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- Black Squadron Upgrade ][
- =========================
- Originally By: Daemon
- Updated by: Wotan
-
- The Black Squadron ][ contains all the same patches as the previous Black
- Squadron Upgrade plus support for Imperial Pursuit and B-Wing. Also, all
- craft now carry more missiles.
-
- The Storyline:
- With the Imperial Advanced TiE Fighters introduction into the war
- against the Empire, the Rebellions began to suffer major defeats. Under
- the orders of Mon Mothma, the Rebellion assigned many of its greatest techs
- to work on prototypes of the already successful X-Wing, A-Wing, and Y-Wing
- starfighters. The result? Black Squadron.
- The improved rebel starfighters have been outfitted with state of the
- art Mon Calamari technology which includes higher output sublight drives,
- more powerful shields, increased acceleration/deceleration control and more
- missile bays.
- With these new starfighters, the Rebellion prepares to mount a great assault
- against the Empire....
-
- Installation:
- To install the upgraded fighters, copy the files "FLIGHT.BLK" and
- "BFLIGHT.BLK"to your X-Wing Directory. Then change to your X-Wing
- directory and type the following DOS commands:
-
- REN FLIGHT.OVL FLIGHT.BAK
- REN FLIGHT.BLK FLIGHT.OVL
- REN BFLIGHT.OVL BFLIGHT.BAK
- REN BFLIGHT.BLK BFLIGHT.OVL
-
- Simple, huh? If you ever wish to abandon the technology available to
- you and change back to the original starfighters, use the following
- DOS commands in your X-Wing directory:
-
- REN FLIGHT.OVL FLIGHT.BLK
- REN FLIGHT.BAK FLIGHT.OVL
- REN BFLIGHT.OVL BFLIGHT.BLK
- REN BFLIGHT.BAK BFLIGHT.OVL
-
- Starfighter Enhanced Engine Data:
-
- |=============================================================================|
- |STARFIGHTER | SETTINGS | MAX | 2/3 | 1/3 | NO POWER |
- |=============================================================================|
- | X-WING | FULL ENGINES | 300 | 200 | 100 | 0 |
- | | NORMAL | 200 | 133 | 67 | 0 |
- | | FULL LASERS+SHIELDS | 100 | 67 | 33 | 0 |
- |=============================================================================|
- | Y-WING | FULL ENGINES | 250 | 167 | 83 | 0 |
- | | NORMAL | 200 | 133 | 67 | 0 |
- | | FULL LASERS+SHIELDS | 150 | 100 | 50 | 0 |
- |=============================================================================|
- | A-WING | FULL ENGINES | 300 | 200 | 100 | 0 |
- | | NORMAL | 200 | 133 | 67 | 0 |
- | | FULL LASERS+SHIELDS | 100 | 67 | 33 | 0 |
- |=============================================================================|
- | B-WING | FULL ENGINES | 300 | 200 | 100 | 0 |
- | | NORMAL | 200 | 133 | 67 | 0 |
- | | FULL LASERS+SHIELDS | 100 | 67 | 33 | 0 |
- |=============================================================================|
- Notes: The X-Wing, A-Wing and B-Wing do have the same enhanced engines, but
- completely different armament to offset their equal speed. Also, the
- Y-Wing is faster than all other enhanced fighters at slow speed because
- of a special system that drains excess energy from its ion cannons and
- places this energy into its sublight drive. When the ion cannons
- are charging at maximum power, more power for speed is available.
-
- Combat Tactics and General Info:
- This upgrade was meant to help players complete difficult missions in
- which "If I just had more speed I could've gotten that Interceptor before
- he iced my shuttle!" or "If I only had a little shields left that Star
- Destroyer would've been toast!" are common. While playing the game using
- the Black Squadron Upgrade, I noticed that putting all power from lasers
- and shields into engines acted like afterburners in the Wing Commanders.
- This I thought was neat because the only thing I missed from Wing
- Commander that was not in X-Wing was the ability to use the afterburners
- when things looked bad. Its a nice feeling to see those TiE Interceptors
- being left in the dust for a change, heh. Its also nice to have Full
- Lasers and Shields while going almost your normal speed. And if those
- Transports are just moving to slow, setting your power to 1/3 or stopping
- for a sec works fine. Imagine the face of a TiE pilot when he sees your
- hog of a Y-Wing slowing down for an easy Transport kill and then taking
- off at twice the TiE's speed.
- The shields were changed, but not thouroughly tested. I took over 20
- laser blasts from 3 wings of TiE's with full shields. This was done while at
- a full stop with full shields but without managing shields by using the "S"
- or "'" keys. Who knows how much damage you could take if you operated your
- shields well?
- To those who may be offended by this upgrade: Remember, you don't have
- to use it if you don't want to! Some people may appreciate the extra help
- that the upgrade might offer. If you think its cheating, thats fine, but
- don't sit their and complain that are other people are using it and you're not.
- Well, thats it for this update. Have fun and may the Force be with you!
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