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Thread: Memories!
RBliels
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:09 am
#14
My most memorable experience took place during the PvP weekend when we had the pilot skills added to the frogs.
I was a passenger on a YT-1300 ship. My first trip in the POB ship really blew me away, and then I blew it away. It was getting late and I needed to log, so I typed /escapepod. The next thing I know I'm seeing the ship explode right before my eyes. Everyone on board was shocked to see that the ship had blown up and were sitting at a space station. Live and learn. 
KyrYxus
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:17 am
#16
My second day in beta I decided to go out to Kessel just to see if your team got it right and put in the Maw black holes.... wow... WOW
Starmage
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:18 am
#17
On Sept. 2nd, 2004 I joined my first ever Beta. I was very proud to be a member of the Alpha100 crew. With over a year of game play under my belt I dug in with confidence and high expectations. I was in a wonderland of newness. Over the next eight weeks I watched a Dream Become Reality. A dream shared not just by a group of talented code writers...but a whole world of dedicated Men and Women.
I remember my first Crafted Starship...my first kill...my first hyperspace...and my first death. I learned go arounds on bugs so that I could dig deeper into the missions to test them. IIearned from my friends and Developers alike. I remember being a part of a Family. That my dears, is my best memory....being inside...with the best damn group of people in the world. Thank you all, and God bless you on yoru future endevours.
TalonKarrdeTN
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:19 am
#18
There are many memories of the fun had while testing this stuff, but, as they say in the Highlander movies, "There can be only one", and really there's only one choice, which is rather ironic given the nature of the expansion being mostly combat, but.....
The moment I first went up in the Sorusuub Luxury Yacht, hands down, and ran through it, looked outside the huge windows at the nebulae in space, etc.......wow.....just, wow. For a ship that is totally non-combat and really there just for the looks/cosmetic factor and tooling around space checking out the scenery.....you guys totally, totally blew me away with this one. Jaw-dropping only scratches the surface of my reaction. Outstanding work devs, simply outstanding. 
RhathZabren
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:25 am
#19
During the pvp weekend, the first time i went to Kessel with my B-wing, not knowing what to expect once i got there, i started targetting around the system until i happened upon an Imperial corvette. I turned the ship around to face it, and there it was 4k meters away, i cranked the engines to full throttle and hit the booster and was there in no time, it was being escorted by two gunships andsome Tie variants.So i stayed out of blaster range of the ships and started searching for other rebels, found two more and sent them some tells, it didn't take them long to get there.
Once they arrived we engaged the two gunships and theties, it didn't take too long for them to go down, and we had to be careful as the blaster fire from the corvette's turrets hurt bad. Once we had it's escorts cleared we begain sieging the vette with everything we had, and no matter what we did it's shields were just too strong.
It was at that time i remembered hearing that we could target a ships components, so i moved to a safe distance and started looking through the key bindings till i found it, i hit the left bracket key, and it targetted the corvette's engines, and so i sped toward the engine's of the corvette with all of my blasters blazing at the engines, and within seconds a message came up on my screen saying i have disabled my target.
Now i knew how to take out the corvette, and let the other two rebels know, next was the reactor, then the two shields, and all the guns, finally the bridge.I hit my booster's and shot out in front of the corvette, turned back at it once i was 400 meters out, and opened fire with all i had directed at the corvette'sbridge. Within about5 seconds of steady fire at the bridgethe entire ship went up in a huge explosion, was an awesome experience, even if i did only get 4k prestiege and some level 2 armor from it 
Tstorm
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:25 am
#20
My most memorable experience was probably getting my first player built ship and realizing how neat it was to be able to get my own components, launch into space, and hyperspace to other areas. The starter ship was neat, but my *own* ship was incredible!
ArdenStarmariner
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:30 am
#21
Best think was finding that vendors can be dropped and initialized in multi-player ships. Means I can have a few female ones in slave outfits on my Sorosuub 3000. One day when I get my 2nd character slot unlocked, I'll do master merchant and waste a few vendors having fun. 
One day when I get my 2nd character slot unlocked, I'll do master merchant and waste a few vendors having fun.
Bucke-Thead
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:30 am
#22
Killing a Tier 5 mob with my 2212 Neutral Pilot skills... I managed to kill it just as it disabled my reactor.. Once the dust had settled I let the magnitude of the battle (and the 6K xp granted) sink in before I hit started the eject sequence.
I also remember the time I hyperspaced out of a very nasty situation and landed in the middle of an asteroid field with mobs everywhere and I had just 2% left on my chassis.
Both were awesome moments and the last just reeked of starwars! Bravo!
I also remember the time I hyperspaced out of a very nasty situation and landed in the middle of an asteroid field with mobs everywhere and I had just 2% left on my chassis.
Both were awesome moments and the last just reeked of starwars! Bravo!
JanuHull
Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:56 am
#24
Ah hell. There are a few here, going to list them.
1) The level of detail I could sustain in space and not lag. I still get awed when I dogfight TIE fighters and see the hullplates show crystal clear or roll my X-Wing and see the reflected sunlight play across the hull of my ship perfectly.
2) Seeing the way you guys put the sector art together. Yavin, Endor and Tatooine still giveme shivers when I fly through.
3) My first mission in an X-Wing. I'd been in Z-95's and Y-Wings in other Star Wars combat games, but it just wasn't really Star Wars to me until I saw those strike foils open the first time.
4) The Kessel System. This one is the crown jewel. The first thing I saw when I exited hyperspace was the largest Maw black hole. I just sat there and stared.No other game has everdisplayed a black hole with that level of detail and it really drove home the feeling of a black hole's power. Whomever did the rendering and animation of that system put Industrial Light and Magic to shame.
5) Watching as new layers of the game's mechanics were added, each one building on the previous layer and really pulling the immersion together. Engine flares, explosion particle effects, shot speed,and the other little things.
6) The new combat music. Excellent choice.
7) The Star Destroyer. Really excellent work. You got the size and scale down perfectly. At 1180 x 765 resolution, I can't even fit the whole thing on my 19" monitor from 3km out.
BooshkaUK
Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:02 am
#25
My best memory, getting the invite for beta, downloading it all then going privateer, destroying my first ship, then slaughtering a shed load of bestine pirates above Tatooine in the newb ship whilst being systematically taken apart, but just managing to survive. Then the 15th of October patch came and thats all i had left... the memories of something extremely fun and of something 10 times better than what i played last night.. Oh well at least i had some fun out of it.
Tlk
Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:08 am
#26
Rubber banding for about 5 minutes everytime I tried to get into space, lol.
Not to put down the work put into JtL by the testers and the developers, it is a very daunting undertaking and I am impressed by the kill stealing issue and how it was addressed. But the rubber banding was the most funny (and annoying bug) part of the beta for me, probably will always remeber that.
Waited over a year to get into space, only tobe disappointed, back to starfighter for me (stupid computer runs to fast to play Xwing anymore).