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Offline Dragon

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Re: About fighter balance
Seeing as the movie had a lot of WWII inspiration in it's fighter scenes, it's pretty likely. The Empire is something vaguely between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, while the Rebels are "The Allies" in general (they're even called "The Alliance" at times), with the emphasis on Americans (and a touch of RAF). The Trench Run idea was originally from the Dambusters, and the Death Star is somewhat reminiscent of Yamato. Similarly, fighter doctrines resemble US/Japan dynamic in Pacific theater. Star Wars owes a lot to WWII.

 

Offline niffiwan

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Re: About fighter balance
The Trench Run idea was originally from the Dambusters

633 Squadron actually :)

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Offline Dragon

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Re: About fighter balance
Wikipedia (and TVTropes) also list The Dam Busters as an inspiration. Though it seems Lucas officially acknowledged the 633 Squadron influence, at least. Those scenes had a lot in common, TBH, so he could'be been thinking of both. The Dam Busters came earlier, so it's also possible 633 Squadron was inspired by them, too.

 

Offline Trivial Psychic

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Re: About fighter balance
IIRC Lucas basically mentioned that TIEs were inspired somewhat by the Zero

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Luke: 'Hey Han, why do they call them "Tie" fighters?'
Han: 'No idea'
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Re: About fighter balance
Wikipedia (and TVTropes) also list The Dam Busters as an inspiration. Though it seems Lucas officially acknowledged the 633 Squadron influence, at least. Those scenes had a lot in common, TBH, so he could'be been thinking of both. The Dam Busters came earlier, so it's also possible 633 Squadron was inspired by them, too.

"The Dam Busters" also has a line regarding the guns, which is similar to that one during the Battle of Yavin. ("[...], some on the fields, some on the towers")
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Will there be something playable this year?
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Offline CountBuggula

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Will there be something playable this year?

Well, I can tell you that the game is already VERY playable right now.  However, there's still some work to be done to finish up the campaign and missions (as well as final balancing) before we're ready to release to the general public.  I REALLY hope we're able to do so this year, but as always with this kind of thing, it's done when it's done.

 

Offline Dragon

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Yeah. The campaign is great, but there are bugs (at least one of them game-crashing) and there's still work to be done. Also, the ISD is still untextured (though amazingly, AO-only temp texture could've fooled you if it wasn't for the standard the rest of our models set :) ). R1 isn't far from complete, but it's not quite ready for beta yet. I can't really say how long will it take to finish it up.

 
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Dragon said he left the badge in his other pocket and someone (not saying it was chief, but it was chief) gave him SVN access. Sometimes you just gotta tip your cap.

 

Offline Dragon

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You could say that. :) I'm some sort of early tester, I guess. I think I was originally doing some glowpoints for FoTG, but the model ended up being replaced later on. Anyway, I just kind of stuck around, occasionally playtesting missions. I'm not deeply involved in their development, so this position does have it's advantages.

 
I am looking forward to something playable :)
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