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[Robotic Pope]

Oh, me too. The X-wing/Tie Fighter PC game series are included in my favourite ever games. I'm always wishing they would make a new one but then i'm afraid they would make it all arcadey and Clone wars cartoony.

I still play Xwing alliance now and then but it does look pretty dated. I can imagine the grahics of a proper new x-wing game would be almost movie quality, that would be awesome huh?

Foz, the Y-wing was always my favourite too. And your right about work horse, have you seen what the Y-wing looked like when it was new before the rebelion stripped it down and modded the crap out of it?

[FOZ_1983]

I think i prefer the Y-Wing as it is it looks a bit weird the old "delta" way. Keep your X-Wings, B-Wings,etc....

Give me Gold Squadron and some Y-Wings........

[dkwookie]

I love that Y Wing too. Only thing that bugged me is it has a rotating gun on it that looks perfect for rear gunnery. The rebels missed a beat by making it a one man bomber. A rear facing co pilot would have nailed Darth and his wingman in that trench with ease.
I noticed in Revenge Of The Sith during Obi Wan and Anakins Assault at the start they had cover by Arc fighters. Those Arc fighters do have a rear gunner

Edit found this on Starwars.com
"The initial BTL-B bomber was a double-seater craft with a forward-facing pilot, and a tailgunner in a rotating bubble turret. The Rebel Alliance maintained two basic types of Y-wings, the single-seater BTL-A4 and the double-seater BTL-S3. In the two-seater S3, the gunner sits facing rear, controlling the turret-mounted ion cannon. Both pilot and gunner are protected by a pair of Koensayr ballistic ejection seats that automatically eject both crew members. The A4 features Guidenhauser ejection systems like their X-wing counterparts."

Looks like the Yavin planners had the wrong machines for the death star attack, they needed the BTL-B!

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

I love that Y Wing too. Only thing that bugged me is it has a rotating gun on it that looks perfect for rear gunnery. The rebels missed a beat by making it a one man bomber. A rear facing co pilot would have nailed Darth and his wingman in that trench with ease.
I noticed in Revenge Of The Sith during Obi Wan and Anakins Assault at the start they had cover by Arc fighters. Those Arc fighters do have a rear gunner

Edit found this on Starwars.com
"The initial BTL-B bomber was a double-seater craft with a forward-facing pilot, and a tailgunner in a rotating bubble turret. The Rebel Alliance maintained two basic types of Y-wings, the single-seater BTL-A4 and the double-seater BTL-S3. In the two-seater S3, the gunner sits facing rear, controlling the turret-mounted ion cannon. Both pilot and gunner are protected by a pair of Koensayr ballistic ejection seats that automatically eject both crew members. The A4 features Guidenhauser ejection systems like their X-wing counterparts."

Looks like the Yavin planners had the wrong machines for the death star attack, they needed the BTL-B!

Think of it this way. Whats the first thing that would get removed from WWII bombers when they needed to save weight for better performance or bigger bomb payloads? The heavy manned rotary turrets!

And then there is this... Y Wing BTL-B is the B-17. Y Wing BTL-S3 is the B-29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5U0_...layer_embedded

[Burtonboy05]

[QUOTE=Robotic Pope;293947]Oh, me too. The X-wing/Tie Fighter PC game series are included in my favourite ever games. I'm always wishing they would make a new one but then i'm afraid they would make it all arcadey and Clone wars cartoony.

I still play Xwing alliance now and then but it does look pretty dated. I can imagine the grahics of a proper new x-wing game would be almost movie quality, that would be awesome huh?

Foz, the Y-wing was always my favourite too. And your right about work horse, have you seen what the Y-wing looked like when it was new before the rebelion stripped it down and modded the crap out of it?

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XWA was and still is a great game. I'm not sure if you've heard of XWAupgrade?? If you're rig can handle it I'd suggest you go to http://www.xwaupgrade.com and start down loading all the mods. You'll also have to grab the basic installer and it adds a ton of life to a game that let's face it looks pretty dated.

These guys have done a stella job and it turns the craft from pretty average looking annimations to what they look like in the films, with in the graphics engines capability anyway.

I grabbed them all and started the game all overaging they way it should have looked first time around. It does suck the resources of an older system but SW on the PC never looked so good.

[StiC]

Originally Posted by Burtonboy05

XWA was and still is a great game. I'm not sure if you've heard of XWAupgrade?? If you're rig can handle it I'd suggest you go to http://www.xwaupgrade.com and start down loading all the mods. You'll also have to grab the basic installer and it adds a ton of life to a game that let's face it looks pretty dated.

These guys have done a stella job and it turns the craft from pretty average looking annimations to what they look like in the films, with in the graphics engines capability anyway.

I grabbed them all and started the game all overaging they way it should have looked first time around. It does suck the resources of an older system but SW on the PC never looked so good.

Thanks for the link. I didn't know about this.

StiC

[Shadowcorp]

It was X-wing versus Tie fighter on the pc that started my love of dogfighting, though i think the original star wars movies had a lot to do with me buying that game. If they ever try for a console release of such classic titles as x-wing alliance or x-wing versus tie fighter i would buy it in a snap.

[winny]

Originally Posted by Shadowcorp

It was X-wing versus Tie fighter on the pc that started my love of dogfighting, though i think the original star wars movies had a lot to do with me buying that game. If they ever try for a console release of such classic titles as x-wing alliance or x-wing versus tie fighter i would buy it in a snap.

XvT was the first game I played online, first squadron I ever joined, first online mates. All through a 56k modem... eugh..

It was a great game though, remember the original BoP? Balance of Power.. Attacking the SSD in BoP with your B-wing was superb.

Then XWA came along, I wish I still had the game, I'd download those mods and take a trip down memory lane..

Whilst I like the Unleashed games Lucasarts have done lightsabre battles to death, it's about time they did an XWA or XvT for this generation.

[dkwookie]

XWA was the first PC game I played. It was like a dream come true. I still remember when I got to the death star attack on the last level.
I am going to dig out the cd and try out that advanced mod, many thanks for the link

Agree it's high time for lucasarts to do another in the series. I can only dream how close it would be to looking like the films with the current hardware

[Burtonboy05]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

XWA was the first PC game I played. It was like a dream come true. I still remember when I got to the death star attack on the last level.
I am going to dig out the cd and try out that advanced mod, many thanks for the link

Agree it's high time for lucasarts to do another in the series. I can only dream how close it would be to looking like the films with the current hardware

No problems chaps, I hope you enjoy the mods as much as I did and still do from time to time.

There are some great single missions that players have created too. Some are so indepth they've created whole new ships but I just stick to the basic ones. I think Darksabers page has a lot of the missions from memory if it's still up and running. THere was also a good one made which was the evacuation of echo base - basically the first mission of the game but from the point of view of a Xwing fighter and what we briefly see in the movies or have read in the books. Really well done.

Links should be on the XWA page and I think Ace Antillies made the echo base mission if you want to search for it. It only requires some very basic editing to get them to work. If I can do it anyone can as I'm far from PC savvy.

Totally agree though a new Xwing or Tie series on the 360/PS3/PC would be gold. Just give us those old games with updated sound and graphics and ill be stoked. LA dropped the ball a decade ago though - XWA was their last decent game in my opinion which was around 2002 I think. Since then they've produced nothing but rubbish.