Guest Starfire Posted March 17, 2001 Posted March 17, 2001 Hi. I'm new here, and just got X-wing Alliance a couple of days ago. I know it was released quite some time ago, but my joystick had died, so I didn't buy it then. I just borrowed it from my friend a couple of days ago after finally saving up for a new joystick. Anyway, I've been looking through the net for upgrades to XWA and found the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade site interesting. FOr thos people who have downloaded the Rebel Fighter Upgrade patch (the only one available), is it worth it? Would it be better for me to wait till the entire patch is done? Thanks!
Guest JM Posted March 17, 2001 Posted March 17, 2001 Darksabers fighters are beautiful and there is no point in waiting (though in one way I wish I had as my PC is low spec enough that the extra detail has slowed XWA down, but they are so incredible I can't stand to revert.. :-) ).
Guest MikeyBear Posted March 17, 2001 Posted March 17, 2001 The XWAU is totally worth the download. The guys have done a superb job up til now and the patch comes highly recommended
Guest Starfire Posted March 17, 2001 Posted March 17, 2001 Thanks for the replies, JM and Mikeybear. I've downloaded the patch, and I must say I like the new ship models and lasers a lot. However, I would really prefer to have the old cockpits back. Somehow, the new ones, while more "realistic" block too much of the view for me. However, when I tried to copy the old cockpit.opt files back, I found that the POV settings were off. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
Guest JM Posted March 18, 2001 Posted March 18, 2001 Obvious advice would be to look at your "clean" copy of the XWA executable with either BinHexEdit or MXvTED and make a note of the POV settings and then edit the patched copy to match.
Ham Yoyo Posted March 18, 2001 Posted March 18, 2001 Originally posted by Starfire: Thanks for the replies, JM and Mikeybear. I've downloaded the patch, and I must say I like the new ship models and lasers a lot. However, I would really prefer to have the old cockpits back. Somehow, the new ones, while more "realistic" block too much of the view for me. However, when I tried to copy the old cockpit.opt files back, I found that the POV settings were off. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks. I feel the same way. I love the ships but the cockpits block too much view. What I did was reinstall XWA. Then go into the upgrade winzip file that you downloaded and copy Xwingexterior.opt and Xwing.opt, Ywingexterior.opt and Ywing.opt, Awingexterior.opt and Awing.opt, Bwingexterior.opt and Bwing.opt, and Z-95exterior.opt and Z-95.opt to your Flightmodels directory. The ships are changed but the cockpits and everything else remain the same. Since XWA was released I thought they did a terrible job drawing the X-Wing. Thanks to the XWA Upgrade the X-Wing now is awesome. In flight press the / key and hold the * key down to view your ship from all angles. It's awesome. ------------------ My Dream, to fly a starfighter and destroy Imperial ships.
Guest mjn2 Posted March 18, 2001 Posted March 18, 2001 Can you give me a link to this xwing alliance upgrade site and the patch Thanks
Guest Starfire Posted March 18, 2001 Posted March 18, 2001 It's at http://www.xwaupgrade.com/ And thanks for the help, guys!
Guest mjn2 Posted March 19, 2001 Posted March 19, 2001 Thanks for that I must admit they have done a good job in redoing the cockpits and the models especially the xwing it now looks so cool. Hope they are redoing the rest of the ships in xwing alliance
Ham Yoyo Posted March 19, 2001 Posted March 19, 2001 MJN2, they are also working on the Imperial Fighters and all the heavy starships. I think the IFP is being close to finished. I just found a link to the X-Wing Alliance Audio Upgrade where they have redone the wav. files I'm downloading it now. Check it out at this link. http://smrti.cjb.net/ ------------------ My Dream, to fly a starfighter and destroy Imperial ships.
Guest Starfire Posted March 19, 2001 Posted March 19, 2001 I tried that one out too. I asw the link in an old post on this forum (I was reading through the archives). It's good, and defintely worth the download.
Ham Yoyo Posted March 19, 2001 Posted March 19, 2001 Just played a few missions with it. It is good. The explosions are awesome. ------------------ My Dream, to fly a starfighter and destroy Imperial ships.
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