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Jindain
Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:25 am
#1
ya and Black Eplison was pretty easy, not the missons difficulty but because they are not very long missons so if u fail, its not a big deal to give it a couple more tries.
Cry4Dawn
Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:33 am
#2
Let me start off saying I did the Imperial Flight Campaign and it took me about 7-10 days of very hard work to complete with help from friends on Tier 3 and 4. The ships are much less shall we say inferior compared to privateer at lower levels and really make mission take a lot longer.
Now I am working on Privateer and I am on Tier 3 (which I am breezing thru) in about 2-3 days of the same hourly play time.
Privateer is a JOKE.. I must say that Privateer should say (SUPER EASY) on a difficulty level, and Imperial should say (SUPER HARD) in the same sense.
Privateers just in general have much better Mass to weapons then Imperials do on lower end ships. The Dune Lizard is just a massive gunboat of power compared to the same level Tie I/N which is just pure low level garbage. I go thru missions with 2 guns on my dune lizard and feel like I am god when I am still just a noob.
I have to say the game has some extremes when it comes to different Pilot classes. Now I understand when people have said they have never died in space. YES I am one of those people from Nov Pilot all the way up so far to 3-2-2-2 I have yet to die 1 single time. My Chassey is still the same as when I started with no decay. I honestly rarley take armor damage so I can say we have extreme's on classes.
I can say as Far as the Imperial Class this is HARDCORE extreme. As far as Privateers wondering WHY imps are complaining so much, when they breezed thru everything this is the real reason why. I cant speak for rebel which I have not done yet, nor will I probably since I am a deciated Imperial, but I am guessing rebel is probably a Medium level to Hard level difficulty. Maybe someone can comment on that, but I hope this gives people an idea of what to expect on each class. I am current doing the RSF Campaign on Privateer..
Good Luck and Good Hunting Pilots
Message Edited by Cry4Dawn on 11-12-2004 10:33 AM
Message Edited by Cry4Dawn on 11-12-2004 10:34 AM
Lilleth
Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:39 am
#3
All I can say about Alliance pilots is that the Vortex Squadron is not easy at all.
Have to do a tier 4 mission tonigt with a tier 5 Agressor and 6 tier 4 Interceptor wingman... tried it with two friends and got blown up very fast (damn turret hits with every shot).
Hopefully I can gather some more friends tonight and manage to kill this beast 
Jindain
Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:41 am
#4
ya the tier 3 and begginging for tier 4 for imperials is a b****. Must! have a group for most of it depending on what squad you do.
Yeevle
Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:43 am
#5
I do think Imp ships should have a bit more mass, we are way behind on that. Although, we are faster at the lower levels. Thing is, Imp's hit one HUUUGE brick wall at tier 3, tier 3 is supposed to be tough obviously but compared to the other two pilot proffesions it is a bit of a shock to put it mildly heh.
I have pilots of all 3factionsbut I do put Imp first personally, just being honest, so I have to agree here. I think a small mass increase on the lower tier TIE's is needed, just to make us somewhereclose performance wiseto the other two profs.
Cry4Dawn
Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:43 am
#6
Jindain wrote:
ya the tier 3 and begginging for tier 4 for imperials is a b****. Must! have a group for most of it depending on what squad you do.
I would honestly say all Tier 3 and 4 of Imp you need to group or forget about. Unless you had parts given to you by masters aces that really made you far superior then I would say OK cool, but thats far and near. It also helps that I have better parts now then I did as an Imp then is making me destroy these missions
Acrod_Novys
Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:56 am
#7
Even within imperial it varies considerably--if you do storm squadron, which I'm guessing you are dawn, then the missions are insanely difficult. We had a squad of 10-12 for the 4444 mission I believe it was, and we were slaughtered--that was amazing. Inquisition, on the other hand, has only a few really difficult missions which pale in comparison. In fact, tier 4 is a joke--at each skill, the trainer tells you to patrol dath space--you fly 3 waypoints, NOTHING spawns, mission complete. Must be a bug...
Jindain
Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:59 am
#8
ya and Black Eplison was pretty easy, not the missons difficulty but because they are not very long missons so if u fail, its not a big deal to give it a couple more tries.
Craxus
Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:01 pm
#9
Some Imperial missions are tough. I helped friends that were doing them and they were hard.
I don't know which Privateer faction you picked but I'm in the RSF, and stuck at 4444. The final 4444 mission is rather easy until the end. Then you get jumped by 7 tier 5 fighters and two gun boats.
Having the dunelizard makes life easier earlier on, but keep in mind thats as good as it gets.
I picked them since they are still Empire affiliated.
Message Edited by Craxus on 11-12-2004 12:02 PM
slave138
Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:16 pm
#10
CorSec Privateer missions are incredibly easy, but the Smuggler ones are a little more difficult. Any mission that requires catching a ship before it escapes can be pretty difficult when chugging along in a ship that flies like a garbage truck. The Imp ships could definitely be given more mass as long as their speeds are reduced accordingly, but then they wouldn't be TIE's they'd be Headhunters.
I group with an Imperial (just made 3rd Tier) and he takes far less damage than I do. I often have to limp my dunlizard back to the station while he is cleaning up the mess. He plays it pretty smart by letting me act like a tank while he flits around taking shots in a quick hit-and-fade manner.
The double lasers do help a lot, but even with a good capacitor, you can drain the power to nothing within moments if you go in with both guns blazing.
Starode
Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:25 pm
#11
The Imp missions are harder no doubt, but I once made the mistake of going with an RSF guy to a tier 3 mission that wiped out all five of our group members. This was a Tier 3 mission bu there were multiple tier 5 ships and at least two tier 4 YTs shooting at us and a number of other tier ships. We /bugged that one and I think it was changed as I haven't seen anyone complaining about Tier 3 RSF lately but the big mistake was putting me (a Hutt neutral pilot) in the group since that made BOTH sides aggressive to us.
RogueFettt
Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:25 pm
#12
ahhh! I just picked up nov. imp. pilot and i'm not a hardcore uber power gamer. now i see my sig might be wrong.
truewildman
Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:30 pm
#13
Every faction has an easy, medium, and hard direction. I believe RSF is the easiest privateer.Storm squadron is the hardest imp.
So, that may explain it.
Message Edited by truewildman on 11-12-2004 12:43 PM
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