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Hazo posted:Movie. Directed by Patty Jenkins. i meant andor  quote:Loosely based on the “X-wing” novel series, the film will usher in a new generation of X-wing pilots trying to earn their wings. lol christ i can only imagine what parts of the x-wing series theyre gonna borrow
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Statutory Ape posted:i meant andor
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Without the power management this would be a horrible game of just circle turning into each other's six. This is what happens in Battlefront 2 and it's horrible. To be fair the power management is straight out of the old 90s X-wing games.
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Xenomrph posted:To be fair the power management is straight out of the old 90s X-wing games. The boost/drift fuckery is new, though. At least, it wasn't in TIE Fighter (never played X-Wing).
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It was never in any X-wing series title. It couldn’t have been since boosting wasn’t i introduced until The Last Jedi.
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The Missile Boat had the SLAM system but it's not close to the same thing as what's in Squadrons.
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Some ships had jammers way back when, but the pro move was to take one then dump all the extra power you got for it right back into engines.
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Ravenfood posted:Definitely the space otter sex Are we talking about the one kid's Bothan girlfriend?
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rockinsaki posted:Are we talking about the one kid's Bothan girlfriend? No. When Gavin asks about dating a non-human, the story of the time Corran hooked up with a Selonian gets told as example that there could be unexpected reactions, which in the case of the otter boning was an allergic reaction for both parties after the fact.
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The pauses between every set of dialogue in this game really interfere with me actually listening to any of it. The voice actors are doing a great job it's just the gaps between each line are a reminder that each line was recorded separately or broken up into smaller clips for some reason.
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Jun 24, 2021 18:46
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https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc Tie Figther total conversion mod released today and boy does it look good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEVrdwZ9bEk
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That looks fantastic. Will never get people who say you weren't playing an evil character in TIE Fighter though. Does everyone forget how that civil war ended? The Empire kidnapped the children of both sides' leaders and the two sides of the civil war united to fight the Empire. You then crushed their rebellion.
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Super Bunny Hop did two videos about Tie Fighter and Star Wars Squadrons and his takeway for why the games are so effective is because they're specifically written with that brainwashing propaganda in mind. It's all about the way way music, the writing and the gameplay come together to really convince you that you're the hero fighting for a peaceful, ordered galaxy. You're not fighting revolutionaries you're putting down terrorists. Admiral Harkov isn't a double agent aiding the Rebellion, he's a traitor. There's enough missions where you're fighting craven opportunists like Admiral Zaarin and legitimate pirate criminals that it muddles the waters when you face the Alliance. After all, you've been putting down pirates and traitors, what difference is it if they're Rebels raiding civilian convoys? It's kind of chilling how effective the game is at making you think you're the good guy.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Super Bunny Hop did two videos about Tie Fighter and Star Wars Squadrons and his takeway for why the games are so effective is because they're specifically written with that brainwashing propaganda in mind. It's all about the way way music, the writing and the gameplay come together to really convince you that you're the hero fighting for a peaceful, ordered galaxy. You're not fighting revolutionaries you're putting down terrorists. Admiral Harkov isn't a double agent aiding the Rebellion, he's a traitor.
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TIE Fighter doesn’t cast you as the villain, but it does make you a cog in THE Imperialist authoritarian machine. The civil war is a fantastic example - you secure their scientists so they serve your own ends, escalate their war and then use that to justify kidnapping the kids to secure peace by any means. If you didn’t escalate it, have the player see the two sides fighting so hard, you may see through the bullshit. It’s all framing. Compared to the corrupt dickheads you interact with frequently, you’re one of the Good Guys in the Empire. It’s no mistake that the last mission of the original campaign then subtly tears that down by having you fly with Literally Darth Vader to save the Emperor to disabuse you of even that notion. Then you chuck in Harkov being a corrupt traitor who serves the Rebellion out of his best interests alone, and you even rob the Rebels their full moral integrity. TIE Fighter does such an outstanding job. The XWA port’s reimagined campaign isn’t that good though. I don’t like how they tend to add more stuff to each mission.
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Sombrerotron posted:Harkov's just a mercenary, who only joins the Rebel Alliance because they're willing to pay him a lot of money, and then he sets up his most valuable pilot in the most cynical way imaginable. He can go to hell. Considering how desperate the Alliance was in the old canon and still in the new it's no wonder they took Harkov's offer. That's part of how insidious the framing is in Tie Fighter. Harkov and Zaarin are assholes in it for themselves and taking them down is a net good. It puts you in the mindset that you're a hero bringing bad men to justice and helps normalize that behavior so you also gun down the Alliance without hesitation, because the Rebels were so desperate for help they would take the aid of traitors and war criminals to further their cause. And if Rebels had to get their hands dirty to get what they wanted then in the eyes of a Good Guy Imperial Pilot they can also go to hell. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:That looks fantastic. See my comment to their trailer on YouTube, had the exact same thought.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:That looks fantastic. peace, at last
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Should give us a Cavern Angels game and make us perform morally questionable acts in the name of liberating the galaxy instead.
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I gotta try out this tie fighter mod. Curious, does it have the voice comms and briefings etc? As mentioned before, so much of Tie Fighter was the in-between missions and story building that came from talking to your commander, mission briefings and secret order tattoos and what not. It took an excellent flight sim that was x-wing and laid ontop the (then) lucasarts storytelling magic.
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Anyone still playing Squadrons? What’s the current meta? Dipping my toe back into this a bit but don’t care to get rolled every game. Is it just full of skylords now, like Ace Combat games get? Playing on Xbox if anyone still is.
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The Midniter posted:Anyone still playing Squadrons? What’s the current meta? Dipping my toe back into this a bit but don’t care to get rolled every game. Is it just full of skylords now, like Ace Combat games get? The current meta is that if you like flying with cool people, you go to https://www.renegadewing.com and join the discord. Flying with us means you won’t get curbstomped by sweaty tryhards, but we’re also real casual and just want to have fun and blow up spaceships.
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I still see a lot of new players all the time for the game, probably because of Game Pass and PS Now. I think they're actually the majority over the sweaty tryhards (like myself).
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Should give us a Cavern Angels game and make us perform morally questionable acts in the name of liberating the galaxy instead. I'm hoping the Andor series will give us the impetus to get an ethically-dodgy Squadrons 2 someday.
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that TIE Fighter TC is awesome. the remastered campaign is interesting but suffers from having so much stuff going on that the missions feel like they come down to random chance or they're practically self-playing.
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Madurai posted:I'm hoping the Andor series will give us the impetus to get an ethically-dodgy Squadrons 2 someday. Bring me closer to the One True Game with sabotage and starships
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I have a code for a PS4 copy of Squadrons if anyone wants it. Just PM me.
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So who else nabbed this from Amazon Gaming? https://gaming.amazon.com/loot/starwars It's an Origin game key btw, so if you already have it you can give it to friends or goons. Looks like I still have the rando prime gaming cosmetics I claimed before I had this game.
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I tried to play last night and I still had a leave penalty from like practically a year ago at this point That was real fun to wait 9 minutes because I disconnected who knows when
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Can I still go on and go 20/1 in my A-Wing with rockets, or did they patch that poo poo out?
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Probably not? I still see A-Wings with rockets in my limited play.
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jarlywarly posted:Can I still go on and go 20/1 in my A-Wing with rockets, or did they patch that poo poo out? You definitely still can if you get matched up against seals who don't know to not joust your rockets.
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Yeah to be clear my "probably not" was in response to "did it get patched out?"
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I haven’t played in months but they did nerf the rockets a while back, yes.
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fartknocker posted:they did nerf the rockets a while back, yes. More or less simultaneously with me not playing this anymore
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Does everyone's mic just suck or does Squadrons apply some sort of weird filter for immersion purposes?
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BeAuMaN posted:Does everyone's mic just suck or does Squadrons apply some sort of weird filter for immersion purposes? If they actually did some kind of sound mask to mimic the throat-mic sound of the movie intership radios, that would almost be cool enough for me to unmute it.
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