Tie Fighter, woes

This ship is just plain too un-spectacular.

In the movies it always has a "menacing" and dangerous appearance but our T/F is just plain boring [V] I'm afraid no one will want to fly it. []

One of the problems is the null positions of the guns. They are so close together, that the bolt for the chin guns can only be 2 pixels wide if you want to see them seperatly. But, 2 pixels is hard to see at all. I think we (Second Chance) could fix that to a degree, by moving the chin guns positions farther apart?

The Tie/Int has, for example, a much more "exciting" cockpit view of it's lasers because they are further apart and placed on the sides of the ship.

What can we do to make the Tie Fighter more interesting? Some kind of cool weapon? Maybe other special effects? It needs something special and unique. Any ideas?







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I'd rather fly the Tie Fighter over any other ship in the series.

Don't underestimate the nostalgia-factor.

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Shane,
You are right, of course and the ship looks really great as a model, but somethings missing. The cockpit experience is just not cool enough! [V]
The T/Int has for example the cool Ion cannons and also great looking weapon bolts.

Somehow, we need to make the T/F weapons/bolts look lots cooler and then....
Maybe we should give it some kind of a "booster" factor?

If a T/F kills, say five ships, without getting shot down once it could get extra health, or extra speed, or more hit points, or double points for killing other fighters, or increased weapons damage, or .... [?]

That might compliment it's "menacing" charachter?



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I'd fly the TIE if it had that cool pained screaming sound effect. I loved these things from the get-go because they were such a unique design at the time they were first used (I remember making a whole squadron of them as a kid, from cut-up and painted ping-pong balls, pieces of dowel, and cardboard cutout panels), and they had that incredibly menacing sound as they twisted in for a strafing run.

Come to think of it, I guess this all falls into the nostalgia factor, too.

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Hot4Darmat

Originally posted by Hot4Darmat

I'd fly the TIE if it had that cool pained screaming sound effect.

Yes, so it is. On the XWvsTF or XWA CD are some good TIE sounds for sure.

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Originally posted by Roi Danton

Originally posted by Hot4Darmat

I'd fly the TIE if it had that cool pained screaming sound effect.

Yes, so it is. On the XWvsTF or XWA CD are some good TIE sounds for sure.

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If you are both refering to the menacing and fearsome flyby sound, I agree fully The original sound is in the mod in audio/sfx/FlyByTie.wav.
It's used in the mod on several occasions. (for example, when you get hit by a disruptor if you are in a rebel ship).

Unfortunatly, the original internal engine sound is just a high pitched summing tone and nothing special at all.
When the Tie flies past you in game the sfx doesn't create anything, that sounds at all like the flyby sound. (niether in the original game, nor with the EOC sfx.

I've tried to use the flyby sound as the sfx for the internal sound but since it is looped during flight, its not useable. (sounds more like a pregnant whooping crane flying through a tunnel)

This looks like a sound designer issue:
If you want to work on it you can change the sounds easily enough:
The internal engine sound for the Tie Fighter is defined in audio/sfx/tie_fighter_drive.ini.
You can use different sound resource url's and also try out different volumes, and pitch bends ect. by changing that .ini file



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