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Thread: RoTW Ships a Bit Lackluster?
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Chewy5000
Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:47 am
#1
Other than the royal guard interceptor, is anyone else as unimpressed as I with the proposed ships for RoTW? First of all, the "new" rebel ships arent new at all. They are advancements on old models, this is something that could've been implemented in a friday feature, not in an expansion pack. Carrying over to the Imperial side, we have the "new" tie fighter and tie advanced. I admit, the backstory behind the new tie advanced is very cool, but I want to see new ships not measely updates. Expansion packs expand, but so do weekly updates. Expansion packs are typically geared for new features, not rebuffed ones.
Which brings us to the Episode III ship additions. Not bad overall, but I'm honestly unimpressed. I'd prefer ships geared for the current GCW than novelty craft to promote the new movie. No new freighters, no new rebel or imperial craft, just Anakins Jedi Starfighter and General Grevious' ship geared for fanboys and collectors. Come on. Given we have roughly 600 thousand jedi across the servers, I can see it now, Jedi robes abound on the ground and jedi starfighters amassed in the sky. At least before I could launch into space to get some kind of immersion. Looks like now the only place I can go for that, is where my sublight engines are sadly restricted.
Message Edited by Chewy5000 on 03-24-2005 10:50 AM
quadpers0n
Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:11 pm
#2
i'm not too worried about it. first of all the jedi starfighter looks like a hunk of junk. secondly, i honestly don't understand why an older ship could possibly more superior than a newer model. the force? please. the force isn't going to teach anyone how to fly, no matter what the bonuses, no matter how small it is. jedi are going to get shot, blown up, and go back to the ground with wounds only to be ganked in a starport.we won't be innundated with those ships.
as for the "new" fighters. yeah they are old fighters but if they are beefed up appropriately you'll actually be flying these fighters instead of migrating towards the upper end of the spectrum like everyone does now. if it was viable and efficient for PVE i would much rather fly an interceptor. the possibility of a ship with speed mods above 1.0 are extremely exciting to me as well.
also, do we really need a mess of new models thrown into the game? why? yes i'd love to see variety in NPC ships and possibly other POB ships (and capital ships) but I don't expect that level of content addition is going to happen before the CU.
all in all i'm fairly excited about this expansion.
Chewy5000
Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:28 pm
#3
I agree with you 100%, but As I said in my post, I think these updates should be just that, updates. Not selling points to an expansion that should be innundated with new features not fixes. It ticks me off seeing any support for such a lackluster lineup that panders purely to those geared for the novelty of flying grevious' ship or spritting off in Anakins Jedi Starfighter. Why not new GCW ships? Why not expand on the realm of now rather than the realm of novelty. Including Episode 3 ships breaks immersion, It'd be like Lucas adding Naboo Starfighters around the battle of endor or the final fight with the death star, the fan base would riot! It doesnt fit, it shouldnt fit, and it absolutely wreaks havoc on immersion.
quadpers0n wrote:
as for the "new" fighters. yeah they are old fighters but if they are beefed up appropriately you'll actually be flying these fighters instead of migrating towards the upper end of the spectrum like everyone does now. if it was viable and efficient for PVE i would much rather fly an interceptor. the possibility of a ship with speed mods above 1.0 are extremely exciting to me as well.
Coran_Sienar
Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:39 pm
#4
I'm already salivating over the prospect of a heavy X-Wing. If I can squeeze 3 RE'd Tricannons on them... 
Washell
Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:36 am
#5
Don't forget the mining ship and the new feature of space mining. But showing screenshots of new ships draws more people to gamespot then writing old news.
quadpers0n
Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:37 am
#6
Chewy5000 wrote:I agree with you 100%, but As I said in my post, I think these updates should be just that, updates. Not selling points to an expansion that should be innundated with new features not fixes. It ticks me off seeing any support for such a lackluster lineup that panders purely to those geared for the novelty of flying grevious' ship or spritting off in Anakins Jedi Starfighter. Why not new GCW ships? Why not expand on the realm of now rather than the realm of novelty. Including Episode 3 ships breaks immersion, It'd be like Lucas adding Naboo Starfighters around the battle of endor or the final fight with the death star, the fan base would riot! It doesnt fit, it shouldnt fit, and it absolutely wreaks havoc on immersion.
quadpers0n wrote:as for the "new" fighters. yeah they are old fighters but if they are beefed up appropriately you'll actually be flying these fighters instead of migrating towards the upper end of the spectrum like everyone does now. if it was viable and efficient for PVE i would much rather fly an interceptor. the possibility of a ship with speed mods above 1.0 are extremely exciting to me as well.
well i can't argue with any of that. i'm not particularly thrilled about spending any amount of money for something i already pay far too much for, especially when the additional "content" feels much, much more like a revision. you're right, the JTL content especially would be more appropriate for a patch.
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