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Thread: Hello, DEV's, why is everyone flying a JSF or the grievous ship now? Take a guess..
EyeDye_SWG wrote:
Now, the crimson TIE is a wicked hard mission where you capture then escort a corvette, very very hard, need a good group.
not to boast but that mission can be easilysolo'ed
My Interceptor, with the same exact engine that is in my Jedi Starfighter, outmanuevers my Starfighter by quite a bit. Its practically the most manueverable ship in the game contrary to what you state.
The Interceptor I use exclusively for dogfighting as its a superior fighter over my JSF. The interceptor, however, only has 1 gun as you point out, so I use my JSF when I know I'm going to be facing gunboats in my mission.
To be honest, I did use my JSF exclusively until I got the Interceptor. The manueverability was so mind-boggling in my Interceptor, I had a change of heart.
During the mission to get the Interceptor I was running it solo, so no....I would have definitely not tried solo'ing the corvette or the gunboats in the mission with anything less than my JSF. You need alot of offensive punch for those kinds of things.I see your point in the post, but look at it from this perspective. There always must be a "top dog" of ships. A ship that everyone wants, that is the "best". To do anything else would make all ships rather equal, and that just won't work for JTL.
In my opinion, we Imperials have 2 ships that are the "best" for fighters. That's the JSF and the Interceptor. I've heard people doing the JSF quest over 5 or 6 times before they were successful. I've heard people saying that the Interceptor quest can't be solo'd (due to the Corvette and gunboats involved) or that they chose the wrong this to say to that guy on Kashyyyk (me being the true Imperial Bounty Hunter, I lied to him and told him the ships were hard).
I didn't find either quest necessarily more difficult than the other. Not considering the bugs involved, I solo'd both my first time through, so I couldn't say either was more difficult than the other.
What I'm trying to tell you is that its all a matter of perspective. I find the two fighters are equal, and I found their missions to be equal in difficulty. So I personally don't feel that either one needs to be changed in any respect.
tamer_bourne wrote:
EyeDye_SWG wrote:
Now, the crimson TIE is a wicked hard mission where you capture then escort a corvette, very very hard, need a good group.
not to boast but that mission can be easilysolo'ed
Yep I soloed that mission myself and its pretty easy if you know what your doing and come fully armed.
Asiche wrote:
As a proud pilot of both the JSF and the Vaksai, I must agree with Specwar. the 150k mass Vaksai is far superior to the JSF. I only fly it in pve settings now. As my Vaksai with its one blaster 1500 max speed (with engine overcharge 3) and spacebombs make a great pvp/capital buster ship.
while im currently stuck on the final vette mission for the vaksai (tried using the JSF for it lol) id say the JSF's best qualities are not the 2 hardpoints (id be fine with only 1) and mass but rather its size coupled with its manuvarbility. Thing is hard really hard to hit if your focusing soley on evasive manuvers.
Im pretty sure if i go unpack my krayt and round up my good shields and blaster ill be able to do most ofthe questmyself. Maybe its just my equipment, i know its not the best, but the JSF IMO just doesnt pack the punch to fight multiple high teir fighters/bigger ships on its own. What it has in manuvarbilty and speed can easily be made up with good shields and droid programs.
Message Edited by Rebelcapt on 06-05-2005 01:09 AM
Rebelcapt wrote:
Asiche wrote:
As a proud pilot of both the JSF and the Vaksai, I must agree with Specwar. the 150k mass Vaksai is far superior to the JSF. I only fly it in pve settings now. As my Vaksai with its one blaster 1500 max speed (with engine overcharge 3) and spacebombs make a great pvp/capital buster ship.
while im currently stuck on the final vette mission for the vaksai (tried using the JSF for it lol) id say the JSF's best qualities are not the 2 hardpoints (id be fine with only 1) and mass but rather its size coupled with its manuvarbility. Thing is hard really hard to hit if your focusing soley on evasive manuvers.Im pretty sure if i go unpack my krayt and round up my good shields and blaster ill be able to do most of the quest myself. Maybe its just my equipment, i know its not the best, but the JSF IMO just doesnt pack the punch to fight multiple high teir fighters/bigger ships on its own. What it has in manuvarbilty and speed can easily be made up with good shields and droid programs.
Message Edited by Rebelcapt on 06-05-2005 01:09 AM
I agree. I prefer the larger ships as to the small, fast ships. I say, the more firepower, the less I need to move around. Knock out their engines and the larger ship will fry any one of the fast ships (Grievous, JSF, Vaskai, etc.) and the large capital ships, too.
I have both the Belbullab and the JSF and they are gret but the best ship IG right now has got to be the advanced X-Wing, 180k of mass 3 weapons deosn't handle as well as Grievous but not far from JSF.
Of course it does seem like the best ships are teh ones that came w ROTW, I tried flying the Rhik yesterday and it felt likea bus in water.
vonbloodworth wrote:
I bet, the next wave of craft, will be player made, and pawn the quest ones.
I certainly hope so, while i agree that the clone relics shouldn't be craftable, i still think the heavy x and the crimson tie should be, along with the vaksai ship.
Remove the built in hyperspace from the JSF. Require it to wait several minutes to call in a supply ship with the hyperspace ring attachment. Make it a harshly realistic price to pay for imperial uberness.
Ground combat should not be required for JTL equipment. Where does that put crafter pilots? --Screwed.
CommTampers wrote:
Remove the built in hyperspace from the JSF. Require it to wait several minutes to call in a supply ship with the hyperspace ring attachment. Make it a harshly realistic price to pay for imperial uberness.
Ground combat should not be required for JTL equipment. Where does that put crafter pilots? --Screwed.
And why should imperials suffer so much just because they have a moderatly better fighter than the rebs? Any rebel pilot that know what their doin or has a JSF of their own can kill a JSF, as can many who are uber.