Post by darthelona on Jan 29, 2007 14:18:21 GMT -5
Hi guys. I'm a Tie Fighter fan from the time it was released, which means I am old enough for being the father of most of you.
I have enjoyed XWA for a long time too, although I also think it never reached its predecessor punch, I always thought it was a product released in a hurry, leaving lots of features unfinished.
Now you took -almost - the best of both games and I am very grateful for it.
Some users have complained of the difficulties of attacking capital ships with warheads, but I have finished all missions in the first release without any problems. There is more than one way to skin a cat, and saturation fire or finding dead angles - corvettes have a ridiculous dead angle just in the stern - are good solutions, which in the end make the game more realistic and enjoyable than old TF.
Obviously, there is still some dark spots due to the faults in XWA engine: I don't know how will you re-balance Missile Boat's missions, but I suppose they will need some kind of starfighter coverage if the "overdrive" speed is not available anymore, but we'll know that in due time.
For me the only bug - besides the closed s-foils one in the Gunboat, which has already been discussed here - was the briefing speeches, which remained the original XWA ones. You probably have discussed it lots of times too, and it could have been mended deleting or renaming some file, but I just didn't read it.
I have enjoyed XWA for a long time too, although I also think it never reached its predecessor punch, I always thought it was a product released in a hurry, leaving lots of features unfinished.
Now you took -almost - the best of both games and I am very grateful for it.
Some users have complained of the difficulties of attacking capital ships with warheads, but I have finished all missions in the first release without any problems. There is more than one way to skin a cat, and saturation fire or finding dead angles - corvettes have a ridiculous dead angle just in the stern - are good solutions, which in the end make the game more realistic and enjoyable than old TF.
Obviously, there is still some dark spots due to the faults in XWA engine: I don't know how will you re-balance Missile Boat's missions, but I suppose they will need some kind of starfighter coverage if the "overdrive" speed is not available anymore, but we'll know that in due time.
For me the only bug - besides the closed s-foils one in the Gunboat, which has already been discussed here - was the briefing speeches, which remained the original XWA ones. You probably have discussed it lots of times too, and it could have been mended deleting or renaming some file, but I just didn't read it.
