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JohboBocal
Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:36 pm
#2
Not all the X-Wing seriesgames areSingle player, btw. And secondly, what's your point?
JanGaarni
Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:42 pm
#3
I guess his point was that it was a single player game, so it would be much easier since you are on your own (pretty much, you couldn't really rely on your wingmates, they were dumb as bricks against ships). 
JediGohan
Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:46 pm
#4
I assume you'll have to knock out the shield generator's in order to inflict damage to a star destroyer.
and i wonder if the laser batteries will be attackable so you can knock out their weapons.
JanGaarni
Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:31 pm
#5
You would have to knock down the shields first in order to inflict damage to the generators first. 
Don't go by what games in the past has told you, they are incorrect.
Don't go by what games in the past has told you, they are incorrect.
israiley
Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:06 pm
#6
the difficult thing about taking out a capitol ships are the swarms of enemy fighters that come with them, you wouldnt be soloing just the ship, but ALL of the fighters that would come with it. so basically, it should be impossible.
Imperio59
Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:39 pm
#7
Basically, a Star Destroyer should be as hard as doing the DWB and the corvette combined, meaning even if you can resist the onslaught of brute force, it'll take hours to deal enough damage to kill it
But a well organised squad of 12 or more fighters, i don't see why not Of course you'll probably get sequential spawns of ships, first ties, then defenders, etc, leading up to tie aces , but if you get through, you should have a good chance of killing the ISD
But a well organised squad of 12 or more fighters, i don't see why not
Of course you'll probably get sequential spawns of ships, first ties, then defenders, etc, leading up to tie aces , but if you get through, you should have a good chance of killing the ISD
Nailliar
Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:14 pm
#8
My points exactly, in X-wing and Tie fighter games, it was a solo experience, you had dumb AI wingmen, but basically anyone could solo any capital ship in the game.
The reaction to a Star Destroyer or Mon Cal Battlecruiser dropping out of hyperspace in front of the single pilot should be .. "Oh Sh*t, where's my back up or the nearest hyerspace buoy" .... not "oh great here comes phat lewtz and easy FPs for me" (aka Imperial crackdown).
A capital ship should be feared and only possible to defeat with
a) other capital ships - or -
b) large numbers of opposing fighters.
Nailliar
Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:06 am
#11
PLEASE make them something to be Feared, not for some uber leet kid to come to boards bragging they solo'd a Star Destroyer. You Never saw Han or Luke say..."Yeah a Star Destroyer spawned, more easy faction for me"!
Geral_Corasjo
Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:10 am
#12
agree, they should be LITERALLY impossible to solo
maybe require at the veryleast 6-12 for a small one, and 12-24 for astar destroyersize one of good fighters to take out, or atleast another capital ship to help take it out
Message Edited by Geral_Corasjo on 08-11-2004 03:11 PM
Bamasi
Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:46 am
#13
/agree
And for everyone who says Luke took out the Death Star with one shot, just remember how many x-wings and y-wings were destroyed in the assault leading up to the "one in a million" shot.
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