruits to the mod - experts know what's what, but anyone who hasn't either a) played for months or b) hasn't memorized the manual will have no clue what the heck those items are.

8) Once again, this sounds so simple and so obvious that, if it was actually easy to implement, it would already be done. If it's something that's been overlooked, then add it already! If it's hard to do, though, then leave it for now. There are better things to do, and most new players will figure out that they can't launch the droid and forget about it. Either that, or they'll be told to squad up

9) Camera views are from Vanilla. Either it's something that the team hasn't worried about, or it's something hardcoded into BF2142 that can't be changed.

10) Locking on? There's something more interesting about actually having to aim weapons, rather than having them aim themselves. Lock-on systems tend to make fights long-range, because the weapons are more accurate - I kinda like up-close and personal battles (hence my suggestion for interior maps - shameless plug, I know). It wouldn't be much use for fighters, either - I have enough trouble keeping a foe in my sights long enough to fire blasters, let alone trying to lock on to a target first!

11) Vehicle explosions would be awesome. I really was saddened the first time I crashed a speeder bike, and all I got as a reward was a little flash and *poof!* the bike was gone. Capital ships have plenty of debris, and AT-ST's have great remains - now, let's get that for the rest of the mod! ...once the art team has time, of course.

12) I think the problem is that the map doesn't save any stats. The debriefing screen has nothing to show, because nothing was kept. If there's some way for the mod to have its own ranking servers, then this may be fixed - assuming that the rank servers and the like are hardcoded or otherwise unchangable, the debriefing screen will remain blank forever. Then again, most of us never even look at it

13) Yeah, there's a fair bit of trouble on the loading screens. Someone insisted on putting "quotes" around most of the text, and I always get bugged by the lack of apostrophies and other minor problems. For example, on Escape from Hoth: "Lucking, the bases crew" should have "base's". Let's use the possessive, people! Apostrophies FTW!

14) The AT-AT on Endor will probably get a new model once the model is finished. There's a dynamic model being designed for Hoth that, according to the main page article, should be better than the current static. Hopefully, this means that the current statics will be getting a bit of lovin' - but we may as well 'remind' the art team, in case they 'forgot.'

15) More Star Wars-ish? How so? The little details (Like, "Deploying to Battle of Taaloran[sp?]") already make a different feel. I've said it before, but I'll repeat myself: I don't know how much the modders can actually change. Could we get the 2142 unlocks and ranks off the main page? The menus have already been rethemed somewhat. What do you think needs more work?

16) I believe the lack of a boost on those vessels is intentional, not an oversight. The B-Wing already has the most firepower of any Rebel vessel, and one of the (if not the) highest armour. Add in a boost function, and that thing will be soloing capital starships. The AT-ST is slow-but-powerful, which is nice. I admit that they did seem to move faster than AT-ATs in the movie rendition of Hoth... but that might have been perspective on my part. Either way, they don't need a boost. For the Imperial starships, having no boost on the Bomber, at least, is fine - I wouldn't mind it on TIE Fighters/Interceptors, or at the very least on Interceptors, which should be really fast... but they're pretty fast already. They compensate for the lack of a boost by having a great normal top speed.

As for lore... I really know very little. I'll touch on the few I know something definitive, because I know that the lore experts (read: fanatics, but you didn't hear that from me) will probably be able to comment on the rest.

First, #34. I don't know what Endor you're fighting on, but I know that MY Endor already HAS an AT-ST. #32 is being talked about (the original problem was the lack of an animator),  but several people, myself included, kinda like weapons needing to recharge from a Support/Officer character. #14 is probably out, because of gameplay limitations - we don't have a second countermeasures key to bind to CC rotation. #17 seems wierd, because I was certain that someone mentioned that the ceiling was 10m on the speeder thread... but people can already make them fly high above that level via glitches. I'd rather leave it as a ground-based vehicle, not an air vehicle. #1 is problematic because it's already damn hard to see out of the bloody cockpit. Most people tend to turn off cockpit views altogether, which makes all the work on the art kinda pointless. Let's not encourage that by making the default view worse. #33 might be part of commander deployables, I can't remember... but simply having spontaneous orbital attacks sounds a little bit wierd. If the plot doesn't give you access to some sort of off-map support, then the game shouldn't either.

Well, that was kinda disorganized. Hope someone can manage to read through it... or not, because it looks more impressive in size before you read it and figure out how little I actually said

The ones I want to comment on. Oh, and keep in mind that I am not a dev, and that my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the development team.

Agreed. Very much agreed. That or an artificial horizon display like in BF:V. It's a bit annoying to not know which way you're facing, and, as a consequence, which way to turn to get to your destination.

I do hate how it stops on a dime when you release the throttle. Other than that, it's fine with me. Perhaps if you elaborated a bit more on what you meant here, I'd be able to give you a better answer.

I frankly don't see why. The devs don't adhere to the idea that s-foils in space have anything to do with max speed, so opening and closing them would have no effect. If you ask me, the s-foils should open when you start the fighter up, for then to never close, not even when you slow down. In space maps, at least. It looks silly to slow your fighter down and watch your s-foils close in the middle of a dogfight.

Think of it this way: B-Wings and A-Wings have two 'modes' - Cruise and Combat. Cruise Mode is for situations outside of combat, Combat mode is entered when the craft enters the battle area. In the case of the space battle over the Sanctuary Moon, for example, they opened their s-foils before even having made contact with the enemy. The s-foils weren't shut again until the battle was over. In First Strike, the fighter is in the battle area when it spawns, and as such should open its s-foils first thing upon being manned and started, and not close them until the round was over.

Definitely. Was it up to me and Ty, you'd also have no external cam .

Definitely. Some are an odd angle (such as the probot which is just a circle, instead of seen from the side), and some don't have black outlines, making them harder to make out.

The mod overall needs to be more intuitive. I'm sure all this will be addressed eventually.

Depends. I'd like this only if you could enable/disable the lock-on system at will. Sneaking up on an enemy would become impossible if the missiles locked onto the target by themselves when you got behind the target and gave away your position by setting off missile threat alarms. If you can choose when to lock on, though, I'd be all for it .

I'm also pondering if you should be able to 'lock on' lasers. If you look at this video, at 2:44 Wedge shoots down a TIE Interceptor, with his lasers not firing straight forward. He just tracks the craft, his X-Wing's computer locks on the enemy fighter, and the lasers are fired so that they hit the target. You see the same thing in the trench run when Vader destroys X-Wings - he just pursues them and lets the computer do the job.

The big question here is whether or not it'd be good for gameplay. It'd certainly make dogfights far more lethal even if locking on took a significant time and you had to aim yourself until then.

Oh yes. The AT-ST and Bulk Freighter explosion is breathtaking, if every explosion was that good and detailed the mod would be even more awesome than it currently is. The shrapnel should last longer, too, and do damage to you if you hit it. Think about it - shouldn't it hurt a bit to be hit by a huge piece of AT-ST armour flying through the air after you've nailed it? Explosions should do some damage, too, come to think of it.

Funny thing is, the explosions look great with graphics on a low level, but recently I played a space map with the graphics on high and then they just looked strange, not dramatic at all.

Could you elaborate on this one? I like the current one myself.

Agree with you on the Imperial fighters, disagree with the AT-ST. It's fast enough as it is.

Yup.

I think the reason they're not in might be that they'd make the A-Wing overpowered. It's enough of a threat in the battle of Taloraan as it is. Maybe in some maps, but not all?

Again, very likely a balance feature. Oh, and there's a torpedo shortage. Yeah, there you go, torpedo shortage! That's the ticket !

First of all, yes, I agree. Secondly, as a gunner, in my opinion you should be able to have two views to switch between (and external view, since the devs seem very fixed on those) - the view out of the cockpit windows (that is, their POV from where they sit in the cockpits) with mouselook, and the view they currently have, of what the turret sees.

I frankly don't see a need. The bike is a beast as it is - it's ultra-fast, and you can jump just about anywhere with it, and in the hands of a good gunner, it mows down infantry with its laser cannon. It doesn't need to be made even more effective.

I actually prefer to be able to lay down blaster and cannon fire on two different targets, myself, so no thanks.

Making it a type of short-range artillery, you mean? I'm not against the idea, we need more long-range weapons in this game.

Yup. But wait, since the TIE Fighter and Interceptors don't have ion cannons or anything, couldn't the F key cycle between different modes of fire? Could be done by having single and linked fire be two different sets of weapons drawing on the same ammunition pool?

Yup. And the POV should be pretty far back in the cockpits.

They're already very, very, very fast as they are. Try to keep up with a Gallofree with your freecam in Battlerecorder .

Think it's already there, just not loud enough to notice. But then again, birds tend to stop singing and start fleeing for their lives when shooting and explosions start anyhow.

Agreed. I'm looking forward to a map where you can access the second floor, too .

There's no commander in the mod. And even if there was, I'd be very careful with where I implemented artillery strikes. There was no ship giving orbital fire support over the Sanctuary Moon, for example.

Do you mean moving AT-ATs? If so, they weren't in the battle. But then again, neither was 90% of the current map . I'm looking more forward to being able to operate that huge turret, myself .

I have things to say, but I will return later to edit my post

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