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Sounds like you and I are on the same level here. Ron Moore applied to BSG what he hated about Voyager - that there should be continuity to what happens to the ship, not be like new each episode. By the time it got back to Federation space, it should be almost unrecognisable to a factory condition Intrepid with all the modifications they would've had to make to repair and/or enhance the ship with alien tech. I used to rewatch B5 once a year or so, but since I got a family, that's not been so easy anymore :D As for ST vs SW, I think many Trek fans get hung up on that line in a TNG episode about how lasers can't even penetrate navigational shields as a 'ah ha gotcha!' argument because Star Wars uses predominantly, lasers. But I always understood SW weaponry to be more than just simple lasers.

@@ange1uk Yeah that line on lasers I didn't buy either. "Laser" is a sweep-all term used in Star Wars since it's more about tech that just works for the story, we don't need to know HOW it works. If we called the Veteron Array a "laser", is that going to magically not harm the Enterprise? :D It nearly ruined the NX-01 with one burst at 1% power.

Space Above and Beyond is a series that screams for a remake. It was a show ahead of its time I think. I believe the ISD is actually something from an old mod of mine made by one of our team modellers. I've asked the author to confirm if its his or not :D

Yes I guess this is true, though I never saw them as proper shields in the sense of Star Trek, acting more like the 'polarised' hull plating used on the NX-01.

Making it compatible with XWAU 2024 isn't that hard as such, the problem is the Palpatine Total Converter. Its a total mess and each subsequent patch has made it more cumbersome to manage. So we will be removing it entirely and thus we have to split out the mods individually, making sure its all working, correct files, compatibility etc. I also need help from the XWAU team members to do it, and well RL does get in the way of things.

Out of curiosity, how would your team have resolved the differences in technology from SW to Trek? Deflectors versus shields; turbo lasers versus phasers, differences in speed/propulsion and such? I only ask because this has been a contentious debate for decades so I'm curious how a modding team would have resolved it 😄

@@therexbellator Well I would simply give them a unified set of stats to work with, based on weight, role and ability and make your own judgement on how you would want a fun, engaging experience to be balanced. In our original ST vs SW mod for Armada, we basically started with a Galaxy-class vs an ISD and then used that baseline to create the rest of the game balance around it. Basically it's just coming down to an equation you can create to balance the firepower of the two universes against each other. Its irrelevant to focus on the technology aspect, because you simply can't mesh the two universes together like that and it doesn't matter to me from a gaming standpoint. You can make up any narrative reason you like to explain the reasons for the disparity or equality in tech and firepower 🙂 Now sure you could try to do that and focus on the technology, but it seems that inevitably one side will steamroll another (most arguments I've seen for either side usually seem to come down to one stomping on the other with ease), but that's not fun from a gaming perspective. Well.. maybe in a cathartic sort of way it would be fun, but you'd get bored of it quickly I'm sure. Balance tops realism every time for me for the best gameplay experience. 🙂

Because its a tongue-in-cheek reference to you playing from the perspective of the Empire and their PoV. In this game, the first ever SW game where you played as the Empire, you don't really do any evil actions even if you are serving a genuinely evil organisation.

Yup, definitely the best fun I've had with BC thus far. Is there a nice extra big ship pack addon I can grab or is it adding one at a time the things you want?

A shame Andy Dick is... well... a dick in RL.

Hello, yes you can use 0-100% throttle but I don't know what is causing your issue specifically. Please join our Discord, we have a channel dedicated to helping out with any joystick/controller issues there.

Hello, I just clicked and checked the Discord link, it seems to work fine, I asked another person to try and they got it fine too. Perhaps try to copy/paste the invite link directly into Discord? This is the best place to get help from us, otherwise the XWAU forums would be your next best bet.

@ange1uk it says invite expired when I click it. I'll try c and p later.

@@greg5143 I just checked the server invites, the invite ending in GFVjySqEfm is still valid and being used as far as I can tell.

@@ange1uk That worked!

Yup, and I do make a comment on this a few times, including my final review that the phaser sounds are very wrong. Torpedo sounds are great though. However you COULD argue the bolts are accurate, if very slow firing. If you recall in Wrath of Khan (the only TOS movie that had the Enterprise firing phasers), they were more like rapid fire bolts.

It was a toothless old Grishnah cat, trying to frighten with its roar.

Yup I figured that out towards the end of the video 😅

Thank you! I have thought about this with the Windows volume settings, but ultimately I prefer to try and balance the audio with the games own settings, and then by that metric I can also judge the games audio balancing systems and quality overall. This mod makes things very loud with its sometimes interesting choice of sound effects, combined with the highly compressed videos and some dialogue they throw in.

@@ange1uk Yeah these guys didn't consider to normalize all the sound samples.

The Carrack doesn't have a proper hangar but I did realise (after I made it in Miro) that it does actually have several mounts underneath to carry fighters, just like the Gozanti, though I've never used this in game. So yes it can be altered when I get round to going back and updating the board.

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@@Padtedesco That's a very hard question to answer in a YT comment. If you want help designing missions join our Discord and seek out also the Emperor's Hammer group, they have thousands of missions!

The AI (probably thankfully) can't do that. It only ever fires one missile at a time at you (and usually no more than is needed to kill you). AI behaviour does not launch two missiles at a time unless heavily damaged.

If you mean all the background explosion effects I agree, audio balancing will be addressed at some point :)

@@ange1uk The fire with around 10 frames of animation.

@@Daimo83 Ah I see, I thought you meant the audio. The limitation here is the explosions are contained in high res images in the DAT files (and there are several variants). Those take up almost 1GB of space. So yes I guess we could make a new one with double or triple the frames, but it will also considerably increase their DAT file size too :D

@@ange1uk My vote says do it. A gig takes minutes to download and in ten years it will take seconds.

If you want to know how I made it. I made a highly detailed gas planet in Blender and then set the sun at a very low angle (7° below straight horizontal) and placed the camera right above the surface, and took an Equarectanglar image of it and a straight down image. Then ilios cropped and edited the images to not show a seam and he added the increased horizon glow too

Hello, these missions are not available from the regular 1.3.4 install from ModDB, this is only available from our Discord server as I wish to encourage feedback from playtesting. The links are in the video description to join our Discord then you can download the latest version which I just published which is v0.1.0 :)

@@ange1uk thanks for responding. I have installed 1.3.4 and then the rebalance 0.1...Im just not seeing the screen to select the new training missions...not sure what I did wrong or what to look for...

@@Trompunitalphapropan Hi, please ask these questions in the Discord server, it's much easier to help you there and you can post screenshots. The training missions are part of the main campaign, you can only play them in the simulator once you unlock them.

Perhaps so, but you may find many disagree with you on that one. Personally, I found Squadrons rather average and not as in-depth as these older games go. Not bad, not great. The only thing really going for it (for me) is that Squadrons is visually superior in terms of graphical fidelity and modern system support and probably more accessible to the average gamer, but overall the experience is much more 'on rails' and a more shallow experience as a result (as far as Single Player goes).. However the game was marketed more as a multiplayer experience (like X-Wing vs TIE Fighter) with a tacked on single player campaign. Modding like this is most definitely not possible in Squadrons like it is with XWA.

I Played both, Tie fighter is less constrained. Is more brainly.Also. Thanks Ugly. Unanimity is a vice and you are the one who do not allowed that to happen.

@@Padtedesco Sorry what I am being blamed for now? The fact that I find an old game like X-wing vs Tie Fighter lacklustre is just my opinion. Am I allowed to have one?

Squadrons was a step in the right direction but EA had to be EA and screw the devs over

@@terribulspyder yup, I plan to do a whole new LP for TFTC Reimagined when it's completed.

The Missile Boat is meant to be OP... until you run out of ammo. So the trick will be building missions around its gameplay to keep it interesting :)