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This mod looks awesome!! http://www.totalbf2.com/firststrike/index.php Even better, they say that they are shooting for a March release date! ;D Here is the "About" page. Its called First Strike. WHATS IT ALL ABOUT? 2005 | First Strike Team First Strike is a Star Wars based mod for Battlefield 2. Within this mod you'll find yourself as a soldier of the Galactic Empire or as a freedom fighter for the Rebel Alliance. You'll fight at various Star Wars locations and with all sorts of weapons and vehicles. One side will have to strike first, for that team will have the greatest advantage... or will it? The goal of First Strike is to immerse the players of Battlefield 2 into the amazing universe of Star Wars. First Strike will feature an extremely authentic atmosphere. Features include: Famous Star Wars Battles Dozens of Star Wars weapons, vehicles, and soldiers Space Battles! A very accurate depiction of the Star Wars Universe

Stealers PWN!!! Theres my EAW collecters fund right there, my friends were not happy! ;D

w00t!!!! ;D So who you guys cheering for?? Stealers all the way!!! Not really, Im a Denver fan myself :'(, but ANYONE is better than teh Seahawks. Halftime show now, 7 - 3 Stealers. Ive got $20 with my friends that says Stealers PWN the Seahawks.

SDs have no laser cannons, straight from sw databank. What do you mean by that? Turbolasers? Ion cannons? Both are too slow to hit starfighters except in rare cases.

Its right on the first menu, cant miss it. Go to options, then video, and anti-aliasing is right below the res list. One thing, how can it look "bloody gorgeous" if you havent changed the AA yet? ;D

What else sould they do? Sit there? Fire from the big guns often misses, but they can bag an x wing. Just try it, get it down you your isd and a few x wing squads. If you fast forward, you will see that some x wings will be destroyed. As for SW lore, I dont think that ISDs had any laser cannons. Just tractor beams, turbolasers, and ion cannons. Where do you live, under a rock? ;D Any bookstore I have been to has all or most of them. Just go to Waldenbooks or Barns and Nobles or Borders, they all have 'em.

EAW is not a demanding game in any respect. I could dig out my 6 year old PC and be able to run it without any problems. Maybe with all settings on low, but able to run it nonetheless. About the dvd thing, my last comp had no dvd player, and that was only about 2 years ago. I could buy an uber tricked out comp now and have it come with no dvd player.

I dont know about ground, but in space grouped units match speed. Take a formation of Impstars with tartans and order them to move. The tartans could easily outpace the Impstars, but they match speed.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starwarsrts/news.html?sid=6143589 Hooray for all of this coverage! This is like the second one in a week. Nice that surround sound is in, love my 5.1 system. Its a good read, even though I didnt get half of that musical junk at the end. ;D

One thing you people who want 3D have to know... This is not a space sim. It is a normal rts, like the Aoe series or the EE series. It just wouldnt be right for a game like this to have fully 3D space battles. Think of games like Nexus. EAW is not like that at all, and shouldnt be considered to be.

I like the design of the ship, IMO I never ever thought it would look like that from descriptions in EU books. I like it for design, not tactics, as I am a diehard Imperial. ;D

I know that I will fully play the single player portion and most likely love it, but the funnest thing will be multiplayer. Have you read the designer diarys on the MP? Space skirmish looks really cool, sharing a space station with your allys and building up stuff from there. I doubt that any of my friends will get EAW >, so I probably wont play the 1on1 galactic conquest. Then of course the mods when they come out. Edit: Oh yeah I didnt vote because my option isnt up there. I dont think that anyone will only do one of those things.

Yeah that happens to me too. When ships come out of hyperspace can they even have their shields on in SW cannon? I dont understand why they make reinforcing ships so weak. What was the angle of the mon cals to the ISDs? If there is a target on, say the starboard side, and you target it, all the starboard guns will fire on it. The guns that cant get an angle on the target are maybe on auto mode or something and shoot anything. That is a group thing I think. In alot of rts games now, if you select a group of different ships they will all move at the speed of the slowest member.

The Acclamator IS extremely weak as well. One or 2 nebulons could definetly destroy the acclamator. I have no idea why Petro removed teh Venator, but I bet it will have some role in the game, from campain or skirmish or pirates.

lol, that would make it into one of the strongest things in the game. An ISD only has 4 turbolaser batteries. The reduced shield thing would help, but having more firepower than an ISD really wouldnt be realistic. I dont know the specs of the venator, but I dont thing it is anything near the size of an ISD or a mon cal crusier.

They are saving all the clone wars stuff for an expantion. Thats why they replaced Mustafar with Shola or whatever. All the KOTOR and EU stuff is just in there, as there will most likely be no expantion for those eras. All the info we have right now definetly points to a prequal era expantion if there is one.

When it says that an ISD can carry 10 fighter squadrens and _ number of bombers, that doesnt mean they will deploy at once. Imagine you have 5 ISDs on screen.... that would be 50 TIEs and a bunch of bombers. That would kill the fps. Each ISD at the start deploys 2 fighter squadrens and 1 bomber squadren. As one starfighter squadren of any type dies, a new one is disgouged from the launch bay, and that keeps happening until the numbers run out. Same for the other TIE launching ships, just the others dont have as many TIEs.

3D space sims have more depth than EAW space battles. You just cant say that there are more tactics involved on a 2D plane than 3D. Dont get me wrong, I love how EAW is now and I wouldnt like it if it was 3D, as 2 things would happen. 1. The game would suffer the same fate as other hardcore sims like Nexus the Jupiter Incident. 2. If the Space was that in-depth, there would most likely be no ground combat. 3D is better if you are looking for a hardcore, space sim stratagy game, but that is not what EAW is.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starwarsrts/news.html?sid=6143273 Most of this stuff we already know, but its a good read anyhow. 'Pears gamespot somehow has an almost completed version of the game. ;D The gameplay footage attached to the preview shows what looks like skirmish mode. There was this big space station and it had a production interface when selected.

Everything has its countermeasure. For anti-starfighter in space there is the tartan for the Imps and the blockade runner for the rebs. On the ground there are AA units each side can bring and build pads which can build different types of turrets and stuff.

In Bryants mod 2 Mon Cal Ion cannons if my ISD shields are still on. Turbolasers if not. Engines if far away. Space Station Shields to open it up to TIE fighters and cap ships. Hanger if TIEs/ISDs are occupied. Weapons depending on threat. I think that there is no "overall" hp for ships with subsystems. You have to destroy each one to kill it, the hp marker just says how close you are to killing all the systems.

Yeah, I would say they probably are, but are easily countered. Hey, at least this is one thing in EAW that is totally in line with Star Wars realism! In all the EU a bunch of bombers could take down a big capital ship.

Venators ARE in the game, but not produceable by either side. Check the demo cracks. In the full version venators will probably be in use by pirates.

For those of you who are skilled at this sort of thing... There is an EAW skin competion on x-fire with some awesome prizes (1st place is $500 and signed copy and signed poster!) http://www.xfire.com/xf/ Couldnt get the direct link to work so look under events on the right hand side. I am definetly going to keep tabs on this and dl the winning skin!

I thought that this feature was already in. As someone already posted, there are ship names in the files and if you hover the cursor over an SD you can see its name. Actual renaming may not be in, and the demo left it out. It doesnt matter to me if you can change those names in the files. That will be good enough