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The B wing is garbage
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Jan 22, 2020 23:37
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Who What Now posted:The B wing is garbage it doesn't even look like a b
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Jan 22, 2020 23:38
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also they don't even have any of these letters, they use all weird space letters, why do they name them after roman letters
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Jan 22, 2020 23:39
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It's supposed to be a coincidence
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Jan 22, 2020 23:40
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alnilam posted:also they don't even have any of these letters, they use all weird space letters, why do they name them after roman letters they have both, i think
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Jan 22, 2020 23:42
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I always thought the names represented how fast they were compared to each other. The a wing is obviously the fastest because we see everyone who drives it suicidally crash into something, then the b wing, makes sense cause theres not very much going on there so its probably pretty light, plus its aerodynamic. Obviously, x wings are pretty slow too. and the y wing is like driving a dump truck or something.
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Jan 22, 2020 23:44
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TremorX posted:It's supposed to be a coincidence youre supposed to be a coincidence!!
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Jan 22, 2020 23:47
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alnilam posted:youre supposed to be a coincidence!! No, I'm an accident, there's a difference
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Jan 22, 2020 23:48
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Like the one place where a gyroscopically oriented cockpit is detrimental is in space Of course the very idea of human star fighter pilots in a universe where sentient AI exists is laughable but space dogfighting is too cool to let physics stand in the way
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Jan 22, 2020 23:50
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zoux posted:Like the one place where a gyroscopically oriented cockpit is detrimental is in space You're high as hell if you think space opera is at all about a realistic depiction of space in any function.
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Jan 23, 2020 00:10
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I do not think that
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Jan 23, 2020 00:11
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Woah, the SNES got the button labels it has because some hardware designer was a star wars nerd.
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Jan 23, 2020 02:31
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Up Circle posted:I always thought the names represented how fast they were compared to each other. The a wing is obviously the fastest because we see everyone who drives it suicidally crash into something, then the b wing, makes sense cause theres not very much going on there so its probably pretty light, plus its aerodynamic. Obviously, x wings are pretty slow too. and the y wing is like driving a dump truck or something. B-wing are called this because they're blockade busters. And like F-35s, they're mechanically complex to potentially fulfill generalist tasks and thus were poo poo at all of them while being maintenance heavy. (IRL reason, which is hilarious, is because the VFX people were designing two new starfighters for the RotJ movie and called them A-fighter and B-fighter early on) Speedwise, A-wings were the fastest, beating out all common starfighters (before the First Order weenies decided to make their TIE-fighters the fastest to win at fascist space-dick waving contests), followed by X-Wings (matching old-school TIE-fighters), then B-wings and finally Y-wings that fall behind even a worn-out Corellian freighter.
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Jan 23, 2020 02:41
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B wings are cool because they have big wings to carry massive ordnance with. Also their design exudes power. Tie Defenders are cool because they look like tie fighters that also want to be x wings.
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Jan 23, 2020 04:22
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B wings never seem to be carrying all that much ordinance, though.
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Jan 23, 2020 04:25
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they have the biggest guns ever soon on a small jet
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Jan 23, 2020 04:39
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Wild Horses posted:B wings are cool because they have big wings to carry massive ordnance with. Also their design exudes power. They barely have wings at all. they have like t-rex wings
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Jan 23, 2020 04:48
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zoux posted:Like the one place where a gyroscopically oriented cockpit is detrimental is in space how so?
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Jan 23, 2020 04:49
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Sage Grimm posted:Speedwise, A-wings were the fastest, beating out all common starfighters (before the First Order weenies decided to make their TIE-fighters the fastest to win at fascist space-dick waving contests), followed by X-Wings (matching old-school TIE-fighters), then B-wings and finally Y-wings that fall behind even a worn-out Corellian freighter. interestingly this isn't what ILM had in mind when they were working on Return of the Jedi: 
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Jan 23, 2020 04:56
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Up Circle posted:They barely have wings at all. they have like t-rex wings it's like 70% wing and Gun my dude. it's visually meant to be a heavy shooter type thing x wing guns say blap blap blap B wing guns probably say something like GLOF GLOF BRAOM
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Jan 23, 2020 10:58
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any fighter with 6 torpedoes and ion cannons > the rest, because that is all you need to solo star destroyers
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Jan 23, 2020 14:35
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:interestingly this isn't what ILM had in mind when they were working on Return of the Jedi: TIE = Y is really loving me up
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Jan 23, 2020 14:37
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Wild Horses posted:it's like 70% wing and Gun my dude. It's guns look almost the same as the X-wings. Plus having one gun like 40 feet away from the other 2 is bad design. It's gonna be shooting way off into nowhere. It's a garbage fighter compared to the superior Y-wing
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Jan 23, 2020 14:41
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I think the idea behind ships like the B-Wing and the Tie Bomber is that you engage from beyond visual range then gently caress off. If you're using the guns, you're either disabling a freighter, or there's an interdictor in system and poo poo has gone terribly wrong.
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Jan 23, 2020 15:49
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Jan 23, 2020 16:03
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Who What Now posted:It's guns look almost the same as the X-wings. All real estate dedicated to wing and gun= bigger and strong X wing has very little dedicated to cannon, it’s a more pin point shooter and uses torpedoes to kill
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Jan 23, 2020 16:15
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Y'all keep this on the down low but I heard Gamma 1 is the Emperor's stool pigeon.
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Jan 23, 2020 16:17
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I can also accept b wing cannon to have a sharp KASHYYUUNn sound
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Jan 23, 2020 16:18
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Wild Horses posted:All real estate dedicated to wing and gun= bigger and strong The B-wing has WAAAAAAY more wing than gun compared to the X-wing.
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Jan 23, 2020 17:25
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Pollyanna posted:how so? There is no up or down in space. It doesn't matter because it's about looking cool and mimicking old school WWII fighter plane movies but it's interesting to see what some will accept as perfectly fine unrealistic things while other unrealistic things are Bullshit. As I've said the idea of human-crewed space fighter planes is absurd irl, but again, it's too cool to let that get in the way.
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Jan 23, 2020 17:28
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Who What Now posted:The B-wing has WAAAAAAY more wing than gun compared to the X-wing. but it does have bigger guns. more wign and gun equals more power. this is very obvious
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Jan 23, 2020 17:31
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Missile boat > *
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Jan 23, 2020 17:37
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playing TIE Fighter taught me the secret to A-wing supremacy is their tiny target silhouette.
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Jan 23, 2020 17:40
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Wild Horses posted:but it does have bigger guns. more wign and gun equals more power. this is very obvious It objectively has 25% less guns. 50% less if you don't count the dumb tailfin gun, which you should not, because it's dumb!
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Jan 23, 2020 19:39
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B wing, more like boondoggle wing. Just try to fly that thing without a 3rd person view.
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Jan 23, 2020 20:47
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MJP posted:Missile boat > * Hated fighting its predecessor the assault gunboat in the first X-Wing game. Took incredible amounts of punishment and just kept throwing out missiles if you ever let them out of your sights.
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Jan 23, 2020 20:57
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hang on a second the x wing and b wing are the only ones that even have wings wtf
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Jan 23, 2020 22:50
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Did a loving Y-wing kill the first death star? Did a loving B-Wing or A-Wing kill the second death star? No. The superior design, the X-Wing, did. 4 engines, 4 laser cannons, 2 torpedo launchers and Wedge loving Antilles in the pilot seat.
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Jan 23, 2020 23:12
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wedge antilles didnt kill either death star, troll. get in an x wing and fly away
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Jan 23, 2020 23:14
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Tsed posted:any fighter with 6 torpedoes and ion cannons > the rest, because that is all you need to solo star destroyers Yeah, I managed several Star Destroyer kills in X-Wing thanks to my Y-Wing taking out the shields then ion bolting the sucker to helplessness and after clearing the other enemies just parking and blasting it dead before I left the mission. Got pretty funny during the campaign to destroy the Star Destroyer Invincible when I had killed the thing repeatedly in multiple missions before it was supposed to officially die (including the very first one it popped up in). Not sure if it was living up to its name or hilariously failing to on reflection.
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