EaW Confirmation List (FAW answered)

[Jmaster3265]

EaW Confirmation List

 

 

Features

 

Release date is Febuary 7th 2006.

 

Multi-player will include up to 8-person skirmishes. There will also be a 2-player version of the singleplayer campaign.

 

The game is being made by Petroglyph, who were formerly apart of Westwood Studios, of Command & Conquer fame.

 

The game runs on a new engine developed by Petroglyph.

 

General Gameplay

 

The game is set at the start of Galactic Civil War, between Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith (The end of the Clone Wars) and about two years before Episode Four: A New Hope (The Battle of Yavin).

 

Petrograph has confirmed that there will be expansion packs made after release, it is unspecified what the time frames are.

 

The games technology tree extends to Episode Four and no farther, so no TIE Defenders or Executer-class Star Dreadnuaght.

 

Battles can take place anywhere, from the depths of an Astroid Belt, to a blank region of space, on an island, and around the gravity sphere of a planet.

 

Capital ships and space stations will have hard-point slots that you can equip with additional shield and weapon systems to pack a serious punch. However, your ships' hard points will be visible to the enemy (they actually appear onscreen on your ships) and can be targeted directly.

 

The map will be where you'll keep track of your current missions, which will appear as incoming transmissions in windows that pop up onscreen. Your missions will include critical operations, like those given to you by Rebel officer Mon Mothma or by Emperor Palpatine himself, or side missions uncovered by your spies or offered by neutral characters, like besieged merchants looking for clear passage in pirate-infested space. This map will also be where you produce starships for your fleets and manage the planets under your control.

 

Any given planet may also be the seat of enhanced production or technology, so it may be able to produce more armies or give you immediate access to advanced technologies you'd normally pay a fortune to research. You may even uncover a hidden cache of fighter ships or the home planet of a hero who will join your cause after you liberate it. Or, planets may be strategically placed in the galaxy as choke points.

 

You dont just have your fleet sitting around your planet, you can have them sit anywhere in the galaxy you want as long as its within a certain circle of range of a planet. This allows you to stop enemy fleets attacking your planet with Interdictors before they ever get their. Allowing you to relieve the pressure of stopping ships from getting to the planets surface. Also allows unique hit and run options without the pressure of planetary defences

 

Fortunately, the game will also have both tutorials and a "preamble game" to get new players familiar with strategic decisions, good or bad. From there, with shrewd planning, you may be able to do things like bring the state-of-the-art X-Wing fighter into battle much earlier than it was originally available in the Star Wars universe. You may even decisively crush the Rebellion (or the Empire) before that whole "I am your father"

business even happened

~all this info thanks to http://darkhandclan.fragism.com/gl-bin/forum/index.php~

The Death Star takes a really long time to build, so the rebels can destroy it easier and it requires the Research station to research each seperate part for it.

 

The environment can affect your movement and may become an advantage or hinderance.

 

You can edit your options, like changing the scale or how good the graphics are.

 

Reinforcement Points are strategic points scattered around the map. They are crucial for the attacking player as they allow you to hold positions and bring down reinforcement from space. Also, reinforcement points can only be captured by infantry, so it is vital to protect troops as they advance through the battlefield.

 

There are floating platforms on the water worlds that allow combat to occur on them.

 

All game physics and such are controlled in the game folder by XML files, so you will be able to mod this game infinatly.

 

WE WILL BE ALLOWED TO RENAME SHIPS

 

Acquiring the X-wings is a major event for the rebellion, and we certainly didn't want to leave that to a cut-scene! You'll be very hands-on in stealing the X-wings when playing the Alliance! =)

 

You will have the ability to create new units for the game, and some can go in/on/above water. The game engine is very mod friendly, in our opinion.

 

Bombardment from ships in orbit or firing up from the surface can occur in battle

 

A scenario designer is likely, due to the showing of a screen with Offical Maps, and Unoffical Maps listed. Under Offical maps was E3 Demo adn such that they showed the public.

 

You earn credits by controlling a planet, the amount can be boosted by capturing mining facilities and such.

 

Each will affect wach other. In space, Planatery Ion and Turbolaser Cannons will attack the enemy ships, and transports will need to break through to the planet to attack. When on the ground, bombardments can be called down on enemy troops.

 

Capital Ships will be lumbering, while fighters and bombers will be able to turn on a dime.

 

You will be able to control where your fleet jumps in, when the fleet arrives at its destination you will get the view of all the space around the planet, you then point and drag where you want them to jump in at.

 

The drag and drop unit menu in the game appears to be specialized in what unit it is,say if you have 8 Victorys then you will see a mini-pic of a Victory and a number eight beside it.

 

The Empire and Rebel Alliance will be the ONLY two factions. Petroglyph will be working on making the two factions as different as possible.

 

The Empire's will be a more of a 'swarm' faction, using many weak units. The Rebel Alliance's units will be more expensive, and harder to get.

 

The Rebels will steal plans for X-Wings from the Empire. Other ships may be researched in the same way.

 

In space, different systems can be knocked out on capital ships, by using

fighters you can knock out a Star Destroyers shields, their hyperdrive, or their weapon systems.

 

Ion cannons are used to knock out systems, rather than destroy ships.

 

Interdictor Cruisers are in the game. These capital ships generate a gravity well, preventing enemy ships from escaping into hyperspace.

 

Heroes can be brought out, improving surrounding units. Having Darth Vader on a Star Destroyer, for example, will improve response time, etc.

 

Heroes can also be brought into ground battles.

 

You can capture reinforcment flags to allow your transports to land near them.

 

Known battlefields: Coruscant, Alderaan, Endor, Naboo, Hoth, Dagobah, Tatooine, Yavin IV as well as never-before-seen environments taken directly from the Star Wars films and expanded universe novels.

 

Units will be built in 'squads' rather than indivually, in a system similar to Battle For Middle Earth.

 

Planets will also have NPCs. Rancors are neutral units who can gobble up troopers, where as Jawas are uncontrollable, yet will fight for the Rebel Alliance.

 

Confirmed Units

 

Rebel Alliance

 

Fighters

 

Air Speeder - A nice touch is that these airspeeders can tangle up the AT-AT's, just like in the Empire Strikes Back.

 

X-Wing

 

A-Wing

 

Y-Wing

 

Mechs

 

T-2b Tank

 

MPTL-2a

 

Pod Walker

 

Assault Speeder - Not Air Speeder.

 

Capital Ships

 

Blockade Runner

 

Corellian Gunship

 

MC-80 Cruiser

 

Home One Class Cruiser

 

Mauder Corvette.

 

Nebulon B-Frigate

 

Assault Frigate Mk II

 

Troopers

 

Rebel Trooper

 

Plex Missle Soldier

 

Structures

 

Ion Cannon

 

Turbolaser

 

Ground Based Laser Cannon

 

Ground Based Laser Blaster

 

Rebel Bacta Tank

 

Light Factory

 

Anti-Aircraft Turret

 

Rebel Command Center

 

Power Generator

 

Base Shield Generator

 

Sensor Node

 

Heavy Vehicle Facility

 

Barracks

 

Shutter Shield Generator

 

Alliance Space Station Level 1

 

Empire

 

Fighters

 

TIE Fighter

 

TIE Interceptor

 

TIE Bomber

 

TIE Scout

 

Mechs

 

AT-ST

 

AT-AT

 

AT-AA

 

SPMA-T

 

Scout trooper-on-Speeder Bike

 

TIE Crawler

 

2-M Repulsortank

 

Capital Ships

 

Interdictor Cruiser (No auto Gravity Wells like in Rebellion, nope you click when you want them up then click them down. Includes some charging times and such.)

 

Venator Star Detroyer

 

Tartan Patrol Cruiser

 

Broadside Cruiser

 

Imperial Star Destroyer

 

Victory Star Destroyer

 

Assault Lamba Transport

 

Acclamator Assault Ship

 

Star Galleon

 

Troopers

 

Scouttrooper

 

Stormtrooper

 

Structures

 

Heavy Factory

 

Advanced Vehicle Facility

 

Hypervelocity Gun

 

Turbolaser

 

Sensor Node

 

Research Facility - Must be built to produce Death Star Parts.

 

Communications Array

 

Imperial Space Station Level 5

 

Superweapons

 

Death Star - The Death Star is in this game, with all it's planet-destroying glory. Once it is in orbit, a timer counts down to zero, at which point...BOOM!

 

Misc.

 

Probe Droids - You can use these to scout out the galaxy in search of the Rebels.

 

 

Shipyards - Look like build and repair.

 

 

Heroes

 

Darth Vader

 

Force Crush - Vader uses the force against enemy tanks and vehicles.

 

Force Push - Vader uses a force shockwave to flatten enemy infantry.

 

Kyle Katarn

 

Obi-wan Kenobi

 

Force Protect

 

General Maximillian Veers [May only be in AT-AT]

 

Han Solo & Chewbacca - for somereason these will be a single unit.

 

Mon Mothma

 

R2D2 and C-3PO (maybe, hinted from PFF)

 

Mara Jade

 

Boba Fett

 

Palpatine

 

Moldy Crow (Ship)

 

The Accuser (Ship)

 

Jek Porkins (Ship)

 

Slave 1 (Ship)

 

Satellites

 

Missle Defence Satellite

 

Gaia Structures

 

Mineral Processor

 

Jedi Temple (May be Imperial Structure but unlikely even though surronded by Imperial Base)

 

Space Objects

 

Astroid Fields, with what appears to be an ionization storm.

 

Unconfirmed

 

Rebel ships aproximatly 7:00 into the Leipez Convention Video Here, looks like a light troop carrier.

 

 

Also check out this site http://swgb.heavengames.com/eaw/units.php

[Gen.Vader]

nice, compiled most good info inot 1 thread, keep it up

[JediKnightNathan]

where is the jedi temple. if you can show us a pic that would be great. or just provied a link.

[Zer_Teron]

Eh, that looks almost exactly like mine doescopy-cat. Mine has a better look though.copy and paste only does so much

 

http://darkhandclan.fragism.com/gl-bin/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10

 

http://media.ign.com/thumb/113/1137629/star-wars-empire-at-war-20050524041111315_thumb.jpg

[AT-AP]

The 'Pod walker' is the AT-AP, and it looks like the Empire has it in recent screenshots.

 

It might be a vehicle for both sides, or the Rebels have to steal it, or the Rebel version has been cut since the video.

 

There's also the T-4b tank for the Rebels (the big one with two turrets).

[Admiral Nova]

Plagiarism. Good work to whoever actually wrote it.

 

Also, Jmaster, the link you provided at the bottom of your post is severly out of date and would not offer half the information that your post did.

[Foshjedi2004]

The Interceptor is not confirmed yet!! Plus under heroes you forgot Emperor Palpatine, Mara Jade and Mon Mothma. All have been seen in either screens from Liepzig or in the recent video.

[Megajames]

The Interceptor is not confirmed yet!! Plus under heroes you forgot Emperor Palpatine, Mara Jade and Mon Mothma. All have been seen in either screens from Liepzig or in the recent video.

 

Why is the intercepter in they keep saying it's not, or do you have iner souces

[Foshjedi2004]

The Interceptor is not confirmed. Delphi said that there are a few units we have yet to see so it still may sneak in with the B-wing. We just don't know at the moment.

 

And No I have no inside sources

[Megajames]

The intercepter should be in as... Well it has been said a 100000 times so.

[AT-AP]

The intercepter should be in as

Would you people please stop saying this or that "should be in"? Because you're just preaching to the choir here. Petroglyph will do what they want anyway, so let's wait and see if there's some concrete evidence forthcoming.

[Phantom_pff]

This is good, thanks Jmaster3265

[Dorkthehunter]

Battles can take place anywhere, from the depths of an Astroid Belt, to a blank region of space, on an island, and around the gravity sphere of a planet.

 

No. Delphi has said 100 times that it is only in a planet, or on ground.

[Jmaster3265]

Ok, calm down some of you, I may have forgot some things.....Also thanks to the people who complimented me on this.

[Dorkthehunter]

I ment to compliment you on it, but I forgot. Oops. There is some really nice information in it, but you should change the name to FAQ

[Vader89]

Nice work!

[Zer_Teron]

Plagerist. Its an exact copy of mine, he didnt even bother to make the links work.

[Jmaster3265]

No did you read carefully look again, I put it in bold this time so you can see. Also i edited it a bit too.

[Zer_Teron]

Its still an exact copy with a couple icons and one just edited link to the forum where mine is. More like a copy-paste copy without the links and colors ect

[Admiral Nova]

Someone is trying to earn browny points.

 

And you are not able to fight in a blank region of space.

[Zer_Teron]

browny points?

 

I know, i havnt gone completly through and updated it yet.

[Megajames]

It still think you should be able to place indicators in the middle of hyperspace lanes.

[Zer_Teron]

I think you can, it showed in one of the videos that you could put a fleet anywhere in a large circular area around one of your planets.

[Megajames]

I meant inbetween the planets

[Eduardo]

Battles can take place anywhere, from the depths of an Astroid Belt, to a blank region of space, on an island, and around the gravity sphere of a planet.

 

No. Delphi has said 100 times that it is only in a planet, or on ground.

 

Well, there are planets that have sateroid belts, and when you destroy a planet, you can battle where the asteroids are (the remains of the planet), and in land, you can battle in islands, so, there are a lot of places to battle, the only one that isn't in the game is the blank region of space