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Re: Speeder Bike

DUKE815 wrote:

Elements that would make First Strike more exciting:
1. Faster speeders
2. Faster fighters
3. Fighters with the Boost function.
4. Fighters with lock-on missiles
5. Ground troops with lock-on missiles
6. Rifles that are more powerful and more accurate.  The sniper rifles are quite inaccurate.
7. Jetpacks.

1: Speeders are really fun and fast as is.
2: Fighters go pretty dang fast. Any faster and they'd be impossible to hit from anywhere but directly in front or directly behind (lag) , meaning most kills would be collisions...
3: Already have them. Perhaps Tie Interceptor could use it.
4: Would be accurate to the games, but fighter combat in the movies was never about fire and forget missiles- it was all about dogfighting. Though if torps could lock onto cap ships, that would be sweet, and also tight.
5: Getting them.
6: Sniper rifles are not inaccurate if you stand crouch or lie still and press shift as you fire. They aren't Unreal Tournament rifles.
7: How would jetpacks contribute to squadplay? Ba da-da-dah da dahhhh! Up up and away! Whoosh. All very entertaining, but its not conducive to teamwork if one guy boosts off into the Horizon.
They also were not used militarily in the movies- just a bounty hunter (read: lone wolf) who would need to get into and out of trouble quick.

I love the idea of jump jets- loved it in battlefront. But I never used it any way other than to fly off on my own.

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Re: Speeder Bike

I find this thread very funny. Duke you might as well go tell the project reality devs to include some laser guns, super jumps and battlewalkers.

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Re: Speeder Bike

Don't forget to ask for jedis on parachutes with lightsabres ... wink

DUKE815 wrote:

Your primary potential player base are Star Wars fans, that is, those people currently playing Battlefront 2.  The best way to attract them over is to give them equal or better gameplay.

Why should those people buy BF 2142 an download FirstStrike, if they are satisfied with Battlefront ?
Only if FirstStrike is more Arcade as Battlefront, but...

Where is a large potential Playerbase, the BF 2142 Players.
Many of them are StarWars fans, defenitly they don't like arcade games, many of them don't like some things in BF 2142, .
Like the nadespamming in Titanmode, the bunnyhopping while reloading, the wonderdefis (revive and 100% Health).
Most of them like the BF 2142 Gameplay, the Squads, the Commander, the Combinied Arms, the Fieldunlocks, the Commorose...

FirstStrike has the StarWars feeling and the Gameplay of BF 2142. Nerf the thing they don't like in BF2142 (like the wonderdefis, only 50% Health), keep the good things (like Commander and Squads) and those players may play FirstStrike.

Some gadgets are - from a BF 2142 Players point of view - very cool:
The Shields, the Droids, the SpaceBattles, the Speederbikes,...

Many BF2 Players also may buy BF 2142 only for FirstStrike, if they have the chance  to see it.
BF 2142 still haves the BF2 gameplay, but many refused to by it because "Its only a mod for the full price".
IMHO FirstStrike is worth the full price, and BF 2142 is still a nice game...

And please DUKE815, RTFM.
Many things you want like Booster for Fighters are still in the mod.
And the Sniperrifle is very accurate if you hold shift and aim for the head, or if they Tusken say:
b@ng - h43dsh00t ! wink

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Re: Speeder Bike

Curious, Does any one else see "White Horns" on the speeder bike? Or is it yet again another problem with my computer? tongue

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Re: Speeder Bike

Are you sure you haven't d-loaded the bullriding mod instead bud? smile Can you get me a screenshot?

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