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Federation and Klingon fighters:
yfrog.com/h3bkzagj
They look great, hope they are craftable!
What do you think?
yfrog.com/h3bkzagj
They look great, hope they are craftable!
What do you think?
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That would be nice, but isnt necessary. The author can state in the mission journal that the mission is designed for shuttles, and people who are literate can switch to their shuttle. Those who arent can play with their normal ships.
We at least know they can use dual cannons, so fighters will be the "escorts" of the tinyships.
This version looks like it may be more detailed, though. It'll be nice to actually be able to fly around in one, I think.
The Peregrine looks pretty spot on, too.
I do wonder if the Kar'Fi's fighters will eventually be available.
actually its been in STO from the start, one of the first Fleet Actions you do theres one fighting off a cruiser.
during DS9, cant remember the episode but its during the big battle where none of the ships seem to have their shields up...you can see a number of squadrons of fighters on the Federation Side slipping into the Dominions lines.
I think they have a couple of shots of actual Federation fighter wings in the DS9 episode Sacrifice of Angels in one of the opening Fleet shots. Wesley was also flying one in the TNG episode The First Duty.
It's similar looking but not quite the same as the Maquis ship that got stranded in the Delta Quadrant with Voyager.
I think there's a general presumption that most or all Maquis ships are Bajoran or Starfleet designs and were commandeered by Maquis crews to use against the Cardassians.
the sacrifice of angels.
the fighters have been in since the episode the maquis, but where classed as modified shuttles at the time. then for some reason starfleet started using them as actual attack ships.
as for having no shields, this was often done as a design choice for different episodes. sometimes they had shields, sometime they did not.
when there was large scale battles, all these blue orbs going off would look silly, so they just ignored them.
at least this way you can go "woooo yea" while skimming an enemy ship, before you get blown to pieces by A: getting to far away from said ship or B: his big bad friend decided to slap the musquito off its buddy's face.
would seem fair wouldnt it ?
i hope somehow these fighters (if you have any) will be used by duty officers in the future. or provide a bonus to certain missions if you own one/crafted one.
Here is the kind of stuff we /should/ be seeing:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/alfaforce5/Star%20trek/specs%20pages/falcon/gryphon-angled.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/alfaforce5/Star%20trek/specs%20pages/falcon/gryphon.jpg
This is the Gryphon warp fighter.
I'd really dig it if small craft became the "melee range" crafts that we could use in combat against larger ships rather than segregated into their own mission category.
There was also Bajoran fighters Kira and Dax flew in one episode.
That TOS Jet Fighter (with matching jumpsuit) should be in game!
Would love to see those Bajoran ships in game.
That was a non-space capable fighter jet from the 1960s.
Maybe if we has the option to play in vehicles vs. personnel in ground combat, with fighters, shuttles, planes, cars, the Argo, etc.
IBut not in space, IMHO.
I would love ground vehicle combat, though, and would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it if we had more large ground maps like the one in Coliseum with the option to use shuttles and ground vehicles. And would especially love, love, love it if we could:
- Visit Kirk's stable inside the Nexus and steal a couple of his horses for mounted ground play.
- Time travel back to the 60s, team up with Gary Seven, and steal a car vaguely resembling a 57 Chevy that Tom Paris would drool over to fight Communists and Iconians, then have that car as a multipassenger ground vehicle option alongside things like an Argo.
I think ground and air vehicles pitted against people on foot would be great and there's a lot of really wild directions that could take, including anachronistic vehicles since everyone in Trek loved old cars and jets and a car against a person on foot vs. an argo against a person on foot or a plane with phasers vs. a shuttlecraft solely in relatively low altitudes should have a substantially lower amount of disparity in effectiveness than starships hundreds of years apart would.
Y'know what would be cool as a low altitude fighter? A Trekked out helicopter-style design.
The Bajoran fighters look really awesome. I'm going to love flying the Klingon fighter too
I'd love to see those in game along with the Valkyrie fighters.:)