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Cuality
Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:14 pm
#92
OMG!!! where do i start? hmmm... i've been in beta for over a month now...
first was the ithorian vest bug...they coded it as a dress rather than a vest... lots of naked people. no screenies from me though.
then they did the PvP weekend...first off... they let us master the pilot professions. i was a rebel for the first part of beta, then during pvp weekend was an imp, then the last part i was a neutral. suffice to say with so many masters around... a lot of stuff went into the multiships.
i remember standing around in bestine when a coupla SOE QA decided to test the yt1300. first off they got a full group of 20 together to see if it would take us all (which its not supposed to) but all 20 of us loaded into this yt1300. much confusion and running around... and for some reason /escapepod... well that destroys the ship. So the ship keeps exploding and the QA staff has to keep repairing it because people keep blowing it up... good times.
my favorite memory is one late night i was hopping between the PvP zones looking for trouble. I had fought about 12 people that night and won all my dogfights. Most people i fought would literally commit suicide. We'd roll for a few turns and then they thought they would try to get away. So i sent a coupla missiles into their tail to finish em off. One guy i caught completely unaware and i toasted him without even having to mauever (don't go afk in a pvp zone i guess...)
I was in kessel and i picked up a player ship. he was flying the small hutt fighter, an ixyian or some weird thing like that (i doubt i'll ever spell it right). he was cooking a cloud of pirates and i came swooping in... i let 2 missiles fly at him quick... the first one hit, he lost half his shield in that shot, but somehow he dodged the second. So i latched to him and fired another shot, again he dodged out of the way and spun around and headed straight for me... we traded a few shots on that initial pass, he took my forward shields to half and i knocked his forward shield completely out (his rear shields took the missile)
immediately i evaded and tried to turn inside his arc... but he proved quicker and anticipated this and spun himself around and was able to land a few shots on my stern. We began circling. Not standard circling... but a wild spinning dive that we kept trying to get ahead of each other. By this time both of our main armor was disintegrated and all we had left was our secondary armor. Our shield would take the hits but we would then go into evasive so fast that our shields would fully recharge before we got another shot in. 25 minutes we fought like this. at one point i was a shot away from winning, his armor was down to 12% and his shields were gone... but i couldn't connect and his shields came back up. I tried to take him into the nearest nebula and perform a very dirty imp trick... but i couldn't get us to roll that way.
He took down my rear shields and i went full evasive, jinking and twisting like no other... and then i stopped... dead in space... my engine shot out... "wha----?" was all i could say before i was nothing more than free floating atoms.
i let go of my joystick after i showed up at the space station... my nerves were shot, my hand was numb and my mind was racing... through the whole battle (which was at least 30 minutes.) i spent all my time focusing on killing him and staying alive... that i never even noticed what his name was... it was that intense. I found out later (though i forgot it again since then) when i posted the story in a thread on the beta boards. He said that he too forgot my name and that the fight shook him up so bad he had to step out for a cigarette.
So to the pilot... /salute.
and to the devs... thank you for making the greatest dogfight sequence i have ever encountered.
Praden
Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:26 pm
#93
It's tough to give just one story, although I will say that creating a Sullustan and being a Rebel pilot was a blast. (It was especially interesting when multiple TIE bombers or Hutt bombers were firing missiles at me. LOL)
A couple friends and I loaded up for the maiden voyage of the luxury yacht and went hyperspacing between sectors and running around the ship. That was so much fun, andso cool. 8) I'm kinda tempted to offer rides on the yacht when this goes live for those people who may not be able to get the veteran reward, but we'll see. hehe
One thing that is pretty cool about JTL is that you can modify the ships. There are different looking weapons, engines, and so on. Also, you can change the paint scheme of the ships with kits (there are 6 new schemes you can choose, I believe) and you can use a painting kit to change the colors.
So without further adieu, check out this shot of my current X-Wing. It uses a blue and white paint scheme and one of the kits to change the texture as well. I have it loaded with 3 different laser cannons (you can see the 3rd laser type mounted at the middle of the top wings) and have a little blue R5 with red trim to help out. 8)
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=139482
Edit: The same X-Wing with same texture, but with yellow and blue.
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=139511
Also, here's another picture...same scheme but with Endor and the Endor station in the background, and all 3 cannons firing. 
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=139518
Message Edited by Praden on 10-21-2004 10:43 PM
Rosh_Slayer
Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:41 pm
#94
The best time i had in JTL was earlier this afternoon when i was taking a ride in someone else's yacht. We were cruising over corilla when the pilot screams "HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTT!!" and we jumped into lightspeed. When we got to the naboo system i then said that I was feeling sick a began to puck in the corner
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Vashner
Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:55 pm
#95
Mike199422 wrote:
Does this mean you guys are gonna fix the ground game now?
(Deleted dirty f bomb user tried to put directed at SOE)
Why don't you shut your piehole for a moment. This game does help fixing the ground game.
If you where more positive instead of posting like a total troll loozer you might help the process.
groovysplat101
Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:06 pm
#96
He can shut his pi3hole, as well.
The reason the ground game has been pushed back is because of JTL. They've put so much effort to get JTL working that the Devs have been working their lil' butts off. When JTL is up, and we actually have something to do, then they can turn their attention to the ground game.
JTL is the mobile dangling above the baby's head that distracts it while you're changing its diaper. There's something pretty to focus on up at the top, while someone deals with all the crap down below. 
Trust me...we'dbe worse off if we DIDN'T have a decent JTL to go on...we can go have fun in space, while the Devs work on the ground game. By the time the initial novelty of JTL has worn off, and people start returning to the ground...the Devs might have added stuff. You never know.
AUD21
Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:14 pm
#98
Here are some of my screenshots
KSE Firespray
Corellia Corvette Blowing Up
Star Destroyer... boy is it long.
KSE Firespray
Corellia Corvette Blowing Up
Star Destroyer... boy is it long.
Maluak
Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:44 pm
#99
Heres some good experiances of mine. First time loading onto a YKL nova corroiur theres a bug that puts all the players outside the space craft I could walk around in space. Very cool bug
Kanehokuokalani
Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:00 pm
#100
snurckle
Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:47 pm
#101
been in beta about 3 weeks now.
I have enjoyed almost every moment playing it- with the exception of a mission bug, which has taken the dev team a while to fix. Shadowbrak has assured me that a fix is in the works, and it should take care of many of the issues with overpowered NPC ship missles.
In short, the development team has been very responsive to the beta testers. While alot of the time they have quietly worked on patches, bug fixes, and tweaking the flight models- they have surprised us on many occasions. It has been fun, frustrating, and exciting, and I have enjoyed testing and being a part of the beta experience to the Jump to LightSpeed.
Stories- well, I'll spare you those, there are plenty out here.
I have enjoyed almost every moment playing it- with the exception of a mission bug, which has taken the dev team a while to fix. Shadowbrak has assured me that a fix is in the works, and it should take care of many of the issues with overpowered NPC ship missles.
In short, the development team has been very responsive to the beta testers. While alot of the time they have quietly worked on patches, bug fixes, and tweaking the flight models- they have surprised us on many occasions. It has been fun, frustrating, and exciting, and I have enjoyed testing and being a part of the beta experience to the Jump to LightSpeed.
Stories- well, I'll spare you those, there are plenty out here.
Uzumaku
Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:49 pm
#102
TK-3529_SG wrote:
Yeevle wrote:Firstly, JTL is NOT laggy, the previous posters who say that it is probably just have crappy PC's.If anything JTL is smoother than the ground game. I constantly get 30FPS.Well.... in SPACE it is not laggy... but JTL COMPLETELY LAGS out the ground game at any starport and the servers in general... and lets not forget all the problems they had with LOSING player houses/items on the ground.,...
this game needs another month to 2 months in beta
one thing you have to remember, in beta there was only one server, and you have a huge number of people standing around the starports and the frogs.
so there really isnt a lag problem, there was lag only cuz they had an extremely large number of players on one server
PsionicHawk
Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:53 pm
#103
Does anyone have a screenshot of when space looked like a forest for an hour? Someone must have that screenshot. I forgot to take one!
Very interesting bug, hopefully someone has a screenshot you all can enjoy.
taloncard
Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:12 pm
#104
And this one time in Kessel I took a missle................................