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Thread: Ok then. That was almost too fun for PvE

LeaphChausew
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:01 pm
#1

Hehehehe..../giggle.


CPG T5 Duty mission.


The one where you get waves of Gragh fighters then at the end of stage one you get one of those Gragh persuader gunboats after you. Second stage, same again only two. So you get to the fifth and final stage and you get five of the damn things. Now solo, this is more than challenging and I can get up to four gunboats before I run out of time and they decide that an A-wing isn't going to kill them in time, however!!!


What we did tonight wasfar more fun .


I was conversing with my good old CO, Halyn last week when we tried it for the first time together and we thought it'd be fun to hold the duty as a PvE event where no relics could be used and we were using Rebel Alliance exclusive ships.

So basically, z-95s, Y-wing/LP, Standard X-wings and Advanced versions along with B-wings.


Now we didn't have an amazing turnout but in the end this turned out to be a good thing.


Before I go on, I must thank those who participated.

We ended up with;


  • Two B-wings piloted by Rac'el and Yelina

  • One Advanced X-wing piloted by Kyan

  • My A-wing (shocked?)

  • And one YT-1300 crewed by Ruak (Cptn), Shonaa (Shona who kindly came over from Valcyn for the night to fill in the gap on theYT), Firespay (A friendly Trando) and Vihoo.

I extend further thanks to Stormwraith who volunteered to fraps the event. I'll be downloading the clips from him and editing them into somthing pretty hopefully. He was very happy with some of the shots he got.


So as you can see from the ship turnout, it wasvaried from the lightest speed demon Interceptor, to the heaviest Tank, gunboat killing machines and a POB crew who did real well considering they were working as a collective for the first time. We thought out the strategy as to how we were going to handle the mission as we went.We completed the whole thing in one shot which I was impressed with.


On the first round, the single gunboat which spawned got completely ganked. It must have lasted all of 15 seconds. Second round withtwo gunboats, they both went down quickly. Third round, I 'kited' them on (as in led them on awildegoose chase whiile the others smashed them from behind). Now this..might soudn easy but it wasn't. These gunboats appear to fly at a percentage of the mission activater'stop speed and that was me. My top speed is 1480 with EO4and the chase ships who were dealing the damage had trouble keeping up at first. So what they told me to do was arc my trajectory so they could fly at a tangent inwards at the gbs. As the odds became better, I'd then double back and we'd decimate them the old fashioned way. This continued until the mission's climax where we ended up fighting around the Avatar platform.


Now this was the icing on the cake, really it was..and I can't wait to see the raw footage, but it was totally unplanned. It was so cinematic with the three remaining gunboats, several orbital defence batteries and a huge base in the centre going off at us while we battled. I was like /jaw drops! Anyway, I must congratulate those who flew combat in the event for excellent flying because every ship taking part apart from my own were large multirole starships. I had the easy job in a light manouverable fast ship, but the B-wings, X-wing and YT were true heroes.


Anyways..time to start work on the In Character report to go with the 'movie'


Oh also...this mission dragged us all over the system and felt so er..wholesome? and involving. The fact that we turned a duty mission into an event just said somthing for what a little imagination and player cooperation could do. Again, salutations to everyone involved.

Message Edited by LeaphChausew on 09-05-2004 07:05 PM

BuzzBot
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:15 pm
#2
Woah! Awesome! Can't wait to see that footage! 



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LeaphChausew
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:21 pm
#3




BuzzBot wrote:
Woah! Awesome! Can't wait to see that footage!




Admittedly it is going to take a while to edit but yeh, as soon as I have it done, I'll find somewhere to stick it and provide the link for download.

Jawa-Sith-Lord
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:43 pm
#4
In some ways, the last file is an excellent summary. I was auto following a B for the part where they took down 3 GB's. It's 17 MB and choking my temp server. But, I think I'll have that resolved tonight for Leaph. It just might require that I cut the file down even though it really works well together.



Starsider: Stormwraith | Stormraven
Crazed Squirrel Productions for Movies

BuzzBot
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:45 pm
#5

If it's not too much trouble, Jawa, could you email me the un-edited, raw footage? I'd love to see all of it. I'll PM you my email if you don't mind sending it. 



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   |    | Ussiv the Sock Puppet|    |
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Jawa-Sith-Lord
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:48 pm
#6

BuzzBot wrote:
If it's not too much trouble, Jawa, could you email me the un-edited, raw footage? I'd love to see all of it. I'll PM you my email if you don't mind sending it.



The unedited footage is 19GB of AVI's. That's a G in there . I recorded at 1024x768 without sound too. We were on site for about 1.5 hours. I didn't record all of that. But, I did get quite a bit.



Starsider: Stormwraith | Stormraven
Crazed Squirrel Productions for Movies

werehere
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:54 pm
#7
YA i waas going to come but i was busy maybe around pub 24 we can have a all pob on that mission lol thats going to rock
Jawa-Sith-Lord
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:58 pm
#8
The only part about the POB that was a problem was that I told the pilot I was following but not the gunners. So, one of them saw a TIE Advanced following and started acting according to his rebel scum nature All it did was make me panick because I didn't have my HUD up and so I kept spamming my shield shunt command.



Starsider: Stormwraith | Stormraven
Crazed Squirrel Productions for Movies

BuzzBot
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:58 pm
#9




Jawa-Sith-Lord wrote:




BuzzBot wrote:


If it's not too much trouble, Jawa, could you email me the un-edited, raw footage? I'd love to see all of it. I'll PM you my email if you don't mind sending it.





The unedited footage is 19GB of AVI's. That's a G in there . I recorded at 1024x768 without sound too. We were on site for about 1.5 hours. I didn't record all of that. But, I did get quite a bit.



Woah! In that case, I'll just wait for the edited footage, I think this crappy ol' laptop's only got 3 times that amount left. LOL



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   |      OO \            / o O     |
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   |    |\/\/\/          \/\/\/|    |
   |    |                      |    |
   |    |    Teh Aivinatorr    |    |
   |    | Ussiv the Sock Puppet|    |
   |    |                      |    |



BuzzBot
Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:59 pm
#10




Jawa-Sith-Lord wrote:
The only part about the POB that was a problem was that I told the pilot I was following but not the gunners. So, one of them saw a TIE Advanced following and started acting according to his rebel scum nature All it did was make me panick because I didn't have my HUD up and so I kept spamming my shield shunt command.



LOL That's hilarious! I can't remember, is Shona Rebel?



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   |    |\/\/\/          \/\/\/|    |
   |    |                      |    |
   |    |    Teh Aivinatorr    |    |
   |    | Ussiv the Sock Puppet|    |
   |    |                      |    |



Gizmarke
Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:04 pm
#11

Looking forward to watching the fight.






-Castin Donn
...has mastered the Pilot profession
Jawa-Sith-Lord
Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:07 pm
#12

BuzzBot wrote:

Jawa-Sith-Lord wrote:
The only part about the POB that was a problem was that I told the pilot I was following but not the gunners. So, one of them saw a TIE Advanced following and started acting according to his rebel scum nature All it did was make me panick because I didn't have my HUD up and so I kept spamming my shield shunt command.

LOL That's hilarious! I can't remember, is Shona Rebel?



Firespray admitted to it.



Starsider: Stormwraith | Stormraven
Crazed Squirrel Productions for Movies

BuzzBot
Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:09 pm
#13




Jawa-Sith-Lord wrote:




BuzzBot wrote:





Jawa-Sith-Lord wrote:
The only part about the POB that was a problem was that I told the pilot I was following but not the gunners. So, one of them saw a TIE Advanced following and started acting according to his rebel scum nature All it did was make me panick because I didn't have my HUD up and so I kept spamming my shield shunt command.



LOL That's hilarious! I can't remember, is Shona Rebel?





Firespray admitted to it.



Ahh lol. You guys are on TC, correct? I just might have to start a pilot char on your server. Valcyn ain't too big on pilots. 



    /       \              /       \
   |      OO \            / o O     |
   |    \     \          /     /    |
   |    |\/\/\/          \/\/\/|    |
   |    |                      |    |
   |    |    Teh Aivinatorr    |    |
   |    | Ussiv the Sock Puppet|    |
   |    |                      |    |



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