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Re: S-Foils

Rogue squadron my pie.  You could open and close the s-foils in X-Wing!!!!

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Re: S-Foils

Heh, actually you could. I'd forgotten that. I also seem to recall there was absolutely no reason to do so, and that your AI never bothered to. Up until XWA, they never even closed their s-foils when landing. I remember playing XWA and seeing an X-Wing for the first time in mission 5 or something, when Olin Garn left that space colony. Me and my brother were like, 'wow, closed s-foils!' as he left the hangar.

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Re: S-Foils

yes you could close S-Foils in the X-Wing series, but you gained no advantage. No change in speed settings, the only thing that happened was you couldnt shoot.

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Re: S-Foils

Twigs wrote:

yes you could close S-Foils in the X-Wing series, but you gained no advantage. No change in speed settings, the only thing that happened was you couldnt shoot.

Yeah, it was stupid. Maneuverability should've been increased with the s-foils open. Of course, the X-wing & T.I.E. Fighter series were both horrendously inaccurate (albeit, still great games).

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Re: S-Foils

Closing S-Foils = Speed/Maneuverability (dunno about maneuverability...maybe, maybe not.) Increase but disables or lessens weapon power/accuracy (i haven't found out which) Opening S-Foils = Field of fire/accuraccy. Anyways...everyone who said this isnt a sim, you're right, and since all of the places that you will be in fighters will be battles, you wouldn't be closing S-Foils anyway.

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Re: S-Foils

"since all of the places that you will be in fighters will be battles, you wouldn't be closing S-Foils anyway"
What about when you are flying through horizontally narrow hangar doors that are meant for flying through with closed S-Foils?  There's always those...

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Re: S-Foils

no boarding with fighters.

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