Classic Games: X-Wing

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Gamecube64


I assume this is the Gunboat?

no, I mean the missile boat, the one you can put 200 missiles in.

[Gamecube64]

Hmm... that one didn't make it into X-wing vs tie fighter... I wonder why.

[ZargonX]

I can't find my X vs. Tie CD

[snoopy369]

Missile boats are ... i loved killing them en masse Any decent TIE ship can slaughter missile boats. It's sooo sloooow ... just stay behind it

[Kloreep]

The Missile Boat was just too easy.

TIE Defenders were cool, but ditto on the easy. Fun for the SP game, though, which is why they were great for TIE Fighter.

[Whoha]

The Scenario creator for multi and single player Alliance was very crappy compared to the mission editors for tie-fighter. I used to have a damned good one.

[Gamecube64]

Originally posted by ZargonX
I can't find my X vs. Tie CD

I can't find my serial port

[Kuciwalker]

It's over there!

Oops, too slow.

[child of Thor]

great stories and tips everyone

I'm looking forward to Tie Fighter for sure, i guess it had the benefit of being the second version after X-wing, so they could tweak stuff better. As with X-wing i did give tie-fighter a quick run a few years back, but now i got my own hardware to really get into it

Still first things first - i need to defeat the evil empire......although if they keep putting me in y-wings its going to be an uphill struggle. Yet again i'm stuck on a mission - and i'm flying a y-wing

Why are the sensors so bad on these things? I thought it was meant to be better than the X-wing for sensors? The mission i'm on now requires me to id a shuttle with a kidnapped Solstan leader on, disable + protect it while a couple of X-wings i cant command give me (bad) cover from heaps of Tie-fighters!

To id the ship i have to be right on top of it before it Id's........ the X-wing(and even A-wing i think) seems to be able to ID from a greater distance?

I've had two missions in the A-wing so far - i like the speed and manouvrebility, great for dogfighting. Still the X-wing has a bit more punch which i like.

@Frankychan - i like seeing your avatar here it reminds me of the great actors they had in those first films. Grand Moff Tarkin/Peter Cushing (and the evil i need to defeat in my current game of X-wing )

more pics:

sweet ship (sorry Artoo - no space for you!)

[Frankychan]

Well...uh...I guess that's a compliment. Glad to help you out...

I like the screenies. Can you post some while ingame? I'd like to see some of the dogfights you get into.

...and you're making me really envious that you can play the old X-Wing/TIE Fighter games while I can't.

Is there any updated versions for XP or something???

[Adrian Hon]

This patch might be useful, apparently makes the game work on XP:

http://lucasfiles.com/?s=&action=file&id=653

[child of Thor]

Great link Adrian Hon I'm sure folks will find that useful.

As for in dogfight screen shots........ i'll see what i can rustle up, but before then i reckon i need much more of this

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Why are the sensors so bad on these things? I thought it was meant to be better than the X-wing for sensors? The mission i'm on now requires me to id a shuttle with a kidnapped Solstan leader on, disable + protect it while a couple of X-wings i cant command give me (bad) cover from heaps of Tie-fighters!

A trick for frustrating missions with a single mission-critical craft: you can usually learn to single it out by its position in the order of ships and/or by its initial distance from you and/or what ships are around it. That way you can just fly straight to it and save some time. Very useful if reinforcements tend to arrive during the mission or if the shuttle is trying to reach a capital ship, though not so useful if the mission starts out swarming with TIEs.

[child of Thor]

Cheers Kloreep

I'll give that a go. It did cross my mind to head straight for the star destroyer, so thats my next attempt.

This particular mission has a load of armed shuttles with officrs in them that also attack you, and provide a distraction from the shuttle you need to find. In the chaos of the dogfight trying to work out which is the right shuttle while being attacked by ties+those shuttles is quite tricky. especialy as my covering X-wngs just do their own thing

Still as with mission 8, i guess this could be another one of those try, try again missions - i'll get it eventualy

[Frankychan]

Wait wait wait...you're running an attack mission against a Star Destroyer with a Y-WING???

I hope that's not the case...

Although I did remember having to run an attack mission against a Nebulon-B frigate using a TIE-ln. Now THAT sucked!