Star Wars Squadrons

I have been looking forward to this.

well they say it will have vr support and flight stick support too so maybe it will be ok.

i really liked fallen order so i cant say all the EA star wars games suck anymore.

Not interested in another Star Wars space combat game.

It doesn’t look like this game brings anything new to the table, and frankly, I’m usually only interested in Star Wars games when Force users are involved.

Pass

My advice is don’t be fooled by EA.

Look at the game engine. It’s Frostbite, again. EA are using the same game engine they used to make Battlefront 1 and 2. This game engine is 12 years old. EA have just cut the ground battles out of battlefront, slapped a new title on the game and hoped nobody would notice.. EA have now squeezed 3 games out of the same game engine. With updates and players consoles and PC’s being better than what they were 12 years ago, performance and details might be marginally better, but not by much.

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There is nothing new. It uses the same game engine as Battlefront 1 and 2. If you have played the space battles in those games then you have already played Star Wars Squadrons. Typical EA squeezing 3 games out of a 12 year old engine.

We are in such a backwards world for gaming (and movies, obviously). Imagine a straight up remaster of the X-Wings series, 4k, huge missions, play area etc? You could have huge co-op battles where you are either attacking or defending convoys etc. But no, we get a 10p slice of Battlefront that’ll cost £50 + micro-ass-actions. Fuck EA.

Here is a detailed list of studios EA has put in the grave: https://heavy.com/games/2017/10/studios-ea-has-killed-visceral-games/

The one on that list that cut me the most was the death of Mythic. I was a Warhammer guy back in the day, so the release of Warhammer: Age of Reckoning MMO was a big deal for me. I went all in on that game. Created a whole new guild that managed to survive the early server purges of the game’s rocky release. Had a seat at the table of the biggest Order Alliance on our server. Tried my damnedest to beat back the Chaos zerg with my allies. But it was all for nothing, because overlord EA did not let Mythic make a better game. The game needed another year in the oven, but EA rushed it out. So the balancing problems and overall broken game mechanics made it impossible to win once the Chaos zerg on our server realized all they had to do was wait until everyone on Order went to bed for the night. The morning I woke up and found Altdorf sacked because we were all sleeping was it for me.

And even though it is still kicking, Bioware might as well be dead, too. EA has done a marvelous job of neutering what was once a massively creative studio.

So yeah. Fuck EA.