There was a sick mod for Battlefield 1942 that got released unfortunately about a month before Battlefront called Galactic Empire or something- it was fucking awesome and better than Battlefront to me. When a server filled up you got some intense fucking fights going.
I played the hell out of that mod in eighth grade. And, yes, it was way better than battlefront.
The only thing that was lame was when people spawn killed you as a probe droid. Those things were impossible to kill.
Re-installed XWA. Bummed to find that it wouldn't respond to my oxbox controller hooked up via usb. Think I'll hit Frys and grab a cheap stick.
Was checking out xwaupgrade.com. Am I missing something or am I really supposed to download and install each individual crafts upgrade?
Like the other guy said, yes you do and it's pretty irritating. The XWA upgrade is kind of a mixed bag, too. A lot of the exterior models look really good but come with terrible cockpits.
XvT is my favourite of the X-Wing series...I loved how it had a ton of one-off missions you could play in any order.
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I'm pretty sure BF3 fell by the wayside cuz the company who was making it (Free Radical?) went under due to the recession. Or something like that, I'm fuzzy on the details.
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augustwhere you come from is goneRegistered Userregular
edited May 2009
It was canceled before they went under. And if Lucasarts gave a shit they could have bailed them out or given it to somone else.
Re-installed XWA. Bummed to find that it wouldn't respond to my oxbox controller hooked up via usb. Think I'll hit Frys and grab a cheap stick.
Was checking out xwaupgrade.com. Am I missing something or am I really supposed to download and install each individual crafts upgrade?
Like the other guy said, yes you do and it's pretty irritating. The XWA upgrade is kind of a mixed bag, too. A lot of the exterior models look really good but come with terrible cockpits.
XvT is my LEAST favourite of the X-Wing series...I HATED how it had a ton of one-off missions you could play in any order and get NO STORY AT ALL.
i think thats how I read it at least.
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Does KOTOR 1 have stability issues? It keeps crashing to windows on both my XP 32bit and Win7 64bit machines.
Game is unmodified 1.03 installed from the Best of PC DVD. Turning down Graphics options did not help.
Any ideas?
Edit: Not hardware accelerated sound or AnyDVD either.
Edit2: Not solved by restricting KOTOR to 1 CPU core.
Edit3: Upgrading to latest Nvidia Drivers and setting Texture Clamp to OpenGL (from here) did not help either. Damn this to hell.
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I have beaten all three of the Super Star Wars games for the SNES.
It is my greatest accomplishment in videogames, next to beating Battletoads on the Genesis.
That said, I started playing KOTOR again on Friday. I'm up to when you leave Dantooine and my planet of choice to start was Tatooine, why? Well ya know, HK-47. But my question more relates to the Swoop races. I keep seeing dialogue about upgrading your swoop and buying parts for it.
Was this scrapped but they left the text in?
I completely don't remember this the first two times I played through that game, when it came out in 2003, but I'm seeing text for it and I don't see any way to do this or any parts to buy.
I didn't see an answer to this, so I'm answering it. Yeah, you nailed it. There's a bunch of dialogue in there about "upgrading your swoop" but there's absolutely no way to do it. It got left in somehow.
As an aside, Battletoads was superb but incredibly hard. That speeder bike jumping section was infernal.
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It was canceled before they went under. And if Lucasarts gave a shit they could have bailed them out or given it to somone else.
seriously, someone over there hates money apparently. They could have thrown money at Free Radical and easily made it back in profits on BF3. Especially if they also made a Wii port
Does KOTOR 1 have stability issues? It keeps crashing to windows on both my XP 32bit and Win7 64bit machines.
Game is unmodified 1.03 installed from the Best of PC DVD. Turning down Graphics options did not help.
Any ideas?
Edit: Not hardware accelerated sound or AnyDVD either.
Edit2: Not solved by restricting KOTOR to 1 CPU core.
Edit3: Upgrading to latest Nvidia Drivers and setting Texture Clamp to OpenGL (from here) did not help either. Damn this to hell.
Does KOTOR 1 have stability issues? It keeps crashing to windows on both my XP 32bit and Win7 64bit machines.
Game is unmodified 1.03 installed from the Best of PC DVD. Turning down Graphics options did not help.
Any ideas?
Edit: Not hardware accelerated sound or AnyDVD either.
Edit2: Not solved by restricting KOTOR to 1 CPU core.
Edit3: Upgrading to latest Nvidia Drivers and setting Texture Clamp to OpenGL (from here) did not help either. Damn this to hell.
compatibility mode? run as admin?
Already running as admin in XP. Tried compatibility mode for XP in Win7, trying 2000 mode in XP now.
Edit: No dice with 2000 Comp. mode. 98 comp. mode crashed even faster and more spectacular!
Edit 2: And still crashing when KOTOR is the only program running not by Microsoft. This is starting to annoy me.
Re-installed XWA. Bummed to find that it wouldn't respond to my oxbox controller hooked up via usb. Think I'll hit Frys and grab a cheap stick.
Was checking out xwaupgrade.com. Am I missing something or am I really supposed to download and install each individual crafts upgrade?
Like the other guy said, yes you do and it's pretty irritating. The XWA upgrade is kind of a mixed bag, too. A lot of the exterior models look really good but come with terrible cockpits.
XvT is my favourite of the X-Wing series...I loved how it had a ton of one-off missions you could play in any order.
Well I installed a few of the upgrades and now XWA won't run. :-/
Does KOTOR 1 have stability issues? It keeps crashing to windows on both my XP 32bit and Win7 64bit machines.
Game is unmodified 1.03 installed from the Best of PC DVD. Turning down Graphics options did not help.
Any ideas?
Edit: Not hardware accelerated sound or AnyDVD either.
Edit2: Not solved by restricting KOTOR to 1 CPU core.
Edit3: Upgrading to latest Nvidia Drivers and setting Texture Clamp to OpenGL (from here) did not help either. Damn this to hell.
compatibility mode? run as admin?
Already running as admin in XP. Tried compatibility mode for XP in Win7, trying 2000 mode in XP now.
Edit: No dice with 2000 Comp. mode. 98 comp. mode crashed even faster and more spectacular!
Edit 2: And still crashing when KOTOR is the only program running not by Microsoft. This is starting to annoy me.
Last time I played kotor I had to install year old nvidia drivers to stop it from crashing.
Does KOTOR 1 have stability issues? It keeps crashing to windows on both my XP 32bit and Win7 64bit machines.
Game is unmodified 1.03 installed from the Best of PC DVD. Turning down Graphics options did not help.
Any ideas?
Edit: Not hardware accelerated sound or AnyDVD either.
Edit2: Not solved by restricting KOTOR to 1 CPU core.
Edit3: Upgrading to latest Nvidia Drivers and setting Texture Clamp to OpenGL (from here) did not help either. Damn this to hell.
compatibility mode? run as admin?
Already running as admin in XP. Tried compatibility mode for XP in Win7, trying 2000 mode in XP now.
Edit: No dice with 2000 Comp. mode. 98 comp. mode crashed even faster and more spectacular!
Edit 2: And still crashing when KOTOR is the only program running not by Microsoft. This is starting to annoy me.
Last time I played kotor I had to install year old nvidia drivers to stop it from crashing.
That is about the last thing I have not tried yet yeah.
Someone on Bioware forum recommended 178.24. Ill try that one.
Despite crashing every 5 minutes I've gotten Wookie lifedebted to me and I'm having a blast.
But seriously Bioware and/or Nvidia has fucked up something royally here.
It was canceled before they went under. And if Lucasarts gave a shit they could have bailed them out or given it to somone else.
seriously, someone over there hates money apparently. They could have thrown money at Free Radical and easily made it back in profits on BF3. Especially if they also made a Wii port
I'm not sure what the hell happened with Lucasarts compared to their heyday. This was a company that pretty much only turned out pure, solid AAA titles. Personally, I blame the release of the Phantom Menace and the beginning of Lucasarts hocking the Star Wars license like a 5$ whore to pretty much everyone.
What was that 3d RTS on the pc called? It was fuck awful and thinking about it makes me feel slightly sick. Force commander or something like that?
Force Commander. Sure, the game wasn't good, but you have to have great love for its awesome techno Star Wars grunge metal remix soundtrack. That stuff was boss.
What was that 3d RTS on the pc called? It was fuck awful and thinking about it makes me feel slightly sick. Force commander or something like that?
Force Commander. Sure, the game wasn't good, but you have to have great love for its awesome techno Star Wars grunge metal remix soundtrack. That stuff was boss.
It could have been so much better - the idea was great but the engine was horrible. I wanted to love that game so badly but it was not going to happen.
I remember being all hyped for Force Commander. I was still riding on the Starcraft high, so it was like "omg, I love Star Wars, and I love RTSes! This is gonna own!" Then it kept getting delayed...and changed...and then it sucked.
How was Galactic Battlegrounds, anyways? It looked like Age of Empires re-skin, so I never tried it.
I did however buy Empire at War and I loved it. It's a bit of a dumbed down version of Civilization, but for Star Wars. It's a really fun game. Too bad the fucking expansion doesn't work under Vista64 and Lucas Arts has no plans of fixing this. Assholes.
Galactic Battlegrounds was soulless, yes, but it was still an incredible amount of fun. With the Clone Campaigns, they upped the pop cap to 250. This meant that you could have 250 clone troopers.
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edited May 2009
If I remember correctly, Force Commander had David Warner. Just cheat your way through so you can hear him yelling at you.
I remember being all hyped for Force Commander. I was still riding on the Starcraft high, so it was like "omg, I love Star Wars, and I love RTSes! This is gonna own!" Then it kept getting delayed...and changed...and then it sucked.
How was Galactic Battlegrounds, anyways? It looked like Age of Empires re-skin, so I never tried it.
I did however buy Empire at War and I loved it. It's a bit of a dumbed down version of Civilization, but for Star Wars. It's a really fun game. Too bad the fucking expansion doesn't work under Vista64 and Lucas Arts has no plans of fixing this. Assholes.
I actually really enjoyed Galactic Battlegrounds. I played it quite a bit when I was living in the dorms in college, and playing a game with people you know always makes it better. Even mediocre games are fun in a LAN party environment, which is what the dorms were.
EaW would have been fun if the automatically decided battles didnt lose half your god damn fleet. If I controlled the battle myself id lose like a frigate and maybe a destroyer (empire lol) but after a while and i got bored I would autofight and lose like 8 destroyers vs 3 squads of xwings X(
EaW would have been fun if the automatically decided battles didnt lose half your god damn fleet. If I controlled the battle myself id lose like a frigate and maybe a destroyer (empire lol) but after a while and i got bored I would autofight and lose like 8 destroyers vs 3 squads of xwings X(
Maybe that's why so many Bothans died in the recovery of the second Death Star plans? The Rebels put their mission on auto-complete and they lost like 3 platoons of Bothans.
EaW would've been wonderful if not for the shit they passed off as ground combat. It felt so shallow. I liked everything else about it, pretty much, but the ground combat was just so poorly done, I felt.
EaW would have been fun if the automatically decided battles didnt lose half your god damn fleet. If I controlled the battle myself id lose like a frigate and maybe a destroyer (empire lol) but after a while and i got bored I would autofight and lose like 8 destroyers vs 3 squads of xwings X(
Simulating battles is not how you do an RTS!
Also.
Star Wars: Rebellion
One of the worst and most confusing pieces of shit I ever played. It was their earliest attempt at a Civ/RTS type game and it was fuck awful.
Until I got a hold of a ship editor and made X-Wings more powerful than any ship in the game and proceeded to wreak havok upon the galaxy.
EaW would have been fun if the automatically decided battles didnt lose half your god damn fleet. If I controlled the battle myself id lose like a frigate and maybe a destroyer (empire lol) but after a while and i got bored I would autofight and lose like 8 destroyers vs 3 squads of xwings X(
Simulating battles is not how you do an RTS!
Also.
Star Wars: Rebellion
One of the worst and most confusing pieces of shit I ever played. It was their earliest attempt at a Civ/RTS type game and it was fuck awful.
Until I got a hold of a ship editor and made X-Wings more powerful than any ship in the game and proceeded to wreak havok upon the galaxy.
Star Wars: Rebellion is one of the best real-time strategy games I have ever played. Managing the entire Galactic Empire and sending out gigantic death fleets to destroy the Rebels, capture Mon Mothma and kill all the minor characters, and bombard to dust anyone who did not join my cause was almost as awesome as sending in strike fleets with Darth Vader and his special ops buddies to infiltrate enemy planets, destroy enemy forces, and capture enemy characters. Meanwhile my scientists are designing some sweet TIE Defenders or war droids to help me kick more butt. Even the real time fleet battles were fun.
EaW would have been fun if the automatically decided battles didnt lose half your god damn fleet. If I controlled the battle myself id lose like a frigate and maybe a destroyer (empire lol) but after a while and i got bored I would autofight and lose like 8 destroyers vs 3 squads of xwings X(
Simulating battles is not how you do an RTS!
Also.
Star Wars: Rebellion
One of the worst and most confusing pieces of shit I ever played. It was their earliest attempt at a Civ/RTS type game and it was fuck awful.
Until I got a hold of a ship editor and made X-Wings more powerful than any ship in the game and proceeded to wreak havok upon the galaxy.
Star Wars: Rebellion is one of the best real-time strategy games I have ever played. Managing the entire Galactic Empire and sending out gigantic death fleets to destroy the Rebels, capture Mon Mothma and kill all the minor characters, and bombard to dust anyone who did not join my cause was almost as awesome as sending in strike fleets with Darth Vader and his special ops buddies to infiltrate enemy planets, destroy enemy forces, and capture enemy characters. Meanwhile my scientists are designing some sweet TIE Defenders or war droids to help me kick more butt. Even the real time fleet battles were fun.
Here here.
Rebellion was/is definitely one of my favorite Star Wars games, period. The fleet battles were awesome...so was nerding out and recreating scenes from the expanded universe novels :X
Re-installed XWA. Bummed to find that it wouldn't respond to my oxbox controller hooked up via usb. Think I'll hit Frys and grab a cheap stick.
Was checking out xwaupgrade.com. Am I missing something or am I really supposed to download and install each individual crafts upgrade?
Like the other guy said, yes you do and it's pretty irritating. The XWA upgrade is kind of a mixed bag, too. A lot of the exterior models look really good but come with terrible cockpits.
XvT is my favourite of the X-Wing series...I loved how it had a ton of one-off missions you could play in any order.
Well I installed a few of the upgrades and now XWA won't run. :-/
Are you playing on a new pilot with the 2.02 (I think) patch?
EaW would have been fun if the automatically decided battles didnt lose half your god damn fleet. If I controlled the battle myself id lose like a frigate and maybe a destroyer (empire lol) but after a while and i got bored I would autofight and lose like 8 destroyers vs 3 squads of xwings X(
Simulating battles is not how you do an RTS!
Also.
Star Wars: Rebellion
One of the worst and most confusing pieces of shit I ever played. It was their earliest attempt at a Civ/RTS type game and it was fuck awful.
Until I got a hold of a ship editor and made X-Wings more powerful than any ship in the game and proceeded to wreak havok upon the galaxy.
Yeah, but after the 40th fight that is exactly the same I got pretty bored and just wanted to conquer. I had enough industrial muscle to keep up with attrition. If there was some depth to the actual battles other than just moving people around and bringing in reinforcements then I might have been tempted to keep doing it. Otherwise it is literally the same thing over and over and over and over....
EaW would've been wonderful if not for the shit they passed off as ground combat. It felt so shallow. I liked everything else about it, pretty much, but the ground combat was just so poorly done, I felt.
Ground combat, AKA "send in the fast troops/air troops against the artillery, then just start marching"
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The only thing that was lame was when people spawn killed you as a probe droid. Those things were impossible to kill.
Seriously, 1 and 2 were the best selling star wars games ever.
It's sad that the only next-gen star wars game we've gotten so far is Force Unleash.
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Heh heh ehhh....
Don't hurt yourself, man.
Self-inflicted pain never ends well.
Like the other guy said, yes you do and it's pretty irritating. The XWA upgrade is kind of a mixed bag, too. A lot of the exterior models look really good but come with terrible cockpits.
XvT is my favourite of the X-Wing series...I loved how it had a ton of one-off missions you could play in any order.
Also, does anyone else find it hilarious how the Death Star shakes around like a magic 8-ball before exploding?
*edit* TOP'D again...okay, here's some cool golf bags to spiff it up, well the stormtrooper one is pretty fantastic anyways.
i want another game like grim fandago. that has to be my favorite game of all time
i think thats how I read it at least.
"How pathetic, they must really want to die flying those Z-95 Headhunters"
"Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well." - Leto II
Game is unmodified 1.03 installed from the Best of PC DVD. Turning down Graphics options did not help.
Any ideas?
Edit: Not hardware accelerated sound or AnyDVD either.
Edit2: Not solved by restricting KOTOR to 1 CPU core.
Edit3: Upgrading to latest Nvidia Drivers and setting Texture Clamp to OpenGL (from here) did not help either. Damn this to hell.
I didn't see an answer to this, so I'm answering it. Yeah, you nailed it. There's a bunch of dialogue in there about "upgrading your swoop" but there's absolutely no way to do it. It got left in somehow.
As an aside, Battletoads was superb but incredibly hard. That speeder bike jumping section was infernal.
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compatibility mode? run as admin?
Edit: No dice with 2000 Comp. mode. 98 comp. mode crashed even faster and more spectacular!
Edit 2: And still crashing when KOTOR is the only program running not by Microsoft. This is starting to annoy me.
Well I installed a few of the upgrades and now XWA won't run. :-/
Steam ID: Good Life
Last time I played kotor I had to install year old nvidia drivers to stop it from crashing.
Someone on Bioware forum recommended 178.24. Ill try that one.
Despite crashing every 5 minutes I've gotten Wookie lifedebted to me and I'm having a blast.
But seriously Bioware and/or Nvidia has fucked up something royally here.
Force Commander. Sure, the game wasn't good, but you have to have great love for its awesome techno Star Wars grunge metal remix soundtrack. That stuff was boss.
It could have been so much better - the idea was great but the engine was horrible. I wanted to love that game so badly but it was not going to happen.
How was Galactic Battlegrounds, anyways? It looked like Age of Empires re-skin, so I never tried it.
I did however buy Empire at War and I loved it. It's a bit of a dumbed down version of Civilization, but for Star Wars. It's a really fun game. Too bad the fucking expansion doesn't work under Vista64 and Lucas Arts has no plans of fixing this. Assholes.
It was decent.
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I actually really enjoyed Galactic Battlegrounds. I played it quite a bit when I was living in the dorms in college, and playing a game with people you know always makes it better. Even mediocre games are fun in a LAN party environment, which is what the dorms were.
Also, as I stated in the OP: Killing Gungans.
Maybe that's why so many Bothans died in the recovery of the second Death Star plans? The Rebels put their mission on auto-complete and they lost like 3 platoons of Bothans.
Simulating battles is not how you do an RTS!
Also.
Star Wars: Rebellion
One of the worst and most confusing pieces of shit I ever played. It was their earliest attempt at a Civ/RTS type game and it was fuck awful.
Until I got a hold of a ship editor and made X-Wings more powerful than any ship in the game and proceeded to wreak havok upon the galaxy.
Rebellion was/is definitely one of my favorite Star Wars games, period. The fleet battles were awesome...so was nerding out and recreating scenes from the expanded universe novels :X
Are you playing on a new pilot with the 2.02 (I think) patch?
Yep. I'll probably just re-install and run with the old skins.
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Yeah, but after the 40th fight that is exactly the same I got pretty bored and just wanted to conquer. I had enough industrial muscle to keep up with attrition. If there was some depth to the actual battles other than just moving people around and bringing in reinforcements then I might have been tempted to keep doing it. Otherwise it is literally the same thing over and over and over and over....
Ground combat, AKA "send in the fast troops/air troops against the artillery, then just start marching"