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Re: ITT I rant about vehicles, mostly

Agreed Safe.
All you need is to give the support guy a lightsaber and grapplehook...
Plus aren't there weak points at the neck and knees?

On the concussion missiles- there is (in game) precedent for giving tie bombers missiles to take out fighters. Presumably its easier to modify/swap the existing warhead launcher than jam a new one into a Tie.

The specially designed 'missile boat' was designed with missile launchers integrated and the ability to carry another warhead launcher also- so the idae of having two warheads on board a single fighter has also been done.

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Re: ITT I rant about vehicles, mostly

RSF Angel wrote:

RSF_Krow- being an immortal gen-hanced killing machine will however continue to slaughter all before him in the speeder (and will do so even if it gets nerfed to being a probedroid)

Or he will never enter it any more because he doesn't keep his unbalanced overpowered speeder. Everyone can rox with a speeder that's why people ask a nerf of it.

Edit : I see people change team to Rebel to get a speeder. Always the best for the worst.

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FSDev| TALON wrote:

They are not more heavily armoured than TIE Fighters, just a lot harder to hit because of their size speed and manuverability. The Airspeeders do seem to need a little nerfing, which is a shame as they feel great to fly just as they are, I'd rather see the TIE Fighter improved a little to be able to better deal with them, but then we'd be looking at globally adjusting all the starfighters to keep things balanced across the board. This would be a pain, but I think worth doing if we can make all the fighters a little faster and more nimble, but then we run the risk of making the space invulnerability bug worse again.

To be honest, Talon, I think adjusting the T-47s would be preferable to mixing up the balance between the existing starfighters, because they are so wonderfully balanced against one another already.  The space combat in First Strike is one of the shining examples of amazing gameplay, for me at least.

I think giving the TIE Bombers some concussion missiles would be a good idea, and a slight adjustment to the T-47s.

The real problem with the T-47 airspeeders, and I've talked about this with Blitz, is the fact that they can hover and manoeuvre much too nimbly with almost no forward momentum at all.  If you nerf the super-hoverstrafe capability to a point where they're more in line with the Y-Wings or TIEs when holding the S key, I think it owuld significantly help out on Ryloth.  No weapons or armour adjustments needed, that way.

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Re: ITT I rant about vehicles, mostly

True, I think you might be right about that being the main gripe and unneccesary asset of the T-47. Nerf that ability and it still gets to keep the speed and manuverability which is the fun stuff anyway.

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Re: ITT I rant about vehicles, mostly

FSDev| TALON wrote:

True, I think you might be right about that being the main gripe and unneccesary asset of the T-47. Nerf that ability and it still gets to keep the speed and manuverability which is the fun stuff anyway.

Yep.

As a T-47 pilot, you'd still be able to strafe ground targets, more than hold your own against two TIEs on you, and of course exploit the wonderful handling of the things by diving into the canyons.

Some of my favourite air moments have involved hugging the canyon walls on Ryloth in my airspeeder, barrel-rolling and darting in and out of the girders and bridges.

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Re: ITT I rant about vehicles, mostly

Canadiens1160 wrote:

The real problem with the T-47 airspeeders, and I've talked about this with Blitz, is the fact that they can hover and manoeuvre much too nimbly with almost no forward momentum at all.  If you nerf the super-hoverstrafe capability to a point where they're more in line with the Y-Wings or TIEs when holding the S key, I think it owuld significantly help out on Ryloth.  No weapons or armour adjustments needed, that way.

If it means less space invulnerability bugs I agree with you.

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Re: ITT I rant about vehicles, mostly

Agreed Safe.
All you need is to give the support guy a lightsaber and grapplehook...
Plus aren't there weak points at the neck and knees?

Er, I was thinking more in the ways of the old-fashioned proton torpedo.

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