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Star Wars Game Announcement This Week

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MCV says a new Star Wars game will be revealed on May 31st as part of Spike TV's pre-E3 coverage, reports MCV. There are no details at this point other than the reveal will apparently include in-game footage.

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Re: Star Wars Game Announcement This Week

May 29, 2012, 10:00

kanniballl

nin wrote on May 29, 2012, 09:56:
from:
20+ keys on a keyboard + 1 joystick (with X buttons)

to:
1 XBox Controller (and that's it)

Actually, the more I think about it it might not be that bad since the XBox controller has 8 regular buttons + 4 DPad buttons + 2 ThumbClicks

So 12 decent buttons + 2 crummy ones.

Pretty sure you could hold down one button while using another. So you could use the U/D on a D pad for one thing, and then hold down a button while using U/D on the D pad for another.

Not that that would be fun or anything...I certainty wouldn't want it.

Just think! More thought had gone into a XWing/TIE sequel in this thread than Lucasarts every has!

Nah, which is why I didn't bother even discussing 2-button-combos (Left Trigger + DLeft == cover that target). I hate them in slow games... in a fast-paced space sim they would infuriate me.

If they had to use the baseline number of buttonsr of the XBox controller then we could still end up with a full featured game. If we could optionally bind those to Keyboard + Flight Stick then we could still have a good game that can "fit" onto an XBox Controller for people that want to / need to use it.

Left-thumb = flight control (click to target in front of you)
Right-thumb = throttle (click to match speed)

That gives us at least 12 13 buttons for:
- fire weapon
- toggle weapon
- toggle weapon x-fire
- cycle laser recharge
- cycle shield recharge
- give laser -> shield
- give shield -> laser
- 1/3 speed
- nearest enemy
- nearest protection-objective
- cycle enemies
- cycle friendlies
- Command squadron to attack/defend/HELP

That doesn't cover ALL of the old game, but enough that it wouldn't feel too crippled. Spread those across a solid flight stick and/or keyboard and you have the potential for a solid space sim.

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This comment was edited on May 29, 2012, 10:18.




"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." -Fry, Futurama

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Comment [quote="kanniballl"May 29, 2012, 10:00][quote="nin"May 29, 2012, 09:56]q[from: 20+ keys on a keyboard + 1 joystick (with X buttons) to: 1 XBox Controller (and that's it) Actually, the more I think about it it might not be that bad since the XBox controller has 8 regular buttons + 4 DPad buttons + 2 ThumbClicks So 12 decent buttons + 2 crummy ones.]q Pretty sure you could hold down one button while using another. So you could use the U/D on a D pad for one thing, and then hold down a button while using U/D on the D pad for another. Not that that would be fun or anything...I certainty wouldn't want it. Just think! More thought had gone into a XWing/TIE sequel in this thread than Lucasarts every has! :) [/quote] Nah, which is why I didn't bother even discussing 2-button-combos (Left Trigger + DLeft == cover that target). I hate them in slow games... in a fast-paced space sim they would infuriate me. If they had to use the baseline number of buttonsr of the XBox controller then we could still end up with a full featured game. r{If}r we could optionally bind those to Keyboard + Flight Stick then we could still have a good game that can "fit" onto an XBox Controller for people that want to / need to use it. Left-thumb = flight control (click to target in front of you) Right-thumb = throttle (click to match speed) That gives us at least -[12]- 13 buttons for: - fire weapon - toggle weapon - toggle weapon x-fire - cycle laser recharge - cycle shield recharge - give laser -> shield - give shield -> laser - 1/3 speed - nearest enemy - nearest protection-objective - cycle enemies - cycle friendlies - Command squadron to attack/defend/HELP That doesn't cover ALL of the old game, but enough that it wouldn't feel too crippled. Spread those across a solid flight stick and/or keyboard and you have the potential for a solid space sim. - [/quote]

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