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Ditolus
Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:10 am
#1
i didnt get involved in beta so i was curious. please tell me the space missions are a little more immersive and fun than the god awful ground mission terminal missions.
Yezzo
Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:39 am
#3
Are there any real hand crafted space quests in JTL, or are we stuck with random-random-random-random?
UKMars
Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am
#5
No, they are much more fun if pure utter frustration and forced grouping is your idea of a good time 
Watch these boards light up over the coming weeks with some VERY pi55ed off people.
Watch these boards light up over the coming weeks with some VERY pi55ed off people.
Zelos1
Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:12 pm
#6
Yes and no.
No, they are a lot better and more varied than ground combat missions. There's escort, capture, patroland destroy missions. The text is a billion times better ("But won't he be expecting us?" "No one expects the Imperial Inquisition!" Classic.) and there is a clear progression as one mission often flows into the next.
Yes, they're boring - mostly because you have to go back to the ground game to get the mission, which means loading in and then dealing with starport lag. Grrr!
Ackew
Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:57 pm
#7
There VERY boreing as its impossable to hit ANYTHING in space with the newbie ships. My advice is don't bother with JTL unless you want to be a Ship builder
Message Edited by Ackew on 10-25-2004 09:57 PM
Mandril
Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:08 pm
#8
UKMars wrote:
No, they are much more fun if pure utter frustration and forced grouping is your idea of a good time
Watch these boards light up over the coming weeks with some VERY pi55ed off people.
Judging only from the last few days of Beta, UKMars may very well be right, unfortunately for all of us. There was a real "Hell Week" where all the tweaks were slammed to "Impossible" levels, and Beta folks were really po'ed. Then the Devs back the sliders down, so to speak, and JtL was actually fun. The last few days of Beta were Hell again. I have no idea what Day One of JtL of live is going to be like - I know it can be fun, and I know it can be very frustrating. The last condition I saw was "frustrating".
Yeevle
Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:13 pm
#9
Actually UKMars things changed, on this last day of beta it improved. I really like the flight model as it was when the server went down. No more silly speed NPC ships, dogfighting came back, in a big way. Sure when it does hit live there will be a few moaners but that has always been the way with online games.
rexan
Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:19 pm
#10
Mandril wrote:
UKMars wrote:
No, they are much more fun if pure utter frustration and forced grouping is your idea of a good time
Watch these boards light up over the coming weeks with some VERY pi55ed off people.
Judging only from the last few days of Beta, UKMars may very well be right, unfortunately for all of us. There was a real "Hell Week" where all the tweaks were slammed to "Impossible" levels, and Beta folks were really po'ed. Then the Devs back the sliders down, so to speak, and JtL was actually fun. The last few days of Beta were Hell again. I have no idea what Day One of JtL of live is going to be like - I know it can be fun, and I know it can be very frustrating. The last condition I saw was "frustrating".
Actually, that makes be feel much better about the final release. This shows that the developers are looking at all the possibilities for tweaking the flight model. I'm pretty sure they know the settings they want. They are just moving things to exteremes to test all the "what if" senerios.
Yeevle
Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:21 pm
#11
You are correct rexan, one of the devs mentioned pushing things to the extreme on the beta forums. They do it to find the "sweet spot".
HOLLANDIA
Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:25 pm
#12
I thought the missions where fun.
But sometimes nuts to do.
( tier 2 mission for the imp's had to capture a lambaa shuttle was nuts with the rear turret and his pinpoint acc)
UKMars
Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:25 pm
#13
Well if that's the case then we'll all be in for a bit of a treat when it hits live. I sure hope so, I may be critical but this game is still worth playing IMHO.
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