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Offline zookeeper

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Our shipset is starting to be in a pretty good shape now, so I've started putting together some uglies. Here's the first; a ZY-wing interceptor. :D It's intended to be a particularly fast ugly, with (naturally) otherwise poor stats.

You can also see a glimpse of greyleader's new Action VI transport here, as well as one of swashmebuckle's great planet backgrounds.




 

Offline Mongoose

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That looks so, so wrong. :D

 

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Something about the kitbashed nature of these ships makes the idea of blowing them apart all the more satisfying. It's the spare parts circle of life, like you're freeing the tortured soul of this foul abomination of a ship and returning its body to the scrap heap from whence it came. Yeah.

I dig this one in particular. Maybe we should load up the nose with autoblasters so it spits out a furious torrent of largely ineffective fire?
« Last Edit: May 22, 2013, 04:09:13 pm by swashmebuckle »

 

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Uglies are the bestest.
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That looks so, so wrong. :D

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not to mention the Y-wing - TIE combinations
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Offline Sushi

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So beautiful. Er, ugly. I dunno, but I want one!

I'm a sucker for the "hacked together" style of ship...

 

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great job Zookeeper, say whatever happened to that correlian gunship you were UVin?

 

Offline An4ximandros

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 So fast, so terrible, so ugly! You did an excellent job in capturing the ugh of these. Hope to destroy see more soon. :nod:

 

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I think even a Z-95 could rip that thing to shreds.

Then again, that's the joy of it. Star Wars lore states that Uglies are always inferior to production models. Even the awesome ones like the Chir'daki. :P
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What a beauty... well, in it's own peculiar way   ;)
Blowing it to pieces should be a lot of fun, especially since the Y-Wing was my favourite target in good old TIE Fighter. Now three Y-Wing engines, that's like  the triple-breasted whore of Erotikon 6  :P
Come to think of it (the three engines, not the whore): Does FotG feature similar destruction effects like the original Star Wars SpaceSims?  I.e. starships disintegrating into their components before they explode, and sometimes crashing into your TIE-cockpit...

 

Offline niffiwan

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Does FotG feature similar destruction effects like the original Star Wars SpaceSims?  I.e. starships disintegrating into their components before they explode, and sometimes crashing into your TIE-cockpit...

Oh I hope not, stupid debris positively springing & leaping towards you at 180 degrees to the ships original vector.  no no no no no!!! :p

(to be clear, I'm perfectly cool with the different style of debris, just not its insanely rapid change in vector)
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Sigh.  I really hate the uglies...don't think they should exist at all.  There's no real world precedent for them - people don't build airplanes (at least not anything that would fly) out of the remains of a learjet and a piper cub.  it's even EXTRAORDINARILY rare to see a car kit-bashed together from other cars.

Oh well, obviously there's enough people that seem to really like them though - I'm apparently in the minority.

 
Sigh.  I really hate the uglies...don't think they should exist at all.  There's no real world precedent for them - people don't build airplanes (at least not anything that would fly) out of the remains of a learjet and a piper cub.
Well there was the DC-2.5, which was even kitbashed in very similar circumstances: by a small opposition force, who needed all the material they could possibly get, to be able to oppose an evil Empire :) There's also plenty of airplanes that were retrofitted for experimentation, research etc.



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Offline MatthTheGeek

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There's no real world precedent for them
There is no real world precedent for combat spaceships, turbolasers, Force chokes and moon-sized artificial stations. What was your point ?

It is obvious that many real world rules don't apply to SW. Rule Of Cool, however, does.
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MatthTheGeek: the way you just spelled it it means fat
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MatthTheGeek: or grease
Darius: the killing fat!
Axem: jabba does the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: XD
Axem: bring me solo and a cookie

 

Offline Lorric

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In Soviet Russia Serbia, car kitbashes YOU!

That thing is hilarious!  :lol:

I'd be nervous being anywhere near it though...  :nervous:

 

Offline swashmebuckle

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There's no real world precedent for them
There is no real world precedent for combat spaceships, turbolasers, Force chokes and moon-sized artificial stations. What was your point ?

It is obvious that many real world rules don't apply to SW. Rule Of Cool, however, does.
Even though I think uglies are kind of a fun detail of SW goofiness, I see where Buggula is coming from here. Stuff like The Force, hyperdrives, lightsabers etc. violate the laws of the real world very explicitly and sort of automatically engage the suspension of disbelief. Uglies, though much more plausible than these other things (a spaceship can be any shape after all), just kind of clash with the "this would work" area of my brain on a much more mundane level, so it's a different kind of wonkiness from the usual sci-fi/fantasy "just take this for granted" requirement. That's my theory anyway.

Fortunately, anyone who still likes SW after having seen the prequels has already demonstrated the capacity to ignore aspects of it that they don't like, so I'm not too worried about losing a big chunk of our audience over this :)

 

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Well, the ones that bother me the most are the ones that are clearly missing a vital component of any starfighter, such as its engines.  Like, if you put TIE panels in place of a Y-Wing's engines.  I mean, wtf is going to move it?
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