Classic Games: X-Wing

[child of Thor]

I dabbled with this a number of years ago, but never gave it a real try. The recent thread about which Star Wars game is the best caught my attention and now i've been playing this seriously for a few days. Loving it so far

One thing that really strikes you is the excellent use of cut-scenes to give you that Star Wars vibe. They go something like this:

[child of Thor]

can you hear the music?

[child of Thor]

Bad guys: BOO!

[child of Thor]

And the Good guys: YAY!

[child of Thor]

Anyway things have been going great, untill last night

I appear to be stuck on a mission on the first Tour.

So i thought maybe we could discuss various stategies/tips or just old war stories in this thread

One thing i find i do automaticaly upon entering each mission is:

1: press F9 to increase my weapon recharge rate by 'one'
2: press F10 to increase my shield recharge rate by 'one'
3: set my speed to 'Max'(backspace key) to componsate

Also i go into the screen that controls the priority your damaged systems are repaired and shift the priorities around. I end up with shields and flight controls at the top with engines next and weapons last.

Are these good settings to use? I just made them up and have no idea - maybe i'm shooting myself in the foot?

Its hard to beat the intense(and strategic) dog fighting of this game

I think so far of all the rebel ships i like the feeling of i'd go with:

1. X-wing(just right)
2. A-wing(too light?)
3. Y-wing(a bit slow?)
4. B-wing(a bit lumbering?)

what are your fav ships and worst enemies?

X-Wing rocks(and is much more fun than the later 'Alliance' game i did play often a few years ago)

[Adrian Hon]

Ahh, good days. I remember having a flight combat joystick with a million buttons all mapped to various functions for the game... hardly had to press a keyboard button.

The X-wing is just right. I hate the slug-shaped Imperial battleships or whatever they are - mid-sized ships that have a hell of a lot of firepower and take ages to kill.

One thing I noticed you don't do is change whether the laser fire is linked or not, i.e. whether you fire 4 bursts simulataneously, or 2 and 2, or 4 individual rapid-fire bursts. Generally, as my aiming improved, I went to 4 simultaneous bursts so I could take out Tie Fighters with a single shot.

[Kuciwalker]

I've played X-Wing: Alliance.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Adrian Hon
Ahh, good days. I remember having a flight combat joystick with a million buttons all mapped to various functions for the game... hardly had to press a keyboard button.

The X-wing is just right. I hate the slug-shaped Imperial battleships or whatever they are - mid-sized ships that have a hell of a lot of firepower and take ages to kill.

One thing I noticed you don't do is change whether the laser fire is linked or not, i.e. whether you fire 4 bursts simulataneously, or 2 and 2, or 4 individual rapid-fire bursts. Generally, as my aiming improved, I went to 4 simultaneous bursts so I could take out Tie Fighters with a single shot.

I have yet to meet the slug shapes(unless they are those 'troop transporter' types that fire loads of Ion cannon shots?), but pretty much any large ship with lots of weapons i try to stay well away from!

As for linking laser fire - i prefer the single(4x) shot as well, its quicker to fire which i find helpful in a busy dogfight with a load of Ties.

@ Kuciwalker - yeah X-wing: Alliance was the one i played alot of. Its early to tell but i'd say that X-wing is the better game, it certainly feels more like flying an X-wing should?

And Alliance didnt recieve any real mentions in the 'What Star Wars game is best' thread.

[DrSpike]

You need a zipstick to play this properly.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by DrSpike
You need a zipstick to play this properly.

What those things with the yellow buttons? Its not got a 'top' button on the handgrip bit if its those ones - so makes doing a 'roll' pretty tricky.

I found a ropey old stick for my old p166 in a local store about a month back. I'd bought an extra 64MB stick of ram for my nasty new motherboard(that on board graphics nightmare one), and on the shelf was the joystick i'm now using.

I'd been looking everywhere for a non-usb stick with no result. I asked the guy in the shop if i could have it and he gave it to me for free(with an odd look like 'what the hell does he want with that antique' kinda thing)

Anyway I'm stuck on mission8 with no hope in sight........i have to find some slave transporters, but keep getting drawn to a load of troop carriers instead as they all look alike, and you can only id a ship by being so close you almost bump into it!

plus there is a Star Destroyer hovering around which always makes me nervous.

and i'm seeing alot of this screen currently

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by child of Thor


What those things with the yellow buttons? Its not got a 'top' button on the handgrip bit if its those ones - so makes doing a 'roll' pretty tricky.

Yes. I always managed.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by child of Thor
1: press F9 to increase my weapon recharge rate by 'one'
2: press F10 to increase my shield recharge rate by 'one'
3: set my speed to 'Max'(backspace key) to componsate

Its been a while since I last played, but I seem to recall that the laser batteries recharged much faster than the shields did. If you set the lasers to recharge at maximum and leave the shields as is, you will get power faster and fly at the same speed. On the other hand, you have to actually remember to transfer power over to the shields often.

[child of Thor]

@ Dr.Spike, Your a hopeless Amiga romantic

@ Skanky, cheers i'll give it a go - sounds good

Luke and Artoo sitting in a tree.......K i s s i n g!

[ZargonX]

Did you get this to run under XP? Or are you on a different platform?

[Kloreep]

I think I remember that mission. It's in one of those damn Y-Wings, right? I got it eventually. I think what I ended up doing to win the mission was keep playing till I got a perfect run. You have to be as fast as possible, and not make any time-wasting mistakes, to get all the transports. I'm afraid I don't have any real advice for this mission.