Capital / Flagship Scale too small?

[SuperSmash88]

Are the capital ships and flagships to proper scale? When standing inside the Imperial hangar and seeing the size of the TIE fighters, versus the tiny hangar window you have to fly into to respawn your ship... it seems like the scale of the flagships is incorrect on the outside. Probably was a design decision for one reason or another (or it's all in my head); curious if others have felt the same way.

[Teloch13]

I was having this same thought last night. It feels like the capital ships, specifically the ISD, are about 1/4 scale. An X-Wing is 13.4m (44 ft) and an ISD is 1600m (5249 ft) so you should be able to line up 119 x-wings end to end along one.

It would be nice for the scale to be there, to see how exactly epic these capital ships are.

[DarthIbis]

Thinking about what it was like attacking capital ships in X-Wing/TIE Fighter series back in the day, yeah, I think these may be a bit small in comparison to the memory of those old games, but they also seem a lot more difficult to bring down from what I remember.

Or maybe they just look smaller because I'm bigger these days. LOL

[SithMetal71]

@SuperSmash88 i notice the blockade runner is not to scale with the Star Destroyers. It would be nice if they scaled them correctly.

[Billkwando]

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@DarthIbis wrote:

Or maybe they just look smaller because I'm bigger these days. LOL

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Brilliant!

TBH I kinda wondered about the scale myself. I agree with you guys.

[Merc_Security]

You might be right. I think there is probably a design decision behind and it would interstting to see an official answer on this one!

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[Dogmanbird]

I agree they are out of scale by a lot.

[BlackOpsBen]

I thought that too, but if you get super close and take your time the SD is actually still super huge. You can fly inside the sides like it's a trench.

[BluesyMoo]

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@DarthIbis wrote:

Thinking about what it was like attacking capital ships in X-Wing/TIE Fighter series back in the day, yeah, I think these may be a bit small in comparison to the memory of those old games, but they also seem a lot more difficult to bring down from what I remember.

Or maybe they just look smaller because I'm bigger these days. LOL

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The fighters in this game are about 30% faster than in the old games. That means, if you don't have anything else to judge the scales by, the sizes will appear to have shrunk by 30%.

If you boost, then they're about 2x faster than before.

[SuperSmash88]

Glad I'm not insane

@EA Any chance you could shed light on the design decision? Not reporting this as a bug or anything as it clearly was deliberate; just curious why the call was made to shrink them on the outside.