"Ugly" Fighters image - Rise of the Mandalorians mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
The Empire has fallen and a New Republic is born out of the conflict. But in the ashes of civil war, yet another life stirs...
"Ugly" Fighters
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The first set of "uglies" for the pirate factions. More to come...
What are uglies, like junk ships?
Yeah, basically. In the books and comics, various pirate factions would salvage junk from scrap yards or debris fields and make composite fighters, as it was cheaper than buying brand new starfighters (and since most reputable companies wouldn't sell their fighters to criminal organizations to begin with).
Pilots from more organized military structures often referred to these salvaged craft as 'uglies.'
why don't they just rebuild them with the fitting parts instead of building those mixtures of tie fighter and x or y-wings? that's weird.
they can't always do that.
cause they are stupid pirates.
Because the "fitting" parts aren't always readily available and when you need to make repairs or modifications quickly, you use what you can get.
Somehow this looks just like a bug;) Will you do the same with some corvettes? It would make sense to give the pirates some modified CR90s or other ships of that size.
Yes, and the same things with cruisers, destroyers, battleships, SSDFs. We need uglies for every class of EVERYTHING. Even infantry and heroes. Imagine ugly ewoks with stormtrooper heads!
Haha that would be funny. Unfortunately pirates aren't in the business of genetic mutation.
Don't need to be geneticists, just need stormy helmets...
why did I immediately think of the scene in lego star wars where they are using the helmets as drums
I do have plans to add "ugly" freighters and so forth. The Hutt faction especially was known for using such craft.
never liked the uglies. I guess thats good.
Brilliant work, as always.
I really like the bottom one.
Uuuhhg i'm really confused. i wanted to say how beautiful they are but they are ugly fighters ... o_0
I don't know about anyone else, but I really like that Tie/X-wing combo.
Hmm...I'm with packy21 here. These units, in your mod, anyways, are a bit of a contradiction, being beautiful uglies.
Just to spice this up a little, I am wondering if it would be possible to "mix and match" different ship, not player wise, but game wise. Like say. Left wing of a TIE interceptor, body of Ywing and right side Xwing.
Or does the engine only allow for that much flexability that it has to have a matching pair of wings? Or was it just for you own ease of comfort? So you didnt get a headache when makeing them look so, ah, ehm, good :D Other than that bang up job as always.
Oh, the ships can look however I want them too. I just have to model them that way. However, some "ugly" designs are almost standard among pirate factions so I was modeling the known designs.
Starwars.wikia.com
Thank you all
The Zceptor would look nice in your mod btw, Starwars.wikia.com
I mean it would really show the ugly side of a ship.
OOH, that did indeed look intresting from my point. But ye gods they certinaly live up to their names.
Yeah, it is a much more "junky" looking fighter. I should probably do more to make the existing ones look cobbled together from spares. Add exposed piping/wires, add lasers were there shouldn't be any and stuff like that.
Only if you feel like it. Dont burn out on pleaseing the crowds.
Oh, no worries :) I want to do it for my own sake. lol
Yaaaaay! Uglies! :D
also kinda amusing to see X-Wing "Wings" Combined With a TIE Fighter XD
or you just ran out of things to make or copy but yea very odd seeing tie fighter with reb things..