04-06-2005 09:58									#31
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quote: Originally posted by Gamecube64 I assume this is the Gunboat?

no, I mean the missile boat, the one you can put 200 missiles in.

	04-06-2005 20:49									#32
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Hmm... that one didn't make it into X-wing vs tie fighter... I wonder why.

	04-06-2005 22:28									#33
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I can't find my X vs. Tie CD

	04-06-2005 23:30									#34
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Missile boats are ... i loved killing them en masse Any decent TIE ship can slaughter missile boats. It's sooo sloooow ... just stay behind it

	05-06-2005 00:27									#35
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The Missile Boat was just too easy.

TIE Defenders were cool, but ditto on the easy. Fun for the SP game, though, which is why they were great for TIE Fighter.

	05-06-2005 01:30									#36
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The Scenario creator for multi and single player Alliance was very crappy compared to the mission editors for tie-fighter. I used to have a damned good one.

	05-06-2005 04:31									#37
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quote: Originally posted by ZargonX I can't find my X vs. Tie CD

I can't find my serial port

	05-06-2005 05:10									#38
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It's over there!

Oops, too slow.

	06-06-2005 14:23									#39
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great stories and tips everyone

I'm looking forward to Tie Fighter for sure, i guess it had the benefit of being the second version after X-wing, so they could tweak stuff better. As with X-wing i did give tie-fighter a quick run a few years back, but now i got my own hardware to really get into it

Still first things first - i need to defeat the evil empire......although if they keep putting me in y-wings its going to be an uphill struggle. Yet again i'm stuck on a mission - and i'm flying a y-wing

Why are the sensors so bad on these things? I thought it was meant to be better than the X-wing for sensors? The mission i'm on now requires me to id a shuttle with a kidnapped Solstan leader on, disable + protect it while a couple of X-wings i cant command give me (bad) cover from heaps of Tie-fighters!

To id the ship i have to be right on top of it before it Id's........ the X-wing(and even A-wing i think) seems to be able to ID from a greater distance?

I've had two missions in the A-wing so far - i like the speed and manouvrebility, great for dogfighting. Still the X-wing has a bit more punch which i like.

@Frankychan - i like seeing your avatar here it reminds me of the great actors they had in those first films. Grand Moff Tarkin/Peter Cushing (and the evil i need to defeat in my current game of X-wing )

more pics:

sweet ship (sorry Artoo - no space for you!)

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	06-06-2005 15:16									#40
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Well...uh...I guess that's a compliment. Glad to help you out...

I like the screenies. Can you post some while ingame? I'd like to see some of the dogfights you get into.

...and you're making me really envious that you can play the old X-Wing/TIE Fighter games while I can't.

Is there any updated versions for XP or something???

	06-06-2005 16:05									#41
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This patch might be useful, apparently makes the game work on XP:

http://lucasfiles.com/?s=&action=file&id=653

	06-06-2005 17:01									#42
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Great link Adrian Hon I'm sure folks will find that useful.

As for in dogfight screen shots........ i'll see what i can rustle up, but before then i reckon i need much more of this

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	07-06-2005 02:19									#43
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor Why are the sensors so bad on these things? I thought it was meant to be better than the X-wing for sensors? The mission i'm on now requires me to id a shuttle with a kidnapped Solstan leader on, disable + protect it while a couple of X-wings i cant command give me (bad) cover from heaps of Tie-fighters!

A trick for frustrating missions with a single mission-critical craft: you can usually learn to single it out by its position in the order of ships and/or by its initial distance from you and/or what ships are around it. That way you can just fly straight to it and save some time. Very useful if reinforcements tend to arrive during the mission or if the shuttle is trying to reach a capital ship, though not so useful if the mission starts out swarming with TIEs.

	07-06-2005 13:57									#44
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Cheers Kloreep

I'll give that a go. It did cross my mind to head straight for the star destroyer, so thats my next attempt.

This particular mission has a load of armed shuttles with officrs in them that also attack you, and provide a distraction from the shuttle you need to find. In the chaos of the dogfight trying to work out which is the right shuttle while being attacked by ties+those shuttles is quite tricky. especialy as my covering X-wngs just do their own thing

Still as with mission 8, i guess this could be another one of those try, try again missions - i'll get it eventualy

	08-06-2005 13:09									#45
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Wait wait wait...you're running an attack mission against a Star Destroyer with a Y-WING???

I hope that's not the case...

Although I did remember having to run an attack mission against a Nebulon-B frigate using a TIE-ln. Now THAT sucked!

	09-06-2005 00:06									#46
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No i'll stay as far as possible from the star destroyer. Its just that i think the shuttle i need to find will be the only ship heading towards the SD - everything else seems intent on blasting me to atoms

haven't got the in-combat shots yet - soonish i hope.

I didn't realise that the 'Fins' of the tie-fighters acted as armour. I guess to componsate for not having shields like the rebel ships?

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	13-06-2005 21:08									#47
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Well 1 week later and i'm still getting my rebel arse shot to hell and back on the same mission

heres the picture of my shame: caught in a pincer move with Ties to the front and imperial shuttles to the rear.

The explosion on the right is i think my engine, the red laser fire is responsible coming from probably 2-3 Imp shuttles behind me.

Luckily the ties in front have just been damaging my shields at this point.

Still about 15 seconds later and i was a rapidly expanding ball of gas.

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	13-06-2005 23:44									#48
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Nice pics!

Looks like you lost your aft shields first dude. Man, you're making me real nostalgic for these games again.

You don't have any support or wingmen to help you out in this mission? What kind of Rebel attack is that???

	13-06-2005 23:50									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Frankychan You don't have any support or wingmen to help you out in this mission? What kind of Rebel attack is that???

They may have just gotten distracted by TIEs elsewhere. Or they could have been destroyed. IIRC, wingmen aren't worth much in either X-Wing or TIE Fighter.

	14-06-2005 00:19									#50
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I should have two X-wings acting as cover for the ties

Still i end up having to dog-fight most of the ties myself, never much fun in a y-wing with its sluggish handling.

And then i got about 6-7 of those imperial shuttles to take care of, while finding the one that has the kidnapped Sulstan
leader onboard. Got to use the y-wings ion cannon to disable that shuttle, then provide cover to the rescue shuttle as it seems as soon as the Sulstan shuttle is disabled my X-wings bug out and leave me to it.

This is the furthest i've got in the mission, as the remnants of the empires ships that are left at this point team up with the new tie bombers/interceptors that get scrambled from the Star Destroyer to take out the rescue shuttle.

It wouldn't be so bad if i could give some commands to the X-wings, but as they are in a different battle group they do their own thing.

Still i like a challange, and have decided to go back to the training missions and scenarios to pick up a few more ribbons and badges

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	18-06-2005 07:53									#51
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I always liked Rebel Assault, myself. Taking down an entire star destroyer = sweeeet.

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quote: Originally posted by monolith94 I always liked Rebel Assault, myself. Taking down an entire star destroyer = sweeeet.

TIE Fighter lets you take down entire Calamari Cruisers and entire Star Destroyers, though.

	18-06-2005 11:07									#53
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Dude, child_of_Thor, If I were you, I'd be screaming at those X-Wing pilots to give me cover.


But, fortunately, I'm an Imperial pilot.

quote: Originally posted by monolith94 I always liked Rebel Assault, myself. Taking down an entire star destroyer = sweeeet.

Traitor! The dirty Rebel Alliance is evil! (but trying to engage a MonCal cruiser with a nest of TIE's is still a challenge, especially when those damned X-Wings are nearby.

	18-06-2005 13:45									#54
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quote: Originally posted by Frankychan Dude, child_of_Thor, If I were you, I'd be screaming at those X-Wing pilots to give me cover. edit...

Well i would if i knew how - i cant use the 'wingman' commands as i'm on my own(single y-wing).

The Xwings(two) are in a different battle group(if thats the term?), so i cant seem to give them orders...........its very annoying as this particular mission is quite tough for the bucket-of-bolts that is the y-wing.

I still havent completed it(on my 18th attempt!) - but its ok, i've gone back to school to get some more training in at the various rebel training centers, and have been playing SW-Rebellion(Supremacy here in the uk) to cool off

I'm going to play X-wing 'purist' style(except for my cheeky save pilot file cheat ), so i wont let myself play Tie-Fighter until i've completed X-wing(if thats possible?).

My life has been dominated by Star Wars these last two weeks. I've been watching all the movies from Episode1 onwards to the origonal classics, and playing Star Wars games in the rest of my free time.
All this while wearing my Darth Vader slippers(yes i also battle against the dark side from time to time)

Anyway Red Five out!

	21-06-2005 10:06									#55
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Its been a while since I last played, but I seem to recall that the laser batteries recharged much faster than the shields did. If you set the lasers to recharge at maximum and leave the shields as is, you will get power faster and fly at the same speed. On the other hand, you have to actually remember to transfer power over to the shields often.

Nah, you have the exact same max speed under both of those conditions. But, if you're good at evasive manuevers and you tend to shoot a lot, max lasers and maintenence shields is good so your laser never get down to that obnoxious three-hit-kill on Tie fighters.

	21-06-2005 11:03									#56
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It definitely is more efficient to charge your shields by upping your laser recharge and transferring the energy to shields. Don't ask me why, but I've found this to be true throughout X-Wing, and throughout TIE Fighter with the possible exception of the Missile Boat. (I'm not so sure this is the case for the Corellian transports in X-Wing Alliance, but the fighter craft definitely benefit from the lasers-to-shields trick there too.)

	21-06-2005 20:48									#57
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If you say so. Anyhow, I can't find my manual and I can't for the life of me remember the wingman commands. What are they again?