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jivjov posted:Ewok pilot or bust. Yub yub commander. 
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Arcsquad12 posted:Besides, I agree that it looks odd. It's just aping JJ Abrams obsession with things rising out of obscurity in his shots. He relies on the same gimmicks over and over like he's the Thomas Kincade of movies
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I don't care about giant battles, it's too hard to tell what's going on and difficult to feel like you're making a difference. Give me a small number of comprehensibly scaled ships, like the backwater frigate you start out from in TIE Fighter.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Besides if we want to talk about the objectively best fighter it's the Tie Advanced/Avenger. But noooo, everyone wants to fly a Defender.  It's the best looking TIE, and it fits perfectly with technology upgrades to the Imperial Navy based on Vader's prototype without being overpowered like the TIE/D. I'm pissed that it hasn't been included in the new canon. 
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Ytlaya posted:It's kind of weird that there hasn't been a game like this earlier (since the old Star Wars sims anyways). It seems like a space sim like this would be comparatively easy to make, since the physics involved should be much less complex than actual flight sims. Everyone involved in space sims has spent the last few years ogling the Star Citizen train wreck
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Ringo Star Get posted:TIE Fighters are to save the Empire money - their manpower is unlimited, and so is their industrial base, so no need to waste money on hyperdrives, shields, armor - just swarm the enemy! Also 90% of the time the Empire just has to swat armed shuttles and Sepan yokels.
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PunkBoy posted:Wonder if anyone got Marik Steele Knew what this was before I moused over it! If Hohass Ekwesh isn't a default name then I'm gonna be mad.
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TK-42-1 posted:I liked how it portrayed x-wings and TIEs as actually terrifying to small ground forces/stations. 3 xwings obliterated that space station and one TIE in the air was enough to be a "big bad" like the at-st. Maybe it's mostly nostalgia from the old TIE Fighter game that couldn't run fast enough to display more than a few capital ships at a time, but I'm more interested in small fleet actions that just involve a couple of light cruisers (the campaign where you have to defend an interdictor from an MC40 and a Nebulon-B is pretty memorable). It's easier to see what's happening, and the stakes feel more comprehensible. This fan film is a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6PVDbT6zHs
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Shine posted:The biggest issue with those titles (all versions) is joystick jitter. Apparently there's a bug in that game engine where moving a joystick on only the (I think) pitch axis makes the ship lose its poo poo and flip around instantly, and the devs worked around that by adding some intentional jitter to prevent you from moving only in that direction. I don't recall noticing that when I was a kid (probably because my joystick was cheap poo poo anyway), but it's super noticeable playing with my modern stick to the point of making TIE Fighter feel drat near unplayable with it. Trying to line up a shot on something flying directly away from you is very frustrating. It would take a lot worse for me to give up the iMuse soundtrack. I always rationalized the jitter as the spaceships being hard to fly, whatever.
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axeil posted:Just so folks know, there's a mod out there to restore the iMuse soundtrack to the 1998 version of TIE Fighter. It also enhances the concourse music and briefing dialog. Woah, cool. Does running the 1998 version in DOSBox on a fast CPU do something to missile tracking? Trying to dodge advanced missiles feels totally bullshit, though I'm probably worse at video games than when I was a kid.
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Red Rox posted:I’m ready to SLAM request for reinforcements...denied
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Fuligin posted:ive been deliberately starving myself of deets on squadrons but i can only assume that legendary jedi ace and known sex-haver Corran Horn is the player character 
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As a DOS TIE Fighter veteran, I jumped into SP on ace difficulty and was surprised at how tricky it was. I'm also dying a lot to collisions with friendly starfighters, which is very on-brand. Star Destroyers actually seem scary, which was never the case through XWA.
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You can tell the developers put a lot of love into this game, but it's still amazing how bad the dialogue is between missions. I guess that's Star Wars for ya
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steering wheel or gtfo
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Statutory Ape posted:*whispers* ok its cool that you like Y-Wings but maybe let me handle the trash talking  Spookydonut posted:Also as much as yeah i have a problem with all the boosting around and really heavily scripted campaign missions and being unable to link/unlink lasers on the fly, I think for an EA game we are lucky its as good as it is and not some horrible arcade shooter. I get why they don't make games like TIE Fighter anymore, but I really miss the older style of mission pacing and being able to tell wtf is going on.
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