Hey Guys,
I used to be part of the old United Pilots Alliance (UPA) back in the day. Just wanted to know if anyone else was jumping on for this. I just purchased the HOTAS and I'm hoping to squad up again with some former players from the old XvT ERA. I don't think I'm the only old timer out here. Hopefully this game lets us set up a Clan vs Clan play to have competitive play against Clans again. I really missed that.
Qui-Jan
Played XvT a lot back then, once Jedi Knight got released I stopped because I was devoted to DF2 JK multi-player.
I still play X-Wing, and TIE Fighter on occasion.
@JNewb2 wrote:Hey Guys,
I used to be part of the old United Pilots Alliance (UPA) back in the day. Just wanted to know if anyone else was jumping on for this. I just purchased the HOTAS and I'm hoping to squad up again with some former players from the old XvT ERA. I don't think I'm the only old timer out here. Hopefully this game lets us set up a Clan vs Clan play to have competitive play against Clans again. I really missed that.
Qui-Jan
Hi JNewwb2
I used to fight against you guys in UPLA all the time bacl in my XvT and XWA and also,
And kick you behinds sometime too 🙂
maybe its time for a rematch. 🙂 We are going by "TCA" The cavern Angels nowadays.
Back in the Day, we were "TRR" The REal Rogues. - I was Antillies. Nowadays Im PAINLESS101.
I first started PC gaming back in the 90s with Xwing CDROM version being one of the first games I got into. Been playing X Wing Alliance with the 2020 upgrade in prep for Squadrons these past weeks. I also decided on fabricating my own HOTAS capable gaming char to get the best experience possible (pic attached). I'll definitely check out TCA...looking forward to playing Squadrons with old timers like myself.
I loved the original X-Wing, Tie Fighter, XvsT and X-Wing Alliances games.
I had great fun with those back in the day either with their single player campaigns or multiplayer.
Re-visiting space combat, but with today's graphics and VR with HOTAS is going to be a real treat. I just hope this isn't a one off and restarts the series, the film series and the animated series have some great space battles that would be amazing to play on this game engine.
I would be great to be able to make skirmish missions for friends like we could in the old games as well, but I guess we will see how this takes off 😉
Chair looks awesome. Just got my HOTAS delivered yesterday. Can't wait to bust it out. I loved the A-Wing's back then.
I wasn't part of a clan, but I spent countless hours playing XvT and the BoP expansion (still have them in their PC big boxes 🙌). My profile name was Jon Evod.
Yeah, back then my first exposure to space combat was a single mission disk of tie fighter shareware. fell in love and played everyone since. Was a member of The Last Starfighters League, Their website is still around, i was an imp ground pounder for the most part but I did jump into the cockpit of an interceptor on XvT and XWA everyone now and then
I played the hell out of XvT. I mostly competed on Case's Ladder. Cracked the top 10 on that too.
CSM_Sylin
I played primarily on MSN Gaming Zone, same for JK. Was on another site that did direct IP connections, but cannot remember the name. Hard to believe that was over 20 years ago. Had multiple names on the gaming zone because of the various clans I belonged to.
i played those games strictly offline. 36.6k modem meant online play was... slideshow sometimes.
but mainly the reason i didnt play much of them was i kept going back to the wing commander games particularly 3, 4 and prophecy which were some of the first games where the endings could be different depending how you acted or interacted in battle or with other characters on the carrier. that was new back then for games. long way from asteroids too.
you can even get the wing commander games on origin, but i had problems getting WC3 and WC4 to even run under win 10, and while WC Prophecy works its not really playable for me with mouse keys, and i only have controller not joystick to play otherwise. thats the same reason i dont buy the original xwing etc on steam.
plus it annoyed me that the origin guy sold the company to EA part way through the series. WC prophecy ends on a cliff hangar which never got resolved because EA in those days was run by some rapacious pro exec with no understanding of games, just profits, and so when EA bought a rival software company it was just to asset strip the staff and close the studio. the executive who did that killed Wing Commander, and the guy who used to own the series wasted the money he got on a bad Wing Commander movie. now hes doing some kickstarter thing called star - citizen or something, which looks like it will never quite get to beta test stage.
actually since im on nostalgia, the only online game i was hooked on was quake. it was seriously insane with so many hackers, mods and so on being used, you had a ttk of about 0.01 s with any weapon from some players!
but yeah, i loved being a rebel pilot flying around and seeing real star destroyers. i just wish the control setup on controller was more like the setup ace combat 7 uses.
