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The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner

QuasiQuack posted:

So there's no manually tweaking the levels on engine/shields/lasers huh? Kind of a bummer, but understandable from a controller point of view.

What? No, you totally can put power to engine, lasers or shields and change it as needed.

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The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner
That was a great trailer and it was nice to have it flipped being an Imperial instead of the rebels for once. Yeah we know the Empire is the bad guys but it's nice to see some that might have nobler traits instead of being moustache twirling evil caricatures.

The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner

TheAnomaly posted:

I actually think this is problematic, because the racism/sexism inherent to the Empire was a big part of their evil and now it's being hand waved away. I also dislike the re-writes of "The Empire brought peace and fought corruption blah blah blah" because canonically it did not. It let the Hutts rule hutt-space and crackdown on the other syndicates, it allowed the black sun to operate with impunity, it allowed Corellia's merchant-princes to become robber barons, it re-legalized slavery. The Empire absolutely should not be humanized, it's based on the Nazi's for fucks sake and it always seems slimy.

And, to back everyone else up, Tie Fighter was great about that because... everyone was a drat Nazi. Playing Tie Fighter was cartoonishly evil, especially in the expansion under Thrawn.

EDIT: And if you want some kind of moral grey area in star wars, it's in the prequels and KOTOR. Turns out the Sith are wholly incontrovertibly evil, but the Jedi are also evil and hide it behind a code of non-interference unless there are Sith hanging around.

The Empire was mostly racist against Aliens, if you were human it was all good. Hell they even had enough notable women at this point to say that someones sex wasn't even an issue for them. Such has been true for the old legends cannon and the current.

The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner

fartknocker posted:

Sexism was definitely a part of the Empire in the old EU. It's a big part of the back story of Daala (And Isard too?), and it gets brought up in a number of other places that it only starts to change after Endor.

If it existed it certainly didn't stop them from rising up and earning prominent positions of power and even being in charge of a Super Star Destroyer or two which is rather significant. Daala was in complete control of the Empire or what was left of it at one point before she finally bungled it badly enough to lose it. Isard certainly scared the pants off everyone and routinely terrified anyone if they thought she had an issue with them due to her own powerful position, not sure she ever really struggled with anything, hell she killed her own father which helped solidify her icy reputation. She was the last person most ever wanted to end up on the bad side of. There's been various other women in the Empire seen here or there since then, some troopers, some higher positions of power, the sexism if it had ever been a factor has become a relatively moot point in the current direction.

The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner
Decided to pre order the game since it's out in two days, no pre load yet? What's up with that.

Now I've never been one for flight sticks and what not but this game has me interested a bit in them, so as a newb who has no clue on these things what would be a good one to get to play the game with?

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The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner
Anyone know if the T-Flight Hotas One Ace Combat 7 is decent? Trying to find a good enough flight stick and they don't got many options up here in Canada it seems.

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