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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Tie Fighter rocked. Never played a game that so smoothly ramped up the scope and difficulty. Mission 4 you get in a dogfight with two x-wings. Mission 24 you're commanding three squadrons to escort two cruisers against six squadrons of enemies while trying to carry out a secret objective of blowing up one of the cruisers then protecting an escape shuttle launched from the other cruiser through the maelstrom of battle.
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I was always good at strike missions, and even inspection missions, but give me an escort mission or a capture mission and I really don't have the temperament for it.
So for example
Ok go and inspect a shuttle find the one occupied by rebels and disable it and then stop the rebels from destroying it.
So I do the power adjustment, lets see full power to the engines, here we go, ok inspect some shuttles fine
"Pilot there's a shuttle fleeing that way"
Awesome that's the one turn my fighter and bolt after him, look some x-wings, I must destroy them even through they're not relevant. Crap he's further away must hurry. Barrel on. Ok he's in range I must disable him, switch guns swith power settings, opps forgot to change to ion cannons sorry dude. Ok he's disabled. Here come some enemy fighters "I Keel You" your shuttle is under attack, crap but this guy is almost dead I must make his wife a widow and his children orphans because I am the empire. Crap the shuttle just blew up and a bunch of rebels are laughing at me. I wonder if Vader is going to be mad at me, he seems cool plus I have this rocking tattoo.
I loved flying the basic tie fighter in that game because its so iconic and you have to be on your game because one shot kills you. I didn't like the gun boat because it was so over powered.
Oh and cool article in the Atlantic looking at Admiral Piett
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...-piett/420570/
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It’s fun to imagine a strange Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-like saga playing out in the background as Piett manages the vast civil service of a galactic dictatorship while fielding orders from Vader and his Emperor. Colley, who’s otherwise most famous for playing Jesus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, is a model of order throughout the series. When Ozzel dies next to him, he motions with his head for some officers to remove the body. When Vader hires bounty hunters to try and track down Skywalker, Piett quietly registers his distaste. And when commanding the fleet against the Rebels in Return of the Jedi’s climactic battle, he’s stoic to the end, perishing when a starfighter crashes into his ship’s bridge.
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