Tie Fighter Total Conversion Difficult...

[Reanimator]

I feel as if This game is ALOT harder than the original was. It took me an hour to fly through the Alert Mission of Battle 1. The Enemy flight AI isn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and actually will kill you if you aren't careful. I'm having diffuclty on the counter attack mission in the tie bomber. The Guns of the ships just instant kill me as I try to approach.

[Goffik]

Read the instructions. You can tweak the game so the missions are exactly as they were in the original, or you can use "enhanced" versions which use the greater power of modern hardware to include more ships. The side-effect of the latter is greater difficulty.

[Calmputer]

First a solution: Open up the Babu Frik Configurator. There is a setting in there that lets you increase the hull strength of your TIE by up to 400% to compensate for the new engine's harder difficulty.


Now for an explanation: X-Wing Alliance's engine is an upgraded version of the X-Wing, TIE Fighter and XvT engine... in it, laser shots travel much faster. In the original TIE Fighter you had one or two seconds to move out of the way of a turbolaser shot if you saw it getting fired your way. In XWA, if you can see it coming, it's usually too late to move out of the way. Bigger ships are also a lot better at shooting at more than one target, AND at shooting down incoming warheads. So when you're in a TIE Bomber, you're pretty much toast the moment you start locking unto a starship. Dumb-fire all of your warheads, no matter what

[Dan2312]

Im on battle two, the mission where you have to turn back the ripoblus craft in a t/bomber, its bloody impossible, i have to shoot down assault frigates and mod corvettes with torps or rockets, if i get too close when i launch because the assault frigates move too fast the impact of the torps kills me! it doesn;t really work with this engine. all the fun has been taken out of t/f.