HANDS UP REBEL SCUM

This is a Empire At War Thread
Other Star Wars games are cool too

It really deserves a spiritual successor, but I don't think anyone could do it justice right now.

It's not hard to make shit RTS games

Yeah, it's kinda sad really. I hope one day a successor will come though

What's your favorite mods for Empire at War?

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>you will never experience empire at war with the land battles of SupCom, with already entrenched positions that you need to take

Thrawns Revenge, is that even a question?

This game has MP right? Is it any good?

I personally prefer Battlefront Commander

>space battles were okay at best
>land battles felt like shit

As much as I loved SW I could never get into this game.

The multiplayer was the shit back in the day. The custom maps were the best part, especially Yoden's maps

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Only thing a successor would need to do is fix up ground combat. Flesh out planets, get rid of the majority of garbage planets that are just corridors.

>space battles were okay at best
no joke the only reason why I play this game anymore is for the space battles
There's nothing quite like assaulting an enemy fleet, getting pushed back and having your death star warp in and destroy their capital ships

That would definently work. If only Petroglyph gave out a patch for the ground combat. At least they brought back MP though.

Are there any good mods that tackle the vanilla game and rebalance it? I want to play as the Empire but the vanilla game is one of the most poorly balanced things I have ever seen which results in it being entirely not fun to play but the only good mods I am aware of are the Republic at War and Thrawn's Revenge.

There are plenty of good mods out there for this game. Battlefront Commander, The Clone Wars Mod, Halo Campaign Commander, etc. There is a Workshop page now on Steam that has plenty of them as well as ModDB

>ywn die with your bros trying to retrieve the Death Star plans in the grenade filled hallways of Tantive IV and Polis Massa
>ywn fuck Ayyla before order 66 is carried out
>George will never make a femme fatale sith twilek to seduce Ben into destroying jedi shitters for that sweet ayylmao pussy
>everything Luke and Anakin did will be forgotten because Luke wanted to kill his nephew for thought crimes and suck titties then die a pathetic hermit
>Carrie was so fucking high she went along with whatever they said so she could get a fix and fuck over their plans because she was a funny bitch so that was her last laugh
>Harrison didn't give a fuck he got that Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, and Han money so he could just crash planes all he wants for fun
>mfw

Only thing keeping me going is laughing at this shit reasoning they keep pumping out as to why they ruined it all.

Empire at War Remake is a fucking amazing mod.

Too bad it runs like literal ass

Clearly you never played republic at war.

Damn, is that from the new update? I'll have to check it out again

Just started Kotor 2 for the first time. Combat kinda upsets me as I was expecting essentially the hack 'n slash lightsaber combat of something like Battlefront II but I'm getting used to it. Does the combat get any better or should I focus my enjoyment more on the storyline and the light/dark side choices presented to me?

Yeah, It's pretty great. I lost hope of them ever updating, but I feel like this was well worth the wait.

Clone War's mod is an absolute must for this game. It just doesn't make sense to be Empire era because the Rebels are petty terrorists with no real army.

>hack 'n slash lightsaber combat
If you are looking for a game with great lightsaber combat, look towards Jedi Academy or Jedi Knight Outcast

Is the Star Wars mod for Sins of a Solar Empire any good?

I heard about Jedi Academy but not Jedi Knight Outcast. Will look into both of them thanks. Still will play Kotor 2 for at least one play through to see all the hype and rave behind it though.

I haven't played that mod much, but it was good. The factions were rather fleshed out with their unit rosters and the combat was decent The CIS is kind of hard to play as since their ships get cut through like butter

Do you need to mod KOTOR 1? Want to play it for the first time but i heard that you need to use a restore mod for the second game, not sure about the first one

Why are you expecting different combat when it is a sequel to an already establised combat system and from a rushed game at that?

KOTOR 1 is a bit dated graphic wise, so if there are any graphic mods available then it would be a big plus. I haven't played the game in years so I am not so certain.

Hey dumbass, where did I say I played the first one? Let alone knew what the first or the second was even about? Pretty reasonable expectation to have actual lightsaber combat when lightsabers are present in a game.

I never got the empire wank fans have


The CIS is waaay better

Eh the graphics are fine

I like CIS because they were an actual force able to stand up to something like the Republic with equal millitary force. Not be fucking cowards with movies focusing on them running away or doing something equal to punching from the side and then running away.

This.
Meatbags will never understand.

>Giant ships
>Giant walkers
>All soldiers have armor that is intimidating

we have
S P I D E R S

What's not to get? They are aesthetically appealing. The Rebels being a bunch of fags does not detract from that in any way.

Which ones?

I always liked the Y-wings best because of their engines

>one webm makes me miss the prequels
Ok

What I never got, okay the clones are a major help

where the fuck is the rest of the republic's military? Fucking gungans with their ghetto tech were abl eto raise an army to fight off a CIS invasion, there's no way the rest of the galaxy doesn't have the manpower in order to at least have their own regiments to bring to bear

>ships constantly get blown up
>oversized walkers fall over from tow cables and crushed by fucking tree logs
>Soldiers can't shoot for shit and have no variety
Pathetic meatbag.

Basically this They are have designs that are pleasing to the eye

I do not want those overhaul ones though. I want to blow up rebel shits with star destroyers and at ats. I can get no real indication of which mods that do this are good and which ones are shit from browsing their moddb pages so I am asking here if people have any experience.

We've lost a command post. TAKE IT BACK.

the one that makes *spreeeeee* when it dies

>Can't shoot for shit
Did you even watch the movies? They bust in on the Tantive IV and murder everyone. Then when they want to tail them back to the rebel base, they make sure they don't get hit. Do you also realize the irony of shitting on the Empire for losing to plot armor while praising robots that lost to plot armor?

>Soldiers can't shoot for shit
The droids can't either, which is funny because as nachines they should be exceedingly good at it.

Wherever I am. I must crush rebels.

>it's a Police Masa episode
>yfw dug in Droideka's and sprint spamming Maul hold the chokepoint

>There is no way to beat the battle of Geonosis as clones unless you commandeer the fucking gunship and near singlehandedly hand your side the victory
I just use the walker man, it's like one of 2 maps with it.

>I want to blow up rebel shits with star destroyers and at ats
Battlefront Commander or Thrawns Revenge are two good ones for that. All of the good ones overhaul the base game in some way.

>mfw playing engie and holding the area with the ammo/health droids

TOP TIER AESTHETICS coming through

You should try Baldur's Gate II sometime. But don't read anything about the combat. It's swords and shit, right?

So question for Empire at War. I recall when I played as a wee-lad that I'd stack admirals in space thinking I'd get a massive healthboost if I had like 20 in my fleet.
It didn't actually work like that, did it?

>Modified some files to allow me to spawn a shit load of units
>Send in scout squad with invisibility to find rebel station
>Pause game when they get close
>Drop in executor, the other giant SSDs and some 30 star destroyers plus variants
15 FPS has never been so enjoyable.

Alright thanks user I'll check out Battlefront Commander. I know about Thrawn's and that it is supposed to be really good but the setting just doesn't appeal to me at all.

No, you would only get the boost from whoever is leading the fleet.

I think you only need one admiral for the boost as well as the increased sighting range on the ships.

The irony with this post is those were all 501st Clones. So of fucking course they'd be good shots because they're all veterans from the Clone Wars with many battles underneath their belt. but the majority of the Empire is full of retarded faggots only doing it for the pension.

>Game just turns into a slideshow of the enemy blowing up.

>I actually used up maybe 100 fleet cap endgame thinking I could stack health
Ah, to be young again. I might just go replay all 3 campaigns and install some mods.

I don't see how that has anything to do what with I said.

>501st clones
Retconned, even if they were all 501st clones, that doesn't contradict anything that I said.

>tfw you capture the major shipyards early and roll out fleet after fleet of Star Destroyer. Then you finally get to the last few rebel controlled planets and pull out the Death Star.

>Fleet is so big you can't even see the whole thing

Been playing this game since I was 5-6

And Yoden mod 2018 is beat. I like playing as the CIS and fighting the Empire and other factions. Although the Empire is glitched and gets an ungodly amount of money/good troops

>2004 after I had just bought my first pc
>go to best goybuy
>saunter over to the pc section
>browse what game I am going to blow my hard earned $50 dolly doos on
>DOOM 3 vs Jedi Academy
>hmm do i want to be super spooked or play the third installment of kyle katarn and friends?
>pick Academy
>JADEN
>IM ROSH
>a-at least I can pick my lightsaber color..
>cool a bio Rancor
>overall kind of ripped off over the quality of the game
>look at the box
>ACTIVISION
never again would I ever buy an Activision game. at least I would of been equally disappointed if not more with doom 3.

That doesn't sound like the Empire is glitched though.

Academy is GOAT though.

>where the fuck is the rest of the republic's military?

They didn't have one. Episode II did an awful job at explaining this shit, but basically that one Jedi went to Kamino to order the clones because he knew the Republic would need one after what happened on Naboo. And then something something Palpatine knew all along and it was part of his masterful 6D Chess game.

It always bothered me how the prequel ships looke more technologically advanced than the OT ones. With the rebels I could sort of believe it, since they were dumpster divers, but in the Empire's case, everything was just a straight up downgrade

Phoenix Rising had scale sized fighters

I mean look at this.
Just look at it.
This is so fucking sexy.

Not really. The Empire got better walkers and their infantry's armor stayed relatively the same. The TIE fighters however I can agree with being a downgrade

Don't be talking shit about these bad motherfuckers.

>build up a scout fighter squadron
>max out star destroyer construction
>sensor ping enemy base
>drop full stack of ISDs on their face
Good times

Remember this game?

TIEs were a downgrade so they could be more easily mass-produced.

Tie pilots truly have the best look.

>TIE
They're mass produced ships that rely on a larger carrier (forgot the name for these types of vehicles). The standard TIE is probably worse than the ships the republic was using.

Exactly, since the Empire was more of a "overwhelm them with sheer numbers" kind of military.

Are there any mods that add in new factions on top of the older ones?
Any mods with nu-canon?
And most importantly, which mods let me get lots of extra units in Conquest and the Campaign?

Considering that they had no deflector shields, the are at a disadvantage when compared to Republic fighters. They make up for it with speed and manuverability however

Muh dick

>New factions on top of the old ones
Yes, there are a few. Look around and see which ones appeal to you.
>Lots of extra units
You will need to modify files to do this. I forgot how to exactly, it's a bit of a process. I do remember that I had to download some shit and replace config files before I could increase the unit counts.

Before the war the Republic didnt have a military. Once the war began the Republic had to build its military up from scratch. (Legends lore coming) Originally the Republic didnt trust the clones (for good reason) but had to rely on them to hold the line until the Republic could train its military.

The reason you only see clones in the lore is because we are always following Jedi and the Jedi were the only people who were willing to work with the clones at the start.

inb4 people say the Republic never used non-clones. In the old lore the Republic has a massive non-clone military after the war began. Hell in the book Jedi Trial, (Anakin teams up with Corran Horn's grandfather) the Clones are outnumbered by non-clones by like 5 to 1 odds when you factor in navy personal.

If you are looking for new factions with lots of units, try Yoden's Mod. There are also some other mods like Thrawn's Revenge that add some extra Imperial factions like the Pentastar Allignment and Thrawn's Hand as well as some more units

Lack of shields isn't too bad. It's lack of plot armor that will get ya.

>tfw want to play the Men at War mod but too much of a brainlet to understand the editor

EA's Battlefront 2 ruined TIE pilots for me.

It took me 10 minutes jeez user
Just make two groups and use a nice looking skybox
You can go full autism and make patrols and build a base and shit like that.

Republic Fighters have the rear gunner, TIE would have difficulty with them.
I don't want to know.

TIEs actually had the ability to eat Republic fighters due to just being more maneuverable. The TIE was the Japanese Zero of star wars. Fast, agile, poor armor. It made it a deadly threat if you arnt in something advance like an X-Wing.

And you mention tail gunners like those guys are useful.There is a reason why no other fighter uses rear gunners in star wars and CAS aircraft in reality stopped having planes with rear gunner after like '43. Its just so hard to hit an enemy from that position but that is an extra casualty you suffer when one of your planes gets shot down.,

But... BUT it tell you this user.
Never get attached to you troops, roleplaying as if you have to survive with your squad and self insert yourself into the squad leader, scavenging ammo and weapons, repairing vehicles to make one final last stand against a last overhelming enemy wave.
And cry like a little bitch for the first time in 10 years.
Sgt. Kener, Lt. Yuu, Pvt. Huu and Pvt. Polo I’ll never forget you.
That was really the first time I had fun and immersed in a game in 5 years

>Jedi Trial

I just finished reading that a few weeks ago. Pretty good book actually. Shatterpoint is still my favorite Clone Wars novel though.