Game harder then vanilla?

[LouisdeFuines]

Some missions I easily win on vanilla, but not in XWAUP.

I thought, that mod should only affect the graphics?

For example: B1M6: In the second area those tie fighters shoot me to death every time. Not in vanilla.

[Cybrnite]

I noticed when I applied the new 'Accelerator Rings' that the laser blasts destroyed my shields really quickly - reverted back to 'originals' and all is well again
I'd be interested to hear some comments from the 'boys'

[Forceflow]

We have noticed some differences in difficulty. If it's the models then we try to correct it, however there are some changes in difficulty that we cannot track down. We have tested the game almost completely with the upcoming new installer and the game certainly is playable though possible tougher. We are still looking into it but don't really know what is causing the issues.

[LouisdeFuines]

For example mission B2M5:
There is always an Assault Transport left in medium, that you have to destroy by yourself. VERY hard. Doesn`t happen in Vanilla.

B2M6:
On medium all B-Wings are destroyed before the station is taken down and the assault transports manned. Very frustrating, since that doesn`t happen in Vanilla medium.

[Cybrnite]

Yep, noticed on Mission 4: Rescue Echo Base Prisoners - Just me and the ATR at the end, and the ATR always gets destroyed, even though I wiped out the bombers. I have a sneaky feeling the prison frigate should be disabled to prevent laser-fire. Tried it 4 times now

[Cybrnite]

Weird, just tried it again and everything was as planned... interesting

[Forceflow]

Yeah there is a bit of randomness in XWA for sure. I did some balance testing with the new ISD a while back and the results highly varied even though it was a straightforward setup with me just being an observer. Sometimes the AI managed to destroy the ISD and sometimes it was completely wiped out.