Surprise, surprise.

[Matthujun]

if anyone didn't know about it. Venator is in this game as a pirate ship.. hehe that's kinda funny. i say thanks to the devs who actually included the venator even though we can't control it.

 

uhh if u want to see it for urslef, u should go download one of the mods for the demo and see for urself.

Edited January 21, 2006 by Cain

[jedi mike]

yes i saw that aswell very cool

[Ghostly_Substance]

Perfect. V-Wings also right? Edited January 21, 2006 by Ghostly_Substance

[sanderke]

I think it's a nice gesture from petroglyph to leave it in so that the modders can easily re-add it.

[Ghostly_Substance]

why would the pirates have the A-Wing it was a brand new ship at that time!

 

Typoed again  >  Just like I typo mod with demo and A-Wing with V-Wing  :-\ the flip

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

yeah sorry Ghostly i removed my post.

[Admrial Joyce]

Its good to know the Venator is somewhere in EAW.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

wel technically the texture is a Venator but it's listed as an Pirate Interceptor. (if i can recall.)

[quickymart]

picture?

[Star Wars Man]

Bryant's 1.0 mod had the Venator available. Here are some pictures:

 

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/e4352e45cdde4f3d599ee78ee0b67defa18e329c.png

My force, including 2 Venators.

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/fd1cab383eb8b259f0fc5ad4237bd8879a9ddea6.png

This is the Venator in the mod. As you can see, it has hard points.

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/fd314d76957e91785c7a12f0e6a957af0ca9e3be.png

The Venator in combat. It has 4 turbolasers and 2 Ion Cannons.

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/511f14d5d60f71e962a3f8a4936817096f91f7ef.png

The Venator is powerful in numbers. Lost one but it took out this ISD.

[SirNuke]

In my mod I replaced the Pirate frigate with the "Jedi Cruiser" model (aka Venator), since the game doesn't include the Pirate frigate model. Judging by the differences in hardpoints, the Pirate frigate isn't the Venator.  Judging by the comments in the code, the Venator isn't going to be used in the game either (there are multiple Episode 3 units included).

 

Which, yes, still allows modders to add it it quite easily.

[Nevets]

Hmmm I think it being a pirate vehicle would actually be a real nice fit for it in game.

 

EDIT: Am also glad it will be one of the first things to be modded in, was by far my favorit unit in the game. All my fleets had one.

Edited January 23, 2006 by Nevets

[Guest]

WTF is it for the rebels? I'd rather not have the venator in the game if the rebels are going to get it

[Otto von Bismark]

Whoa, somebody's got a personal bias against da rebels. Both factions got their good stuffs.

Imperials have awesome bigguns, da Rebels got awesome littluns.

[Teradyn_pff]

The rebels should not have any Venators.  The Venators were in use by the Republic which is what became the Empire.

 

Anyway, the Venator is actually in the demo as it's own ship.  I had 1 in my Imperial fleet when I was messing with the datafiles.

[SirNuke]

The Rebels don't have the Venator.  That was Bryant's mod (and derivatives) have it enabled for the Rebels.  In the final game, or so it would appear from the comments in the XML code, no side has it.

[Otto von Bismark]

People always talk of rebels being overpowered...but it's often the opposite. That's why we love being imperial. 

[Nevets]

People always talk of rebels being overpowered...but it's often the opposite. That's why we love being imperial.

 

Not really. Most games where competition matter usually have rebels overpowered. This is because the majority of people want to play the good guys and be luke skywalker and all that jazz. When they find out the imps are being given advantages they scream bloody murder. The devs usually give in since that is the larger fan base.

[Otto von Bismark]

Okay....Steven(ingenius name you've got there). Why don't we pretend that it's all BALANCED, and okay...okay? Okay. Okay!

I actually don't think any side's OVER-powered, both sides've got special K. Mine thought processes are a bit scoooooty write no.............