Ryze wrote:Good call. Kinect (or even a mic) could do all the wingman stuff.bad09 wrote:Ooooh..... Kinect could allow virtual button pushing. As could a chatpad. I expect that a chatpad is as banned as a keyboard for gameplay.Khanivor wrote:Yeah but you had flight, power, shields, targeting, communications etc. Even with a flight stick you still needed the keyboard if I remember correctly. surely all of that would not be possible on a pad, 360 pad has what 10 buttons including the stick buttons, 5 more if you include the D-pad and the back button (start would obviously be needed to pause the game). 15 buttons wouldn't do it without streamlining the game.
I'm not sure why the flight-stick controls of X-Wing couldn't be mapped to a modern controller. Getting the travel and deadzones would be tricky but I think it could be done.
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Get out, both of you. Take your human waggle with you!Ryze wrote:
Good call. Kinect (or even a mic) could do all the wingman stuff.
Ooooh..... Kinect could allow virtual button pushing. As could a chatpad. I expect that a chatpad is as banned as a keyboard for gameplay.
Seriously though, voice commands could work. Has it ever worked though? I only tried it once on a Ghost Recon game and gave up when I realised I needed to talk in an american acent for it to register...that was Ubifail though, they're not known for their quailty.... -
Khanivor 38,670 posts
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bad09 4,570 posts
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Registered 6 years agoKhanivor wrote:
True, if Ubifail can't do it right LA have no chance
Quality is not exactly immediately associated with Lucas Arts these days.gif)
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vijay_UK 511 posts
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Registered 6 years agoObligatory where's my Freespace 3 thread hijack post.
/prays to the gaming gods to get Volition to make another one
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Get back in your hole and stop getting your indecipherable ooze all over proper threads.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Khanivor 38,670 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI thought even the original X-Wing let you turn faster at lower speeds? And I seem to recall SVGA Tie Fighter being pretty much unplayable on a 486 - if you're going to put together a system to replay it, I'd recommend a P133 (maybe a P90 minimum). I don't remember it looking any better with a Soundblaster, so I'm not sure why that was mentioned. And a 19 foot monitor? 19 feet?!
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Also Gravis Ultrasound >>>>>>>>> Soundblaster for these games.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Registered 11 years agoFolk like nipsen are what give Wikipedia a bad name.
Dundering fuckwits aside, looking at some old Tie Fighter pics and damn if I don't want a nice, simple update. Give me 2011 GFX, (PC GFX, not 2003 toy attempts) an updated UI, some leaderboards and drop-in co-op and I'd cream.
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khaz 2,127 posts
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Registered 6 years agoAlliance shouldn't have been the end but I think it was the last hurrah of the old school Lucasarts devs. There were touches of the old school LA in there but it was too late by then. Phantom Menace was on its way. Everything went to tosh after that, except for Jedi Outcast and Academy, which were pretty cool actually.
No i'm still not upset from the time I played Naboo Fighter. No i'm not, really.
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Khanivor 38,670 posts
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Registered 6 years agoAlliance was cool...apart from that damn crate inspection mission where the AI always left one uninspected.The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine.
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khaz 2,127 posts
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AGH! Damn you for reminding me!
Alliance was cool...apart from that damn crate inspection mission where the AI always left one uninspected.
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Oh, there you go, just turn down all the graphics options to a bare minimum and it will run at the higher resolution. Seems to be the story of your life! Although you're still wrong, and a ten-second Google search offers two more opinions that a 486 is insufficient:
..really don't feel like playing Tie Fighter or x-wing any more either, when I can play Freespace, or I-War/Edge of Chaos (..or maybe Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, if I'm feeling lazy). Those games have aged well. Tie Fighter maybe didn't. The concept and the way the game works was stuck on the hardware it was made for. See that too well when you play I-War. How two-dimensional Tie Fighter was, that you almost never have to use the 3d map, or think in 3d space.
PenguinJim wrote:
..well, I guess you seem to remember wrong. 486/33 with the detail a way down would run perfectly fine. A dx/66 would run great..
I thought even the original X-Wing let you turn faster at lower speeds? And I seem to recall SVGA Tie Fighter being pretty much unplayable on a 486
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=27886&sid=9e93140827112e5c0612c1ce06f17c30
"I tried to play Tie Fighter in SVGA mode on the 486 some time ago and it was nearly unplayable; standard VGA mode was a much more enjoyable experience."
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=24216&sid=a990a8267a3accb353ee6f3efec15be1
"I've recently got my 486 set up and bought Tie Fighter Collector's CD to play. The game plays fine but I have to turn all the graphics down to either off or lowest setting. I thought perhaps a RAM upgrade would help so I bought 64MB and stuck it in. If it's made any difference at all though, it's not noticeable!"
nipsen wrote:
Ummm... relevance? Precisely to the pound, no, I don't remember how much a Pentium CPU cost in 1994 off the top of my head, but I'd guess it would have been cheaper than the 16MB RAM you suggested earlier. And both the P90 and P100 were faster than even the DX4-100. Weren't they available in 1994?
..do you remember how much a pentium would cost in 1994, by the way..? It didn't really perform better than a 486dx until the 100 and 200Mhz versions with the faster level 2 cache turned up a couple of years later either. Pentium MMX turned up in.. ..96? 97?
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Erm...I understand the graphical aspect but stating that Tie Fighter hasn't aged well because of the concept? Did you actually watch Star Wars? Comparing a simplified simulation based on a fantasy film with one incorporating Newtonian physics doesn't really make sense; plus, the flight model in Freespace isn't that different to Tie Fighter.
..really don't feel like playing Tie Fighter or x-wing any more either, when I can play Freespace, or I-War/Edge of Chaos (..or maybe Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, if I'm feeling lazy). Those games have aged well. Tie Fighter maybe didn't. The concept and the way the game works was stuck on the hardware it was made for. See that too well when you play I-War. How two-dimensional Tie Fighter was, that you almost never have to use the 3d map, or think in 3d space.
And what exactly has the hardware to do with anything? X-Wing and Tie Fighter worked perfectly well as far as 3D movement is concerned even in 320x200 VGA resolution. In fact, it's a massive praise that the game was so playable and engaging even in such a low resolution.
I can well see that you might not like Tie Fighter because it isn't as pretty as later games (Gouraud shading instead of textured models is an acquired taste, though it was quite revolutionary in 1994; since Freespace was released in 1999 it would make more sense to compare TF to WC3 as the latter is from same year) but your argumentation seems rather contrived. -
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Registered 11 years agoI seem to remember being able to run Tie Fighter just fine in SVGA on my DX2/66. No idea if the fact that I had 8MB of RAM helped with that, but it ran fine. That could be my memory playing tricks on me though.
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Salaman wrote:
That was a really tough part. As was your first encounter with the rebels. Some great missions in that game. I liked the radio controlled experimental TIEs. It was also cool whenever you were caught out by an interdictor.
I never got far in Alliance.
I think I failed to rescue uncle Anton or what was his name even though I tried 10 or 20 times and gave up.The world is going mad. Me? I'm doing fine.
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