XWA Upgrade

This is no April Fools' joke


Almost two years of development, stagnation, testing and what not... Finally here it is! The ROTS Shipset: Battle over Coruscant is finally available for download. One of the most dramatic battles in Star Wars history is now yours to live through again. Fly your Actis Interceptor through a complete mayhem in the high orbit of Coruscant and try to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine!

Big Kudos to Darksaber who made the awesome looking new installer, which you can download from Vince T's X-Wing HQ.

naldk;jgkaljgklsfdajg !!!!!!!!!<P>wow im gonna get this as soon as my computer stops being weird!

Oh dear. <P>I'll have to try this ASAP, amazing work! I'm glad it's been so long since I've seen the movie much of the scripting will be a surprise!!

Everyday is Christmas in XWA!!! Thanks Vince!!!<p>[ 02 April 2007: Message edited by: Captain Needa ]

Warning, I uninstalled Battle over Coruscant and many shortcuts and program folders disappeared from my Start menu as well. Not a big issue though, just had to manually put them in their places, but a little annoying. Maybe DS could have a look at his installer.

Wow, that was an awesome mission. I really like how there are so many starships and fighters out there.<P>Of special note was the Carrack Cruiser model, wow! How come it's not part of XWAU??!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Meta-BH:<BR><STRONG>Of special note was the Carrack Cruiser model, wow! How come it's not part of XWAU??!</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>We wanted to keep it for ourselve, this ... PRECIOUS!<P>No actually, it's supposed to be XWAU, just like the T-Wing and Axingus' Lancer Frigate. We're just too sleepy to refresh the main page <p>[ 02 April 2007: Message edited by: General_Trageton ]

I installed a fresh copy of XWA, then ran the installer, I get this error message:<P>Your configutation file (Config.cfg) has NOT been set up correctly. Before you can continue, you will have to: - <P>1: Start XWA by clicking on Yes.<BR>2: Exist XWA and install the ROTSBOC.<P>If you already have a backup of your pilot file (*.plt) and your configuration file (Config.cfg) now is the time to place them in your XWA Directory.<P>Thank you. Would you like to start XWA now?

If I'm not mistaken this means you have to run your XWA once, before installing the patch, so a default pilot and config file are created.<P>Can you confirm this, DS?<p>[ 02 April 2007: Message edited by: General_Trageton ]

Wait no I got it lol. <P>EDIT: Mission works great, no missing textures, only problem is its laggy when I fly towards a bunch of ships. Any tips?<p>[ 02 April 2007: Message edited by: Red_Leader ]

cool, a new shipset<BR>*download*<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by General_Trageton:<BR><STRONG>No actually, it's supposed to be XWAU, just like the T-Wing and Axingus' Lancer Frigate. We're just too sleepy to refresh the main page </STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>not just the main page but the download one too, since the t-wing is only downloadable on darsaber site right now<P>and my guess is that youre work too much, sleep more and get the links for the XWAU opt online (including the carrack cruiser)<p>[ 02 April 2007: Message edited by: Rookie_One1 ]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Red_Leader:<BR><STRONG>only problem is its laggy when I fly towards a bunch of ships. Any tips?<BR></STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Get a faster comp would be my first shot <P>No, but seriously: A good trick is: when you start the mission, keep pressing 't' like madman, so all ships will be loaded into your CMD once. That'll cause a major lag at the beginning but should therefore smoothen the flow lateron.<P>And just wait until some ships blow up, performance gets way better then

Alright thanks. I have a semi-fast computer (it takes around 1 minute to install XWA). I have a Dell Windows XP, Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40 GHZ, 3.39 GHz, 512 MB of RAM. Dunno how good that is..

I have a Core2Duo with 2x2,5 GHz and 2GB RAM and even I have lag. <p>[ 02 April 2007: Message edited by: General_Trageton ]

I'm a moron, I forgot I had a movie downloading lol. It's done, I just restarted, not gonna open AIM or anything, I'll try it like that.

lol dave

Works better now. GT, the battle is awesome. I spent an extra 10 minutes after I finished the mission just shooting down Droid Fighters lol.

On a sidenote, in case you haven't noticed/tried it out yet: Highlight for spoilers!<P><BR>This will fail the mission, but it's worth a look anyway. <P>Once you have inspected the Invisible Hand (don't do that too soon, inspect all other CIS ships first), do not disable it. <P>Once it gets into close combat with that Venator, shields and hull will drop rather rapidly. Once it's at 25% hull, it'll drop down towards the planet like in the movie. With a bit of luck and good timing you'll be able to whitness the almost exact same scene as in the movie. </font>

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by General_Trageton:<BR><STRONG>We wanted to keep it for ourselve, this ... PRECIOUS!<P>No actually, it's supposed to be XWAU, just like the T-Wing and Axingus' Lancer Frigate. We're just too sleepy to refresh the main page <P>[ 02 April 2007: Message edited by: General_Trageton ]</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yeah, those are awesome OPTs! The CRKC is one of my favorite starships and I didn't like how the crappy TG model looked in comparison to XWAU ships. This new model is exceptionally well done, great work! <P>Other than the occasional lag, I absolutely loved this mission. Pretty simple for XWA vets, but extremely good ambience-wise and it contains a lot of easter eggs and "realistic" action.

Any screenshots?

<A HREF="http://www.bluephantom.de/rots_battle.html" TARGET=_blank>here</A>

Download it, play it, Press Ctrl + Print Screen.<P>You have you screenshots!!!

*smirk*

Great work on this shipset!<P>Just one question. Who is the author of new Acclamator? It looks fantastic! I haven't seen it in the readme (as far as I remember).<p>[ 06 April 2007: Message edited by: Michal ]

What? oh, damn, my bad.<P>Credits go to DTM. DS and I did some minor tweaks to it.<P><BR>Reminds me I still need to release that thing by itself